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]

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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[ *2 1 When I prepare my Cryftals, there remains with the Drofs a very fmall Quantity of fine, whitifh, fandy Tartar, and fome Drofs. To the Sides of the Veffels a kind of little con- globular Particles will adhere, like Bunches of Grapes 3 fome of a whitifh Colour, and fome of a brownifh, and not bigger than fine Pins Heads, but very tender. When I difcil my Cryftals, they melt toge¬ ther into a Body, as hard and clofe as a Stone, at the Bottom of the Retort. If I diftii the Drofs, I find it gives a very great Quantity of Spirits, tolerably good, but fetid, like the common Spirit of Tartar, fome Oil, but no volatile Salt. I have taken of this fetid Spirit, and coho- bated it over the Caput mortnum of my Cryftals, but could not remove the difagreeable Smell. I have tried, what peculiar Effed: would arife from diftilling my Cryftals in an Iron Retort, and I found the Sait and Oil acquired from it fuch a noifome Stench, as could fcarcely be endured. The Spirit came over as red as Blood 3 and, I am apt to believe, muft be very powerful. If I take the Trouble to difiblve my Cry¬ ftals in Rain-Water diftilled, they are then larger, and admirably white 3 and there will remain in the Water, and at the Bottom of the

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