Section 60

Oyl of Poppy- Seed
is exrra&ed the fame way, and yields a third part of a Golden-colour, and ufeful in dcrmitive Medicines. Alfo, thus is made
OylofColoquintida'Seeds.
The faireft yield a fixih part of a Golden-colour : ic killeth Worms , andexpelleth them from Children, being rubbed on the month of their Stomach. Alfo,
Oyl of Nettle- Seed.
An ounce and a half may be extracted out of a pound and a half of Secds,being pidscdi and blanched : it is very good to dye wemens Hair of a Gold colcdr. •
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is made by another Art. Take fifty or fixty Eggs ; boyl tbem till they be hard : then peal them,and take out the yelk, and fen them over warm Coals in a tinned Pol- net, till all their moytlure be confumod ; ftill birring them with a woodcn-fpattle : then encreafc the fire, but ftir tbem ucccflantly left they burn. You will fee the Oyl fwet out , when it is all come forth, take away the fire, and skim off the Oyl Or, when the Oyl beginneth to fwet out, as I faid, put the Eggs into a prefs, and fqueeze them very hard : they will yield more Oyi, but not fo good.
Chap. VI. How to extraUOyl with Water.
NOw I will declare how to extract Oyl without Expreffion : and firft , out of Spices, Seed?, Leaves, Sticks, or any thing elfe. Oyl being to be drawn out onely by the violence of fire , and very unapt to afcend , bccaule it is denfe : con- sidering alio, That Aromatick Seeds axe very fubtile and delicate : fo that if they be ufed too roughly in the fire, they willftink of fmoak, and burning: therefore, that they may endure a ftronger fire , and be fecure from burning , we muft take ih« af- fiftance of water. Thofe kinde of Seeds, as 1 faid, are endued with an Airy , thin, volatile Effence ; and by the propriety of their Nature, elevated on high ; lo, that in DilUUation, they areeafily carried upward, accompanied with water j and being condenfed in the Cap of the Stillatory, the oyly and the watcrifh vapours, rim dowa together intothe Receiver. Chufe your Seeds of a full ripenefs ; neither too new, nor too old ; but of a mature age : beat them and macerate them in four.times their weight of water ; or fo , that the water may arife tfee breadth of four firgers above them : then put them into a Brafs-pot , that they may endure the greater fire ; and kindle your Coals unto a vehement heat, that the Water and Oyl may promifcuonf- iy afcend and flow down : feparate the Oyl from the Water , as you may eafily do. As for example,
How to dtaw Oyl out of Cinnamon,
If you firft diflil Fountain water twice or thrice , you may extraft a greater quantity cF Oyl with it : for being made more fubtile* and apt to penetrate , it pierceth the Cinnamon, and draweth the Oyl more forcibly out of its Retirements. Therefore take CXXXV pound of Fountain- water, diftilitin a Glafs-Alembick : when forty pound is drawn, diihl that until fifteen flow out : then caft away the reft , and draw fiveoutof thofe fiftteen. This being done, macerate one pound of Cinnamon in five of Water , and diflil them in a Retort or Alembick. Firft , a Milky water will flow out with Oyl, next cleer Water : caft the Water in over the Oyl, and feparate them as we fhall teach you. Of a pound of Cinnamon , you will fcarce receive a drachm of Oyl.
How to draw a greater quantity ef Oyl out of Cinnamon.
I do ufe to do it in this manner,to the wonder of thebeft and fubtilleft Artifts : Pro- vide a Dcfcendatory out of the Bath, (the making of which , I will fhew hereafter) and put your Cinnamon, being grofsly beaten into a Glafs-Retort : fet it in its pro- per place, and put w ater into the Bath ; the heat of the fire by degrees, will draw a little water in many days : receive it careful, and pour it again into the Cinnamon that it may re- imbibe its own water ; fo let it remain a while : afterwards , kindle the fire, and you (hall receive a little Water and Oyl. Do this third and fourth timef and you will gain an incredible quanity. You may try the fame in other things,
Oyl of Cloves
may be extra£tedin the fame manner: To every pound of Cloves, you muft add ten of Water; diliil them as before : fo fhaJl you have both Water and Oyl. Ic will yield a twelfth part. The Oyl is good for Medicines » and theVVatcr for 'J* wees. So alio is made
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Liquid Oyl of Nutmegs. If you bruife them, and put them with the Water into a Vcffel , and diftil them as before , they will yield a fixth part.
Oyl of Mace and Pepper is drawn in the fame manner, much flronger, but in lefs quantity.
Oyl of Anifeed
may be thus extracted ; an ounce out of a pound. Ic congealeth in Winter like Camphire or Snow : in the Summer it diffolveth. Let the Seeds be macerated in the Water for ten days at leaft : for the longer they lie there , the more Oyl they will yield.
Oyl of Fennel
is extra&ed in the fame quantity : when the Seeds arc ripe and frefh, they have moft Oyl ; for they yield as much more.
