ACETONE
The Secret Wine Spirit of Adepts
(Spiritu vini Lulliani philosophici)
Christian August Becker
Mühlhausen - Thuringia
In 1867.
To MR DR WITTKE
Royal Medicine of the Prussian Governor Rathe in Erfurt,
Knight of the Orders,
To his respected friend
With high consideration and acknowledgment
from the author.
PREFACE
Recent times have sparked curiosity in the field of historical sciences by equating the past with the present, but it has also erased everything about Paracelsus, although there have been repeated attempts to rehabilitate his work. However, his works were more concerned with his system than with his medications, the reason for this being that the system is an abstraction of the mind which can be examined and criticized with the help of the thought on which the time has not taken hold, while the knowledge of medications, hidden under the veil of alchemical language, poses very big problems both for Science and Research. Van Helmont in his time had already proved the error of the Paracelsian System, but held in high esteem the medications included in it.
In 1877, my studies on magnetism led me to Paracelsus, whose total medical knowledge of the subject filled me with admiration. This determined me to familiarize myself further with his work. The obscurity of his language led me to seek further insights by comparing treatises and pamphlets. It was then that I realized that this virtually intact "feld der Arkane" had to be the main goal of cultivation, and the brilliant cures of POTERIUS aroused my interest even more. The attraction of mystery was a considerable motivation during my investigations. Trial after trial was attempted, and I was extraordinarily helped by two very scientifically minded pharmacists, Doctors Grager and Klauer. I was mainly interested in the discovery of the pain-eliminating Sulfur Vitriols (Sulphur Vitrioli Narcoticum Paracelsi), when in 1835 I came to the discovery of "Ferrum Carboriicum Sacharatum". I also discovered the "Aurum diaphoreticum Poterii", which, by sublimation of the amalgam of gold, appears in the form of a finely separated metallic gold, although one can still push the separation further, as one can see under the microscope, thanks to a simple precipitation of the Gold Solution with "Eisenvitriol" or Iron Vitriol.
Contrary to popular opinion, it is very effective, even when taken in small doses, and has been shown in routine use to be especially effective against rheumatism and in particular "Rheumatisrous Cordis".
I continued this line of research and was able to discover many medications which do not appear in the pharmacopoeia, but which make it possible to obtain certain results in practice. Weidenfeld's writing leads me to hope for greater clarifications, but the essential, the Spiritus Vini philosophici remained hidden for me in its mysterious description, apart from a presentiment. Today, after more than twenty years, I recognized, during a new study, acetone.
Due to the bias of the authorities against alchemy, I probably cannot count on widespread participation in my cause, but here and there there will be a colleague who will be secretly interested in this direction of research. For this reason and also wanting to partially offer a release in this field and wishing to leave the gift of 70 years of research, I give this little work to the knowledge of the general public.
Mulhausen, June 30, 1862 Dr. A. BECKER.
INTRODUCTION
In the ancient chemical writings, as will be seen in the following pages, the characteristics of the "Spiritus Vini Philosophici" are described in their totality, with the exception of the substance from which it is made is obtained, is kept in secret, and which allows the production of red and white wine.
For us the complete revelation of this secret comes in Weidenfeld's book (on page 329), under the title: "Dissolvent Sericonis Riplei" with the following indications: Sericon or Antimony -- both names, are fictitious names, according
to Dean (Ripley), red lead (lead oxide) is dissolved with distilled vinegar and evaporated in a water bath until the consistency of a green resin appears.
This salt acetate is distilled in a heavy glass retort, through which a clear water first passes. As soon as white vapor appears, a large receiving flask is connected and well-luted. Afterwards, when a reddish vapor comes, the heat is increased and later with the stronger fire, red veins flow.
At this time the heat is reduced and when everything is cooled, the receiver is removed and quickly sealed to prevent the evaporation of the distilled volatiles. Afterwards one can find in the neck of the retort a white sublimate.
The residue in the bottom of the retort is black as soot. This soot will be spread on a porcelain dish, and on page 331 he continues:
Accende in extremitatum altera au carbon vivo, et spatio elimidiae horae transcurret ignis par omnes faeces, quas calcinabit in colorum citrinum gloriosum valde.
NOTE: In this point in the original German text, several pages are missing. It seems about 2 pages or similar. Searches of various libraries indicate that these pages are missing in several of the extant DAS ACETONE copies. However, it was felt that this would not seriously harm the continuity of the text since it is merely an introduction.
However, it also seems like there's a page or two missing in the first chapter. This is determined by the tact that the original German text has which appears as the first chapter, beginning with part of a Latin quotation. Since it is impossible to determine what these 3-4 pages contain, no serious guesses can be made. Whatever happens, anyone familiar with these pages on acetone, will be welcome to the alchemical researcher and experimenter. …
…the Editor
Preface to the second edition.
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When I published in 1862 this little book, I believed with that, due to my advanced age, to have made my will, but the grace of God made it possible to prolong my life, and after a heavy attack of Hemiplegia in April of the previous year, I returned again to intellectual activity and I can resume my studies again. I, thus, consider it fitting to add the following preface, and have no greater desire than to see him again in my 75th year, to meet the sprightly fresh-of-life seekers on this abandoned field to help raise around the treasure so long buried.
MUHLHAUSEN, in February 1867.
INTRODUCTION
In the old alchemical work, on pages 10-14, the characteristics of the "Spiritus Vini philosophici" are given completely, and only the substance from which it is taken is kept in dark mystery by a reference to red wine. or white. Therefore we will turn, for full disclosure, to that part where Weidenfeld, under the title "Menstruum Sericonis Riplei" (on page 329) says the following:
"Sericon or Antimon - both according to Dean are fictitious names, the red lead (oxide of lead) is dissolved in distilled vinegar and evaporated in a bath until a green gum consistency appears. This acetate is distilled at start with a strong glass retort through which clear water will pass. As soon as a white vapor appears, a large container will be added and carefully luteed. Then, when a reddish vapor begins to pass, the heat will be increased. and as a result of the fire being made stronger, red drops will pass. At this time the fire will fall, and when everything has cooled, the vessel will be removed and promptly sealed to prevent the escape of the volatile portions which have distilled. It may be that one finds in the arm of the retort a white and hard sublimate.
The residue at the bottom of the retort is black as soot. This soot will be spread on a slab of stone", and on page 331 it says: .............
Note: At this point in the original German text several pages are missing. It seems that "there are only two missing pages. Research carried out in various libraries indicates that these pages are missing in certain extant copies of DAS ACETON. One can, however, intuitively feel that this fact does not seriously damage the structural continuity of the work. since this is only an introduction.
However, it also appears that a page or two is missing from the very first chapter. This may have been determined by the fact that the original German text, in what appears to be the first chapter, begins with an extract from a Latin quotation. Since it is impossible to determine the content of these 3 or 4 pages, we cannot assess the importance of this loss.
In any case, since there have never been other treatises on acetone to my knowledge, these pages will be welcomed with favor by researchers and experimenters in the alchemical field.
HWN
ACETONE
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter.
I - INTRODUCTION
The Tincture of Gold
The three essential principles
Aurum potabile
The Cure of Podagra
Acetonol II - THE ADEPTS
' HIV SPIRIT Kelias
Artista III
- THE PREPARATION OF THE ADEPTS' WINE SPIRIT Mercurius Vegetabilis Lullii Aqua Vitae Rectificata Lullii Sal Tartari Volatile Sal Tartari Volatile Lullii IV - EXPLANATION OF THE SECRET OF FOLLOWERS' WINE Acetones V - ACETONE (1) Zinc acetone (2) Lead acetate acetone Oleum Saturnii Lullii
Aqua Paradisi Johannus Kollandi
Spiritus Ardens Saturni
Spiritus Saturni
Quinta Essentia Saturni
Lead Red Oil
Spiritus Aceti Ardens
(3) Copper Acetone
Spiritus Aeruginis
(4) Iron Acetone
(5) Stibnite Acetone
Quinta Essentia Oleunt Antiraonii Bas. Valentine
(6) Acetone of Potassium
(7) Acetone of Acetate of Soda
(8) Acetone of Acetate of Calcium
VI - MEDICAL APPLICATIONS OF ACETONE
Quinta Essentia Oleum Antimonii Basillii
Acetone of iron
Acetone of lead
Acetone of Potassium Acetate
Tincture Antimonii Thedenii
VII - MY OBSERVATIONS CONCERNING THE APPLICATION OF ACETONE
An experiment with pure acetone Antipyreton Poterii
1 . Sudor intermittent Quotidianus
2 . Zoster
3 . Febris Gastrica Nervosa
4 . Removal of hyperhydrosis of the feet
5 . Rheumatismus Acutus
6 . Ischlas
7 . Rheumatismus Dorsalis
8 . Sedative
9 . Exaestuatio Sanguinis
ACETONE
This is the place in the whole book where the behavior of the remnant is described with such clarity, and after years of getting lost in dark terms I was suddenly enlightened. This characteristic of burning like a tinder wick made it clear beyond a shadow of a doubt that the carbonaceous residue could only result from the destruction of an acetate. Thus was discovered the secret of the Spiritus Vini Philosophici and all the products resulting from the distillation corresponded.
From then on, the Aqua Ardens and the Quintessence became a mere chemical fact, and the only surprising thing was how the ancient chemists had been able to work there for centuries without these facts getting out. It is obvious that all had placed a curse on anyone who betrayed the secret, and this curse does seem to have represented a moral suasion since Weidenfeld indicates the hope of the whole discovery in a book which was to be published afterwards, but the book was never published. And Pott, who had complete knowledge and was not afraid of curses, tells us that either because of a promise or because of envy: easy is the preparation, but it is a secret.
The yellow residue, which has burned away like a wick of tinder, is dissolved in vinegar and evaporated to a rubbery consistency then distilled. The residue is again treated with vinegar and also distilled. The distillates are poured together, combined with each other, left to digest for 14 days and finally distilled. At first it will be the passing Spiritus Ardens, which will then be rectified until it is so strong that a cloth of thread imbued with it will burn after it is kindled. During these rectifications a white oil will appear on the surface as well as a yellow oil, which must be distilled by a stronger fire. The sublimate deposited at the neck of the retort will be pulverized and placed in a cool place on an iron plate so that it falls into decay. The liquid is filtered and a little Aqua Ardens added, whereby a green oil will separate and rise to the surface. Everything is then distilled. First will appear water and then thick oil. The water will be distilled in another vessel and evaporated in a water bath until a thick, oily substance, similar to melted pitch, remains at the bottom. This liquid, black substance will be further processed by the Aqua Ardens, however no further explanation is given.
DYEING GOLD
Just as Gold is considered the highest metal, Hermetists also believe that it is the highest medicine, and this explains why the Aurum potabile was placed on a throne where it remained for many years. centuries. But as much as they revered it, so much was their secret dissolution honored, perhaps even more than drinkable gold, and they called it Gold also. In his old age, and for the benefit of his health, Raymond Lully prepared coarse oil from lead and said that it was even more delicious than gold. Basilius Valentinus, who describes the preparation of Spiritus Vini Philosophici under the guise of the distillation of Vitriol, describes the raw oil as being "as heavy as gold, as thick as blood, burning and igneous, true liquid gold of the Philosophers".
The ideal of the alchemists and the masterpiece of the Art was the Lapis Philosophorum, the Stone of the Sages. For its manufacture, the most necessary metal was Gold. Ordinary Gold was not suitable for this use because it was dead because of the strong cohesion of its particles, and that is why it had to be animated beforehand. This was achieved by the treatment with the Spiritus Vini Philosophici, by means of which the soul and the principles were separated from the impure body and dissolved. We then had the philosophical Gold, Aurum Nostrura, the Quintessence, the radical dissolution without corrosion, which was carried out thanks to the crude oil of acetone, also designated under the names of Acetone aerrimum and Dissaeveus Auri.
This power of dissolution is confirmed by an experiment reported by Fuchs (in "Geschichte des Zinks" p. 200). Hellot distilled zinc acetate. First passed a slightly acetic phlegm; then appeared veins and then followed a sublimation in the form of white and fragile flowers.
Then rose white vapors which condensed at the top of the flask with a whitish-yellow color, then passed a dark green oil. The container contained a liquid which ignited just like the Spiritus Vini. Poured over water this liquid first floated on the surface before mixing and only a few drops of a reddish and pungent oil remained on the surface.
The residue from the distillation was ashen in color. On this was poured the acetic phlegm and the whole put in digestion for 8 to 10 days, then distilled after filtration, leaving behind a resinous substance. The process was repeated until a sufficient quantity of resin was obtained. The latter is in turn distilled in a small retort and heated to incandescence which allows the appearance of a yellow liquid followed by thick white vapours.
When the distillate was poured over the white sublimate deposited at the neck of the retort, the sublimate dissolved immediately, and a few drops of a reddish oil separated on the surface. Plates of gold and silver were rubbed with this oil, and at the end of four days the covered surfaces were eaten away. leaving behind a resinous substance. The process was repeated until a sufficient quantity of resin was obtained. The latter is in turn distilled in a small retort and heated to incandescence which allows the appearance of a yellow liquid followed by thick white vapours.
When the distillate was poured over the white sublimate deposited at the neck of the retort, the sublimate dissolved immediately, and a few drops of a reddish oil separated on the surface. Plates of gold and silver were rubbed with this oil, and at the end of four days the covered surfaces were eaten away. leaving behind a resinous substance. The process was repeated until a sufficient quantity of resin was obtained. The latter is in turn distilled in a small retort and heated to incandescence which allows the appearance of a yellow liquid followed by thick white vapours.
When the distillate was poured over the white sublimate deposited at the neck of the retort, the sublimate dissolved immediately, and a few drops of a reddish oil separated on the surface. Plates of gold and silver were rubbed with this oil, and at the end of four days the covered surfaces were eaten away. The latter is in turn distilled in a small retort and heated to incandescence which allows the appearance of a yellow liquid followed by thick white vapours.
