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.

The manner of preparing artificially the Syrup of Limon-Rind.

℞ lb ss. of the external thin Rind of new Limons; cut it very small with a Knife or Cizzars; and being placed in a Glass Cucur∣bite, besprinkle it with lb i. ss. of good white Wine, or, that which will be much better, in as much Malmesy or good Spanish Wine; keep it a while in digestion, and then extract by distillation, with those precautions we have already declared, ℥ x. or ℥ xij. of Spi∣rituous Water, or a very subtile or odoriferous Spirit, without any other addition, if it be for Women, by reason of the Mo∣ther, which can neither endure the odour of Musk, nor that of Amber. But if it be for men or women not obnoxious to hyste∣rical passions, put into the nose of the Limbeck you imploy for this distillation, a knot of Silk-cloth, wherein is tyed ℥ ss. of grain of Kermes not too old nor Worm-eaten, viij. grains Amber∣griece, and iv. grains of Musk: and so the first vapours which are very subtile, penetrating and dissolving, being condensed in Liquor which shall distil by this Nose, shall carry along with them the tincture, odour and vertue of these three Substances, and so im∣pregnate and perfume all the rest. This done, put ℥ iij. more of Limon Rind, very superficial, thinly pared, and subtile, and very small shred to digest in cold in the spirituous water which you first drew: run without expression this maceration through a Linnen clean and fine, and preserve it in a Vial well stopt, till you have boyled in lib. ij. of common Water the Rind which you had left from the distillation, and that of the expression also, un∣til the Liquor be reduced to half, which then strain clarifie, and boyl to a Sugar Rosat, with lib. i. of very white Sugar, which af∣terward you are to decoct in a consistency of Syrup, with the re∣quisite quantity of spirituous essensified Water. This Syrup must

be preserved carefully, because it is as useful in time of health as of sickness: for a spoonful of this Syrup mixt with white Wine, or Sugar and Water, composes a kind of pleasant and odorife∣rous Limonado; and those that will make this drink more accepta∣ble, giving it a sharp pleasant quickness, may joyn to it the juyce of Limon, or some drop of Spirit of Sulphur or of Vitriol, if it be in sickness, and that not without the prescription of a Physi∣tian. From the example of this Syrup, may be drawn the man∣ner of making also that of Orange, nor less useful then the so e-going, and chiefly for women; and those that are subject to Indi∣gestions and Cholicks. We come now to the third example of our Aromatical Substances.