The Works of the Highly Experienced and Famous Chymist John Rudolph Glauber: Containing Great Variety of Choice Secrets in Medicine and Alchymy in the Working of Metallick Mines and the Separation of Metals; Also Various Cheap and Easie Ways of M

Excerpt from The Works of the Highly Experienced and Famous Chymist John Rudolph Glauber: Containing Great Variety of Choice Secrets in Medicine and Alchymy in the Working of Metallick Mines and the Separation of Metals; Also Various Cheap and Easie Ways of Making Salt-Petre and Improving of Barren-Land and the Fruits of the Earth<br><br>In the Third jhali he taught a certain new invention hitherto unknown of di/lzlling Burning Spirits as of Wine Corn Fruits Flowers Herhs and Roots as alfo the Waters of V egetahles and Animals and that in a great quantity in a fhort time and without much cojls; as alfo of hoyling Beer Mead Wine and other things which otherwife are made in Copper or Iron Ve?els and all this hy the help of Wooden Vefils and henefit of a certain fmall Copper or Iron in/lrument of two or three pound weight and that after a certain ea/ie manner without Furnaces. This newly-invented Art doth al/o'' teach divers Chymical Operations as Putrefallions Dige/hions Circulations Extrac''iions Ah/hrac''li ons Cohohations Fixations sic. And this invention is very nece?hry and profitahle for young hegin; ners in this Art for they need not in the mahing of hurning Spirits Waters of V egetahles Extrafls and other Medicaments [0 many Furnaces and fo many Copper Iron Tin Earthen and Olafs Vej/els for it is here taught how all the aforefaid Operations may he done onely hy the help of a certain fina/l Copper or Iron ln/irument in Wooden V e?i''ls as well as hy Alemhichs and other great Copper Ve?éls hy which means a great deal of C o/is is faved.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases an imperfection in the original such as a blemish or missing page may be replicated in our edition. We do however repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.