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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    [ *+ ] ( evening, in an agony of pain, having Teen them taken by an infant of five years old, i took one of your pills, which in a quarter of an hour removed my pains, and compofed all the agitations of my nerves:* and the fame happy efreft they have never failed to produce ever fince, which is now five years. Their operation feems to be that of an opiate with me, for they very feldom purge, yet at the fame time I muft obferve, that the leaf! particle of opium has at all times the effedt of difeompofing rather than compopofing my nerves, fo that I am convinced there is nothing of that drug in the pills. I am. Sir, ' Your much obliged humble fervant, Vauxball, July 16, 1781. M. M. From Mr. J. Brooks, Clothier. SIR, BEING informed that many of your patients are fend- ing you their Cafes, I am happy to have the oppor- tunity of offering mine, with my requeft, that it may be made public. 1 have for fome years been fubje& to the attacks of a regular Gout, the fits of which confined me near fix weeks at a time, each fit left me much weakened, and the difeafe feemed to be making very alarming altera- tions in my conftitution. I have taken your pills in the very commencement of a fit that Teem'd to threaten a fe vere confinement, and they difeharged all the gouty mat- ter \