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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    CHAP. I. A Difcovery of fame Medicinal pa¬ nties in the Tartar, or Argol. F all Produftlons of the Vegetable World, none have been in more general Ufe and Eftimation than Wine: The effential Salt of Wine called Tartary is our prefent Subjedl of Inquiry. The feveral Preparations made from this, to wit, a volatile Salty a volatile Spirity an Oily and a fixed Salty I (hall feverally treat of, and mention thofe Diftempers in which I have found them rcfpedtively ufeful. God himfelf inftituted the Ufe of Wine, in the OiFerings to his Honour. Wine, we find amongft the Heathens, was cdnftantly ufed in their Sacrifices, and facred Rites, which they performed. The