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Several Excellent MEDICINES

Lately difcovered in the

ARGOLor T A RT A R;
Together with

fits PREPAR AT IONS;

VIZ.

The Volatile Salt, Oil, Spirit, and

Fixed Salt.
* To which are annexed.
Divers remarkable Inflances of the Efficacy of thefc
noble Medicines in the following Diforders :
The Raw Crystals, in Fits, Convuljons, Gfc.
The Volatile Salt, in the Scurvy, IVeabnefs or the Nerves,
Venereal Dijemper, Gonfumptions, ObJruEliom of the Menfes,
IVeaknefs of the Stomach, iFc.
TheS pirit, in the Dropjy, ObJlntElions, hvwnefs of Spirits,
The Oil, in the Gout, JJhma, Rheumatifm, &c.
The Fixed Salt, in the Stone, Gravel\ &c.

By L. W. T. D. C.

LONDON:
Printed for R. Baldwin, in Patcr-r.afler Row.
M.DCC.LY,
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Laurence Heifter, M. D.
Senior Profeffor of Anatomy, Phylick, Botany,
and Surgery, in the Univerfty of Helmftadt j
Firft Phyfician and Aulic Counfellor to his
Serene Highnefs the Duke of Brunfwick;
Member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences,
and Fellow of the Royal Societies of London
and Berlin.

SIR,
Y O U are fo univerfally known
and efteemed by the Learned
of all Nations, from the many excel¬
lent Treatifes in Anatomy, Surgery,
Phyfick, and Botany, You have fent
into the World, that it would be vain
B and
ii DEDICATION.
and abfurd, by an Addrefs of this
kind, to think of making the Name
of Dr. Heister more publick, or of
contributing any Addition to the Ho¬
nour and Credit which attends it.
But the great Improvement which the
Science and Pradice of Healing has
received from Your Penetration and
Diligence, and Your Candour in
communicating Your accurate Obfer-
vations, and happy Difcoveries, for
the common Benefit of Mankind, lay
* .
me, with every Student and PradK
tioner in every Branch of Phyfick,
under the higheft Obligations to You,
which it would be ungrateful to omit
any fair Opportunity of openly and
publickly acknovvleging. Befides this,
Sir, I fhall ever efteem it an Honour
to have it known, that I have had
the Happinefs to receive many parti¬
cular Obligations from You, by Your
faithful and excellent Inftrudions, as
well
 DEDICATION. iii
well in private as in publick, during
the many Years I was an Attendant
upon Your Le&ures at Hehnjladt, and
by the continued Friendfhip and Cor-
refpondence wherewith You have fa¬
voured me.
To this Foundation laid by You,
and to the Bleffing of Providence, I
am to afcribe whatever Progrefs I
have lince made in the Knowlege of
my Profeilion, and the Succefs which
has attended my Practice in it, by a
careful and diligent Application there¬
to. If I have been, by my Expe¬
rience, led to point out any thing that
may contribute in the leaft to the
Good of Mankind, to You are the
Thanks due, from whom I received
my firft Inftrudlions in Phylick and
Surgery.
What I here fend into the World, I
think of fome Importance; otherwife
I fhould not have publifhed it, much
B 2 lefs
iv DEDICATION.
lefs have addrefled it to You; which
I have done not only for the fake of
publickly acknowleging the particular
Favours You have honoured me with,
but becaufe You are at once the ableft
and moft candid Judge of thofe Trials
and Obfervations which I have made
on this noble Medicine, and the new
Virtues I fuppofe myfelf to have found
in jt.
That God may long preferve You
an Ornament to Your Profeffion, and
a general Benefit to Mankind, will
be ever the fincere and fervent Prayer
of,

SIR,
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Tour moji Obedient,

Humble Servant,

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 CHAP. I.
A Difcovery of fome Medicinal Qua¬
lities in the Tartar, or Argol.

F all Productions of the Vegetable

World, none have been in more
general Ufe and Eftimation than
Wine: The effential Salt of Wine,
called Tartar, is our prefent Subject of In-
quiry.
The feveral Preparations made from this;
to wit, a volatile Salt, a volatile Spirit, an
Oil, and a fixed Salt, I fhall feverally treat
of, and mention thofe Diftempers in which I
have found them refpeCtively ufeful.
God himfelf inflituted the Ufe of Wine, in
the Offerings to his Honour. Wine, we find
amongfl the Heathens, was conftantly ufed
in their Sacrifices, and facred Rites, which
they performed.
The
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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,
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is evident from the mention of it, as applied
with Oil to the Wounds of the half-murdered
Traveller, in his Parable of the good Sama¬
ritan. I will not difpute with the wretched
and defpicable Deifts, Naturalifts, Freethinkers,
&c, about the Creation, and how the Great
Being created omnia ex nihilo.
Wine, or the Juice of the Grape, indeed,
taken moderately and difcreetly, is a great
Strengthener of the Bodies, and Enlivener of
the Spirits of Men, even when both are moll
vigorous and healthy $ but it is the Tartar,
which is generated from it, that is the greateft
Benefit to our Conftitutions, when they are
fickly and difeafed. But this, under various
Forms, varying aifo in its Qualities, mull
accordingly be differently prepared and ad-
miniftred, as Diftempers themfelves vary, for
the Cure of which ’tis given, or applied.
The Forms under which I have found
it, viz. a volatile Salt, a volatile Spirit, an
0/7, and a fixed Salt, are of very eminent
Virtues in the Diftempers mentioned in the
Title-Page, and in others alfo, as will be feen
in the feveral Cafes I fhall give an Account
of.
Jealoufy, Malice, Envy, &c. are often the
Rewards, in the Beginning, of new and ufeful
Inven-
 [8]
Inventions, from bafe, ignorant, felfifh, and
ungenerous People : But exitus afta probat.
The Tartar, which is generated in the In-
fide of the Calks of Wine, every body knows,
is fo hard and compadt, that it may be walked
and clean-fed of the Dirt and Faxes, which
flick to it, without diffolving or opening its
Body y but if you add any Corrofives to it, it
will be deflroyed; as it will by expofing it to
a flrong Fire; for then its volatile Salt, Oil,
and Spirit, evaporate or fly away, and the fixed
Salt only remains; and from a common Di-
ftillation nothing will be produced, but a weak
Spirit and a faetid Oil.
In preparing my Cryflals, out of Nine or
Ten Pounds of common Tartar, I have found
remaining about One Pound of dark brown
Drofs.
That which I moft commonly ufe, is good
Tartar of Leghorn.
My Cryflals are of an admirable Beauty and
Luftre: They are commonly half an Inch long,
fometimes longer, and fometimes they are lefs,
and about Half a Quarter of an Inch thick,
fometimes more, fometimes lefs, but exadtiy
fquare; and now-and-then make a Body about
the Thicknefs of two or three Fingers.
If I let diem lie too long in the Air, or
cxpofe them to any Warmth, they will grqw
as
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as white as Chalk, as if they were calcined;
for which Reafon I carefully preferve them
from both.
In making my Preparations, I put 2 Pounds
of Cryftals into the Retort; and, in diftilling,
I give them at fir ft only a moderate Heat,
which is fufficient, but at laft a ftrong one.
In this Diftillation fome very volatile Spirits
come over firft : A little while after this, the
Retort and Receivers are filled with a thick
Cloud or Smoak, and the Spirit, volatile Salt,
and Oil, all pafs over together: The volatile Salt
fticks to the Top and Sides of the firft Re-*-
ceiver, foclofe and thick, that there is no feeing
thro’ it: The Spirit and Oil are mixed toge¬
ther, and fall into the Receiver ; and a great
deal of volatile Salt finks to the Bottom of the
Receiver, and there cryftallizes.
My Spirit, Salt, and Oil, are extremely vo¬
latile ; which is the Reafon of my ufing two
Receivers.
The more gently I diftil, the fafer I find
it, and I get a greater Quantity of Spirit, but
lefs volatile Salt; and, vice verfa, from a
greater I leat lefs Spirit, and more volatile Salt.
As in either Cafe I am obliged to give Vent,
I therefore lofe more than half the Quantity
of my Spirit, Oil, and Salt, by their unavoid¬
ably flying away thro’ the Vent-hole. I once
C tried
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fried to diftil the ufual Quantity of Cryftals,
fecuring every Giafs well with Bladders, and
giving them only a very gentle Heat ; but the
Retort burft with fuch a prodigious Force, that
it was very providential I efcaped with Life.
I find that my Spirit, Salt, and Oil, keep
all together in the firft Receiver; and that not
fo much as a fingle Drop of Spirit, but only
a very fmall Quantity of volatile Oil and Salt,
pafies over to the fecond 3 in the latter of
which, the Salt (hoots into long fmall Cryftals
at the Bottom.
Out of four or five Diftillations, if no crols
Accident happens, I get about a Quart of
Spirit, and two or three Ounces of Oil, which
is not rank and fetid, but of a pleafant Scent,
tho’ very quick and pungent; and the Spirit
fmells not at all difagreeable.
My Cryftals, upon being put to the Fire
or a Candle, yield a very fragrant Perfume,
as agreeable as a Nofegay.
I have put over my raw Cryftals of Tartar,
the fixed Salt of Tartar diflblved in the Air,
to make the 'Tartarus Tartarifatus : The Fer¬
mentation was great, and the Spirit ftrong. I
diftilled it in a Sand-heat, and obtained a very
ftrong and penetrating Spirit.
To guard againft Accidents in diftiliing, I
run a Pin thro’ the Joint of the fecond Re¬
ceiver,
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ceiver, to give Vent, as there may be Occa-

