Tartarologia brevis, or, A short account of several excellent medicines lately discovered in the argol or tartar : together with its preparations : namely, 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, and others : the refined crystals, in fits, convulsions, head-ach, epilepsy, &c. : the volatile salt, in consumptions, land and sea-scurvy, weakness of the nerves, and stomach, venereal distemper, obstruction of the menses, bite of mad dogs, &c. : the spirit, in the dropsy, obstructions, lowness of spirits, faintings, palsy, apoplexy, &c : the oil, in the goit, asthma, rheumatism, cholic, hysterics, &c. : the fixed salt, in the stone, gravel, &c. / by William Taube Dove.
- Dove, William Taube.
- Date:
- 1761
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Tartarologia brevis, or, A short account of several excellent medicines lately discovered in the argol or tartar : together with its preparations : namely, 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, and others : the refined crystals, in fits, convulsions, head-ach, epilepsy, &c. : the volatile salt, in consumptions, land and sea-scurvy, weakness of the nerves, and stomach, venereal distemper, obstruction of the menses, bite of mad dogs, &c. : the spirit, in the dropsy, obstructions, lowness of spirits, faintings, palsy, apoplexy, &c : the oil, in the goit, asthma, rheumatism, cholic, hysterics, &c. : the fixed salt, in the stone, gravel, &c. / by William Taube Dove. Source: Wellcome Collection.
![t 6; ] another Man. It is poffible, you may not be pleaA ed with me, to thank you in this publick Manner $ but, pardon me, Sir, for I fay, that I am obliged in Duty to you, and in Charity to my Fellow- Creatures, fo to do. I have not only heard of, but fen with Pleafure, feveral other great Cures you have done with your incomparable Medicines, pre¬ pared out of the Tartar or Argol. God profper your Undertakings, and prolong your Days, for the Be¬ nefit of Mankind, As long as I live, I fhall remain* Sir, Tour mojl humble, obliged, and mofi thankful Servant, Thomas Hillman, junior, late ofNewcaftle under Line, at the Royal Point, in New Crown-Court, N°. 18; Bow- Street, Covenc-Garden* S I R, MY Father before me having been afflicted with the Gout, it feems to have defended to me by Inheritance: And accordingly, I was feized with it in my Stomach about three Years ago, being 26 Years of Age: It was fo violent, that I thought I fhould 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 Wind. I thought my fell fo well the next Day, that I could go out again. You have my Cafe inferted in yOur Book, p. 33. But, perhaps by catching Cold, I was af- K terwards London, July 7, 1756.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b3078640x_0073.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
