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 Mr. Waterhouse, Cumberland-Houje. S I R, AFTER h2ving been much afHidled with the head- ach, and a ficknefs every morning, and frequently at oilier times of the day, particularly if I had walked too fail; thefe complaints continued on me about the fpace of two months, at the conclufion of which period, I was at- tacked with a fit of the Gout in my foot, which laffced about twenty hours, and then a fwelling came on ; the day after, my friend Mr. Shaw called on me, whofe family have many of them been (to my knowledge) mar- tyrs to the Gout, and he fiimfelf afflicted with it in the moft violent degree; he told me of your pills, whofe effects had relieved, when no other medicine had, though he had been under the care of the moft eminent phy- ficians ; he likewife referred me to another acquaintance, who had experienced their falutaiy effects. In con- fequence of this information, I wifhed to try them myfelf; I took your pills, and found they had the effects my friend told me they would have ; and in three or four days I was quite relieved : but the moft extraordinary thing was, they had no ^ffe£t on me, after the fit was quite gone ; but being of a relaxed habit of body, I was fubje<5t to catch cold, which brought on the fame Complaint, but on taking your pills again have been immediately relieved, therefore think it a duty incumbent on me to exprefs my obligations to you for fo valuable a relief as they procured me, who am, Your very humble fervant, London, June 28, 1780: W. WATERHOUSE