PRACTICAL CHYMIATRY | BY DR. JOHANN HARTMANN

...separated by a weak tritorium a vessel used for separating liquids of different densities. Let the spirit and the oil digest together for some time over a fire, then pour in half as much spirit of wine ethanol or high-proof alcohol and distill it several times. Together with the spirit of wine, there comes forth a spirit of soot original: "fp.fuliginis" and simultaneously a most highly rectified oil, possessing a scent like Camphor. Calcine heat to a powder the caput mortuum the dead residue remaining after distillation and from it extract the Salt in the common manner. Reserve this as a most excellent curative for ulcerated cancer. This Salt, once extracted with vinegar into a liquor, is dissolved again in a cold, damp place. Afterward, the cancerous ulcers are anointed with it once and again, and the poisonous nature is visibly drawn out like a vapor. Finally, the aforementioned oil, applied frequently with a light sprinkling, brings forth a crust like a small skin, which falls off naturally within five or six days, indicating the ulcer is consolidated.

The dose of the spirit is 3 to 6 grains. Of the oil, 2 to 3 drops are administered in wine or another suitable vehicle the liquid used to deliver a medicine. Three drops of it given in vinegar to a person in the death-throes original: "agonisanti" wonderfully revive and excite them. A sign of the poison of death From this, one may observe the prognosis. If a copious sweat breaks out after the oil is given, it is an indubitable sign of health and recovery; if not, it is a sign of death. If the common soot of our region is mixed with the soot of larch or oak, and then drawn out in the usual way, the corrected oil will perform greatly in cases of the falling sickness epilepsy and contractions of the limbs. It resolves fainting and swooning and strongly excites and strengthens the animal spirits.

Essence of Pearls. XV. Essence of Pearls. Take 1 ounce of the Salt of Pearls made with vinegar. Pour onto it the most highly rectified spirit of wine to a height of three fingers. Place it in a hermetically sealed vessel to digest in warm ashes for 8 or 10 days. In that time, the pearls release their essence like a thick oil into the spirit of wine itself. Separate this oil by inclination carefully pouring off the top layer with the spirit of wine from the dregs, and keep it in a well-closed vessel. Pour fresh spirit of wine onto the remaining oil and digest as before, collecting the essence as many times as seems necessary and joining it with the first. Put all the collected essence into a cucurbit a gourd-shaped glass distillation vessel and draw off the spirit of wine over a very slow fire until the essence remains at the bottom like an oil. It is given from 6 drops in a chosen conserve a medicinal jam or any decoction. This essence can be very usefully administered with the following mixture:
Take half an ounce of Melissa seeds, 1 dram of milk possibly milk-thistle or a similar herbal preparation, 6 drams of fennel water, 3 ounces of rose water. Make an emulsion, of which 2 ounces and 3 drams are given with 2 drams of the Essence of Pearls. Let 3 or more spoonfuls be given (one spoonful morning and evening, or at any time of urgent necessity). If this operation seems too laborious to anyone, he may express the juice from the discarded rinds of citrons and keep it in a MB Mariae Balneum, or water bath for several days to be purified. Then take 2 ounces of crushed pearls washed in white wine; in a matrass a long-necked glass flask, pour the said juice to a height of four fingers and place it in warm ashes for 8 hours. You will see the pearls dissolve and turn into a buttery liquor. Pour onto this distilled May-dew or Melissa water so that the solution of pearls is dissolved in it. Pour off the water and again pour on a sufficient quantity of the said juice, digest it, and remove what is dissolved by adding water. Repeat this labor until they are almost entirely dissolved, leaving only tiny dregs. Then join all the liquors together and allow the water and juice to evaporate over a slow fire in ashes. You will find an impalpable powder soluble in any liquid. Its use is from 6 grains to half a dram in May-dew water with distilled mint, or in cinnamon water with distilled rose or bugloss water, or with conserve of orange peel or citron flowers.

