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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    by cryftallization, WS Lhe manner of making Saltat Rochel, 279 Its Spirit drawn without addition of earth, 284. New Spirits drawn feveral times from the Jame matter, expofed to the xir after diftillation, 285 Salt decrepitated muft be newly made for ufe, 282 Salespeter jor Niter of the antients different from ours, | | 289 ats origine, 15,289 That it is not inflammable in it felf;' nor Sulphu- res, 290, 308 ° (That it a Sal Gemme impregnated with greater ftore of Spirits, , 292 Salt-peter Purified, judged better for wfe than Sal prunellz, Sanguification explicated, | Sea-ficknefs, its canfe, 278 Swiall-poxing enioufly compared tothe fermentation of Wines, 416 Univerfal Spirit, ] Steel, how made, 2 131 Stones, how generated, 263 how poffibly they grow in our bodies, 268 Succinum, or Ambar, 363 Sublimate Corrofive, often counterfeited, and bow |. to be difcovered; 177 Its Corrofion much greater than that of Arfinick, 132 « How from fo great a Poifor it comes to be fomild as sts #n Mercurivs dulcis, 185 Suffocation of thé Matrix exphitared, 368 a Sugar,