fion.
I ufed to feparate the Oil from my volatile
Salt with Spirit of Wine; but my prefent
Method is, to diffolve the Salt in Rain-Water
diftilled, which leaves the Oil remaining in
the Filtre.
I alfo filtre my Oil from my Spirit; but a
good deal of the Oil will ftill remain in both
the Spirit and the Water, which gives them
a yellowifh or brownifh Tinge; but, upon
rectifying, they become perfectly white and
clear 5 tho’ I am apt to believe, that the Water
lofes fome of its Virtue by rectifying. The
Oil will grow as hard and as brittle as Pitch,
of a dark brown Colour, if I put it in a
warm Place, or if I rectify my Spirit of
Tartar, and then it will make a thick Cruft
at the Top of it, and I am oftentimes obliged
to break it, becaufe it hinders the Diftiilation.
Sometimes I fublime my volatile Salt in a
Retort, and fometimes in a Cucurbit; which
makes it white as Snow, and exceeding volatile.
I have ufed fometimes Rhenifh, as well as
Leghorn Tartar, and find no Difference be¬
tween them, only that the largeft, clofeft, and
moft cryftaliized, is the beft, and has not fo
much Drofs as that which is Ipungy, porous*
light and brittle.
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When I prepare my Cryftals, there remains
with the Drofs a very fmail Quantity of fine,
whitifh, fandy Tartar, and fome Drofs. To
the Sides of the Veftels a kind of little con-
globular Particles will adhere, like Bunches
of Grapes fome of a whitifh Colour, and
fome of a brownifh, and not bigger than fine
Pins Heads, but very tender.
When I diftii my Cryftals, they melt toge¬
ther into a Body, as hard and clofe as a Stone,
at the Bottom of the Retort.
If I diftii the Drofs, I find it gives a very
great Quantity of Spirits, tolerably good, but
fetid, like the common Spirit of Tartar, fome
Oil, but no volatile Salt.
I have taken of this fetid Spirit, and coho-
bated it over the Caput mortuum of my Cryftals,
but could not remove the difagreeable
O
Smell.
I have tried, what peculiar Effect would arife
from diftiliing my Cryftals in an Iron Retort,
and I found the Sait and Oil acquired from
it inch a noifbme Stench, as could fcarcely
be endured. The Spirit came over as red as
Blood; and, I am apt to believe, muft be
very powerful.
If I take the Trouble to diflolve my Cry*-
ftals in Rain-Water diftilled, they are then
larger, and admirably white ; and there will
remain in the Water, and at the Bottom of
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the Fiitre, a kind of fine Cream of Tartar,
which I fhall fome time hereafter, examine
more accurately.
If my Spirit of Tartar ftands a while, there
will fhoot out, at the Bottom of the Glafs, very
fine white, and large yellowifh Cryftals; if
the Spirit is not diftilled, they are yellowifh,
but if it is, they are admirably white.
My volatile Spirit of Tartar, if put over
my depurated fixed Salt of Tartar, ferments
fb much, that I am fcarce able to hold it
in my Hand ; and a good deal of ftrong Spi¬
rit diftils itfelf without any Fire, and fome
volatile Salt. The firft time of diftilling, it
came over pretty well, and the fixed Sait of
Tartar had loft much of its Sharpnefs; but the
fecond time, the Spirit would not come over
in the Sand, notwithstanding a conftant mo¬
derate Fire for a Fortnight; during which, it
often gave vehement Thumps, till I put it in a
Balneum Maria, and then the Spirit and Phlegm
at laft came almoft all over. At length I put
it in a ftrong Sand-heat, whereupon the Cu¬
curbit burft, which always happens.
The more I cohobate my volatile Spirit over
die fixed Salt of Tartar, the ftronger it grows;
and theTafte fhews, that it carries over fome
fixed Salt; and in the Water it finks to the
JBottom.
After
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After I have diftilled the Spirit, I have taken
the Phlegm, and diffolved a good Quantity
of my volatile Salt of Tartar in it; of which
fome Ihot out afterwards in fine frnall Cry¬
ftals.
If I make a Tindure of Copper with my
Spirit of Tartar, it is as blue as Ultramarine ;
but if I take my Spirit of Tartar diftilled, or
cohobated from the Salt of Tartar, it will not
exhibit any Colour at all.
The Caput mortuum of my Cryftals of Tam
tar, which is quite black, I wafh, filtre, dry,
and calcine, feveral times over, till a little Drofs
Js left remaining of a grey Colour.
The Bxtrad I evaporate, cryftaliize, and
calcine but moderately; and it then appears
whiter than Snow. The Cryftals are like fine;
Sugarcandy.
I have wafhed, cleanfed, evaporated and cry-,
ftallized the Caput mortuum, and the Cryftals
have been quite brown. I found a great deal of
Difficulty, as well in making thefe Cryftals, as
in my fixed Salt of Tartar ; both being fo eafily
difiblvable, that it was with the utmoft Pains
and Trouble that I could fufficiently evapo¬
rate the Liquor.
I have diftilled the Caput mortuum a fecond
time, which Iliad not diftilled too much at firft;
and, after walhing it out, evaporating, and cry-
ftallizing
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ftallizing it, I got a good Quantity of weak Spi-*
rit, fome Oil, but no volatile Salt.
Thefe Cryftals, expofed to the Air, diflolve
very quickly.
The Liquid of the fixed Salt is fc extreme¬
ly penetrating, as to run very fail thro’ the
Pores of any common white or brown Staf-
fordjhire*Bafons. Finding this to be the Cafe,
I ufed formerly in this Bufinefs right China
Bafons ; and then, if I dried it to any high
Degree, and did not keep it ftirring continu¬
ally, it would take away all the Luftre and
Polifii of the China; even eat Holes thro’ it,
and burft it in Pieces. This led me to make
Trial of right London Stone Bafons 5 and I find
they anfwer very well.
If I evaporate the Liquor of my fixed Salt,
the Cryftals will melt like Wax in a moderate
Heat; and when it cools, it grows hard, and
appears like Nitre. I have found a great
deal of Trouble in diying it, till I gave it a
great Heat. In calcining, it will melt and hifs
for a confiderabie time, and throw up all the
unclean Parts to the Top, and the Bottom
will be admirably white, with a little Caft of
the blue: And unlefs great Care be taken in
calcining, it will form a Cruft, and in a little
time the remaining Liquid in the Middle will
force its Way, with great Violence, to the im-
3 minent
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minent Danger of the Operator; and the Li¬
quid itfelf is fo extremely piercing, that it
will certainly penetrate and burft any Crucible,
the fecond, if not the firft time, of ufing it.
If I diffoive it in Rain-Water, it will grow fo
hot, that I can fcarce hold the Veffel in my
Hand.
I always take care not to calcine it td any
Excefs. If I let it diffoive in the Air (as I
always do to make my Oleum per deliquium),
and fiitre it, the Liquor will be of a fine Sky-
blue; andtheoftener it is repeated, the brighter
will the Colour be. *

I have diftilled this Liquor from my fixed.

Salt of Tartar, and put my volatile Salt of
Tartar to it: It occafioned a gentle Fermenta¬
tion, but diffolved a great Quantity of the vo¬
latile Salt; of which afterwards fome cryftal-
lized itfelf very beautifully at the Bottom of
the Glafs.
Having cohobated rectify’d Spirit of Wine
over my fixed Salt, both united, and formed
the Appearance of fine Cryftals. I found
the In fide of the Glafs Retort quite corroded,
and the Glofs all gone, as in rough-ground
Glafs; and if I attempted to diftil it over
again in the fanle Glafs Retort, it always burft
it, tore it in Pieces, or diffolved it, if I only gave
gentle Heat 5 and I was obliged to wafh the
Sait
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Salt out of the Sand, to filtre, evaporate, and
calcine it feveral times over, to get it clean
again.
Curiofity led me once to difiolve fome Gold
in Aqua Regis, in a little Glafs Retort. I
precipitated it with my fixed Salt of Tartar;
I put fome Spirit of Wine to it afterwards,
by little and little; but in a minute’s time it
blazed out of the Retort, as red as Bloods
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with a great and furprifing Force, about a

Yard and a half Difiance. It grew fiery hot;
and had I not open’d the Door that Inftant,
I mufl have been fuffocated.
I once took fome of my Salt of Tartar,
which I had walhed out of the Sand, &c. and
calcin’d it; when, to my great Surprize, I
found the Top of it moft beautifully gilt. I
(hewed it to a particular Friend of mine. But
as the Salt of Tartar diifolved, the Gilding dis¬
appeared.