When the distillate was poured over the white sublimate deposited at the neck of the retort, the sublimate dissolved immediately, and a few drops of a reddish oil separated on the surface. Plates of gold and silver were rubbed with this oil, and at the end of four days the covered surfaces were eaten away. The latter is in turn distilled in a small retort and heated to incandescence which allows the appearance of a yellow liquid followed by thick white vapours.
When the distillate was poured over the white sublimate deposited at the neck of the retort, the sublimate dissolved immediately, and a few drops of a reddish oil separated on the surface. Plates of gold and silver were rubbed with this oil, and at the end of four days the covered surfaces were eaten away.
Due to dubious assistants, swindlers and dreamers, alchemy has earned such a bad reputation over the years that it is generally considered to be only superstition, swindle or fraud. It is only in recent times that individual voices, belonging to the cultured world, have made themselves heard to echo the words of Marsilius Ficinus.
He was only expressing this truth that the ancient and modern philosophers, as the scholars of those days called themselves, expended enormous efforts and undertook considerable labors in order to explore Nature; therefore these voices have only acknowledged the honorable efforts of the elders. It was only the Natural Sciences in their old form. The basic rule that was established was that all bodies were made up of 3 chemical elements: Salt, Sulfur and Mercury. These names only cover symbols whose meaning is completely different but which could be assimilated in these terms to the current terminology:
Mercury = hydrogen
Sulfur = carbon
Salt = oxygen
Only nitrogen is missing, the existence of which as a simple element is still questionable.
The theory indicates that the differences existing between metals is based on the qualitative proportions between the 3 elements, and that by changes in these proportions it is therefore possible to modify the metals until they reach the perfection of the 'Gold and Silver.
Since the proportions of the mixture were determined only hypothetically, the experiment could only be technically empirical; but if we consider that all the metals and many minerals were used during these experiments, this constituted the field of many chemical discoveries which generally served the progress of Science. Former experts who were held in high esteem, such as Albertus Magnus and Roger Bacon, oriented themselves towards the dislocation of bodies in order to create new combinations, and this in a manner analogous to today's science. The old chemistry, arrived at no positive result by the metallic transmutations whereas on its side, the modern chemistry not only calculated the atoms but also their abbreviations.
The chemistry which was freely taught within the corpus of Arab Sciences and which was protected by the caliphs met only mistrust and suspicion when it transited towards the Christian world. It emanated from those unbelievers whose actions were linked to the world of magic and the demon; also she was persecuted by the Church. Therefore, working there was socially dangerous, and physically the vapors of the minerals combined with enormous efforts were not very beneficial for health.
It was therefore necessary to deploy strong encouragement to find followers and disciples, but these were not rare. As the Church promised its believers eternal happiness, the alchemy on its side promised the retention of health thanks to the "lapis" and by this means a longer life and important wealth, in other words the Heavens on Earth; beyond that hovered the secrecy and its mysterious appeal. Impregnated by the greatness of their Ideal, the alchemists drowned in religious mysticism; everything started with God and everything was done under his protection, and the Stone of Wisdom could only be realized by the grace of God and Enlightenment.
The radical dissolution of gold, which was without corrosive and from which the metal could no longer be reduced, was the authentic Aurum potabile, the Quintessence. Rupescissa tells us: "the Quintessence of gold is Aurum Dei, it is part of the lapis and is moreover entirely converted into food. Authentic gold is not transformed into food, but it is excreted in the same form where it has been ingested. Aurum alchymicum, composed of corrosives, destroys nature; that is why Aurum Lapidis is called Aurum Dei".
Paracelsus explains that the Quintessence in gold is found in very small quantity but its power is in its color and when it is extracted the metal that remains has lost its potency. It differs from Aurum potabile in that it can no longer pass into the state of metallic gold a second time, whereas Aurum potabile can be transformed into a metallic body; whence it follows that its Quintessence is more subtle.
Raymond Lully gives us the following statement, certainly complicated, but eloquent:
1 - The Spiritus Vini Philosophici is distilled 3 times on Sal Tartari and this distillation is kept in digestion for 50 days at the end of which a yellow residue appears at the bottom.
2 - At this time, the gold and the silver will be calcined separately, that is to say amalgamated and the quicksilver evaporated.
3 - On what remains of the calcined metals we pour on each one separately, and at an eminence of 3 fingers high, the penetrating spirit of n°1 and first of all hold them in the bath, then in the ashes at a temperature of boiling. The gold solution is yellow and will be carefully decanted; as for that of silver, it is green or blue and will also be carefully decanted.
4 - The residue of the metals will be treated several times in the same way until everything is dissolved.
5 - Each of these solutions will be kept for 40 days in digestion; then the solvent will be drawn through the bath, leaving the metals behind exactly like oils. The distillate is poured over the oil, left to digest in a bain-marie for 24 hours and then distilled.
6 - The distillate is first gently distilled in a sand bath, through which the water will pass, then at higher temperatures the spirit in turn will pass, and even at higher temperatures a part of the oil.
7 - The water which first passed through the heat of the bain-marie will be added to the distillate, digested, distilled in the sand bath, and this will be repeated as often as necessary so that all the gold and silver pass.
9 - They will then be mixed and circulated for 60 days.
It is with this that the great solvent is prepared, which radically dissolves all metals.
At this time, new gold which will have been amalgamated and calcined thanks to the evaporation of the quicksilver will be put in digestion with the solvent n° 1, and after its distillation it will be submerged by the Menstrum majus which will dissolve the gold. When that has been accomplished, it will be removed. On the residue, new Menstrum majus is poured to obtain a complete dissolution and this one will be mixed with that which one obtained previously. The solution has the color of the most beautiful ruby or the most beautiful carbuncle. It is left to circulate for 20 days in a bain-marie and 20 days in an ash bath. You will then find the gold at the bottom transformed into a superb resin, and the water which will swim above will have to be delicately drawn off. The resin is soluble in all liquids. This constitutes the true Aurum potabile.
The procedure is described so clearly that it is completely understandable except for the secret solvent agent. It is good to note in passing that we use not only gold but also silver.
Rupescissa's process is simpler. A gold amalgam is subtly atomized by the evaporation of quicksilver and, after adding Acetum philosophorum, it is placed in the sun. This will cause the formation of an oily film on the surface which will be removed as it forms and placed in a glass container filled with water. The water is evaporated and the Quintessence of gold, which contains within it the highest sweetness, will remain.
It must be the same as the Essentia Dulcis from the Halle orphanage. According to the report of Dr. Richter, its inventor, the essential element is a subtle red gold which dissolves quickly and without residue or turpitude of any kind in the "spirit of wine". When the alcohol (spirit) is drawn off, it remains a blackish powder which can easily be transformed into a light, fragile, purple and soft powder: there is a slight loss of weight during the process because the weakest part more subtle, and that even at low temperatures, rises in the form of vapours, which when caught condense into red drops.
The manner of preparing gold is very different from the usual method, and although only innocuous minerals are employed in the preparation, all extraneous additions are separated so completely that all samples can show that they do not contain any corrosives.
Half an ounce of regular gasoline costs 2 "Thaler". Half an ounce of the concentrated essence costs 8 "Thaler", since the latter contains 4 times as much gold. The substance was therefore considered to have too high a cost price, and some said that the share of gold barely reached one-eighth of the total price. If we consider, however, that gold is the least of the expenses, but that the other expenses, as well as the efforts necessary for the preparation which keep many people at work for years, are such that if we compare this price with that of other medications, it will then have to be set at a much higher level.
Crell's report in 1747 tells us that the director of the orphanage, Dr. Richter, grandson of the inventor, declared that the process would be revealed in due course. However, I have not been able to discover any new facts in this regard and I am still awaiting an explanation from the city of Halle.
This information is very fragmentary and that is why we must cite a more eloquent report written by Wollner (Diss. inang. de Epilepsia epuise medicamento specifico Essentia dulcis adpellato. Lugduni Batavorum 1706, 4. p. 22). According to him, this essence is prepared from the purest gold, which is so highly refined that a simple Spiritus vini rectificatissimus will dissolve a large quantity of it and take on a ruby red color.
The characteristics that chemists attribute to Aurum potabile are also found in Essentia Dulcis, that is to say that it can no longer, at least for the most part, be reduced again to a metallic body, but that it evaporates into smoke even on medium heat. When a sufficient quantity of water is poured on this essence, it becomes cloudy at first, then an extremely fine powder settles at the bottom, which, when dried in a gentle heat, exhibits a yellow color and a bitter taste. It is, however, of such fineness that if added to wine spirit, it will dissolve entirely like wax and take on the appearance of Essentia Dulcis, both in color and flavor.
This indicates that the color of the Essentia Dulcis originates from this powder, that is to say a most subtle Crocus Auri. When this powder is heated, to a medium temperature in a glass flask placed over coals, fine flakes of reduced gold will suddenly appear but most of the residue will appear so dissolved, refined and freed from all chains metallic, that it certainly seems that it can no longer be reduced to metal because as soon as the powder smells of fire most of it escapes in smoke, leaving behind a subtle powder that is no longer possible to reduce either by "Spiessglanz" (glass of antimony) or by lead, but which forms a colored salt of the highest purple when mixed with Sal Tartari. This salt will even penetrate the Tiegel and color it purple on the outside. but which forms a salt colored with the highest purple when mixed with Sal Tartari. This salt will even penetrate the Tiegel and color it purple on the outside. but which forms a salt colored with the highest purple when mixed with Sal Tartari. This salt will even penetrate the Tiegel and color it purple on the outside.
In 1723, Kleinfelder published a report in Konigsberg, which took a stand against this essence, stating that it was nothing more than a tincture of burnt sugar; and he added that the sugar tincture of which he was the inventor was as effective as Essentia Dulcis, even though the latter actually contained gold. It was later thought that the black, sooty residue of the preparation when elongated with ether until it took on the appearance of a red-brown dye and mixed with Franzbranntwein was the Essentia Dulcis.
It seems that the procedure was followed according to a prescription from Lully: an indication in this sense is the preparation of the black residue by distillation with ether. It may be that the erroneous interpretation results from the fact that Lully in many places names Nigrura Nigrius instead of Spiritus Vini philosophici, and also that after the distillation of the acetic salts remains a molten pitch-like substance. A spy may have overheard something in a laboratory about this black residue which remains at the bottom of the retort, and thus thought he had discovered there "the carbon of the spirit of wine".
The hermetists of old used their acetone in many ways, partly in chemical procedures in connection with acids and salts, partly in the preparation of medications. The Quintessence of plant substances is extracted within 3 hours if used (acetone). An interesting remark from Rupescissa is that Laxantia with this treatment becomes more effective and can therefore be administered in lower doses.
Among the iatro-chemists who came later, Quercitanus used it in the preparation of Antipyreton as well as that of a tincture of gold,
OF THE CURE OF PODAGRA
of which Count Onuphrio de Marsciano tells us in his hermetic writings of 1774 on page 30. On the occasion of a severe crisis of gout he placed spirit on a swollen and extremely painful foot, and "Oh Wonder!" he told us, the pain disappeared and I began to dance with joy to the great amazement of my friend. After that, the gout no longer tortured me and I had no reason to complain about it afterwards, but on the contrary I was completely freed from it and in full health as before; but from then on i started taking 20 drops in the morning before eating for 15 days to completely clean the blood because there is no better blood cleanser in the world than this. He simply names this substance spiritus simplex,
Recent chemistry has resumed research since Chenevix discovered acetone as Spiritus pyro-aceticus; this research extended however only in the field of analytical chemistry and that at the expense of medicine; thus medicine remained empty-handed, deprived of its due.
The alchemists rectified the acetone several times in succession in order to eliminate the water and to arrive at a concentration which allows it to burn like alcohol. Modern chemists dehydrate acetone by calcium chloride, which we cannot, however, approve of because the latter enters into combination with wood alcohol which is analogous to acetone. This combination does not decompose at 100°; and this proves to be a disadvantage when the product obtained is used as a medication. This process also seems unnecessary because the Aqua ardens (das Aceton) is more volatile than the spirit of wine and it already appears in the form of veins at 48°,
The whole of the distillate was kept in digestion for several weeks in the heat of horse manure (30°) thanks to which, in particular, the oil, the quintessence separated on the surface and gave off a very pleasant smell. This oil consists of two oily substances: one, a distillate which according to Fittig ("On Acetone" 1858, page 48) passes at 90°; the other, the Dumasine at 120°. These two oils are the central element of the medication; this is why the substance is indeed an acetonium oleosum and should be correctly named an
ACETOMOL
Pure acetone, as supplied to us by the chemical industry, has little medical value. It is clear and transparent like water, burns completely but shows no traces of oil on the surface. The oil however is still inside because if you place the acetone in soft digestion over a long period of time, the oil appears and rises to the surface. In the past I have already observed this reaction, and I repeated the experience now. I placed 1/2 ounce of pure acetone in a glass container that was not tightly sealed and placed it over a burner. After approximately half evaporated, a trace of oil appeared,
Pure acetone can be very good at the level of the chemical preparation but at the therapeutic level it constitutes only a weakened oil, a mediocre product, which only presents the appearance, similar in this to a vanilla pod which one would have fired aromatic benzo-resin.
For purposes of medical application, it is both advised and required that it be prepared according to the very methods which were employed by the hermetists.
It takes a lot of time and patience and in the current situation of trade, it should not be counted on too much, because already in 1668, Jungken complained, during a discussion on the Spiritus Vini Lulliani described by Weidenfeld, that the modern chemists could no longer produce anything extraordinary because they started work in the morning and interrupted it for the night, which is a mistake, because the elaboration of good things takes time.
THE SPIRIT OF WINE OF ADEPTS
This survey is based on the work of Johannes Seger Weidenfeld - de Secretis Adeptorum sive de usa Spiritus Vini Lulliani Libri IV. 1685. 12.
