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A40448 The art of distillation, or, A treatise of the choicest spagiricall preparations performed by way of distillation together with the description of the chiefest furnaces & vessels used by ancient and moderne chymists : also, A discourse of divers spagiricall experiments and curiosities, and the anatomy of gold and silver with the chiefest preparations and curiosities thereof, together with their vertues : all which are contained in VI bookes / composed by John French ... French, John, 1616-1657. 1653 (1653) Wing F2170; ESTC R5348 146,212 282

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then it is fit for medicine The processe of the Elixir according to Divi Leschi Genus Amo. TAke of o●r earth through eleaven degrees eleaven graines of our gold and not of the vulgar one graine of our lune not of the vulgar graines two but be thou admonished that thou take not the gold and silver of the vulgar for they are dead but take ours which are living then put them into our fire and there will thence be made a dry Liquor First the earth will be resolved into water which is called the Mercury of Philosophers and in that water it will resolve the bodies of the Sunne and Moone and consume them that there remaine but the tenth part with one part and this will be the Humidum Radicale Metallicum Then take the water of the salt Nitre of our earth in which there is a living streame if thou diggest the pit knee deep take therefore the water of it but take it clear and set over it that Humidum Radicale and put it over the fire of putrefaction and generation but not such as was that in the first operation Governe all things with a great deale of discretion untill there appeare colours like to the taile of a Peacock govern it by digesting of it and be not weary till these colours cease and there appeare throughout the whole a green colour and so of the rest and when thou shalt see in the bottome ashes of a fiery colour and the water almost red open the vessell dip in a feather and smeere over some iron with it if it tinge have in readiness that water which is the menstruum of the world out of the spheare of the Moone so often rectified untill it can calcine gold put in so much of that water as was the cold aire which went in boyl it again with the former fire untill it tinge again The processe of the Philosophers stone according to Pontanus TAke the matter and grinde it with a physicall contrition as diligently as may be then set it upon the fire and let the proportion of fire be known viz. that it only stirre up the ma●ter and in a short time that fire without any other laying on of hands will accomplish the whole work because it will putrefie corrupt generate and perfect and make to appeare the three principall colours black white and red And by the meanes of our fire the medicine wil be multiplied if it be joyned with the crude matter not only in quantity but also in vertue Withall they might therefore search out this fire which is minerall equall continuall vapours not away except it be too much stirred up partakes of sulphur is taken from elsewhere then from the matter pulle●h downe all things dissolveth congealeth and calcines and is artificiall to find out and that by a compendious and neer way without any cost at least very small is not transmuted with the matter because it is not of the matter and thou shalt attaine thy wish because it doth the whole work and is the key of the Philosophers which they never revealed The Smaragdine table of Hermes from whence all Alchymie did arise TRue without all falsity certaine and most true That which is inferiour is as that which is superiour and that which is superiour is as that which is inferiour for the accomplishing of the miracles of one thing And as all things were from one by the mediation of one so all things have proceeded from this one thing by adaptation The Father therefore is the Sun and the Mother thereof the Moon the wind carried it in its belly The Nurse thereof is the earth The father of all the perfection of the whole world is this The vertue thereof is entire if it be turned into earth Thou shalt separate the earth from the fire the subtle from the thick sweetly with a great deale of judgement It ascends from the earth up to heaven and againe descends down to the earth and receives the powers of superiours and inferiours So thou hast the glory of the whole world Therefore let all obscurity fly from thee This is the strong fortitude of the whole fortitude because it shall overcome every thing that is subtle and penetrate every solid thing as the world is created Hence shall wonderfull adaptations be whereof this is the manner wherefore I am called Hermes Trismegistus having three parts of the philosophy of the whole world It is compleat what I have spoken of the operation of the Sun FINIS THE London-Distiller Exactly and truly shewing the way in words at length and not in mystesterious CHARACTERS and FIGURES to draw all SORTS OF SPIRITS AND STRONG-WATERS To which is added their Vertues with Additions of many Excellent WATERS LONDON Printed by E. Cotes for Thomas Williams at the Sign of the Bible in Little-Britain 1652. THE DISTILLER OF LONDON OR Rules and Directions for extracting and drawing of Low-Wines and Spirits to be redistilled into Rich-Spirits Strong-Waters or Aqua-vitae WHereas some of the Professours of Distillation in and about London have heretofore usually drawn Strong waters and Aqua vitae c. out of Wines Low wines and Small Spirits c. by one alone immediate extraction operation or distillation contrary to the most approved form of working in this our Art and have been so opinionated of their own hereditary erroneous wayes that they have esteemed the manner and order here taught to be altogether unnecessary and improvident in that there is here required Redistillation which they have ever thought to be superfluous Not considering that what they save by their seeming thrift they lose double in the excellency of their Wares and otherwise Wherefore that such may not onely acquit themselves of an aspersion of ignorance not undeservedly cast upon them but also vindicate both their own the Companies reputation for time to come The directions following are henceforth by them and every Member of the Company and their Successours duly and exactly to be observed and practised from time to time for ever hereafter That all Wines Lees of Wines Low Wines and Spirits under proof whatsoever intended for making of rich or high Spirits Strong Waters or Aqua vitae c. be first distilled extracted or drawn into strong Proof-Spirit where●y they may be corrected and cured of their natural harsh distasteful unsavory or evil qualities before they be compounded with ingredients or extracted and drawn into rich or high Spirits Strong waters or Aqua vitae according to Art and as is required in the ensuing Rules And because many grosse absurdities have been frequently practised in adulterating some and abusing others of the materials used in Distillation and otherwise by Distillers by such as onely respect their own particular gain regarding neither the profit or credit of Distillers that have been necessitated to make use of such their il-conditioned Wares Wherefore that these grievances may be removed for time to come the Directions following are strictly to be