Salmon, William: Polygraphice: Or, The Arts of Drawing, Engraving, Etching, Limning, Painting, Washing, Varnishing, Gilding, Colouring, Dying, Beautifying and Perfuming: In Four Books ... To which is added A Discourse of Perspective and Chiromancy (London, 1675)

184 Poly graph ices. Lib.3.

CHAP. XXVIII.
General Experimental obser vat ions of Mine-
ral Colours*
t. Q Vblimate dissolved in fair water, and mixed
O with a little spirit of llrine,makes a milk white
mixture in a moment: which by addition of Aqua*
smii, immediately again becomes transparent.
II. If Sublimate two ounces, and Jin-glass one
ounce be sublimed together, you will have a lublimate
not inferiour to the best Orient Pearls in the world.
lit. Silver dissolved in Aqua-form, and evaporated
to dryness, and fair water poured two or three times
thereon, and evaporated, till the calx is dry, leaves ic
of a Snow whiteness: which rubbed upon the skin,
s wetted With spittle, water or the like J produces a
deep blackness,not to be obliterated in somedays.
With thii-i Ivory, Hair-, and Horns may he dyed in sair
rratcr of a lading black>
IV. Coral dissolved by oyl of Vitriol, Sulphur, or
spirit os vinegar, and precipitated by oyl of Tartar,
yields a Snow whiteness. The same of Crude Lead
and Quicksilver dissolved in Aqua-sarm: So butter os
Antimony re&ifiedby bare arTusion in much fair water*
willCthough Unduous)be precipitated into that Snow
white powder which (being warned from its corrofive
salts J is called Mercurius Vit£: the like of which may
be made without the addition of any Mercury at all.
V. Mercury Sublimate and precipitate yields (with
the spirit os Urine, Hartshorn, or the like) a white pre-
cipitate : but with the solution of Pot-ames, or other
Lixiviate