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French, John.
The art of distillation : or, a treatise of the choicest spagyrical preparations, experiments, and curiosities, performed by way of distillation
London [Londres] : printed by E. Cotes for T. Williams, 1664.
Cote : RES 121093.
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126 An oil or liquor, made of crabs-eyes / Water of spawn of frogs / A compound water of the sperm of frogs / Another compound water of the sperm of frogs
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[sans numérotation] The epistle dedicatory to Tobias Garbrand, doctor of physic and principal of Glocesterhall in Oxford
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1 Book I - What distillation is, and the kinds thereof
2 Of the matter and form of furnaces
3 Of vessels fit for distillation
4 Of lutes, for coating of glasses, and for closures, as also several wayes of stopping glasses
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Image : [A furnace made up of : a cover, a body or vessel, a little glass and a quick-silver]
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Image : The stopple of glass and the glass-body
7 The manner of nipping up a glass, or sealing it up hermitically
Image : [A furnace made up of : a crooked pipe, a glass-body, a glass-stopple, a mouth of the vessel
8 An explanation of such hard words, and tearms of art, which are used in this ensuing treatise
Image : [A furnace used for nipping up a glass]
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12 Rules to be considered in distillation
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Image : [Instruments used for the experiment : an iron rod with two iron rings, an iron book, a pair of tongs, a crooked iron, an iron rake
17 Common distilled simple waters / To make waters in a cold still that shall have the full smell and vertue of the vegetables
Image : The form of a common cold still
18 Another way to make water taste and smell strong of its vegetables / To make water, at any time of the year in a cold still, without green hearbs, so that the water shall smell strong of the hearb / Another way to make a water taste, and smell strong of its vegetables
19 To make the water of roses, or other flowers, of a grateful and pleasant smell, and that shall burn like unto spirit of wine / To make the water of the flowers of jasmin, honey-suckles, or woodbind, violets, lillies, etc, retain the smell of their flowers
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Image : A furnace with his vessels, to distill liquors with the steam of boiling water
22 A water out of berries
Image : The delineation of a balneum Mariae which may also serve for to distil with ashes
23 A sweating water made of elder-berries
Image : The furnace for a balneum Mariae, with the alembics and their receivers
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Image : The effigies of another balneum Mariae, not so easie to be removed as the former
25 Water out of rotten apples / The simple water of succory
Image : In defect of a furnace for a balneum, you may make use of a pot set upon a trefoot, after this manner
26 The water of fennel / Cinnamon water
27 The acid water, of oak, juniper, guajacum, box, etc / How to make aqua vitae, and spirit of wine out of wine
28 How to make aqua vitae out of beer
Image : A hot still
29 How to rectifie spirit of wine, or aqua vitae / To make the magistery of wine, which will be one of the greatest cordials, and most odoriferous liquor in the world
Image : The form of a pellican
30 To make another magistery of wine, that a few drops thereof shall turn water into perfect wine / To make an oil of wine / To extract the spirit out of wine by the spirit of wine
31 To make a very subtil spirit of wine at the first distilling
Image : These vessels may either stand in ashes or in balneo / The manner of distilling in wooden vessels
32 To make the spirit of any vegetables
Image : A balneum and a boiling vessel made of wood
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Image : The form of an alembick
34 The manner of making the spirit of any vegetable may suddainly, at any time of the year / To make any vegetable yield its spirit quickly / To reduce the whole hearb into a liquor which may well be called the essence thereof / To make an essence of any hearb, which being put into a glass, and held over a gentle fire, the lively form and idea of the hearb will appear in the glass
35 To make the true essence, or rather quintessence, of any hearb / To extract the quintessence of all vegetables
36 An excellent essence of any vegetable / Water or spirit of Manna / The tincture of dryed roses / The tincture of violets
37 The tincture of saffron / The tincture of rhubarb
38 The tincture of sugar / The tincture of salt of tartar
39 The chymical oil of the hearb or flower of any vegetables / The oil commonly called the spirit of roses
40 Oils out of seeds / Oils out of berries / Oil out of any solid wood
41 To make a most excellent oil out of any wood, or gums, in a short time, without much cost / To make vegetables yield their oil easily / To make the spirit of turpentine / Another more excellent way
42 To make oil or spirit of turpentine / Another way to make the oil of turpentine
43 To make oil of gums refines, fat and oily things / Oil of champhire / Another way to make oil of camphire, that it shall not be reduced again / Another way to make oil of camphire
