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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![Mercury fyed^itate red^ to -prepare^ P. 1.18, a. Yellow precipitate of Mercury, kills Lice, 19. a. Mercury Medm Phjfick, 18. b. Mercury to Coagulate in¬ to a hard body, 14a. a. Mercury to fix with the moift fires of Salts, jo as conjlantly to abide the fire, P. 1. 16, 2.7. To prepare into a Red Powder Jlrong- ly purging, i8. Mercury Coagulated into a fixt ■ivhite Body, 161, a. To purifie by a Fulmen, jo as after it may be e a fitly fixt, P. 3. 71. Commcm Mer¬ cury purified and fixt into a Red Powder in two 07 three days, 191. a. It enters Gold and augments it, 196. a. Common Mercury hath in it fielf no TinBure, P. 5.16. How it may actjuire TinBure, and by pre¬ paration become the AiercuryofPhilofiophersj\h\d. How to fix it by Animal fiuperfluities, P. 5. 89. b. Mercury 'of Antimony to prepare, either Purgative or . phoretick,with its excellent ufe in Phyfick^.i. 16 f, 18 5. Mercury 0/’Saturn, andofLnuQ, to prepare, 127. a. P 15. They fix Common Mercury, ibid. Mer¬ cury of Saturn may be difiiUed into a fiweet Milk, and then coagulated into a Stone, which Coagulates Argent vive, P. 116. Mercury 0/Saturn fixed into Gold, I 57- The Mercury of Metals is the Mercury of Philofo- phers, P. 3. iz. a. 69. b. Divers 7vays of extraB- ing it, I z, IP. z. 67. per fe 158. Advife to feek Mercury in Saturn, and Sulphur in Mars, rather than in Gold and Silver, P. 3 iz. a, A Tinging Mercury to prepare out oj Antimony, 14. Antimony yields more Mercury than Vitriol, ibid. A Tinging Mercury to prepare out of Mars and Venus, ibid. P. 3. ‘]X. a. Out o/Jupiter, 15. Mercury to prepare cut of Metals and Minerals, by the help of Tartar cnely, 14,15- TTo Mercury of Metals to prepare by the Salt of the World, P. 3. 7?- a. The Mercury of Philofbphers to prepare by the help of Secret Sal-Armoniack, P. z, i8z. The Mercuries of Jupiter and Mars, being conjoyned, are together in- fiantly converted into fixed Gold, ibid. A Philofo- phick Mercury to prepare in great cjuantity, without charge, P, 3. 16. The Mercury of Philofbphers being fet at liberty, carries with it felf its own Tinging Sulphur, IZ. b. How to prove whether the Mercury of Metals be well prepared or not to give a TinBure, 13. The conjunBion and fixation of the Philofophick yitvcmy with Gold, ibid. Of the Mercury of Wine, P. 3. 55. a. Its Preparation, P. z. 67. Its admirable Vertues, 189. P. 3. 68. b. Experiment of turning it into a red Stone, which ting¬ ed Silver into Gold, 75. b. 'M.Qizh, how generated, P. i. 115, b. Metallick Mines dijcovered by various accidents, izo. flow to find them by Art, ibid. The Hazjle rod fallacious, ibid. Metals and Minerals have their birth from one Com¬ mon Seed, izi. a. Metalline Seed as capable of Multiplication, as the Vegetable and Animal, 363. a. Metals, how to feparate, P. i. 70. From each other by precipitation, 325. b. N.B. 334. a. To feparate the courferM&t-SSs, from each other, 72. Metalline Oars, how to prove what Metal they hold,, 172. Metals may be purified in two or three hours time, 357. a. Metals to amend, and concentrate by Nitre, zol. Metals imperfeB, changed into more perfeB, by the help of Salts, P. I. 177, 178. P.Z. ir. Howtobejlain by their Enemies, and tranfmuted into better, ibid. Metals fugacious and of no worth, to ripen by Com¬ mon Salt and Fire,fo as to yield Gold and Silver with profit, 55- ' Metals, how purified, P, 2. 