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and fit to the Retort a large Glajs Recipient. In •- 
create the fire Gradatim, till it comesto the utmoft 
degree, and fo great that the Recipient be Jilled 
wholly with white Clouds, for a pretty long feafon : 
Continue this degree of fire , till the Recipient be- 
comes clear again ; at what time put out the fire , 
and flop up the Regift ers of the furnace , letting the 
Retort cool. Then unlute the Joint of the Recipi- 
ent, and put the Liquor into a large Matrafs with 
a long Keck, fixing to it a jit Head, and in a gentle 
Sand heat draw off the Spirit (leaving the Oil at 
the bottom) repleat with a great deal of the Volatile 
Salt of Tartar, and fome few P articles of its fine 
and purer Oil, which keep in a Glajs dofe ft opt. 
This Spirit is a great Sudorifick, expelling from 
the Center to the Circumference, all Sharp, Cor- 
rofive. Malign, Poifonous, and Peltilential Hu- 
mors | and all fuch unnatural or corrupted Juices, 
which are the caufe of inveterate Leprofies, Scabs, 
Scurf, Morphew, Erifipe/as, Herpes, Ring-worms, 
Tettars, Impetigo, and the like. It is powerful 
againlt ’all forts of Colicks, Rheumatifms, Gouts, 
Quinfies, Inflamations of the Throat and Tonfils, 
Pleurifies, trench Pox, ©V. It alfo opens all Ob- 
ftru&ions’ of the Stomach, Liver, Spleen, Reins, 
Metentery and Womb -, and is prevalent againll 
Cachexies, Green Sicknel's, Dropfie, Jaundice, 
Obftruffions of the Terms, &c. Dofe from a 
Scruple to a Dram, or two Drams in any fit Ve- 
hicle See more hereof in Our Pharmacopeia Lon- 
dinenfts, lib. 1. cap. 8. fell. 7, §. 4- and j? Our 
Pharmacopoeia Baleana , lib. I. cap. 3- Jett. 20. 
where you may receive abundant Satisfaction. 
LVIII Oleum Tartari Difiillatum. The Didd- 
led Oil of Tartar. This Oil is drawn with the 
Spirit, in the former Procefs juft now declared, 
and in the reparation of the Spirit is left behind 
in the Cucurbit or Matrafs. This Oil may be 
rectified from its more Empyreumatick and grofs 
parts, after this manner. Take of the aforefaid Oil, 
and add to it four or five times its weight of Col- 
cothar, and in a Glajs Retort draw off the Oil by a 
gentle Sand hear. This Oil when redified , mllftill 
be kinking, tho nothing like that before Rcdifica- 
tion i but it will yet J link left, if it be two or three 
times thus R edified. It may be given thus Refti- 
fied from gut. ij. ad vij. dropt into fine Pouder- 
Sugar, and fo given in fome fit Vehicle, again!! 
Fits of the Mother. It alfo expels Wind, and 
gives eafe in the Colick. It generally cures V apors 
by meetly Smelling to 5 but by reafon of its ex- 
ceeding Fcetidnefs, is not much ufed inwardly : ’Tis 
true that being Reftified from the Calcin'd Vitriol, 
Tis fomething better. It cannot be any ways made 
pleafant to the Smell, bur be Elixirating of it, firft 
with Reflified Spirit of Nitre, and then mixing it 
with three times its quantity of Reftified Spirit of 
Wine then it may be given inwardly from 10 
Drops to 40. in any fit Vehicle, againll Difeafes 
of the Head, Brain, Nerves, Womb and Joints. 
L1X. Mixture Simplex, or Spiritus Diatnon. 
Take Redified Spirit of Tartar, fix Ounses : Vola- 
tile Spirit of Vitriol ( which afeenis next and im- 
mediately after the F legm) 2 Ounces: Spititus The- 
riacalis Camphorated, to Ounces ; mix, and digeft 
in a Phial Hermetically Sealed for a Month, that 
they may be perfed/y united according to Art. 
This Mixture attenuates, opens, and by theSubtilcy 
of its Particles, penetrates through the whole Bo- 
dy without any trouble : According to Paracelfus, 
it is a potent thing in curing the Epilepfy, gives 
immediate relief in the Pleurifie, and removes all 
Obltruhtions ot the Vifcera. It is a potent thing 
againll burning malign and Peftilential Fevers, ex- 
pelling the Malignity by Sweat, and is a lingular 
Herbal. Lib. I. 
