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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“ Put therefore the perfect bodies of metals, to wit, sol and luna, into our water in a vessel, hermetically sealed, upon a gentle fire, and digest continually, till they are perfectly resolved into a most precious oil. Saith Adfar, digest with a gentle fire, as it were for the hatching of chickens, so long till the bodies are dissolved, and their perfectly conjoined tincture is extracted, mark this well. But it is not extracted all at once, but it is drawn out by little and little, day by day, and hour by hour, till after a long time, the solution thereof is completed, and that which is dissolved always swims atop. And while this dissolution is in hand, let the fire be gentle and continual, till the bodies are dissolved into a viscous and most subtile water, and the whole tincture be educed, in color first black, which is the sign of a true dissolution.”
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