Liquor of Hyacinth. XVI. Liquor of Hyacinth. Take 1 ounce of powdered Hyacinth stone. Mix it with an equal weight of live sulfur native sulfur as found in the mine, not processed into rolls in a strong crucible covered with a lid, but not luted sealed with clay. Calcine it first with a slow circular fire, then stronger, and finally very strong, until all the sulfur evaporates and the powder taken from the fire no longer smells of sulfur. Then wash it diligently with common water and mix it with a portion of water of

prepared vitriol or salt of prunella. Calcine it in a circular fire until it turns into a mass with saltpeter, turning red like metal in the fire. Then throw it into warm water so that the vitriol is dissolved, leaving the powder of Hyacinth at the bottom. Wash it with warm water until it no longer tastes of vitriol. Afterward, let it be dried, and let the following vinegar be poured upon it. Take 6 pounds of vinegar, 1 pound of the ashes of the herb Kali glasswort or saltwort, used for its alkaline properties. (If the herb Kali is missing, let a vinegar of turpentine be made from vinegar and turpentine distilled together through a retort, with the oil and spirit separated from the water). Pour the vinegar gradually into the retort over the ashes so that it does not effervesce. Then let it be distilled in ashes and cohobated poured back and redistilled. Let the vinegar be made sweet three times, and not so biting, yet of great power in dissolving all precious stones. Pour this vinegar onto the powder, as said, to a height of 2 or 3 fingers, and place it in warm ashes for 2 days to dissolve, shaking the matter constantly. After 2 days, decant the tincture, pour on more vinegar, and collect the tincture until the Hyacinths are dissolved, leaving only tiny dregs at the bottom. Filter the whole solution and evaporate it to dryness. There will remain the Salt of Hyacinth, to be dissolved in simple water and coagulated several times until all taste of vinegar is gone. Or, sprinkle into the solution a few drops of oil of tartar made per deliquium by letting the salt melt in the moisture of the air; the Salt will be precipitated to the bottom, which is freed from all acidity by pouring on a quantity of simple water. Its use is the same as the solution of Pearls.

VINEGAR OF TURPENTINE

Vinegar of Turpentine
for extracting stones.
Take 3 pounds of Turpentine, pour on 3 pounds of vinegar, and distill in sand until a red oil rises. Then change the receiver, separate the oil of Turpentine from the vinegar by a tritorium separating funnel, and rectify the vinegar alone over Ginger.

XVII. Extract of Alkermes. Take a sufficient quantity of Kermes berries the dried bodies of the scale insect Coccus ilicis, used for heart tonics, let them be crushed, and pour on a sufficient quantity of rose water made slightly acidic with a few drops of spirit of vitriol or sulfur to a height of 4 fingers. Let them digest in a warm place for 4 days. Remove the tinted water, pour on more, and extract the tincture until the water is no longer colored. Distill the tincture in a water bath or ashes. The same extract can be made like other extracts with spirit of wine. Or, press the juice from the mature grains with a press; digest it for 4 days in a water bath until it becomes clear, with the dregs settling at the bottom. Decant the clear juice, filter it, and let it be thickened in a cucurbit and distilled by a water bath. Keep the distilled water and the juice separately. For these two can be joined in time of necessity to make a liquor. The same purified juice can be kept for use if it is cooked over a slow fire of ashes in a water bath with half its weight of sugar candy to the consistency of a syrup. Its use is from 1 scruple to 2 scruples.

