A short account of several excellent medicines lately discovered in the argol or tartar; : together with its preparations; viz. 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: the raw chrystals, in fits, convulsions, head-ach, &c. The volatile salt, in the consumption, scurvy, weakness of the nerves, venereal distemper, obstruction of the menses, weakness of the stomach, &c. The spirit, in the dropsy, obstructions, lowness of spirits, fainting, &c. The oil, in the gout, asthma, rheumatism, &c. The fixed salt, in the stone, gravel, &c... / By Wm. Taube, Dove.

  • Dove, William Taube.
Date:
M.DCC.LVII. [1757]
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Credit: A short account of several excellent medicines lately discovered in the argol or tartar; : together with its preparations; viz. 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: the raw chrystals, in fits, convulsions, head-ach, &c. The volatile salt, in the consumption, scurvy, weakness of the nerves, venereal distemper, obstruction of the menses, weakness of the stomach, &c. The spirit, in the dropsy, obstructions, lowness of spirits, fainting, &c. The oil, in the gout, asthma, rheumatism, &c. The fixed salt, in the stone, gravel, &c... / By Wm. Taube, Dove. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [<9] candid and indulgent Reader I hope will ex- cufe it, fince I have afferted nothing but the Truth, and fhall fo continue to do. From fome People perhaps I fhall obtain a good Re¬ port ; from others, thro’ Self-intereft or Igno¬ rance, perhaps a different one: The former I thank, the latter I hope I fhall not need to fear. My volatile Salt, Spirit, and Oil of Tartar, are very powerful ; and what thefe will not move, I believe few other Medicines will. They are alfo gentle and agreeable to the human Body ; whereas flrong and violent Medicines, and the common mineral and me¬ tallic Preparations (particularly if they are not well prepared), frequently ftrain the ten¬ der Frame of our Bodies to fo great a Degree, as many times to endanger the Patient’s Life. My fixed Salt is of very great Virtue in cor¬ recting fuch Medicines as are prepared from Minerals and Metals. The more pure a Medicine is prepared, the greater Efficacy, Power, and Penetration, it pofieffes. I have rectified my volatile Spirit, and there¬ by fublimed a great Quantity of volatile Salt into the Head of the Alembick. When the Mouth was not large enough, it put me to confiderable Inconvenience. There remains