Publisher's Synopsis
With 42 woodcut illustrations. This is a detailed handbook of knowledge and practice at the time, said to be possibly the earliest definitive book on distillation, by John French, an English physician who lived in the 17th Century. A Treatise Of The Choicest Spagyrical Preparations Performed By Way Of Distillation, Being Partly Taken Out Of The Most Select Chemical Authors Of The Diverse Languages And Partly Out Of The Author's Manual Experience Together With, The Description Of The Chiefest Furnaces And Vessels Used By Ancient And Modern ChemistsAlso A Discourse On Diverse Spagyrical Experiments And Curiosities, And Of The Anatomy Of Gold And Silver, With The Chiefest Preparations And Curiosities Thereof, And Virtues Of Them All.
