SECTION VI. — ALCHEMY. 969 



Collectanea chymica. [Cont'd.] 



[Contents .•] 



1. Philalethcs . The Secret of the Immortal Liquor called Alkahest 



or Ignis-Aqua, communicated to his friend, a son of art and 

 now a philosopher. By question and answer, p. 5. 



2. The Practice of T jghts, or an excellent and ancient Treatise of the 



Philosophers' Stone, p. 27. 



3. Helmont, J oh. Baptist van : Praecipiolum, or the Immature 



Mineral-Electrum. The first Metall, which is the Minera 

 of Mercury, p. 45. 



4. Antonie, Fr. : Aurum potabile, or the receit shewing the way and 



method how he made and prepared that most excellent 

 medicine for the body of man. p. 71. 



5. Trevisan, Bernard : A Treatise of the Philosophers' Stone, p. 8r. 



6. Riply, George: The Bosome-Book. Containing his philosophical 



accurtations in the makeing the Philosophers' Mercury and 

 Elixirs, p. loi. 



7. Bacon, Roger : Speculum Alchymise ; the true Glass of Alchemy. 



London, 1683. p. 125. 

 [The first Latin edition of Speculum Alchymi^e dates 1614 in Nurnberg. 

 For a French one stv Bacon, Roger.] 



8. Starkej, George : The admirable Efficacy and almost incredible 



Virtue of true Oyl which is made of Sulphur-vive, set on fire, 

 and called commonly Oyl of Sulphur per Campanam, to dis- 

 tinguish it from that rascally sophisticate Oyl of Sulphur 

 which instead of this true Oyl is unfaithfully prepared and 

 sold by Druggists and Apothecaries, to the dishonour of art, 

 and unspeakable damage of their deluded patients. Faith- 

 fully collected out of the writings of the most acute Philos- 

 opher, and unparalleled Doctor of this last Age, John Baptist 

 Van-Helmont, of a noble extraction in Belgia. p. 139. 



9. Piatt, Sir Hugh : New and artificial Remedies against Famine. 



Written upon the occasion of the great dearth in the year 

 1596. p. 155. 

 10. H. V. D. [Pantaleon]. The Tomb of Semiramis Hermetically 

 sealed, which if a Wise-man open (not the ambitious cove- 

 tous Cyrus) he shall find the Treasures of Kings, inexhausti- 

 ble Riches to his content, p. 7. 

 Contains several lists of books on chemistry sold by William Cooper. 



COLLESSON, Joannes. 5tv Theatrum chemicum. 

 COMBACH, LUDWIG. 



Scrip ta chymica Riplaei. Cassel, 1649. 

 Cf. Ripley, George. 