Oyl of Coriander
yieldeth but a fmall quantity , and is of very hard extra&ion : there is fcarce one drachm drawn out of a pound : new Seeds yield mcft. And to be fhort ; in the fame manner are cxtra&ed the Oyls out of the Seeds of Carrot , Angelica , Marjoram^ Rue,Rofemary,Parfely,Smallage and Dill, and fuch-likc.
Oyl of Rofemary and Lavender-flewers, and
fuch-others , which being dried , afford no Oyl , may be thus extracted : fat trie Flowers into a Receiver, and fct it clofe ftopt in the hot Sun for a month : there will they diffolve into Liquor , and flic up to the fides of the Glafs : then being con- denfed again, fall down and macerate in themfelves : at a fit time,add Water to then) and diftil them, as the former : fo (hall you draw forth with the Water a moft excel- lent lwcet Oyl.
Oyl of Juniper and Cyprefs-Wood
may de drawn out by the fame Art , if you macerate the duft of them in their own or in F©i main- water fcra month , and diftil them in the fame manner : theOyi will ceme out by drops with the water, of a ftrong fent, and excellent venue. Thcfc 1 have tried, the reft I leave to thee.
Cmaf. VII.
How to feparate Oyl from Water »
"IfX/Hen we extract Oyls , they run down into the Receiver together with the * Water : wherefore they muft be feparated, left the flegm , being mixed with the O) 1 do weaken the vertuc of it : that it may obtain its full vigour , it moft be purified by Diftillation and Separation : for being put into a Retort or broad Stiil,over a gentle fiie,the Water will run out,& the it maining Liquor will be clear Oyl. This work of Separation is very laborious : yet there are very artificial Vcf- « fcls invented, by the help of which, all the Water may be drawn off, and the flegm • onely pure Oyl will remain. Prepare a Glafs- Veffel : let it be broad and grow nar- rower by degrees downward?, until it come to a point, like unto a Tunnel. Put the diftilled Water, which confifteth of the flegmatick Water and Oyl into this Vef- fel ; let ic ftand a while : the Oyl will fwim on the top, and the Water will fink down to the bottcm. But ftop the mouth of it with your finger ; fo that removing ic away , the Water may firft run out , and the Oyl fink down by degrees. When it is defended into the narrow part , fb that the Oyl becometh neat to your finger ; ftop the hole, and let the Orifice be but half open for the VVater to pafs out : when
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it is all run out , empty the Oyl into another fmall Veffel. There is another very ingenious Inrtrument found out for to feparatc Oy), with a great belly and a narrow Beck, which a little nofe in the middle. Pour the Oyl mked with Water into the Vcflcl, the Water will peffefs the bottom, the Oyl the neck. Drop Water gent- ly into it,until the Oyl afcend up unto the nofe : thenencline the Veffel downward, and the Oyl will run out pure and unmix'd. When you have emptied out fome, drop in;more Water , until the Oyl be raifed again unto the nofe : then flop it downed pour out the reli of the Oyl. But if the Oyl fettle to the bottom , and the Water fwim on the top, as it often hapneth, filtrate it into a broad difli, or any other Veffel with a cotten-cloth : the Water will run out, and the Oyl will remain in the bottom very pure-
C H A ?, VIII.
Mow to mttkf a* Infirnment to extratt Ojl in a greater quantity and without danger of
burning,
E may with feveral forts of Inflruments , ufe feveral fcindes of ExtraSions : among the reft, I found out one , whereby you may draw Oyl with any the rnoft vehement fire, without any danger of burning; and a greater quantity , then by any other x and it is fit for many other ufes alio. Prepare a Veffel in the form of an Ege, of the capacity of half an ordinary Barrel : let the mouth of it, be of a con» venient bignefs to receive in your arm, when there fhall occafion to wafli it, ot to fill it with feveral forts and degrees of things to be diftilled. Let it be tinned within ; then fet a brafs head upon it of a foot high, with a hole in the bottom fit to receive the neck of the lower Veffel, and flop the mouth of it exactly. Out of the top of the head, there muft arife a pipe of Brafs , fifteen or twenty foot long , bended into fev eral angles, that it may take up lefs room , and be more convenient to be carried. The other end of this Pipe,muft be fattened into the belly of another Vtffel, which rauft be of lefs capacity then the former, but of the fame figure. Fix a head upon this alfo, with a Pipe of the fame length, and bended like the former; whofe lower end ftiall be received into another flraight Pipe,which palling through the middle of a Barrel, at laft falls into the Receiver. The manner of ufing it is this : Put your Leaves, Stalks, or Seeds, being beaten fmall , into the Brafs-pot , and pour asmnch Foun- tain-water on as will cover them a hand- ful or five large fingers over • then fet on the head, and flop the joynts very clofe. Put the other end of the Pipe into the o- thcr Pot , andjoynt them exactly : then fet on the other head, and faflcn the lower end of its crooked Pipe into that ftraighc one j which parting through the Barrel, runneth into the Receiver. If the joynts be anywhere faulty , ftop them with Flax, and parte them with Wheat-flour , and the white of an Egg ; then rowl them about, and tie them clofe with Fillets, cut out of a Bladder : for when the vapors are forced by the heat of the fire, they arefo attenu- ated , that they will break forth through the leaft rime or chink , in fpite of all your endeavors. Fill the Barrel with cold wa- ter , and when it beginncth to grow hoc, draw it out through a Cock at bottom, and fopply frefh water , that the Pipe may al- ways be kept cool. At length, make the Pot boyl , at firli with a gentle fire J then
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encreafe it by degrees, Until the vehemency ot the heat, doth make the tapors hifs, as it were ready tc break the Pipes , as they run thorow therh ; fo they will be ele- vated thoraw ihe retorted Pipes, and leave the phlcgmatick water in the lower Vef- fel j till ; atlin^ through the cold Pipe , they be condenfed into Liquor , and tall down into the Receiver. If the water do coniurhc away in the boyling , pour in more being firit warmed, thorrw a little Pipe which the Pot muft have on one fide with a Spigget to it, for this purp^fe : but be fute to flop the Spigget in very clofe, that r here m iy be no v enr. Afterwards, i'eparate the Oy 1 from the Water , fublime and ptti iHe it in another V fiVl. Of all the Inftruments that ever I faw, not any one extradcth a greater quantity of Oyl,and with lefs labour and induftry then this. Thns you may without an, fear of burning, draw Oylouc of Flowers, Leaves, Spices, Gum?, and Wood with the vehemcmett fires j as alfo out of Juniper andLaurel*5 Berries,
Chap. IX.
