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.
![[ 4« ] that proper Medicines fhould be continued for a fit Time, with a proper Regimen, &c. A particular Friend of mine was fifteen or fixteen Weeks ill of the Gout unknown to me: He reco¬ vered, but going out too foon, took Cold, and got the Gout again excefiively in both his Feet: The next Morning I was fent for, and found him in the greateft Pain and Mifery; I gave him my Oil dif- folved in right Spirit of Wine, from thirty to forty and fixty Drops, in Mountain, or other good Wine* four or five Times in a Day, and in going to Bed he drank warm and comfortable things. He made that Night a great Quantity of very bad Water, excefiively foul, with a thick, ropy and glutinous Sediment, which ftuck to the Sides of the Chamber¬ pot, and fmelt intolerably. He perfpired very well that Night. His Sweat had a very laetid and of- fenfive Smell; but he found himfelf, to his great Surprize, exceedingly recovered the next Morning, fo as to be able to walk about in his Apartments, tho’ a little lamiffl, becaufe his Feet were tender. A young Man of about 26, whofe Father was afflicted with the Gout, had it all over him, but ex- ceffively in his Stomach, infomuch that he thought, it would kill him diredlly. I gave him of my dif- folved Oil, a Tea-fpoonful in Wine, every two or three Hours. The next Day he was fo eafy, that he thought himfelf able to go to work again. Af¬ ter the Violence of the Fit was over, he only took ten or fifteen Drops upon a Lump of Sugar. Some Days after, thro’ taking Cold, he got a Bilious and Miliary Fever, with Eruptions all over his whole Body. I difcontinued the Drops, and gave him other proper Medicines, and he recovered very well. The gouty Pains returned, with the Fever, in his Hands and Feet; but as the Fever abated, fo did the Pains. A](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b3078640x_0048.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)