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12 Putrefaction, is the reolution of a mixt body into it elf by a naturall gentle heat. Q. Quinteence, is an abolute, pure and well digeted medicine, drawne from any ubtance, either animall, vegetable, or minerall. R. Rectification, is either the drawing of the flegme from the Spirit, or of the Spirit from the flegme, or the exaltation of any Liquor by a reiterated ditillation. Reverberation, is the reducing of bodies into a Calx by a reflecting flame. S. Solution, is a diolving or attenuating of bodies. Stratification, is a trewing of corroding powder on plate of metall by coure. Sublimation, is an elevating, or raiing of the matter to the upper part of the veell by way of a ubtle powder. Subtiliation, is the turning of a body into a Liquor, or into a fine powder. T. Tranmutation, is the changing of a thing in ubtance, colour, and quality. V. Volatile, is that which flyeth the fire. Rules to be conidered in Ditillation. 1. Make choyce of a fit place in your houe for the furnace, o that it may neither hinder any thing, nor be in danger of the falling of any thing into it that hall lye over it: for a forcing furnace, it will be bet to et it in a chymnie, becaue a trong heat is ued to it, and many times there are ued brands which will moak, and the fire being great the danger thereof may be pre-