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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    The Vine, in the facred Books of the Old Teftament, is frequently made ufe of as an Emblem, or Type, of God’s ancient Church and People: And in the New Teftament we find our Blefled Saviour comparing himfelf to it; and accordingly he has appointed the Juice of it to be drank, as the great Medicine of our Souls Salvation, in that facred Ordinance, one chief Intent of which is, to commemo¬ rate his own Offering for our Redemption. Thefe, and other things of a like kind, in an Age of a more pious and devout Turn than that of the prefent, might perhaps be efteemed as intended by Providence to point at the heal¬ ing Virtues and Qualities it has given to it; But it will be more agreeable to the prevailing Tafte, as well as be thought more to my Purpofe, to mention the actual Ufe made of it, and Efteem it was held in, as a Medicine. For this there is no Neceffity to quote parti¬ cular Authors, and Paffages of the Writings of the ancient Heathen Phyficians, they are in general fo full of its Praifes; and it is no lefs celebrated in this reipedt by the Poets, particularly by Homer and Virgil, the two greateft of them all. That Wine was ufed medically amongft the Jews, and e (pedal ly in our Saviour’s time, is,