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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![k Stones into precious ones ; but hath no ingrefs into com- inon'Mercury^ l8.a. It draws the Tinbiuresfrom red SubjeBs^ and leaves the body white, 19. a. Experi¬ ment of the red Salt or Stone of Philolbphers draw¬ ing the TtnSlurefrom Gold, P. 26. It gave to Glafs » Juch a toughnefs, as it might be bowed like Steel- \ ivithout breaking. Ibid. The Author refiored by i two years .continual Sicknefs, to Health, \h\(\. The Secret Salt of Philolbphers, f or their white Eagle) being dif[olved in Common Water, renders the jame able to glew Paper together^ and makes infeparable ConjunHions, 31. b. 52. . Salt of Art exalts both Sol and Lune into TinBures, i‘ 55* ^oth maketh fixt and volatile, ibid. Sanguis Draconis and Salamander of the Phtlofophers, how produced, 28, 29. Its Inceration and Multiplica¬ tion, 29. b. Sanguis Draconis to unite and fix, with Lac Virginis, P. 3. ;i.a. Satur wajhed to the highefi Whitenefs, with Common Salt, ts then a Bath for Metals, P. r. 402. a. The manner of preparing and ufing that Bath, 403, 404. Scw.- fVegetMes confifi in a Lixivial Salt and Sul¬ phur, P. I. 89. b. Silver to extraSl from poor Oars, by the moifi way, P. i. 4^5* Silver Calxes to reduce into a body without lofs, j* P’ feparate from Bifmuth, and the Bifmuth preferved, P. 1.176. From old Cop¬ per, and the Copper preferved, ibid. Silver to exalt into Gold, ina. few hours, 177. P, 2. 49. Silver ro Tranfmute into Gold, P. 3. 44. b. Silver is inwardly full ofTinbiure, P. 2. 144. a. Silver, its Cryfitals to prepare,with their ufe, P. I. 26. Its Tinlture, ibid. Its green Oyl, with its ufe in Phyfick, . Alchymy, and Mechanicks, 17, 391. b. The Silver Smiths Files, and other Tools, to make as hard as the befi Steel, P. i. 180. Spots or Stains to take out of Cloaths,\\AA. Spiders under a year old, not poyfonous, P.2. 96. b. They will live three months without fufienance, ibid. Spirits Terrefitrial and Elementary, their great Power, P. 2. 171. ^Spirits, what they are, and by what means they operate good or evil, P. 2. 23. Spirit of Salt to dijiill without Retorts, with its ufe, P.i. 1 ?• 4*^' 2.^5» b. Spirit of Salt, Salt-peter, or Aqua Regia to acquire eafily, fo that one pound of it may be made with two or three pound of Coals, and needs uo reification, 225, 374. a. Spirit of Salt ferves for Kitchen ufes better thanVinegar, 5, lo, 378, 379. Its . great Vertues in Phyfick, 287. Spirit of Salt Tar'tari- 2ed, to prepare, 392. a. It allays Thirfi byond all other remedies, and is fi many good ufes in Phyfick, ibid. Spirit of Salt, and AJ.lpm, volatile to prepare, P.1.22 The ufe c/Spirit of SiaV in Ships againfi Thir% and the Scurvy, 284. The Spirit of Salt in Apothecaries Shops, of little worth, 2.^1. t.. Spirit of Antimony, Tar tarized,p. i. 30. a. 41. Spirit of Corals Sugar, red, to pupare, 53. Spirit of Salt of Tartar, and other fixed Sd^s, i j. Spirit of Salt of Tartar, with crude Tartar to Ifiill, ' d ,oA ^ ■ Spirit of Salt-peter, white and acid, and tile, to prepare, with their ufe, P. i. 23. 