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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    a little luminous matter from. The veffel in i §| Which it is put to ferment is left open, that the air i [| €Ntring into it may help the fermentation; and in truth, the more volatile falts are heteby loft, Hl “i§) but yet there do remain fufficient to make the UNS) Phofphorws. When the Urine upon evaporation | | begins to grow thick, you muft take care that the i ) Vii) matter does not {well overthe veflel, for it rarifies i + very much; you muft evaporate as much phlegm | ~ | as poffibly youcan when the evaporation is made | ‘il an the carthen pans to the end that the operation i be fooner ended in the body, for there is much 1 ‘| lefs time fpent in the evaporation, and itis much \—}, More eafie to keep down the matter when it {wells | “li in earthen pans, than in a body which is luted, Hint) and has itshead on. The body muft therefore be ‘itll Lure to be large enough by reafon of this rarefacti- “on of the matter, which will be apt otherwife to i) rife into the head, and to mixin the receiver with ‘aii, the diftilled liquor, which would force you to be- pale) gin the diftillation anew. 3 | ‘When the veffels are unluted, you may take the ‘I0l) Volatile falt out of the head, if there remains any | il NM] anit, and rectifie it as Ihave fhewed fpeaking of tt Ne) the diftillation of Urine, but you will find little | li} of it, becaufe the greateft part of, this falt was | loft inthe fermentation ; you might alfo preferve the liquor which is feparated from the oil in the filtration, it isa Spirit of Urine. The compact matter which remains in the body | after that the fpongy part is feparated, is fixed and faline ; you might calcine it, and drawfrom it a fixed Sale of Urine by a Lixivinim, as other | (@ fixed alkali falts are feparated. , i | | , You ! — Wh