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Botanologia
Author
Salmon, William, 1644-1713. Other Author(s): Dawks, Ichabod, 1661-1730, Rhodes, Henry, Taylor, John, bookseller.
Date Added
10 January 2014
Language
English
Publish Date
1710
Publisher
London : Printed by I. Dawks for H. Rhodes ... and J. Taylor ...
Source
Botanologia
Alternate Title
the English Herbal, or, History of Plants : containing ... : Adorned with Exquisite Icons or Figures, of the most Considerable Species, Representing to the Life, the True Forms of Those Several Plants : the Whole in Alphabetical Order
Topic
Botany > Pre-Linnean works. Botany, Medical > Early works to 1800. Plants > Dictionaries > Early works to 1800.
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in like manner to more prepared Peel:. 6. Oils
from Spices. Bruife them grojly, (for Pouder:
yield le : 0H,) digeji them 8 or 10 Day: in the
Menlltuum you intend, adding Nitre, Salt, or
Tartar: then dijiil in a Velica, fo will you
have Water and Oil, which [operate : cohobate the
IVater upon the Fatces feveral timer, fo will all
the volatil Oil afcend : The Water referve to
make'ntore Oil with, . upon frejh Spice:. The
weighty Oil: (or of Cinanton) will feparate from
the Water, in 14. or 16 Day:, by hnlaing to the
bottom. 7. Oils from Aromatick Woods, as Cali,
lia Lignea, Cedar, C ptei‘s,1unipet, Rhodium,
Sanders Yellow, Salli afs, Xyloaloes, (7c. Take
their rafping:, or let their Chip: be exceedingly
well brutfed in an Iron Mortar, which digcjl a
good while in Water, then dtjiil by a Vclica : eo-
hobate, and continue di illing for fame Day:, at
length the noble odori erou: Oil will come forth
very fubtil and volatil. 8. Oils from Rolins,
Turpentines, fie. Add to them a good quantity
of Water, and dijiil by a Vehca ; h; will you have
. lVater,'and an Oil fwimming upon it, (whidh 011
is called Spixir;).continue the dijiillation, and by
degree: it will be Tellow; then change the Recei-
ver : Se arate thi: yellow Oil, and keep it by it
felf, di. illing till no more appear:. This is cal-
led Oil. "The Matter remaining, i: called Colo-
phony. 9. The Reaification of Chymical Oils.
They are retlified by di illing them by,a Cucur-
bit, or Velica, with mu: Water ; fa will the pure
atherial Oil thend, with home Water, which fepa-
rate. They are alfo rellified in a Bolt-head, with
it: Receiver, in which the pure utherial Oil will
afcend, the thither Subfiance remaining at bottom.
VII. B A L's A M S. I. The tiue dtference
between. Chymtcal- Oil: and Chymical Boyam: lie:
ehtejiy 'tn'two thtngt, viz hr]? the Oil contain:
the principal or chief of the fublime and volatil
partt. Secondly, That it, i: of a thicker Confidence
or Subft‘ance, t on the Bal am; which at thi: lat-
ter it left fubttl and t icker, [1 it i: more jit
for old Sore: and Ulcer:. 2. Hence it op ear:
that a: Oil: are the more thin, pure, and at trial
. partt, fit they "he hill in Diliillation, ram the
Matter they are feparated from, butt e Bowl”!
1‘: that other thicker Oily Matter, which by‘the
jhrce of a jironger Fire, afcend: next after the
fbrtner ”Va. athertal, volatil Oil '1': drawn of,
which as, it t: of a thither body, ht it i: am; of
a deeper color. 3: Balfams Chymical, are cften-
titner a1]?! made. tn Refltfration of Chyntieal Oil: 3
' when drawing of the thin, fubtil, volatil Part:,
or Oil,- the thick Baljam i: left at bottom. , 4. But
they are properly Balfaat: which (the thin Oil he-'
5713 drawn 0 tn o helica) are afterwardf drawn
from the Colophony by a Retort. ‘5. Take the Co-
[ophony rematntng after the Oil 1': drawn from
Rafin: and Turpentine ;. put it into a Retort, and
,1; i] with a gradual Ftre, 12th joht and gentle,
1 en greater, and fo encreahng the Heat,.till the
Colophon! har gtvenu all it: Oily or Bowmiek
‘ partr,‘ which will be of]; body thick and red. And
thi: i: that which it properly called Ballim,
which if it he relltfed again in a Glaf: Retort,
in a Sand-heat, will be much more fine and pure.
