Volume 2

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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    I have tried, what peculiar Efredl would arife from diddling my Cry ftals in an Iron Retort, and I found the Salt and Oil acquir’d from it fadi a noifome Stench, as could fcarcely be endured. The Spirit came over as red as Blood ; and, I am apt to believe, muft be very powerful. If I take the Trouble to didblve my Cry- ftals in Rain-Water diddled, they are then larger, and admirably white; and there will remain in the Water, and at the Bottom of the Fiitre, a kind of fine Cream of Tartar, which I fhali fame time hereafter examine * j more accurately. If my Spirit of Tartar (lands a while, there will fhoot out, at the Bottom of the Glafs, very fine white, and large yellowifh Cry ftals ; if the Spirit is not diddled, they areyellow- ifh, but if it is, they are admirably white.. My volatile Spirit of Tartar, if put over my depurated fixed Salt of Tartar, ferments fo much, that I am fcarce able to hold it in my Hand; and a good deal of drong Spirit didils itfelf without any Fire, and fome vo¬ latile Salt, The fird time of diddling, it came over pretty well, and the fixed Salt of Tartar had lodmuch of its Sharpnefs; but the fecond time, the Spirit would not come over
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