Volume 1

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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    [21] little Scent of the Oil, which gives It fome-» thing of the Odour of Spirit of Hartfliorn. The volatile Salt has almoft the fame SmelL And tho’ no Medicines are more fubtle and penetrating than my volatile Salt, Spirit, and Oil of Tartar, yet I never obferved that they excited any feverifli Heats, or produced any ill Confequences, To be better afllired what Effedls thefe Medicines would pro¬ duce, I never ufed to give any others, or mix them with others, at the fame time 3 but if I did give any thing clfe^ it was only a gentle Diet-drink, or a little laxative Phy fick. As the moft Part of Diftempers have their Beginning from Obftruftions, more or lefs, in feme Part or other of the Body; fo thefe Preparations from Tartar are the more effi¬ cacious, as they do moft effedually open Ob- ftrudions in the fcveral Parts of the Body, and give furprifing Relief in many obftinate Cafes. My volatile Salt of Tartar not re£llfy’d,if diffolved in Rain-Water diftilled, fmells a little like Spirit of Hartfhorn, and is of a yellowifli Colour 3 but if I diftil it, it grows quite white, and its Scent goes off a little 3 yvhich both depend upon the Oil, Of