The Defcriptittt of a Vefceudatory whereby Oyl is extracted by Defcettt*
I Cannot refrain from difcovering here an Inf rument found out by my own pri* vaic experience , which I hope will be of Bo imall profit tothe Ingenious , by wtiicn ttiey may draw Oyl out of any the lcalt things without any fear of burning* For there are man- tenuous, oy ly Flowers, as of Rolemary and Juniper , and other t r g-\a Ma k, Amber,Civet,Gum,and fuch-like : out of which may be drawn Oyls very tweet and medkinabie : but they arc of to thin aiubttance , that there is a great hazard of burning them, when they are forced by the heat of the fire, without wmch, neither fat things will be elevatedmor Oyl cxtra&cd. Therefore to remedy the'e inconveniences, I have invented an InHrument , by wh'ch Oyl fhall defcend without any labour or danget of burning. Let a Vcflelbemadeof Brafs,inthe form ot an Fgg, top, of wt ich the upper part muH ferve for a cover , and be to fitted to be received into the lcw?r pan. that the joints may clofely fall in one another , and bcexa&ly It opt In their wcr part,tcward- the middle, about half afoot from the mouth ; let there be a Copper- plai e htted , as it were the midriff ; fo that it may eafily be put ard take n cut : in which" muH be made three hollow places to receive the bot- tom of three retorted V irg Water and hot Spirit may have paffi e to rile upwards. Our of the fides of the Vetfel there mull be three holes , rhrou^h the which the neck* of the Retorts may pafs, being glued and fallned ro their Pipe? with Flax, and tied with Fillers of Bladders: fo that not the leatt Air, mnch lets any Water may flic out. When you prepare to work, fill the Glafs-Retorts wirh the thirgs you intend to Hill, thrult the necks thorrw the holes outward, and lay their bodies in the prepared hHl^wnefs of the crofc plate, 'rm.-what elevated. If there remain any void fpace between the neck« , and the fides of the boles they pafc through, Hop ic with Flax, ard i i" it about with Fillets of Bladder, and fill the Vcffel with with water, within thrrc fio Hopt ar rot burH i. open, ard fca!d the Faces of the by-ftanders , kindle the fire by degrees^ Untitli b'C mevfry vehement: then wil the vapors make a great r.ofe , almoh fuffi- ci nr to ternfie one, and full Water , then Water and Oyl will diftil out, I can- not conratn mv felf from relating alfo another InHrument invented for the lame purpofe. Make an oval Brafs the bottom to which fiften a pipe that may arife up to the mrurhof the VeiTel, let th G ats miy pals through the P:pe of it, ardthe Wide mouh of the VefTel under, may bv degree rrceive the f'welling part- of the neck. Adipt a cover to this Vcffel that it mav *-e rlc'e ttopt and lured a we laid he'ore. You mull make a Furnace on pur- pofe for this ufc : for the fire mnft not be made in the bottom, but about the VclTel.
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Theufeis this: Fi.ltheGIaiswithFIcwerscr other things ; put in I'ome wire Lute- firings a!ter them , that they any not fall oui again when theGlafs isinv.rfed. Thrulf the ntck thorow the Brais-Pipe: let theVvflfeicn the Furnace, and fill it with Water round about the ariiing Pipe: put on the Cover, and plaifter it about : fet the Receiver under the Furnace that ir may catch the dropping Water andOyl : then kindie the fire about the fides of the Pot, the violence of which , will elevate vapors cf burning water ; which,beating againff the con- cave pare of thcCover,will be reverberate upon the bottom of the Gourd- Glafs,who-:e fervent heat, will turn the Water and Oyl into vapor, and drive it dewn into the Receiver. 1 will fet down fome examples of thofe things which- 1 maae trial of my feif. As,