Tartarologia brevis, or, A short account of several excellent medicines lately discovered in the argol or tartar : together with its preparations : namely, 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, and others : the refined crystals, in fits, convulsions, head-ach, epilepsy, &c. : the volatile salt, in consumptions, land and sea-scurvy, weakness of the nerves, and stomach, venereal distemper, obstruction of the menses, bite of mad dogs, &c. : the spirit, in the dropsy, obstructions, lowness of spirits, faintings, palsy, apoplexy, &c : the oil, in the goit, asthma, rheumatism, cholic, hysterics, &c. : the fixed salt, in the stone, gravel, &c. / by William Taube Dove.
- Dove, William Taube.
- Date:
- 1761
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Tartarologia brevis, or, A short account of several excellent medicines lately discovered in the argol or tartar : together with its preparations : namely, 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, and others : the refined crystals, in fits, convulsions, head-ach, epilepsy, &c. : the volatile salt, in consumptions, land and sea-scurvy, weakness of the nerves, and stomach, venereal distemper, obstruction of the menses, bite of mad dogs, &c. : the spirit, in the dropsy, obstructions, lowness of spirits, faintings, palsy, apoplexy, &c : the oil, in the goit, asthma, rheumatism, cholic, hysterics, &c. : the fixed salt, in the stone, gravel, &c. / by William Taube Dove. Source: Wellcome Collection.
![[6 ] Bing with a Medicine, do whatever you will, you cannot remove the intimately mixed noxious Qua¬ lities from it, nor correct them. In making my Preparations, I put four Pounds or thereabout, of Cryftals into the Retort; and, in diftilling, I give them at firftonly a moderate Heat, which is fufficient, but at laft a ftrong one. In this Diftillation fome very volatile Spirits come over firft; a little while after this, the Retort and Receivers are filled with a thick Cloud or Smoke, and the Spirit, volatile Salt, and Oil, all pafs over together united, the volatile Salt flicks to the Top and Sides of the firft Receiver fo clofe and thick, that there is no feeing thro* it, the Spirit and Oil are mixed together, and fall into the Receiver, and a great Deal of volatile Salt finks to the Bottom of the Receiver, and there cryftallizes. My Spirit, Salt and Oil, are extremely volatile, which is the Reafon of my ufing two Receivers. The more gently I diftil, the fafer I find it, and I get a greater Quantity of Spirit, but lefs volatile Salt; and, vice verfa, from a greater Heat lefs Spi¬ rit, and more volatile Salt. As in either Cafe I am obliged to give Vent, I therefore lofe more than half the Quantity of my Spirit, Oil, and Salt, by their unavoidably flying away thro* the Vent-hole. I once tried to diflil the ufual Quantity of Cryftals, fecuring every Glafs well with Bladders, and giving them only a very gentle Heat; but the Retort burft with fuch a prodigious Force, that it was very pro¬ vidential I efcaped with Life. I find that my Spirit, Salt, and Oil, keep all to¬ gether in the firft Receiver, and that not fo much, as a fingle Drop of Spirit, but only a very fmall Quantity of volatile Oil and Salt, paftes over to the fecond, in the latter of which, the Salt fhaots into long fmall Cryftals at the Bottom. * * Out](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b3078640x_0014.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
