These are weird stories. I was curious what Katherine Jones, Lady Ranelagh, may've been known for, so checked out [their Wikipedia page](https://en.wikipedia.o

These are weird stories. I was curious what Katherine Jones, Lady Ranelagh, may've been known for, so checked out [their Wikipedia page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Jones,_Viscountess_Ranelagh https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Jones,_Viscountess_R...). The most substantial-looking claim was at the start of the "Science" section: > Jones is known for her genius in medicine. In a letter to her brother, Lord Burlington, she described a friend of hers, Lady Clarendon, having “fits” and how she attended to her even when the doctors had given up on her. Jones used her own concoction and that seemed to be the only thing that helped Lady Clarendon. What "concoction" did they invent? Following the source, there seems to be a [PDF dissertation about them](http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/3146/1/WRAP_THESIS_DiMeo_2009.pdf http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/3146/1/WRAP_THESIS_DiMeo_2009.pdf), PDF-page 79 (printed-page 67): > Lady Ranelagh’s critique of the doctors’ treatment plan continues in this letter, where she maintains that her Spirit of Hartshorn was the most effective treatment. She then says that the doctors agreed with her (though perhaps somewhat hesitantly) that her remedy was a suitable choice, and she takes the opportunity to suggest it to her brother in his treatment for his own sick wife, telling him where he can find it and recommending the appropriate dose. Appears that the "spirit of hartshorn" Jones was using and advocated would today be known as smelling-salts, basically emitting ammonia that'd wake someone up (if I'm reading the history correctly). It's really weird for Wikipedia to start off by saying that someone was "known for her genius in medicine", after reading a Nature.com page describing them as an "incomparable intellectual", only to then see the first actual example of what they did being use of some smelling-salt.