D CHAP.
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CHAP. II.

‘The Ufe of the Tartar.

HATEVER I have written con-*

VV cerning Tartar, of Argol, has been
from my own Experience, without the Af~
fiftance of any Author, or copying any thing
from them: Had that been the Cafe, I would
ingenuoufly have owned it. And indeed, to
fpeak my Mind, I could have been glad to
have met with fuch Affiftance, could I have
been fo happy, as to have found an Author
who was capable of affording it.
As it is, I fliall juft fet down my own Ex¬
perience and Obfervations. The few Cafes I
ihall make mention of, are not fi&itious, but
real ones; and the Peoples Names, and Places
of Abode, I could eafily have added, if there
were a Neceffity for it.
Tho’ I have not written in a pompous man¬
lier, and with an Elegance of Stile, yet the
candid
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candid and indulgent Reader I hope will ex-
cufe it, fince I have afferted nothing but the
Truth, and fhall fo continue to do. From
fome People perhaps I fhall obtain a good Re¬
port ; from others, thro’ Self-intereft or Igno¬
rance, perhaps a different one: The former
I thank, the latter I hope I fhall not need to
fear.
My volatile Salt, Spirit, and Oil of Tartar,
are very powerful ; and what thefe will not
move, I believe few other Medicines will.
They are alfo gentle and agreeable to the
human Body ; whereas flrong and violent
Medicines, and the common mineral and me¬
tallic Preparations (particularly if they are
not well prepared), frequently ftrain the ten¬
der Frame of our Bodies to fo great a Degree,
as many times to endanger the Patient’s Life.
My fixed Salt is of very great Virtue in cor¬
recting fuch Medicines as are prepared from
Minerals and Metals.
The more pure a Medicine is prepared, the
greater Efficacy, Power, and Penetration, it
pofieffes.
I have rectified my volatile Spirit, and there¬
by fublimed a great Quantity of volatile Salt
into the Head of the Alembick. When the
Mouth was not large enough, it put me to
confiderable Inconvenience. There remains
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in the Cucurbit, after the Rectification, a dark
brown oily Liquor, very bitter. This I recti¬
fied in B: M* upon which, more Spirit, but
not very ftrong, came over, and the Oil re¬
mained. This Remainder of the Spirit of
Tartar, I have taken and rectified again, by
cohobating upon the Caput mortuum of my
Cryftals, and it grew very ftrong.
At another time, I have taken the Spirit,
and diftiiled it in B. M. but I found it was
not fo ftrong, as that which I rectify’d in the
Sand. I believe the Reafon is this ; In di-
ftiliing in the Sand, the Spirit alone goes over,
and the Oil retains the Phlegm; but in the
B. M. the Phlegm and Spirit diftil together,
and the Oil remains.
I don’t remember ever to have fmelt any
thing like my volatile Spirit 5 and I know not
with what I can compare it: It retains a little
Scent of the Oil, which gives it fomething of
the Odour of Spirit of Hartihorn.
The volatile Salt has almoft the fame Smell.
And tho’ no Medicines are more fubtiie
and penetrating than my volatile Salt, Spirit,
and Oil of Tartar, yet I never obferved that
they excited any feverifh Pleats, or produced
any ill Confequences. To be better affured
what Effects thefe Medicines would produce,
I never ufed to give any others, or mix them
with
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with others, at the fame time; but if I did
give any thing elfe, it was only a gentle Diet-
drink, or a little laxative Phyfick.
As the moft Part of Diftempers have their
Beginning from Obftrudtions, more or lefs, in
feme Part or other of the Body; fo thefe
Preparations from Tartar are the more effica¬
cious, as they do moft effedtually open Ob¬
ftrudtions in the feveral Parts of the Body,
and give furpriftng Relief in many obftinate
Cafes.
My volatile Salt of Tartar not redtify d, if
diffolved in Rain-water diftilled, fmells a little
like Spirit of Ffartlhorn, and is of a yellowifh
Colour ; but if I diftil it, it grows quite white,
and its Scent goes off a little; which both de¬
pend upon the Oil.

Of my raw Cryftals of Tartar diffolved in

Rain-water, and cryftallized again, I have
given from ten to fixty Grains, in the ftrongeft
Fits and Ccnvulfions, and Falling-Sickneft, in
Children and grown People. At another time
I have given my raw Cryftals as they are,
which have alfo had the defired Succefs;
and I have with great Surprize feen the good
Effedts of them both.

A Woman in St. harnes s Market fell in La-

bour about three W eeks before her time, by
the
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the Fright of the laft Earthquake : The Child
was born with the Yellow Jaundice, and with
ftrong Fits. The Yellow Jaundice I foon re¬
moved. In fourteen Weeks time the Child
*

had not a Quarter of an Hour’s Reft from the

Convulfions, fo that the Nurfe, who lived in
the Country, could keep it no longer.
I had applied feveral Medicines before, but
without the leaft EfFed; and for that reafon I
gave the Child ten or twelve Grains of my
raw Cryftals every two or three Hours, with
lome Liquid ; and the fecond Dofe ftopt the
Fits.
The Child lived about three Quarters of a
Year afterwards without any Returns ; but the
violent Fits had certainly affeded his Brain.
Not having before one Tooth, they fhot into
the Gums all at once, and haftened his Death.

A Man in the Country, about 40, was feized

with Convulfion Fits by hard Drinking, many
times in a Day, which frequently lafted for
about a Quarter of an Hour. After proper
laxative Phyfick, I gave him my raw Cryftals
of Tartar. He began to grow fo well, that
he only had a flight Touch of them in twenty-
four Hours time} but finding himfelf grow
better, and being tired of living foberly, he
fell to drinking again, whereupon his Fits
returned :
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returned: But as he would not be prevailed
with to refrain from Drinking, I pofitively re-
fufed to have any thing more to do with
him.

A Gentlewoman of about 30, was taken

with prodigious ftrong Fits, and lay in a mi-
ferable Condition. I was obliged to open her
Mouth with a Silver Spoon, and forced two
Dofes of my raw Cryftals of Tartar down her
Throat with Water every Hour: After which
I had the Satisfaction to fee her perfectly re¬
cover.

I have had feveral Cafes of Fits and Con-

vulfions of many Years ftanding, and alfo in
Hyfterical and Hypochondriacal Diforders,
which have been cured by my raw Cryftals of
Tartar. They remove the watry Gripes ef¬
fectually in Children. My volatile Salt of
Tartar is a powerful Nervous Medicine, very
ftrengthening and penetrating; which every
fkilful Chymift muft acknowlege.

A young Man from Wales, about 20 Years

old, going to live at Cambridge, had a Gutta
ferena, and was fo intirely blind for about fix
Months, that he could not fee the Sun atNoon-
day, nor a Candle before his Eyes. He came
to
I [ 24 3
to Town, and lodged with a Relation in Great
RuJ/el-Street. He had taken a great many
Medicines from other People, but in vain,
and rather grew worfe. After he had been
blooded, purged, and vomited, I gave him
between yo and 60 Drops of my volatile Salt
of Tartar diflolved in diftilled Rain-water,
four times a Day, in fair Water, or a fmall
Spoonful, with a Diet-drink, and an Herb-
Snuff. He recovered fo well, that he could
pick up a Straw or a Pin from the Ground,
and walked home with a great deal of Joy.

In chronical Pains in the Head and Sto¬

mach, in Fainting Fits, ObftruCtions in Wo¬
men, and in the Scurvy, it has done great
Service.

A young Gentlewoman was many Years af¬

flicted with a prodigious and continual Head-
ach, which almoft ftupefied her; but, by
giving her my volatile Salt diflblved in Rain¬
water, three or four times in a Day, a Tea-
Spoonful at a time, fhe recovered, and enjoyed
good Health afterwards.

A young Man had been afflicted with fre¬

quent and violent Pains of the Head for near
eighteen Years: He had taken Abundance of
Prepara-
 I

[ 25 ]
Preparations, but all to no Purpofe. I then
gave him the aforefaid Medicine, by which
he obtained a Cure, having feldom or never
had the Head-ach fince ; unlefs he be difor-
dered by Drinking, and then he has had a
flight return.
1

A Woman about 30, whofe Family was

afflicted with the Gout, had the Head-ach to
a violent Degree, for a great while, and had
ufed many Medicines, but to no Purpofe: I
gave her my volatile Salt diffolved in Rain¬
water, and in a few Days time, to her great
Joy, {he was intirely well.

A married Woman complained of conti¬

nual Pains in her Stomach and Plead ; but by
ufing my volatile Salt for fome time, (he per¬
fectly recovered.