44 A true oil of sugar / Oil of sage / Oil of amber
45 Oil of myrrhe
46 Oil of myrrhe per deliquium or by dissolution / Oil of tartar per deliquium by dissolution / Oils by expression / A vomiting, and purging oil made by expression
47 Oil of jasmine / To make any oil, or water, per descensum
48 How to make an oil and water out of seat
Image : [A furnace to make oil or water per descensum]
49 How to rectifie spirits
Image : A retort with its receiver standing upon crystal bowls, just opposite to the sun-beams ; another retort with its receiver standing in a marble or iron mortar, directly opposite to the sun
50 How to rectifie all stinking, thick black oils that are made by retort, and to take away their stink
51 Book II - Of compound waters, oils, and spirits. A dissolving menstruum
Image : A glass-gourd with its head
52 Another dissolving menstruum, or acetum philosophicum / Another dissolving menstruum / Paracelsus, his elixir subtilitatis / Usque-bath, or irish aqua vitae
53 Aqua coelestis
54 Aqua imperialis
55 Aqua mirabilis / Dr Stephen's water
56 A famous surfet water / A pectoral water
57 A very excellent water against the worms / A water against the convulsions / An hydropical water
58 A water against the colic
59 A water against the vertigo, and convulsions / A compound water of burre-root causing sweat / Another excellent sudorific and plague water
60 Dr Burges his plague water / Crollius his treacle water camphorated
61 A distilled treacle vinegar
62 An excellent water against the stone in the kidneys / Another water for the same use / To make an excellent wound-water
63 Dr Mathias his palsie water
64 A scorbutical-water, or a compound-water of horse-radish
65 Spirit of castor / Bezoar water
66 A specifical sudorific
67 Treacle-water / Aqua Mariae
68 The mother water commonly called hysterical-water / A vomitting water / A vomitting water made by Platerus
69 A distilled purging water that purges without any pain or griping / A specifical liquor against the toothach / A water of wonderful efficacy, not undoservedly called the mother of balsame
70 An excellent sanative oil for wounds and bursten bellies
71 A notable water against the falling-sickness
72 A most excellent water, reviving the natural and lively colour and preserving the health of man / A very excellent anti-epileptic water
73 A water effectual in any diseases in the joints, arising from cold rheumes, or any other causes / The oil of the philosophers, not common
74 Oleum benedictum
75 An artificial balsame
76 A compounded oil against the megrim / A compound oil for the suffocation of the Matrix
77 Book III - Of minerals. Spirit of salt
78 Oil, or spirit of salt, may also be made after this manner
Image : A retort and it's receiver before they be set on work / A retort with its receiver set on work
79 How to make a white, acid, and a red volatile spirit, out of salt-nitre
80 The use of the white acid spirit of salt-nitre / To turn salt-peter into a water by a meer digestion / Spirit of salt-ammoniac
81 Another way / Oil and spirit of vitriol / A red and heavy oil of vitriol
82 To dulcifie the spirit of vitriol, and of salt / Gilla Theophrasti or a most delicate vomiting liquor made of vitriol / Oil of sulphur per Campanam
83 Of the spirit or acid oil of sulphur according to Glauberus
Image : The bell
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85 The oil of sulphur is made after a more philosophical manner / The essence of sulphur
86 The oil of arsenic / Of the nitrous spirit of arsenic
87 To make a spirit of sulphur, crude tartar and salt-nitre / To make spirits and flowers of nitre and coals / Aqua-fortis or a strong spirit that will dissolve silver and baser metals / Aqua-regia or Stygia or a strong spirit that will dissolve gold
88 Another aqua-regia / To make a most strong and vehement aqua-regia / Oil or butter of antimony
89 How to make a water of antimony, whereof a few drops shall purge, or sweat, and which [bath] neither smell, or scarce any taste / Oil or quintessence of metals
Image : A furnace for a close reverberation furnished with its retort and receiver
90 A sweet and red oil of metals and minerals / The true spirit of antimony / The true oil or essence of antimony
91 A burning spirit made out of lead, most fragrant and balsamical
92 How to turn quick-silver into a water without mixing any thing with it and to make thereof a good purgative and diaphoretic medicine / A fragrant oil of mercury
93 To make the water of mercury / To turn mercury into a water by it self
Image : The vessel for this operation
94 How to distil spirits, and oils out of minerals, vegetables, bones, horns, and faster, and in a greater quantity in one hour, than in the common way in 24
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Image : [The furnace and the distiller]
96 How to make the acid oil and volatile spirit of vitriol
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98 The use and dose of the narcotic sulphur of vitriol / To make an oil of lapis calaminaris
99 To make oil of talk / Another way to make oil of talk / Oil of bole-armoniac, terra-figillata, and such clay-earths
100 Oil out of these kinds of Earth / Spirits of unslaked lime
101 Oil made out of tile-stones called the oil of philosophers / The liquor or water of coral / To make a water out of Lapis Armenus that shall have neither taste nor smell, a few drops whereof shall purge
