Volume 2

A short account of several excellent medicines lately discovered in the argol or tartar; together with its preparations / [William Taube Dove].

  • Dove, William Taube
Date:
1757
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A short account of several excellent medicines lately discovered in the argol or tartar; together with its preparations / [William Taube Dove]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ; . l.l7] i have diftilled this Liquor from my fixed Salt of Tartar, and put my volatile Salt of Tai tar to it. It occafioned a gentle Tcrmcn— tation, but diflblved a great Quantity of the volatile Salt; of which afterwards fome cry- fiallized itfelf very beautifully at the Bottom of the Glafs. Having cohobated redify'd Spirit of Wine over my fixed Salt, both united, and formed the Appearance of fine Cry Hals. I found the Infide of the Glafs Retort quite corrod¬ ed, and the Giofs all gone, as in rough- ground Glafs; and if 1 attempted to difti! it ov,er again in the fame Glafs Retort, it al¬ ways burft it, tore it in Pieces, or diffolved it if 1 only gave gentle Heat; and I wasobliged to wafli the Salt out of the Sand, to filtre, evaporate, and calcine it feveral times over, to get it clean again, Curiofity led me once to diffolve fome Gold in Aqua Regis,, in a little Glafs Retort, I precipitated it with my fixed Salt of Tar¬ tar ; I put fome Spirit of Wine to it after- waids, by little and little; but in a minute’s time it blazed out oi the Retort, as red as Blood, with a great and furprifing Force, about a \ ard and a half Diftance* It £re\v B* tiery