A Woman in Long-Acre had fcorbutical

Eruptions, to a great Degree, all over her
Body in red Spots: Her right Arm, from her
Elbow to her Wrift, was fwelled almoft as big
as a Mans Thigh, and had a vail Number of
Holes in it, big enough to contain Peas: Her
Fingers were much fwelled; and fhe was
in exceffive Pain Night and Day. She had
been laiivate d \ but grew worfe, in head of
E better.
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better. For her Arm I ordered a common
Foultice, and gave her my volatile Salt dif-
folved in Rain-water diftilled, four or five
times in a Day, a Tea-fpoonful at a time;
and in a fhort time her Health was reflored.
- * •-

With this volatile Salt I have cured invete¬

rate Poxes of a very long handing.
By what I have feen and obferved in Con-
fumptions, I believe, if the Patients are not too
far gone, they maybe cured by this volatile Salt
diffolved in Rain-water, and by getting into
the Air at the fame time, as I have expe¬
rienced in feveral confumptive Patients. This
Diftemper is frequently fymptomatical. Milk
is oftentimes ufed improperly. With this Me¬
dicine I have often effectually cured the Con-
fumption, by correcting the Blood, ftrengthen-
ing the Stomach and Nerves, removing Ob-
ftruCtions, &c. I have obferved that Goats
Milk does greater Service (if Milk will agree
well with the Patient) than any other.
.

A young Man, a Carver, near Soboy was.

confumptive, and very thin. I gave him no¬
thing el fe but my volatile Salt of Tartar dif¬
folved in Rain-water, which intirely cured
him, to the Admiration of myfelf, as well as
of his Friends.
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 [ 27 ]
A Brailer, aged about 45 Years, fell into
a Confumption, it was thought, by chewing
Tobacco and hard drinking. He took to his
Bed, and got the Palfey, by which he loft
both the Ufe of his Tongue and of his right
Side. I gave him my volatile Salt diffolved
four or live times in a Day : He recovered fo
far, that he could walk about with a Stick,
and had his Senfes tolerably well, the Con*-
{umption was intirely cured, and his Appetite
perfedtly reftored.

A Gentleman of a tender Conftitution got

the Venereal Diftemper, and, after he was
cured of it, a violent Cough followed it, and
he wrafted away very faft. I cured him of it
intirely with only my volatile Salt of Tartar.

A Man had a continual Purging for two

Years, and was reduced to a Skeleton : I
cured him intirely, in a little time, with my
volatile Salt of Tartar diffolyed.

A Man about 40 Years of Age was affiibted

with a Cancer in his Tongue, in a terrible
manner, for two or three Years; and he
could get no Cure. I tried the volatile Salt
diffolved in Rain-water, it occafioned a pretty
deal of Pain in the Cancer, but healed it up
intirely,
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 [ 28 3
In the King’s-Evil, or fcrephulous Hu¬
mours, it has done great Service,
Several young Women who were not regular
have been cured with it; and it has removed the
mod; violent Coughs.
Nor are thefe Virtues confined to the vola¬
tile Salt of Tartar only; the redlified Spirit of it
having been found of fingular Efficacy where
a powerful Deobftruent has been defined.
The Drcpfy, for the moil Part, proceeds
from fome Obftrudtion or Fault of the Liven,
except where it arifes from a fleffiy Subftance
(improperly fo called), and then it is com¬
monly incurable. Vomits and Purges, we
find, are very uncertain Remedies: Sweating
is better, but at the fame time too long and
tedious. To refolve the Obftrudtions of the
Liver and Vifcera, and open the Kidnies, is
the beft and fureft Way of Cure ; hut corn-
common Diureticks are of very little Ufe.
It is impoffible, in feme Cafes, where the
'Prima vice, and the Bowels and Kidnies, are
impaired to a great Degree, that any Medi¬
cine fhould fbeceed : but ftrong Vomits and
Purges are certainly dangerous at fuch a time,
as die Bowefs and Stomach cannot then bear
. ■ “ O ' • , b , - , v

their Force, and as they carry off as much good

as bad. In fuch Cafes my volatile Spirit of
Tartar is more likely to afilir, than any of the
ftronger
 09]
ftrongcr Preparations. This Medicine there¬
fore is more effectual in fuch Cafes ; efpecially
confidering how little we can expedt from
Tapping and Scarifying,

A Man near 50 fell into a Dropfy. I gave

him my redtify’d volatile Spirit of Tartar, he
took it four times in a Day, a Tea-fpoonful,
in fair Water. I gave him firft two Purges.
In four or five Days time he found, that taking
the Spirit eafed his Liver, and caufed him to
make Water plentifully; he recovered his
Stomach, Colour, and Strength ; the Heat of
his Mouth and Third: went off, and fo did his
Swellings, the Pain at his right Side, together
with his Faintnefs and Sicknefs, and he is now
intirely well.

A Woman between 50 and 60 had the

Dropfy and an Afthma. I gave her three
Dofes of purging Phyfick, and a Tea-lpoon-
ful of volatile Spirit, in Water, four or five
times in a Day, and in about three or four
Weeks time die recovered. She had now-
and-then a Touch of the Gout.
After the Dropfy is cured, the Gout will
mo ft commonly return, if the Patient has
had it before.

A
 [ 3° ]
A Lady of about 3 5 had the Dropiy, and
a fleihy Subftance. A Gentleman gave her
my volatile Spirit, and fhe recovered of the
Dropfy in a very little time , but the fleihy
Subftance remained, and afterwards occasioned
her Death. I have feen a great many Women
in the felf-fame Cafe.

A Man of 34 Years old, living in a pubiick

Way near Bloomjbury-fquare, by drinking too
much fpirituous Liquors, got the Dropfy to a
prodigious Degree, with an Afthma, and PaL
pitation of th^ Heart: After adminiftring a
proper Dole of purging Phyfick, I gave him
my volatile Spirit, ordering an exadt Regimen
in eating and drinking; and he perfectly re¬
covered his Health.

Of my Spirit of Tartar, which I have co-

hobaied over my fixed Salt of Tartar, I have
given from ten to forty Drops, with great
Sneeds in the Dropiy, and in feveral other
Cai.es®

A Woman in Long-Acre, of about 25 Years

of Age, had the Dropiy. I was fent for. She
was convulfed, and had a dying Sweat upon
her. 1 gave her fifteen or twenty Drops three
or four times in a Day > it worked by Stool
0

and
/
 C 31 ]
and by Urine ; her Appetite returned, her
Urine grew better in a few Days 3 and fhe
recovered furpriiingly in a little time.

Sometimes I mix my volatile Spirit with

the diffolved volatile Salt of Tartar, to make
it more efficacious.
My Oil of Tartar diffolves almoft intirely
in Spirit of Wine, making it as red as Blood :
The real Spirit of Wine is the beft. I put as
much Oil not redtify'd to the Spirit, as it will
diffolve.
This Oil is fo ftrong and volatile, that once,
upon taking off the Receiver, as foon as I had
done diftilling, and putting the Candle a little
too near it, the Receiver took Fire, and a
flaming Cloud afcended, which fpread itfelf
like Wild-fire, fo that I thought I had fet the
whole Houfe in a Blaze; but it foon vanifhed
away.
If I cohobate my Oil of Tartar over my
fixed Sait of Tartar, there comes over a good
deal of volatile Salt, and at laft a fine Oil, as
red as a Ruby, which gives to the volatile
Salt a Tinge of the fame Colour; and the
more I cohobate the Oil, the finer, ftronger,
and whiter, it grows; but the fixed Salt of
Tartar grows as black as jet.

A
 [ 32 ] .
A Fit of the Gout may be with Safety eafed
in a very little time, by Sweating and Urine.
Any Diftemper may return* after it is cured,
from an inward, or outward, or accidental
Caufe, or through the Fault of the Patient $
fo that proper Medicines fhouid be conti3-
nued for a fit time.

A particular Friend of mine was fifteen or

fixteen Weeks ill of the Gout unknown to me :
He recovered, but going put again, 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 diflolved in Spirit
of Wine, from fprty to fixty Drops, in Moun¬
tain, 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 veiy bad Water, excef-
fively foul, with a thick ropy Sediment, which
fluck to the Sides of the Chamber-pot, and
fmelt intolerably. He perfpired very well
that Night. His Sweats had a very faetid and
offenfive 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 lamifh, becaufe
his Feet were tender.
A
 [ 33 1
A young man of about 30, whofe Father was
afflicted with the Gout, had it all over him,
but exceffively in his Stomach, infomuch that
he thought it would kill him direftly. I gave
him my diflolved 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. After the Violence of
the Fit was over, he only took ten or fifteen
Drops upon a Lump of Sugar. Some Days
after, through 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 re¬
turned with the Fever, in his Hands and Feet;
but as the Fever abated, fo did the Pains.

I have had feveral Patients with the Gout

in the Stomach, to a very great Degree 5 but
I always cured them in a few Hours time;
the Gout going into the Extremities, and the
Patient generally difcharging Wind very much
both upwards and downwards; but by con¬
tinuing the Drops three or four times a Day,
it is quickly cured.

