A new method for the improvement of the manufacture of drugs: in a treatise on the elixir proprietatis.

Date:
1747
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    17/92 (page 9)
    CHAP. II. Of the Elixir Proprietatis. J2ARACE LSU S, the Author of this Medicine, has afcribed to it moft extraordinary Virtues, as have mod of his Succefifors; and the modern Writers have fuch an Edeem for it, that we find a Method for preparing it in all the Difpenfatories in prefent On account of this great Credit it has gained, every Operator of Note in Chemidry, who has had Occa- fion to talk of it in a public Manner, has endeavoured' to improve it by fome new Procefs or other, by which they imagined the Virtues of each Simple would be better extra£fed, than by any Method then in Ufe ; but have all come fhort, as it is dippoied, of the Procefs 'which the Author of this Medicine ufed ; who, whilft he gives it incredible Properties, mod ungeneroufiy conceals Part of his Method, which has fet fo many People on the Search ; yet, if his Method were known, it would probably do little more than the fame Materials prepared according to the true (a) Rules of Art; that is, Rules agreeable to theTexture of the Ingredients. For this Reafon I have thought it worth while to make fome Experiments on the Simples of this Compofition, leaving the Reader to form fuch a Procefs from them as he fhall approve of. Before we proceed, it will be neceffary to inquire, whether Part only of each Ingredient, or its whole Subdance, fhpuld ba> dillblved in the Menftruum, fo j as [a) Non prorfus fruftra Paracelfus de Elixir Proprietatis —- fibi fifus eft, modo non erraffet in ejufdem pneparatione.” Van Belmontt Aracn, Paracel^