5pifi{. Niter Sulphurated, 2^. a. Tartariz,ed, 30. a., vcid Spirit, or Vinegar to difiill from all Vegti^kf^j P. I. 10, b. From Wood,in great quant ity,i^%, ’ Sirit of Stone-Coals, P.i. 30. b. It cures Scald Heals md all running Ulcers, ibid. Spit of Grape-ftones, a Spedfick for the Stone and (aut, 54. a. Spirit of Gun powder, 32. Spirit of Hair, W Horns, 11. 0/Man’s Hair. 5 i. I, dtjfol- ibi^ O/Harts-horn, wnh ds Venues, 51,^2. Spirit 5 2. Spirit of Sal-Armo- niack, or Urine, toprepape, P. i. 49. pts Vertues and opirits Salts of ATmerals, P. j. 12 Spirits 0/’Metals and Minerals volatile, P. i. I2 P 2. 7 r. b. 162, 218 a. Spirit of Zinck, to prepare, p[ i’ 23. Of the Drofs of Regulus Martis, %irit of ^ of great power Spi^i^of'Jupiter,P.V33. Spirit of Mars w^Vous Vertues, P. 3. 46. b. Spirk Gold, W Silver, Tartanz^ed, P, i. ±1. Spirit of Mercury Tartariz^ed, ibid. Spirit of Muft, or new Wine, to prepare, P. i. < 2 Soi- m of Paper, w Un„en cloh, Spirit si, • tt ,/'7' OX 13- Spirit of Tar¬ tar, 36. Its Ufe, 37. Spirit and Oyl of Tartar loan¬ ed with Metals and Minerals, 38. Spirit of Vin^ar Honey W Sugar, ii. Spirit of Sulphur, u. Spi¬ rit of Vitriol volatile, with its vertues and «/e P j Vrl of Vitriol Woo/zf/ ufe and dofe, ibid. * A Spirit to be drawn from Wine {by the help of a fecret Ferment) by which other Wines may be amended P 2 Tartar, by the fame Ferment, 218,’b’ TM prepare, that will draw out the y»^»re ofGold, 139. Spirit of Wine, by its flame ddcifies aUfowr and bitter things, 190. bf SpHt of Wine Alcohzate extrais the TinBures of allthtms carries them over the Helm, is of admirable u(e for Phyficians, and may be acquired as cheap as other zed with the Salt of Art, carries over the Helm the Effences of Vegetables,' Animals, and Minerals P ? 54,56-a- ' T Springs, whether fait or fweet, their Original, P, j. 248. b. 249 The reafon why fome Springs are frefh ~ and others fait, and why fome are more fait thane^ thers, P. Ii 256. Steel or Iron to Solder without Fife or Brafs, onelv by a Liquor, Pi. ,80 Stom of the Rems and BUdder, the cure, P. 2. 24. b. 58,88. b. 95. a. 102. b. 122. b* P- 3» 55 ; Stone of Fire of Bafil Valentine, P. 3. 65. Its great powered vertues, ibid. Stones prepared by the Au¬ thor, Tinging Metals, P. 3. 37. Sulphur, burning, is the fymbol of Death, P. i. 254. b. Sulphurs kill all Corrofives, and reduce them to a fweetnefs, 2^6. b. Vegetable Sulphurs perform it in owe hours fpace, either in the dry or moift way, ibid^ Sulphur is the Original of all Metals, P 2 6 b* Every Sulphur ts brought to a MetaUick fiate, by its own Agent, or Vitriolate Salt, ibid. Sulphur, its cold and moifi Fire, to prepare, ibid. Sulphur to flx^ by the mof Fires of Salts, 27. Common Sulphur to purifie by an acid Spirit, 124. b. Lac Sulphuris to prepare, 102. a. Sulphur of Antimony, Eraetick, to prepare, P. i. 30. b. Common Sulphur to fix, in three days time, into a red tinging Scone, P. 2. 214 The power of Sulphur in Coagulating and Tingis^' lol. a. Sulphur of Tartar, of admirable vertue ibid. It makes Gold white and brittle, P.3. 26. b. * ; The Excellency o/SuIphur, when truly prepared in Phv- flck, Alchymy, and other Arts, P. 3.2^ Sulpht^r to wafh and purge to a fmw-like whitenefs, and fix to abide the fire, 4,5,6. Its ufe, q. Sulphur fixed] is Unicorn s Horn, or true Bez,car of Fhilofophers ■ b. Nothing tingeth but Sulphur, 8. a. 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