POTABLE GOLD

Angelic Potable Gold.
XVIII. Of Francis Anthony. First, let gold be dissolved in aqua regia royal water, a mixture of acids that dissolves gold according to the art. (Aqua regia is made from 1 pound of aqua fortis and 3 scruples of alum salt distilled together through a retort in sand). Pour the clear solution into a large glass vessel with a wider neck and pour in drop by drop oil of tartar made per deliquium until the aqua regia becomes clear and white. If this sign appears, it is certain that all the calx fine powder of the metal has descended to the bottom. Let it sit overnight, and in the morning, remove the liquor and wash the calx with 4 or 5 changes of common water, and dry it over a very gentle fire.
Translator's Note: Be careful that the heat is not excessive, for as soon as the calx of gold feels the heat of the fire, it catches flame and vanishes into "potable gold" this refers to the explosive nature of fulminating gold, therefore it is safer to dry it in a warm room or by air alone, stirring it diligently with a wooden spatula. Add to the calx half a part of powdered sulfur, mix them together, and in a crucible over an open fire, allow the sulfur to burn away, using a slow fire at the beginning and a very strong fire for 1 hour at the end, so that the calx is somewhat reverberated heated by reflected flame and becomes very fine. Keep this in a well-closed vial for use.

Spirit of urine. Now let the Spirit of Urine be made: Take the urine of a healthy man who drinks wine. Digest it in a well-closed cucurbit in horse dung or another warm place for 40 days. When the time of putrefaction is finished, let the urine be distilled from sand through an alembic the cap of a still, using a sufficiently large receiver until all the moisture has been distilled. Let the distillate be rectified three times by cohobation from the dead head, so that afterward the spirits may be properly drawn out. Therefore, in a vial with a long neck and its alembic and receiver, with the joints well closed everywhere, let distillation be performed in sand, and the spirit will rise like a crystal into the alembic with no accompanying watery moisture. This distillation is to be continued until all the spirits have ascended. What comes forth by sublimation is dissolved by distilled crystal water and distilled from the vial as before; this is repeated six times, always taking new rain water. Then the crystals are placed in a hermetically sealed vial for 15 days and digested in the slow heat of a water bath until they turn into a most limpid liquor. To this liquor, add an equal weight of spirit of wine made from good wine and excellently rectified, and let them digest and unite together in a water bath for 12 days.

Now take the Calx of the Sun gold and pour onto it the menstruum solvent made of the spirit of wine and urine, so that it stands three fingers deep. Digest in slow heat until it becomes red as blood. The decanted tincture, collected several times, is digested in a water bath for several days (perhaps 8, 10, or 12). Then, by the slowest heat, draw off the solvent spirit, to be cohobated once more. There will remain a salt at the bottom of the cucurbit in the form of a very red oil or one spreading a sweet odor, soluble in any liquid. Therefore, this oil can be a substitute for the true Sun Gold. If you distill this same solution not in a water bath but in sand from a retort, after the first part of the menstruum, the rest of the tincture of the Sun passes through the alembic, red as blood, leaving in the bottom of the vessel a black, dry, spongy, and light earth. The menstruum itself, which comes forth in the tincture of the gold, must be separated in a lukewarm water bath, and the oil of gold remaining at the bottom can be preserved as the essence of the Sun. This is that Potable Gold which is held in England by Francis Anthony, a London physician; from there it is very often brought into Germany and other places.

Administered from 3 to 6 or 7 grains in any manner, it wonderfully refreshes the strength and acts against any disease, mostly by evacuating through sweat, although sometimes it expels the harmful matter through individual emunctories the body's waste-clearing organs.

ANOTHER METHOD.

Let gold in leaves be dissolved in spirit, draw off the menstruum, and the calx will remain at the bottom. Pour onto it another menstruum prepared from highly rectified spirit of wine and salt of urine (let this menstruum stand in gentle heat for 15 days to unite). The gold is thus dissolved and can be distilled together with the menstruum in sand through an alembic. When this distillation is done, let the menstruum be separated by the gentle heat of a water bath. The tincture of the gold remains at the bottom.

Consummatum. XIX. Consummatum a highly concentrated restorative broth. Take a young capon or partridge, or a portion of veal, cut it into tiny pieces, and crush the bones in a mortar. Place them in a suitable glass or tin vial with a little cinnamon and, if you like, saffron. Close the vial tightly and place it in a basin full of boiling water. Continue the fire so that the water boils for 3 hours. Then take out the meat and press out the liquor, which is of excellent taste and odor, and immediately congeals. The meat, however, becomes hard and tasteless. One spoonful of the liquor is given either by itself or with another broth.

