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.
![[ 2© ] the common mineral and metallic Preparations, particularly if they are not well prepared, frequently 11 rain the tender Frame of our Bodies to fo great a Degree9 as many times to endanger the Patient’s Life, * . * My fixed Salt is of very great Virtue in corred- jng fuch Medicines as are prepared from Minerals, and Metals. It makes the Decodions and Infufions of the Vegetables a great deal more efficacious and powerful. . The more pure a Medicine is prepared, the greater Efficacy, Power, and Penetration, it pof- Jefies. I have redified my volatile Spirit, and thereby fublimed a great Quantity of volatile Salt into the Head of the Alembick. When the Mouth was not large enough, it put me to a confiderable Inconveni¬ ence, The Oil which remains in the Spirit, grows hard, and,{ticks to the Sides of the Cucurbit. There remains in the Cucurbit, after the Rectification, a dark brown Liquor, very bitter, and is a moft ad¬ mirable ftomachick and (Lengthening Medicine in many Cafes, and I have ufed it with unexpected and very great Succefs. If 1 redify my Spirit too often over my fixed Salt o{Tartar, it grows confi¬ derable weaker, becaufe the fixed Salt of my Argot, retains a great Deal of the fubtle and volatile Parts, This I redified in B. M. upon which, more Spirit, but not very Arons;, came over, and the Oil re- mained, This Remainder of the Spirit of Tartar, I have taken and rectified, again, by cohobating it upon the Caput mortuum of my Cryflals, or fixed Salt, ahd it grew very Arong. I don’t remember ever to have fmelt any thing like my volatile Spirit ; and I know not with what | can compare it; It retains a little Scent of the 4 Oil,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b3078640x_0028.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)