—— : WN wwe — ee = — ——_— SS HHI eas ve j 22) LLL) ara: gy peer Lf ———————=— = end ed es tes eae e Ed a ; \ THE ICurioys Ditti itiljazory: | The Art - Difllling Coloured | Liquors, Spirits, Opis, &c. from Ve egitables, Animals, Minerals, and Metals. A Thing hitherto known by few. : Containing many Experiments eafy to per-} form, yet Curious, furprizing, and ufeful:| relating to the production of Colours, Con- fiftence, and Heat, in divers Bodies which are Colourlefs, Fluid, and Cold. | Together with feveral Experiments upon the| | Blood (andits Serum) of Difeafed Perfons, with divers other Collateral Experiments. ! “Written Originally in Latin by dp. Sigif-Elfpolt. Put into Englifh By 7. S. M. D. ‘Phyfician i in Ordinary to his Majefty. — I tenia | London, Printed by F. D, for Robert Boswlrery atthe | - Turks-head, over againft the RoyaleExchange — in Cornhil, 1677. a fy at ihc S : 2 % » = a hs Biri inte intraclass Hee, Ss : ae ‘ce ket - aoe satis - s qt ‘ > ea ( | Oi 4, ene ‘tac We) ie yl ‘i a aa See. ae oie ty weak ci Pt A ok: 48 ner i Rag ca ER 2 7 desnasnastin TO THE. -- Raght: Honourable ” PHIL IP. Earl of C beflerfield, ” Lord. Stanhope of Shel- | . fords: ecw it Y _ MyLord, - bite ag ‘sand ‘BSN the alti: parts ONL Z oe of thes World: no rs! “Man. approaches a | Boma Le 9 Great;: an Tlaftn 3 Pausbestn ,without a LBesant "And in thele Weftem parts it- hath beeix for! omany A Sy 3 Ages The Epifile Dedicatory, — | _ AgesaCuftome, (and fill re.‘ mains fo) to dedicate Books of Curious and Polite Learning, : fo Eminent, and, ‘Worthy: Men. And this for “feveral- ~Reafons: for by prefixing be- forethe Books they publifh the. Names of thofe Excellent Men to whomthey are obliged for. former © bénefits,. ‘They do thereby in. { ome mealure ) ex- ; _ prefs their Gratitude > As allo y that means their works: are better Adorned; and thus recei- ving Spleidor from’ their Pa} trons Glory, they thereby gain thé | better: acceptation in the - Worlds, Some Propofe the » Writing ‘of Pane yicks'in Ho- nour ‘of «their Patrons.: Buei- ‘¢ The Epiftle Dedicatory. - » that looking folike Flattery, 1. , willingly avoid. Befides, it | were madnefs to fuppole, your | Lordfhips Majculme Virtues. | bothot Mind, and Body « As’ | your Courage, Generofity, Sin- | gular Prudence, Equity, Candor, | Affability, Compasfion tothe Af-_ | fliéted, exc, can poffibly be } defcribed; or comprized, with- } in, the Limits of an Epiftle : Nor need J attempt the doing | this, fince your Lordfhips tru- - | ly Noble Qualities, are fo E- |} minently known to the whole Nation, _ nape ar eee | ~ TAddrefs this Book to your. | Lordfhip, not for any of the ~ } aforegoing Arguments, but. | chiefly for the followingCaufe . ' a Ph, The The Bpifile Deditatory. -—‘The'Artby which the: Experi: _— ments produced in thefe Papers aremade, (via, Chymiftry), hath in all Ages been imbraced, and.’ cultivated by both the Learned agi and Kings,and is at this day. _ thuch prized, and Practifed by many ofthe'Princes of Germany: _ And highly efteemed and pro- moted by the Example of our’ | own Sovereign's delighting in it; and favouring of it. And it muft be granted that the An- tients could not beftow fo much Honour upon it, as ic hath gained (in this.our time) by obtaining your Lordfhips Favour. For you have » added new Rayes tollluftrate MS (a a 7 | The Epistle Deilicatory, - it, by your: her and: Pain SHEL eo? < My Lord, ‘Having mentio- ned “this, I have f{hewed the iF caufewhy 1 prefume’to make - ‘you this Prefent : The Treatife es felfibeing ofthat Art, where- of your Lorufhip is fo. great a Mafter; And therefore l hope the Argument will not be un= | grateful. “The Original Au- thor is fufficiently known (a- _ ybroad) tobe both a Learned, and Practically knowing Man, and he thought this piece worth the ee to a whole Soci-. -etyofMen, ‘that are likewife fisch theaticly res ; I meanthe German Academy of the CURIOST. It hath alfo the Applaute of . Mairy The Epiftle Dedicatory many of our ingenious Vertu- ofi of the Royal Society: Thefe Reafons have incouraged me to, put it into Englifh : And to de- pofite it at your Feet. . Defire-. "ing your Lordfhips acceptation. of it, as a Teftimony.of Vene- ration, And the Eternal. de- ven of my Self, . Your Lords From my Study Mp Humble, | . London, this 2: | Vip y Sys 4th of April, evik Affedionate | Bee Se hp SA and” Faithful Servant, _ Tho. Sherley. ee, We the Reader. is, R EADER ‘Oo Wine neoil 20 ae ~ Wor ' Good Books G ommendatory Ept- Pre And yer as the Vintner will hang out his Gariand to draw in Cu- flomors to his Houfe,So alfo the Book- feller’ thinks himfelfobligcd both in intereft to himfelf; and Civility to. Thee,to put out this Sign to acquaint Thee with the quality of the Ware he here expofeth to Sale. . | Kiowthen,this Treatife confifts of many. Chrious Ex “per iment s,which both upon the account of their variety, Hfe- fulnefs, fingularity, and eafe in per- forming them, mut needs prove Ace. lightful, “and confequently acceptable, to him that defi iveth to improve bis Dominion over the (reatures + which 7s ouly to be acquired by gaining atrue Hele of their Natures and qua- | L ties, : Tothe Reader. lities which can no way be attained fo well, and with that certainty, as by making Experiments upon them: of which here are [uch plenty, and of fuch different kinds, and thofe fuch as will afford fuch fruitful hints to a confide- . vate Reader, for Analogous Experi- ments, That L cannot but give this Teftimony, That 1 have wot met with 4 Tract which costains fo much, in fo Little roome, and without Confufion. Add to this, That the Experiments . here alledged, are {o cafily practicable, That a great part of them may be per- formed in a Chamber, (by {uch common ond cheap means, as are. .conftaut- ly to be bad,either at the Druggilts, ox common Chytmitts), aud do mot require a Specious Laboratory, (whichis ex- peaftve,) nor long attendance (as. ma- ny Ghymical Procefles do) which zs tedious: And yet thefe are wot of the _ Nature.of Contingent Experiments (which fometimes happen, and [ome- times To the Reader. | | times fail, being mutch varied by flight and ch Dey lanes (fa they aré certain in their event, and feldom fubject to Mufcariage. If therefore Reader thou art virtuoufly inclined, andhadft rather {pend Thy time innocently, and ufefully, thax — wicioufly, (not to fay Modfbly :) Thor maift here be furnifbed. with occafious ‘todofo. Andtobe ferviceable to Thee in this end, was indeed one of the chief Motives which caufed me to ren- der this Book into Englith; the Origé- nal being fo valued beyond Sea,that it swas gratefully accepted there;and thofe few Copies, which were tranf{mit- ted hither, were quickly bought up, fo that the Book becoming {carce,I thought it a charitable ait to Tranflate tt ; and thereby preferve it for thy wfe, and fa- tisfaition, to whichintent I commend the pernfal of the Tract it felf to Thee, ‘i And Remain Thy Friend, Tho. Sherley. — The e ane TEN NTS OF! THE CHAPTERS- 3h Hh A Be Fe ou \y ah He Occafion of writing. Botte I 2, Of Colour, and of the. Appear ances of Colours. . 4 _ 3. OF the Different ways of Diftilling, and particalarly of bringing the Tin- ~ Gures. of Simples over he eins: or. . Alimbeck. | 4. Experiments inMctals nding Is. I 3 5. Experiments upon Animals. \*~ "26° é. ‘Experiments appearing in Vepitables. 28% 7. Of Veronica, or Fluellin, &\)" 434% ; 8. Of Caiinomiles: wine Ant 35 g. Of Lignum | Nephriticum, or the Wood againft the Stone. — 41 10 OF | 10. Of the Dregs of Wine, of wild _ Carnations,or Pinks,and of Parfley.4.7 11, Of Wild Flower de Luce. 49 12. Of Ros Solis, or Sun dew. 52 13. Of Blew Pimpernel, aid of Cur- cuma, or Turmerick, en 14.,.Of Cinnamon, Or P15. Of Corrals, and the | Tindure of them. - 66 16. The Conclufion, containing three forts of Obfervations, Le NR EOS Firft, Obfervations relating to E. ffervefcey- cy,IncalefCency,or the production of beat wm Peden os. , - Secondly, Obfervations of Attenuation, and of Coagulation, or of making folid _ . Bodies Fluid, and F luid Bodies § olid, or Confiftent. ub Sy Mabicanlla Gye _ Thirdly, Several. Experiments, and O}- Servations upon the Blood, and Serum, of Scorbittick Con fumptive; and other Difeafed Perfons, Lhefe. are digefted _ nto four Claffes. a Eee Sg, Lafily, Two Epiftles written to the An- thor: the firft contains many curious Experiments made upon the Grun- walden-Stone. ' 91 The Second Contains an Experiment, by which the Colour may be wholly taken out ofaBrick, | 105 Mend the Evrata’s,. Thus,. _ Ag: 2, line 24. read, they sf. P, oy 16. t. ' sntgucely,. P.1361.26-r, Particles, P. 27+ L123, 8. dnd P. 50-1. 8. Ge The Paraprafs in High-Dutch ave both mifprinteds spate Y be ing truly rendvedin Englith, the Reader y: defired ‘15. vs /wiftne/s when they ave diftilled, 2. 41.1. (16. x. Tree. |. 24. teenode, Pi gz )6-r. affula- time Po Ade zg. Experiments which follow were {5c P.46.1,20, dele by, 5 1. Sales broken and the Particles are. 1b.1, 22. dele. which were kept gnder. ‘P. 49. 1.16, dele aree P. 56.1. 5, for which,r. th. P. 60.3.8. for to, 'r. doth,’ Pléz, L ts. for batsr. more then.» P66. lezo.t, or of an Orient. P. 75-1. 26:8, well, Po 83d. ks dele ow, P, 84.1. 2.1. onnce, I. yx lute tt. Pagy. I. £4. &. Llnftraton, P..o8.\. 1: Y.£xperieuced Sir, Pp. 104s Louk. 1 Menzelius, 2 Pp, 5 o7. 1x8, Y.'COfz= a aeons o P. 30851, 5a 1, aad ‘mailers. the fern a RLLLERELLR EDS & & The chrious Difuillatory: ORG oosis Moen oi ee eee \, The octaftonof writing. “He Englifh Philofophical Tranfattions ~~ have now a long time been pub- BR. lithed; and are grown into Vo- > ~ tums alfothe FrenchDiary,doth _ confift of and hath compleated five Tomes: And likewife theGerman Academy isnow imployed in putting forth theix cage Voa | B wine 5 ae The cur (ous Diftillatory. lume : fo great every where at this day hath _ Been thettffudious Hbour tnd fo prtar is _ the Emulation, and firugling of the moft flougi hin RAEN rR we t every oniéof them do feem to hope in aimall time to, vanquifh and triumph. over Nature. Tryly it is a moft Noble Iig~ ployment! ind fhch a one 4sformer-Ages _ ‘hath beermunagqhainvedwmith & to/which — HS ae OO a Ae no _ cence of - ee and Princes, there is no — déiibt 1cfBSGGR that: at 1atfom “thence, © thete will tcdound great Adygntage to - NE Eee Sa “dee ie: © OD PSE he fare trnployedabdut new In- ventions, and obférvations, Vino the Mz- thematicks, in Natural Knowledg, or Philo. Sophy, im-Anatomy, in-Cht >in Me= dicine in Gengral,-rafoyin the Books of © Politicks, Hiftories, and other Books Jate- ly Printedtto ®ajadge, “anid Yevive them. Alfo they have mixed many things which --~particulanly belong. tothe Ghyanegl arr butsthepad compared with are but _ few’: calthoughrfromthencelamudre plen- tiftl! crop “inight certainly bevexpected, — thanfiom anyof theothtr Sdiencés.) ij: wiiponthis:.wery .eceafion, jilvevolving. thofe: kindof writings, it came! into!myi ae & min The curius Diftillatory. = 3 mind that perhaps it were convenient,that _ thofe moft excellent Academical men,were by fome publick admonition excited to beftow more pains for the future upon that Art, in whofe deep Well lies hid an infinite plenty of Arcana’s, or fecrets. To this intent therefore we have written this Book,and Intituled it Deftillatoria Curiofas¥ fay Curiof2, for neither is it fuch, that it fhould. be extold by us with high Encomi- ums, nor can it promife of it felf very _ greatadvantages, or utility,but this praife is fufficient for it, if by.occafion of it; a Spur thall be added to men of fublime in- -genuity, and expert Ariyis, that thereby: they, may not only find out the like expe-' viments, but having found them out,coms=: municate them without envy. © B2 CHAP. A. Thechriots Diftilatory, bse CELA Bagel le ats saan Of Colour, and of the Appearances of various, Colours, Rey to teach the Nature of Colour, is - »as hard as to explain the true reafon — of Light, of it felfmioftclear: Ful. C.Sca-'— liger, Exert..325. Sect.1. Rightly. fays;The Gaufes, and Effence of Colours areas full of contraver|y, and obfeurityto the Intellect as they arémnanifet to the fight. \ Ariftotle Lib. de Senfi ce fenfit. cap. 3. Defines Colour,’ that itis perfpicuiterminanteextremitas:: The ex= tremity of a terminated body that may be feen, or feenthrough, Neither more clear is the defcription of others, That itis a quality of a coloured Body, Alo that it is modifyed — Light. Many of the Chymifts do attribute ~ all Colours to their principle of Sulphur, ~ others of them to Mercury : of which opi- ‘- nion what isto betheught, it is very well worth the reading, of Daa. Sennertus, lib. de confenfu,Cap.11. Excellent alfoiswhat . _ hath been deliveréd upon this Argument by Antonius Scarmilionius Fulginas, and — ste Ar. ‘The curious Diftillatory. 5 | Mtr. Boylein his Book of Colours. See alfo | uponthis fubjeét, Petrus Maria Capenarius | ib. de Atrimentis, and Fohan. Chriftoph. | Kolbanfius Trad. Optic. and others. | But thefe controverfies not properly be- — | longing to our defign, leaving them, we | willrather note the differences of Colours 3 | yet not allof them, fince they are many 3 | (and already amongft others) they have _ been fufficiently and fubtilly explained by _ Scaliger. Exercit. 