A short account of several excellent medicines lately discovered in the argol or tartar; : together with its preparations; viz. 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: the raw chrystals, in fits, convulsions, head-ach, &c. The volatile salt, in the consumption, scurvy, weakness of the nerves, venereal distemper, obstruction of the menses, weakness of the stomach, &c. The spirit, in the dropsy, obstructions, lowness of spirits, fainting, &c. The oil, in the gout, asthma, rheumatism, &c. The fixed salt, in the stone, gravel, &c... / By Wm. Taube, Dove.

  • Dove, William Taube.
Date:
M.DCC.LVII. [1757]
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Credit: A short account of several excellent medicines lately discovered in the argol or tartar; : together with its preparations; viz. 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: the raw chrystals, in fits, convulsions, head-ach, &c. The volatile salt, in the consumption, scurvy, weakness of the nerves, venereal distemper, obstruction of the menses, weakness of the stomach, &c. The spirit, in the dropsy, obstructions, lowness of spirits, fainting, &c. The oil, in the gout, asthma, rheumatism, &c. The fixed salt, in the stone, gravel, &c... / By Wm. Taube, Dove. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ >7 1 Salt out of the Sand, to filtre, evaporate, and calcine it feveral times over, to get it clean again. Curiofity led me once to difiolve fome Gold in Aqua Regis, in a little Glafs Retort. I precipitated it with my fixed Salt of Tartar; I put fome Spirit of Wine to it afterwards, by little and little; but in a minute’s time it blazed out of the Retort, as red as Bloods ■ » with a great and furprifing Force, about a Yard and a half Difiance. It grew fiery hot; and had I not open’d the Door that Inftant, I mufl have been fuffocated. I once took fome of my Salt of Tartar, which I had walhed out of the Sand, &c. and calcin’d it; when, to my great Surprize, I found the Top of it moft beautifully gilt. I (hewed it to a particular Friend of mine. But as the Salt of Tartar diifolved, the Gilding dis¬ appeared. D CHAP.