A Woman of an advanced Age had the

Gout and Dropfy, together with an Aithrw :
F I
 [ 34]
I gave her my diffolved Oil, but I found that
the Dropfy increafed; for that reafon I gave
her my volatile Spirit four or five times in a
Day, a little Tea-fpoonful at a time, and fhe
recovered.

A Man, by taking Cold, got the Rheum a-

tifm in his Face -y afterwards it feized his
Limbs, and deprived him of the Ufe of his
right Leg and Thigh, which wafted, fo that
he walked upon Crutches for a Year, or more.
I gave him the diffolved Oil, and now-and^
then a Dofe of Phyfick, and in two or three
Months time he walked again perfedty well.

A Gentleman loft the Ufe of his Legs for

about four Years, thro1 the Gout and Rheu-
matifm, and for about a Year he could not
ftir from his Chair: He had taken many
things from others, but without any Benefit.
I gave him my Oil diflolved, for feme time $
but he did not intirely recover, becaufe he
would not leave off drinking, &c.

A Fit of the Rheumatifm is not fo eafiiy

removed, as a Fit of the Gout.
Several of my Patients, who were formerly
afflicted with the Gout, take ten or twenty
Drops three or four times in a Day, in good
Wine,
 [ 35 ]
Wine, fo Toon as they perceive the Gout
flying about them, or coming on; and moft
commonly it prevents a Fit, or carries it off
by a gentle Sweat and Urine.
In the Rheumatifm and Afthma I found
my Oil exceeding good, and fometimes my
Spirit too. I have made Pills with the Oil,
and they have done great Service.
I have fublimed my volatile Salt in an
Alembick, by which means it became admi¬
rably white, and prodigioufly ftrong. I put
my volatile Spirit over it, and cohobated it.
This made it very penetrating, but not fo
ftrong, as if I diftilled it over my fixed Salt of
Tartar.
My fixed Salt of Tartar is of great Force
in diflolving the Gravel and Stone, and coagu¬
lated Vifcidities in the Kidnies and Bladder.
In an old Manufcript an ingenious Author
makes mention of this. In the Tartar lies
the only Medicine to diffolve the Stone with
Safety.

A Gentleman near Lincoln s-Inn had a Stone

in his Kidnies, which was judged to be very
large. He lay in great Mifery, with very little
Hopes of Relief. I gave him my fixed Salt
of Tartar, 25 Grains Morning and Night,
with a proper Diet-drink: In three or four
F 2 Days
 [ 36 ]
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
 C 37 3
the Salt of Tartar out again, and put the Mer¬
cury in a luted Retort in an open Fire: It
bore the Heat till the Glafs melted, and then
the live or crude Mercury came over all at
once, with a great Force, into the Receiver,
which was filled with Water, and the Water
itfelf was grown brackifh, and a little black,
I found half the Mercury remaining fixed in
the Retort, of a greyifh Colour $ I tried it in
the ftrongeft Melting-Fire ; farther, I burnt
it off thrice with Brimftone j but not the
lead Quantity was wafted.
Another time I took Mercury precipitated
and edulcorated, and my fixed Salt* of Tartar
cohobated with Spirit of Wine, put more Spirit
of Wine to it, diftill’d it feveral times, wafh’d
the Salt out again, and put the Mercury in a
ftrong Melting-Fire in a Crucible: I found
half the Mercury fixed, of a greyiih Colour,
which could abide the ftrongeft Melting-Fire,
but it would never unite with any Metal.
This fixed Mercury has been taken, with
great Succefs, for an old inveterate Pox, for
the King’s-Evil, and other Diftempers.
They that are fo weak, as to feek Riches
in common Mercury, are much to be pitied.
One thing I muft not omit to mention,
which might have come in more properly in
another Part of this Treatife :
K , % •
When I have j

applied
 [ 38 ]
applied my volatile Spirit of Tartar outwardly
to a Cancer, the Flefh has immediately be¬
come as white as any other Part of the Body,
and the Progrefs of it hath been ftopt, at the
Place where I touch’d it, tho’ not without oc-
cafioning a good deal of Pain, for about half a
Minute : But in order to be ftiil further fatisfied
of its Efficacy in thisRefpedt, I purpofe to make
further Obfervations, as Occafion fhall prefent.
Amongft all my Preparations of Tartar, I
never found any of them do the leaft Harm, if
they had not the wifh’d-for Succefs or Effe£L
As it is impoffible for any One to find out
all the Preparations, Qualities, and Ufes, of
Tartar, (as every expert Chymifl muft ac¬
knowledge) if he could live to the united
Ages of ten Perfons $ I fhall therefore be ex¬
tremely obliged to all Lovers of Chymiftry
for any Difcoveries, they may hereafter make
on this Subject; and in the Continuation of
this Treatife their Names fhall be publifhed,
if they fhall permit me fo to do.
If it fhould pleafe Providence to prolong
my Life, I fhall not negled: to make farther
Experiments and Improvements of my vola¬
tile Spirit, Salt, Oil, and fixed Salt of Tartar*
for the Benefit of the Afflidted.

f
 ADDEND A.

HE fit ft Impreffion of my Pamphlet

JL being fooner difperfed than I thought,
I am obliged to reprint it; and, as I have
had extraordinary great Succefs with my
Tartar, thro’ the Bleffing of the Almighty,
I have done it with the more Pleafure. I
acknowlege freely, that I have committed
a Fault in difpoiing the Operations not fo
very regularly ; and that I could have omit¬
ted fome Things; but I hope the gentle
Reader will be fo kind as to excufe it.
The Preparations of the Tartar or Argol
are all of a very penetrating Power ; but for
all that, not hurtful to the human Con ft i-
tution. They do not tear it to pieces, but
ftrengthen it, and remove Obftrudions, &c»
as I have faid before; and are of as much
Service to human Nature as lies in the Power
B of
of any Medicine. I will venture to add, they
are more beneficial than any Medicines as
yet known ; but a reafonable Man mud not
expedt Impoffibilities, or Infallibilities ; be-
caufe it is not always in the Power of Phy-
fick, or the Phyfician, to cure all Didem-
pers: The Diffedtion of the difeafed and de-
ceafed human Bodies demondrates this. Nor
is it in the Power ofMedicine to make us im¬
mortal. And it often happens that the Pa¬
tient is already at the lad Stage of the Dif-
temper, or that the tender Frame of the
human Body is already dedroyed, partly
through wrong apply"d, or partly through
too ftrong and violent, or partly through too
many, and too great Quantities of Medi¬
cines ; and, in fucfa Cafes,, not much Ser¬
vice can be exceeded.
i

