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About John French's Art of Distillation
Book 1
- What Distillation is, and the kinds thereof.
- Of the matter and form of furnaces.
- Of Vessels fit for Distillation.
- Of Lutes, for coating of Glasses; and for
Closures, as also severall wayes of stopping Glasses.
- [Vessels for distillation]
- [Vessels for distillation]
- [Vessels for distillation]
- Now the way to nip up glasse, or seal it up
Hermetically is after this manner.
- [Equipment for this operation]
- An Explanation of such hard words, and tearms of
art, which are used in this ensuing Treatise.
- Rules to be considered in Distillation.
- Common distilled simple waters are made thus.
- This is for form of a common cold still.
- To make water in a cold Still that shall have
the full smell and vertue of the vegetable.
- Another way to make Water tast and smell
strong of its vegetable.
- To make water at any time of the year in a
cold Still without green hearbs, so that the water shall smell strong of the
hearb.
- Another way to make a water last, and smell
strong of its vegetables.
- To make the water of the flowers of Jasmin,
Honey-suckles, or Woodbine, Violets, Lillies, &c. retain the smell of their
flowers.
- A furnace with his vessels to distill liquors with the
steam of boyling water.
- The delineation of a Balneum Ma. which may also
serve for to distil with ashes.
- A water out of Berries, is made thus.
- A sweating water made of Elder-berries.
- The Furnace for a Balneum Mariae with the
Alembicks and their receivers.
- The effigies of another Balneum Mariae not so
easie to be removed as the former.
- [Vessels or alembics]
- In defect of a Furnace for a Balneum, you may
make use of a pot set upon a trefoot after this manner.
- Water out of rotten apples is made thus.
- How to make Aqua vitae, and spirit
of wine out of wine.
- How to make Aqua vitae out of Beer.
- How to rectifie Spirit of wine, or Aqua vitae.
- To make the Magistery of Wine, which will be
one of the greatest Cordialls, and most odoriferous Liquor in the World.
- To make an other Magistery of Wine that a
few drops thereof shall turn Water into perfect Wine.
- To make an Oil of Wine.
- To extract the Spirit out of Wine by the
Spirit of Wine.
- To make a very subtill Spirit of Wine at
the first distilling.
- By Furnaces and Vessels made after this insuing figure
there may be made four rectifications of any Spirit at once.
- The manner of Distilling in Wooden Vessels.
- [distilling in barrels]
- A Balneum and a boiling Vessel made of Wood.
- The Spirit of any Vegetable is made thus.
- The Spirit of any vegentable may sodainly, at any time of the year be made thus.
- To make any Vegetable yeeld its Spirit quickly.
- To reduce the whole Hearb into a Liquor which may well be called the Essence thereof.
- To make an Essence of any Hearb, which being put into a Glass, and held over a gentle fire, the lively form and Idea of the Hearb will appear in the Glass.
- The true Essence, or rather Quintessence of any Hearb is made thus.
- To extract the Quintessence of all Vegetables.
- An excellent Essence of any Vegetable may be made thus.
- Water or Spirit of Manna is made thus.
- The Chymicall Oil of the earb or Flower of any Vegetable is made thus.
- The Oil commonly called the Spirit of Roses.
- Oyles are made out of seeds thus.
- Oyles are made out of Berries thus.
- Oyle is made out of any solid Wood thus.
- To make a most excellent Oyle out of any Wood, or Gummes in a short time, without much cost.
- To make vegetables yeeld their Oyle easily.
- Oyle or Spirit of Turpentine is made thus.
- Oyle of Gummes, Resines, fat and oily things may be drawn thus.
- Oyle of Camphire is made thus.
- Another way to make Oyle of Camphire, that it shall not be reduced again.
- Another way to make Oyle of Camphire.
- A true Oyle of Sugar.
- Oyle of Amber is made thus.
- Oyle of Myrrhe is made thus.
- Oyle of Myrrhe per deliquium or by dissolution is made thus.
- Oyle of Tartar per deliquium (i) by dissolution.
- Oyles by expression are made thus.
- A vomiting, and purging Oyle made by expression.
- Oyle of Jasmine is made thus.
- To make any Oil, or Water per descensum.
- How to make an Oil and Water out of Soot.
- How to rectife Spirits.
- A Retort with its receiver standing upon
Crystall bowles just opposite to the Sun-beams.
- Another Retort with its receiver standing
in a Marble or Iron Mortar, directly opposite to the Sun.
- How to rectifie all stinking, thick black Oils that
are made by a Retort, and to take away their stink.
Images and associated text from Book 2: "Of compound Waters and Spirits"
Images and associated text from Book 3: "Of Mineralls"
- Spirit of Salt is made thus.
- A Retort and its receiver before they be set on worke.
- A Retort with its receiver set on work.
- Oil of Sulphur per Campanam.
- [Take a large iron vessel like a platter, over it hang a Glasse-bell.]
- Oil or Butter of Antimony is made thus.
- A Furnace for a close Reverberation furnished with its Retort and Receiver.
- To turn Mercury into a water by it self.
- The vessel for this operation.
- How to distill Spirits, and Oils out of Minerals, egetables, Bones,
Horns, and faster, and in a greater quantity in one houre then in the common way
in twenty four.
- This must be done is such a Furnace as this.
- How to make a Furnace that shall of it selfe
without any vessels which should contain the matter, being put into it, sublime
Mineralls, and distill all manner of Oiles and Spirits out of Mineralls, Vegetables, and Animalls, and that in a very great
quantity, in a very short time and with small cost.
- How to rectifie Oils and Spirits of Mineralls.
- [Vessels for this operation]
Images and associated text from Book 5: "A Miscellany of Spagyricall experiments and curiosities"
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