ANODYNES Pain Relievers.
I. General Opiate Laudanum (see the notes on Croll and the Opiologia regarding opiate laudanum) prepared both with opium and without it—that is, prepared with the corrected and fixed anodyne sulfur of vitriol.
Volume I.

II. Epileptic Laudanum. See below under Epilepsy.
III. Laudanum for Suffocations. The dose of all these is 2, 3, or 4 grains at most. See below under suffocation of the womb hysteria.

(ANODYNE SULFUR OF VITRIOL.)
Take 2 parts of Spirit of Turpentine, 1 part of rectified oil of vitriol. Mix in a long glass and stir with a wooden rod; there will be a great effervescence. When it ceases, pour on cold water, stir with the rod, and when it has precipitated, decant the water. To the remaining matter, pour spirit of wine and extract the tincture. Distill this tincture again to the consistency of pills. Keep it for use; it induces sleep and takes away pain. The dose is 2 grains with 1 grain of prepared opium. For when minerals enter into marriage with vegetables, they work more easily.

LAUDANUM WITHOUT OPIUM.
Take 1 part of the purest iron filings without any dust, 2 parts of Hungarian vitriol. Grind and mix them all. Afterward, pour vinegar over them in a cucurbit so that it stands half a finger deep. Cook and coagulate it over a slow sand fire to dryness. When this is done, urge the fire so that everything becomes somewhat red. When the vessels are cooled, take out the material, grind it, and pour on vinegar to a height of 3 or 4 fingers. Digest until the vinegar is tinted, and let this be done again, or for about 10 days. Decant the tinted vinegar without disturbing the dregs, and by pouring on more, collect the tincture as long as it is colored. Filter the tinted vinegar, then add a few drops of oil of tartar made per deliquium, and the narcotic sulfur will seek the bottom. Wash it with common water until the water is no longer infected with the sharpness or taste of vitriol. Unless this is done, the presence of the salt of vitriol will cause nausea or even vomiting. Now take 1 scruple each of powdered red and yellow sandalwood; 3 scruples each of powdered mace, galangal, pepper, and cardamom. According to the art, make an extract with spirit of wine. Also extract 1 scruple of Egyptian Mummy with chicory water. Join the carefully collected and filtered tinctures with 2 scruples of the narcotic sulfur. Digest everything together in a closed vessel for 15 days in slow heat, afterward draw off the solvent until it reaches the consistency of honey. Then add half a scruple of Extract of Saffron and 1 scruple of Salt or Magistery of Pearls. Let the mass be stored for use.

This is a most excellent Anodyne for all pains, suited for inducing sleep, especially when taken into the body from 6 to 10 grains with some conserve or liquor, or in the form of pills.

Since not rarely the intensity of pain—the companion of wakefulness and restlessness—is so great that the very strengths of the individual are dissolved, and there is no way to meet the diseases themselves unless the symptoms are removed; indeed, once these are removed, the disease itself is often taken away by light care. Great effort must be made to introduce sleep, which is the friend of nature. It is the highest secret in Medicine, by which enormous pain and torture are mostly lulled to sleep, and often while the disease rests with the body, the causes of the pains are simultaneously extirpated. Therefore, it is necessary for a Physician to be furnished with some essential Anodyne as an Astallican perhaps referring to a specific alchemical tradition or "steadfast" remedy treasure, so that at the critical moment he can fly to it as to a sacred anchor of health. As far as common Anodynes are concerned, the Galenists use Roman Philonium, Persian Philonium, Great Athanasia, Golden Alexandrina, fresh Theriac, Troches of Alkekengi, and Pills of Cynoglossum; all of which, if given at the right time and weight with suitable things, are often of great benefit. But superior to all these are those praised Laudanums of the Chemists, which contain opium...