A concise account of a new chymical medicine, entitled, spiritus æthereus anodynus, or, anodyne æthereal spirit. Containing a relation of its very extraordinary efficacy in a variety of complaints of the most obstinate and alarming nature, particularly the hydrothorax, or dropsy of the breast, and other species of dropsy. Also, of its specific virtue in the gout and many rheumatic affections; in hysterical, hypochondriacal and various other nervous complaints, especially those of the epileptic kind; in asthmas and all coughs unattended with inflammation. With a word or two, by way of postscript, to Dr. James MacKittrick Adair, late of Antigua / By William Tickell.

  • Tickell, William.
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[1787]
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Credit: A concise account of a new chymical medicine, entitled, spiritus æthereus anodynus, or, anodyne æthereal spirit. Containing a relation of its very extraordinary efficacy in a variety of complaints of the most obstinate and alarming nature, particularly the hydrothorax, or dropsy of the breast, and other species of dropsy. Also, of its specific virtue in the gout and many rheumatic affections; in hysterical, hypochondriacal and various other nervous complaints, especially those of the epileptic kind; in asthmas and all coughs unattended with inflammation. With a word or two, by way of postscript, to Dr. James MacKittrick Adair, late of Antigua / By William Tickell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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