The Vine is the King of Trees, and the

Medicines prepared out of it are the mod pe¬
netrating, moil balfamick, mod valuable,,
and withal the mod amicable, to human
Nature, amongd all the Remedies prepared
out of the vegetable World. The Tartar
of the Antients, as of B. V. and others, is
not of the common Tartar or Argo!, but is
of a different Nature. And Parace/fus, the
great Chyrnid, has called all Obdrudtions,
Tartar
 f 3 ]
Tartar, or tartareous. Bat about preparing
the Tartar itfelf, I have found nothing.
My Preparations of my Tartar, which I
never mix with other Medicines, are cer¬
tainly of the greatefi Service in Phyfick; but
for all that, Vomiting, Purging, Bleeding,
&c. mufl not be omitted, if there is a Ne-
ceffity or Occafion for it. Many great and
chronical Diftempers would be cured, if the
Patients would continue for fome Time with
proper and fafe Medicines, and be ruled in
their Diet and Paffions: And by thefe Means
they would prevent the Relapfes and Re¬
turns.
If a Patient is cured of a Diftemper, it
may return after fome time, or through his
own Fault or Error, or through an accidental
or natural Caufe, as I have feen, amongft
others, in a Woman, whom I had cured
with my refin’d Chryfials of Tartar, of the
Falling Sicknefs or Epilepfy many Years
ftanding ; but (lie being of a paffionate and
violent Temper, it returned in about fix
Months Time, as I had foretold her. And
I have feen young Children, which I have
cured of Convulfion Fits, whom the Agony
of the Teeth, after being intirely cured per¬
haps a Year, or a Year and a Half, has kill¬
ed in a Minute. B z The
 t 4 J
The World is made to believe, thro' the
politive Affertions of fome ignorant People,
that there is no Remedy for the Gout, ex*-
cept Flannel and Patience; and I myfelf do
not believe, that the Gout can be cured in-
tirely, and for ever, without any Return, and
with Safety j however, I have removed,
with my rectified Oil of my Chryftals of
Tartar, fevere Fits of it from the Stomach
into the Extremities, in few Hours; yes, in
few Minutes; and the F'its from the Extre¬
mities in a fhort Time, with Safety, by
Sweat and Urine; and, by continuing to
take a few Drops every Day, it has fweet-
ened the Blood to that Degree, that the Fits
of the Gout are grown lefs frequent and
lefs painful, and a great deal fhorter.
A certain Gentleman, in a publick Office
under the Royal Exchange, has had the
Gout for many Years, fo that he has been
confined for eight or nine Months in a Year;
but, by ufing my rectified Oil of my Chryf¬
tals of Tartar, and continuing taking of it
daily a few Drops, he has not been confined
perhaps eight Days at a Time in two or
three Years; and he has only now-and-
then a flight and fhort Return of it when he
catches colcl, &c.
 [5]
As there are already Books enongh which
have fundamentally and fufficiently treated
of all the Diftempers incident to the human
Body, I thought it fuperfluous to tranfcribe
or pillage other Peoples Learning, merely to
make a pompous Show, or to fwell the Size
of my Book, as a great many would have
done, though the Subject had been far in¬
ferior to that of which I treat. I have ufed a
plain, fhort, and eafy Stile, fit for every Bo¬
dy's Capacity, at which I find a great many
are offended ; but I wifh that every Writer
of the healing Faculty, or any other, would
endeavour to ferve the World more with fo-
lid and fubftantial Matter, than with pom¬
pous and empty Words, and uncharitable and
abfurd Criticifms, &c. If a Man takes
Pains in his Profeflion now-a-days, and in¬
vents a new Remedy, or Medicine, to relieve
the Miferies of the diftrefled, let it be as
uleful and excellent as it may, he is dogma¬
tized by the ignorant, felfifh, and envious,
with the undeferved Name of a Quack (I
do not fpeak of wicked Cheats, and of ig¬
norant and illiterate, tho’ impudent, proud,
and audacious Impoftors); yet almoft every
one of the healing Faculty would be very
glad to be in Poffeffion of fure and fafe Re¬
medies
 [ 6 ]
medics (but gratis, and without Trouble),
But thofe Slanderers fhould fir ft invent
and publifh more ufefu!a fafer, and better
Medicines, before they traduce the Character
of thofe who mean well to Mankind. Arts
and Sciences, and particularly Chymiftry,
are not to be learned in Taverns, nor in
Coffee-houfes, nor at the Tea nor Card Ta¬
ble, nor in Bed, nor with Idlenefs, &ct
We muft all, fooner or later, give an Ac¬
count how we have fpent our Time and
Talents. Let us therefore put our nice and
lazy Hands more to Books and Charcoal,
than Cups, Cards, &c.-, chafe good Sub¬
kits, Ora & Labora ; and let us work
chearfully after a reafonable Manner • then
the Great Being will blefs and reward us,
and our Patients thank us, for our Labour
and Affiduity, &c.
I hope in a little Time, to publifh the
Continuation of my Dilcoveries and Obfer-
vations in the Tartar or Argol, as I have
promifed. And, as there may be fome
Gentlemen, or Patients,' that would be glad
to make life of my Tartar or Argol, and
the Medicines prepared thereof, I take this
Opportunity to inform fuch, that they may
be
 [ 7 ]
be fupplied therewith only at my Houfe in
James-Street, Covent Garden.

^ Letter zz Gentleman, on the

foregoing Treatise.

A Mr Dove,
S you defired me to give you my Sen¬
timents on your Treatife of Argol or
Tartar, I prefume you will not be offended,
if I fhould po:nt out fome Errata, or at
lead fuch as I think to be fo, according to the
bed of my Judgment.
'In Chap. I. Page y, Line 2, you fay,
that God inftituted the Ufe of Wine in the
Offerings to his Honour; which I think you
might as well have waived, not having any
Connection with the medicinal Virtues of
Tartar ; and left it to the Clergy, whofe
Province it is to treat of fuch Subjects.
Again, Page <5, Line 2, you feem to re¬
flect too much upon this prefent Age for
want of Piety and Devotion, which, I think,
had been better let alone to the Clergy, who
are paid for declaiming againfl: Vice from
their Roftrums.
In Page 13. there 1 an Error, tho’ tri¬
fling, either of the Author or Printer, which
is
 m
Is this, inftead of faying, that of the prefent
Age, it fhould be this.
Again, Page 7, Line 4, you fay, you will
not difpute with the wretched and defpica-
ble Delfts, Naturalifts, Freethinkers,
about the Creation ; and how the Great Be¬
ing created omnia ex nihilo. Pardon me,
good Sir, if I fay, you did not rightly con-
fider before you wrote this; for, in my weak
and humble Opinion, there are many learn¬
ed and worthy Men, who are Deifts, Natu-
ralifts, and Freethinkers; pleafe to conuder,
whether you are not a Naturalifl: yourfelf,
in treating of the Works of Nature ? And
alfo, whether you are not a Deift, in praif-
ing his Works, and co-operating with them,
in order to extract fuch Remedies, as may
be of Ufe and Benefit to Mankind ? If
thefe Things are fo, have you not given an
Opportunity for your Opponents to triumph
over you ? Certainly I think you have, and
could with you had not.
As for your Book in general, it is wrote
with Honefty, Sincerity, and Truth; and,
it is evident throughout, that you have taken
a great deal of Pains in the Analyzing of Tar¬
tar, which is neglefted by the Chymifts of
this Metropolis (the more is the pity), for I
think
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think it deferves the utmoft Encouragement,

having the greateft inciting, attenuating, and
penetrating Qualities of any thing el 1 e in the
known World. I freely own, I have great
Fai t h i n the Vir tues contain'd i n Tar tar, which 3
by a fkilful Artift may be difplayed.
In Page 12, Line ig> you mention the
Diftilling theChryftals in an iron Retort, and
that the Salt and Oil acquired from it an in¬
tolerable noifome Stench ; doubtlefs, you
cannot be ignorant, that the Tartar, con¬
taining Abundance of acid Particles, of
confequence muft adt upon the Iron very
ftrongly.
In fhort, to conclude, upon the whole, I
like your Book very well; and heartily with
you good Succefs; for, without Flattery, I
really think you merit it by your indefatiga¬
ble Labour and Induftry. Go on and pros¬
per in God's Name; maugre all the Jealou-
fies, Malice, and Envy of bafe, ignorant,
felfifh, and ungenerous People, &c, In the
mean time, I remain,
SIR,
Tour fine ere Friend,
and humble Servant.
London, Jan. 6, T jj
1756. J'

C MY
 [ io ]
My Answer,
SIR,
Y OU are fo kind as to give me your
your Sentiments of my little Trea-
tife of the Tartar or Argol • for which, in-
ftead of being offended, I am very much ob¬
liged to you. I could have omitted what I
wrote about the antient Offerings, but I did
it only to fhew the Antiquity of the Ufe of
Wine. I think it is the Duty of every Body?
that has the leaf!: Notion of a future Life, to
bemoan the lamentable Decay of Piety and
Devotion in this prefent Age : Whofe Fault
it is I will not inquire. I do not recant,
that I have called the Naturalifts, Deifts,
and Freethinkers, wretched and defpicable.
I am ferry that any learned Man, or any
who pretends to have the Ufe of Reafon, is
of this Denomination j and I am more con¬
cerned for them that have particularly an
Opportunity to fee the admirable Works of
the Creation, defpife the great Maker of it?
to their own wilful, deplorable, and ine¬
vitable Ruin: And I wifh they may fee be¬
times their dangerous Errors, &c. It is
true, I humbly adore the Deity in the Works
of Natures but I do not make Nature a God.
To

*
 C 11 3
To defcend from this Subjedl to my Tar¬
tar: It is not of an acid, but of an alkalineNa-
ture. The Oil of Viti iol makes a great Ebul¬
lition and Fermentation upon every Prepa¬
ration of my Tartar. Though almoft every
Body, that is of the healing Faculty, mod
acknowlege, that the Preparations of my
Tartar are the mod: innocent, and for all
that the mod powerful Medicines in a great
many Cafes; however I do not expedt to be
much applauded from certain Gentlemen,
becaule Self-Intereft is too powerful, and
lies in the Way. But I truft to Providence,
Truth and Fads will always ftand on my
Side.
I amjnfinitely obliged to fuch an able and
ingenious Chymift as you are, for giving
my little Treatife fuch an undeferved Cha¬
racter.
They that fight againft Truth, and op-
pofe it, never acquire great Honour; and,
for thatReafon, I fhali not trouble my Head
for the future about my filly Opponents.
I am, Sir,

Tour waft obedient, &c.

i

• • ", \

C Z The
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[ l2 ]
The Gentleman’s Magazine mentions my
\Treatife cf the Argol or Tartar, in No¬
vember 1and, in the Conelufon of
it takes Notice, that I have not fet down
the People's Names that I have cured, nor
publijhed my Name. In Anfwer to this, 1
beg Leave to addrefs this following to the
Proprietor of that Mifcellany.

