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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    09] ftrongcr Preparations. This Medicine there¬ fore is more effectual in fuch Cafes ; efpecially confidering how little we can expedt from Tapping and Scarifying, A Man near 50 fell into a Dropfy. I gave him my redtify’d volatile Spirit of Tartar, he took it four times in a Day, a Tea-fpoonful, in fair Water. I gave him firft two Purges. In four or five Days time he found, that taking the Spirit eafed his Liver, and caufed him to make Water plentifully; he recovered his Stomach, Colour, and Strength ; the Heat of his Mouth and Third: went off, and fo did his Swellings, the Pain at his right Side, together with his Faintnefs and Sicknefs, and he is now intirely well. A Woman between 50 and 60 had the Dropfy and an Afthma. I gave her three Dofes of purging Phyfick, and a Tea-lpoon- ful of volatile Spirit, in Water, four or five times in a Day, and in about three or four Weeks time die recovered. She had now- and-then a Touch of the Gout. After the Dropfy is cured, the Gout will mo ft commonly return, if the Patient has had it before.