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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    ( >9 ) May 2. I I forgot a moft material information, which is, that & , through the feverity of the Gout, I was obliged to quit fervice, having with difficulty done my duty in Ame- rica, as foon as the winter feafon came on ; and I was fo crippled irom the feverity and length of fits, that I could fcarcely walk. From Colonel Sherriff—Copy. Dear Sir, T Shall, with very great pleafure, embrace every opportu- nity to give my teftimony in favour of the fafety and efficacy of your pills: they have been of infinite fervice to me, having cured me of a bilious diforder, with which I had been opprefled for more than twenty years, without receiving any relief worth mentioning, although in that time I confulted Phyfici^ns of the higheft reputation; your pills have removed all my complaints, and you are wel- come to make what ufe you pleafe of this recent proof of their good effe£ts ; and I remain, Sir, your obliged fervant. Old Alresford, Hants, Nov. 24, 1781. WILLIAM SHERRIFF. From Captain Handfxeld, late of the 40th Regiment of Foot. S I R, FOR above eight years I fuffered the mofl painful and diffracting fymptoms of a flying unformed Gout, which attacked my head, breaft, neck and every part of my *