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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    ancle to fvvell very much ; and while the Gout continued there I was entirely free from my former complaints: at this time a friend of mine, who had been afHidfed with the Gout, called to fee me, and advifed me to take your Pi] 1?^ and accordingly fent me a box that day, together with a printed diredlion how to ufe them ; I took one that night going to bed, and after taking four or five more, I was able to walk about my room, and three days afterwards to go abroad, as ufual, about my bufinefs; fince that period, when by catching cold, by fudden change of weather, or by little irregularities, my old complaints inmyftomach and head feem to threaten to return upon me, a few ofyour pills always carry them off, and fet me perfectly to rights, and I never enjoyed better health than at prefent and if this teftimony can be of any ufe to you, you have my free permiflion to make it public, and I will myfelf take every opportunity of recommending them to thofe who ftand in need of them. I am, Sir, « Your much obliged humble fervant, Stafford-Row. near Rucklngham-Gate, March 29, 1781. MALm. MACPHERSON. - . ... r, - , From Captain Stawell. TN the year feventy-four, I was attack’d with the Gout, and fome fits that fince have been fo fevere as to con- fine me for months, one indeed for fix. In the intervals be- tween the regular fits, I have been occafionallv plagued with a variety of Complaints in my llomach, bowels, and head, all which I fuppofed fo originate froma flyingGout, as they all vanifhed during a regular Paroxyfm of the Gout. C About