A course of chymistry. Containing the easiest manner of performing those operations that are in physick. With curious remarks and useful discourses upon each operation / writ in French by Nicholas Lemery ; Translated by Walter Harris.

  • Nicolas Lemery
Date:
1677
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Credit: A course of chymistry. Containing the easiest manner of performing those operations that are in physick. With curious remarks and useful discourses upon each operation / writ in French by Nicholas Lemery ; Translated by Walter Harris. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    S pirit of Venus. Put what quantity you pleafe of the {7y/talls MA of Venus prepared with diftill'd Vinegar, as I M] M fhewed before, intoa glafs Retort, whofe third M coo part remains empty, Place your Retortin Sand, | Metts and fitting to it a large Receiver, and! Luting | ha C well the junctures, give a fmall Fire at firft, to 4! doit drive out a little infipid Phlegm, this Phlegm | 10? willbe followed by a Volatile Spirit, Thenaug- | byte ment the Fire by degrees, and the Receiver will | Wu fill with white Clouds. | Towards the ‘latter end (| body! kindle coals round about the Retort; that the |} 102” laft Spirits may come forth, for-they are the || ‘i HI ftrongeft, When you fee theclouds-difappéar, M] ile “AU and the Recipient grow cool, put outithe Fire; M li Sane éR unlute the junctures; and pour ‘all: thatywhich pout LES is in the Recipient into a Glafs ‘Cucurbite to di- | A Nr Ril'it in Sand unto exficcation, ga a 0e L ( This Remedy is ufed againit the. Epilepfie; a | Fun the Palfie, and the Apoplexie; andother Dif: 9) Zp | pu eafesof the Head. Seven or Eight drops of ir 41 ‘iin | are givenin aconvenient Vehicle: many:do ufe M) um itto diffolve Pearls; Coralls, andfuchlike fub- 1 wt ftances. | | ms The black Mafs that remains inthe Retort may M (iy be revived into Copper, if put ina Crucible in Mi a Fire of Fufion, with a little Saltepeter, or Tartar,