102 Another way / How to make a furnace that shall of it self without any vessels, which should contain the matter, being put into it, sublime minerals, and distil all manner of oils, and spirits out of minerals, vegetables, and animals, and that in a very great quantity, in a very short time, and with small cost
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Image : [Furnaces used for distillation]
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106 The way to make spirit of salt by this furnace
107 Of the use of the spirit of salt / To clear oil of mastic, and frankincense
108 Ros vitriol / A sweet green oil of vitriol
109 The sulphur of vitriol may with spirit of wine be extracted thus / A sudorific water to be used out wardly
110 How an acid spirit, or vinegar, may be distilled out of all vegetables, as herbs, woods, roots, seeds, etc / To make the spirits, flowers and salts of minerals and stones
111 How to rectifie oils and spirits of minerals
Image : Receivers
112 Book IV - Of animals. Waters, spirits, and oils, simple and compound out of animals. Oil and water out of blood / The magistery of blood
113 Elixir of mummie / The essence of mans brains
114 A famous spirit made out of Cranium humanum / Another excellent spirit made out of Cranium, harts horn, or ivory
115 A water and oil made out of hair / Water of milk / A compound water out of milk for any inflamations in the eyes / Spirit of urine
116 A compound spirit of urine / Spirit of honey / The quintessence of honey
117 Some make the quintessence of honey after this manner / An essence of honey / A most strong spirit of the vinegar of honey
118 Oil or quintessence of wax / Water is made out of any of flesh
119 Water or liquor is made out of flesh / A very excellent restorative liquor
120 A balsame made of bears fat / Oil of snakes and adders / Quintessence of snakes, adders, or vipers
121 Viper wine
122 Kunraths famous water, called aqua-magnanimitatis / Another aqua-magnanimitatis
123 Water of dung / A water of doves dung / A water made of horse-dung
127 Book V - A miscellany of spagyrical experiments, and curiosities. The spagyrical anatomy of water
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132 The spagyrical anatomy of wine
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Image : [Furnace used for distillation]
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135 The famous arcanum or restorative medicament of Paracelsus, called his homunculus
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139 An artificial way to make flesh / Paracelsus, his way for the raising of a dead bird to life, and for the generating many serpents out of one, both which are performed by putrefaction
140 To make an artificial Mallago wine / To make an artificial Claret wine
141 An artificial malmsey / To make an excellent aromatical hypocras
Image : A single hypocras-bag or manica hippocratis
142 To make excellent hypocras wine in an instant
Image : A triple hypocras-bag is only one banging above another after this manner
143 Another way to make hypocras, or to make any wine taste of any vegetable in an instant / To make good raspberry wine / Two other ways to make it all the year at an instant
144 To make mead of metheglin that it shall be stale, and taste quick within a fortnight, and be fit to drink / To make a spirit of amber-greise, that a few drops thereof shall perfume a pint of wine most richly / An excellent sweet water
145 To purifie and to give an excellent smell, and taste unto oil-olive, that they that loath it, may delight to eat it / Another way
146 To purifie butter that it shall keep fresh and sweet a long time, and be most wonderful sweet in taste / To make butter taste of any vegetable without altering the colour thereof
147 To make cheese taste strong of any vegetable without discolouring of it / To purifie and refine sugar / To make a vegetable grow and become more glorious then any of its species
148 To make a plant grow in two or three hours / To make the idea of any plant appear in a glass, as if the very plant it self were there
149 To make firre-trees appear in Turpentine / To make harts-horns seemingly to grow in a glass / To make golden mountains, as it were, to appear in a glass / To make the representation of the whole world in a glass
150 To make the four elements appear in a glass / To make a perpetual motion in a glass
151 To make a luminous water that shall give light by night / To make a vapour in a chamber, that he that enters into it with a candle shall think the room to be on fire / To make a powder that by spitting upon shall be inflamed / [Note manuscrite]
152 To fortifie a load-stone, that it shall be able to draw a nail out of a piece of wood / To make quick-silver malleable in seven hours
153 To reduce glass into its first principles, Viz. sand, and salt / To write or engrave upon an egg, or pebble with wax, or grease
154 To make artificial pearl, as glorious as any oriental / To make a mineral perfume / The oil or liquor of sand, flints, pebbles or crystals, for the aforesaid, and divers other preparations
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156 To make steel grow in a glass like a tree / To melt a metal in ones hand without burning the hand / An observation upon the beams of the sun, and heat of the fire, how they add weight to minerals and metalline bodies
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158 To extract a white milkie substance from the rayes of the moon / To condense the air in the heat of summer, and in the heat of the day, into water