117. a. Their ReduBion in, toCalxes, Crocus Martis, Minium, Red Precipi. tate, &C. no true purification, ibid. How to snake ' Metals grow up like Vegetables, before the Eye, to the length of a finger or more in the jpace of two or three hours, P. I. 178. P. 2. 59- a. Metallick Tree, with its parts, P.Z. 105. b, Magnefia grows up into a blood-red Tree, P. 3. 59- a. Metals not to be fpiritualized with Corrojive Waters, by difiillation, 132. a. Metals, notwithjlanfiing, may be depurated, and made volatile by difiillation, P. 2. 127. b. Metalline Spirits coagulate and fix Mercury, 153. b. Metals are fo defiroyed by the Fulmen of Jove, that they cannot be again reduced into Metaf- | lick Bodies by melting, but pafs into Glafs of divers y Colours, which Glafs being again reduced by Art,yields 1 much better Metals than before, P. i. 201, b. Me- f tals not to be amended but by Sulphur, P. I. 375. a J Metals to dijiinguifi],by the colour of their Fumes, and I figure of their Motion, in the fire, P. i. 272. b. 273. a !* The Metals have divers names impofed upon them by | the Poets, 401. a. I Metallick Tindure to prepare, P. i. 204. a. A Metallick Medicament to prepare, profitable in all di- | Jlempers of the Brain, P. 2. 116. What is to be held I concerning the perfeBion of Metals, P. i. 72. I Minerals, of their kinds and difference, P. i. 318. to be tried, P. I. 69. 322. P. 2, 22. a. Whether they may be tranfmuted into Aietals, and into what, P. j \ 77. Minerals poyfonous, how to be correBed by the ^ moiji fire of Salt, and to be converted into good Me- ^ dicine, P. 2. 26. Minerals after they have been ex- I] traBed with AqUa Regia will jiiU afford Salt-peter | with profit, P. 2. 12. I Mines and Stones, that are poor in Silver and Copper to extraB by a moiji way, P. 2. 14, 15. Minerals jiub- born and glaffy, are fubdued in the fire with fixed P. I. 332. b. Mice delight in Salt, P. I. 169. a. 1 Money, bow to improve it without putting it to XJfury by a Metallick work, 194. Gold more profitable to be ufed in this work than Silver, 197. b. Mountains burning, net Hell, as fame think P. r. 118, 119. N Niter or Sak-peter, its generation, P. r. 309, 556. Of its uje and benefit. Zoo, 359,409. a. It is a meer Fire, whether it be in the form of a fixed Salt, or of a volatile Spirit, P. 2, 114. a. How to make its fire appear vifibly in a flame, \b)d. Its cold and 1 moiji fire to prepare, P. 2. b. Niter agrees with all the marks of the Philofopher’s Mercury, P. I. 167. b. The River Nile aboundeth with Niter, by which it en- richeth the adjacent Country without Dung, 185. b. The plenty of Niter in Egypt onas the caufe of their tranfmutation of Metals, ibid. The Niter or Salt¬ peter of the Ancients was extraBed out of Rocks and ' Stones, as the word SdXt-^QtQV fignifieth, P.i. 342.b. That Art is now wholly loft in Europe, ibid. Niter i yet extraBed out of Rocks in the Eajl-Indies, ibid. ! Niter wonderfully promoteth the growth and encreafe of Corn, P. I. 224. b. 359.b. Fixt Niter hath no eejual, \ in promoting the growth of Vegetables, Animals, and ' Minerals, 199. b. It giveth'a better Odour to Fruits, than Dung, P. 2. 33. Niter is capable of affording all things both for health and wealth, 407. a. Niter brought in fpeaking of it felf, 363. b. Its ufe in pre¬ paring of Medicines of Vegetables and Animals, P. 2.99. 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