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.
![[16] tremely piercing, that it will certainly penetrate and burft any Crucible, the fecond, if not the firfl Time, of ufing it. If I diffolve it in Rain-Water* it will grow fo hot, that I can fcarce hold the Veffel in my Hand. If I take my Oleum Hart art per deliqutum, and put: it over my refined Cryftals of Hartar ^ it makes ai prodigious Fermentation, and makes admirable: Hart arum tartarifatum, or Hart arum folubilem. I always take care not to calcine it to any Excefs*, otherwife it will melt, and it will be of a fine FJeflii or Rofe-Colour. If I let it diffolve in the Air (as I always do to make my Oleum per deliquiumd) and filter it, the Liquor will be of a fine Sky-blue; and the oftener it is calcined and diffolved, the brighter will the Colour be. After I have melted my fixed Salt of Hartar for about four Hours in a ftrong Fire, which made it flow like Water, and as red as Blood, I diffolve it in the Air, which makes it yellowifh, and by putting the Oil of Vitriol to it, I make Hart arum Vitriola- tum, but in making it, the Smell is mofl intolerably fulphurous, and like rotten Eggs. I have taken common Vitriolum Martis, and put a fufficient Quantity of my fixed Salt of Hartar, diffol- ved in the Air, to it, which turned the Vitriolum , Martis with a great Ebullition in a thick Liquor like Cheefe, which afterwards I put in a Filter, and poured well fettled Rain-Water over it, to edulco¬ rate it, to get all the Salt out, which I evaporated, and got a very fine cryflallifed Salt of a yellowifh Colour, of a bitterifh, not unpleafant Tafte, but nothing of the Iron Tafte. The Remnant in the Filter, after been dried, was of a reddifh Colour and a fine Sulphur. If I calcine white Pipels one Part, with my fixed Salt of Hartar two Parts, they will diffolve in the Air. ; ; i](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b3078640x_0024.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)