325. Sect. 6. and in the | following : we willonly touch upon-and handle flightly fuch of them now, as '~ will lead us the fhorteft way to our pre- | fixed end. For the material fubjet of Colours we ~ . diftinguifh them into thofe which are real, ‘or true,and into fuch as are Emphatick,and Apparent, or feceming. A Specimen, or example of thefe is aflorded by the Rain- bow, a Prifmatick or Triangular Gla{s, the rednefs of Wine fpilt upon a Napkin. Thefe we divide again into Penetrative Co- | lours, fachas Obryz, or pure Gold; and Sealing Wax: and into {uch as are Super- > ficial, of which fort are Apples appearing outwardly red, aud yet are inwardly white. — ff Morcover Colcurs confidered in the ab- 7 B 3 : ftract 6 T be curious Diftillatory. ftra&tare eitherPrimitive, or Simple; to.wit, — White, Yellow, Green, Blew, Red; Blacks I fay cant dered in Abftratio, oras theyare — to be diftributed into certain, and diftine — Claufes: for otherways Greenfeemstather — - tobe compofed of Yellowand Blew, whe- _ ther it be made of Vegetables, or Minerals. So Auripigmentum, ox Orpiment if mixed with Indigo; ox Gum of Peru cemented — with Cobalt, or Bergblau, asthe Germans — call it, fuppofed to bethe Native Cadmiz, — or Copper-8 tone: ox mix Ultra Marine with Saffron and you fhall fee a Green Co- lour will proceed from thefe mixtures. Or elfe theyare divided into compound — ~ Colours made from the mixture of fimple — ones: or elfethey are decompofiti,or doubly - compounded, which are made again in — infinite variety by the mixture of com- — pounded ones among themfelves, as may be feen upon the Palates of Painters : but if you go to the Laboratories of Chymifts, there you will be {upplyed with a'reafon — very different from thefe, by which Co- -lours may be fo changed,. (and that with a moft delightful variety to behold) that adding what is neceflary to be added, — there will fuddenly refult, and appear new -Colours. c As | The.cuvions Diflilawy. 7 ode As Spirit: of Tuipentine,, ‘though of it | ‘ffi it beclear, if it be poured liipom Sae- charum Saturni; (or Sugar of locad: ) which 4salfo of it {elfexcéeding: Whitey Af it be digetted upondt, will in ‘adimalk time be- | a ai nihieiens: ‘intexcely: or extremely Re | oe ‘Alfo Spivisof T. eptemeshlsih it be wifieell with Water, and ftrongly thook:togcther, will: look ‘like Milks" although | this —milkinefS isnotlafting, but this! oy/y Spi _ rit, afcending tov the fuperficies is cimi+ nithed, or plamly vanifheth ‘again. .The Tike of which’ happens ifOy?. of Olivesbé mixed withthe asi! OF” mare of! Viite fiers 1G -svis 3s iB Diftitled Oylof ‘Anite ( hid’ is ‘wont to coagulate; and grow ‘thick with the cold'Air,) if a Leaf of erbite Paper: be atiointed ‘with. at, andya\ few -drops of Oyl of Vittiol.be: poured! ‘upon it-it will prefently grow Red 5. bes the Oy of ie Moe not'the Spirit.” 4, Syrtip of foledrs Shick ae its folk of an obfcure Purple Colour, ‘is: changed: into a vividand: brisk red, iE: you mix: byt | drops with :ito Spirit. of Vartiobis “( which) > ‘mack isnow known toall'the Apothecaries Shon if you fhalladd.O ys oe artar to this). B 4 a & The curious Diftillatory: -- a Green Colour will emerge from thence : Tt therefore follows that acid, or four, — - Spirits, do firike a red Colour with clear- Milk -which will perifh and be loftagain, if you cadd Spirit of Vitriol to it again. ) 5. Syrup of Piony Flowers, if you mix Salt of Vitriol withit, will become wholly Black: the{amehappens to Syrup of Clove fy es if in the time of boyling it — - _ ‘be ttirred with an Iron Spatula. . ~6. Tintture of Coral, prepared with diftilled Vinegar; mixed with the TinGure — of Dafey Flowers, there. will refult from thence a Liquor of an ob{cure Blew. 7 Af you mix Silvins’s Sal volatile,or the — like Urinous Spirit in {mall quantity, with the fame Tincture of Dafyes, or Rofes,there © will arifeé an obf{ure Blew Colour; but if you drop ina hittlemore, it will be: made an -obfcure Red: Neither can you make that Red Colour clear, although you fhould: add more (Spirit or Volatile Salt) to it. nefs, but wrznous ones with obfcurenefs. 8. A Solution of Lead made with diftilled: Vinegar, appeareth clear like common Wa- ter: If you thall add: to this! Oyl of Tartar, (per deliquinm) whichis alfo clear as Water, the mixture will prefently grow White as 9. If ‘te The curious Diftillatory. . 9 9. If Antimony which is calcin’d with Nitre be boy!’d in Fountain Water, the {training will be clear, and almoft with- out fmell; which neverthelefs by pouring any Acid upon it, will acquire a Saffron Colour, with a ftinking {cent. 10. Common Water in which Mercury Sublimate hath been infufed, doth pre- fently -B1ow Tellny by dropping into it Oyl of Tartar. ke SS ER The folution of .calcin’d Tin, mixed with diffolved Salt of ‘Tartar becomes Blew. . Dr. Willis lib. de Ferment. cap. 11. 11. Quicksilver and. Sal Armoniack ground together, and fublimed in a bolt Head with 2 heat of Sand, will become a white Powder, which {ufter’d to diffolve © ( by it felf in the Air) will produce -a clear Liquor like Spring Water, which for all its clearnefS, if Copper or Brafs be moitt- ned with it,they will appear filver’d ; and if Copper Veffels be flightly rub’d with it, it will render them as if they were per- fetly filver’d : although this be rather an incruftation, ( or coating, of them over. ) 12. But a Powder to gild with, is made thus. Dip fine Lint, made of Lin- nen-Cloath, in. Aqua Regis, in which Gold is diffolved, and having catt it into pay , 10 «The curious Difillatory. a Crucible, take a Circular Fire about it, at a diftance 3 and fo by degrees reduce it’ into a Powder: But towards the énd in- creafe the heat by bringing the Fire‘nearer to the Crucible, and at latt if you pleafe, take out the Powder and free it frorn durt by pouring Watér upon it, it will be. without fplendor, or fhining, and is of a Violet colour 5 but if you rub it upon Sél- ver, the genuine f{plendor of Gold will appear, which afterwards will be made more {plendid, and fhining by polifhing. 13. Lignum Acanthinum, or the Wood ~ whichis brought from Brazil, infufed in common Water,will communicate a plea- fant rednefs toit, like that of red Wine: © If you pour upon this a little diftil’d Vine- gar, the Liquor will appear clear like white Wine, but a few drops of Oy! of Tartar reduces the Colour toa deep Pur= ple, after which, if you drop in Spirit of Vitriol, it will be yellow like Sack if you | caft on it Salt of Lead diffolved per ‘deli- quium (or in the Aire) the mixtyre will —_| be whitih like Milk, ‘Dr. Willie’ (libs de . Ferment. cap. 11.) propofeth this Expe- riment, every Branch of which -wilf an- {wer the Trial but the fourth, for we by” - adding Spirit of Vitriol could not produce | ave . a No et et fy. i The c curious Diftilaty. ay na pale Yellow, but made a certain obfeure Blew Colour. , 14. Have in a readinefS a fabition of Vitriol, and likewile by it felf an énfifion of Gals. TE you pour both of them toge- ther, you will make Writing Ink, Add Spirit of Vitriol to this, and the Blacknefs will clearup; then caft in Oy! of Tartar, and after a little working,and heat, there will appear a light Red, or bright Bay Co- four : which by mixing Spirit of Vitriol — again will be taken away, all clearing. up again: And you may reiterate this Circle as often as‘you do by turns put in Oy/ of Tartar, or Spirit of Vitriol : So that as often asyou pleafe you may render the Liquor of a light Red or Bay Colour, or elfe clear again. 15. It isalfo a pleafant Metatnorpho- fis, which is propofed by the excellent Mr. Daniel Major, the Famous Profeffor of the Univerfity of Denmark, Lib. de Chirurg. Infufar. Dub. 9. to this purpofe. Pour into a good tran{parent Glafs the Saphire colour'd Water, made by the helpot Sperit - of Sal Armoniack being put into a Brafs - Bgfon: Afterwards add the common Cly/- ale Antimony, and the mixture being fhook, it will become clear? but if you add 12 The curious Diftillatory. edd to it Oyl of Tartar it will be reftord to its former Blewnefs. 16. Take one Ounce of the Paintin of. Crabs eyes, made with diftilled Vinegar : drop into it of the Sale Spirit of Sal Ar; | ‘ _ moniack,120 drops, and you fhall perceive ~~ the matter to grow Milky, and a white Powder will fall to the bottom, if by turns ‘you pour upon this Liquor as many drops of Foac.Polemanus his Tinéiure of the Blood- — ftone, after fome bubling, the Powder - which lay in the botfom will be diffolved again, and the whole will be changed in- to an exceeding Red tranfparent Liquor, indowed with a grateful Saline tafte. - _ 17. The change of light doth alfo — caufe anew Colour to appear. So we have obferved, the Flowers of Convolun- — lus or Bird-weed ( that fort with the Blew: Flower and Ivy-fhaped Leaves, with Mtarp points, ) which Lobelins calls Afu- reum, in the day time is of a delicate Blew, but at night by Candlelight it appears of ot a Violet Colour. Wooden Tables, and fuch like Utenfils, if they be painted Blew, by day thew their own Colour; but by night they appear Greenith. ; 18. Let there be taken two parts of Oy of Tartar, and one of Cows Milk; this mixture — WE Dinah See The curious Diftillatory. 13 mixture in a heat of Sand will grow Red, apart of the Cheefy, or Curddy part of the Milk {wimming at the top, if you {train this through a Cloath, the Red Li- -quor will be more tranfparent. Being led by the Analogy, or refemblance of this Experiment, I have thought (that Imay add this by the by) whether or nothe whitifpnefs of Chyle in an Humane Body, be- ing mingled every day_with the red Blood, doth not perhaps grow red upon the like account alfo. Although the common People wrongfully fuppofe,this rednefs is induced upon the Chyle by the Circular motion of the Blood: but motion of it felf doth hardly appear. fufficient for to change the Colour, unlefs there be hid alfo in the Blood it {elf a Saline Principle, which may continue this Tinéture {o many years, even to old Age, which is perfected by the affiftance of the Heart, its Veffels and Heat. | : -Thefe and the like Phenomina,or appea- ‘rances and their caufes, perhaps might be conveniently demonfirated, by the fmalleft Particulars of which thefe Liquors confifts. -A Battel compofed of fome thoufands of thoufands which may be di- lated, and contracted at the will of the Commander, => 14 The curious Diftillatory. Commander 5 nay being défordered by the Enemy, may again be rallied, and re- duced into order.. After-the fame. man-. ner, from the fmall Particles of Liquors dilated axifeth perfpicuity and whitenefs : ‘but: from their contraction obfcurity and blacknefs.. Again, according as the dila= tation and. contraction is ‘more or lefs, ° there will arife intermediate Colours; Yellow, Red, Green, Blem., Whether thofe that fiudy the Opticks can render amore cree account let thers ale eto €HAP = i = a iat ‘ in cali ci x = a ae od ee SS ed Se =e = oe | ie eww eeiet: ony. eae 28 ee ‘CHAP. ar: Y wee igapivene ways of Diftilling and, particularly. of bringing the Vintture of § pene over the Hee or Alimbeck. : He various ways Bae Difilling Segiotr { deth partly from the variety of Fur- p bees of which fome are to diftil by A/cen- tion, others by,Defcention > to fay nothing of \Prabatory, \Cementatory,.. Reverberatory, or, Wind-Furnaces, partly allo. from, the difference of Veffels,.of which fort are Ve- fica’ss:Cucurbits, ox Bodies, Retorts, Phials, Alimbecks, Receivers, and others of that kintd.;; All which Apparatus or. Furniture may not.only be feen in our Laboratory, but.are. allo decribed. both by. Writing, and; Figures. by Andn. Libavius. Foban. recrnlle and: the, eft of thofe kind .of Artifts, :-, Theres is alba ether: ways of Difilling, re(pect being had not to the Furnaces, or Vefjels, but to\the, Matter which comes forth, duxing the Operation. For wera “ | dp ‘16. The curious Diftillatory. the Fire worketh upon the Matter com- — mitted to Diftillation, Vapors afcend, — which being collected again fallinto the — Receiver under the Form of a Liguor. — To fay nothing of Sublimation [ to — wit, of Antimony, with Sal Armoniack| ‘ by means of which there will alfo arife fair, and great variety of Colours in ae head of the Alimbeck. | ) _ Therefore, firft, as to what concerns the Vapours, or Fumes, they alfo differin — their colour. ’ For | Nitre though it be a “white: Body, yet in Diftillation ( at aicers tain time of the ‘operation’ ) gives. ted. Fumes. Wizriol ‘oft it {elf Green; or Blew, - affords white Fumes:: Soot though ‘it be _ never fo Black, yet the Fumes which fill the Receiver are fo White, that‘it feems Tole be wathed within with’ Milk.: ES /°° But’ Secondly, as to the Liquors which are come over into the Receiver; although: all of them compared together aré’not altogether of the fame Colom; ‘yet it is certain, if you confider'almoft* infinite plenty of Simples,there will be very little -— difference or variety in them, <*>" : Thofe which draw Aromatical Oyls,’ may eafily obferve, that-they come’over ~~ not t White, but Golouited ‘As to: bitatce Oyk of —— Thecurious Diftillatory; 17 of Cinnamon is Tellorifh, Oyl of Mace is of a Yellowifh White, Oyl of Cloves is of a | Yellomifh Black, Oyl of Rhodium Wood is _ of a Yellow Colour tending to Red. And as to diftilled Waters, 1 think it worth - our remark,’ that every oné of them (not excluding all manner of Spirits ) which _ are commonly found in the Apothecaries | Shops, every one of them I fay are limpid, and without Colour: Notwithftanding the fo great variety of Colour in the Herbs, | Roots, Leaves and Flowers from whence they were diftilled. All that Blackne/s, | Greenefs, Blewnefs, Rednefs, Yellownefs, &c. : is left: behind in the bottom of the Cucur- bit, or in the Copper diftilling Veffel, ox Vefica, or rather perifheth: there arifing ( which is worth noting ) nothing but —limpid, and almoft colourlefs liquor. Truly, heretofore this Subje& tyred my thoughts, and I have many times weighed this Problem; Whether or no amongft fo great variety of Simples, there were not. at leaft fome Species, or forts of them which would bring over the Helm or Alimbeck with themfelves their own Native Colours; Imentionan Alim- beck only as the chief Inftrument, not * excluding a Retort, or any other diftilling — Cc Inftrue ha? cK the pains. pet sohis thefe fe. I have-my felf { 18 The cao jor ha Diftillatory’ 3 Inflrument.i, 7 hat .thete airexfome :fuch, © Species;in.Natere which will do.this, La botir hath,.taught ‘me, (nor-doi Ierepent. obferved; part Pave-salle ted ihtion the obfervation, of others :, ‘The ; Obfervations, and | Experiments, are, comprifed, in the following ‘Chapters... bet: the Induftry: a Okasts: add:more, to ‘them, yay ORR sdibashthiwiold 3 auolo. amore, bas, Sheba ori’ ni wnleeao visrssy teare Ob aly aonodw mom voll Dae asdasd pine vissdoold Jac? 