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
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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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    lanner of fcabs, and other fpecially when you add to nd in hot fores Saccharnm le heat and by continual lelt and mingle therewith, lone in glalTes, _ but may arthen pot or pipkin. like defefts of the skin^ it purified verdegreafe, Satwrni^ which in a gen* ftirring about do eafily It needeth not to be be done in an ordinary T’/., ..Ca bleffcd cyt. THe firft and clear is of a very penetrating na* ture: fome drops thereof given in fome >4' t]na vtt£, prefently ftays the collick, proceeding from winds that could not be vented ^ as alfo the riling of the mother, the navil being anomt^ therewith: and a cold humour being fain npon the nervs, whereby they are lamed; if you do but h- noint them with t|iis oyl, and rub it in with warm hands, it will quickly reflrore them, and therefore in regard of its prefent help, may well be called Oleum fanQum. If you extradl plates or iron^r copper with this oyl, it mil turn deep red or grOl^, and is a foveraign remedy for to warm and dry up all cold an^ watery fores. It confumeth allfo all fuperfluous moifture in Wounds and ulcerous Sores, as alfo all other excrefcencies of the skm: it healeth tettars and fcald-heads, and other like defeds proceeding from fuperfluous cold and moi¬ fture. . You may alfo diffolve in it Euphorbium and other hot gums, and ufe them againft great froft, fot what limb foever is anointed therewith, no froft how great foever can do it any hurt. The bal- fames made with gum or fulphur may be alfo di- ftilled by a retort ■> and in fome cafes they are more ufeful than the undiftilled balfame. Of the oyl of Wax. IN the fame manner may be diftilied alfo the oyl of wax, the ufe whereof is in aft like un¬ to the former i and for aft cold infirmities of the, nerves, this is found more effedual yet llian the former, A Spirit good for the Stove. Out of ftones which are found in grapes, there may be diftilied a fowre fpirit, which is a certain and fpecifical remedy for the ftone in the kidneys and bladder, and alfo for all pains of the gout. It is not onely to be ufed internally, but alfo externally, wetting clothes in it, and ^ply¬ ing them to the places affeded, and it will alTwage and drive away the pains. fowre tafte, but in efficacy alfo much exceeds the other. And therefore being of fo great ufe both in Phyfick and Alchymy, as in all hot difeafes, mingling the patients drink therewith, till it get a pleafant fowre taft^ for to quench the intolera¬ ble drowth, to ftrengthen the ftomach, to refreffi the lungs and tlie liver: Alfo externally for to cure the gangreen: Alfo for to Chryftallife fome me¬ tals thereby, and to reduce them into pleafant vi¬ triols , ufeful as well in Alchymy as Phyfick: 1 thought good to fet down the preparation, though it be not done in this our diftilling furnace, but in another way by kindling and burning it as fol- loweth. Make a little furnace with a grate, upon which a ftrong crutible muft be faftned refting on two iron bars, and it is to be ordered fo that the fmoak be conveighed ( not above by the crucible, but J through a pipe at the fide of the furnace : the crucible muft be filled with fulphur even to the top; and by a coal-fire without flame be brought to burn and kept burning. Over the burning ful¬ phur , a velFel is to be applyed of good ftony earth like unto a flat difli with an high brim, wherein is alwayes cold water to be kept, and whereunto the burning fulphur doth flame: which thus burning, its fatnefs confumeth, and the acid fak is freed and fublimed to the cold veffiel, where it IS diflblved by the air, and in the form of a fharp oyl runs from the hollow velfel into the re¬ ceiver , which muft be taken off fometime, and more fulphur fupplyed infteaa of that which hath been confumed, to the end that the fulphur may ftill burn in the crucible: and beat with the flame to the cold head : and within few dayes you will get a great quantity of oyl, which elfe by the {cawpma) glafs-bell in many weeks could not have been done. N. B. Such a fowre fpirit or oyl may alfo be got by diftillation together with the flores, vix.. thus: If you take pieces of fulphur as big as bens eggs, and caft them one after another into the hot ! diftilling velfel, a fowre oyl together with flores, win come over into the receiver, which muft with water be feparated out of the flores, and the water * abftrafted from it again in a cucurbit, and in the ' bottome of your glafs body you will find the oyl, which in vertue and tafte is equal to the former, but you get nothing near fo much in quantity by this way, and if you do not look for the oyl, you may leave it with the flores, which by reafon of their pleafant acid tafle are much toothfomer to take than the ordinary ones. Of the fpirit or acid oyl of Sulphur. TO reduce fulphur into a fowre fpirit or oyl hath been fought hitherto by many, but found by few. Moft of them made it in glafs-bells, but got very little that way ; for the glaffies being duickly hot, could not hold the oyl, fo that it, went away in a fmoak. Some thtwght to get it, by diftilling, others by diflblving, but none of all, thefe would do the feat.' Which is the reafon ^ why now-adayes it is found almoft no where right, and in the Drugfters and Apothecaries they ufually fell oyl of Vitriol inftead of it, whicn by far is not to be compared in vertue to the oyl ^ ef fulphur. For this is not onely of a far pleafanter To the Courteous Reader. THus I cotxlude this fecond part ^ 1 could hfve fet down more medicintd procejfes in this Treatije: i/M havhtf as many as wiU be a fuffeknt guide for the di^- huim of other things aifoy J thought it good here to acfiiefcc'y and whatflever hath been here omitted, jhab -be fupplyed in the following parts. FINIS. .T H E