Workdiary 35 (editorial transcript)

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[BP 25, p. 75]

Take Regulus of Antimony & {sal ammoniac} ana, pouder them very finely, & haveing exquisitly mixt them, sublime them by degrees in a strong & naked fire, then take as much Nardium as the wholl sublimat amounts to mix them well together & put them into a shallow vessel like the cover of a pipkin & laying that upon the Coals, keepe the matter continually stirring 'till most of the salt be evaporated, & there remaine a purplish powder, of which the Dose is 6, 7, or 8 grains, tho more may be given. It works per diaphoresin, & sometims givs a stool or two.

Take sublimat & Tinn ana, distill them together pro more, with a pritty strong fire, reserve the smoaking spirit for its particular uses, the remaining Caput Mortuum mix very well with its weight or double its weight of fresh sublimate, then distil it again by degrees of fire W deleted giving <yet> at length a vehement & lasting Heate, that you may have a copious sublimate.

Take eight parts of the menstruum siccum & one of the Indian salt, melt them very well together & deleted (being first finely pouderd) & then keepe it for use.

[BP 25, p. 76]

Take muceolum one ounce reduc'd to fine pouder with deleted by the venereal way, to this add eight grains of Tura & as much Azot, as you please, let them calcine together with a gentle fire 'till no more will be consumed or fly away. Dissolve the remainder in faire water & proceede [secundum artem]

Take one part of {iron}, three of {sal ammoniac}: sublime what will come up in a gentle fire, then with the {caput mortuum} grind Barachid & sublime the mixture with fresh {sal ammoniac}: & with the sublim. proceede [secundum artem]

[Rr] in the     space of 4 characters essay the Cementation of Tinne with fileings of {iron}

And also the union of butter with the double & yet simple oile.

[Rr] there the reduc'd Calcination of {silver} & its feculency.

Explaine the Process wherein the two vinegars made of liquors without the help of Fermentation are anaticaly mingled & imploy'd to draw Tinctures.

[BP 25, p. 77]

Explain also the process wherein halfe an ounce of the Chaos at a time, being prepared but with halfe its weight of {mercury}, this {mercury} is to be put upon fresh materials, and upon the more the better. Tis afterwards to be elevated in forma sublimati with ormum, and then ground with fresh Chaos whereby it is each time revivd &c

Mix the undistilld deleted unrectify'd oyl & [Spt] by shakeing them very well together, and then <let> the Patient smell to them, or touch or nostrills with them, or sprinkle a few drops of the mixture upon her Head clothes.

In Dysenteries Dr N. gives new milke for the only sustenance, but alters it with boyleing sometimes a little Rice in it.

Take one part of muciolum deleted muciolum, one of {sal ammoniac} & 2 of Baracle, haveing mixd the first & last lay the other upon them, & increase the fire by degrees till at length you make it very strong for some hours. Take out your odd kind of mass & by keeping for about 3 weekes in a briske heat reduce it to a reddish Calcinatum.

[Integral marginalia:]
March iii

To one pound of the Mercureal medicine of deleted pro pauperibus add as much of Glaubers universal salt, as much Albada calcin'd and six ounces of ormum, these being united by sublimation <are>replacing 'ought' to be mix'd with a pound of the matter that afforded the above mentiond medicine, and then be nimbly distilld over, that all that is not fluid may remaine behind, which may afterward be melted & imployed againe.

In the Anonymous Butyrum the oe was <of> a pound & a deleted half but 6 ounces of the Coagulating and impregnating Ingredient.

Distill together equal parts of good verdigrease common {sulphur} & chrystalls of Venus made of Aq. fortis & the l deleted apply the liquor that will come over to the part affected

An Ingenious acquaintance of mine being taught by me to make Helmonts Elix. Propriet. my way gave 16 drops of it to one that had an ill condition'd ague and in 2 or 3 doses cured the party.

[BP 25, p. 78]

Powder Quicklime & {sal ammoniac} a part, mix equal Quantitys of them per minima deleted with nimbleness and then by powering water on them & the mixture deleted make a Lixivium, which being filtrated & evaporated to the consistence of an oile is to be applyed in the quantity of 2 or 3 drops to the navel.

