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.
![[69] S I R, HAVING loft fix Children in ten Years Time* who all died, to my great Grief, within the Month after Birth, of the Watery Gripes and Con- vulfion Fits, notwithftanding all imaginable Care and Medicines. But hearing of you, and feeing afterwards a Perfon, whom you had cured of Con- vulfion Fits of three Years ftanding, I gave to my then almoft dying Child, your refined Cryftals of !Tartar or Argol\ and you. Sir, with God’s Blefiing, and your Medicine, cured it intirely of this moft fatal Diftemper and it is now one Year old. For which great Cure I fincerely thank you, and re¬ main, &c. London, Jan. i, 1757* A Ann Gibbs, S I R, ABOUT two Years and a Half ago, I got the Dropfy fo violent, that I, and my Friends defpaired of my Recovery, but a Friend of mine advifed me, very happily, to take your Prefcription for the Dropfy; and accordingly, with God’s BlefiT- ing, in about ten Days Time, by ufing your redti- fied Spirit of Tartar, I was able to walk from my own Houfe to White Chapel, and back again.. I have continued perfectly well, and free from the Dropfy, thank the Almighty, to this prefent Time, and have feen feveral other Patients cured with your Medicines of this dangerous Diftemper, I am, Sir, Tgut humble Servant, High-Holbourn, oppofite Wm. Rawle* Little-Turn-Stile, April 21, 1761, Good](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b3078640x_0077.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)