Antoine-Joseph Pernety, 1716-1801
1898
The secrets of the reverend Maister Alexis of Piemont : containing excellent remedies against diverse diseases, wounds, and other accidents, with the maner to make distillations, parfumes, confitures, dying, colours, fusions, and meltings ...
This is the first edition containing all the four parts and each has a separate t.p. The fourth part is 'Translated out of Italian into English by Richard Androse'
Notes
Pagination sequential but only right hand side of each two page spread is included in pagination. p283 is followed by a different page marked as as p283 instead of p284. That page is followed by p285
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“It is necessary therefore to convert the bodies of metals into a fluid substance; for that every tincture will tinge a thousand times more in a soft and liquid substance, than when it is in a dry one, as is plainly apparent in saffron. Therefore the transmutation of imperfect metals is impossible to be done by perfect bodies, while they are dry and hard; for which cause sake they must be brought back into their first matter, which is soft and fluid. It appears therefore that the moisture must be reverted that the hidden treasure may be revealed. And this is called the reincrudation of bodies, which is the decocting and softening them, till they lose their hard and dry substance or form”
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