[Rr] the metalline [expt] to be made with oil of Sage distild without water

Take 20 parts of Urin, power'd off after it has stood some days to settle dissolve in it 4 quarts of Quicklime, 2 of san deleted Cendres, Gravelleep, & as much oake ashes, boile or evaporate about a third part and filtrating the rest keepe it close stop'd for use.

Take of fileings of {iron} and of Durca ana, keepe them in Cementation in a good Heat for 6, deleted or 8 hower, (if not more) & then cupel the deleted melt the mixture with a strong fire & cast it into thin plates, which being ready to melt on the cupel, (& if they doe melt, 'tis never the worse) <cast>replacing 'thrust' on them Lead 'till nothing remain on the cupel but the {iron} in a shining forme & then take it off haveing mixd it with an equal part of Bavarum and <of> Muciolum, proceede with it [secundum artem]

Take of the mineral to be fluxt 3 parts, of {nitre} & {tartar} ana one part mix those three (first separatly and finely powderd) very well together, and putting them into a strong Crucible, keepe them in a good fire for about half an hower, 'till they be sufficiently melted down & flow well, then take off the Crucible and lay it by for a while: and lastly breaking it whilst 'tis yet hot, separate the Regulus from the scoriæ & proceede therewith [secundum artem] partly upon the Cupel and partly by measure &c.

[BP 25, p. 79]
A Continuation of Chymicall
Receipts from the 25th of March

Make a white Calcination of clean Tartar & pure christalls of {nitre}, with this & an equal weight of {sal ammoniac} make an Urinous [spt] & then dissolveing the {caput mortuum} filter it through Cap paper, & let it gently evaporate 'till you obtaine a salt of which the dose is 15 or 20 grains to half a dram to be given in a fitt vehicle at a Convenient time.

Take of the lapis albus well prepar'd by the fixing salt {drachm} ii Borax {drachm} iiii christalls of {nitre} {drachm} viii, Granats {ounce} i, pulverize these <finely> mix them exquisitly & then proceede [secundum artem]

Take 5 or 6 quarts or pints of water and as much good quicklime as may make a strong Lixivium of it, when the stones have been a while in the water, fling in havecorrect reading is half a pound of the species ty'd in a Linnen bag that the liquor may have acceasse, & the Species not get out. Boyle the bag in this Lixivium for 4 or 5 howers, & then take out your matter which you will finde to have been much wrought upon.

Take sallet oile & dissolve very well in it about a fourth [BP 25, p. 80]part of good chandellors Tallow when the Ingredients are exquisitly incorporated remove it from the fire & keepe it for use, which is to melt a little of it & rub it whilst it is warme & it preserves the steele.

Take <a pint>replacing '{ounce} i' of the appropriated oile, & about as much Bitumen as you can well dissolve with it, which may <perhaps> be about {ounce} i, put them together into a bottle well stopt, & keepe them in hot water, but yet not quite so hot as to make the water or the deleted boile. This doe for some howers, shakeing the mixture from time to time till you perceive the liquor is richly impregnated & will scarse dissolve any more of the Bitumen: then straine it & lay deleted when 'tis cold lay it on with a pencil upon wood prepar'd with whiteing <ground fine &> put into a strong size over the fire, & when they are well incorporated strained hot through a Cloath & afterwards laid on warm.

[Integral marginalia:]
March 27

{Recipe} the Aqua liberans that is made with Quicklime Sarsaparilla, Raysins &c & let the Patient drinke of it 3 or 4 ounces at a time once or twice in a day.

For the external Hemorrhoids

{Recipe} Frankincense & haveing put it upon a Chafeing dish with coals & ashes in it, let the Patient sit over it for a good while that the fumes may come to the part affected.