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NLRs wilder H A Pi he arte a = rma in Metals and Pets Minerals. tot ior 3 | Plat x we sy cp his Bat mee fc lL dbveowith Metals, akthough if they-be left to themf{elves; ‘they conitantly\rétain, | their Native Colours, better than Vegetables dos by reafon’ of: their folidity of fub- | fiance: yet being tryed with Menfiraumts; or diffolving Liquors, they’are much vari- | ed's theredoth alfo arife much more difs ficulty 1 in diftilling them than in Vegeta bles. The'cafe'is the fame alfo in | Mi+ | nerals, although the difficulty in diftilling | them be: fomewhat lefs : but let the dif ficulty: be what it will, having made trials in both forts;°we will! produce a few § _ which Experiments’ (if not all of them: | in-general ) yet*moft of them are ennaide | the ‘help of an siageae's AN Experiment she fin, upon God ; T ake the’ Cale a Gold eae hae Aqua & ‘$e 20 ‘The curious Diftillatory. Aqua Regis, and by reverberating reduced © to extreme finenef$, and an exceeding, ‘ved Colour; Pour upon it a Menftruum ( or diffolving Liquor ) compofed of - equal parts of the belt Spirit of Wine, _ and of the Volatile Salt of Urine s digett it for fifteen days ina Veffel ( Hermeti- - cally fealed, ) withthe heat of a gentle Bath, and repeat this a5 often as thereis o¢cafidn : Afterwards joyn all the feveral folutions | of the Gold}, which will be red liké Blood, and digelt them for a Weekor | two. } Jf you then diftil this Liquor by a _ lor Body, or Retort in Sand, at length the Gold together with the Téndure will pafs over-by the Alimbeck, with an intenfe red= _ ueff, leaving, im the Body an acid, black — and. fpongy Earth, Mx. Boyl-in his Hiftory of Fluid, and. Firm,), Sect. 5. fays thus : “6. prepare a, Menftraum, . by: the: help. of which, without much difficulty we can bring: over, the, Helm, at, the firfts,,or fecond diftila: * The covious Diftillatory. © Tn : high an one, but a plain ‘one, fuch as the _ Englifh ones ufe to bes prepa it ‘By a fand fire by degrees, and at laft, with a very ftrong firey and fo it will diftil afew tis true, but thofe exceding red drops; which digefted by it felf, or with the Tartarous Spirit of Wine, will become an Aurum Potabile,whieh is ( true, and) not fophifticate with- er other rpenaneine or firange cost | » Experiment the feeoid upon S lve bia 43 Caleine Silver with Mercuty fi sblimvalake ter which pour upon it the very fame Men- ftruum of which mention is made in-the foregoing Experiment : and fo there will appeat a moft elegant or ‘lovely blew Tin- Gure s upon which if you pour iid Salt, it will become; a gre eeity «Experiment the shird; concerning Tron.” . The Tivdiare of itis’ reddifh, and: is made, by taking the filings of Steel in fuf- ticient.quantity : Pourupon them diftilled Vinegar, and. extraG the rednefs 5 after- wards pouron more diftilled Vinegar, and reiterate,this for a Month,:or longer, till | avon perceive it will extrad no more 7ed- C3 neff. - 22 eS cuvicies Dipillatony.s: : \ ne{se,, Then» joyn.all the vintied eee ‘ together, and diftil it in Balneos. and put Spirit of J Wineupon that which remains} — and digeftit fo long dill it hath drawnsa _ \inéiwre. - Abfivact the Spirit of Winshork | a “it by diftillation, pour it on agains after — -you-have done this fix times, the:Tinéture — of Steclis perfect. Itis compleat indécd, but the Tindiure is much promoted by. the Salt of Vinegar, extracted by the Phlegm — of the Spirit of Wine: but yet fo: never- thelefs, that it is very probable that there is fome {mall peat of the Trini in it. © Experiment the far “abot Cipper | : "Concerning: this: the Noble: ‘Mr. Boyl, \in-bis Book of Colours, pag. 3.05. \obferves, ‘That it is a Metal . upon which divers i diltiné fort of Liquors do ac fo eafily, that. there:is-{carde any» Mineral that. will concur to the production of fo. amany dif- ferent Colours\asi Copper, ‘it ‘being diffol- -vable in. moft:forts of Menfteaums.: »To wit, in Spirit. of Vinegar; sAqua Fortis, Aqua Regis, Spirit of Nite, of Urine, of ‘Soot, Oyls of divers forts, and»in moft vother Liquors, ‘the, Colours of which ate hot a little different, and various from _each Me The cious Diftillawy. 23 | eachiotherjalthongh they arecomprchend- ed within the, limits, of Green, or, Bley, or of a blewifh Green. But it {eemeth the before praifed: Mr.. Boyd, had, not took notice that if the duplicate Spirit of Foac. 'Polemanus, rade of the Blood-ftone, jand Salk Armoniacky were pour’d upon. Copper, that’ ‘the! Liquor. would. diftilliovex’ Green, and tbe ree ntl wl A fhnots in ity CRT 54. | ) + Se NSTY Expense the fifth, cong “he ahs ity of the Metals, ce eihivg Tin, Lead and Reker tfolved in Corrofive Waters, do not tinge their Men- poe after. Demy that.we- have related. above,as Go ilver,, Copper Tron a eof forithefe Metals are. vee if d natures, and.wbitifh 5 wherefore. their-fea lutions alfo are whiter nor \is it likely they fhould eafily ,pafs..over, the. initia sof another colour. “Esperimen the f sth “when. we make) Spots of hn if thevedae added:a little Vin at, .the Spirit, me come pystrthy ae eck, of, 4,grecn. Colour 24 The curious Difiillarory. Colour: Alfo the Phlegm of Spirit of Venus, : or verd. ZEris, is greenith. Experiment the feventh, If you mix Sulphur, Sal Armoniack,and 4 Quick-Lime, aad diftil them by a Retort, — although they are Bodies which of them- felves are not Red, yet by diftillation they © ae Ret Sie a yield a red Liguor : which red Liquor be- ing rub’d upon the Fingers doth colour them black. Mr. Boyl, de Coloribus, Ex- perim. 3 4. Les 3 xpi Experiment the eighth, Spirit of Quick-Lime,prepared after the way that Bafiliws Valentinus prefcribes in ‘Tet. Part. 5. and from him is repeated by Thomas Keflerus Proceff. Chym. Num.287.. _ This before it be rectified doth pleafe the — _ eye with an elegant blewnefs. Experiment the ninth, | Take of Vitriol calcin’d to a yellownef, one part; Flint-ftones beaten to a Powder two parts; and of Spirit of Wineasmuch | as is fufhcient to make them all into a’. Paft. The curious Diftillatory. 2.5 Paft. After which if you diftill it by a _. Retort, there will come fortha Red Oyl, To this purpofe confer with Chriftoph. ~ Glucrad. in Not. ad Tyrocin, Foa. Beguini lib. 11.cap. 6. Allo Andreas Tenzelius in Exegeft. Chymiatrica, and Foan. Schroderus. Lib, 3. Pharmacop. cap. 26. Where more | Oyls of Vitriol axe difcovered which pafs ~ over the Retort Red. \ | Experiment thetenth. This is to be obferved concerning Si- nobar, as well that which is Natural as that which is Artificial 5 if you put Spirit of Turpentine upon it, and then diftill it by a Glafs Bodyin Sand, the Liquor which comes forth will beof a very fine Red Coe: lour, © | | | 4 5 CHAP. 26 The as Diftillatory, Same ye aes Fe 4 liaae 7 Sy. € wa : 7 f 4 PIA ae hes i ‘ s CHAP. v. tet _ Bapeiment me dniti Vv E rhay: sabe in. thes Aninta Kingdom the diverfity of Colours bie é - +2 : id . with which thechief Mafter Pidture-Drawer - hath moft curioufly: {potted many Fifhes, and alfo Shells; and amongft Infecis, Butter- flyes of all forts; and among,four-fdoted - Beafts,the Leopard, Linxes, Tygerss ere. but when we comic toBirds, sehou is there.that is not amazed at the Feathers of Peacocks, - and Parrots ?-But whatever variety:there ig in this kind in general,the Alzmbeck makes no difcovery of them,for whatfoever paf> {eth over byit, as muchasis hithertodif- covered, is Whitifh, only excepting from this rule thofe which by wayof Gleaning ‘we haveannexed lett, this place fh thould be empty. — 1. From the {everal parts of a Stag, or Hart, various and efficacious Shop-Medi- eines are prepared, amongit which the chief arethe Horns, whofe Spirit being drawn Wy a Retort, thines with a Yellow, or rather Galden De cuirions Diftillawy. 27 F Golden Colour. 5 although I deny: not when | Lr EAE Oyl isexactly {eparated it grows white. 2. Amonpft Infecis, Bees make Honey; ame from which the Water which flows at the — beginning; of its diftillation is W bite, but “the following Spirit is firtt Yelow, “and to= wards the end ofa Gold Colour, and fo di- ‘ils conttantly, andis of many uafes ia. Art. 3. OF the Blew Water of Grats, this ‘following Experiment is-produced by A- damus hiya pre: German, Shite ult. Pao | WB atter ev aienie nen nutter sebsautne foitd blaufarb. Daflelbe bereite alfa: “epreite eitt Bachlein,fo Laut das Watier durch das Sacilein oder zuch in dfe We- chel. 280 dwes aber in einem beln bren- nett; fo Wetire der helm intend. Water “(faith he) ‘diftilled from common Guats is “Blewith, I mhike it thus :-Spred a Cloth over a Caldron), but put the Grats into a Sack; or Bag : Bid folet thei fall oitt of the Sack, or ~Cloath into the Cauldron of Water, which if you diftil'by an Alimbeck, the Alimbeck will contradi ajtink’ “Thustar Leoniterws. Al- “though Ido not deny that ‘this way of di- filling Gnats is partly obscures and partly £ ae CHa, 28 The ae ates CHAP. VL men) appearing inV. eae. | | Sina goes about a S tory of a great tel fon that was very carious, who ha- ving called together to him certain Al- — ‘chymifts fhewed them divers Simples,which having mixed together, he caufed them to be.committed to diftillation in their pre- fence: but it happened that. the Liquor as — it diftilled did breath forth a grateful {cent — of Musk, When this Illufirious Perfon — required of thefe Artiftsa reafon of this — Odor, for they faw not the leaff Grain of Musk, mixed with the Simplés 5 They af- ficted themfelves all day long, and yet — could produce no-reafon for the thing, — unlefs this fragrant {cent did arife from the mixture of the Simples in a certain propor- tion; at-length, about the Evening, .the Nobleman difcovered to them the fallacy, « to wit, that unknown to them; he had put Musk intothe Nofe of the Alinsbeck,., Astherefore we may counterfeit a Scent, ei puttilig into the Alimbeck,, Musk, Civet, or The curious Diftillatory. 29 or Odoriferous Flonérs 5 In like: manner tis potlible to fain Colours: fince the Water in its paffing carries along with it {elf the “Tinéiure of thofethings which are impofed in the Alimbeck: provided you light on fuch Spectators upon whom this Leger- demain or trick may pafs. 1, The moftfacile way of allis,by put- ting Flowers into the Beak or Spout of the Alimbeck, ( for example) put in Blero-Bottle Flowers: fo the Water by pafling through them will gain a Blew Colour. 2. If you think it neceflary to do the thing with more care, put betwixt the Beak of the Alimabeck and the Receiver, a Fiftula or Pipe, wider in the middle ties at each end, or Bellyed like a Bottle, in which let thofé Flowers be contained (the es is thus. “ait | / Moreover this Pipe ought to be fomewhat wider in its uppermoft end, and narrower in its lowermoft : as-is to be feen in the Fi Geet | Be This ) $ Theicurions Diftillatory. 3. This is a SpeGtacle' for:Mountebanks to thew upon aStage; ‘Thus :saf there be four Cucurbitsor Bodies fullofWaterallin one Furnace, put an Alimbeck upon cachof them, lét it bedonefo thatthe Alimbeck. may only be feen, and the Pipes, or Beaks hid. | Let there be putinto:every Beakfe- veral Flowers (forexample) Blew-Bottles,, Violets, Marygolds; —Red-Rofes, Saffron & eases) &e, ifirddenly by the help of the Fire the Liquors which are forced.intothe Receivers wilh. obtain idifferent Colours; not withoutthe admiration of thecommon People which itfiand by.s >The fame thing may be pérformed with:thole. Fielyet pee put betwixt and covered; 4. Thisalfods for ofttritetibntesd ‘yf 3 If you take one, or more: Wallauts made Hollow and Empty, and fillthem withthe Spirit of the roots of S apbire, coloured Pim- pernel, defcrib’d below in the 15th Chapter, and ftop them u eeu ax. Then before ae 2 oo lehaheiet ‘Nuts thus ‘filed, and Cafechienrincorr-veffel half fall of Spirit of Wine, and putting, on an Alim- beck, diftillit in Sandsfromthe heat within — the Wax willbe melted; andthe: matter: flowing outsthe clear Spirit will be fo tinged: that to admiration it willappear all Blew. CHAP: | ‘Thecurions Diftillatory. 34 FC: H A P.: “vil. : “ Of Veronica or -P lel ee : pus ite Body wil sinifee *s Ahtbiit thefe are fallacies. Tis t true. ut you muft know,that thefe ridiculous things are alfo _neceffary, leftyou be deceived yourfelfand - that you may'be able to dete the fraud ofothers. Arifforles Sentence concerning ) awiles man is this? ‘Dniipfe non mentitur, © alinm ‘mentientem facile deprebendit. Wi bi Bw nor falfe himfelf;, and-can eafily difcover the falfiood of others. But now pafling over _ eafty cheats, let us proceed to Operations; which are Gennine, and agreable to truth. ‘Veronica, ox F Iuellin, is a Plant known ‘to all the’ Apothecaries. atid i its Vertues both | dsto' she Breaft, and Spleen alfo itscuring of Vleers, ‘and Wounds, are much ‘cryed “ up tothe Sick. Whether it were known tothe Antient Writers both Greek and Latin, is uncertain: Although Cafalpinus refers it to Diafcorides, Myofotida or Mouf- eave, lib, 11. cap. 214. others make it another Plant. The kinds of it jabs only 32 The curious Diftillatory. ~ monly (by Herbalifts) recorded to be eight: ” _ amongft which the moft ufual is.that — which by Cafpar Baubinus is called Veronica * Mas, fupina & vulgatiffima, The Male _ Fluellin the Superior, and moft common. — There is prepared from it a Syrp,Conferve, Salt, Wine, and allo diftilled Water: of - the former nothing, but concerning the — Wine, and the ail take a couple of Obfervations. Experiment the firft Take freth Veronica, when it begins to. _ bein the Flower, cut it, and {prinkling ity:> witha little Water, caft it into.a Glafs Body, and applying the like Alimbeck to it diltil it by Balneo Marig, or Water. So, the Water which diftills, will not be white, and limpid like to other Waters, but Greenifh. This Greenefs though it be not. confiant, yet it will laft at leaft three, months,: and afterwards it will pegint to” vanifh by degrees. Experiment be Seen Tf in the place of F ountain Water you put | ' On. Fit and draw it the fame way; by. Balneo, The curious Diftillatory, 3.3 Balneo, you will then alfo have a Green _ Liquor,but in which the Greennefs is much _ deeper, and'will alfo continue for a_year,. and longer? ay hs ~ Truly this neat Tindture which Veronica biings over the Alimbeck with it,feems to be a Note, or Charatter of the efficacy; which is indulged to’ that Plant betore a thoufand others. bgt caer le Let no Body here accufe Copper for gi- ving this Zindiure : for if the diftillation be made in'Glafs Veffels,the Water of Veroni- éa willbe equally Greew. ‘The latter way by Glaffer'is belt to perform it, and by that _ means’it will’ clearly evidence that this Greennefi'doth not proceed: from Copper, but {prings only from the peculiar Nature ofthe Plant. es eta | - But concerning Vegetable Waters di- Rtilled by Copper Veffels not exactly Tyn’d, _ we have obferved thissif they contain any _ thing of Copper,by putting ina drop,or two of the Salt Spirit of Sal Armoniack, they will become Milky or Whites but if they have ng Copper, they will remain clear. However the obfervation of Otto Tacheni- ws (an excellent Phyfitian of Venice) may feem tolook otherways, concerning Rofe- | Water diftilled by a Copper-Veffel 5 sso oil D . \ ah The curious Diftillatory. 