The art of distillation, or a treatise of the choicest spagyricall preparations performed by way of distillation ... together with the description of ... furnaces and vessels also, a discourse of divers spagyrical experiments ... and of the anatomy of gold and silver / [John French].
- John French
- Date:
- 1653
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The art of distillation, or a treatise of the choicest spagyricall preparations performed by way of distillation ... together with the description of ... furnaces and vessels also, a discourse of divers spagyrical experiments ... and of the anatomy of gold and silver / [John French]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![ee or the powder ofany calcined matters &c.’ina moift, cold place. Defcenfion, is when the eflentiall juice difflolved fromthe mat- ter to be diftilled doth defcend, or fall downward. Defpumation, is the taking off che froth that floats onthe top witha {poone or feather, orby percolation. Diftillation, is the extrating of the humid part of things by vertue of heat, being firft refolved into a vapour, and then condenfed again by cold. Thus it is generally taken, but how more particularly, I fhall afterward fhew. Digefti, is a conco&ing, or maturation of crude things by an eafieand gentle heat... Diffolution, is the turning of bodies intoa liquor by the ad- dition of fome humidity. Dulcoration, or Dulcification, is either the wafhing off the fale from any matter that was calcined therewith,with warm water, in which the falt is diflolyed;and the matter dulcified: or it-is {weetning of chings with fugar, or honey, or fyrup. vapour, by virtue of heat. | Evaporation, or Exhbelatio, is the. vapouring away: of any: moifture. | Exaltation, iswhen any matter doth by digeftion attain to a. greater purity. : Expreffiony isthe extracting of any liquor by the hand. or by a Prefle. Extraéftion, is the drawing forth-ofan eflence from.a corporeal] matter by fome fitliquor, as fpirit of wine, the feces remain- - ingin the bottome. ¢ Fermentation, is when any thing is refolved into it felf, ‘andis rarified, and ripened, whether it be, done by;any,fermentadded to it, or by digeftion only. ; Filtration, is the feparation of any liquid matter from its feces by making it run through a brown paper made likea tunnel], ora little bag of woollen cloth, or through fhreds. Fixation, is the making ofany volatile, fpiritual body nc Ge](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30335255_0034.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