{Recipe} Regulus Martis, the Spanish Mineral and as ustum ana calcine each of them a part with its equall part of Sulphur then mix them very well together & calcine the mixture also with its equall weight of Brimstone, then put on it the Menstruum made <or>replacing '&' strengthend with {sal ammoniac} and in digestionaltered from 'digest', followed by 'them' deleted draw (which you will do but slowly) a tincture which may be reducd almost to an extract or powder & employ it in the [BP 25, p. 81] Electrum Paracelsi made by equal portions of its two Ingredients

Melt crude Albada & the Respublica Acidorum & when they are just brought to fusion keep them in that state till you have by degrees exactly incorporated with them as much in weight as either of them amounts to of good Quicksilver, sublime this mixture in a double Cucurbit of unequall mouthes well luted together, leaveing a Spiraculum at the top, then give a strong fire by degrees for six hours & afterwards almost as strong an one as you can for 24 or longer. Take out your sublimate & keep the Caput mortuum for use.

{Recipe} Banama, Albada, & the deleted decrepitated salt ana, mix them very well together with a strong fire sublime as much as you can, then incorporateing the sublimd substance with Calx vive proceed [secundum] artem.

{Recipe} Decrepitated salt, calcind (or crude) Allum, & Tasapha equal parts, mix them well & keep them carefully stopt for use fill a pot with Calx viva, in it make a large Hole that may reach almost to the bottom, & fill up that hole with a mixture of powderd Calx & the body to be prepared reducd also to fine powder so that the Calx may every way surround the Body. Then put it into a brick kiln or some such very hot furnace & let it ly till the Bricks be taken out then throw it all into a sufficient quantity of warm water & dissolve as much as you can which being philteredaltered from 'filtered' must be evaporated ad siccitatem & then it will be fit for [spt] of wine.

{Recipe} Regulus of {antimony} finely powderd & h[ave]ing fluxd it with an equal or double weig[ht]tear in page of fixd Nitre that the salt may be tinged ex[tract]tear in page a Tincture with Alcool of Wine, of which give ....approximately 4 characters tear in page drops pro dosi (in a convenient vehicle) to ....approximately 5 characters tear in pagety the Blood.

[BP 25, p. 82]

{Recipe} of the Hollanders Lapis albus three parts, of Ormum three deleted two parts melt them together in a moderate fire till the bubbles & froth being gone the mass ly quiet & uniform at the bottom, then presently pour it out & keep it well stopt for use.

{Recipe} of the Unctuous Flux two parts of the Martial Ore one part finely powder'd, mix them together & keep them a competent time in fusion till the Metalline Regulus precipitate.

{Recipe} of Sand two parts, Ormum one part, Coramen a seventh or eight part mix them well together & haveing melted them down, proceed with the colliquated mixture secundum artem.

{Recipe}

{Recipe} white salt two parts, Tobacco pipe clay one part, moisten them enough to incorporate them well together, then take them for 3, 4, or 5 hours. Powder & searsealtered from 'searce' this mixture & with three parts of it, incorporate with as little moysture as may be one part of Tobacco pipe Clay, & according to art drive over the [Spt] from the mixture made in to Pellits.

For an incipient Gangrene

The part being scarifyed is to be well bath'd with subtle oyl or Spirit of Turpentine.

[Integral marginalia:]
Ap. 9.

{Recipe} the Calcinatum made of {nitre} & {tartar} ana philter it 2 or 3 times when 'tis very pure dissolve it in the Alcali Volatile philter it again, & haveing united the Calx first made very dry, with an equal weight of the deleted Calcin'd Bloodstone, add to an ounce of this mixture ad an 100 grains of very light Crocus martis & 20 grains of the best Lapis Lazuli, & then proceed with deleted with this Mixture [secundum artem]

{Recipe} 5 parts of Ormum and the Lapis Hollandi 4 parts mix them, & haveing put them by spoonfulls till <when> the mixturealtered from 'mixtures' flowes clear and with very few specks, which may be in less than a 1/4 h. w deleted after all is in, pour it out & keepe it well stopt for use.

{Recipe} Seasalt calcinizd, Sal {tartar}, & burtcorrect reading is burnt Allum ana dissolve the two first & then the last, boil them up to a dry salt, which keep well stopt & put upon ana of the Body you would transmute.

