Volume 3

The compleat chymist, or, a new treatise of chymistry ... / from the fourth edition revised and augmented by the author. Written in French ... Now faithfully Englished by a Fellow of the Royal Society [William Aglionby?].

  • Christopher Glaser
Date:
1677
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Credit: The compleat chymist, or, a new treatise of chymistry ... / from the fourth edition revised and augmented by the author. Written in French ... Now faithfully Englished by a Fellow of the Royal Society [William Aglionby?]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    te es * F 2 i SN +] 284. Ghe Compleat Chmnt tt. OF the Diftillation of Wax. FUT two/pounds of Wax into little pieces, “4 and put them into a good large Retort, fo that, it may be: onely half full, {etit in a Sand- faxmace,. fit and-Inte’ a Receiver to it very exact- ly: -hegin with a‘fmall fire, and augment it by Nietle and ‘little 5 there comes over firft a little phlegm, and after a pungent Spirit,-after that a cleat, and then a-thick Oyl like Butter, and at laft.a , volatile, Salt, cleaving to the fides of the Receiver, hut ima very {mall quantity : raife and: continue? your’ fire till nothing come over, then.cool and. unlute: your veffels : put a pound. of moderately; hot. Water, in. your Receiver, to diffolve the volatile Salt, and joyn it with its Phiegm and Spirit, after feparate your Oyl by a Tunnel 5 but for that it is very thick, you muft incorporate it with fifted athes, and rectihe it in a Retort 3 keep that which comes firft over for roward-ufe, the-latter, which will be thick-Hke Butter, may ferve outwardly: the Liquor, which, contains the Spirit and volatile Salt, may be y*tified and fublimed into Salt, in the fame manner as the volatile Oy! of Amber, The fub- Cle
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