Spiritus fumans Libavii

Andreas Libavius was bom at Halle in Germany in 1540, where he studied medicine and practised for a short time as a physician. He accepted the fundamental iatro-chemical doctrines, at the same time, however, criticising certain of the more extravagant views expressed by Paracelsus. He was a firm believer in the transmutation of the metals, but his own activities were chiefly directed to the preparation of new and better medicines. He enriched the science of Chemistry by many valuable discoveries, and tin tetrachloride, which he was the first to prepare, is still known by the name of spiritus fumans Libavii. Libavius was a man possessed of keen powers of observation and his work on Chemistry, which contains a fidl account of the knowledge of the science of his time, may be... 

Tin Calx of tin (Libavius) Sel ou Vitriol de Jupiter (Beguin) (Tin(II) nitrate) Calx of tin (Libavius) (Tin(ll) acetate) Spiritus fumans Libavii (Libavius) ( Iln(IV) cblraide)... 

Tin Oleum Jovis, Spiritus fumans Libavii (Tin(IV) chloride) Lrmi Crocus Martis (Iron oxide) Iron Vitriol of inm (lnni(II) sulfate)... 

Butter of antimony (antimony(III) chloride), for example, which was used as a caustic agent to treat ulcers, was produced by Glauber in the middle of the seventeenth century by dissolving antimony oxide in hydrochloric acid and by distilling off the salt, which was an oily fluid. Or, sublimate (mercury(II) chloride) was a volatile substance obtained from the sublimation of mercury together with common salt and vitriol. Spiritus fumans Libavii (tin(IV) chloride), a smoky liquid, was also distilled from a mixture of tin with sublimate. 

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