Boyle WorkdiariesWorkdiary 31Page 3 of 3
zoom inzoom outrestorefirstn/apreviousn/anotesimageeditorial

Loading Image

Into a kind of hepar then powder it finely & put to it 4 times its weight of acetum Minerale which will draw a very red tincture from it cohobate this aliquoties['o' altered from 'e'] & [ 'it will' deleted] the hepar will be dissolvd & cease to be inflameable.

{Recipe} {pound} i of agstein with a slow fire draw from it [ '[t][unclear]' deleted] about 3 quarters [ 'of' deleted] or {ounce} 12 take all that is ellevated (the {caput mortuum} being useless to our purpose & puting it into another Retort distill it over againe per se 12 or 14 times seperateing at each time <& casting away the> [ 'the' deleted] phlegme but haveing a great care in all these cohobations that you never distill off above 2 parts of 3 at furthest for if <once> the remaines should at any be [ '[approximately 4-5 characters]' deleted] burnd they would be reduced into a kind of [ 'Cool' deleted] Cole not to be [ 'dissold' deleted] dissolvd by the same liquor [ 'or to' deleted] (thô it may be by acetum Minerale) soe that heareby the operation would be spoyld which if well made would unite all the usefull parts of the concrete into a noble mass whereoff a small [ 'pill' deleted] pill will prove very anodyne safe and benefitiall.