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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![yimal^amiX. This Palie xvill we wafix with pure Wa¬ ter, griiiciing it To long ’tvvixt our hirgers, til! there be Ko appearance ot any farther impurity, and that it admits of being' ealily wafi'.t, or broken, with the Fingers. Being thus well wafht, we will put it in a Skin, or Cotton, and tye it firmly in j out of which, vvc will fqueez forth all the 5 with our hands, and feparate it from the faid Earth, julr in fucii a m.anner as Argent the is fcparated in Amalgamations^ or A'le- tal'ick^Mzffts. The being feparated, we W'ill take one our thick Anialgama^ and make fmall Bowls, or Knickers thereof, and of almofi: the fatne bignefs, that the Boys Knickers are of. Thefe Bowls we will expofe to the Air, for about fome twenty four hours, and by this time they will be grown fo hard, as to lefetnble Stones, in hardnefs. And now, being thus made ready for boyling, we will put them into our Water to feeth : But yet in the feething, there muff be an accurate regard had to fome skilful handling the Matter, if you would have it perform its Operation without Errour. This Art will I faithfully open un¬ to thee , Ich you err, and (b bring damage upon your felf: Thefe Pellets, or little Bowls thus made of our Mafs, are not to be thrown into the Pot filled with Water, afore the faid Water boy Is .• Which boyling, you muft throw them in one after another, and they will prefcntly harden themfelves, and cover themfelves over with an hard Cruftinefs or Skin y by which they will be prevented from (licking to one another, and from coming altogether into one Mafs. For if you firft of all put your little Balls into the Pot, and then afterwards pour cold Water upon them, and fo fet them on the Fire, that they may be boyled unto their Maturity, you will fpoil your whole Work. For be¬ fore the Water in the Pot be hot, all the Pellets be¬ ing dilfolved, would run togetjier in one Mafs, and fo would not admit the Humefying, or moiftning of their infide Parts, and fo you w'ould turn all your Pel¬ lets by your feething into a mere Poufe or Pottage, whereas they fhould remain whole in all their Parts, as well internal, as external, for fear of drawing the •Water in. But that you may have an accurate Ac¬ count of all thefe things which I have laid unto you, J hope you will fet about the Work, or thus, J I hope you will do your beft, ‘heedtully to regard all ihcTe things which I have faid unto you] and I fup- •pofe. that you have fufficiently underftood the things which 1 have already fpoksn : But if fo be, you do not yet apprehend the meaning of thefe things, I will Counfel yon, by what means you may learn this Ope¬ ration at home from your Wife. When you are come home, bid your Wife to make you fome little Balls, or Dumplins with Flower and Veal. And hcedfully obferve,wha^ Courfe file takes,about ma'king fuch Balls, that fo you may by the fame way learn to deal with your MetallickJ^oWtts- Firfi of all, you fiiall fee, that file puts fome pure Flower into a deep Difii or Platter, and having put it in, fiie works it into aPafie, or Mafs with Cream, or the pureft Milk. Then fiie adni^ixeth fome green Herbs finally minced, and fome Spice medied antong, and fprinkling fome Salt there¬ upon, fiie m.ixcth them with the Palle made as afore- laid, to give it the fweeter Smell, and Tallc, Of this Palle, ri>e will afterwards niake little Balls, of what bignefs fiie pleafeth, which Balls fiie docs-not put in ilie Water afore it boyls W'hcn therefore the Water lecths, file throws in, one Ball after another, each of which, as foon as ever it feels the fervent heat of the boyling Water, will prefcntly cover it felf over with a Skill, whereby they will be kept from fticking one to another, and running into one Mafs, and re¬ turning into fuch a Palle as they were in, before their being made up into Pellets; Whereas, now each of them may be kept in its own Form, and be encom- pafied all round with the Water, and be advanced un¬ to a Maturity, or readinefs, by a due feething; And now', when you have feenthis Operation of your V’i ives Cookery, I do not queftion, but that you will be well enough skilled in this Cooking Art. C. My deare^ 'Friend^ J do friendly rerjuejl you not to taky it amifs^ in that I cannot abjiain any longer from down right laughing.^ when I hear that our work^ hath fuch a correfponding lil{enefs^ with the Art of Cookery ; Tour fo faithful InjiruSlions have already ahmdantly fa- tisfied me : I have very often feea my IVife bufxed about the Cooking of fuch Balls, and my felf have alfo delightfully fed upon thefe kind of 'Dumplins^ made both of Veal, Eggs j and Spices, and alfo of Flower, Adilk,, and greett tlerbi. But I fear me, that when my Wife (hall fee me making thefe Balls or FeVets, and boyling them in a little Fot^ (he will laugh at me, and fay, that I learned my SSU from her. B. ’Tis no Matter, you have noreafon to regard either the tailing of your Wife, or of all Men what¬ ever : For they know not what they do, it is enough' for you, that your felf know what end it is, you do any thing Tor : Think you, that if other Wifelings and Know-littles fiiould fee you working with fuch little Balls, they would not deride and mock you. But don’t you at all mind their unprofitable Prating, leave the fiiril-founding Geefe to their own loud Chat- ling, and follow you my Do;3:rine, and wrap up this our Cookery Art in the darknels of Silence : Which if you do, you need not fear of being mockt, or laught at by either Women, orWomanilh Men. C. I have now (praifed be God ) learned enough t But yet, there is one thing I am ignorant of, and that is this, by what pgnimay come to know, when my Pellets are well enough boyled, and what Fire they are to be boyl¬ ed in. The Fire of Wood and Coals, I know is ufed by the feminine Sex for to boyl withal, but whether or no^ the fame he necejfary and conducive to our Operation, 1 requef you to inform me. B. Have you never feen, what proof Women have to know, when their Dumplings are well boyled? They are wont to take one out, and cut it in twain, that they may fee, whether or no the infide, as well as the outfide of the fame be fo well feethed, as that the Flower is not any more tenacious or Clammy: Do you even the fame, and fometimes put a piece of one of your Pellets you take out, in the Cineritium or Cupel, and that will Ihew unto you, how much increafe of Sol and Luns hath particularly added its felf to your Balls, in that time of the boyling, and how long they are, as yet, to be boyled. Now you know, that all thefe things are to be fearcht into, by your own Meditation and Tryal, becaufe it can not poffibly be, that all things can be fo very clearly fet afore ones Eyes, as to need no farther meditating thereupon, and inquifition thereinto. After this man¬ ner may you boyl in one Pot, with one and thfi fame Water, two, three, or more little Bowls, of dif¬ ferent kinds, as, fome made of Flower, green Herbs', Spices, Flcfli, Eggs, Fifii, and other things, and fo, after the feething of them, you make take forth one kind after another, and Particularly them to your Life. For thefe things are to be underftood concer¬ ning Partietdars. But if you have a mind defirous af¬ ter the Vniverjal Medicine, then muft you enter up¬ on a certain way of almoft an whole entire year, L which Wi](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30322522_0751.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