Mr. Urban,
I N perilling your Magazine, which al¬
ways con lifts of well chofen Stric¬
tures of Learning, I find you have done me
the Honour to take Notice, in November
I75)y 0f nay little Treatife oft Tartar or Ar¬
go! . The Word of an honeft Man js fuffi-
cient. To take a lacred Oath upon any tri¬
fling Gccafion, is making light of Inch an
awful and iolenm Inftitution • and Affida-
vits don’t always carry fufficient Proof 5 they
are often printed, and very eafily obtained,
or perhaps never made 3 and therefore 1 did
not think it proper to colled any upon this
Occafion. However, to anfwer your Ex-
trad of my Book, and as there may be feme
People, that doubt the Veracity of my Af~
fertions, I will only for once mention the
, Names
 [ 13 ]

Names of thofe Perfons whofe Cafes you

have hinted at. The firft Cafe is of a Child
mentioned in my Pamphlet p. 21 ; it was at
Mr. Harford's, at the Sign of the Bull in St,
James's Market: and now Mr, Long keeps
the Houfe, who married his Widow.
The next, p. 22. is of a Man at Bir¬
mingham ^ and Brother-in-law to Mr. Avere%
a Fadtor there.
The Name of the third, p. 23. is Fran-
cis Keale, he lived in Great Rufiel-Streeff
Bloomsbury, with his Couiin Mr. Kipp ax,
a well-known and great Writing-mafter,
who is now retired from Bufinefs, and gone
to live at Kown, in Lancajhire but Mr.
Englif, Stationer, in Little Windmill-Streety
Knaves-Acre, and ieveral other Gentlemen,
can teftify the Truth of this Cafe.
Page 27. The Man with the Cancer in
his Tongue was a Foreigner, his Name is
Meyer.
As to Venereal Cales, and the young Wo¬
men, I mud; beg to be excufed mentioning
Names.
In confumptive Cafes, with Spitting of
Blood, I have cured, among others, one
Givings, a Journeyman to Mr. Jones an
eminent Ironmonger in Long-Acrq. Alfo
a Ser-
 in]
a Servant Maid to Mr. Roberdoes at Fading-
ton, who was cured in 3 or 4 Weeks of a
deep Confumption. Mr. Ganderooris Son,
in Hog .Lane, p. 26, I cured of a deep Con¬
fumption ; but two Years after that, he,
by living irregular and too faff, fell into a
Confumption again, unknown to me; and I
did not fee him till about 24 Hours before
his Death.
One Baldwin in p. 30. amongft others,
who jived at the Sign of the Fox, in Fox-
Court, near Queen s-Square, was cured of a
violent Dropfy by my volatile Spirit of Tar¬
tar.
Mr, Son, in Hart-Street, p. 33.
who had the Gout in his Stomach, was cured
of it by my Oil of Tartar.
The Man with the Rheumatifm, p. 34.
his Name is James Parcival; he was a
Sailor, and afterwards a Chairman to the
Hon. Colonel Torke 5 and he is now living
in Greenwich Hofpital, At the Time of
curing him, a Piece of his Upper ja w- bone,
with two found Teeth in it, fell away,
Mr. B~—e, p. 3 3. who belongs to the S tamp-
Office, was the Perfon who had a Stone in
his Kidnies j but for what Reafon he de«
4 fired
 [ if 3
fired not to have his Name inferted at Length,
I can’t guefs.
The Woman whom I cured of a violent
Scurvy, p. 2f. her Name is Scraggy and
{he lived at the next Door to the Red Lion
in Long-Acre.
I could mention many others that I have
cured with my raw Chryftals, volatile Spi¬
rit, volatile Salt, Oil, and fixed Salt of Tar¬
tar, of different Diftempers, but I hope.
Sir, thefe few will fatisfy you. In the Con¬
tinuation of my Treatife of Tartar or Ar-
gol, I may perhaps publifh my Name at
Length • not having Reafon to conceal it,
as my Father has had the Honour to be
Phvfician abroad to King George I. and
King George II. whofe Life and Reign I
heartily wi(h may be long and happy.

1 am, Sir,

Tour humble Servant,

<
The Authors of the Monthly Review hd*
ving thought proper topublifh their malig¬
nant Animadverfions on my Pamphlet, I
judge it not a?nijs to return them my Com¬
pliments in the following*Addrefs to them.
t

To the Authors of the Monthly Review :

Greeably to that Spirit of Malice and
Jj JL fplenetick Criticiim, for which your
Performance has been remarkable for fome
Time pad, you thought fit, in the Monthly
Review of 1755, to give a Character of
my pamphlet, lately publifhed, containing
an Account of fome Difcoveries in Tartar,
tic.: And, in your raving Fit, you have
called it a Revival of the Dreams of Para¬
cel/us. If you were not unfkilful in Phy-
fick and Chymidry, you would have known
what the Tartar of Paraceljus, is, or what
he means by it. The mod learned Phyfi-
cians and Chymids of all Ages, and of all
Countries, have (hewn great Honour to this
Man 3 and, if you underdand Latin, pleafe
to read his Epitaph, exiding to this Hour 3
which is no Dream, and is greater than ever
yours is likely to be. For my part, I fhould
fincerely rejoice, if I had learned any thing
from
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from him on the prefent Subject. People
of greater Learning, Experience, Candour,
and Penetration than you, have at all
times regarded Tartar, as containing the
moft powerful Medicines* But, it is not
furprifing, that a Set of fuperficial and
mercenary Scribblers call it a Dream. The
Chymifts don’t always fucceed in their Ope¬
rations,
In my Pamphlet, I have deferibed a Me¬
thod of making feveral great and excellent
Medicines out of my Tartar ; and, in order
to prove that they are fo, I have made men¬
tion of many Cafes, where they have per¬
formed extraordinary Cures. The Ufe of
the Dregs only of my Tartar is always fol¬
lowed by a reviving and falutary Succefs;
and, for the fake of your Brains, if you have
any, I very fincercly recommend a few
Dofes to the Authors of the Review, ho¬
ping it will give a comfortable Warmth to
their impaired Faculties. Had you any
Love for Impartiality, Truth, and Candour,
Mr. Baldwin, an eminent Bookfelier in Pa-
ter-No/Ier-Row, for whom my Pamphlet
is printed, would have given you my Di¬
rections j and, if you had thought fit to have
made me a Vifu at my Houfe, in James-
. D Street,
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[■8]
\ * i '
Street > Covent-Garden, I would have fliewis
you, with Pleafure, all my Preparations of
the Tartar, and have demonftrated to you,
that they are no Dreams. You have unge-
neroufly, as you moft corfrmonly do, for
want of Equity, Candour, and Learning, (of
which you poffefs as much as a common
Proftitute does of Chaflity) endeavoured to
decry the Labours of a Man, whofe Defign
manifestly tends to the Benefit of his Fel¬
low Creatures, and whofe Knowlege is
founded on Fadts and Truths. The Infi-
nuation concerning the Dedication, is of a
Piece with your other notable Obfervations.
The Credit of a Dedication to a great Man
always reflects a Luftre on the Author; and
had the great Doftor Tleifler not approved
it, his Name would not have been made ufe
of. If you can’t, for the future, produce
a more impartial, judicious, and equitable
Performance, than you have dilhonoured
yourfelves and the Monthly Review with,
No-body that has the leaft Share of Senfe or
Tafte, will think himfelf much obliged to
you. You are greater Enemies to. Litera¬
ture, Sciences, ufeful Inventions, and Truth,
than Encouragers. And it is, in Reality^
a great Honour to an honeft Man to be at-
v 3 tacked
 [ 19 ]
tacked by a Set of fuch unfair, ungenerous,
and malignant Writers. I will only add,
that, if you, or any other Dunciad, (hall
think proper to dip your Pens in Gall a fe-
cond Time, and write any Thing more on
this Subjedt againft me, you fhall not be an-
fwered j .having no Time to fpend in fuch
Idlenefs, tho’ you may.
I am, &c.
v* - . ..»■■■ .i.... ■ ■ — 1

The following Letters have been fent me

from divers Patients.

To Mr. W. 'T. I)ove9, Surgeon, in James-

Street, Covent-Garden.