In the dedication to Robert Boyle, Weidenfeld tells us about the progress of his studies. He had diligently studied the work of Paracelsus ten years before, but after two years of study he had been unable to obtain any clear conception of it. In particular, the unfortunate preconception about the alkahest posed a serious problem.
Already without hope of being able to learn its preparation, he therefore turned to comparing the descriptions of the Circulatum minus, Specificum corrosivum, etc., in order to discover the mode of preparation, while remaining convinced that they were all one and the same solvent. Numerous and hardly believable experiments proved fruitless and he was already considering giving up chemistry and medicine when his eyes unexpectedly opened when he realized that not only did they have different names but they were also different in level of products, preparations and use. For example, instead of a single Liquor Alcahest, he discovered several solvents, their preparations and their uses. What in others remained incomprehensible in Paracelsus appeared to him with clarity and thus he was able to reach the end before having begun the beginning.
Thereupon he gave up the experiments on the alkahest and turned to the study of Lully, Basil, etc. He realized at that moment that all converged and confirmed the Paracelsian solvents, that their preparation was simple and had to be taken literally, and that there was only one word which remained unknown and which, however , according to the experts who had identified the common base of all these solvents, was the Spiritus Vini Philosophici whose knowledge and possession solved the deepest secrets of chemistry.
In Wilna, he heard of Robert Boyle who was then the first and only person who used a clear and straightforward language in the field of chemistry. That is why he went to visit him in England in order to discuss with him the solvents and medications of Paracelsus, as well as other secrets. Boyle welcomed him, praised his studies and in doing so increased his ambition to achieve greater achievements.
It is interesting to note that this Spiritus Vini Philosophici, whose composition was clearly given by Weidenfeld, is no longer mentioned by later chemists. Only Pott (Exerc. Chym. Berolini 1738. 4. p, 21) describes it in the following terms: "there is a menstrum which has not yet received a name and which has not yet been revealed by any chemist.
It is a pure liquid, light in color and volatile like the spirit of wine; it is oily and burns with a bright flame; its flavor is sour like that of strong vinegar. In distillation it takes on the appearance of snowflakes; it affects all metals and gold, extracting the latter in redness, and when pulling the menstrum, the dye that remains has the aspect of a resin which dissolves in the Spiritus Vini giving a dark red color and which leaves behind a black residue which I think can be made into Sal Auri.
This menstrum is miscible with water and oils, and if you ask me my opinion I will tell you that it is the real Kaenstruuin of Weidenfeld, the Spiritus Vini Philosophici. The preparation is easy and simple, but it constitutes a secret" - and which Pott does not reveal. Weidenfeld had indeed promised an explanation in his fifth book, but this fifth book was never published. Others have prepared the said substance and used it as medicine but they did not recognize its identity with the Spiritus Vini Lulliani.
This automatically lets us take a look at pharmaceutical chemistry. It was the traditional task of doctors to produce and improve their weapons, especially chemical medications. With the great triumvirate Stahl, Boerhaave and Hoffmann, pharmaceutical chemistry reached its peak; the arsenal was well equipped.
Pharmacists gave doctors a helping hand, and since doctors could rely on them, slowly more work was left to them, and only in simple cases would doctors work with the research and preparation of chemical medications.
The improvements made by Linne in botany, by Morgagni in pathological anatomy, by Haller in physiology and by Lavoisier in chemistry, led the doctors into other fields which promised rich harvests on grounds which had never been exploited. Pharmacy followed the immense advances in chemistry rapidly, and attained an importance which was fostered and supported by government and doctors. The rights of pharmacists have been generously improved and the position of lifetime has increased the performance and scientific ardor of this class. Technical chemistry developed further, and however led to the installation of chemical factories, thus changing the situation entirely. The advantageous position of pharmacists and the easy obtaining of preparations from factories,
Prices have tripled and quadrupled. A pharmacy that was worth 20,000 Thlr. guaranteed its owner a good income, as the new buyer paid 40,000 Thlr, and now the interest on the additional 20,000, also had to be counted. This has caused consistent complaints of insufficient taxation, interference with rights and lack of protection.
As long as the government tried to help by increasing taxes on drugs and labor, the complaints continued because with rising income the prices of pharmacies went up and with it, also the interest on the unnatural supplementary capital.
The Prussian government tried to limit the growing power of the order of pharmacists in 1810 by issuing one-person concessions for newly built pharmacies. In the newly acquired French provinces, all privileges had already been lifted and there were only concessions. In time, the difference between a grant and a privilege disappeared, and the government by the "sovereign order" of 1842 reacquired the government's free disposition of grants. After that it was decided:
1) the concessionaire is obliged to take back the provisions, etc., according to their fiscal value, that is to say, according to their real value;
2) a competition was to be held and the government reserved the right to award the concession to the most qualified pharmacist.
It was ideal. Concessions became civil service jobs and it was the government's aim to unite the most gifted and ambitious pharmacists in a brilliant chain of scientific work, just as it did with other civil servants.
The means for execution, however, were never implemented; consisting of fixing the price of the concessions according to the assessed value and adjusting the tax accordingly, so that the amount is sufficient, but not exorbitant. Pharmacists already holding franchises were highly critical of this supposed limitation of their property rights, and only after four years of the government making this decision was this ideal set aside, and the old cramped system returned.
Since then things have continued to deteriorate. Pharmacies were overwhelmed facing major industrial facilities. Like industrial companies, they also bear the risks of such a facility and the government has no obligation to the country to support and help this stock market game. The need of the times restored the power of government. Feudal rights in Austria, real business rights in Bavaria were abolished without damages and also in Prussia the tax freedom of "¢night estates" was eliminated by an appropriate exit payment.
In one example I was able to observe how concessions were handled. An enterprising pharmacy assistant tried to establish a pharmacy in a village, but permission was refused. He told me openly that it was not his intention to keep the pharmacy, but after a few years of setting up a rapidly growing business, he would sell it, expecting a profit of 6,000 Thlr ., with which he would have been able to start something new.
In this situation of pharmacies where the laboratory has lost its old and honored meaning, doctors are seriously called back to take an interest again in the preparation of chemical medicines. Considering enthusiasm for chemistry, a number of effective and arguably great results could be achieved.
It will also serve a good purpose, that is, through self-involvement great trust in medicines is achieved. Complaints about unreliability of medications and lack of therapy will disappear because they are due to the fact that most young doctors do not have a working knowledge of medications. They don't know their weapons and therefore don't know how to use them.
Surgery has a large assortment of instruments available. No surgeon has been before an anvil; it was the steelworker (blacksmith) who made all the instruments, but none of them invented them. It is the surgeon, who invented the instrument according to his needs and the steelmaker only executes the surgeon's idea. Like the surgeon who cannot work without the instrument maker, the doctors cannot work without the pharmacist; but both are only helpers, not deciders. The false approach, where the pharmacist pushed himself into the position of a decision maker, has done great damage to practical medicine. Many of our best medicines produced in the old days, and their application, are today based on the previous recommendation and observation. Supposed improvements in formulas are frequently nothing more than falsifications. Another mistake was changing the names of medications and adapting to current chemical theory.
Hufeland requested on behalf of the practicing doctors that the old names be kept, but the governing pharmacy considered this to be below their scientific honor, and only with special consideration did they compromise to add it (the old name) in brackets. Mercurius dulcis and Calomel are old names for common back medication at that time, and doctors referred to the name maintained by exception, but the "Pharmakopoen" lists it under more than seven names, all of which were scientific or which had been partially re-changed back to “unscientific” names. The old ammonia thus lost its real name for a chemical name.
This path leads to the Tower of Babel and if the doctors continue to reuse the old names, soon they will no longer be able to communicate with the pharmacists.
HELIAS ARTISTA
Paracelsus repeatedly expressed a prophecy which his followers sincerely accepted and which deserves to be remembered for the sake of history. The references are:
1) From the preface to Tinctura Physiourum, German version, Part l, p. 921.
My theory, which is based on the enlightenment of nature, cannot be changed completely in its consistency and it will begin to bloom in the year 58. And therefore the practice with incredible signs and miracles will prove that also the workers and all the people will understand how the Art Theophrasti resists the confusion of the sophists who, because of their incapacity, want the protection and support of papal and imperial privileges.
And on p. 924.
These "arkanes" caused by transformations are little known. And even if they have been enlightened by God, no immediate fascination with art will arise, but the Almighty also provides them with the reason to keep them secret until a future time, Helias artista, when the secret will be raised.
2) From mineralibus. Part II, page 133.
It is true that the earth still holds much of which X knows nothing; others, too, have no knowledge. I'm sure God will always show many strange things that we've never shown and knowed about. It is also true that "There is nothing hidden that shall not be uncovered, nor any secret that shall not be known." (Luke 12.2); therefore, after me there will be one whose magnificence will not is not yet born and he will make it known.
3) Of natural things, Chapter VIII. De Vitriol, Part I, p. 1506.
So I say that many secrets are found in nature, in other things in nature and in the creations of God, and that it would be better and more useful to study such things than to indulge in drink, debauchery, or playfulness. But nowadays the debauchery will continue until a third of the world has been murdered; the other third dies from cheating and barely a third survives. Then things go back to their places. But at the rate things are going right now, that might not happen. It is also necessary to extinguish the caste system in the world or that could not happen either. Then we will have the golden world; that means then man will acquire straight-knowledge, will live as a human being,
When will it be?
While some have anxiously awaited the Helias Artista, others see him not as a person, but as an expression of a time when science will be at its best and a common asset to all.
This time started with the new chemistry and if you look at our time during this period and if you want to personify the Helias Artista, there will undoubtedly be someone in Germany that all educated people will look up to.
Theological advice pushes the goal even further. Hapelias who in Vol. VI, Theatra Hemiei gives an explanation of Helias Artista. and refers to the illumination of John (Chapters 6 and 9) and considers that the time has come for the partial destruction of mankind by war. Also by the coming out of the angels on the banks of the Euphrates and then the spreading of the pestilence, when a third of mankind perished entirely and the victory of the Lamb was achieved. Then order is restored, the face of the Church will be raised; then the world will be under the authority of Christ and the Jews converted.
THE PREPARATION OF THE FOLLOWERS' SPIRIT OF WINE
(Spiritus Vini Philosophici s. Spiritus Vini Luiliani)
Raymond Lully gives the first recipe in his Quinta Essentia and it is with this that the quotations from Weidenfeld begin; Thus :
The best red or white wine - Vinum rubeum vel album - is distilled in the usual way to make Agua Ardens. This is three times rectified and well preserved so that the flammable spirit does not evaporate. The infallible sign of success is that if you light the sugar soaked in it, it ignites like brandy. When this water is thus prepared, we have the matter from which we draw the quintessence. One puts this water in a circulatory vessel and, after having sealed it hermetically, one places it in horse manure where the heat remains equal. It is important that the heat does not decrease, otherwise the circulation (digestion) of the water would be hindered and not maintained, which must absolutely be sought; if, however, constant heat is applied, the quintessence will separate later during the process of digestion, which will be visible thanks to the line which separates the higher portion, that is to say the quintessence, from the lower portion. After a sufficiently long digestion, the container can be opened, and if a marvelously pleasing fragrance emerges, which cannot be compared to any other in the world and which exerts an invincible attraction on everyone, THEN you have the quintessence.
If this does not happen, the container must be closed and put back into digestion until the goal - as we have described it - is achieved. you can open the container, and if there is a wonderfully pleasing fragrance, which cannot be compared to any other in the world and which exerts an invincible attraction on everyone, THEN you have the quintessence. If this does not happen, the container must be closed and put back into digestion until the goal - as we have described it - is achieved. you can open the container, and if there is a wonderfully pleasing fragrance, which cannot be compared to any other in the world and which exerts an invincible attraction on everyone, THEN you have the quintessence. If this does not happen, the container must be closed and put back into digestion until the goal - as we have described it - is achieved.
This Aqua Ardens, Spiritus Vini Philosophici bears a lot of resemblance to the ordinary spirit of wine, which has prevented its discovery. But contrary to the latter, if one continues the digestion, one obtains an oil which floats, which would not happen with the other body. It is the base, the origin and the end of all adept removers. In its simplicity it is the weakest of all but when combined with other bodies it is the most powerful menstrum. It appears in two forms, one similar to the spirit of wine and miscible with water, the other which has the appearance of oil donkey swimming on the surface. It is however always about the same thing, the difference concerns only the purity and the subtlety.
Lully's recipe is really exact, but it only includes part of the process that can be supplemented by other "recipes" that I have taken from Weidenfeld's book. I would like to take this opportunity to explain the origin of the word “menstrum” according to the definition given by Weidenfeld. This word has always had a place in the chemical vocabulary. Followers have always used the allegory of creation to veil the preparation of the Stone of Wisdom. Just as the embryo which in the uterus is nourished and gradually brought to maturity thanks to the menstrual blood which is retained there, so the secret dissolvent constitutes, similar in this to the menstrual blood, the means of nourishing and forming the chemical child, the Philosophical Stone; this is why they named it menstrum, a name that later passed on to all the other solvents,
COELOM VINOSOM PARISINI (page 128)
After the distillation of the Aqua Ardens and the phlegm, a black mass similar to melted pitch remains. This is washed with the phlegm, mixed with the alcohol, digested and distilled, which is repeated with new spirit until the residue is quite dry.
The distillate is named Spiritus Animatus. The latter is poured over the residue, in increasing quantities, and digested until completely absorbed and the residue is white. Then comes sublimation. The sublimated is clear and white like a diamond. It is placed in a bain-marie where it becomes liquid; then the superfluous water is distilled. The distillation is repeated four times, each time adding new quantities of the first alcohol, always using new alcohol. The distillate is then digested for 60 days. It is recognized that the work has succeeded in the formation of a deposit similar to that of healthy urine. We separate the quintessence, so clear that we doubt that it is present, and we keep it in a cold place locked in a hermetically sealed container.
