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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    Days time it began to work upon the Stone* and in the Morning a clouded Matter peared in the Urine, which afterwards preci¬ pitated itfelf, refembling the White of an Egg. The Bottom and the Sides of the Glafs were furrounded with a pointed ftony Cruft of a whitifh Colour; and in three or four Days all the Pain left the Patient, and he recovered intirely in a little time. I have iince been forry that I did not preferve the Feeces. An old and very feeble Man had a Stone in his Bladder: He had ufed a great many Me¬ dicines for fome Years. Having given him mine, I was obliged to defift, becaufe the Stone, beginning to diffolve, the Pieces cut him pretbjt much in the Urethra. I have cured feveral People of the Gravel with my fixed Salt, and a proper Diet-drink. I have taken Mercury, diffolved it in Aqua¬ fortis, precipitated it with common Salt, edul¬ corated it well, and dried it. After that, I took my fixed Salt of Tartar, on which I had cohobated Spirit of Wine, and put it into a Retort, with more Spirit of W ine, upon a Sand- heat. As foon as it began to be warm, it grew as black as Ink. I cohobated the Spirit of Wine over it feveral times, and at laft wafted the