An account of the extraordinary medicinal fluid, called aether : this truly extraordinary chemical preparation is not a new discovery, having been known and esteemed as a valuable curiosity by many of the greatest chymists and philosophers both ancient and modern ... it is made and sold by M. Turner, surgeon, in Liverpool.

  • Matthew Turner
Date:
[1760?]
  • Ephemera

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Broadside advertising Turner's Aether and it's medicinal uses in nervous diseases, epilepsy, convulsions, palsy, hysteria, vertigo, headache, gout, rheumatism, asthma, cholic, flatulence, whooping cough, hiccups, stomach disorders, deafness, dimness of sight, cataracts, pleurisy. When taken inwardly it was to be mixed with compound spirit of lavender.

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[Liverpool?] : [publisher not identified], [1760?]

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1 broadside ; 31 x 19 cm

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Notes

At end: "The aether .. is made and sold by M. Turner, surgeon, in Liverpool". Matthew Turner's longer (16 pages, with plates) account of the "aether" was published in 1761.

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