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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    C 30] Stomach, Colour, and Strength; the Heat of his Mouth and Third: went off, and fo did his Swellings, the Pain at his right Side, to¬ gether 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-fpoon- ful of volatile Spirit, in Water, four or five times in a Day, and in about three or four Weeks time flie recovered. She had now- and-thcn a Touch of the Gout. After the Dropfy is cured, the Gout will moft commonly return, if the Patient has had it before. A Lady of about 35 had the Dropfy, and a flefhy Subftance. A Gentleman gave her my volatile Spirit, and flie recovered of the Dropfy in a very little Timcj but the fleftiy Subftance remained, and afterwards occafi- oned her Death. I have feen a great many Women in the felf-fame Cafe. V •• A Man of 34 Years old, living in a publick Way near Bloomsbury^/quarCy by drinking too much fpirituous Liquors, got the Dropfy to a