3 he propofeth; chap. 19. Hippocr. .Chymic, — to this fence: Jt doth eat off certain Atoms. ~ from the Copper, which are invifibly mixed. svith the Water Would you fee the Copper?drop — into the Water fome drops of an Urinous Alca- ly,and by it the whole Water will grow green- ifh : becaufethe, acidity of the Rofe Water, dith with moregreedine{s {natch:to it felf the- light, and more like it felf Alcaly than the. Metal, which therefore by degrees falls Green £0. the ; Bottettte Ay Sin ie Pppatian ratte aed y “Whilft 1am writing this a certain not in- expert Manin the Artof diftillationdoth, afirm,that the Water of Sage, andraHo. of, Rofemary, willbe Green,as. well as: that of, ' Veronica, if they be managed witha .cer-,. tain dexterity, and moderate. {wiftnefs.. The truth of which Experience will deter-. mine. Uy gieocaud:. | The chvins Diftillatory. 35 Espa’ on H AP. ‘vill. re OF GCamemily Diznins i or’ Plerbarifees dre wont to reckon ten forts of this P/ant,amongft ~ which the moft eminent are the common Camomil with the Noble Flower Single, and _ with the full, or double Flower Camomil without feent,and ‘ftinking Camomil or May- weed 5 “but Pfhall chiefly have'to doin this place with ‘the fir fort or eepihon Ca- momil, «808 The di {tilled Winer ae this i is to eb had. in Apothecaries Shops after the manner of other waters limpid and colourlefs. There is alfo to be fold'its Oyl,' made by infufion fromthe Yellow Flowers.’ But that which _ ismade by diftillation from the fameFlow~ ersis very different from this;forit isdeep- ly faturated and fill’d with aS Laide Colour, very ep ing to the fight. .“ i: mid 6 Take the frefh Flowers’ of common Ca- D 2 _ momis 36 "The calitious Difiillaemy: momil, {prinkle them with fair Water,and bruife them togethersafter. ~» fome dayes cafithem into aC opper diftilling : Veffel, well coveredwith Tin, and apply-— ing a Head to it, diftill ic. "The Water being drawn forghy: youshtall perceive the Oyl to fwim at the top of it;which though © it-be but Jitele in sishaibn tel ai ah atiue - Sky, sac iidVloaiw ast novior Ch & tase KO. orlt’. 33 ae lk 3 ietake me Si Raperintas 2. We ah with the, fame. ain fies. | 1 Filommer: aasbuasd me 4 che {ames withthe dy infafion, of,them-flood § x; fourteen, day to Gio e the greater extraction. { SS a Wallis pi rr Exporiveea os vitiaontog ht “If nace thema al agg v9 3 of COMLBON. mY alty Ox, ‘the like quantity; of} Torstar, the Blew, Aon va CORRS Bk ini EE idee pil snstahiby } pele fated al ¥¥ We fubftitutedin sheipleatiof thefe the Flowers of Roman Camomil, but wehad them cy alate She nos 4 Saphionobed OnE : Py os eiicie taal Le = ‘3 oy 8 Sn eee eee Thecutious Difiillarroj.. 39 ene: what there is to be found in the reft _ of the forts of “Camomil we have not a bss See, " Bipina ae | Thigh innate Brenupnefoot th dhe C tasesd is _ of that: cantagious,or commutnicative Nature, that it is able to infect other things, and render themlike it felf. For Example: _ Take the tender topsof @ Pine, or Firr- _ tree,and being cut into pieces,caft them in- toa Copper Badly, ‘adding’a good quantity of Camomil Fiowers, dittill them by them> - felves, and there will come ‘Over a com: pound Oyl, which may be named Olewn Pini cerulenin, Or oe ee oof if | Peness Rapaonivn 6, After the fame way you may prepare the ~ Saphirine Oyl of Juniper, by mixing with a fit proportion of thé Camomil Flowers, fome Funiper Berries 5 and thisnot: with: out a communication and exaltation of ’ the Medicinal iaiteatonseaiie whieh the fini per it felt doth-abound. D ig Expee \ tion of Artificial Sal Armoniac s 8 is he curiows Difilaory “Experiment aa eh The fame way the fhavings of Pape : vite,being mixed with the Flowers of Ca- momil,you may makea blewifh Oyls which — though it be well {cented. of it felf, yet adding Oyl of Rhodium toit,it will be peat | dred more acl arinanOes» Experiment 8. Nay thefe F rae fhe to ie of fucha difpofition, thatwhatloever Rofiny matter — they are mixed with,they yeilda Saphirine _ Oyl. An Argument worthya further {pe-. culation, whether or no by this Method | many more Oylsmay not be prepared a- gainft particular Difeafes, by the mixture of peculiar and {pecifick rofi nous Simples, Enperinet 94 There isa decomponnd Oyl, which is de- {cribed by Boetins. lib, 11..deGemm.& La- © pid. cap. 43. Impoftures (faith he) joyn the Flowers of Camomil, and the white Oyl or Spirit of Turpentine, and avery large propor- " They pit P 4¢h is -Dhe curious Diftillatory. 32.9 ‘this mixture into a Copper Body s andto this they add common Water, trom whence othey dittil Water and Ow after the com- - -monway. = Thedittilled Water contains — _ onthe Superficies or top ofit Oylof a Co- dour likea Saphires this is Oyl of Turpentine goyned with the Oy of Camomil: for this | Herb, or the Flowers of this Herb, do yield - fome of the Oy: But the Colour is pro-. duced bythe Sal Armoniack, which it ex- | tracts from the Copper, and communicates - -ittotheOyl. Ifthe Oyl be kept long it _ willbe {poyled with age, and then you will manifeftly difcover the Scent of Tur- _ -pentine, .Thisis an ufual cheat with com- mon Chymifts. or Preparers. of Chymical Medicine€s for the Shops here in London, becaufe many are deceived by this means, - and many Chymifts are {0 fimple to think the Colour proceedeth from the Camomi!. Uthought fit hereto difcover the Impature, Cheat and Error of Chymifts. | | _ Thus far Boetins, who in vain fufpects © a fraud in this matter: For,as we have fhewed before in the firlt and fecond Ex- | periment, that alfo without any manner of Salt, either common, ox Armoniack, a Ski- coloured Oyl may be drawn fron the Flow- €x5 Of common Camomil 3 wherefore the Co- jaro De ar Jour. | 40 © The curious Diftillatory. Jour doth not refult from the Gopper Body: : for otherways the famething would hap- pen in diftilling other Plaats in a-Copper Body, which neverthelefs is very far from _ peingtrue. It remains therefore in thefe operations,that the blewifhnefs is produced altogether from the Flowers. But what is | iy tg, * ee affirmed by Boetaus concerning the blewCo- * Jour being drawn out ofthe Copper by the Sal Armoniack, fignifies nothing in this cafe, That being an Artifice, commonly | known to Barbers. Experiment 10, As to what concerns the duration, or Jaftingnefs of the Oyl,we havean Oyl which was extracted from Camomil F lowers above three years fince, without the addition of Salt or Tartar, whofe Saphire Colour ap- pears fo conftant, that if it continue not forever, yet itfeems to promife to laf- many years. Neverthelef$1do not deny what Boetius alledgeth, of hisfalfe Saphire -Oyl, that the Blew Colour doth perifh with Age, and that the whitifhnefs of the ad- ded Oyl of Turpentine will emerge or be ap- parent. i - CHAP, | Thescurious Diftidlatory. an Of Lignum Nephriticum, or the wood againft the Stone, : Ajper Baubinus in pinnace Botanic. calls &/ this Wood, Lignum peregrinum, five Mexicanum, Aquam caruleam — reddens, i.e. The ftrange, or Mexican wood, colouring Water Blew. And places it among the . Species or Kinds of Aff trees. Francifeus Hernandes in his Book Intituled Thefzurus Rerum Medicarum Nove Hifpanie, which afterwards was publifhed by Nardus An- tonius Recchus in the 4th Book, chap. 25. faysthus: Tis called Coatlis, by others Tlapalezpatl, or the Medicine of the Scarlet or Crimfon coloured Blood. Itis a great Trees= Shrub, with a body thick and without knobs, like the Pear-tree wood, the Leaves _ like Sheep Peafe, or’ Rue, with a Yellow _ Flower growing among Prickles. It is alfo excellently défcribed by Nicol. Monades in his Hiffory of Simples, chap. 27. in thefe words; Mittit Nove Hifpania Ligné quoddam genus craffum & erode, Materia piri, , cujus 42 Thecurious Difilary. | “crus ufis jamdin receptus fuit inhis Regioné~ bis, ad Renum vitia, urineque difficultates ecorist» Leinis ob- & incommodz. Poftea vanes. comproba~ ‘i tum eff, ejus Aquam in: flrnctionibus utilem effe. — Illa. autem bac vati-. a one paratur, Lignum afjutatim, & minutim, - concifum in optima & lympidifima aqua ea | aa maceratur, aique in ea relinguitur danec a= | qna a bibentibus ; abfumpta fit. Dimidia Hora ‘ poft injecinm lignum aqua ceruleum diluting rem colorem contrabit, qui {enfin intenditur pro temparbs diuturnitate, tametfi ilignum can- didum ( potius ruffum ) fit, ceruletm ideo - dico quoniam adulteratur alio ligno fimili, quod aqua croceo colore infitit, ne quis falla- ur. “That is, there is fent from New- * Spaina certain kind of thick Wood, ¢ without Knotts, like the fubftance: of a — “Pear-Tree, it hathbeen long made ufe ‘of in thefe parts, againft the diftempers — q “of the Kidnies, and the difficulties, and © inconveniences of making Urine. After- “ wards it was found by experience that its “Water was beneficial in the ObftruGtions * of the Liver,and Spleen. . It is prepared “after this manners ‘The Wood being * fhaved and {mal cut, let it be fteeped in © the beft and clearelt F ountain Water,and - “left in it till it be confumed by thofe that 5 ‘drink — tf ~The curious Diftillatory. 3 | drink it: ‘Half an hour after the Wood is ‘put into the Water, the Water will con- “tract a pale Blew, which is heightned by “ degrees according to the time it remains “in it,and yet the Wood isWhite(or rather. “Brown.) therefore mention this Blew- “nefs, becaufe it is counterfeited with “anotherWood like it, (which gives the “© Water a Saffron Colour) leftany body _ *fhould be deceived. ° | This ¢vxeipyos, or knack, is now a daies commonly known, and certainly except it were fo well known, it would be more efteemed. Of which Fire is an Example: which although there be no- thing more admirable then the nature of it, yet we defpife it as a common - thing; which wereit brought from the - -remoteft parts of the Indies, and fudden- ly and unthought-of fhewed to us,I doube not with how muchamazement we fhould contemplate it. | | ~ Experiment 1. Being about therefore to fearch, if that Golden Blewifh Colour, would remain with the fame conftancy in pafling over the Alimbeck, I caft into a Glas Boe, “s \ the Ad. The: curious Diftidlatory: the infufion, together with the rafped — fhavings of Lighum Nepbriticum, , oe drew it tof The Diftilling Water, al- though it loft both the Colours, and was become clear : yet for all that I iobférved that it breathed forth a _gratefial | ‘rofinous Odour. But the Scent of the Shavings themfelves.might be obferved tebe much more pleafing, although the, crude PRE RAS OLE ao Wood of it ag was alanis? eae " without Scent. . xpi 2. cS i We fubtituted i in 1 the HS of ioe | tain Water Spirit of Wine, which being poured upon the fhavings, in like manner became of a double Colour: But being drawn over by the Alimbecks it became: White like common Water. And be- caufe I eafily forefaw, that Icould: do nothing further with this Wood, by diftillation with an Alimbeck , 1 defi fied: yet neverthelefs tryed other ways, and the Experiment which follows was pro- duced tench : Expe- ~ ” curious nS 4S | Experiment 3. - Wediftilled fome drops of Oy! of Tatiar i per deliquinm into the! Golden Blewith Co» ~ loured-Infufion, made. with common Water, and.we) neiaggs both: anc Seca res | rc ae aati ‘ A, eliapioned We: ae ae into: the: fame Infufion: Spiritiof- Vitriol: drop byedrop, and: the aforefaid:blewith cosiernonteide the it lowe one only remaining. + Expense; “ Westryed the fame aiith: Spivis of Salk, : Soltbreny: WNitre, @ cs and the Golden Cos four continued,the Blewone difappearing, ' asvit did happen in Experiment the 4th.’ A clear fign that: the. acid Salt by its \pene=* trative. powerdid’ infringe;) and: other ways difpofe theft: Particles; which: the: Urinows,and as it were blunt ‘Salt of Tartar sould hot 5 seit or otherwife difpofe. _ Expe- | 46 The curious Diftillatory, Experiment 6. | -.Many confiderable Remarks are pro- duced concerning this Nepbritick Wood; by that careful and induftrious fearcherafter , — ‘Nature, Mr. Boyle inhisBookof Colours, Experiment the 10, and in-thofe which fol- low, which worthily deferve to be read. ButI may repeat oneof them here, which concerns the rédintegration of the once loft Blew Colour. «: But’ becaufe the Au- - thors Relation isa little.too long, I will repeat it with more brevity... Drop. into. the double coloured Infufion of the Wood,a few drops of the Spirit of Wine Vinegar, {0 the Blew Colourwillevanifh, the Saffron ' one remaining. Upon this pour a little Owl of Tartar per deliquium, and immedi- ately the Blew: Colour. will return,» and the Infufion will appear as before ‘of two Colours; perhaps by the acidity ofthe Sale the Particles' ave-bxoke,: and returned: ‘to their former pofitions’ which» were kept _ under by the heavy Oyl of Tartare) es CHAP. . | ‘The'cuvions Diftillatory. 