18. Salt of Tartar.
It is made of calcin'd Tartar, as Salt of Pot-ashes, by Sect. 4. of this Chapter.
It attenuates, incides, resolves, and powerfully opens; all Acids it destroys, more especially the
Ars chirurgica a compendium of the theory and practice of chirurgery in seven books ... shewing the names, causes, signs, differences, prognosticks, and various intentions of curing all kinds of chirurgick diseases ... : to which is added Pharmacopoeia chirurgica, or, The medical store, Latin and English ... / by William Salmon ...
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- Ars chirurgica a compendium of the theory and practice of chirurgery in seven books ... shewing the names, causes, signs, differences, prognosticks, and various intentions of curing all kinds of chirurgick diseases ... : to which is added Pharmacopoeia chirurgica, or, The medical store, Latin and English ... / by William Salmon ...
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- Salmon, William, 1644-1713.
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- M.DC.XCVIII [1698]
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acid Ferment of the Stomach, provokes Urine, expels the Stone, allays the over-boiling of the Blood, and prevails against burn∣ing Fevers, Delirium's, conti∣nual Watching, the Jaundies, and Dropsy. It opens the Es∣sence of Sulphurs, and so pre∣pares them, that their genuine or true Tinctures may be drawn forth, even with Spirit of Wine. Dose, à ℈ ss, ad ʒ ss. twice a day. If the Salt be made with a half-part of Nitre, it will be a very excellent Diuretick and Lithontriptick, and is usually mixed with other ingredients, for extracting their Tinctures.