Preparation againll Hypochordriack Diftempers 
and Melancholy ; as alfo again!! Vapors, and Hy- 
fterick Fits. Dofe one Dram, mote or lefs, in Ca- 
nary, or Canary mixt with Cinnamon- Water. See 
more hereof in my Pharmacopoeia Bateana, lib. t . 
cap. 2. fed. 12. 
LX. Sal Tartari : Salt of Tartar Pure. It is 
made of White Tartar being Calcin'd in a Naked 
fire, in a Reverberatory, or other furnace of Cal- 
cination -, after which , the Salt is Extraded with 
fair Water by Elixiviation , filteration and Defic- 
cation, after the manner of making all other fixed 
Salts. Or you may prepare it from the Caput 
Mortuum, remaining after the Diftillatjon of the 
former Spirit and Oil of Tartar , after it has oeen 
again Calcin'd to Whitenefs , by the former manner 
of Elixiviation, filtration and Defecation. This 
Salt is an admirable thing againll the Stone, Sand, 
Gravel, and tartatous matter in the Reins and 
Bladder ; it opens all Obtfruflions of the Vifcera, 
provokes Urine powerfully, and is an excellent 
thing againll the Scurvy, Dropfie, Jaundice, and 
Gout ; and outwardly prevails againll Scurff, 
Morphew, Scabs, LeproGe, Ulcers, Serpigines, 
Tettars, Herpes, Scald Heads, Tanning, Sun-burn- 
ing, and all other Deformities of the Skin. It 
ablotbs Acidities in the Stomach and other Bowels, 
and is r.n immediate thing againll Heart-burning, 
Dofe from half a Scruple to a Scruple, in Ale, 
Beer, Water, or White Wine, ©V. 
LXI. Sal Tartari cum Nitro , Salt of Tartar with 
Nitre. Take Crude white Tartar, Sal Nitre, of each 
(in Pouder ) equal parts ; mix, and in a Crucible 
Calcine to Wbitenejs, by fiirring the fame with a 
red hot Iron, till the Nitre is wholly conjumed, 
which is known by the ceafing of the Emigration and 
Burning. Thus the Tartar being Calcin’d as white 
as Snow, is yet the fame in Weight with the Tartar 
at firft, by which it appears, that the Tartar is 
nearly all Salt. If you mix this Salt with an equal 
quantity of Sulphur, and Calcine again, you will 
take away the naufeotts Lixiviate Tafte of the Salt , 
by which it will become not only more pleafant , but 
alfo in a great meafure refift the Imromijfion of 
the Air , fo that it will not fo eafily melt or diffolve. 
It is Diuretick, is a Famous Opener of Obltrubli- 
ons, and has all the Virtues of the former pure 
Salt. It takes away ftoppages of the Lungs, Sto- 
mach and Bowels, provokes the Terms, and is 
prevalent againlt Afthma’s, Coughs, Colds, Con- 
fumptions, Pleurifies, Cachexies, Dropftes, Jaun- 
dice, &c. Dofe from half a Dram to a Dram, 
in Ale, Beet, Broth, Wine, ©V. See ourP harm. 
Londinenfis, lib. 3. cap. it. fed. jq. And out 
Pharm. Bateana, lib. I. cap. to. fed. 42. 
LXI1. Oleum Tartari per deliquium : Oil ot 
Tartar by Diflblution. Put pure Salt of Tartar 
upon a Polijht Marble, which place fhelvmg in a 
Cellar cruer an Earthen Glaz’d Pot or Pan, or 
broad Glajs Veffel, in a moift Cellar, fo will the 
Salt diffolve into an Oil, and fall down into the 
Receiver. Or put it into a Hippocras Bag, which 
hang up in a moift Cellar, with a Glajs , or Earthen 
Glajs’ d Receiver under it, to receive the dripping 
Oil which filter and Evaporate to a Conftflency. 
But if you would have immediately Oil of Tartar 
per deliquium, then put one Ounce of pure fine 
white Salt of Tartar , into two Ounces oj Water, 
and it will all diffolve into Liquor, which if you 
oleafe you may filter thro’ brown Paper, and keep 
for ufe. It has all the Virtues of the Salt, and 
may be given from half a Dram to a Diam, in 
any proper Liquor. 
LX1II. Sal Tartari Vohatum Foliated Salt ot 
Tartar. Take Pure Salt of Tartar at much as you 