47 | oft ih phys if Wine, spe, wild Carna- Fees or, Eratss anh tiatfey. ‘Ld Wire depofits two. foibles of Ex- verements to wit Dregs, and Tartar, The: ‘Dregs: are the groffer, and earthly: parts of the Wine which after fermentati- on it letsfall: (like Slime and“Mudd) to the Bottom of the'Veffel, it not being void! of a ufeful falinefs, from: whence the Wine: gains firength : So that. taken from this, root. as it were, and. put into another: Veffel, it will not endure any, long: time,” but will eafily degenerate, bur | Coricerning the ufefulnefs of thefe Fe-’ ces, or Dregs, we have a teftimony- in- Brandy,,.ox Spirit of Wine, which the Vines’ _ F ners, and Difillers make fromthem: That’ we may omit other ules now; which are not unknown tothe common people. But this we fuppofe ishardly taken no« tice of by every body, that an Oyl is to be prepared from thefe Faces or Dregs which: — | afcends the Alimbeck of a Green Colour. In IP this 4.8 The curios Diftillarory. ‘this Operation ’tis to be obferved,that that — ‘Oyt is moft green which diftiltectr lat, bit 4) - this Greennefs doth ,vanith with length of time: Nay prefently, if you rectify the _ Oyl,it being, changed into aYellowithnefs. - Eet the diftilling -veffels Be well cover with Tim Jett you fuppofe- the Finéiure doth arife from the erotion of the Copper in. its paflage. Many afhrm thatfrorh the _ preflings,: orhusksiof Grapesyam Oyl may be likewife:made, after the fame manner, which willafcend Green Wild Pinks, o# Carnations whilett they arei in !Flomer, and running. up toSeed,. if the whole Plant be} frefhgathered; eutfmall, anddiftilled'af ter! the, vifuab:manner, © there? commonly: wimson the top obthe Water beige? the. Alimbeck, a Greenifh Opl sive 19)! You will find thefame thing tobe trues. with the! GardtmSmallaye; ov Barfley di- filled afterithe fame mantier,cihyow have — wrought; atighy: but thissGieennefSs' is butitempotaryy and ofifinalUGedtion Bue’ the Oysiof Gheraitj):and Parley whicky — axe to be feen inthe Shopsy afewontto be prepared: yrlomg fermentation cos ofa deep Gold eet Hie they’ € A ~ etary ow hors cont hats Gok eee at - . ~~ ee - ‘ Bite Ve de Be Seah d oth ‘The curious Diftillatory, 49 CHA GO SS © Of wild Floyer-de-luce. JT is called Iris, and receiveth its name ~ : from the fimilitude it hath to the _ Rainbor, it being varioufly painted with the colours of divers Flowers. From the Form of the Roots it may conveniently be divided into Claffes,‘ the firft of which is contained under that of the Bulbous, or round rooted, and are in number twenty: the other fort is tuberous, or full of {wel- lings, and of this fort truly there is but one: The third fort is Geniculate, knot- ted, or jointed on the ftems, of which there is about fixty four 5 the jointed are are fubdivided into broad leav'd, narrow lead, and dwarfs. Firft the broad leav'd, whichis called by Cafper Bawbinus,the com- mon wild German Flower-de-luce, which is fo well known, that it is called in the Shops our Orris, or F lower-de-luce. They commonly referve only its root, from whence they make juice, Oyl by infufion, and a Powder called Fecula: The blewifh _ Flowers are beheld forstheir neatnefs, but se Me ES never 50 Thecurions Diftillatory, never preferved or kept.Moreover, Foachi- mus Camerarius in his Notes upon Petr.dn= — drea, Mathiolus German Herbal, which was printed 1590 at Frankfort, to wit, upon the firft Book, cap. 1. fol. 2. layeth down an obfervation concerning thefe blew Flowers worthy our noting, in thefe words, Mas Wafler aus den Wlumen der — {chonen fris defkilliret, it gut fur die Waflerfucht : and if folches biel iraftsi- © ger, Wana alfo dafletbe deilliret toird, dak es der bibiien nathelich Farhe be- | pailte, thie den folcbes obnealien fremb- den Wula Wivichelich gefcheben-fan- W ater (Lays he) diftilled fromF lower-de-luce F lowers is available in the Dropfy,and i the more efficacious if it be fo diftilled that it re- tains the native colour of the Flowers : as alfa it may eafily be perform’'d without any ftrange additament.. And truly except we will im- _ pute the crime of fallhood to Camerarius, — there is a way to be found by which © a blew Water may be diftilled from that Plant, but the way of doing this Camerz- rius bimfelf ought to have difcovered to have freed himfelf from cenfure, left there arg a {ufpition in the Readers, that the thing is done by the Artifice mention’d. above, in-Chap,.4. for whether or no the ~ | W ater | The curius Diftillatory. 55 | Water diftilled by the common method | will be Blew, we have not yet had lea- | fare to try. of | Curcuma, or Turmerick roots are vulgar- | ly known, but the entire Plant few are | acquainted with. The figure or picture | thews it to be Indian Saffron ( to which | the name of Curexma is added ) alfo it is | clearly defcribed by Facob Bontius in lib. 6. | Hiffor, Oriental. cap. 30. put out by Gz- | lielmus Pifo in his Works printed 1658. | He attributes to it the Leaves of white | Hellebore, and purple Flowers, with a fruit | prickly, or like the outward hairy barks of _ Chefinuis, which includes a Seed of the | form of aPea. If there be poured well rectified Spirit of Wine upon the Powder | of common Turmerick the Liquor being di- | ftilled fomewhat {wifter than ordinary, will be of alight yellow Colour, which _yellownefs will continue fo long only as | it fhall be kept in’ a cold and fhady © _ place: butitis eafily diffipated, and cauf- ed to vanifh, by the rayes of the San, or any other heat. But if any do contend | that this yellownefS is caufed by the com- ing over of very {mall particles of the | Turmerickwith the Spirit, by reafon of the | fwifttnefs of the diftillation, will not flifly | deny it. Ev CHAP. J 52 The curious Diftillatory. C. HAP. XII Of Sun-dew. eee C Ome Plants comprehend many Species J or: kinds under them, as Tulips, Hawk-weed, Cranes-bill, Orchis, or Dog- ftones, Treacle Muftard, and Graff.. Others contain no variety of kinds, in as much as we hitherto know of 3 as Annife,Cym- ‘balaria,or Baftard-Italian-Navelwort,Wall-~ Rue, Matthiolus bis Orpine. Others hold a middle betwixt thefe, and contain but © few Species or forts: As, Goats-Rue, Li- | quorifs, Celandine. And the laft of the three is the moft ample, containing un- _der it, amongft other forts, a Plaat of a inoft excellent ftructure, which from a_| dewy Liquor which ftands upon the leavs_| of it, even when the Sun is hotteft in ~ Summer, 1s commonly called Ros Solis, | or Sun-dew. Nor do our Botanifts know more then two ffecies, or forts of it: | of which one fort is called Sun-dew with the round Leaf, and is the moft ufually Known inthe Shops. The other which | is Lhe curious Diftillatory. 53 ir rarer with us, is wont to bee called Sense with the longeft Bear. Experiment I. + Take either of the forts of this Plant frefh and new gather’d, and let it be the whole Plant,:and in the middle of Sum-— mer gather’ d ina bot clear Airs after you have made it all clean, cut it, and {prink- ling it with.a {mall quantity: of Water, let it be bruifed 5 then putit into a Glofe , Body, and without addition diftil it by an Alimbeck, ‘There will come over (not without the delight of the Beholders ) a Golden Liquor, tending towards rednefs. . Experiment 2.:: We would try the fame alfo with the . dryed Plant, pouring, Spirit of Wine upon — ‘it 3 after ftanding fome hours,’ by the help of a Bath, we diftilled it with Glaf Veffels, obferving ( which was a pleafant Spectacle ) the Liquor diftilled by the Alimbeck, was. of a Gold colour. Con- cerning the caufes of this effe4, if I may - guefs, I believe the Sun-dew is fo com- pofed, that it abounds with volatile Salt, Ee 3 which 54 The curious Diftillatory. which in the time of diftilldtion . doth joyn it felf with the Rofiny Particles which — are difperfed through the whole Plant : for if you behold its external face any | manner of way, you willeafily difcernit to grow reddifb from goldifhnefs. Moreover this muft happen froma peculiar’ propor — tion of Salt : becaufe there are not want- ing many Herbs which are both reddifh, and rofiny, whofe diftilled Waters never- thelefs do not in the leaft look reddifh, or _—-yellowifh. After we had made thefe our Experi-- ments, we happened ‘upon Conradus Kunraths, Medulla Diftillatoria, who in the fifteenth Trad written upon Ros Soli, propounds ( after his cuftom ) a tedious — method of making Meditines out of this — & ‘ Te temein. Plant 5 and amongft other things afferts, that the diffilled Water of it is yellow, and that there is to be prepared from it a Quinteffence which is a Panaceg in ‘all manner of difeafes. Whichthing we will — - Jeave to its. Author, or rather to Tfaae Hlallandus,' ‘out of whofe Book, intituled, . De Opere Vegetabili, all that Kunrath hath — writ {eems to be taken. . CHAP, . The curious Diftillatory. 5 5 es AeA. Pe KILL [ Of Blew Pimpernel, and of Curcu- May or Turmerick. He Family; er kind of Pimpernels A may. be -conveniently divided into two Claffes. The firlt-contains thofe - Pimpernels called. Sanguiforbe, ox Burnet, ef which there are four forts: to wit, the. greater, the Jeffer which is hairy or rough, the leffer which is fizooth, and that which is without feent.. Of the latter fort. are thofe.Pimpinels commonly knowmrby the name of Pimpinelia Saxifragz, of which five kinds are reckoned up by Boubinus in Pinac: that isthe greater with the white bof or Top, :the other greater, the greater with the red hoff or Tuft, and the leffer with the thin Leaf, To which may be added thofe which were unknown to Bouhinus : _ Pimpinella Cadanenfis Maxima of Jacobus Cornutus, and the Pimpinella Maxima Ca- ‘dan. with the long red fpire or ear, and that with the red ear conglomorated, or heaped. _ together, of Robert Morifons 5 alfo Pimpi- ae ae nella ‘ 56. The curious Difillairy. nella Agnimonoides, of the Phyfi ck, Garden ft Padua. But befides. all the aforementioned, there is another fort which grows with © us, in the Fields near the City, which — for certain reafons we call the Blew Pim- — pinel 5 the fame alfo may be found’ near — Steinford, a place fix Miles diftance from ~ SS a ics = hencé, where itis propagated in the Phy- — fick-Garden of the Court 5 and alfo at q Frankfort by the way fide. If you regard its Figure, it doth not 4 feem to belong to thofe fort of Pimpinels called Sanguiforbes, but to that other fort, © called Saxifraga’s, amongft them to thefe — called Major Umbella ,Candida,ox the great- er with the white bofs, or Tuft, to which it approacheth very near. But again it — doth differ from it 3 Firft, Inthe Native. — Soil, or place of its growth: for Blew Pimpinels grow in: a blackifh Earth, but _ the other in'a fandy. Secondly, The root of Blem Pimpinels:is outwardly of a gray- colour, and imwardly is white :° the: other root is white both without and within. Thirdly, Thele roots doabound within with a blewifh juice, which is never {een in the common fort, for which caufe it hath feem’d convenient to me to give - ‘The curious Diftillatory. 57 give it the name of ee Sar oee ats | pinel. Regethen I. ~~ Tt is a wonder that fo frit a SpeGuate _ fhould be fo long unknown, which this — Plant diftilled can expofe to the fights. for if the roots, either frefh, or dryed, be cut into pieces, and Spirit of Wine poured _ upon them, it will be tinged with a yel- low Colour, and if you diftil it by an Alim- beck, the ‘Liquor will pafs over of an ex- ceeding Saphirine Colour. The Spetiators _ which are ignorant of the thing, will be amaz’d, and be ready to {wear there is fome ingele or cheat in it. | Experiment Bars But if you put the roots either cut, or ~ bruifed, into Oyl of Turpentine, with a triple proportion of Fountain Water, and afterwards thake the Glafs, the Oyl that {wims at the top when it ftands ftill, will be Blew: and if afterwards you diftil all of it with a firong, firein Sand, the blew __ colour will vanifh,and the Oyl which fwims- _upon the Vater will be of a Gold colour. a - Expe- 98 The curious Diftillatory. “4 ‘Experiment 3. Wherefore if you havea mind to tranf- ~ fer this operation to a Medicinal ufe, and particularly to prepare a Phyfagogal blew Water, then let there be added with the voots of this Pimpinel, the feed of Anife, Fennel, and the other €arminatives, or breakers of wind: Experiment 4. ape cnn at OA, ee: If you have a mind to make a ble Water againft the Stone, then add to thefe roots, the feeds of Winter-Cherries, Parfley, and fuch like ;.but if you would have the blew Colour to prevail, there ought to be more of the Pémpinel rosts then of the reft. Experiment 5. If you:take equal parts of the blew Pim- pinel roots, and of the Herb Sun-dew, and mix them together, and then put them into Spirit of Wine, there will flow from them, diftilled byan Alimbeck, a Liquor of amoft pleafant Sea-green colour, the blew- ifhne The curious Diftillatory. 59 ifonefi being refratied or broke by the na- tive redneft of the Ros Solis, or Sun-dew, Cauiion 1.' No waterith Liquor will extract the Sapbirine colour of thefe Roots, but it ought to be a Spirituous Liquor 3 but the beft way of allis, with Olezginoys Li. — quors, by reafon of ‘the refemblance be- twixt them, and the Rofinous juice of the | Roots. _'This is further to be added, if you pour Oy! of Citrons upon thena, they will prefently after a lietle ftay fet fall ' their blew Colour. Secondly, The difullgcion’ in thefe Ope- rations is not to be too gentle, for then the Liquor will be wbhite,but a little brisk, and fwift ; fo at firft the Liquor will be of a blewifh white, but the latter will ap- . pear of a perfect s aphirine colour. Thirdly, This Blew colour ( as you may obferve in the two former Experiments ) is not fo very lafting, but that after three or four Months it will degenerate into _yel- lownefs by degrees, but it will endure the longer if it be kept out of the rayes of the Sun, and in a cool place. Fourthly, Thefe Roots ought to be ga- : thered in the Spring, Summer, or Autumn, and to be kept all the Winter: for the con Roots, as well as the frefh, are fit to produce 60 ‘The ctwious Diftillatory, produce this Phenomenon, or appearance: although by very long keeping the Blew jtice‘is diffipated, and after the manner ~ ’ of other Roots they become ufelefs. Fifthly, Sometimes we fieep the very frefh gathered Roots, only in Oyl of Tur- pentine, and have obferved that the day following a Sea green, not a Blew colour to | arife : And although we afterwardsadded ~~ atriple proportion of Water, and by fits ~ fhook it ftrongly, yet the Oyl which fwam at thetop, remained of a Sea colour, = _ The curtous Diftillatory: 61 VEOH ALP. | XIV. OFC Cinnamon, 1 Y elon of the difficulties,and length of Navigations, there hath been re- dated both by the Ancient Greek, as well as. Latine Authors, many uncertain, and alfo fabulous things concerning Cinnamon. And from hence, heretofore there hath {prang, {fo many controverfics amongft Botanifts, about the differences and iden- | tities of Cinnamon, and Cannella; which — quarrels will be cali ly determined by reading, of the writings of latter Az- thors. The moft noble fort of Cinnamon is the Cannella Zeilanica, ox the Cinnamon of Zei- lan : the next to this, is that of Malaver, — or Java: the next is, the Peruvian. Nor mult we pafs. by the Clove Cinnamon, or - Clove Bark, fo called from its taft, which in this Age begins to be brought to us from the Sowthern Provinces of America, called Guiana. | But 62 The curious Difiillatory. But the Hiftory of Cannella is above all ethers moft exactly defcribed by Guliel- — mus Pifo, cap. 1. and 2. of his penile Aromatice, which he hath defcribed and ~ annexed tohis {plendid and neat work, De Indie utriufque ve naturali atque Medica. Printed Anno 1658 at Amfterdam. 