Tartarologia brevis, or, A short account of several excellent medicines lately discovered in the argol or tartar : together with its preparations : namely, 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, and others : the refined crystals, in fits, convulsions, head-ach, epilepsy, &c. : the volatile salt, in consumptions, land and sea-scurvy, weakness of the nerves, and stomach, venereal distemper, obstruction of the menses, bite of mad dogs, &c. : the spirit, in the dropsy, obstructions, lowness of spirits, faintings, palsy, apoplexy, &c : the oil, in the goit, asthma, rheumatism, cholic, hysterics, &c. : the fixed salt, in the stone, gravel, &c. / by William Taube Dove.
- Dove, William Taube
- Date:
- 1761
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Tartarologia brevis, or, A short account of several excellent medicines lately discovered in the argol or tartar : together with its preparations : namely, 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, and others : the refined crystals, in fits, convulsions, head-ach, epilepsy, &c. : the volatile salt, in consumptions, land and sea-scurvy, weakness of the nerves, and stomach, venereal distemper, obstruction of the menses, bite of mad dogs, &c. : the spirit, in the dropsy, obstructions, lowness of spirits, faintings, palsy, apoplexy, &c : the oil, in the goit, asthma, rheumatism, cholic, hysterics, &c. : the fixed salt, in the stone, gravel, &c. / by William Taube Dove. Source: Wellcome Collection.
![[ *3 ] - . ' After I have diftilled the Spirit, I have taken the f Phlegm, and diftolved a good Quantity of my vo¬ latile Salt of Tartar in it ; of which fome Ihot out afterwards in fine fmall Cryftals. If I make a Tinbture of Copper with my Spirit of Tartar, it is as blue as the fineft Ultramarine; but if I take my Spirit of Tartar diftilled, or coho- bated from the Salt of Tartar, it will exhibit a deeper Colour, though it requires more Time, but in few Days Time it turns green. This Tinfture, if I diftil it, grows very ftrong. With Oil of Vitriol I have precipitated this Tinblure of Copper, and a Tartarus Vitriolatus ap¬ peared with a reddifh Colour at the Top; but the Tartarus Vitriolatus Venenis itfelf was of a bluifh C<> lour, and of a very difagreeable Tafte. If I take my volatile Salt of Tartar, and diiTolve it in diftilled Rain-Water, and put pulverifed com¬ mon raw Tartar into it, it difib Ives the raw Tartar in a fhort time, with a very great Ebullition and Fermentation. One Part of it I evaporated, and the Cryftals were of a yellowifh Colour, and of a very ftrong oily Tafte and Scent.: The other part I dif- tilled in a Retort, and a ftrong Spirit came over, and a volatile Salt, with a great Deal of volatile Oil. The Caput Mortuum of my Cryftals of Tartar, which is quite black, 1 wafh, filter, dry, and cal¬ cine feverai times over, till a little Drofs is left re¬ maining of a grey Colour. I have taken my rectified Spirit of Tartar, and mixed fome volatile Salt of Tartar with it, and I put of the fixed Salt of Tartar to it, about double the Quantity, and I diftilled it in Sand in a Retort 5 the diftilled Liquor was very ftrong, and very little volatile Salt did come over, but the remaining Mafia in the Retort, when it was told, congealed](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b3078640x_0021.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)