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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    X ^ ] I Day, that I could go out again. You havfe my Cafe inferted in your Book, p. 3 3. But, perhaps by catching Cold, I was afterwards feized with a dangerous Miliary Fever, and with the Gout in my Hands and Feet; of both which you relieved me in a (hortTime. 1 am,_Sir5 Your moji humble Servant. London; Dec. 25, 1756, William Weftcm Drury-Latie. -4 * r ~ ■ * * A worthy Gentleman, very eminent in the Law, living in an Inn near Holborn-bars, whofe Parents wereafflided with the Gout, was lately feized with the Gout in his Stomach in a 1110ft dangerous Manner * but, taking my rectified Oil of Tartar, it drove the Gout, in lefs than four Minutes time, out of his Stomach into his Feet, as he himfelf affured me ; and, continuing the Ufe of my redified Oil, it intirely relieved him from his Pains in 12 Hours Time, by Sweat and Urine.