This is explained in a slightly different way on p. 134 of Weidenfeld's book in the following terms:
COELUM VINOSUM LULLII
Here the Aqua Ardens is poured directly on the black residue and digested, the Aqua Animata passed, the oil is distilled at higher temperatures. The residue is calcined until white. It is then soaked in Aqua Animata four times and sublimated. The brilliant sublimate is mixed with the Aqua Animata and distilled once, whereby the salt is transformed. This distillate is placed in digestion for 60 days and is transformed into a quintessence with a pleasant smell, clear and shining like a star. At the bottom one will find a salt, similar to that drawn from the urine of a healthy young man.
There is another explanation on page 138.
SAL HARMONIACUM VEGETABILE PARISINI
The black residue is washed away with the phlegm until it is white and shiny like a diamond. It is then distilled with Aqua Ardens over gentle heat until the veins no longer appear; the container is then changed and the phlegm is extracted at higher temperatures. As before, the résida is again distilled with the Spiritus Ardens until it turns white and no longer emits smoke on a reddened plate. Then it is saturated several times with the Spiritus Animatus placed in digestion and all the humidity is extracted. When one places a parcel of it on a reddened plate and practically everything evaporates in fumes, one can proceed to sublimation, this constitutes the Sal Hannoniacura Philosopher uns.
SAL HARMONIACUM VEGETABILE LULLII
The thick substance which remains, similar to melted pitch, is treated with the Spiritus Ardens; after which one distills: passes first the Spiritus Animatus, then the phlegm and finally the oil; the distillation is pushed to dryness so that there is no more smoke on a reddened plate. The eighth part of the Spiritus Ardens Animatus is distilled many times until it becomes volatile, which you can judge when it completely vanishes into fumes when placed on a red-hot plate. It is then sublimated twice and then dissolved in Spiritus Ardens, distilled and the distillate is digested for 40 to 50 days until a pleasantly fragrant liquid is obtained.
SAL HARMONIACUM VEGETABILE LULLII TERRA FOLIATA
The spirit of Succo Lunaria (Vino Philosophico) is distilled at the gentle temperature of a single lamp until veins appear. This indicates that the spirit has passed away. At this time another container is attached and the second water is distilled which still contains some spirit until pure and tasteless water passes through. The black residue is then calcined. It cannot be done by fire, as the Sophists say, but only by the action of one's own spirit.
This is why the second distillate (Aqua Ardens mixed with phlegm) is poured over the residue, dissolving it immediately. We then distill over a lamp fire until veins appear; it is at this moment that another container is added and the distillation is continued. This procedure is repeated until a black powder is obtained or until no more phlegm passes and the smell and taste of the last water are as strong as those of the first.
The residue is then treated with the fourth part of the Spiritus Ardens with gentle heat until it is white as snow; then it is placed above the fire, where, after 30 hours, a magnificent white powder, clear as silver, is deposited along the wall. This constitutes the Terra Nostra Foliata. The residue is then treated with the fourth part of the Spiritus Ardens with gentle heat until it is white as snow; then it is placed above the fire, where, after 30 hours, a magnificent white powder, clear as silver, is deposited along the wall. This constitutes the Terra Nostra Foliata. The residue is then treated with the fourth part of the Spiritus Ardens with gentle heat until it is white as snow; then it is placed above the fire, where, after 30 hours, a magnificent white powder, clear as silver, is deposited along the wall. This constitutes the Terra Nostra Foliata.
SAL HARHONIACOM LULLII
The black residue is extracted with the phlegm and this procedure is repeated many times until it retains its color; after evaporation an Oleum Veqetabile remains. The dry residue is distilled three times with the Spiritus Ardens. The Oleum Vegetabile will be poured over the calcined black residue which will be digested for 10 days in an ash bath; at this time the Spiritus Animatus will be added; it must be removed by distillation, as a result of which the Sal Volatile will be sublimated.
COELUM VEGETABILE CIRCOLATOM LULLII
You will digest the Spiritus Ardens in a bottle with the neck facing downwards until the appearance of a light, clear oil floats on the surface. Then you will pierce the closure with a needle and let the impurities flow out and then quickly turn the bottle right side up. This constitutes the Spiritus Ardens Circulatus, which has a most pleasant fragrance. The black residue is extracted with the phlegm; it is calcined then saturated with the Spiritus Ardens Circulatus. If a parcel deposited on a reddened plate dissipates almost completely, the Sal Volatile is then sublimated, then dissolved in the Spiritus Ardens Circulatus and digested. Thus the quintessence is preserved.
MERCURIUS VEGETABILIS LULLII
The pitch-like residue is extracted using the phlegm and distilled, leaving behind the Oleum Vegetabile. On the black residue, pour the Spiritus Ardens and distill it; then it will be calcined in the reverberatory furnace, and the salt will be extracted with the phlegm. On this salt one will pour the Spiritus Ardens which one will distill until it passes without change. The salt thus condensed is digested with Oleum Vegetabile and finally distilled.
AQUA VITAE RECTIFICATA LULLII
The first Spiritus Ardens obtained still contains some water and a cloth which is soaked in it will burn giving a flame but will not be consumed: after a series of rectifications, the soaked cloth will be completely consumed. On the pitch-like residue you will pour the Spiritus Ardens Rectificatus, and after distillation it will result in the Oleum Vegetabile. The black residue is distilled with the last Spiritus Ardens, then calcined with "Rerecherio" and finally distilled 7 times with the last alcohol obtained; this bears the name of Aqua Vitae Rectificata.
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The complete process is as follows:
Vinum Rubeum Vel Album, the secret philosophical wine, is distilled in the usual way. The spirit thus obtained still contains water, and a cloth which will be soaked in it will catch fire but will not be consumed by repeated rectifications, it becomes so strong that a cloth which will be impregnated with it will burn entirely.
The Spiritus passes in the form of veins and when these disappear, the container is changed and the phlegm is extracted by distillation; after the first distillation it still contains a little spirit and is set aside for later use.
The spirit is digested in the heat of horse manure until an extremely pleasant-smelling oil separates on the surface, which constitutes the quintessence. Lully obtained it in a light blue color; others got a yellow.
After the spirit and phlegm have passed through distillation, a black substance with the appearance of molten pitch remains. This is extracted using the phlegm from the first distillation until it no longer changes color. Portions that have changed color are combined together and distilled, leaving an oil behind.
The residue extracted in this way is calcined. This can be done in various ways. In the method described on page 143, Lull tells us that the calcination must not be carried out by strong heat, but only with the help of the Spiritus Ardens; however, on pages 170 and 172, he tells us that it is accomplished at the lamppost.
In the methods given on pages 138 and 168 the residue is white owing to its distillation with the phlegm, but in the method given on page 143 a black powder remains after undergoing the same treatment, and on pages 161 and 172 it remains black after being treated by the Spiritus Ardens.
The residue thus prepared is digested and then distilled with the Spiritus Ardens according to various methods and as many times as necessary so that it is completely saturated and white, and the spirit passes without change. The sign is that if we put a small piece of it on a reddened plate, there will be no more smoke emission. Then, it is distilled many times with the Spiritus Ardens until it becomes so volatile that it will evaporate completely or at least in good part if it is placed on a reddened plate.
Arrived at this point, it is considered as sublimated. The sublimated is limpid and clear like a diamond. It can then be used in the preparation of the Spiritus Vini Philosophici by a series of distillations with the Spiritus Ardens thanks to which the Sal Volatile will pass. The distillate is digested for 60 days during which time it will transform into a pleasant-smelling quintessence that is so clear you can barely see it; the sign is a residue that settles at the bottom, similar to the urine of a healthy young man.
SAL TARTARI VOLATILE
It was Van Helmont who established the reputation for high medical value of volatile alkaline salt; in his description he tells us (page 377 of the German edition): if impurities appear during the first process you will have to add solvents; however, if they persist, you will need to use volatile alkaline salts which have the power to clean everything like soap. It is certain that it is very surprising to see all that a salt of tartar can achieve when it has been volatilized because it cleans all the inclusions of impurities.
(On page 1142) When fire-resistant salts are volatilized, their potency ranks them among the highest medications.
(On page 351) The first is the alkahest. If you can't get it, at least learn how to volatilize salt of tartar so that you can prepare your solutions with it.
(On page 329) Salt of tartar (weinstein salz) can be made completely volatile; it sometimes rises in a liquid state and often in the form of sublimate. This salt has often been tested, although this fact is little known.
De le Bo Sylvius, who was in his time the pride of the University of Leiden, and founder of a new medical-chemical school, also knew the volatile Sal Tartari. The school however, because of the doctrinal exploitation of the consequences of the system, again destroyed the reputation of this salt, which must serve as a warning to us not to put ourselves in the position of target for adversaries who work in " Doctor Opiatus". Solid tartar salt (Laugen salz), he tells us on page 850, can be volatilized by cohobation with a volatile spirit. Such volatile tartar salt will rise and sublimate at average temperatures. A volatile tartar salt of this kind (Laugen salz) is granted only to patient and zealous artists; but not to others who seek to avoid long labors.
The high regard that Van Helmont professed to this salt constituted a call for experiments to be carried out, which however did not give valid results since they were carried out with the aid of the ordinary spirit of wine and not with expert wine spirit.
The inventor of this substance is Raymond Lully and Weidenfeld gives us the method to get it.
SAL TARTARI VOLATILE LULLI
The salt of tartar (weinstein) is calcined three days until white; then it is dissolved in the Spiritus Vini Philosophici not yet rectified, it is heated for two hours on an ash fire, and the solution is filtered. The residue is again calcined and the process is repeated until complete dissolution. The solutions are then distilled in a water bath and the distillate is set aside. The residue is placed for 3 hours on an ash fire in order to remove the phlegm. Then the water that has been set aside is poured over the residue and distilled. This is continued until all of the substance falls into oil.
Further treatment then follows. On this oil you will pour 6 times as much Aqua Vitae Rectificata, and put in digestion for several days in the "Balneo", then you will distill with ashes at low temperature until the veins no longer appear. As soon as the veins disappear, you will remove the container containing the distillate and close it well: because now begins to rise the Spiritus Animatus which will be extracted at a higher temperature. The residue is crushed, then digested with four parts of Aqua Vitae and finally the whole is distilled. A small part of the residue will then be placed on a reddened plate and if it melts like wax without emitting smoke it is the sign of success; if this does not happen, the process will have to be repeated until this sign arrives.
You will pour on this residue 1/4 of Spiritus Animatus and freeze in the bath, after which you will evaporate the phlegm, which will behave like pure water. You will then add spirit, nine, and repeat the whole thing until the residue has absorbed all the alcohol, which will be indicated by the fact that if you place some of it on a reddened plate, the greater part will dissipate in smoke. At this time, the substance is ready for sublimation, which will take place at higher temperatures. The sublime serves to fortify the Spiritus Vini Philosophici.
We know that potassium carbonate as such cannot be made volatile, which means that Sal Tartari Volatile is no longer a potassium carbonate, but a potash salt processed by the Spiritus Vini Philosophici, thereby even transformed and whose composition remains to be discovered.
EXPLANATION OF THE SECRET
of
the SPIRIT OF WINE OF THE FOLLOWERS
In the second part of his book, devoted to mineral solvents, Weidenfeld gives us some clarifications on the secret of the Spiritus Vini Phiiosophici which sufficiently explains the latter. From the confrontation of the various descriptions emerges the following content:
The secret body which is used for the elaboration of the Stone of the Philosophers and which has been hidden under multiple names (prima material Lapidis) is calcined and dissolved in distilled wine vinegar. The solution is evaporated to the consistency of a gum. From the latter we first distil a tasteless water over low heat; then when white fumes appear, the container is changed and the Aqua Ardens is thus obtained. This water has a very strong taste and a fetid smell. This is why it is called Aaua foetens, Menstrum foetens. Continuing the distillation at higher heat, a red vapor appears and, finally, red drops. The heat is gradually allowed to die off and the distillate is kept in a tightly closed glass container so that the volatile spirit does not dissipate.
The residue in the retort is black as soot; it is spread on a stone and lit at one end with the help of an incandescent coal. In the space of half an hour the fire gains the whole mass of the residue which then takes on a yellow color; it is then dissolved in distilled vinegar and evaporated to the consistency of gum which is subjected to distillation. This is repeated until most of it resolves into liquor. This liquor is poured into the first distillate, digested for 14 days and distilled. First appears the Aqua Ardens, topped with a white oil. This distillate is rectified 7 times, until a cloth moistened and presented to the flame is consumed. A yellow oil remains which is distilled at higher temperatures.
The sublimate attached to the neck of the retort is left to resolve on a steel plate, in a cool place; a little Aqua Ardens is added to the filtered liquor, thanks to which a green oil separates on the surface, which only remains to be removed. The distillation is continued; first comes water, then thick black oil. As soon as white vapors appear, the container is changed and the whitish distillate is extracted with a moderate temperature until a thick and oily substance, similar to melted pitch, is obtained.
This black mass is further treated until the residue is completely exhausted; but further explanation is unnecessary.
1) The aqua Ardens which, when lit, burns like ordinary wine spirits.
2) A thick white water, the Lake Virginum of the followers.
3) A red oil, the blood of the green lion of the followers.
He says that no one has ever spoken so clearly and that he therefore fears the wrath of God and of the experts. Weidenfeld remarks that he has revealed here a great secret of the art. The experts have very clearly taught in their practical indications the use of Vinum philosophicum, but they have kept the secret on how to obtain it. Ripley is the first and only one to have said that the key to all chemistry is hidden within the Menstrum foetens which contains his Lac virginum and the Sanguis Leonis. Kept in gentle digestion for 14 days, the result is Vinum rubeum and album Lullii, and in confirmation of what he says, he adds that from this Menstruum foetens one prepares Aqua Vitae rectificata Lullii.
