Volume 1

A short account of several excellent medicines lately discovered in the argol or tartar; together with its preparations / [William Taube Dove].

  • Dove, William Taube
Date:
1757
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A short account of several excellent medicines lately discovered in the argol or tartar; together with its preparations / [William Taube Dove]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [12 ] • Sometimes I fublimc my volatile Salt in a Retort, and fomecimes in a Cucurbit; which makes it white as Snow, and exceeding vo¬ latile. I have ufed fometimes Rhenifli,. as well as Leghorn Tartar, and find no DifFerence between them, only that the largeft, clofeft, and moft cryftallized^ is the beft, and has not fo much Drofs as that which is fpungy, porous, light and brittle. When I prepare my Cryfials, there re-^ msins with the Drofs a very fmall Quantity of fine, whitifh, fandy Tartar, and fome Drofs. To the Sides of the Veflels a kind of little conglobular Particles will adhere, like Bunches of Grapes; fome of a whitifh Colour, and fome of a brownifh, and not bigger than fine Pins Heads, but veryi tender. When I difiil my Cryftals, they melt to¬ gether into a Body, as hard and clofe as a Stone, at the Bottom of the Retort. If I diftil the Drofs, I find it gives a very great Q^ntity 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 mortuum of my Cry- i]:als, but could not remove the difagreeable Smell. I have