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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    weaker than the Spirit of Pitrigl, and fo requires a greater quantity of it, and longer time to dif, folve the Mercury, for there's much a-do’ to dif- patch the Diffolution in ten Hours, That which is diftill.d is exczeding weak, becaufe the AZer- cury rctains the greateft part of Acid Spirits, and | they are the things that purge fo mightily, “a though mäñy of them afe carried off by the | Lotions, All thefe Preparations are nothing but fo many Difguifes of Afercury by Acid Spirits,.whichac- cording to their d ferent adhefions,do-caufefuch | different effects. .. The Colour doth in like man-, | ner proceed from their different ways of open- à ing the body of Mercury, and from their vari-. 8 ous penetration, | All chefe. Precipitates and Sublimates. may be | revived again into Howing Afercury, by mixing | them with Quick-Lime, and diftilling them, as I | have ifaid in the way of Reviving Cinnabar imo | Quick-filver, becaule the Alkali of Quick- -Lime Boma deitroys thofe Acids that ABUS che form of | Que: liver, | Vesti pus (i Hc ‘ll Oyl or Liquor of Mercury. Take that part of the Mafs you kept when you made Turbith Mineral, fet ir in a moift Cellar in a Glafs-pan, and it will foon diffolve into a Li: quor,’ keep it in an earthen, or {trong glafs Bot- rel . this. is that whichis commonly called the Oy] ae |) or Liquor of Adercury it i is ufed for the laying open i i ee Venerial