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... #251323

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 Veflels 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 neceflhry 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 efli'ls as well as hy Alemhichs and other great Copper Vefléls, hy which means a great deal of C o/is is faved.