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.
![[ 5° ] Some Cafes will admit only a palliative, or tempo¬ rary Cure. For it often happens that the Patient is brought to the laid Stage of the Diftemper, and the tender Frame of the human Body already deftroy- ed, partly through wrong appjy’d, or partly through too ftrong and violent, or through too many, and too great Quantities of Medicines before I am con¬ futed ; and in fuch Cafes not much Service can be expefled. It is not the Quantity, but the Quality and Preparation of a Medicine, which muft cure a Diftemper, for the cleaner it is feparated and refin¬ ed, from the Dregs and Fsces, the more Efficacy and Virtue we may expetft from it; as I have be¬ fore-mentioned. The Vine is the King of Trees, and the Medi¬ cines prepared out of it are the mo ft penetrating, balfamick, valuable, and withal, the moft amicable, innocent and friendly to human Nature, amongfl; all the Remedies prepared out of the vegetable World, and, if I am not miftaken, of the Mineral too. Does not Man love Wine? Yes, but fome- times too much, to the Ruin of his Health : But the Wine, or the Preparations, of the Tartar loves Man a great deal more, becaufe it relieves him again from the miferable Diftempers he has brought upon himfelf by mifufing it, but not alone in thefe Cafes, but in others too, coming from fome other Caufes and Accidents, &c. The Tartar of the An- tients, as of R. V. and others, was not of the com¬ mon Tartar or Argol, but of a different Nature. Paracelfus, the great Chymift, and many others after him, has called (improperly) all Obftrudtions, Vifcidities, Inflammations, and Coagulations, Tar¬ taror tartareous; &c. But about preparing the Tartar itfelf, I have found nothing in his Writings. Several pretended Secrets, and curious and trou- blefome Preparations have come to my Hands; but](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b3078640x_0058.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)