TAke the Plant whereof you intend to extract the Juyce, cut it small, and beat it in a Marble or Stone-mortar, w••ing and express the Juyce, with all the care and necessary observations, which we have hinted in our discourse above, where we treated of the distilled Waters of the same Plants, and after the Juyce hath been well depurated in B. M. and a sufficient quantity of Phlegm or Water hath been extracted, as two parts from three by distillation; then to lib. 1. of this Juyce so depurated, mix lib. 1. ss. of Sugar, and boyl it together to a Consistency of Sugar. Rosat. Which decoct and reduce to a Syrup, with vi••or vii. ℥. of that water you have drawn out of the Juyce by distillation in B. M. so shall you have a Syrup endowed with all the vertues of the Plant; and when you will prepare either Apozems or
A compendious body of chymistry, which will serve as a guide and introduction both for understanding the authors which have treated of the theory of this science in general: and for making the way plain and easie to perform, according to art and method, all operations, which teach the practise of this art, upon animals, vegetables, and minerals, without losing any of the essential vertues contained in them. By N. le Fèbure apothecary in ordinary, and chymical distiller to the King of France, and at present to his Majesty of Great-Britain.
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- A compendious body of chymistry, which will serve as a guide and introduction both for understanding the authors which have treated of the theory of this science in general: and for making the way plain and easie to perform, according to art and method, all operations, which teach the practise of this art, upon animals, vegetables, and minerals, without losing any of the essential vertues contained in them. By N. le Fèbure apothecary in ordinary, and chymical distiller to the King of France, and at present to his Majesty of Great-Britain.
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- Le Fèvre, Nicaise, 1610-1669.
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"A compendious body of chymistry, which will serve as a guide and introduction both for understanding the authors which have treated of the theory of this science in general: and for making the way plain and easie to perform, according to art and method, all operations, which teach the practise of this art, upon animals, vegetables, and minerals, without losing any of the essential vertues contained in them. By N. le Fèbure apothecary in ordinary, and chymical distiller to the King of France, and at present to his Majesty of Great-Britain." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A88887.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 24, 2024.
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Juleps, you shall mix ℥ i. or ℥ ij. of either of these Syrups, with iij. or iv. ℥ of its proper Water, which according to the vertue and quality of the Plant, you shall fit to the purpose of the dis∣ease. Nota, that these Juyces so depurated by distillation may be kept one or two years without any corruption, because they are sufficiently filled with the Nitrotartarous Salt of these Plants: but they must nevertheless be covered, or filled up with Oyl, to hinder the penetration of Air, which is the great Alterator of all things; and that they must also be kept in a place, neither too moist, nor too dry.