The basic material, the prima materia, is covered by the most diverse names, intended to keep it secret. Some experts have worked on metals, some on metallic salts and ores. Leo viridis is so called because its solution is green; it is dissolved in sulfuric acid to purify it, and it gives yellow tungsten crystals during evaporation. The raw material prepared is then calcined until red, which makes it possible to eliminate the acid; it is then dissolved in distilled vinegar and thickened to the consistency of gum. The distillation of the latter gives the Spiritus Vini philosophici.
The fact that:
1) the red-calcined raw material is dissolved in vinegar,
2) the black residue of the retort can be ignited and brought to incandescence, which is characteristic of acetates;
3) distillation gives a spirit that burns like ordinary alcohol and also a volatile oil;
clearly indicates that we are taught nothing here other than the manufacture of acetone.
For a better understanding of things, it would be good to expose Weidenfeld's conception of the nature of the Spiritus Vini philosophici according to the remarks he left here and there.
The Spiritus Vini philosophici, Spiritus Vini Lulliani is the base, the beginning and the end of all the solvents of secret chemistry. According to the different degrees of his power, he is either the weakest of them or the most powerful. It is the weakest when it dissolves only by the action of its smoothness (unctuositas) only the fatty parts (partes unctuosas) of the vegetabilia, by not attacking the rest: it becomes the strongest to the extent even where its unctuousness is moderated by acids, thus homogenizing with fatty and dry substances, thus crude acids. Due to this homogeneity,
The Spiritus Vini philosophici appears in two forms, either as an oil floating on the surface, or as the ordinary spirit of wine miscible with phlegm, but which can be separated by simple distillation, and which when ignited, after it has undergone rectifications, will burn: in fact these aspects are not two different forms, but only one, the difference coming only from the level of subtlety and purity.
The aqua ardens (the first distillate) loses its aqueous form and concentrates during the distillation, eventually separating, resulting in an oil floating on the surface. This oil is dried thanks to a long-continued distillation and sublimated like a volatile salt by the action of a violent fire.
The oily Spiritus Vini philosophici extracts only the oily essences of the vegetabilia, and is split by simple distillation into two distinct parts, two oils or fats, one of which is the essence and the other the body; when the gold continues the digestion further with Spiritus Vini philosophici they are irrevocably united, thanks to which not only the spirit increases but also changes to better dissolve the dry bodies by the action of the dry components (arida ) of the oily body.
The preparation of the Spiritus Vini philosophici is the most highly secret, difficult and dangerous work in all secret chemistry.
The Menstrua vegetabilia that we make with it are soft, without corrosion and gently dissolve bodies.
There are several ways to prepare oleum or Essentia Vini from Vino philosophico. Depending on the method used, there are differences in the duration of the preparation as well as in the smell and color.
Only if a mineral or metallic body has been dissolved in it is the smell pleasant.
The first of all solvents also constitutes a medication known as Essentia or Specificum ad vitam longam.
According to the rule of Chemia adepta: Essentia essentiam confecit, it then becomes easy to draw essences from other bodies prepared for medical use and to which particular names are given. Paracelsus, for example, cites these: Alcool Vini de Pino, de Chelidonia, Essentia Melissae, etc. Paracelsus' descriptions are vague and incomplete, which is fine in his usual way, but Weidenfeld makes them a little more understandable to us.
The Spiritus Vini Philosophici which has not been concentrated has no dissolving power on dry bodies (arida). This concentration constitutes the secret of the Art, which is arduous and painful. This concentration is best achieved through honey, sugar, manna, salts and herbs as well as volatile salts. The highest degree of concentration is achieved by its combination with acids and mineral salts, which makes it possible to obtain the Menstrua mineralia.
Consider for example the Essentia Melissae of Vita longa C.III.C.5. Lemon balm is digested for 40 days; then by a series of cohobations, the two components are separated, thus creating the Quinta Essentia, which constitutes the elixir of life. After the extraction of the alcohol and its separation, then appears the Vinum Salutis, on which the philosophers have worked for centuries without result. While mocking, he tells us about all those who, believing they were following Raymond Lully, used an enormous quantity of barrels of wine to try to find the Quinta Essentia Vini but who obtained nothing other than a Vinum adustum which they used wrongly instead of Spiritus Vini. The proof that Paracelsus however not only knew the Spiritus Vini tailliani well and also that he used it can be drawn from this same description of the Spiritus Vini (from Vita longa, C.III.C.9.). The wine is digested in horse manure for two months; you will then see on the surface a very pure and very fine layer similar to grease, which constitutes the Spiritus Vini; anything below is phlegm. When this fat is digested alone and without addition, then it is extremely effective in achieving longevity. what constitutes the Spiritus Vini; anything below is phlegm. When this fat is digested alone and without addition, then it is extremely effective in achieving longevity. what constitutes the Spiritus Vini; anything below is phlegm. When this fat is digested alone and without addition, then it is extremely effective in achieving longevity.
The Spiritus Vini philosophici is dissolved in acid at high temperature, and this is why great care must be taken not to pour too much at a time, and that the distillation be carried out with extreme caution. The Menstrua will be all the more powerful as they will have been extracted many times by the acid, which will weaken during the dissolutions; these Menstrua are called nostra or philosophica, or Acetura philasophicum, Aqua fortis nostra, Spiritus Vitrioli, Salis noster, etc.
The Menstrua mineralia have a foul odor, a corrosive taste and are mostly cloudy and milky in appearance, and they dissolve bodies with extreme power and a strong evolution of heat; since all have the Spiritus Vini philosophici as their base in common, they are permanent like the latter, not however immediately the first time but after repeated cohobations. This series of cohobations will dulcify them and when the acid will be removed again, this kind of Menstrua will resume its first nature, that is to say the Spiritus Vini philosophici. The acid cannot destroy its nature but simply reduce the size of the particles by penetration, thus making the dissolving action easier. Menstrua that are not prepared with the Spiritus Vini Philosophici,
Menstrua mineralia not only dissolve metals, but also make them volatile. The experts used it to speed up the work, and it is rightly that Paracelsus can put on the mantle of the Arcane Monarch because not only did he bring his personal and definitive touch to these shortcuts but also he introduced with such talent these Menstrua mineralia in the field of medical application, that its students and followers cannot hope to be able to improve upon them.
ACETONE
The spirit of wine is chemically always similar, but technically and physiologically it differs depending on whether it is prepared from wheat, rice, potatoes, wine, etc.; this remains true with regard to acetone according to the different acetates from which one starts; this is why I will give the following individual descriptions:
1 - ZINC ACETONE (Du Respour in MINERALGEISTE P. 116 German ed.)
Zinc flowers are dissolved in distilled wine vinegar, then filtered and evaporated until oily; when this substance is removed from the fire, it coagulates, forming a salt. It is introduced into a glass retort and distilled. First of all everything liquefies, then begins to pass through veins a kind of secret wine spirit, which however has no flavor; then follows thick reddish water. By the administration of a strong heat the whole of the substance swells and there rises a spectral snow (spirit) which is deposited in great quantity, on a thickness of a good inch, and which falls here and there in because of its abundance. What has been able to penetrate beyond the paper lute of the container possesses such a pleasant odor that Bernard Le Trévisan described it in his "Forgotten Word" ("Forgotten Word", Verbum demissum, is the name of the secret matter omitted by the adept and that he does not give, and that is why it is interesting to note that Respour often cites zinc, thus giving the explanation of the secret Fontina Bernhardi, his solvent) and I was very surprised . After everything cooled down, a thick layer of silvery-white reflections, and more beautiful than oriental pearls, appeared all around; you could touch it with your fingers and the smell was similar to that of camphor. is the name of the secret matter omitted by the adept and which he does not give, and that is why it is interesting to note that Respour often cites zinc, thus giving the explanation of the secret Fontina Bernhardi, his solvent ) and I was very surprised. After everything cooled down, a thick layer of silvery-white reflections, and more beautiful than oriental pearls, appeared all around; you could touch it with your fingers and the smell was similar to that of camphor. is the name of the secret matter omitted by the adept and which he does not give, and that is why it is interesting to note that Respour often cites zinc, thus giving the explanation of the secret Fontina Bernhardi, his solvent ) and I was very surprised. After everything cooled down, a thick layer of silvery-white reflections, and more beautiful than oriental pearls, appeared all around; you could touch it with your fingers and the smell was similar to that of camphor. and more beautiful than oriental pearls appeared all around; you could touch it with your fingers and the smell was similar to that of camphor. and more beautiful than oriental pearls appeared all around; you could touch it with your fingers and the smell was similar to that of camphor.
Glauber (Furn. Phil. T.2 p.99) mixes zinc acetate with sand, then distills. It re-marks however due to passing first a tasteless phlegm, then a subtle alcohol and finally passing a yellow and red oil.
2 - ACETONE DERIVED FROM LEAD ACETATE
The experts worked a lot on lead, and Basil Valentin tells us that the Stone of the Philosophers derives its origin only from lead; he also tells us that a red oil can be prepared from lead sugar, but he gives no additional information (lead sugar = Saturn's sugar = lead acetate).
The first plain text description can be found in Quercetanus (Pharmacopoea p. 553). The important element in this description of the spirit of wine of the experts is that for the first time lead is mentioned in a precise way, whereas the experts had always left us in darkness as to the knowledge of the substance. Lead sugar yields highly flammable water during distillation, which water has a stronger flavor than wine spirit. The container fills with white fumes and finally follows a blood red oil.
From this Liquor ardens, which catches fire more quickly than the spirit of wine, one can separate a spirit which is even more ethereal by the aid of a modest fire. The black residue is calcined, the salt extracted and crystallized. It will then be imbued with the ethereal spirit until a smoke rises when you place it on a reddened plate. After sublimation you get the Terra foliata philosophorum, which has a more beautiful luster than that of oriental pearls.
When the red oil is added to this Terra foliata and this operation is combined with repeated cohobations and distillations, the authentic solvent of nature and the quintessence of grandiose power result; this quintessence is the true, living and limpid source in which Vulcan washes Phoebus (the gold), and cleanses it of all impurities and it makes it possible to strengthen the force of life, improves all that is weak and renews the power of youth .
OLEUM SATURNI LULLII
(from the "Treatise on Fire and Salt" - Blaise de Vigenère P.146)
Silver litharge is boiled in distilled vinegar and then the solution is evaporated. A retort is half filled with the salt obtained and the superfluous humidity is removed over low heat. As soon as white vapors are observed, a large container is joined and the fire is increased by degrees, which will cause a small flow, resembling a white oil, which will rise in veins which will resolve in the container in the form of a hyacinth-colored oil whose smell approaches that of lavender oil. This constitutes the secret oil of which Raymond Lully did not say much cruder: "Ex plumbo nigro extraditur Oleum Philosophorum aurei colors vel quasi, et sicas, qaod in mundo nihil secretius eo est - From the black lead is drawn the golden oil of the Philosophers, or as it were, and dry, for there is nothing in the world more secret than that.".
On top of the residue left in the retort you can place hot coals and that one will catch fire like dry grass. The ash can again be dissolved in vinegar and the above process repeated.
You will take this oil, which Raymond Lully calls his wine, and place it in a bottle placed in a bain-marie, so that the spirit can rise in fine threads as the spirit of wine does. You will distill until large drops appear in the capital, which is a sign that the rest is only phlegm. It is removed and at the bottom remains a precious oil which dissolves the gold and is beneficial for all wounds, both internal and external; and it is even drinkable gold.
This is why Ripley (p.89 of the preface to his Twelve Gates) tells us: a gold-colored oil is extracted from our subtle red lead, which Raymond Lully says is more precious than gold, because when he happened to be near death in his old age, he prepared from it (red lead) the Aurum Potabile and was able to recover his strength.
The hot water which also passes is far more combustible than gunpowder, and it dissolves the silver into fine crystals which can be melted at a lamp fire and which, like silver, stands all test.
AQUA PARADISI JOHANUS HOLLANDI
(opus saturni ch.12)
Saturn's sugar is distilled, perfectly purified, first at moderate heat then at more violent fire until the material turns red like blood, thick like oil, sweet like sugar and possessing a celestial odor. The residue is treated with distilled vinegar and the whole is distilled in the same way and this is repeated until everything distills into a red oil.
SPIRITUS ARDENS SATURNI
(Beguini Tyrocyn. Chem. 1616. C. 4. P. 139)
You will keep the Saturn sugar for a month in gentle heat so that it remains in a state of constant flux, then it will be distilled in a well-controlled retort.
The smell is so pleasant that it fills the whole room and surpasses the pleasant smell of all the vegetabilia. On the distillate floats a yellow oil, and a blood-red oil settles at the bottom. The phlegm is separated through repeated distillations and the pleasant-smelling spirit is recovered.
SPIRITUS SATURNI
(Agrikol. An. Zu Popp's chem. Arz. T.1. P.422)
The lead sugar is digested with good Spiritus Vini for four weeks in a steam bath; then the spirit is extracted and a beautiful thick liquor remains. This liqueur is mixed with clean sand and distilled in a Par Gradus retort, giving us a beautiful white spirit and a beautiful yellow and red oil. Alcohol and oil should be ground together in a glass retort on a steam bath. The spirit first passes drop by drop; there are no veins or threads visible; then follows a yellow oil; we then add another container which we will carefully lute, otherwise the subtle vaporous aroma, even more pleasant than amber and musk, would be lost. If the yellow oil is further distilled, the phlegm will appear as snow-white rivulets; another container must then be attached and all the phlegm will pass. At the end, a beautiful red oil will come, but for this, it will be necessary to apply a higher temperature because it is heavy and does not rise easily.
QUINTA ESSENTIA SATURNI
(Agrikola 1. P. 242)
The process is the same as that described above. Spirit and oil are ground separately once again.
