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The Second Day, when your Glafs is cold, infufe 
the Remainder, with half as much Alcohol * ; and 
diftil again as before, and you will have the fame : 
The Third Day again, with as much, and proceed as 
at firft, it gives it again. Go on as long as you can 
obtain any (of the ethereal Spirit) till all turns to a 
Carbo. Then feparate it, and alcalize it with Spirits 
of Salt Armoniac made without Spirits of Wine, till 
all EfFervefcence ceafesj and di 0 .il it once more e 
Balneo Marine : So is it ready for Experiments ■f*. 
There are more Products to be got from this 
Procefs ; as, i //, A balfamic Oil. 2 dip, A Terra 
foliata Tartari of a glittering Nature, not fufible, as 
is the common, prepared with Wine-vinegar, and 
fixt Salt, which is of great Ufe in Medicine: And, 
3 dly, A purple Earth out of the Caput Mort. 
The 
like Gdi Sulphur if, afulphureous Acid. Separate the one Liquor from 
the other, by the feparating Funnel ( per Tr it or sum). 
* I fuppofe he means, pour in half as much frefh Alcohol , as you 
did at fiilt, that is, Two Pounds Weight, to the Liquor remaining in 
the R.e:orc. 
-(- N. B. The above-mentioned Liquors are to be purified from 
the fitong-fmelling Sulphur, and fuperfluous Acid, which is performed 
in the following manner : 
Pour the Liquor, which fwam at Top, into a Phial • drop into it 
Drop by Drop iucceffively, a Efficient Quantity of Spirit of Sal Am- 
moniac, prepared either from Salt Ammoniac with Quick-lime, or 
from Salt Ammoniac and Salt of Tartar, with common Water, and 
not with Spirit of Wine: Every Operator knows the Quantity } •viz. 
continue dropping in of fuch Spirit upon the Liquor of the Thlogifio?i y 
till all EfFervefcence ceafes, and all the acid Tafte, with the fulphure- 
ous Smell, vanishes, Being precipitated by the volatile Ale alt to the 
Bottom. 
adly, Let the whole Liquor be redified in a frefh Retort by a 
moft gentle Heat of a Bahieum Marine, or of an Hand as hot as that 
of a Perfon in a Fever , and then keep it for Chemical Ufes. 
4tbly, 
