Bate.] ℞ Cremor Tartari ℥viij. Salt of Tartar ℥iv. Foun∣tain-water lbiij. boil them in a gentle fire for half an hour, which being cold, filter and e∣vaporate to dryness, that you may have a white Salt. Dose, à ℈ss. ad ℈j.
Salmon.] § 1. You may see the Method or Way of doing it more at large in our doing it more at large in our Seplasium, Lib. 2. Cap. 10. Sect. 8. where note, That this Preparation is nothing but such a Mixtion of the Cream of Tartar, with the Salt of Tartar, in such Proportions, that it may dissolve in cold Liquors, which the Cream would not do alone: and the Cream being an Acid, insi∣nuates it self into the Pores of the Alcalious Salt, and sweetens it.
§ 2. If Salt of Tartar be put into the Dissolution of the Cremor Tartari in boil∣ing Water, there will be an Effervescency; but if they be mixed cold, there will be none; the reason is, because the Acid Salts of the Cremor being involved in other Prin∣ciples, have but little power to enter and open the Al∣cali, unless actuated and for∣tified by the help of Fire.
§ 3. In the Cremor of Es∣sential Salt of Tartar, the Acid Salt is proportionably mixed and united with the Volatile Salt: But says Char∣ras, this Union may be bro∣ken, by dissolving this Essen∣tial Salt in Water, and mix∣ing it with the Alcalious Salt of Tartar, for by that means the Acid being overcome by the other Salts, and not be∣ing able to close with so great a quantity, which it could neither stop not contain, re∣sumes its dissolutive Nature, so that they become together, all of them dissoluble in Wa∣ter.
§ 4. This Preparation is of principal use to cut and digest thick and viscous Hu∣muors, and to prepare them for Excretion; and is suc∣cessfully used in all manner of Obstructions of the Li∣ver, Spleen, and other Vis∣cera; the use of which may be continued for several days as need requires, and may