Morbus anglicanus sanatus, or, A remarkable cure of an inveterate scurvy ... / in a letter from a country clergyman to his son in London. Concluding with a contrivance or two, for saving the lives of those, who shall happen to be in the upper rooms of a house, when the lower are on fire.

Date:
1766
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Credit: Morbus anglicanus sanatus, or, A remarkable cure of an inveterate scurvy ... / in a letter from a country clergyman to his son in London. Concluding with a contrivance or two, for saving the lives of those, who shall happen to be in the upper rooms of a house, when the lower are on fire. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ty Symptom of that Diftempcr is totally re* moved. * It has alfo been helpful to me in another Complaint, to which I have been fubjetf: almofl from my Infancy ; and that is, that painful and tormenting one, the Gravel. To Perfons addicted to this Malady, no one can fcarcely be ignorant, that Collivenefs is a great Enemy. From this gently-open¬ ing Medicine, they muft, therefore, of Courfe, find Relief; and this, I can af- fure you, has very fenfibly been the Cafe with me. I have now lefs Occafion to make Ufe of my Horfe, which, in that particular, I always found to be my belt Doctor. Thus you fee, my dear Son, that by the Ufe of this plain, but moll valuable Medi¬ cine, I am at once happily freed from a Complication of Diforders; but I cannot exprefs fufiiciently my Gratitude andThank- fulnefs to a good Providence, for its extra¬ ordinary Succefs, fiich as vaflly exceeded my Expectations, and my Hopes, and which I efteem one of the greater! of my temporal Bleffings. In the Decline of Life, to