Volume 1

A course of chymistry. Containing an easie method of preparing those chymical medicines which are used in physick. With curious remarks and useful discourses upon each preparation, for the benefit of such who desire to be instructed in the knowledge of this art / [Nicolas Lémery].

  • Nicolas Lemery
Date:
1686
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Credit: A course of chymistry. Containing an easie method of preparing those chymical medicines which are used in physick. With curious remarks and useful discourses upon each preparation, for the benefit of such who desire to be instructed in the knowledge of this art / [Nicolas Lémery]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    hry | ie nz HO) WA i ; i Hi) i in A Courfe of Chymiftry. 523 i} Lhe Phofphorus, Itis a luminous matter diftilled from Urine that | | has been fermented. Ht | Take a good quantity of humane urine, let it || | ferment, or putrifie in the air in an open veflel 1 | three or four months: then pour it into earthen || | pans, and evaporate it overthe fire, until the re- | maining matter comes to the confiftence of thick | honey, put this matter into an earthen body that | can endure the fire, and is big enough to be left at | lem.) leaft half empty, place your body ina furnace, fit | | ite) to it a glafs head with its receiver, and having well luted the joints, give it a little fire for two or three hours to diftil fome phlegmatick Spirits which ftill remained in the matter, after which you muft encreafe the fire by little and little to the third degree, there will rife fome {mall quantity of Volatile Salt, which will ftick tothe head, and - fome black oil which will fall into the receiver, continue a good coal fire, until there comes no more Oil; let the veflels cool, and having: taken ua) offthereceiver, pour the liquor you findin it into iio? a Tunnel lined with brown paper, the Spirit and sad] phlegm will pafs through, and the oil will re- tom) main inthe filter, put the oil into an earthen pan, i | and ina mild fand-heat dry it until it comes to be vite ual | as thick as an ointment: take off the head, and | you will find in the body a black fpongey mafs F which you are to feparate from the folid compact et on matter which remains at bottom, powder your o@) ipongey matter, and mix it with the dried black | oil 5 ¥ e . +? Se en . ——s Ni