The Compleat Chymist

The Compleat Chymist

1677

written by Christopher Glaser

The Compleat Chymist, or, A new treatise of Chymistry teaching by a short and easy method all its most necessary preparations

written in French by Christopher Glaser, Apothecary in Ordinary to the French King and the Duke of Orleans.

And from the fourth Edition Revised and Augmented by the Author. Now faithfully Englished by a Fellow of the Royal Society.

Illustrated with Copper Plates.

LONDON,
Printed for John Starkey at the Miter in Fleet-street, neat Temple-Bar.


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“gold must first be dissolved in a certain water, as explained in my second Key, after the purification described in the first Key, and must be reduced into a subtle calx, as is mentioned in the fourth Key. Next, this calx must be sublimated by the spirit of salt, again precipitated, and by reverberation reduced into a subtle powder. Then its own sulphur can more easily enter into its substance, and have great friendship with the same, for they have a wondrous love towards each other. Thus you have two substances in one, and it is called Mercury of the Sages, but is yet a single substance, which is the first ferment.”

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