The works of the highly experienced and famous chymist, John Rudolph Glauber: containing, great variety of choice secrets in medicine and alchymy in the working of metallick mines, and the separation of metals. Also, various cheap and easie ways of making salt-petre, and improving of barren-land, and the fruits of the earth / Translated into English, and pub. for publick good by Christopher Packe.
- Glauber, Johann Rudolf, 1604-1670.
- Date:
- 1689
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The works of the highly experienced and famous chymist, John Rudolph Glauber: containing, great variety of choice secrets in medicine and alchymy in the working of metallick mines, and the separation of metals. Also, various cheap and easie ways of making salt-petre, and improving of barren-land, and the fruits of the earth / Translated into English, and pub. for publick good by Christopher Packe. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![liap, RMf/, the.e grow Hugo k'nd of Propagation may not unfitly be likened to a Mothets Si rg her Infant, which attradcth and draws tts Nourifliment from the Mothers Brealls: But the Mo¬ ther it fclf receives her Nourifliment from rhe Fruits If the Earth, and that, being changed into a fweet Milk fupplies the infant, whereby jt is fuflamed and nourifli'd. But that I may lay the whole bufinefs afore Zr Eyes, by a more full Declaration, I wnll yet far- ihet add one Similitude more. Take you fome wild and not yet ripe Stock of a Pear, Jfple, Cheny, or fome other Fruit-beating Trees, fncf>i J h'!' yet full grown, but is as yet conftituted in itsfirflten- Lr Age, take off from it all its Boughs wh-ch laear fbut 1 a wild and fower Fruit, and Gut it all off even unto the bottom, and to the Stock Handing out of the Earth plant a Cwa, pluckt off frorn another Tree that does not beat wild Fruit, into this Stock, betwixt the Bark and the Wood of the fame, where ’tis cut off with the Saw, and fence it well with Wax or tenacious Clay, againft the Ram . now you (hall thus do, and do your work Gardner- like, that fruitful Chn will draw unto it felf the wild luice, out of that wild Tree or Stock, >nd make it betted, fo that it will no more bear any wild Fruit, but fuch as that Tree did bear, from which theCr.» was pluckt, Ifnow,fo fmall a C,M of forne cui,,. vated and fruitful Tree can fo change the wild Juice of a wild Stock, that it becomes far betteT, anfl more noble Why, (hould not Gold do the fame in our Metallick Tree, when ingrafted in Lead as milts pro¬ per Root.i Verily in my Opinion, there is not abe^ ter Earth ( from which that golden Seed may attraa vinto it fdfan Alimentary Nouriflinaent,and fo multiply it felf even to infinity) to be had, than its own pro¬ per Root. But yet, with this Provifo, that all the srofs and degenerate Boughs be firft cut off from that fame grofs Root, for fo, it will the eafilier and readi- lier charge its wild and degenerate Juice, f whenjoy- ned to the golden^Seed or Cion,-) and fo will be chan¬ ged into a far nobler, and produce Fruits a thoutand fold. You fee, my Friend ! what good Will I bear to you, in that I have fo faithfully opened unto you all thofe things which 1 thought necelfary to be known, for the perfe<Siing of fo great a Work. Ponder well in your mind, upon the Similitudes of the Rape and and believe, that what I have here fpoken is not cafually and at Random. For they have more hidden under them, than they feem to fliew for, and than you would imagine. Length of time will open your Eyes, which are as yet blinded, as to abundance of things, ( if God permit.) A. Surely^ Sir^ I camot chufe hut vponder anew^ vehen J acmrately \ofifider the things you have declared unto of changing the mid Nature, of the mid Vegetattve Fruiis into a tame ^ mild. Property: ^nd that fuch a rranfmutation of the ignobler Nature, into a more noble One takes place alfo in MetaVkk /Iffairs. Ihey are verih fu^h things, as are of weighty Concernment, and mod worthy a moji accurate Confederation. But, mdeed, who can fuficfently enough confider of all the Vtvine Mi¬ racles .? Blejfed be his moji holy Name for evermore. B. Amen. • a n- n- A. Inve unto you, for your courteous tnfiru^on, moji hearty thahkj; and remain obliged unto you aU my rrhde Life. And- thus with what hath been fatd, I commit both you and my felf to Gods protection. 8. My deateft Friend, I have now performed the Promife I made unto you, and am not meanly de¬ li j/!i red, in that you have underftood the meaning ot thofe things, which 1 have faid unto you : But yet I cannot but admire, that you are not Covctoully de- lirous of knowing yet more, and that you do not Crave an yet more prolix unfolding of more mat¬ ters. For you well know, that you cannot every day have the Enjoyment of my Company. A. For thofe things, which 1 at prefeni received from do I return you moji hearty thanky, another time God will vouchfafe more r The greateji dejire I have at prefent, is to fet about fo great a JTork,, and to have the Fruition of the hoped for Fruit. If you are fo minded, and bent upon doing Friendly Favours, I do requeji you, that you would oblige my Brother by your good turns, if he Jhall hap to come unto you, and Petition for ought at your hands.) for you may afjifl him in fome fmall, yet good. Arcanum: For he hath been fiupid, or unapprehenfive enough hitherto, and much needs fome accurate injiruClion. But what (hall I fay ? The fick^ look/ after the Phyfeian, be that is thorough fFell has no need of him. Such things as are hard to be underftood, exceed his Capacity: The more eafie things are more commodious. And fo again, Farewel. The c 0%0 LLA%1. I Have taught in this Dialogue, Fhat the Tfhite Lac virginis ( after its being extrarted, by Diftillation, out of the Black Magnefta, and after its Exaltation, in Virtue and Efficacy , by Redification and Concen¬ tration,) is to he freed from its (uperfluous Humidity, and yet the dry Matter is to be made permanent in the Fire, by the gradual Operation of the Fire. Now for the more accurate Declaration fake*, thefe things which follow ffiall be yet farther fubjoyned. That Fixation, if it be to be perfeded by the l^bare] help of the common Fire, requires a long and tedious time, fo that there’s no reafon for a Man to perfuade himfelf, that he can finiih the fame in one years fpace. I fpeak by my own experience, for I my felf have tryed, and find that it cannot be, that one year fhould fuffice for the finiffiing of this Fixation, for indeed it requires a much longer time. For after that, I had fo far advanced the Matter, that it had paired through all the Colours, as to flow when put upon a Red hot Plate, and to infinoate it felf thereinto, like Oyls penetrating into a dry was it not fixt enough ncr conflant, nor ferved it tor the tinging of the Metals, but When a vehement Fire was applycd thereunto, away it went in fume j but yet not without an evident Detnonftration of the poffibility of the fame. For as much therefore, as it does not yield that fatisfadory Fruit, [ and Succefs J and feeing that fuch great Labours are not undertaken, without the expedation of fome Profit, and that me hoped for Fruits cannot however be gathered,at ore thaj the faid matter is promoted to aperfed Maturity, and confequently dreads not any the mofl vehement Storms of the Fire any more any one may eafily conjeaure, that there needs ( as 1 faid afore ) a more tedious fpace of time for this Fixation, if it be to be done and per¬ fected by the common Fire of Coals. But now, he that has the knowledge of the fecret Fire, of the An¬ cient Philofophers, fuch an one will much eaficr, and fpeedier, arrive unto the wifhed end of the Operation. The Nature of the vulgar and fligacious Minerals doth , very difficultly and flowly admit of that »](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30322522_0746.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
