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and vowing to help beat the Southern States

Sutton (1532-1611) was the founder of the hospital at Charterhouse

Also incorporating four views of how it would appear

This pic was deliberately taken to have a grainy texture which will be more obvious as the size increases

'Sardanapalus'

Apparatus for amending metals by nitre (saltpetre) mb-width 2818 and vowing to help beatBoth pictures on this plate are part of Johann Rudolf Glauber's treatise on the 'Continuation of Miraculum Mundi'. The upper image depicts 'A Gift offered to all diligent Physicians The manner of concentrating and amending of Metals by Nitre' (the distilling vessel is designed as 'a Man made of Iron, having two noses on his head'). The lower picture shows the furnace used in 'a Gift presented to rich Merchants', again involving the use of nitre