Destillatoria curiosa; sive, Ratio ducendi liquores coloratos per alembicum
Subtitle: hactenus si non ignota, certe minus observata atque cognita.
By: Accedunt Utis Udenii [i. e. Georg Wolffgang Wedel] & Guerneri Rolfincii Non-entia chymica.
Contributors: Rolfinck, Werner, 1599-1673.; Wedel, Georg Wolffgang, 1645-1721.
Publisher: Typis Rungianis, impensis Ruperti Volcheri
Published: 1674
Place of publication: Berolini
Language: lat
Number of pages: 176
Subjects: Distillation -- Early works to 1800.; Color -- Experiments -- Early works to 1800.; Heat -- Experiments -- Early works to 1800.; Blood -- Experiments -- Early works to 1800.
Notes: "First edition of a rare and highly esteemed treatise on distillation, first communicated before the newly formed German Academia Naturae Curiosorum.  The treatise deals with furnaces and the various other methods of distillation.  The author discusses his experimentation with metals, minerals, spirits, oils, flowers, and plants, as well as the use of animals and vegetable material in chemistry, medicine, and other arts.  Of particular interest is the discussion of plants recently brought from the Americas, such as the "clove-cinnamon."  Elsholtz (1623-1688) studied at Padua and was a physician and director of the botanical gardens at Brandenburg.  He composed chemical treatises on phosphorus, contributed to the Ephermerides of the Academia, and was interested in infusory surgery and blood transfusions.  Ferguson calls him a man with broad medical and scientific interests and experimental tendencies.