Chymische Versuche und Erfahrungen
Subtitle: aus Vitriole, Salpeter, Ofenruss, Quecksilber, Arsenik, Galbano, Myrrhen, der Peruvianer Fieberrinde und Fliegenschwämmen kräftige Arzneyen zu machen
By: Herausgegeben von Johann Christian Bernhardt. Mit Königl. Pohln und Churfl. Sächsischen Privilegio
Contributors: Ghinolfi, A.
Publisher: Verlegts Bernhard Christoph Breitkopf.
Published: 1755
Place of publication: Leipzig, 1755
Language: ger
Number of pages: 328
Subjects: Sulfuric acid; Pharmaceutical chemistry; Cinchona bark; Chemicals; Physiological effect; Chemistry; Laboratory manuals
Notes: The author details the extraction of large quantities of highly concentrated sulfuric acid from green vitriol (ferrous sulfate). Prior to the development of the lead chamber process the Vitriolverfahren (first described by Geber) was the only known method of producing of sulfuric acid. It also describes how Peruvian bark (cinchona) was utilized by European physicians.

Signatures: *⁸ (-*8) (*1 verso blank) **⁸ (***8 verso blank) A-X⁸

Errata: foot of p.[8], 3rd count.

Engraved printer's ornament on title page; head and tail pieces; initials.

Includes three plates numbered I-III; plate III is a single plate and bound to face p. [30], 1st count; plates I and II are double plates and bound following p. [8], 3rd count.

Verzeichnis Deutscher Drucke des 18. Jahrhunderts (VD 18), 10528903.

Purchase; 2016; 17-125.