T SIR,
HE Love I bear to Mankind, and
the Obligation I have to you, forces
me to write this. I have found, by my
own joyful Experience, the Truth of what
you have wrote in your Treatife, intitled*
A fhort Account of feveral excellent Me-
a dicines difcoveted in the Tartar or Ar-
*c golf’ dedicated to Dodtor Heifer, and
printed for. Mr. Baldwin in Pater-Nofler~
Row. My Cafe was defperate and deplo¬
rable^ I was in a very deep Confumption;
: ' ' \ D 2 ' I
 [ 20]
I had a continual Cough, and a Hedlick Fe¬
ver ; I fpit Blood in great Quantities ; I was
emaciated, and not able to walk twenty
Yards; my Stomach and my Spirits were
quite gone; when I went to Bed, I thought
I fhould never fee the Day-light more, (Sc.
Being an Apothecary myfelf, and com¬
ing to Town, I had the beft Advice, but no¬
thing would do; but, reading your Book,
1 refolved to try your volatile Salt of Tar¬
tar ; and happy it was for me. I am now
fo well recovered in a Fortnight’s Time,
with God’s Affiftance, and your Medicine^
that I can walk three or four Miles with
Eafe, fieep well, and eat in eight Days
more than I have done in three Months be¬
fore, My Spirits are quite recovered; I can
breathe without Difficulty; the Pains and
Stitches in my Side? the Spitting of Blood,
the He&ick Fever, and my Night-fweats,
are gone ; and, in fhort, Thanks to the Al¬
mighty,! am quite another Man. Itispoffi-
ble, you may not be pleafed with me, to thank
you in this publick Manner ; but, pardon
me, Sir, fori fav, that I am obliged in Duty
to you, and in Charity to my Fellow-Crea¬
tures, fo to do. I have not only heard of,
but feen with Pieafure, feveral other great
Cures
1
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Cures you have done with your incompa¬

rable Medicines, prepared out of the Tar¬
tar or Argol. God profper your Under¬
takings, and prolong your Days, for the
Benefit of Mankind ! As long as I live, I
fhall remain, Sir,
Tour moft humble, obliged,
and moft thankful Servant,
London, July 7, Thomas Hillman, junior,
1756. late of NewcafHe under Line,
now at the Royal Point, in New
Crown-Court, N° 18, Bow-
Street, Covent-Garden.

s 1R,
M * *

Y Father before me having been af-

flided with the Gout, it feems to
have defcended to me by Inheritance: And
accordingly, I was feized with it in my Sto¬
mach about 3 Years ago, being 26 Years
of Age : It was fo violent, that I thought I
fhould die of it every Minute; and I believe
in Reality, that no Pain in the World dSmes
up to it; but you removed the Gout oqjtof
my Stomach, thank God, in one Night’s
Time, with your Oil of refined Tartar or
Argol, which work’d by Sweat, Urine, and
Wind, I thought myfelf fo well the next
Day,
 X^] I

Day, that I could go out again. You havfe

my Cafe inferted in your Book, p. 3 3. But,
perhaps by catching Cold, I was afterwards
feized with a dangerous Miliary Fever, and
with the Gout in my Hands and Feet; of
both which you relieved me in a (hortTime.
1 am,_Sir5

Your moji humble Servant.

London; Dec. 25, 1756, William Weftcm

Drury-Latie.

-4 * r ~■ **

A worthy Gentleman, very eminent in the

Law, living in an Inn near Holborn-bars,
whofe Parents wereafflided with the Gout,
was lately feized with the Gout in his
Stomach in a 1110ft dangerous Manner *
but, taking my rectified Oil of Tartar, it
drove the Gout, in lefs than four Minutes
time, out of his Stomach into his Feet, as
he himfelf affured me ; and, continuing the
Ufe of my redified Oil, it intirely relieved
him from his Pains in 12 Hours Time, by
Sweat and Urine.

S I R,
 [ :-3 ]
S 1 R,
R '

Eading in the News Papers of the i6tii

inftant, a Letter from Mr. Hillman,
Apothecary, of your having made a very
furprizing Cure on him, in a deep and defpe-
rateConfumption 31 think, Sir, yon have per¬
formed not a great deal lefs, or much inferior,
in your Cure of Mrs .Mary Atkins of Convui-
fion Fits fifteen Years (landing. You have
cured her of this dreadful and (hocking Dif-
temper intirely, with your Chryftals of Tar-
tar or Argol, in a very fhort Space of Time,
againfl her own and every Body's Expedta-
tion, to the great Surprize of her Rela¬
tions, and her other Acquaintance, I hear¬
tily wi(h the fame Bleffmg and Succefs from
above may always attend your Patients, and
all the great Difcoveries in the Argol or
Tartar, which was lately publifhed by you.
Iam, Sir,

Tour mojl obedient

... ,. % ,. f .

humble Servant,

•London, Aug. i, John Carr.

1756*

S I R,
 [MJ
M g I R,
Y Son had conftantly, for two Years
and a half, very ftrong Convulfion
Fits; and had all the Advice poffible, and
many Medicines given him, but with¬
out any Benefit or Succefs. At laft, giving
him your Chryftals of Tartar or Argol for
fom© Time, he is now, thank God, intirely
cured of this frightful and (hocking Diftem-
per; for which, I and my Family return
you our moil fincere Thanks.
- I am, Sir,

Tour mod humble Servant *

London, Dec. 7, 1756. William Mifplee,

The Corner of Fetter- Oilman.
Lane, Holborn.

S I R,
ITH Pleafure I fee in the News,
that fome People have paid you a
deferving and juft Compliment, for the
great Cures you have performed upon them
with your new invented Preparations of
Tartar or Argol. But, Sir, pardon me,
that I, having perhaps the greateft Reafon
for it amongft them all, follow their Ex¬
ample to thank you in this Manner. Every¬
body
 [ 25 3
body of my Acquaintance knows, that I
had the Dropfy to a very great Degree, as
I lived three Years ago, 175-3, in Fox-Court,
Southampton-Row, Queen’s-Square. You
make mention of me in your Treatife of
Tartar or Argol, printed for Mr. Baldwin
in P'ater-Nofter-Row, p. 30. I was fo bad,
that I could not buckle my Shoes, nor walk
up Stairs, or lie down in my Bed • my *
Breath was very fhort; I had a deep Le¬
thargy, and a prodigious Palpitation of the
Heart 5 my Legs, Thighs, and whole Bo¬
dy, were exceedingly fwelied ; my Counte¬
nance yellow, Gfc. In fhort, after having had
all the Advice imaginable, I expedted no¬
thing but Death. And, if a worthy and
great Benefadtor of mine, and a particular
Friend of yours, had not fent you to me, I
muft have left behind me a large and defti-
tute Family. But you cured me, through
God’s Affiftance, with your redtified Spirit
of Tartar or Argol. For which, land my
Family {hall for ever remain, as long as we
live, SIR,
Tour mojl obedient humble Servants.

London, Aug. 10, Richard Bald won,

l7$6* ChappefCourt, Ox-
ford-Chappel.
E This
 This Gentleman, after he was cared of
the Dropfy three Years and a Half, was ta¬
ken ill of a violent Fever unknown to me,
and died in four Days Time, OStober 22,
'7f6- .

H S IR,
AVING loft fix Children in ten
Years Time, which all died, to my
great Grief, within the Month after their
Birth, of the Watery Gripes and Convul-
fion Fits, notwithftanding all imaginable
Care and Medicines. But hearing of you^
and feeing afterwards a Perfon, whom you
had cured of Convulfion Fits three Years
(landing, I gave to my then almoft dying
Child, your refined Chryftals of Tartar or
Argol 5 and you, Sir, with God’s Bleffing,
and your Medicament, cured it intirely of
this moft fatal Di(temper • and it is now one
Year old. For which great Cure I fincerely
thank you, and remain,
London, Jan. 1, . Ann Gibbs.
1757*

I can’t omit to infert the Cafe of a Lady

in Years, who has had continually the Con¬
vulfion Fits very violently for about 20 or
 A
[ >7 ]

&i Years i and did not {pare Expences to

have the belt Advice at home and abroad.
After giving her my refined Chryftals of
Tartar for ihme time, I had the Pleafure of
relieving her of that dreadful Diftemper.
The following is a Copy of one of her
Letters;
\
' i

SIR,
I Had the Favour of your kind Letter, and
I am determined to follow your Advice
in ufing Exercife, and taking the Air when
the Seafon is proper, and my Health will
permit me fo to do. It is many Years fince
I was firft feized with Convulfion Fits ;
and their Returns upon me have been very
irregular from the Beginning; but their Ef¬
fects upon my Memory have rendered me
unable to give a particular Defcription of
their progreffive Returns. This is certain,
that I have taken a Multitude of Medicines
in order to remove them, but without Ef¬
fect, till I entered upon your Chryftals,
from which I have received very great Be¬
nefit, as well as others in my Neighbour¬
hood, And, as I intend never to be with¬
out fome by me, I defire you will fend me
E z a
 [ 28 ]
a Pound by the Swallowfield Carrier the
firft Opportunity.
I am. Sir,
Tour •very humble Servant,
Sidmonton, Feb, 27, P« W®
I757-

B SIR,
Y deeping in my wet Clotaths for fome
Hours, I catched a violent Cold, which,
in three Months time, threw me into a deep
Confumption ; for which I ufed many Me¬
dicines, but all in vain ; and I was already
fo much enervated, that I was fcarce able
to walk, &c.; and I and my Friends did
expeft nothing elfe but Death. But being
encouraged by feveral People, whom you
have cured of this dreadful Didemper, to
take your volatile Salt of Tartar or Argol,
it cured me, thank God, intirely5 in a fhorc
Time, to every-hody's great Surprize. For
which I am, with the greateft Obligation^

Tour mojl obedient

and humble Servant.
London, Dec. 1 £, James Thompfon,
1756. at J^New-Inn, Weft-
piinfter-bridge.
The
 The Patients Names in the preceding
Cafes, I hope are fufficient to (hew, that
they are not fictitious, or Dreams; but for
the future, I fhall only relate the Cafes
without Names; fince many Ferfons have
flrong Objections againft publifhing their
Names in Print: And, for that Reafon, I
am at prefent obliged to leave out feveral re-
markable Cafes.

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