the art of distillation

[...]... would have the spirit be of the color of its vegetable, then put of the flowers thereof dried a good quantity in the nose of the still TO MAKE ANY VEGETABLE YIELD ITS SPIRIT QUICKLY Take of what vegetables you please, whether it be the seed, flower, root, fruit, or leaves thereof Cut or bruise them small and then put them into warm water Put yeast or berm to them, and cover them warm and let them work... rectifications of any spirit at once These vessels may either stand in ashes or in Balneum The manner of distilling in wooden vessels A Signifies the vessel wherein the copper vessel lies B The copper vessel, part of which is in the furnace and part is in the vessel of wood C The vessel of wood wherein the matter must be that is distilled D The cooling vessel with the worm E The receiver F The trivet whereon the. .. TO MAKE THE WATER OF THE FLOWERS OF JASMINE, HONEYSUCKLES OR WOODBINE, VIOLETS, LILIES, ETC RETAIN THE SMELL OF THEIR FLOWERS The reason why these flowers in the common way of distillation yield a water of no fragrancy at all, although they themselves are very odoriferous, are either because if a stronger fire be made in the distilling of them the grosser and more earthy spirit comes out with the finer,... be carried up into the chimney which otherwise will fly about the room to thy prejudice 2 In all kinds of distillation the vessels are not to be filled too full, for if you distill liquors they will run over, and if other more solid things the one part will be burned before the other part be at all worked upon But fill the fourth part of gourds, the half of retorts, the third part of copper vessels,... THE WORLD Take good old rich canary wine, put it into a glass vessel that it may fill the third part thereof, and nip it up and set it in a continual heat of horse dung for the space of four months Then in frosty weather set it forth into the coldest place of the air you can for the space of a month that it may be congealed And so the cold will drive in the true spirit of the wine into the center thereof... not the herb too much, which you may prevent by putting a brown paper in the bottom of the still, giving it a gentle fire and turning the cake before it is quite dried) take the cakes that remain in the bottom of the still and the water that is distilled from thence (having a good quantity thereof) and put them into a hot still and let them stand warm for the space of 24 hours, and then distill them Then... OIL OF CAMPHOR Take two ounces of camphor and dissolve it in four ounces of pure oil of olive Then put them into four pints of fair water and distill them all together in a glass gourd, either in ashes or balneum, and there will distill both water and oil, which separate and keep by itself All these kinds of oil of camphor are very good against putrefaction, fits of the mother, passions of the heart,... water in balneum, and in the bottom will the oil remain This is very excellent in all distempers of the lungs OIL OF AMBER IS MADE THUS Take of yellow amber one part, of the powder of flints calcined, or the powder of tiles two parts Mingle them, put them into a retort, and distill them in sand The oil which is white and clear that first distilled off, keep by itself, continuing the distillation as long... hand is a cock or tap to let out the water The vessel on the left hand is for a balneum The holes in the cover thereof are either to set in vessels over the fume of the water or for the necks of the glasses set in the balneum to pass through The vessel on your right hand is to boil water in for any use, also to brew in THE SPIRIT OF ANY VEGETABLE IS MADE THUS Take of what vegetable you please, two... MADE OF ELDERBERRIES Take of elderberries as many as you please Press out the juice thereof, and to every gallon put a pint of white wine vinegar, of the lees of white wine a pint Let them stand in a wooden vessel which you must then set in some warm place near the fireside for the space of a week Then distill them in a hot still or alembic The furnace for a Balneum Mariae with the alembics and their . John French - The Art of Distillation The Art of Distillation. Or, A Treatise of the Choicest Spagyrical Preparations Performed by Way o£ Distillation, Being Partly Taken Out of the Most Select. RECTIFICATION is either the drawing of the phlegm from the spirit or of the spirit from the phlegm, or the exaltation of any liquor by a reiterated distillation. REVERBERATION is the reducing of bodies. liquors they will run over, and if other more solid things the one part will be burned before the other part be at all worked upon. But fill the fourth part of gourds, the half of retorts, the