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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![/ The INDEX. Griffin^ dijjolves all things in the World^ P. i. 406. b, Nirerous Fountains in Franconia proceeding from a Mountain of Stones containing Niter, cure many dif ^ cafes, ^45;b. Kiter the cnely Medium of making the Metals Afiral, 357- Niter to prepare by Art of an extraordinary firength, 357. b. 7'he Anima or Tinflure of Niter Enigmatically defcri- bed, P.ia. no. a. One drop of it is able to tinge a ■whole Glafs of Water with a golden Colour, ibid. P. I. 515. b, N. B. ; 16. a. Its Preparation is more openly taught, P.a. 169. Its Vertues, P. 1. 588. b. P. 2. 5 r. How to exalt it to the highefi power and purity, 51. 40. a. Niter to prepare of Dung of divers forts, of Leaves of Trees, &c. P. i. 558. Out of Lime and Wood, 539. cut of rotten Wood, 409. a. Out of Rocks and Stones, 540, 374. a. Experiment to try what Stones contain moji Niter, ibid. b. Difference of Stones containing Niter, and how they are to be known, P. i. 341 344. b. Niter to prepare in plenty out of Common Salt and Lime 344. b. 416. Niter or Salt peter/0 //>1 tie or no coft by its own Seed, P. i. 317^ ?70 417. b. 418. By its own Root, 420. b. 423. P. 2. 40j 4^‘ Niter how to extraEl and boil up, 34^. The way of augmenting the crude Lixivium before boiling, 3^7. b. Niter, when purified, jJsoots into long fmooth Cryfials of a fexangular Figure, and how it is to be brouo-ht to that purity, 274. b. Niter to fix, and thence to prepare a fiery Liquor or Men- firuum, P. 2. 98. Ten pounds of Niter may be extrac¬ ted out of a hundred weight of Bones of Beafis, Birds, and Fijlies, P l. 310. a. Niter may be made in great quantities out of the Flejh and Bones of Whales, En¬ trails of Stock-fifh, which are cajl away, 313. a. Experiment of making Niter out of BullocEs Blood, ibid. Neceffary admonitions about the making of Ni¬ ter or Salt-peter, ibid. 314. N. B. 315. O OYIs of Vegetables to obtain in greater quantity than by a Common Still, P. r. 5 a. P. 2. 122.a. One general Frocefs for the Oyls of Vegetables, fiiewn by dtfitlling the Oyl of Turpentine, 123.1». Ejjential Oy\s to exalt to a ^reat fubtilty, 119. b. Oyls feet id, to make fweet and clear, P. i. 6. a. Oyls warm, fetch Pitch and Rofin out of Cloth, 376. Oyls, how to be Coagulated into Ballams, 60, Oyl of Amber to prepare, with its Vertues, P. i. J2. Oyl of Arfnick and Orpiment, 9. 3 5. Oyl of Alh- keys, a fare Remedy againfi the Stone, P. 2. 122. a. Oyl or Butter of Antimony, 35,36. Its external ufe, 8. b, Oyl of Harts-horn, 51. Oyl of Lapis Calaminaris, with its ujes, P. i. 9. Oyl of Wine made by its help, ibid. Oyl or Liquor of Gold Corrofw, 7, a. Oyl 0/Lune, 51. Oyl 0/ Mars, ibid. Oyl of Regulus Martis, 34. Its mani¬ fold vertues and ufes, 34, 35. Oyl of Maffick, JFrankincenfe and other Gums, 5. b. Oyl o/Mer- cury, 7. Oyl of Metals and Minerals, red and fweet, 6. b. Oyl-olive to difiiU, commonly called the Fhilofophefs Oyl of Bricks, P. i. 53, Its Vertues and Ufe, ibid. 54. Oyl of Saturn, and o/Jupiter, 7. 36. Oyl of Soot, 52. Oyl f Sulphur,fy/oi/ the Mercury of Phi- lofophers, becaufe it may eafily be tranfmuted into a fweet fufile Stone, P. 2. 1-91. ^^^^^fter, P. I. 33. OylofTartar,36. OH or 53- .Oyl of Venus, 7. Oyl ffYnno], fweet, to preplire,ri. Its Ufe andDofe, 22. Blood-red, with Spirit of Urine, 50. Oyl of Vi¬ triol corrofive, to prepare, 17. Oyl of Vitriol ihite. and red, to Coagulate into a fweet fufile Stone, ha- -ving po7i^er in the tranfmutation of Metals, and Gems- of Phtlofophers, P. 3. 62. b. ^ Oyl 0/Zink, P.i. 36. Opium may be fo prepared, that its very Odour will lav the outward Jenfes afleep, P. 2. 153. b. Opium,//e/. bane and Tobacco to prepare into excellent Medicines. I - 3- 57-h. ^ PAnaca-a of Antimony, its preparation and general tije, P. I. 163. Paracelfus caufed humane Dung to be fet before the Em- peroufs Phyjicians, who required of him fome Medici¬ nal Experiment, P. 2. h. Paracelfus’j Abbreviation of the Frocefs of the Ancients in preparing the TinBure of Naturaltfis, P. i. 222 • ProjeBion of the /aid TinBure upon Metals, Paracelfus with it cured the word of difeaCes 17 eT ,5,. ff fypryy. the North IS Niter, 3 50. a. Fartnerjhip pernicioirs in the Philofophtckwork, P. 2.147. And trufiy Servants very rare to get, ibid. Paracelfus had thirteen Ser¬ vants came under the Hangman^s Lajh, and but one that he thought was honefi, 148. a. Pearls to prepare into a Magifiery, or white fining Pow¬ der, and to make the (ame of Mother of Pearl or othc^ Philofophick, to take with the Net of Saturn, 265. b. To draw it forth of Com¬ mon Salt, P. 2. 5. , The Philofopher’s Stone not to be attained by the mod acute Powers of humane reafon, without the affifiance of divine infptration, P. i. 185. b. Philofophers rare to be found, as will inJtruB others in their work P. 2. 146. * The philofophers have prepared their TinBure of feve- ral SubjeBs,^and by divers Methods, 144, 14? g The Authoufy opinion which way is the befi, 146*. b 147. a. How a man ought to be qualified%hat will undertake the Philofophick work, 145. b. Pride hinders a man from knowledge, ibid. Poyfon confifls in the excefs of Cold, P. 2.105. a. Poylbnous Animals and Vegetables rejide and gro7ff in cold and jhady places, ibid. Prefs deferibed for extraBing the juice or fap of Wood^ for the making o/Salt-peter, or the enriching of bar¬ ren Land, P. I. 188. Howto convert the fowr juice of Wlod into Salt-peter, ibid. Printer’s Ink, to render very fair and good, 179. Prolerpine, what, P. 2.191. a. Purges work onely by their crudity and averfion to the Jlomach, p, 2. 17. a. b. Purges of Vgetables not fo fafe as thofe of Metals, P. r.’ 385.3. Purging Vegetables much correBed by Spirit of Wine, P. 2. 179, a. Pur ge for firong people of Copper, p. i. 41. a. Oflron^ for 7veaker, ibid. A prepared of Sztxixn, with its^ ufe and dofe, 385. A purge of Lune or Silvery ibid. A purging Gold, ibid. Putrefaftions are made much fooner by Art than Naturey p. I. 225. a. Putrefaftion of Vgetables is prefently made in the fio- machs of Men, 2 24. b. Pyiha-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30322522_0809.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
