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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    AT. A. The Suit oV the Microcofme hath'alfo this property, that when it is put into Aquu Fortii it not on'y di'Tc^lves Sul but Lunct alfoj and is an excellent way to extra T the Gold and Silver that is in Sand and Scones, concerning which Extraction I treat at large in the Seventh Part of the Profperity of Germany. N. B. Another virtue of this IViicrocofmical S^lt is, that it extracts the Tinfture of Gold, and leaves the Body thereof white. And if we afterwards take this impregnate Salt, and extraeft the TinfSure of Gold from it with Spirit of Wine, and burn away the faid Spirit under a Refrigeratory Helm or Head, then the Celeftia! Salt, or the Water of Life of the Philofo- phers, will be conveyed into the Glafs Receivers, and is very fweet and pleafant, but withal fo fubtil and volatile, that the Air attradsand fnatcheth it away, if it be not immediately pour’d out of the recipients, an d carefully kept in a clofe ftopt Glafs. N. B. At the bottom of the Cup or Difh wherein the Spirit of Wine, -impregnate with the TinCture of Gold, hath been kindled and burnt away, you will find the Tindure of Gold in the form of a Blood-red, pleafant, fragrant, Aromatical Oil, which is true li¬ ving Sol, and never (lands (lill, but is in continual motion, perpetually changing from one form to ano¬ ther. In a word, it is the true living Sol of the Phi- lofophers, which by Art is made of Common Gold, that is dead, which Living Philofophick Gold, fra¬ grant Dragons Blood, Incombuftible Oil, and true Potable Gold is without doubt the higheft Medicin that is in the World. N B. In the forefaid manner we may alfo extraCf the rinClures from iFlars and Venm, as alfo from timony acd Sulphur, and with the afliftanceof the flame of Spblt of Wine maturate them into mod lovely, fra- grap', incombuftible TinCfures. For by means of our T icrocofrnical Saltii] Metals and Minerals may be re- S -c’d o Potibility, without the help of any Corro- f)V< in which (late they are the moft powerful Medi- caiiicnts imaginable, to which the very beft Remedies of the Galcnifts are not in the lead to be compared. But no Man ever attained thefe Secrets that was afraid to fmut his Hands with Coals, or that was not earned in his Prayers to God for the difeovery of thefe won¬ ders , their Silk Clothes, Velvet Coats, Artificiali Cant, and vain Aiidotelical Philofophy, cannot pro^ > duce any fuch effeds, but the Fire alone which is the I effeder and difplaycr of Wonders. Wherefore no -I Man can cotne to be a true Philolbpher fave only by Fire,^ which alone hath the power to remo ve that which k is evil, and to manifed and bring to light the inward V concealed Good, which is true in an Earthly as well as Heavenly fenfe. I repeat it onCe more, that he, who- doth not know Fire, and its hidden Divine Virtue and Operation, is a pitiful Philofopher, ^nd doth not at ' all deferve that Title, for the Light is hid from him ' and confequently all Nature appears vail’d and dark to him which matter I have treated of at large in my Celeftial and Ferrefirial Purgatory. ^ Befidcs all that hath been faid already, many other great, yea incredible, things may be performed with the help of Animal Excrements and Superfluities and * in particular the extraction of Silver and Gold out of Sand; Stone arid Poor Oar, that is not worth the melting, as (hall be at large declared in the Seventh ' Fart of my Profperity of Germany, It may be faid with truth, that never yet did any Man find out all the Virtues that are contained in thefe Superfluities of Nature, they being indeed greater tt- than Can be believed, which is the reafon, why the Phi- lofopheis would never call thefe contemptible and; loathfom SubjeCts by their own names, but have co¬ vered and concealed them under Metaphors and Alle¬ gories, that the great fecrets contained in them might not be proftituted to the Proud unworthy World. I do intend, God willing, with the firft occafion to treat more at large concerning the- nature and ufe of thefe Animal Superfluities in the Seventh Part of tho * Profperity of Germany, whtve I (hall, amongft other things, demonffrate, that thefe Superfluities of Nature» : are not.only able to exalt Sol and Luna in their colours j but alfo to augment them to infinity in quantity and i quality ; Khali alfo plainly difeover the way, how from ; Sand and Stone and the meaneft of Metals, Gold and I Silver may be extraded, fo that every one, that is but little acquainted with the managing of Fire, (nay, with little charges in his own Houfe, entertain and keep go¬ ing a profitable and dch Mine of Gold and Silver, for I the comfortable fupport of himfelf and family, to which God be pleafed to grant his Grace and Blefting» Arnetts * i F 1 ^