159 How two sorts of volatile salts will be fixed by joining them together / To make an unguent that a few grains thereof being applyed out wardly, will cause vomiting, or looseness, as you pease
160 To make a medicine that half a grain thereof being taken every morning will keep the body soluble / To make a cordial stomachical and purgative tincture
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162 To reduce distilled Turpentine into its body again / To make the distilled oil out of any hearb, feed or flower, in an instant, without any furnace
163 To make the water, and the tincture of any vegetable at the same time, which is an excellent way to draw out the vertue thereof / A way to separate fresh water from salt, without a furnace or much trouble
Image : [Furnace used to make water and the tincture of any vegetable at the same time]
164 A way to purge and purifie troubled and muddie waters
Image : [Caldron with cover used to separate fresh water from salt]
165 Another way to purifie any thick, muddie, or feculent liquor
Image : [Great pot used to purge and purifie troubled and muddy water]
166 To keep fire in a glass, that whilest the glass is shut, will not burn, but as soon as it is opened will be inflamed
Image : [Another system with three vessels to purifie any thick, muddie or feculent liquor]
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168 How to distil with a lamp, with divers other uses thereof
Image : A lamp furnace
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170 Another lamp-furnace / To make a candle that shall last long
Image : Another lamp furnace with trhree candles
171 To make a lasting and durable oil
172 Philosophical bellows
Image : [Three instruments for several uses]
173 An excellent invention to make a fire
Image : [Invention to make a fire]
174 A new invention for baths
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Image : [Three sorts of baths by distillation]
176 An artificial hot bath made from the same principles as the natural hot bath
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182 An artificial tunbridge and epsome water
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184 To make artificial precious stones of all sorts of colours
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186 To prove what kind of metal there is in any ore, although you have but a very few grains thereof so as that you cannot make proof thereof the ordinary way with lead / A pretty observation upon the melting of copper and tin together
187 A remarkable observation upon the melting of salt-ammoniac, and calx-vive together / An easy and cheap powder like unto Aurum fulminans
188 To make an antimonial cup, and to cast divers figures with antimony
189 Book VI - The spagyrical anatomy of gold, and silver, together with the curiosities therein, and chiefest preparations thereof
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198 Dr Anthony's famous aurum potabile, and oil of gold
199 The true oil of gold
200 A tincture of gold / Another tincture of gold
201 Another tincture of gold / Another tincture of gold
202 Another tincture / Aurum fulminans
203 To make gold grow in a glass like a tree, which is called the golden-tree of the Philosophers
204 Another way / To make gold grow and be increased in the Earth / A remarkable observation upon a golden marcasite
205 The vertues of the aforesaid preparations of gold
206 The preparations of silver in general
207 A green tincture of silver
208 A green oil of silver / To make oil of silver per deliquium
209 To make a liquor of silver, that shall make the glass wherein it is so exceeding cold, that no man is able for the coldness thereof, to hold it in his hand any long time / To make silver as white as snow / To make the silver tree of the Philosophers
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211 The process of the elixir, according to Paracelsus
212 The process of the elixir, according to Divi Leschi Genus Amo
213 The process of the Philosophers stone according to Pontanus / The smaragdine table of Hermes from whence all alchymie did arise
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215 Book VII - Of sublimation. What sublimation is / What furnaces are necessary in this work
216 What vessels are to be used in sublimation
217 How sublimation is performed
218 How sulphur is sublimed / Another way thus / Another way to sublime sulphur
219 Another way thus / To sublime the flowers of Benjamin
220 To sublime sal ammoniac
221 The sublimation of mercury / A more perfect way of subliming mercury
222 To make mercurius dulcis
223 The best way to prepare mercury from metals for the foresaid process / Another way / To prepare the manna of mercury or the white eagle
224 Mercurius sublimatus [essentified] / The imperial eagle
225 The diaphoretic ruby of auripigmentum / Another diaphoretic ruby of arsenic
226 How minerals and metals may be reduced into flowers and of their vertues
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Image : [The furnace used for sublimation]
228 Flowers of iron and copper / Flowers of lead and tin
229 Flowers of mercury / The flowers of zinc / The use
230 To make metallical spirits and flores by the help of salt nitre and linnen cloth
231 To make the flowers of antimony according to Glauber
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