VIII. PO IESTATES, or POWERS.
1. Take the retitfz‘ed Spirit of the Plant, fuppofe of
Mint, or Pennyroyat,. a Pint; Chyrnical Oil of the
ante Plant, an Ounce, or [0 much a: the Spirit
will abforb, or fwallow up : mix them together,
and keep them fhr 14fo- 2. But if you. take the
fix! Salt of the fame Plant, and grind it with
on equal quantity of the valatil Sal Armoniach;
fubltmtng and re-fubliming fo long till the fix!
Salt ofcend: with the Volatil, and add 2 Dram:
thereof to the former mixture, it will be fa much
the more powerful to all the Intention: for which
the [aid Potejiate: are ujed. 3. And many timerfor
want Of the particular Spirit Of the Plant, who e
Power: you would make , the by? rel'lthed Spirit
of Wine i: ufed a: a Succedaneum 5 to which may
am; he added, if you pletJe, the volatilic’d Salt of
the [ante Plant, or a volatil Salt of Tartar.
IX. E L I X I R S. I. An Elixir i: the ful-
phureoue Tingure of arty.Vegetable, drawn out of
the dried Vegetable, (ground gt‘ofly with Salt of
Tartar in a hot Mortar) with the rec‘lihed‘Spirit
of the htme Vegetable.‘ 2. 0r thur. Talce any
dried Herb or Plant, beat it into grof: Pouder,
which put. into a Metro]: or Bolt’head 2 Take the
Power: of the fame Plant, fix Pintr; reliihed
Spirit of Nitre, 12 Ounce: : mix, and digeji for
.10 Day:, afufejo much of this Mixture upon the
former Pouder, a: may fupernate 4. or ; Incher :
digej? cold for 20 Day:, fhaking the Olaf: every
Day; then decent the clear Liquor, and keep it
for ufe. 3. But you are not alway: nceefhtated
to ufe Spirit of Nitre ; but may in place thereof,
'a: the nature of the Difeafe may rcgutre, talce Oils
ofSaIr, of Sulphur, or of Vitriol, and digrji with
the' Power: a: above direlled.. 4. Again, by Infu.
fan of any Vegetable (fuppofe Rofemary) in Pow-
er: of the fame, aeuated ; with Oil of Salt, and
Salt of the fame, you fhall have the Elixir thereof.
X. S A L T S. 1. Salt: ,Chytnieal are either
Volatil or Fixed .- And tho’ all Plant: have indeed
.a volatil Salt, yet the my: of them having but
little, and that little very dihfcult to he gotten,
Author: have taken little or no notice thereof :’
Thtfe which . really abound with it are hut few, of
which Beans, Peale, and Tartar, are chief. The
way of making their Volatil Saltr, we tall not
declare here, having taught it fully and at large
in their proper place:, in" the following Book.
2. Fixed Salt of Vegetables i: thu: made. Fir];
burn or calcine the Herb you would make a
Salt of, into white Ajher -, yet avoiding a too here;-
or hwy-Burning, leji, it jhould vitrijy. Boil
thefe ‘Afhe: in fair Water, to make a Lixivium
of them; which filter thro'jltring Brown Paper,
by help. of a Glaft Funnel. Thit jltred Liquor
Boil in a Gla : 15:02], with ,a gentle Fire, to the
conjitrnption of all the Water, [0 will the fxt Salt
of the Plant be left at bottom. :3. If the Salt be
not purely White and Fine, you only? d%lve it
again in more fair Water; hlter an coagulate by
an alyumption of the Water; which work you are
[0 often to repeat, till it i: freed from all 1,”-
purity, .and i: very White. 4. Theft alcaliow
Fixt Salts, are very apt to melt tn the Air ;
but if they be hrli calcined with Sulphur , 1';
much preferve: them from that Accident , and
make: them withall jtmewhat more gruff-y] to
the Palate. .
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