Four books ... concerning the secrets of the adepts; or, of the use of Lully's spirit of wine: a practical work ... so aptly digested, that even young practitioners may be able to discern the counterfeit ... preparations ... whether for medicines or metals, from true. Collected out of the ancient as well as modern fathers of adept philosophy ... / [Johann Seger Weidenfeld].

  • Weidenfeld, Johann Seger.
Date:
1685
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Credit: Four books ... concerning the secrets of the adepts; or, of the use of Lully's spirit of wine: a practical work ... so aptly digested, that even young practitioners may be able to discern the counterfeit ... preparations ... whether for medicines or metals, from true. Collected out of the ancient as well as modern fathers of adept philosophy ... / [Johann Seger Weidenfeld]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    V • N. Take of Cinamon, Cloves, Mace, of each two ounces; of Cheirus, Anthos, of each half an. ounce; of Amber, two drachms ; of Musk, five grains; of Zibeth, half a drachm; of Ginger, Cubebs, Nutmegs, of each one ounce and half; of Amomus, two drachms; of Zedoary, two ounces and half; of Grains of Paradife, one ounce and half. After Digeftion of them all, feparate, and keep the Matter in Glafs VefTels very clofe flopp'd. From the Dofe it felf of this Prefcription, it is manifeft that the operation is meerly Philofophical ; for if by Aqua vitas he would have under flood the Common Spirit of Wine, it would le altoge¬ ther ridiculous to give only five grains for a Dofe. We meet with many more Menftruums of this kind, which little differing from the priftine Nature of the Spirit of Philofophical Wine, were lefs ohferved by fome Adepts; wherefore Chriflophorus Parifinus, a Noble Sicilian,^0/^; not very much commend this acuation of the Spi¬ rit of Philofophical Wine. Some {faith he') have made {the aforefaid Spirit) acute with Vitriol, which way is very good ; fome with Nitre ; fome with Cinnabar; fome with thefe two, fome with all three ; fome with their Earth, which way dif- pleafeth me, becaufe a thick Un&uofity and ponderofity was hereby introduced; fome ufe Vegetables, as Herbs, Roots, Flowers, and Seeds known to you, which have flrong { Vege* table ) Mercuries in them; wherefore they that handled it af¬ ter this manner, augmented rather its VegetableEoYn\(Vnttuo- fity ) than that they made it more foluble. Farifinus in Eluci- dario, pag. 2,31. Vol. 6.Theat. Chym. For this reafon, Ripley fol¬ lowing the fame Mafler as Parifinus, believed thefe things to be covered with a Mantle of Philofophy ; for fo he writes in his Me¬ dulla Philofophix. Raymund faith , it ought to be drawn out from the Death and Fseces of Wine for the fpace of one hun¬ dred and twenty days, by continual rotation, in a Balneo of of the hotteft Dung, and that it mull be acuated with hot Ve¬ getable -things, as Piper nigrum, Euphorbium, Pyrethrum, Ana- car dus, Squilla, Sol at rum, Apium Sy heft re, and fuch like; for without the virtue of thefe tilings, as he faith, it is not fuffici- ent to difiolve Metals, except in a long time; but that nothing of doubt or ambiguity may appear, I fay, that all thefe things are covered and Ihrowded with a Philofophical Mantle: For his