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
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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.

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    [.42] Diet, and take now and then of the Oil, ufing often a moderate Exercife, &c. Nature wants only Af- fiffance. I have had feveral Patients, though very young, afflibled with the Gout, who got it from their Pa¬ rents, by Inheritance, whom I have relieved with my Oil of Tartar, and by continuing it once or twice in a Week, had only now and then a flight Fit, if they perhaps committed any Errors, or catched Cold, &c. A Gentleman of about 50, was afflibted with the Scurvy, the Pally and the Gout for a great While, and had taken a great many Medicines to little Effebt. I gave him my rebtified Spirit of Tartar, three Times a Day, fifty Drops each Time, an Hour before Breakfaft, Dinner, and again in the Afternoon. On going to Bed he took thirty Drops, of my Oil of Tartar, I likewife prefcribed him a Herb Tea, with a proper Diet, and moderate Exercife. By which Means he recovered his Strength, Health and Limbs furprifingly. A poor Woman of about 56 had the Scurvy, the Rheumatifm, the Cholic, and Hifteric Fits, fo vio¬ lently, that fhe vomited continually for two or three Days, and every body thought fhe mufl die. I gave, her about ten Drops, of my diffolved Oil of Tartar every two or three Hours, and after the firft Dofe her Vomiting ceafed, and in continuing the Oil fhe recovered entirely. I ordered her to take it every four or five Hours for fome Time. A young Man was taken fuddenly with the Rheumatifm, it took away the Ufe of his Arms and Legs, and was in exquifite Pain Night and Day ; I gave him my reblify’d Oil of Argol, and in few Days Time he was able to do his Bufinefs. The Oil worked by gentle Perfpiration and Urine. Fie