The black residue left in the retort is calcined at high temperature until snow white, then dissolved in distilled vinegar and crystallized. This salt is digested with the previously rectified spirit for 8 days in a steam bath. Distillation is then carried out, thanks to which almost all the salt will rise. The distillate is poured over the residue; then put back into digestion and distill again, and this is repeated until the whole of the volatile Sal has passed in the form of spirit. The rectified red oil is then added, whereby the two are inseparably united to give an extremely tasty medicine.
RED LEAD OIL
(Experimentirte Kunststucke. 1789. Th 1. P. 15O)
It is distilled from a retort filled to a quarter of Saturn sugar and placed on a cup of sand. At first one will have a very sour spirit; then the container will be changed and the temperature will be increased. Then will follow stinky brown drops that will not stop until all the moisture is gone. By this time the substance in the retort will have puffed up somewhat and will appear black and stratified like an empty wasps nest. The temperature will be increased and ruby red drops, sweet and possessing a good smell, will appear.
During the first experiment the retort broke so that very few of these drops could be saved, but the wonderful balsamic smell filled the house and the whole street.
SPIRITUS ACETL. ARDENS
(Charas Pharmacop. royale P. 775)
You will distil Saturnian sugar first of all at a mediocre fire then at a higher temperature. The distillate is rectified at low temperature so that the burning alcohol passes first, followed by the phlegm, leaving behind a purple-red liquid which you will improperly name Oleum Saturni and which does not have a very strong acidity.
Distillation of lead acetate was fading from chemistry until Chenevix took it up again in recent times, providing the impetus for further studies of acetone and its "pyroacetic spirit". (in French in the NDT text).
In fact, we have mainly studied acetone, paying little attention to other substances, which was not the case with the old chemistry, which favored care, patience and stubbornness, which explains why Weidenfeld called the preparation of Spiritus Vini Lulliani "the most difficult of tasks".
3 - COPPER ACETONE
(Spiritus Aeruginis Basil. Valentinii. P. 834)
Pure, crystallized verdigris is calcined until it begins to redden. You will take 2 parts, 1 part of pebbles which will have been cleaned many times in vinegar, you will mix them and place them in a frosted glass retort, you will join a large well-lit container and apply a medium heat for a day. and a whole night, then you will increase the fire for a day and a night so that first a greenish-white alcohol passes through, then after a long time red drops from time to time. The fire must be sustained until all is over. The distillate is gently rectified in a water bath to remove the phlegm and a heavy red oil remains at the bottom.
SPIRITOS AERUGINIS
(Zwelfer Appendix ad Animadvers. as Pharmacop.
Spiritus vini rectificatus is distilled two or three times over crystallized verdigris. The crystals are distilled in turn in a ground glass retort over open but moderate heat until all the spirit has passed and is therefore rectified.
Zwelfer, moved by his conscience, revealed the secret of this spirit and he praised its chemical and medical virtues. He compared it to the Liquor Alcahest because after gentle dissolution, these substances could be removed and retain an identical strength; he particularly recommended them for effecting the dissolution of pearls, corals and crabs' eyes as well as for the preparation of the Tinctura ex Vitro Antimonii and the Tinctura Martis adstringens. This was the cause of a bitter controversy spiced with profanity in Latin with Otto Tachenius who claimed that the Spiritus Aeruginis was nothing but a distilled vinegar already described by Basil Valentine. Boerhave also said it was acetic acid, but the strongest you could get from vinegar.
Chenevix's examination settled the question; the Spiritus Aeruginis is not a pure acetic acid because it contains the O17 radical, flammable acetic spirit for a volumetric reason, and in this he justified Zwelfer. The two Derosnes carried out the distillation by four of the copper acetate. The first part was clear and had little odor, the second part had a stronger odor and a dark color; the third was even darker and had an even stronger smell of flammable acetic spirit. The fourth portion was slightly yellow and contained a fair amount of flammable acetic spirit (Thenards Chernie von Fechner IV. 1. p. 151).
4 - IRON ACETONE (Agrikola 1. P. 418)
The yellow-blackish residue resulting from the distillation of "Eisenvitriols" (ferrous sulphate) is extracted using distilled vinegar several times. The solutions are evaporated until only a green liquor remains. It is mixed with calcined pebbles and then distilled. The distillate is digested for a certain time; then the phlegm is carefully removed and the residue is rectified twice in a sand bath, resulting in a beautiful soft oil. According to Chenevix, iron acetate O24 distillate contains flammable acetic spirit if you take volume into consideration.
5 - STIBINE ACETONE (Tinctura et Oleum Antimonii Roger Baconis) (Deutsches Theatrum Chem. III. P. 2O7)
Finely pulverized stibnite ore is placed without addition in aqua regia. As soon as it is dissolved it is extracted and the residue is washed. This residue is digested with distilled vinegar for 40 days in a water bath and will then have a blood red color. The clear liquid is drawn off and new vinegar is added and left to digest for 40 days. This should be done four times. The residue is discarded.
The solutions are then joined in a bottle; the vinegar is distilled and then cohobed again, or if it has become too weak, new vinegar is added and after dissolution distilled again. The residue is washed with fresh water until all the acidity is gone. The substance, which turns bright red, is dried in the sun or over very low heat. To this red powder, well rectified Spiritus vini is added and left to dissolve in a bain-marie for 4 days. The solution is placed in a flask placed in a bain-marie and equipped with a capital; a container is put in place and the alcohol is distilled at low temperature. The alcohol is poured back then it is redistilled and this procedure is continued until the alcohol rises in the capital in various colors.
It is then necessary to apply strong heat to make the pure alcohol rise in the capital, which will then flow into the container in the form of a blood-red oil. This constitutes the very secret method of the sages concerning the distillation of this highly prized Antimonii oil. Noble, powerful and strong oil with a sweet fragrance.
The distillate, a mixture of spirit of wine and oil, is poured into a flask fitted with a cap, then the alcohol is drawn off entirely in a bain-marie, a point which can be determined by the passage of a few drops of oil. The alcohol will keep well because it retains a great deal of potency from the oil still dissolved in it.
In the bottle you will find a blood red oil that glows in the dark like charcoal; it is used for the alchemical improvement of metals.
The spirit of wine, Tinctura Antimonii is a very powerful medicine. If during an attack of gout you take 3 drops mixed in wine on an empty stomach, the pain will subside; the following day there will be profuse, thick and nauseating perspiration, particularly at the level of the joints, and on the 3rd day, even if one has not ingested medication, a purgation will occur without violence. Its use is just as beneficial in other types of serious cases.
QUINTA ESSENTIA S. OLEUM ANTIMONII BASILI VALENT.
(Triumphal Tank of Antimony trad. Kerkring P. 147)
You will pour distilled vinegar over finely ground Vitrum Antimonii and digest over low heat until the vinegar turns bright yellow, stirring often to prevent caking. This will be repeated until the vinegar no longer colors. The solutions are filtered and the vinegar is distilled in a water bath practically until dry. This must be done with great care because too much heat ruins the preparation. The resulting yellow-reddish powder should be gently dried in the sun's rays. The powder is washed several times (watered down) to remove all traces of acid. Then it is finely pounded in a slightly heated mortar; one then pours over the spirit of wine rectified to the highest degree up to the eminence of three fingers; it is digested and a brilliant red tincture results. This tincture is digested for a month and is then distilled according to a particular method (according to Micro. Basil. Valent, p. 109 by mixing it with Terra sigillata). This will give us a beautiful and sweet medicine which comes to us in the form of a marvelous red oil which is the Quinta Essentia Antimonii.
6 - POTASSIUM ACETONE (Agrikola II P.15)
Potter's clay is kneaded with a saturated solution of potassium acetate and formed into pellets. These are left to air dry and then distilled in a retort. A potent but sweet-smelling spirit will pass, white as milk, which will cling all over the sides of the vessel, like volatile salt. Leave for 24 hours, and everything will dissolve into a beautiful, clear, yellow oil.
Pott (Exercit. chym. de Terra foliat. Tart. P. 152) declares that when he rectifies 3 times in succession 1 part of potassium acetate to 6 parts of vinegar, at the fourth time half the salt passes and is volatilizes.
7 - ACETONE FROM ACETATE OF SODA
On my initiative, the pharmacist Klauer undertook the manufacture of it in 1840 and reports the following:
4 pounds of acetate of soda gave a distillate of 20 ounces. Distillation in a bain-marie was carried out in three days. The distillate was distilled in a bain-marie; acetone passed first, mixed with a little water, the acetone passing at 55°. A longer and more energetic distillation gives water, acetic acid and some oil (Metacetone). The residue is a dark brown oil of thick consistency which dissolves easily in acetone.
In order to obtain anhydrous acetone, it is rectified on calcium chloride. 6.5 ounces of water containing acetone, obtained from 4 pounds of acetate of soda yielded 4.5 ounces of anhydrous acetone having the following characteristics: 1)
Fluid and colorless liquid, possessing a good penetrating odor , similar to that of etheric acid (Essigäther).
2) Miscible with spirit of wine and ether in all proportions.
3) Specific weight: 0.708.
4) Highly flammable, burning with a very bright flame producing no soot or residue.
Acetone gave the following precipitates:
1) with nitrous mercuric oxide - yellow and "copios"
2) with nitrous mercuric oxide - black,
3) with copper sulphate, blue
4) with copper acetate, blue
5) with oxidized ferrous sulphate - greenish, later turning yellow,
6) with reddish "Maagenoxydul" sulphate,
7) with acetate "Maagenoxydul ) reddish,
8) with gold chloride - separation of metallic gold,
9) with ferric chloride, gelatinous substance,
10) with mercury chloride, gelatinous substance.
Acetone is mixed with the two oils , and I have prescribed it as a medicine under the name of Spiritus Aceti oleosus
8 - ACETONE FROM CALCIUM ACETATE (Poterii Opp. P. 612)
Corals are dissolved in distilled vinegar; the solution is evaporated until dry and the salt is placed in a lutee retort. The phlegm is first removed at low temperature; then the container is changed and the spirit is distilled, which will pass along with a small quantity of red oil, both smelling very good and brilliant red.
Quercetanus was able to obtain 6 ounces of spirit from a pound of coral salt.
During an experiment carried out in 1841 and where acetone was prepared from calcium acetate, a different substance was obtained from that resulting from sodium acetate. It didn't have such a pungent smell, but rather a pyroligneous one, the flavor was less subtle; the empyreumatic oil had a burning taste and had a stronger smell; this is why it was not used as medicine.
With regard to the chemical characteristics of acetone, I was able to observe the following facts: in November 1861 I discovered in the pharmacy an old sample of a few ounces of Spiritus Aceti Oleosus. It was of a yellowish color and its fragrance was not weakened. By mixing a sample with sulfuric acid, the dark red color was immediate, while this color change took much longer using acetone from a chemical factory.
I placed the glass vessel, which was closed with a ground stopper, on the slow cooker. After 14 days some had evaporated and a ruby red oil had separated on the surface. The latter smelled of acetone; the taste was bitter and persistent. It turned litmus paper cinnabar red, while pure acetone gave only a weak acidic reaction after a few minutes.
I added half an ounce of pure acetone which dissolved the oil immediately.
I replaced the glass container, still protected by the "emery closure" on the slow stove. After some time and due to both loosening of the ground joints and partial evaporation of the liquid,
When a few drops are mixed with water, it quickly separates and sinks to the bottom, but the taste of the water is bitter like that of oil, and the smell is like that of oil. 'acetone.
MEDICINAL APPLICATIONS OF ACETONE
I will not mention the general acclaim for its use against many diseases in the alchemical literature, but will confine myself to Kerkring and the experiments of Agricola, who specialized in this matter.
BASIL'S QUINTA ESSENTIA OF ANTIMONY OIL
(Kerkring: Triumphant Chariot of Antimony p. 253)
It takes 21 years for an old lady to be with dropsy and she was terribly swollen in the upper part.
She took this medication twice a day. After 20 days she had sweated so much that her body had shrunk half an ell. She lost quite an amount of urine in that time and the sweat was quite wonderful. The medication does not have the same effect as other Diaphoretica, which with the first dosage causes sweating, but it only opens up the skin on the first day, causes mild sweat on the second day, and on the third day the sweat increases; only on the fourth and following days does one practically swim in water, so that finally the sweat drips through the bed onto the floor.
This is, says Kerkring, when a knowledgeable doctor is needed, because the club of Hercules does not help much when it is not in the hands of a Hercules.
She took this medicine twice a day. After 20 days she had sweated so much that her body had shrunk to half. She lost large amounts of urine the whole time and the sweat was absolutely wonderful. The drug does not have the same effect as other Diaphoretic, which with the first dosage causes perspiration, but it only opens the skin on the first day, on the second day mild sweat, and on the third day the sweat increases; only on the quarter and after days bathed in water, so that finally the sweat drips from the bed onto the floor. It is, as Kerkring points out, when a knowledgeable doctor is needed, because the association of Hercules does not help much when it is not in the hands of Hercules.
1. Lung ulcers. A fruit juice of 2 drachmas is prepared with the 10 ounce Syrup; it is often made to take on the size of a hazelnut on the tongue. It softens the cough, carries the rash of a soft form.
A 36-year-old man suffered after severe colds with great chest tightness with danger of suffocation. He had used many medications without improvement. On the chest juice violently came out a lot of pus; he needed it for a month, and was becoming quite healthy.
A 6 year old girl had been ejected for two years with a strong cough, then blood and pus, and was quite consumed. She only took the medication 3 times every day, and she was completely healthy in two months.
2. Against poisonous bites. A young child was stung in his left thigh while sleeping. The stain was brown and as big as a 3-pence, and it hurt a lot. The next day the thigh was brown and swollen, hot acetone was placed on it and after two hours the swelling and pain was less; after a cool application and two more hours the pain and swelling were completely gone and the boy could walk as a result.
