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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    fromtime to time, and take caré to put more boiling, water into the Cauldron, according as. it coniumes ; .afterwards leave ita while to fettle, and you'l haye.ablack Liquor, Filtrate and eva-’ porate it inan Earthen Pan ovef a, Sand-fire, to the confiftence of a Syrup,‘ or till there rifés a Pellicule over it. It isa verysgreat Aperitive, it.opens, the mok inveterate Ob{trutions, and is“given in Cache- xies, Dropfes,: Obftruction of the Terms, and other Dieafes that proceed from Oppilations ; the Dofeisfrom.a Drachmto halfan ounce’ ji Broth, or fome appropriate Liquor, | à | Remarks. it io , In. this Operation I chufe. rather to ufé the Ruff. of Iron. than Filings of “Steel, becaufe' it is more open, and eafie to be diffolved, for this Tinglure is properly a Diffolution of Mars. — : Water alone would not be able eñiough ro pe: netrate the Iron, for to make a 7 inéture, though you fhould boi] ita Month together,” But when itis, impregnated with Dartar, it diffolves’ it very ealily...7 aE ut After,the Tinéfure is drawn, there rémains.a White matter; that you muft fling away as good for nothing: ir is amixture of the groffer’ parts OFT artar and Mars, RENE Cie This Tintture is called Syrup of Mars, by reac fon of a certain {weetnels that is perceived in its Tafte. It. is reduced into the confiftence of a aSyrup,to keep the better, 1° 7 Aÿ /