[BP 25, p. 83]

Take of Tassafa what quantity you please dissolve it in about 4 or 5 times its weight of the simple sublimed (not distill'd) Menstruum, Suffer them to foment together for a week or fortnight, which done, distill them by degrees in the fire in a vessell made of differing materialls, and giveing at the last a vehement heat, cohobat this 2 or 3 times, take deleted till the {caput mortuum} be feculent and inconsiderable, then place the distilld Liquor in a long bolthead in a boiling Balneum and proceed with it [secundum artem]

[Retrospective marginalia:]
q (margin, next to line 'chrystalls, in the temporary liquor')

Take Taquena that has been well satiated in the fire with good Sp. {distilled vinegar} and by that meanes brought over to be good volatile chrystalls, in the Temporary liquor whereof it was that the Ducats were dissolv'd and destroy'd.

[Retrospective marginalia:]
A Lute to Coat Retorts

{Recipe} two parts of unburn'd Tobacco pipe clay and one of burn'd, reduce them by beating and sifting to a very fine powder, beate them exactly with a little horse dung and more haire and a sufficient quantity of faire water (not salt water unless it be to be us'd presently) to the form of a thick unguent, with which annoint the vessell, and when tis dry annoint it again and dry it again, and so proceed 'till the Coate be sufficiently thick.

[Retrospective marginalia:]
To tinne Copper

(For Copper it must be soured very bright with Vinegar Sand and salt, and then dry it over a Charcoal fire and worke it presently over the same fire, make the mixture as followeth. Take lb ii of Peuter and 3 quarts of a pound of Lead and melt them together and run it into thin bars. Heat the Copper pretty well, and then throw in some rosin and then take in the tinn and rub till it melteth and then take a handfull tow and rub the mixture about 'till it taketh.

for brass use the same meanes, but then insteed of rossin we must use sandrimony 'till it taketh your mixture     space of 8 characters. For the Copper steele be a throwing in rosein 'till it taketh, and likewise sandrimony for the brass 'till it also taketh.)

Take the unrectified spirit {tartar} abstracted after 2 or 3 dayes digestion from the salt of the [Caput Mortuum] digest and cohobate them once or twice more and then proceed with the total solution [secundum Artem]

[BP 25, p. 84][BP 25, p. 85]
[Integral marginalia:]
Jan. 10

Make with Sublimat and Kursella a thick oil like that made the common way with {antimony}, poure upon this <pure> Sp. of wine till it swim 3 or 4 fingers above it, digest it for some dayes, and then destill them off for deleted by degrees with a heedfull care, and imploy the acidulous <(not corrosive)> menstruum upon Coralls &c.

To one part of calcin'd English Talck add 2 (or one) of Tacola, melt this fusible mixture with Durca and though they will not incorporate the Durca will be much wash'd and innobled thereby.

Take the white stone that Paracelsus commends so much <(I.E. white Pebbles>in pencil reduce them without calcination to fine pouder, put this in to an iron or other strong Cucurbit in a stoopeing posture, Let the head be of glass, give a very strong fire and dephlegm well what comes over < tis to make a spirit of R?oals.>insertion in line in unidentified hand

Take kursella very exquisitly calcined, and melt about 2 parts of it with one of Durca they will not well incorporate together, but yet the colour will be much improved, without makeing the body immalleable. < tis to make a new metal well coulered and not britle.>insertion in line in unidentified hand

Take very well calcind kursella, calcine it by casting in by degrees about thrice its weight of good Nitre, then mix with it a pritty quantity of pouder'd charcoal to facilitate the fusion, (which twill hardly be deleted 'twill be difficult and not absolutly necessaryaltered from 'necessira' to make perfect) after which you may take the reduc'd body and proceed with it as if it were Quatrum, by the deleted according to the same manner you may handle Vinetum Paracelsi. < tis to cople tin and Zinck.>insertion in line in unidentified hand

If you mix Tura or a little Cursella with Barakid you may with Ormum somewhat reduce it, but the best way is to keepe it an hour or better in a strong heat with 3 or 4 times its ....approximately 3 characters tear in page heat of good Dakilla well made and preser....approximately 3 characters tear in page from the Air < to reduce Lune.>insertion in line in unidentified hand