1 confefs I was not a little joyed when I~ turning over this Volumn, firt beheld the Cut or Figure of the intire Cinnamon Tree: having been troubled at’ the negligence, fhall I fay, or ignorance of the reft of Herbarifts, for almoft every one of them in their Commentaries,have hardly afforded us but one Leaf, with a Berry, with a {mall Pipe, orStem. Moreover, becaufe this Author, as Johan. Fobnftonus (who follows his fteps in his Hit, Nat. de Ar- - ; boribus, ) isnot to be found in every bo- dies hands,and that befides there is hardly any hope left, that this Tree will ever be procured to gtow in our colder Cly- mat: Therefore we efteem fo much of this Cardinal, and moft fragrant Spice, that being led by the example of Pio, Thave caufed its Efigies to be ingraved, and that it might be the better known to our Countrymen, have taken care. to in- fert it in this place. But ee VO So Sienin ie Feet al a y ahs ay 4 yf) Ts: & gee ; / ; t | = a! | = ge \ > a t > - 4 Z > “2 { Za 4 £ E a A EA i AE tm OE torrie ee ee ee a et ee a 64 The curious Diftillatory. But that we may draw-nearer to what ‘s __-we defign,- there is made of this Bark a _ Water to be had in the Shops; which if | you reckon to be the firft of Aromatical, — ot fpicy ones, you will not be mifiaken; for it is £6 cordial and friendly to the Vi- tal S: pirits, and doth {> powerfully expel — Wind in the Stomack, and Guts, and alfo isto grateful, and pleafing to the Palate, _ that it leaves other Spices much behind ‘it. They are wont todiftilit with Wine, . or without with: Borage Vi Water: ~either » way that which firft difttls over the Alim- beck, is of a Milky ‘colours. ‘But this Milki- nefs is hardly native, or true, but doth proceed from the Oyl, with which this Spice doth abound: which being difperf- ed through the Water in {mall Particles, caufeth a Milky colour: And if thefe, as it were. Atomes, hall by length of time be united, “they will be carried to the top of the: “Liquor, and there will “thew themfelves {mall Oyly drops of a Golden colour, leaving the Water clear: although that Oyl, if it be fomewhat more plen- ~tiful, doth’ aially at lat ‘fall to the bottom. ee | Parag aot ie, ’ Nor Sorat so Oi ae The curious Diftillatory. 65 Nor ought this fo to be interpreted, asifthis milky Colour were only pro- per to Cinamon water: for it appeareth alfo in the Water: of Cloves, Nutmegs, and the reft of waters drawn from Spices. Buti thought fit to name Cinamon above the reft, becaufe, as we faid alittle before, it doth | excelother Waters. And allo, becaufe it. is more oe ufed. hd ‘where. cl F .. CHAP. . te eS NA ten - “*S 66> Thecurious atorye> . 4 : ei aks ; | Pe 4 i Wi hie iginarp ee of 4 Ye cybh Qyrk® Bewgeoy ~~ a iS pee are sae | Ox OP. Oi elias hie He Whi | : ara "4 4) vit } at Red HF Bx tyr d bok EDA > ee é ; Lyons goin = Rie opp ee mn Pees mace. y a IDE GARI SS J ‘ j a Wbsey Gs O49 weak Rj anya Vi C HAE o 2 CV RS op a : - rs ‘ eo ae e ‘ Y anim fie) gia Dw ovens pal ' - | - 5 bee | ERS i RIV ee: Of Gorrals. ae ae a Vue S ’ 5 at Sed ; bot Ans a ¥ eae | 2 pid ey 4 y ‘ e os t “etHereare thrée Kinds of Corrals : Red, AB Black; and-White. The Whitemay — alfo conveniently be diftinguifhed into branched, ftarred, joynted, and that which © is warty, ox knobby. There is alfoa fort of Corral which is Red without, and Black, within. But thatwhich is prifed above the reft in Medicine, is the Red called the Male Corral,of which Pedac. Diofcorides. lib. 5. cap.139. Thus: Seg Corral ts a Shrub, which drawn to the top of the Water growth hard prefently, and fwims, and as. ét is Sana with aire it concretes, or bar- dens. Much of it is found, in a Promontory by Syracufe. . The name of which is Pachyno, The moft commended is the Red fort,of the Co- | lour of a Daffidil fialk, ,or of the deep coloured Sardix or Orient bright Purple. Being of along and round figureeafy to break, and of alike hardnefs in every part of it : again,it is of the fcent of Oreweed, or Sea-grafs. It iz very full of {ial branches,and is like in form to the Phd ciyious Diftillatery. “7 _ the Shrub’ Cinamon. The like defcription to this Pliny hath tid. '32.. Hifto. Natur. but that “he erronecoufly alledgeth: that thefe _ Berries orlitle Balls, which: are worn for sornament.about womans Necks, do grow _ of their own accord on this {mall Sea tree's for it is fufficiently known at this day,that they are made by Turning; and that alfo mightaswell have been known heretofore, | Of the fame reddith Beads; ‘is to be under- ftood the: moft antient of Poets,Orpheus,in _ his peculiar verfés of Corral, in which he _ elegently profecutesthe vertues of it, and _ the Fables of it alfo. | Concerning this bright {parkling Cor- | ral, whether-or no the truetin¢cture of its genuine Colour, can be extracted, hath been’ already examined :. The Solutions made with Fuice of Lemmons, or of Bar- berries, although they delight us‘ with a falfe fhew, yet they will not anfwer the thing defigned: Neither alfo will thofe Liquors whichafter abftraction remain of a Red Colour in the bottom of the Veffel. | Of this fort may be feen many Proceffés or Methods in Anfelm. Boetiys, lib. 11. Hiftor. Gemm. & Lapid.cap. 154. But many more _ in Fo. Lodov. Ganfius Hiftor. Corral. caput 7. Alfo amongft other late Authors. - The i F2 bufinefs 68. «Theietveious Diftillatory. bufinefs confifts'imthis point, that.a rea- fon may be.{héwed, how withoutthead= — dition of any fiafpected thing;:there may — -be drawn eithér' by Alimbeck Or Retort a > ‘ ‘Red Liquor from Corrals; thatis, aGenwine and true aalimists iy betcoss aero dart to IEOTIVRD MHIIE t UOTSELUE ef ee ai rh » Expirement ts! pais = The oancibed Jos iy Ganf i. (5.8, doth teftifie that it was fomeétime oitbril bythe famous Phyfitian ofthis time, Fac. _Luingerus, Thata Tincture might bedrawn — by diftillation in an Alimbeck, ifthe Corral being made intoa very fine Cale. or Pow- der, and being well digefted with Spirit of Wine, it: be, diftilled nine times, firft witha gentle diftillation, afterwards for- _ced-over. with a. vehement “heat, fo that the Vater will come forth firlt: Leow, and — atlaft Red;, wich is believed to be ab Rinses: olf: 13 + abotailok | i Nig © Eaperimen aPisscter , “The fens Grafins A in the! fatne chap. feds-164 hath this: following. { Let: the wder of Corral kecalcined) with i Spirie fiSale «- atben wath he Cale with diltilled. | repel water, a ee) & Thecuriows Diftillatory. - 6g: water, | that the faltifhinelS ‘may, be taken)! away. After which extra it,by adding | Spirit of Wines «Let the extractions pous- red back again upon the:Corrals be diftil « led. fo Jong till the Tindtre afcends by. the: | Alimbeck,; From this feparate' the Spirit) bya Balaes.:\ Note in this place that whati 1s extracted, isalways to becirculated ten: days {pace :\ and: after each'time to be co- bobated, -or, poured back again, and di- filled. y3-1 1s This is tobe doine fix times; saliways da ding new Spirit. The Red Colour is {aid to. come forth in| the fifth diftillation, and in the fixth.a Powder peer Red wil remain at the: bottom. xperinet cae A coaiis te this way, sis Stbsit: ofc Con! ades Kunrathin his Medulla Diftillatoria; | Tradi, 19. written upon: Corral, which | therefore at this time we ewill not baba pera bee leave, Bprouchied. | ds ae | | Experiment ne Daniel Siastrtise lib. 5. “infllte: ‘Medic. | page 3+ fect. 3. cape. ie laies down the fol- | F 3 lowing 70) The cartons Diftillarorys a Jowing ways Let Corral diffolved int Vi-* : negar be impregnated withSpirit/of diftil-~ led. Vinegar. till the Sale ‘wilbyeceive no more of that Spirit» which is: performed * — thus :. To: one pound of Corrals, addtwo ounces of the firongeft Vimegad, and diftil- — it:gently, there will only diftibofrom: it _ an infipid phlegm.‘ Thefécond-time ‘add. to the Corralnthtee:ounces of Vinegar,and ' difiil it again,and fo proceed every'time, adding of one Ounce of Vinegar more than’ formerly, and: continuing “this,*fo long, - till the Vinega? diftil as fhar'p, and’ ftrong,’ from the Salt of Corral as’ it is putuponit. — Let the Salt ito impregnated: be digefted’ for thirty days in Balaeo\ Marie, or aBath’ of hot Water, and afterwards diftill it | ina clofe Reverberatory, by a Retort, but fo that the Phlegm may be réceived firlt byit {elf}; ahcdkithen. the) Wbite Spirits by themfelves, tillall: the Spiries‘are comé forth, togetherswith amOylyRed as Blood, This Spivitcis'to be reciéfied by an“Alimbeck | and the Red Oyl will remainat'thebottom. | But this Spirit poured upon freh Corral doth extract a Red Tindinre like to Gum Lacca, which if it be again freed from this Spirit by ditillation, and the*Corrals - be joyned with Spirit of Wine, or fomée Cor= . @atwol ¢4 dial ™ The cnrions Bipillacory. 74 dial Water, and by diftitting,and cobobation, it will be made volatile, and wil then the TinGture. of Coral. ooo 01 bye é , ‘ - Pacey - 2 : Ton t hs : rr eite h) : eee | 44.6 GEIDSS9I ees ARQSIL ATROT | § viohtib pee hy eee Experiment $e. oo ro f ! 7 Re te » VEAMIE A) pA D4 4 . — Alfo this following is a compendious way. Take of Red Corrals three ounces, and of Sugar half a pound, being finely bruifed and mixed, diftil them in a Re- tort, and you will fee a Red Liquor to come | forth. a © But ifisnot to be doubted concerning thefe Operations,that this Rednefs is hardly ’ due tothe Corrals: but is more owing to the Spirit of Salt, Salt of Vinegar, Sugar, and the like additions: and much of it alfo to long digeftions. Info- much that” thefe~-fort™ of “Tinttures; are rather to be taken for Analogous , then Genuine, until the Fates grant — us the true one.. And truly whilft I am writing this,there is come to my hand the Epifile of that moft excellent man . Drs Foel Langelot (chick Phyfitian of the Duke of Hol/feen, my moft Noble Friend. ) De: quibufdam in Chymiaz pre- termiffs, wherein the fets down an hi- therto unknown folution of Corral, Fo4- . which “The curions Di iillatory. der (ast fafped i is performed: by | Oyl of Citrons ) doth firft mollify the — hard Fragments,’ and afterwards doth _diffolve them into an exceeding Red . Mucilage, or’ flimy Subftance, a after- — wards (as may be feen ) by pouring on of Spirit of Wine that is’ Tartarifed, it — will g0 alfo . into” an enseeing Red 5 indure, : = webs i P " ; ‘ os | ~ | _ CHAP. aid ts, M panels <= / rus : ' ree i : ° 5 — | The curious Diftillatory. 73 "CHAP. XVI. V, 1 he GConcluf on: Containing three 6 gid of Obfervations. since we have fpoken | aohéemning Co. ) Tours emerging, and refulting from mixture inthe fecond Chapter: we fhall not feem to wander from the’matter, if by way of Colophony or conclufionywe produce ~ alfo by way of Example, the various ef= fervefcencies,and incalefcencies of things, to- gether with their attenuation, and coagula- tions, Thefealfoare Chymical, and afford much light towards the Knowledg of Na- ture, and ofthe differences of Acid, and Vrindus Salts. As alfo it will eafily appear. from hence, which Szline Spirits willeither fuffer themfelves to be joyned to each o- ther, orrefufe it, Which Dottrine, asie. contains’ under ‘it the foundation of fome of the moft noble Operations, and is not commonly known toall men: So uponits own account it feems worthy to bean nexed toour Diftillatory, by way of Man- tiff2, or overplus. Obfer- Obfervations- sebsting to sie or prodution of heat. id To begin with thofe things beft known: $i Icis well known to the common: people, that if Water be {prinkled upon, Quick- Lime, it will excite fromit ‘both: “heat, and Sinoke: :» which Operationis, by-| BrieksLayers, and Plaifterers called Pakings 08, extangeill 7 ng; of Limes 2° os: os) ort of ses 2. If you moiften with Atsackartit, ‘the blings of Irons, Copper, or Tiaa,\ the Glafs | | in-which it isdone will grow.fo. hot, that you can {carce hold itin your-band, there alfo afcending at the fame: time plenty: of F Fumes. >. - ~3. Almofk the like effect dott follow, if you poure the Gauftick, Wgter, upon, Quickfilver,.., Lead; ior Marcafite, » » But. as to. what relates to the more portect. Metalss Lyna,or Silver,doth ftronghier refit Aquax Fortis than the imperteat Metals.are wont to do: \but Gold, doth -plainly,, elude i its force,: except Sal Armoniack be added. a : 4+ Youmay.alfo obferve ani exagitati- on, if you pau nic Fortis HBO: Salt of Fartar. 5: Pout Fountaia Water upon raed Vitriol The curions Difiillatory. 95 -Vitriol, ‘whilft it is’ yet. warm, firing i it foftly ; and you fhall perceive it to wax vehemently hots The fame will happen’ if you pour Water upon any Alcalizate, or ed Swale whilftit isyet Hot. 6. Diftil drop be drop of the § Spirit é Vitriol, into thes It, or the Oyl of Tartav prepared | per deliquium, and there will be caufed a crackling noife: which being fini- fhed there ‘wilt appear a coagulum which iscommonly called Tartarus Vitriolatus. ' 7. Mix the fame acid Spirit of Vitriol,or of Sulpbur with the Gall ofan Ox ‘( which is filPd with its own native Vrinows Salt, ) |: and you ‘will prefently perceive them to fight. But the ebullition will be much ftronger, if you mix Gall with Aqua-fortis : infomuch that a great difturbance will follow it, and a White fab, will arife a great height tipo in 3. If of Genuine Red Oyt if Vitriol: se ‘Spirit of Turpentine be fhikted togethers the Glafsdoth begin to wax {o'very hot sthat it cannot be touched by naked:hands. © 9. Neither doth ithe Spirit ‘of Salt Ni- ‘tre, ot Peter willagree with the batter. of “Antimony, ‘but thefe two Liquors being mixed together, are feen rather like Ene- mies to hght between themfelves. 