3. In the case of panaritium the application eliminates the pain within one hour and the wound soon opens.
Agricola himself during a trip had an infectious wound, i.e. a vermin wound between two fingers, and he suffered much pain. Several medications did not help. When he got home he applied acetone; the pain disappeared so he could sleep again and after a few days the wound broke open and healed quickly.
LEAD ACETONE - SPIRITUS SATURNI (lb. I. p. 239)
1. Against spleen tingling with blooming 6 drops in Extr. Filicis.
2. Kidney injection, whereby the fat melts and emaciation follows. A farmer always had fatty urine, as if melted butter had been poured in it; at the same time, he felt a lot of heat in his back and his energy and body were diminishing; he was losing weight on his hops and was always feverish. He took 3 drops Spiritus Saturn in Aqua Plantaginis at night; after four times he was healed.
2. Inflammation of kidney, whereby fat melts and follows emanciation. In a peasant, the urine was always greasy, as if melted butter had been poured into it; at the same time, he felt a lot of heat in his back and his energy and body were dwindling; he was losing weight on his hops and was still feverish. He took 3 drops Spiritus Saturn in aqua Plantaginis at night; after four times he was cured.
3. Virulent gonorrhea. A noble man suffered from this for some time; he felt a great heat and thought he had nothing but the member of Abscissio could not help. The Spiritus Saturn with aqua Sambuci was applied and soon extracted the heat; at the same time injections with this were made; he was cured in 3 days.
4 . Taken against the Panaritian, he quickly helps.
POTASSIUM ACETATE ACETONE
(Ib.11, p. 15)
1 part Acetone
2 parts Spiritus Vini (Spirit of Wine)
1/2part 0Z. Vitrioli
Let it digest for 6 weeks until it becomes a beautiful and pleasant tasting medicine, and for many diseases.
1. It is a very strong comforter for the stomach; 12 drops in first spoonful of soup. The stomach may be full of phlegm; this will split the phlegm and take it away without any other medicine.
2. 2. It eliminates stomach fever completely but gentle catharsis is necessary, especially if the sick person does not feel very cold or very hot. This fever usually lasts for some time due to lingering phlegm in the stomach; phlegm also causes permanent headaches.
3. Against the stone. A preacher was suffering from strong stone pain, and all the medications increased the pain so that he didn't want to take any more. Agricola told him that this medicine does not push the stone, but at the same time opens the materials and dissolves the kidney stone, so that it passes without pain. He took 10 drops each day in a soup spoon, and after using it for a month the pain was gone and the urine very thick and cloudy with bright red deposits.
4. In the case of hot pestilent fevers it is potent means and resists poison because it forces strong perspiration when given in aqua or aqua acetotheracali . 1-3 drops of Essentia Croci are also added so that the heart is not overcome with poison. It is particularly suitable for children because of its pleasant smell and taste.
5. Against early or not too long-contracted Podagra, every day 15 drops in aqua Ivae artheticae. It locates the problem area and causes pain there; this is when this sector also needs external application.
6. In the case of pain in hollow teeth, hot vinegar syrup 1 is taken in the mouth and the pain is quickly eliminated.
(Remarks and Experiments for the Enrichment of the Art of Medical Science (1782. Th. 11. P. 84)
Theden prepared his tincture according to the instructions of an alchemical writing as follows; 2 pounds of stibnite are fused together to a liver with 6 pounds of potassium and saturated with 13 Berliner quarts of concentrated wine vinegar.The substance was evaporated until dry;Wine Alcohol was added and then distilled over the water bath The spirit of wine which had passed over was poured back over the substance, again distilled, and this process was repeated 30 times, whereby the lost spirit was always replaced.Sixteen liters of alcohol were sold out and barely 2 pounds of dye were produced.
This tincture was digested for 3 months in the ash bath, during the first month with one, during the second month with 2, and then with the 3 lamp fires, starting from a pound of tincture.
He administered this medicine in the case of glandular blockage, externally as well as internally, and the effect exceeded his expectations. 18 doses were taken per day, it caused sweating, increased urination, and on increasing the dosage, mild laxation. she got rid of pains from podagra, helped with clogged bowels, but the most important thing was that she achieved in 3 cases the complete division of hidden cancers, and in 2 cases she helped good promising hope for improvement.
In Part 3, on page 269, we find observations of Dr. Walter of Lief Land, according to which the induration in both breasts originally caused by hardened milk, has been completely cured.
The famous Wichmann held this medicine in high esteem against "breast browning": the only patient whom _ he had the rare fortune of curing this grave disease had been saved by the use of the medicine for 1/2 the per year by two fontanels in the thighs.Theden says nothing about the color, taste, and odor of the medicine.
As the medical effects were, as doubtful were the views of the chemists in regard to these effects. It was called stibnite tincture; chemical testing showed, however, that it contained no stibnite; also the procedure was so expensive, complicated, and time consuming that the production encountered many obstacles. Gren says: it's a leave-ground solution in the spirit of wine; the few particles of stibnite it might contain are not worth the painful preparation; and according to Westrumb it was nothing but a solution of potassium acetate which after the long torment, as that states sympathetically, turned combustible.
This shows how the chemists of those days were unaware of the breakdown of acetate salts by dry distillation, which alchemists from the 13th to the 17th century had activated with such patience and care as the aim of their work. secret.
It is evident that from the long way Theden has gone, a gradual degradation of potassium acetate with the partial decomposition of the spirit of wine into acetic acid is caused, and an effective medicine is gained, the chemical examination of which will be the subject of today's analysis.
My own observations on the use of acetone.
I prescribed acetone, combined with the two oils, under the name of spiritus aceti oleosus. Since 1840, I have often used this remedy. The product thus prepared is good, but it does not entirely correspond to the description of the old chemists; it notably lacks the famous perfume, which is easily explained by the fact that the process formerly in use matured the remedy in a way, by digestions and distillations repeated for a long time. It is the same for a wine stored in a room warmed by damp straw: the heat thus produced ennobles it in the space of three months just as much as a stay of three whole years in the bottle would do. As appears from the old prescriptions, this is a very delicate operation, the fundamental condition of which is: "hurry without haste". If it is chemically correct to dehydrate acetone by distillation on calcium chloride, it is no longer the same from a medicinal point of view. Pure acetone, as currently supplied by the chemical industry, does not have the same strength, neither in terms of fragrance and flavor, nor in terms of its therapeutic effectiveness.
It does not act on rheumatism, as does spiritus aceti oleosus: the ethereal oil is therefore essential to the composition of this last remedy.
In general I noticed: 1.
That the urine and chair walks a disgusting stinky smell like cat urine and Katzenkoth. I observed it immediately at the beginning of my attempts in a woman with the flu, I had prescribed:
R. Spir. In this. oleos. Drachm. I.Aq.
_ destill. A C. II.
Syr. Sachar. A C. sowing.
Ms. Every two hours one tablespoon completely
The second night, she left a urine whose bad smell filled the whole room so that it had to be ventilated. In the vestibule, where the bedside chair stood, the chair step smelled likewise disgustingly. The bad smell continued, took them so long still from the medicine which was absent during the rapid improvement.
With a vertigo-addicted tailor in the last stage the drachma showed itself already after 1/2 the following day the stinking smell by chair walking and urine which became in the following days even more disgusting and in the eruption.
In a hysterical nervous woman, the urine already after half an hour had after 5 drops the smell
An old lady received:
R. Spir. In this. oleos. Scrup. Sun
Aqua still. A C. duas
Syr. Sachar. A C. sunday.
Ms. Every three hours one tablespoon full.
There was no change in the urine. When the Arzenei was consumed, I prescribed
R. Spir. In this. oleos. Drachm. I.Aq.
_ destination A C. II.
Syr. Sachar.
mucill. Gumm. Arabic. declare free Unc. sunday.
Ms. Every three hours one tablespoon full.
At night, the chair step smelled detestably, and it continued, took them so long the Arzenei.
All the patients were quite concerned by this phenomenon, however believed or were easily convinced that the very harmful spoiled tissues would be eliminated from the bleeding, and I wanted a clarification (a search for information) closer not for suitably in the interest of sighting.
The urine itself showed no particular change, it was soon sour, soon neutral, soon clear, soon turbid, soon, in separate cases, it left in greater quantity.
2. I did not observe an effect on sweat, where entered(defended), it was itself more consequence of the development of the disease.
3. It has a visible effect on the nerves.
A police servant had suffered from severe meningitis spinalis which had been treated with incandescent iron and the most vigorous means. From this he had retained a neuralgia in the neck with the constant shaking convulsions of the head which was aggravated if he straightened up and the head and neck were pulled back under the pains in the shoulders in the cross so that he never sits freely, but always had to lean the head. So his condition, when he came some years later, in August 1840 in my treatment was 57. I tried until the end of December a homeopathic Cur with high dilutions of Balladonna, Nux vomica, Cocculus without essential Erflog.
In January 1841, he started the alcohol Aceti oleosus. Soon certain improvement was; three weeks later, he had 6 hours can sit down and play the solo. At the end of February the improvement was successful so far that he could sit down freely and walk around, the head though still trembled, but was no longer pulled back. At the end of March he had been able to take short walks in good weather, and only a longer walk still attacked the back and the cross; the trembling and shaking of the head which offered a strange sight had remained.
He had been using the remedy for three months continuously, and since he was quite content with his own, and his limited situation could not bear the drug costs well, the Heart was closed. He retained the head shake until his death in 1860. the improvement was successful so far that he could sit down freely and walk around, the head, though, still trembled, but was no longer pulled back. At the end of March he had been able to take short walks in good weather, and only a longer walk still attacked the back and the cross; the trembling and shaking of the head which offered a strange sight had remained. He had been using the remedy for three months continuously, and since he was quite content with his own, and his limited situation could not bear the drug costs well, the Heart was closed.
He retained the head shake until his death in 1860. the improvement was successful so far that he could sit down freely and walk around, the head, though, still trembled, but was no longer pulled back. At the end of March he had been able to take short walks in good weather, and only a longer walk still attacked the back and the cross; the trembling and shaking of the head which offered a strange sight had remained. He had been using the remedy for three months continuously, and since he was quite content with his own, and his limited situation could not bear the drug costs well, the Heart was closed. He retained the head shake until his death in 1860. and only a longer step still attacked the back and the cross; the trembling and shaking of the head which offered a strange sight had remained. He had been using the remedy for three months continuously, and since he was quite content with his own, and his limited situation could not bear the drug costs well, the Heart was closed. He retained the head shake until his death in 1860. and only a longer step still attacked the back and the cross; the trembling and shaking of the head which offered a strange sight had remained. He had been using the remedy for three months continuously, and since he was quite content with his own, and his limited situation could not bear the drug costs well, the Heart was closed. He retained the head shake until his death in 1860.
The hysterical woman in whom the urine smelled already half an hour after the medicine felt after 5 drops a heat in the stomach which rose from there after the head with great relief from the same; with that nausea and in the heart, it became better. The good effect showed itself again in the next few days, the cramps in the limbs left afterwards, the dizziness, the sleep became better. The urine was still going strong and had its striking smell.
A very nervous woman received a fainting spell that stopped for an hour. At night at eight days, when she was still heavily attacked,
R. Infus took them. wheel. Valerian. A C. II.
spir. In this. oleos. Scrup. I.
Syr. Aurant. A C. sowing.
Ms. Every two hours one tablespoon full.
Already in the evening, she felt much better and animated, and soon had a rest absolutely.
4. Rheumatism.
A child had rheumatic pains in the occiput and the nape of the neck with an easy irritation of fever. Three days later, it was no better.
R. Spir. In this. oleos. Scrup. I.
Syr. Sachar.
Dude. Arabic gums. declare free Unc. sowing.
Ms. Four times a day a Theelöffel completely.
Afterwards it slept in the afternoon soundly as after opium, and the pains disappeared completely in the next days.
A lady who often suffered from face pain, felt the harbingers of the same.
R. Spir. In this. oleos. Drachm. sunday.
Syr. Sachar. Drachm. very.
Syr. Cinnamon. Drachm. unam.
Ms. Three times a day a Theelöffel completely.
Then the pains disappeared, but the head was a little taken because, as she said, the medicine is too strong. The taste was quite hidden by the juice, it tasted for this, however, like creosote. Probably something is of it in the coarse oil, since however creosote is also sedative, the preparation must remain.
In some cases, this increases the pain, accelerates the development of the disease process and pushes the rheumatism forward of the kind of homeopathic aggravation.
A young girl received heart rheumatism. On two donations of 1/4 Gran Aurum metallicum praecipitatum was free on the 2nd day of the heart, on the contrary adapted a little root of the teeth which worsened on the 3rd day under pains in the head and Ohre on the left side. On the 4th day no change. spir. In this. oleos. 5 drops four times a day.
5 days. Hurt less.
6. Day. From early to strong tearing, at 10 drops per dose. All night pain however less. From then on they left after, and had completely disappeared on the 9th day.
One woman had strong head tearing which had continued by all night. spir. In this. oleos. inside and outside a Liniment of
R. Spir. In this. oleos.
Oh. Olivar. declare free Drachm. I.
Tinct. Kalin. Scrup. I.
Ms. To rub.
After that relief and almost all night slept.
Three days. Gelinder pains, but in the afternoon a new strong attack which stopped all night until the 4th day in the afternoon, full 24 hours; then the quiet and the night well.
5 days. No pain, night well.
6. Day. Only an indication of the pain which was then completely lost.
A young girl received the shiver of cold with swellings of the gums. spir. In this. oleos. In the evening, the gums were better, but the lip swelled with stinging pains in the skin of the forehead and temple.
2 days. Nose, mouth and cheek erysipelas swollen, all other pains away. The drug had done without sweat and urine rheumatism on the skin.
