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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    From the Dowager Lady Bampfylde. SIR, Piccadilly, Sept. 9, 1783* BEING perfectly reftored to health by your excellent medicine, if your adding the following account-ta thofe letters you have already publifhed, can be of any fervice, it will make me extremely happy, as I fiiall ever embrace every opportunity of exprefling my grateful ac- knowledgments of the efficacy of your pills. It is about twenty-five years fince I felt the firft at- tack of a diforder which has greatly diftrefied me ever fince. Sometimes I experienced ‘all kinds of nervous agitations, languors and depreffion of fpirits. When it affeCted my head I was feized with giddinefs, excruciating pain, which fora time deprived me of my eye-fight and hearing; on my bread: it opnreft me with an afthma, whieh prevented me from ufing any excercife. It produced a fwelling in my ftomach, and in my throat, with a conftant con- traction and uneaiinefs in my bowels, and pain in my loins—On my legs it brought a fwelling fo great and fo fixed, that it was pronounced a confirmed dropfy, and treated as fuch. As I had, without fuccefs, tried almoft every medicine, and being more than fixty years of age, I almoft defpaired of getting any relief; but hearing of your pills, I deter- mined to try them, and under your direction, as you in- formed me that all my complaints proceeded from an ir- regular or rather unformed gout. The firft pill procured me more eafe than I had experienced for twenty-years — the fecond brought on a fmall but regular fit of the gout, on both feet and one hand. It is now but a fortnight fince I firft applied to you, and after taking nine of your pills, I am in better health, ftrength, and fpirits, than I Jiaye enjoyed for thirty-years, and my appetite, and reft, perfeCUy