10. I ee! their contrary Salts... « —almoft infociable, \ upon the ‘account. of ait. To this place belongs the Obferva- tion of Regnerus de Graffin hisBook.deSuc- co Pancreatico, p2g.60. which he lays down _ - to this fence : We took, fays, he,Oyl of Tartar perdeliquinm ens paige it into Cows Milk, after which we added afmall quantity of Spi- rit of Vitriol, and prefently there arofe an ef- fervefcence, and that. of longer, continuance, than if Milk had not been addeds... Whieb difironcy fame to depend xpon, te ifidty of the Milk: this effervefcence will not proceed fovvll, if you put the Spirit of Vitriahent te Milk before you put in the Oyl of Tartar, ( to Wit, ) becaufe of its aptnef to be coagulated By ibe Abed... saith alee ihe ial nd oa ts $ ”” Obfer- > Thecurious Diftillatory. 77 i Sepang Hotbot. do p ae Obfervations of Attenuation, and of: s 1 20 a Coagulation, 200 1. Wecall Attenuation;when a folid and Groff Body, isrendred thin. and fluid : but the contrary to'thisis called to infiffan, thicken; or coagulate, when fuch things which of herititives are fluid, and thin,ac- guirefirmnefand fubfitence,and are thickned, either by the means.of Coagulation,or Glas ciefcency3i(that is, freezed or made Ice.). or elfe altogether Lapidificated, or turned into Stone. which Phyfical, or natural afs | feetions above all others. are moft fre- _ quently known not only in the Apotheca- ries Shops; but allo in» other Mechanical Arts : wherefore the whole Spagirical Art is by many believed to: receive its name from diffolving and congregating, or com= pacting together, for whichreafon thefe two qualities (in our opinion) juftly des ferve a peculiar confideration.: . 2. When the Apothecary prepares De- eoctions, or Infufions, and° the Cook makes freh Broth,by pouring on of Liguids: grofs and denfé bodies are attenuated, and their nobler: parts extracted.) » There is the like reafonin Fuleps, or emulfions, and . 3 the 78 The ciriois Diptillarary: the reft of saree in a aa 4 form. . 3. Thus we die the bodice, ao all dry Salts, are melted and attenuated, by ef- fufing watry Liquors upon: them:/’From- : whence thofe: Solutions. called, the. Simple . | ones, of which fort for Example’ is ‘that of Vitriol diffolved. into . Fountain Water, which being mixed with the infufion'of Galls produceth Ink, of which: ‘mention a ismade above incbap..2.. 2") 3 4, Relating tothis purpofe -are: pate the corrofive Solutions made by Caisftich aters, upon the folid’ compage of »Metals. For Gold by its {malleft parts doth fwim in A- gua Regia,’ {o that, that whichif left to it {elf ftops the tharpen fight > from looking, into, it prefently changethits:Species,and Texture, and i diaphandus, or tranf= parent. the fame Gold, and the reft of the Metals will fuffer themfelves to be fo-attennated by the Fire, (by as it were a certain -cor- rofion) that they will-flow like Waves of Water : which fofion truly unlefs the thing were fo common: as it is,’ would hard] be believed sip oe as were ara of it. } ¥ Al- 5. Nor! is it JefS to be wondred:: at, that : Thecurious Diftillatory. 79 (06, -Alablafter, and Gypfum, ot Plaifter of Parit,may be burned as they do Lime ftone, as iscommonly knownsand it is par- ticulatly afferted by Anfelmus Boetius, lib. 2.deLapid & Gemm.cap.269. But whe- ther or no the following Experiment be much'noted, I know not, (and therefore will fet itdown) Caft'into a veffel of |. Bra, or Ivon with a Flat botom, Alz- blafter, Orin fiead of it Plajfter of Paris, very finely growird, and fifted) fome F pounds weight : Apply Fire toit by degrees, even tothe utmott height. And you thal! fee this Stony Powder to put on the form of a Liguor, and to boyllike Waves, {ending up White Vapours, refembling Smoak 5 moreover if youthen ftir it with a Stick | you will not find it to refift the motion of your*hand, like Sand, but to yeild like Liquor : which thing truly doth produce nofmalldelight, to the curious Spectator, as Mr. Boyl doth witnefs of himfelf, in his | Hiftory ot Fluidity, Sect. 18. where he ad- deth more zotes, and cautions upon this ‘thing. ~ 97, It isalfo atyxeipnoss, of a fhecies of attenuation, by which Salt of Tartar is dif- folved into’ a Liquor per deligniam: And among{t Natures works, itis an Ileftrions Attenue — 80 The, curious Difillatory. Attenuation, by which the thickeft. Ice of Rivers in the Spring time is diffolved by the heat of the Sun. vinod 8. But that we may alfo come to the Phenomena ox appearances of Coagulation, amongft thofe which are beft known is — that of making Bread, whilft the Bakers — by mixing Water with Flower or Meal — coagulate it intoa Maf&, to makeBreadout of. The like, but more compounded — work,is that of the Confeétioner, who mix- . eth together Butter, Sugar,. Ege, and di- vers other ingredients, 9. But there is hardly extant a more — domeftick, or familiar Example, than the | coagulation of Milk, .whether it be perfor- med by Calves, or, Lambs Runnit, or by "juice of Limons, or by fowre Ferby, Spirit of Vitriol, or other acid Salt: by which means the fluid fubftance of the Milk fepa= rates it {elf from the whey, and fuddenly © joyns together into a cheefy Maf. 10. In the Canary Wlands they thicken, ( by boyling )_ the fluid juice. of Canes and Reeds into innumerably ufeful, and moft {weet Sugar: Andon the con- — trary, in the Mfland of Succotra, they make Aloes of the juice of a Plant, which is fo exceeding bitter that it is become a nick- name, | | is 4 - The curious Diftillatory, . 8i - mame, for other bitter things: [ You will Mave a large - account’ of coagulations: of - _ this nature in the Philofophical Effay of Petrification, written by the Tranflator of this Treatifé, and printed Anno 1672. | Nay without Art, or Labour, Water is converted: into Stone in divers dens, — And to omit other Countrys, the Cave called Bakmanm’s Cave, not far from the Mountain Brutier in the ‘great Foret of Hircinia'in Germany, in which not only Waters are turned into ftony Icicles, but alfo there is found a wonderful company © of the Bones of Animals, but from what Original, or how they came there, is yet uncertain. | wi uli Eleventhly.. But as to what concettis Minerals, If you mix the'beft Urinow ‘Spirit of Sal Armoniack equal: patts, with the moft dephlegm’d Spirit of Wine, they will fet; or fall to the bottom of the Glafs inthe manner of Icy flakes, or rather like Snow. For whilft the Acrimony of the _ Armoniack Spirit is blunted and mitigated, by the fweetnefs of the Spirit of Wine, the -_ eriffed, and fharp pointed Particles of the Salt falling to the bottom, and others falling fill upon them, they reprefent the form of Snow. | SSC ee | G Twelfthly, 8% 4 Thevciivious Diflillarorye wel fiblys, ME ‘Spirit of :comman' Salt-be | ‘ined with; the Acid Spirit of Sal Armo- “niack, ( not:'with'the Sait Urinous‘one.) — ‘then. atcirft the anixture:wilbgrow hot, — and prefently:it\will be trowbleand: thick, and at length it-will begin to:conjoynto- — eather plainly inthe formrof Butters, 2 - Dhirteenthly; If therebe mixed together pl parts of highly rectified Spirit of ‘Wine; and exquifitely dephlegin’d Spirit of Urine, they will coagulate (-by agitating — them’) ina quarter of an hours: time: _ fin, into the. form of Snow, andoailittle _ after, into ajolid Mafs. Butunléfs:both — the Spirits be freed from alll Pbleym,; this _ bufinefs will want fuccefs: As\Mr.Bayl doth -prudenitly admonifit in‘his»Hiftory _ of Fluidity,and-E irmnef, Part 2. Secte3i2. The curious Diftillatory. - 85 _ of Brutes, hath long fince been declared _ by us, in Clyfmatica Nova, cap. 5. , __~ But, moreover, we have tryed many | things upon Humane blood whilft it. was | yet warm, and newly drawn out of the | Veins by Phlebotomy: obferving that by /inftilling thofe Mineral Spirits, the Blood _ hath undergone various mutations: of _which kind: are Ebzllitions, ( or boyling, | and bubling, ) Attenaation, (or becomming _ thinner,) grumefcence, curdling or coagula- | tion, and the exaltation or heightning | of its colour, or the obfcuration, darkning | _ or hiding of it,, and many the like varia- | tions. But before Humane blood, let out | by opening a Vein, do lofe its beat, and _ begin to thicken, there’ ufeth to {wim upon it a Liquor, heretofore taken for Bile, or Choler, now efteemed its Serum, or Whey. Certainly it is not fo bitter | that it can deferve the name of Gall, or | Choler: neither is it fo thin thatit alto- gether deferves to be called Whey, or Se- | rum. If it be taken-up gently in a Silver | Spoon, and without the mixture of the bloody fubftance, if it be held a little ~ while over warm Embers or Coals, it will be coagulated like to the white of an Egg | boyld, both as to its fubjtance and eolour, G 3 and 86 The curious Diftillatory! onal is alfo. almoft like it in! tafte. ‘AS to? - what concerns its colour, Lhavetaken no= | tice of this differences that in many ‘it is perfectly white, in othersiit is palife, in” others it tendeth towards. yellownef >’ which variety may . depend either from’ the temperament, ox from the healthy, andi | infirm flate of the Body, ox from thofe’ things which are received into the Body,’ | (for it appeareth that fome: portion of: the Cone is not. changed altopactier into { Blood Dion If you put in of the pe Mineral Spirits by drops upon this Ghylous Serum: put into feveral Veffels, there: will alfo” appear various Phenomena, ‘which will be’ _ ufeful for a carefyl Phyfician to take no-: tice of. In thefe kind of examinations, our very much honour’d Collegiate, that’ excellent. maa . Dr. Godfredix Leifnerusy when he was living, did lately take much’ pains, who, himelt writ thefe following) Obfervations, and a little before he yielded: to Fate, communicated them to me to age ciyulpeds in this Place, ioeer Obferesin ai we Me N. N by birth oft Clive of shiney! "years The curious Diftillatary. 87 —-years.of age, he was Scorbutick, had.xed | Spotssand Pyftils in'hisFace,a heavinefs and wearinefS.in his Foints,.and a. numnefs; | a flufhingin his Face.after drinking trong ‘Wine, ox ftrong Beer, or the Swalbafver Spam Water, and was obnoxious to bleed- _ ing Gums, and the like 5. after having ta= ken Pills uponthe 28 day, of Fuly, 1671, He was-det Blood in the left rm, and had about feven Ounces taken from him, jiat I three Porringers. ‘ The Blood was very. hot in its lowing forth: the,day before.-he had. drank Wine largely, .after which he was'cold, his Blood haa much Serum, and. the grumous and curdled parts were very, red, and would eafily be divided. by'@ Twig 3 in the bottom it was ot a bright Bay, colour, the Serum poured off, was of the colour of Lee, like Urine of a Citron colour tending to red : It was divided into twelve Difbesjand the Liquors being mixed with it, things appeared thus.,_. sae: Fir, With Spirit of Nitre dropt:on it, it prefently coagulated into.afubltancelike. Cheefé, from the top to the, bottom ofthe Liquor, in that fpace.the, Spirit wagdropt into: This Card was. mbite on the top, but towards the bottom yellow like Sul- phur,the eft of thes eee wimming about 4° it 88 © The curious Diftillatory. it was clear, but dropping in Spirit of — Nitreit alfo became of a Cheefy fubftances ~ fome of the Liquor which remained,poured _ out clear like Water, upon inclining of the © Vettel SOL I CORR le ces Sa Secondly, The fweet Spirit of Nitre be- — ing drop’d on, made no alteration; but © after a fhort time, the upper half of the — Liquor grew altogether clear, but the lower half was a little troubled, yet fo, that there could {carce any difference be difs _¢erned but by curious Chymical eyes, 5 ‘Thirdly, Spirit of Salt did” prefently pervade the Liquor, not only in that place — where it was drop’d in, but through the — whole circumference of the Liquor, and — about the bottom precipitated a white com _ agulum, but not flife — ~ 2. ae Fourthly, The fweet Spirit of Salt did trouble the Liquor a little, but in a fhore — time there was afeparation made like the — eream of Milk, which fwam at the top. — | Fifthly, Spirit of Vitriol, did precipitate -_ a White Curd equally fromall parts to the bottom, almoft Analogous to the curd made with the feet Spirit of Salt, butthianer. ‘Sixthly, Aqua-fortis did altogether ae | gree with the Spirit of Nitre, both inthe whiteneh of the Curd, its yellowifh bottoms, : mllisvok’ and The'chirions Diftillatory. 89 andthe clearnefs of the Liquor which was left uncoagulated.. Seventhly; Spirit of- Subplsr: converted, the whole Liquor intova white coagulum, sf Curd, exceptafew drops which were ‘cert. - Eightly, The Chyffis :(or the S ulphureous acid Spirit of Antimony ) being dropped in, precipitated to the bottom: of the Li- quor. a Curd,which was on one fide White, and Cheefy, and on the other fide tranfpa- rent, andlike a Jelly. . | | Ninthly, Arcanum Nitri ( that isthe So- ~ lution of the Salt of the caput Mortuum of Aqua-fortis,or its red Earth left in the bot-. tom of the Retort) dropped in, at the be= ginning it did prefently fall. to. the bot- tomof the Liquor in which’ it was put > nor would it be mixed with it,: fo that it. might be very well difcerned from it, but _ after an hour or two, the Liquor was of an © higher Colour, and there fettledinthe bots tom of the Veffel a troubled Sediment, which upon flightly fhaking of the Glafs united again with the Liquor, | Teathly, The Salt Spirit of Sal rise niack, did introduce no alteration at all in the Liquor, neither in its Colour. nor in its. confiftences Elewntbly 90 Theicirions Diftillatory, © Eleventhly,) The fixed: Liquor sof: Nitre; did thicken aia trouble this: Liquor, and — precipitated ‘to thé bottoma certain Sa/- zifh Curd, the: Liquor whigh fret at = top was very: clears © wai 5 Nagas bis vA - Orfiatin Zoo IVvitdd | ks Toitng ate sre was 5 dsfignded of confimptive Parents, and was himfelf con- Simptive, Cwithmauch coughing cafting out. both Blood,and Matters) aVeinibeing opes ned there was taken from:hitn about eght Ounces of Blood: The grumious Blood was! of a florid’ Colour, Thin, and had much. Serum, which being poured out into little: difbes, it byought off with it from the top: of the Blood a little: rednefsy this. fubhi ded: and fell to the bottom ina days time. 1. Spirit of Nitre, And: f 2. Sweet Spirit of Nitre, both produced: the fame effetis,: as in the former Obfer- vation. 