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 Chymical and genuine Preparation of Orange-Flower Syrup.

℞ lb. i. ss. Orange-Flowers, gathered a little after the rising of the Sun, place them in a Glass Cucurbit, and besprinkle with ℥ ij. of good white Wine, and as much excellent Rose-water, cover the Vessel with its head Limbeck, exactly luted in the Joynts, and being placed in B M. draw off from it, by distilla∣tion made with graduate fire, ℥ viij. of Spirit of spirituous Water, which will be very odoriferous and subtile, which keep by it self: then continue the fire, and draw a second Water, until your Flowers be almost dry, then cease the fire, and boyl your re∣maining Flowers in lb ij. of common Water, to the consumption of lb j. Express this decoction filled and impregnated with the ex∣tract and fixt Salt of the Flowers, clarifie it with white of Eggs, and boyl it to a consistency of Sugar Rosat with lib. j. of Sugar, which you shall dissolve afterwards with ℥ viij. of the spirituous Water, and that in the cold: and you shall have the true Syrup of Orange-Flowers, truly impregnated with all their vertue. The second Water extracted will serve for a Cordial and Alexiterial Water, to mix with the Syrup, when the Physitian shall pre∣scribe it. And this Preparation may serve as a model, to prepare the Syrups of other Flowers, which are, or come nere to the nature of Orange-Flowers. We follow now, to give an example of the

Syrup of odoriferous Rinds, and we take for our example that of Limon.