A short account of several excellent medicines lately discovered in the argol or tartar; : together with its preparations; viz. the volatile salt, oil, spirit, and fixed salt. To which are annexed, divers remarkable instances of the efficacy of these noble medicines in the following disorders: the raw chrystals, in fits, convulsions, head-ach, &c. The volatile salt, in the consumption, scurvy, weakness of the nerves, venereal distemper, obstruction of the menses, weakness of the stomach, &c. The spirit, in the dropsy, obstructions, lowness of spirits, fainting, &c. The oil, in the gout, asthma, rheumatism, &c. The fixed salt, in the stone, gravel, &c... / By Wm. Taube, Dove.

  • Dove, William Taube
Date:
M.DCC.LVII. [1757]
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Credit: A short account of several excellent medicines lately discovered in the argol or tartar; : together with its preparations; viz. the volatile salt, oil, spirit, and fixed salt. To which are annexed, divers remarkable instances of the efficacy of these noble medicines in the following disorders: the raw chrystals, in fits, convulsions, head-ach, &c. The volatile salt, in the consumption, scurvy, weakness of the nerves, venereal distemper, obstruction of the menses, weakness of the stomach, &c. The spirit, in the dropsy, obstructions, lowness of spirits, fainting, &c. The oil, in the gout, asthma, rheumatism, &c. The fixed salt, in the stone, gravel, &c... / By Wm. Taube, Dove. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I & ] in the Cucurbit, after the Rectification, a dark brown oily Liquor, very bitter. This I recti¬ fied in B: M* upon which, more Spirit, but not very ftrong, came over, and the Oil re¬ mained. This Remainder of the Spirit of Tartar, I have taken and rectified again, by cohobating upon the Caput mortuum of my Cryftals, and it grew very ftrong. At another time, I have taken the Spirit, and diftiiled it in B. M. but I found it was not fo ftrong, as that which I rectify’d in the Sand. I believe the Reafon is this ; In di- ftiliing in the Sand, the Spirit alone goes over, and the Oil retains the Phlegm; but in the B. M. the Phlegm and Spirit diftil together, and the Oil remains. I don’t remember ever to have fmelt any thing like my volatile Spirit 5 and I know not with what I can compare it: It retains a little Scent of the Oil, which gives it fomething of the Odour of Spirit of Hartihorn. The volatile Salt has almoft the fame Smell. And tho’ no Medicines are more fubtiie and penetrating than my volatile Salt, Spirit, and Oil of Tartar, yet I never obferved that they excited any feverifh Pleats, or produced any ill Confequences. To be better affured what Effects thefe Medicines would produce, I never ufed to give any others, or mix them with