0 3. Spirit of Saledid tliefaifiey " but iwith: this. differencey»that the Coageclum was. more Phlegmatick.on thie — bids a tanh as if were a ite hone ye t 3 mek , alae + The'enrious Dipiillatory, oe ge The Sweet Spirit ‘of Salt, did the fae as inthe former cies but the Cream was thicker 3 eis of Frio And Agna-fortis, did the Phi asin te Sines bfervation. | | 7. Spirit of Sulphur made a Coaguliim like Spirit of Salz, but a little thinner, and more like Felley. : 8. The Clyffas madeé. a, | white and hk Cura 7 9. Arcanum Nitri.. And weer 10. The. Salt Spirit of Sal Ari. niack, .And — i. The Liquor of fixed Nitze: did the fame as in the former Obfervation. 12. Spirit of Vi erdigrece, at the firft drop- - ping into the Glafs did make the clear Li- + quor to look Milky, and afterwards did makeno further change. ‘ Obfervation ee Mr. N. N. Splenetick, pee Seorbitick: afflicted with a Vertigo,’ or Giddinefs, and a firaitnefs in his Breaft, upon thé 27th day of July, Anno 1672, was \ctblood, the Blood was good,and had much tincted Serums rr The curious Diftillatory: ‘Serum, into which’ the following things were dropped... 1. Aqua-fortis, from which there wasa cheefy and white~ ‘concretion, . the, Serum — which{wam at the top was pales. this Co- agulum was not diffolved, by. dropping into it Spirit of Sal Armoniack,. e 2. By theClyfus there was madea white Curd, which fellto the bottom, but was les | tenacions, ortough. . Spirit of Nitre, made a Coagulum _ dike “Agua-fortis i in all things, and ‘when more Spirit was putin, the Serum wasal- moftall coagulated. — } 4. Sweet Spirit of Nitre, made. no alte- ration at all. 5- Spirit of Salt did equally precipitate a white Curd to the bottom,like a Felly,and of a pale Yellow Colour at the top,leaving a Liquor that was fomewhat paler above it, 6. Spirit of Vitriol, did abfolutely the fame thing, excepting that the Liquor which {wamat the top, did remain fome- what more tincted. (7. Spirit of V erdigrece made no change q Wt ais”: 8. The Spirit of Sulphur - made the fame Coagulum with Spirit of Vitriol, . fe Polemanus’ 5 double Spirit ,didthe fame - with The curious Diftillatory: 93 with Spirit of Salt, excepting that the Co- agulum was a little t icker, and lefs _ white. 10. Arcanum Nitti; made a troubled bottom, but the Glafs with the Liquor be- ing fhook it was exactly mixed again,and _ noalteration appeared. “Into this mix- ture there being dropped’ one or two drops of Agua-fortis, it produced a milkie curd after the ufual manner. 11. ‘The Liquor ‘of fixed Niétre alfo made a troubled bottom, ‘and fhaking the glafs it was exactly mixed again, but dropping in ‘Aqua-fortis there wasan ebul- lition made, and much Spume, or Froth raifed of a Sulpbureous colour, but nevere thelefs nothing was precipitated. 12. Spirit of Sal Armoniack, prepared with the Bloodjtone, did not thicken thé — Liquor, butionly a little heighten the Co- lour, a.drop or two of Aqua-fortis being added to this, prefently made a milky curd: but a greater quantity of Spirit of Sal Armomiack being poured uponit, it was again diflolved with {mall bubbles, and inttead-of theCoagulum there remain- ed as it were a little thin tranfparent Phlegm, » | Obfite 94 3 The curious Diftillatory. oo ees oh Sie METESth 4 wae | Dae? -, Obfervation 4. enw muss ho! Thefe were inftituted notin the Serum, but in the clotted. blood it {elf.To wit Mri WN. N. after he-had {pit blood forfome years, fellintora {pitting of Matter, with — an-inordinate or.irreguiar Feaver, after exhibiting of Medicines, and’ chiefly of Adftringents, the thirtieth day/of Mayhe a intoa large Hemoptifis, or {pitting of blood, he having been afflicted before ie with a weightinefs, and,wearinefs\of his Joynts: upon the firk of duguftthis Symp= tome was urgent again,and he caft up much ‘ & oy Se * 4 . + R 1 hah” aco ey ae Ses poe) ll toes y : CPE Ved a} 9 bate fas i? bs _ The 2d day of Augut after Midnight, his fpitting of blood was verpurgent, only he perceived his blood which he threw up: to be shotter ,whilft it was inchis mouth: it was.neither.. pair id matters nor Salt..as eretofore.’.- E.commianded to take about. our. omtees of Blood, by opening) a: Veim in the Right Arm,.-, "Fhe Blood which was — let out was taken'in, two Silver Dihes,and appeared black even whilftit wasflowing forth: it-had little Seram,{carce twoidrams; and that of a Yellow Colour. The clotted bleod had a floridred circle about it, the ye | middle = coe < f : (Thercurious Dipilltoty: 895 anitdangpane: was like theskin ofa Jelly.To this blood, being wéll dyed swith {ponpy Brown Papers thefe following thirlgs were applyéd. « oy Ri oh sil N XG tee | | 1. Ob dtop oF Spied oP) Nite) di prefently.and fooner thaninthe twinklin e ofan Poe sale white fpot: upon and that-not Uperficially, » but cones deep, and: very whites! io 82.00. 2. Fhe Sweet oo xf gees midens changeiat alle 3. Spirit of Salt, didi more fowly: nae a eee ‘afd'that lefewhite)-and les deep. The red Circle of the blood itfelf, and th circumference of the drop, were both black. 4. Sweet Spirit of Salt, at the firft did _ nothing, but after it had ftood fometime upon the Liquor it did alittle diffolve the outward skin of the Blood, and made a holein it, and rendred the blood under it, (in whichit was contained) ofa livid fle fp Colour, {pottéd Wik Marble. 5. Spirit of Vitriol did flowly make a pick a little whitifh. 6. Aqua-fortis did {wiftly aad imme- _ diately (with fome Fume) make a {pot altogether agreeable with that of Spirit of Gali Fe Spirit 196 The'ctevious Diftillatory. _ 73 Spirit of Sulphur, made a Spor like | that of Spirit of Vitriol. 9 8. The Clyffis ptoduced : avwhite Spot: 9+ Spirit of Verdigrece as toits effect a- igteed with the Smeet Spirit of Salt.) 10. Arcanum Nitri, food: upon the ; Blood in its own.circumterence, after- wards it made'a yellowith fpot, and ren- dred the skin'of theBlood thinner, fothat it might eafily be divided by atwig. 11. Spirit of Sal Armani: made no change, or {pote:y 42. The Ligue of Fixed) Nitre ren> dred the Bload mach Redder atid eer q ARS ‘Thescurious Riitont. ” wie sieht Bara fom bun seo $} the’ UN BY “a ald ii beter Grun-W alden- fin-Stone. i ) as ha ote WY ORIUDRRUTI yg O% Ah Hilion ee ss Oger: 5 0 AE? lin 1h8 ve: | ale nis shivehe snes ‘ Noble, “ee «Excellent . Do@or,, Chrif ianus fess jonncellar., Ea. EAgef SPhyfitian torbe oft Serenc the, + leétor of Brandenburg, ,.: hath. 20 : ead, erage PRregiONS ne \ a Experiments :.Byfyat alfo. whilfe \ thesBook map, wrt Erle fixe | oun theme tome ing. Lette es be: ag aes nach tarvards, ie Wi OEE YcbX BES MH BH veritas Dit wo kanya zhonghe fee 0 fib ign the - By mway of Adatie@ l19 Vad a 424 UE We) appt. on) NYRR OA ‘ft 98 The vat Noble and tof Expe rient sr, eh soot W | : phe demanding oy would Fr, | OS SS Pitt es of igre ‘ cad he Novos eh Be ODES. | Bunk “omitring Am elon camer to ih 1663 si2 the Month “of (Mays xear the NV ood commonly called Der. Grunwald, ‘by the help oft Shepherds Boy, who kievp the place, ‘and fhewed tt pis. “This Stowe eéithins of Metals, ‘icon, and er t ai of Métalline Juices, ‘Sulipha: , dal Vittiob: “which are bid re 2 Golden Markafite,” with * phic his Stone abounds. This Markafite therefore twhich: 7 Greeks calls Py- ‘ites? Tipurated rom dhe‘ rept of the the Stone, and having Peduced it £7 : ‘Powder, ai lved. oP much. of it as I told in Aqua-fortis’: “T° put the Solution te Sand to bdipirate,, and | there vemainentin the otto A, ‘matter hak vas fines spongy iY am ‘Of \a vel lowith’ alphur C rye a federal ete faint mitter I po sick S “x Some Spirit o Wih re) ‘that I wale diffoloe, and dige? ie: ‘ana be- Liold all became ‘inammedsately exceeding Black, - mil beau Hoa 2. Upon ae noo Tetons Difilitiry: rans. Upon: another, partofi this Mat- } (Rekacdidtops Oy Oyl\er-LiquorofTar- | | ahi? forme. sitio avideprefently i Ree gated neriaha as Mag a de bay ‘ jah and ate sgcdat a fsid ing, Philereds a ink a Aetna ak of Su a a with ; | * tove + 3 cailet, bl od: Co a Blended ible ; ii 4 Ruby, gad an{parent, there-te- Pik Se sathe, bott ma el aod eeimeas.. aity Me tat haan senre, | «4 Ko this Ruby.co ped Ligue | i saded ie 4 S, 0 4 tig of Sil, | ver s nade ile wand : Bi fr % iat seca pea fs e Sel nF : SON et SER tom Tike seisthe tbe I " re * ds 24 A 4 5 ‘ My 5 ; oN 3 AMA Baas > i) >t Tae : | : Se ry Be ons rcs ame Pree re 7s, * ¢ | 9 ; ‘ u ey SB eager Corsini , ;| Pas : ‘ ay : sigy 4 RAY. = > i a | ¢ v4 PANT it5 bo hae Poh % q gine omen de ws thai “Adal on to She Shut ee concerning ‘a...Diuretical. Tin- Aire: scommonly cal- ~ Jed the Solar Tincture, As alfo.a fingular Experiment concerning ‘Tyles; propofed in a‘Ivetter'to me by the Noble - and Excellent: Doster we ine © Marchius, Sey Moft Noble ‘and Experienced Sie, My’ Friend and Seeking much | | | _ to: be Honoured. : "o A Frer that a litle wobile 88 ince, (according to the {i ngularcivils- ty with which you abound, )you permit- | ted 466 The ctirioud Dillan? ted me to read your Curious Dittilla- ‘tory, ones now fweats under the pabsitie bg saan Fray hegante ‘ayn wld mn a | Beco emo, ich aoke 4 Ome elation to -thethin Bs OM aes of: And beboit pdr i dame Bn tutecay mld) perhaps aes omell yell eajown sere ff. 1) i sledge Ri that eg ‘ ant shin Po Poolta Fyemem- ‘Ger. rightly: in, beth of them there comes.a Golden Colour wer the’ A. fimbeck” in owe of them in-the form of a: ‘Spiritadus Liquorizthoother of 7 | themivbaringiethe farm of 4, Salc, fifficiently Volatile ; Toe Knope wore thy Sir,jow from the M ineral oe un- gatian Antimony; .Nitre, ana the like, (ebiely eh ari ne q as are thought tob UILErOUS» or to - containe Gold, ae accor ing to. the opinion of fone nect,\ Sal. TAtHo- niack aifoy) being yxe cheney be: 5 ad \ ¢ Wis" 4d, NOP eve AA FC i - Shy The enviows Diftilatory. 107 ther,” and'caft into a: certain. infirm ment, by the help of an“open’ Fire, there ts drawn that fiffitiently cele brated Liquor againtt the’ Stone,’ by — manyhighly commended allo ayainft dé- vers objtruttious, and impurisies of the Blood ; which that it fhines in its firft diftiliation witha Golden Colour will hardly procure admiration'to any one, frnce it 15a trae Solution of the Salt _ and Sulphur, expelled from thefe diffe- rent Matters by the violence of the “Fire; as alfo u0 man wonders that Spirit of common Salt isindued almoft with.the fameColoar byt fiitbereai- fiedby aRetoxtswith 2 miderate Fite, it will be diftovered how mach' Corpo realSalt if containedsand this rectitied Spirit of Salt, will be abnoft Dia- _ phanous, avd without Colour. But ‘concerning our almoff Goldith Colour, Thave often taken notice that being res tife'd more than once yer it brings ae a" wit bg The curious Dipillacory: ith it felf the goldith Tingture,.at, shang; dt, bet, quite. [a.deep. as - before whichis 4 figa. that the. Salt awd - Sulphur, ; (are. more fe m ly. tinted, er te 1m ‘ a ‘ | | a he ta a at Ce > ip. Ay qi oe ce bg wwe: : Ta bn ‘ y LH ¥ ihe Gcher rtd which. I 7 offer» is not fo.commonly. knows, nor have I happened.to read of it in th writings of. Chymifts : CUETY. body knows that baked or burat. ry Sant of areddih colour throughout, which C 07 four foonld any man have told. Hn ‘here- tofore, that tt were feparable, f from them, A fhould haye. given i asauch credit to tt,...as to thofe who. goutend that th e Tindburey. or red. Colour. may : s feparatad fiom Corals ;. which 4s tothe Colour, as tt is a Naked q quar litysl hold to be- impolfible bles 2. but in re Spect of. "ome certain proportion of fub- Reatiias matter (which I eRe we Ww ee Phe curios Diftillaory. soy be the chief Subje be eo Colony) which may be taken on of the Corals, iby certain Menftraums;'* to \aecdunt thatthing impoffibleis neither well nor trues Iehappned (as Nhave kriown't texperience) thatthe tufty,, or rathe syed Qolour with which the Tyles\ére singedthroughout maybe fo feparared — \from'shem, shat nothing of it wilh be ‘Lefty orvemain in'them. <°-Twas\about to prepare'the Volatile Urinots’Spi- ritiok Sat Atmoniack;° 2nd’ therefore ‘took ascthe cnflomsis;a: Lixiviate Alcaly: im the an ogee of tt by which means Lobtained a ‘pound\ or twoofiSalt,: compofed of both: of them, to wits ‘the: Alcaly3iund' the’ SaliAr: amoniatks from which being defikeas todvaw.a Spirit, I did after the moft ufualMethodmin: it with threetimes - Gtsweibhtof PowdenofTyles, and attempted to driue dwerthe Spititrbya Retorgés enaked \Fireybus Laid yot othl ONG : ob/ ain q10 The, wirions Diftillacary; obtain, what I would bavi sad there diftilled but. very. little ee but at length there drofe’ Conporeal wid Volatile Salt, 09 fuch proportion, tit. almofh filled upthe Neck ofthe Retort, for wbich caufe: tt would at bafirbreak dtofineheffitys: Thé Retore — wherefore being taken out ofthe Fite, To bferved the. Saltizo be fublimed : ; éntothe Neck aad the uj nek ara eI Retort, 20a it! was: Tietcd« q _ Saffron, Colours :and the Powder of the Tiles whichwasleft,.\mas, dépri- a ved of ‘all.its Goloury and wiasslike bes. Which eethatting ofthe Co- lout by. an Alitnbeck trom a2\body | whichhadsi ndured! ‘fo Great aftrefs — \ ek Fire before, Asiités ae) Experi- ment worthy cinfideration: Sotsbe- - dievie, Noble Sixst# wilktiot be. Wagrate- fal, af it beoadded to yous Exxperi- si Farewell And as\youshitue . sean excellently done, Studythe publick \ Ac publick Good, and advancement of Learning, and continue to Love ee m | - Yours Berlin Ready upon all Friendly roth of —”. eecafions, March, Caspgr Marcuius, ) Anno. — ~ Door,Counfeller, 1674. and chief Phyfitian to the Elector. END, The curious Diftillatory. 1110 I a if aoa tn seo } a . : és . va cme a ell aod need + npitftyd ph bea rahe x iki oe - sepa ie a 44 rcs , 5 : ae ans hie nil dialenigifilicertle oh be i! F ‘Me ‘ Bera fap ri ? 1s ; st « ‘ ' » { is “ha - r ‘ i ee Be i Gt te ae af Sa e at oe ps iad)