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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![4 3 Boor I, then put them into warm water, putyeftorbalmtothem, and cover them warm, andlet them work threedaysas doth Beer, then diftil] them and they will yeeld their fpirit eafily. To reduce the whole Hearb‘into a liquor which may wel be called the Effence thereof. Takethe whole Hearb.with flowers, and roots, make it very clean : then bruife ic in aftone Morter, put it intoa large glafs vellel, fo that two parts of three may be empty : then-cover it exceeding™tlofe, and let it ftand in putrefaction in a mode- rate heat the fpace of half a year, and it will be all curnedinto A, Water, ie fore over a gentle fire, the lively form and Idea of the Hearb wil appear in the Glafs. | 7 Fake the foregoing water and diftill icin a gourd glafs (the joints being well clofed) in athes, and there will come fortha Water and an Oil,and in the upper part of the veffel wil hang a volatile falt. Theoil feparate fromthe water, andkeep by it felf; with the water purifie the volatile falt by diffolving, fil- tring, and coagulating. The fale being thus purified imbibe with the faid oilsuntill it will imbibe no more, digeftthem wel together for amonth ina veffell hermetically fealed. And by this means: you fhall havea moft fubtill effence,’ which being held over-a gentle: heat will fly up into the glafs, and:repre- fentthe: cone idea ofthat vegetable whereofit is theeffence. Thetne Effewse or rather Quinteffence of any Hearb is made thus. When thou haft made the water andoil of any. vegeeable, firft calcine, i.e. burn to afhes the remainder of the Hearb, with theafhes makea Lyeby pouring its own water théreon; when thow haft drawn out all the ftrength ofthe athes, ‘then take agf the Lye, being firft filtred; and vapour it away, ‘atidat the bote tome. thou fhalt finda black fale; which thou muft take and put](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30335255_0056.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
