Volume 1

A short account of several excellent medicines lately discovered in the argol or tartar; together with its preparations / [William Taube Dove].

  • Dove, William Taube
Date:
1757
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A short account of several excellent medicines lately discovered in the argol or tartar; together with its preparations / [William Taube Dove]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [6,] Cures you have done with your incompa¬ rable Medicines, prepared out of the Tar¬ tar or Argol, God profper your Under¬ takings, and prolong your Days, for the Benefit of Mankind ! As long as I lire, I fliall remain, Sir, Tour mofi bumbley obliged, and moft thankful Servant, London,July;, Thomas Hillman, junior^ ^ of Newcaflle under Line, novj at the Royal Point, New Crown-Court, N® i8, Bow- Street, Covent-Garden. SIR, My Father before me having been af- flidled with the Gout, it feems to have defcended to me by Inheritance: And accordingly, I was feized with it in my Stq- mach about 3 Years ago, being 26 Years of Age I It was fo violent, that I thought I ftiould die of it every Minute; and I believe in Reality, that no Pain in the World comes up to it} but you removed the Gout out of my Stomach, thank God, in one Night’s Time, with your Oil of refined Tartar or Argol, which work’d by Sweat, Urine, and AVind. I thought mylelf fo well the next Day,