4. Day. Everything in improvement. At night after a good sleep the strong cold.
5 days. In the afternoon a heavy sweat, menstruation started eight days too early.
6. Day. Find well.
5. In feverish states works Spir. In this. oleos. too much when heating.
A young cook had been unwell for eight days, and now had headaches in the forehead, stitches and fever. Alcohol Acet. oleos. 5 drops every two hours. The night tearing in the face and in the teeth with which the headache and stitches were gone.
2 days. More previous pain again, also at night.
Three days. All morning shivering, afternoon heat and thirst.
Constantly seen from the picture; he seems to him all the bigger and stranger; if she closes her eyes, a figure walks ahead like a man in the headless cloak on which she frightens; with it again the heartbreak.
The drug was on display.
At night in eight days the fever was lifted, however she still had rheumatic stretching in the chest with oppression.
R. Spir. In this. ol. Drachm. sunday.
Aq. destill. A C. duas.
Syr. Specialized. A C. unam.
Ms. Every three hours one tablespoon full.
The next day she felt quite healthy. The drug had strongly pushed the urine.
A man had gouty inflammation of the right wrist with fever. spir. In this. oleos.
2 days. Pain in the knee and ankle of the left leg.
Three days. Also in addition pains in the right arm and urine with a strong set of earth covered tongue, no appetite, higher fever in the evening.
The means seemed too heating, and one exposed.
An attempt with pure acetone.
In February 1862, an old lady still fresh in life, however aged 75, received acute rheumatism in the shoulders and in the back which was very painful. After the fever was moderate, I prescribed February 26
R. Pure Acetone. Drachm. unam.
Aq. destination A C. duas.
Syr. Flower. aur.
Ms. Every three hours one tablespoon full.
It was this pure acetone from a chemical factory, since the older alcohol Aceti oleosus was no longer available in the pharmacy. The Arzenei tasted of acetone, however not unpleasant, and caused a feeling of heat in the stomach.
The patient, who otherwise always suffers from constipation, had after that an easy (light) chair gag like porridge, but with the terrible bad smell, the urine did not smell like that.
She was taking the drug until March 2, so a full six days. The chair step like porridge had the same stinky bad smell. It was presented to her to the appeasement that the same comes from the eliminated gout matter and would be a good sign, however she explained, the bad smell is not to be endured, and since the rheumatism had not gotten better, do not did not become the medicine. The following two days the chair step was still just so provide, and only on the third day the flow, firm (solid) was without bad smell of acetone.
The pains were weaker stronger soon when using other means soon.
On March 16 I prescribed
R. Infus. wheel. Value. A C. duas cum dimid.
Acetone puet. Drachm. unam.
Syr. Aurant. Drachm. sex.
Ms. Every three hours one tablespoon full.
The medicine was taken twice. She felt a little more vigorously after that, the chair step had its bad smell again, but the pains would remain unchanged. Deshalb, I prescribed on March 21
R. Tinct. Spigel.
Tinct. Rhododendr. declare free Drachm. sunday.
Aq. Nuc. vomit. A C. sunday
Syr. Specialized. Drachm. duas.
Ms. Four times a day 25 drops.
At 22. she was absolutely pain-free, schllief, however, already a lot during the day and At night extraordinarily long and solidly, and when waking up at 23. she was paralyzed as in all limbs, and only gradually returned a small mobility .
Against this threatening chance, she received Ammon. carbon. Pyro-oleos. gr. 1. Three times a day.
At 26. it was better with the paralysis, and the pains were catching on themselves to stir again. At the animation, I prescribed
R. Infus. hb. Rorismarin. A C. quartet.
Purely acetone. Drachm. unam.
Syr. Specialized. A C. sunday.
Ms. Ung. nervine. was rubbing every two hours a tablespoon completely and with Linim. volatile.
At 28. she had on improvement increasing an easy(slight) chair walk again without a specific odor.
At 29. the chair step had its terrible bad smell again. She was quite beside herself that at such a short time again so much spoil must have accumulated in the body, since, nevertheless, days were nothing to feel of it, and must have taken wol a suspicion against the drug, because she was certainly explaining that she does not want to take anything more and wait for the improvement of the good time. I was happy for my Theio with my observations and accepted. When she no longer took any medication, it got better with each day, but the rheumatic pains came back at times, and only after a while did she come back to strength.
This follows from this history of illness:
1. Pure acetone makes chair walking just as stinky as Aceti oleosus alcohol. It is normal that it is only noticed, if the need is met in the room.
2. It does not change urine.
3. It had no curative effect on rheumatism like alcohol Aceti oleosus, ethereal oil is essential for arzeneiliche Constitution of the same.
Antipyreton Poterii.
Petrus Poterius whom Friedrich Hoffmann indicates as medicorum sui aevi Principem, and his Opera practica el chymica he for so instructive stopped that he published them 1698 with his remarks, a febrifuge had in use which he calls Antipyreton, and when unique and more medicinal glorifies before all others.
He describes 24 cases of fever which became thereby behanelt. These are Febris ardens, F. maligna, F. biliosa, F. hectica, F. tertiana simplex and duplex and F. quartana simplex and duplex. In some cases only one donation became therefore, in other(different) 3 to 4 times each given day. Recovery turned out unexpectedly faster in several days, only in 9 cases in 10 to 14 days. Bemerkenswerth is that in Tertiana the duplex was available in two cases a spleen tumor which was not quite raised in one, and in second had increased.
These observations induced me in 1844 to leave the remedy, and to make attempts with it in the following cases of illness.
1. Sudor intermitteus quotidianus.
An old lady who had already suffered for many years from gout and had a lump of gout on her wrist, received gastric cathar fever which had ended with the third week so that she was out of bed again. Vonda adapted to a sweaty period each afternoon that stopped at the beginning of five o'clock, and only gradually became shorter. This sweat had lasted already regularly seven weeks, and the applied means had made no Aendrung; between through her gout pains manifested.
It was the first case where I prescribed the means. In the evening she received a gift of three Antipyreton drops. Then she first had a feeling of comfortable warmth all over her body, then Kriebeln in all extremities, at that fell asleep them and woke up two hours later in a full sweat whereupon she slept again and sweated. The sweat was more sticky than otherwise.
2 days. She felt very vividly and vigorously. In the evening again a gift Antipyreton, after that soon Jücken in the face, especially around the nose, grater beautifully, then slept with general sweat.
Three days. In the evening Antipyreton, after that only a small Jücken in the face, on the contrary continuous Kriebeln in the chest with a little cough and rash.
4. Day. Well sharply, the drop bump is strikingly smaller gworden. In the evening no Arzenei, all night slept perfectly.
5 days. She feels quite healthy and in full strength.
Three Antipyreton donations had been sufficient to cure the long illness quickly and completely.
2. Herpes Zoster.
An old lady had shingles on one side of the lower abdomen with annoying complaints. On the third day, the bladders showed a blackish background.
4. Day. High fever, fatigue, headache, the bladders were blackish in several places like gangrene. Antipyreton 3 drops. From noon at night a lot of heat and sweat with strong headaches in the forehead, Auschlag more painful, pulse from the 108th evening remission, calm nap. Pulse 88. At night alternately slept and sweated.
5 days. The gap well roth some bladders are blackish but still. After the Antipyreton soon sweat and forehead, then great heat all over the body with a full strong pulse of 108 beats, at that a heavy sweat without thirst; night altogether well, still sweating.
6. Day. Early still sweat, bladders contain pus. After Antipyreton soon again stronger sweat, Nachmittagas sweat more moderately. The urine has large röthlichen Bdensatz, pulse 100. Otherwise she is quite brisk and hardly feels sick. The night at Theil slept, always geschitzt.
7. Day. Pulse 100, slightly irritated: Anitpyreton, after that moderate sweat and sedimentirender urine. However the state showed a change, she was very weak, often dozed, had occasionally Lay in the side and At night the heat with thirst and no dry sleep
8. Day. More weakness, pulse 108, dry tongue. Jrtzt had opened to me only mitgetheilt that Krankke was in the Mancht in advance in a full sweat aufgestaden, parent arrived home, and dabein a cold had attracted itself. Now the illness went into a heavy nerve fever which closed with uingeherem Decubitus, but fortunately was overcome.
1. Febris gastricca nervosa.
An old laundress was afflicted with cold, headaches and rupture.
Three days. Cold more massively, diarrhea, formation of allucinations.
4. Day. Heat, fatigue, bitter taste, lactis serum. In the afternoon and later again pictures at night with concern.
5 days. Chair step like porridge, less bitter taste. Anitpyreton 2 drops, bakd after that strong bistro in the body until Abned without chair step, pictures weniger:Abends again 2 drops Antipyreton, again Leibkneippen without chair step, but not so long, then three hours slept under a heavy sweat, later slept again.
6. Day. Pulse 108. Antipyreton repeated. In the afternoon she had got up, and had busied herself with her washing work up to exhaustion, but had slept At night, nevertheless, quite well, no picture.
7. Day. Everything better. Antipyreton 1 drop.
8. Day. She feels vigorously again and, quite possibly.
3.Repressed feet sweating.
A young girl was sickly by the disappearance of her very heavy perspiration of the feet for six weeks, and now fever with rotten eructation and pains had in the body. Magnesia usta.
2 days. The gastric symptoms were lifted, on the contrary, they were harassed by severe pains all over the chest. In the evening, Antipyreton 3 drops, soon after that loosened them all.
Three days. Acid belching. The stomach had not accepted the Antipyreton because it was not yet pure. Eswurde now a depressed anti-gastric treatment, and on the 9th day, where it was available became better, but still the chest pain, were given 3 drops Antipyreton in the evening. Then she received a beating in the legs which stopped an hour ahlbe, then sleep, but no sweat.
10. Day. Still chest pain, in the evening Antipyreton, after that again half an hour long throbbing in the legs, then sleep, however, no sweat.
11. Day. Chest pain lifted, on the contrary pain in the left side. In the evening Antipyreton, after that within 1 hour a throbbing in the legs, then sleep disturbed by an eating pain in the side.
As Antipyreton did not lead to the goal, means andre were given by what at last sweating of feet and with it recovery came back.
5. Acute rheumatism.
A 6-year-old boy received fever, on the 3rd day pain appeared in the knee.
4. Day. Right knee swollen, also left pain and aching in left side. Pulse with fever. The pains were so strong that they pressed loud wines and cries, and the parents were in despair.
A. Antipyret. gtt. very.
Aq. destill. A C. unam cum dimid.
Syr. Sachar. Drachm. unam cum dimid.
Ms. Every three hours a child's spoon completely.
After that a much better night, but no sweat.
5 days. The pains extended after the feet and after the hand. Fever less, moderately moist skin. The Arzenei repeats.
6. Day. Everything better.
7. Day. GOOD.
6. Sciatic gout.
A woman had gout sciatic nervosa for eight days which had increased with each day and the last night had prevented all sleep. With that, she had a little fever, little appetite, no more thirst.
A. Antipyret. gtt. sex.
mucill. Arab rubber.
Syr. Sachar. declare free Drachm. unam.
Ms. Morning and evening half.
On the first donation, it was already better in the afternoon, and after the second ones, she had slept almost all night.
2 days. No severe pains, only naps in the leg, but the emergence still did not go. Evening blos half the Arzenei.
Three days. Increasing improvement.
6. Day. Every day better, they could also go some steps. My departure for the Teplitz bath interrupted the treatment.
7. Rheumatism dorsalis.
A woman had caught cold At night by the rapid getting up from the bed to help her ill husband, and dadruch herself the strongest pains in the cross which radiated up to the chest, pulled.
R. Antipyreton gtt. IV.
Aq. Nuc. of. A C. sunday.
Syr. comm. Drachm. unam.
Ms. Every three hours 20 drops.
The next day the pains were smaller and had completely disappeared by the third.
7. Sedative.
A hysterical woman took an Antipyreton in the evening; after that The night more sleep, less sweat, a lot of urine. The second evening again Antipyreton, after that slept even better, less sweat, a lot of urine which calms nerves; she believed, it would be opiums in the gout.
Weak-minded, with Hallucination and general cramps the suffering man, Antipyreton of the evening slept on a don for six hours calmly and spoke no more the next day wanders.
9. Exaestuatio sanguinis.
An old, but still jolly, portly woman who had not suffered for many years from constant whistling, singing, singing, shouting and noise in the head, in the ears, which was accompanied to the stärkerm din by a hard, tense, accelerated pulse received in the evening 3 drops Antipyreton and after that had a much worse night with reinforced shouting which was even worse the next day. Here it seemed holy at night. On Cremor Tartari the boiling of blood subsided.
This strikingly favorable and rapid curative effect of the Antipyreton which I have still used a lot, moreover without taking notes relating to this subject, made me very much value the same and fix my confidence in it.
Further instruction took them into the Pharmacopoea of Poterius from the Quercetanus. 675 under the title Antidotus Lysipyretos Antimonii mittheilt. She is:
R. Florum rubrorum Antimonii Unc. IV.
Florum sulfuris sublimatorum according to perfectam albedinem Unc. II.
Misceantur cum duplo colchotaris Vitrioli hungarici aut cyprii act ter subilmentur, habebis flores rubicundissimos, si bene operatus fueris. Hi cum acidiate vitrioli Veneris primo, deinde cum Vero Saturni aethereo spiritu essentificantur.
Hujus philosophicae essentificationis si callueris artem, medicinam suscipiendam concinabis, veram Antidotum Lysipyreton, omnis generis febras, pestiferas etiam sedantem et extinquentem, si according to IV. aut le V. Guttas de ea ex idoneo liquore propinaveris.
Practice testifies:
1. Floris rubri Antimonii, flores sulfuris and Colchotar become three times sublimated.
2. Sublimation first becomes with Aciditas vitrioli Veneris, that is: with Acetum Aeruginis, acetic acid verdigris, treats, then 2. With alcohol aethereus Saturni
, di with acetone, gasoline done.