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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    ee 2S BRIE OY it pu x CPE ey 128 4 Courfe of Chpmifiry, vou’] find 4 Cinnabar füblimed, and adhering to the neck, feparate it and Keep it: it is a good Remedy for the pox, and the Epilepfie, it pur- ges by fweat, the Dole is from fix to fifteen grains in Pills or Bolws with fome proper Con- ferve. This Butter of Antimony is Canftick like the other I now fpoke of. It may be Rectified by diftilling it anew in a glafs Retort. Remarks, In the former Operation ~Wercury did not find Sulphurs enough to adhere to, whence ft hapned that it came forth flowing, but in this Operation wherein Crude Antimony is uled, which hath all its Sulphur, whilft the Corrofive Spirits fticking to the Antimony come forth in Butter, Æercury joyns with the Sulphur, and by the action of fire fublimes aiterwards into Ciw- nabar in the neck of the Retort, for to make Cinnabar, Sulphur and Mercury mutt be fubli- med together, Now if you have the curiofity to anatomife Cinnabar, you muft powder it, and mix it with a double quantity of Salt of Tartar ; then putting it into a Retort, diftill over a great fire the AMercary into a Receiver filled with Wa- ter, the Sulphur will remain in the Retort with the Salt of Tartar, but may be feparated from it by boiling it in Water. Filtrate the Decoction, and then pour upon it Diftilled Vinegar, a gray Powder will precipi- tate, Comes 4 Mic Dit aay