Remarkable cures, of gouty, bilious, and nervous cases / related by the patients themselves, and published at their desire, in sundry letters to John Scot, M.D. ...

  • Scot, John.
Date:
1783
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Credit: Remarkable cures, of gouty, bilious, and nervous cases / related by the patients themselves, and published at their desire, in sundry letters to John Scot, M.D. ... Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    mach, having all the appearance of an inflammation of that part; being of an athletic, mufcular make, and of re- markable activity in his profeflion,the confinement which, thefe illnefles occafioned, became intolerable to him. About five years ago, he began to take the pills, has occa- fionally taken them according to the printed directions ever fince, and is at prefent not only freed from every fymptom of Gout, or diforder in his ftomach, but pofieftes an unin- terupted ftate of health in every refpect. From Adrs. Macaulay, VauxhalU SIR, I REJOICE much, to hear that you are making your valuable pills public. I am alfo told, that many of your patients are giving you their Cafes, to publifh for the good of Mankind. If my teftimony can be of any fervice even to one of my differing fellow-creatures, I give it with a hearty good will. From a fender.tary life and a variety of difagreeable events, I became fubject to nervous complaints,and others, that by Gentlemen of the Faculty were termed Bilious ; the firft were generally followed by the laft; that is, after being diftreffed with tremor, oepreflion of fpirits, want of fleep, &c. thefe fymptoms terminated in acute pains in the ftomach and bowels. I applied to phyficians of the firft eminence, and the laft gentleman that attended me is at this time amongft the firft and moft diftinguifhed of the profeflion in London ; but without the kaft relief. One evening ) J