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The manuscript contained more than four hundred recipes covering alchemy as well as cosmetics and medicine. [122] One of these recipes was for the water of talc. [122] Talc, which makes up talcum powder, is a mineral which, when combined with water and distilled, was said to produce a solution which yielded many benefits. [122]
Glauber's salt – sodium sulfate.Na 2 SO 4; Sal alembroth – salt composed of chlorides of ammonium and mercury.; Sal ammoniac – ammonium chloride.; Sal petrae (Med. Latin: "stone salt")/salt of petra/saltpetre/nitrate of potash – potassium nitrate, KNO 3, typically mined from covered dungheaps.
Alchemy and Daoism Archived 2020-02-14 at the Wayback Machine; Naam or Word, Book Three: Amrit, Nectar or Water of Life; Needham, Joseph, Ping-Yu Ho, Gwei-Djen Lu. Science and Civilisation in China, Volume V, Part III Archived 2014-11-27 at the Wayback Machine. Cambridge at the University Press, 1976. Turner, John D. (transl.).
The Liber de compositione alchemiae ("Book on the Composition of Alchemy"), also known as the Testamentum Morieni ("Testament of Morienus"), the Morienus, or by its Arabic title Masāʾil Khālid li-Maryānus al-rāhib ("Khalid's Questions to the Monk Maryanos"), is a work on alchemy falsely attributed to the Umayyad prince Khalid ibn Yazid (c. 668 – c. 704). [1]
For many centuries, it was the most sought-after goal in alchemy. The philosopher's stone was the central symbol of the mystical terminology of alchemy, symbolizing perfection at its finest, divine illumination, and heavenly bliss. Efforts to discover the philosopher's stone were known as the Magnum Opus ("Great Work"). [3]
Image of Alchimia, the embodiment of alchemy. Woodcut published by Leonhard Thurneysser in 1574. Thurneysser was a student of Paracelsus. In Renaissance alchemy, alkahest was the theorized "universal solvent".
Chinese woodblock illustration of a waidan alchemical refining furnace, 1856 Waike tushuo 外科圖説 (Illustrated Manual of External Medicine). Waidan, translated as 'external alchemy' or 'external elixir', is the early branch of Chinese alchemy that focuses upon compounding elixirs of immortality by heating minerals, metals, and other natural substances in a luted crucible.
Wow-Wow Sauce (sometimes referred to as Bow wow sauce) [1] is a sauce for which the first known recipe was published by William Kitchiner of London in 1817. [2] It contains port , wine vinegar, parsley , pickled cucumbers or pickled walnuts , English mustard and mushroom ketchup in a base of beef stock, flour and butter.