A treatise on Swaim's panacea; being a recent discovery for the cure of scrofula, or King's evil, mercurial disease, deep-seated syphilis, rheumatism and all disorders arising from a contaminated or impure state of the blood. With cases illustrating its success / [William Swaim].

  • Swaim, Wm. (William)
Date:
1824
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Credit: A treatise on Swaim's panacea; being a recent discovery for the cure of scrofula, or King's evil, mercurial disease, deep-seated syphilis, rheumatism and all disorders arising from a contaminated or impure state of the blood. With cases illustrating its success / [William Swaim]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    jealousy 3 in others, as to contend with honest or scien- tific doubt. He has been assailed by malevolence in various forms; while the boldest impositions have been practised upon the public ‘by men who pretend, falsely, to have discovered the ingredients of his me- dicine, and have issued as the same, compounds of their own, which are far from possessing the same virtue. With equal hardihood, they have used for their benefit, the very certificates which the real Pa- nacea had, by its wonderful operation, drawn forth from both patients and medical practitioners. He ought not, perhaps, to complain, since the pro- prietors of all celebrated remedies have been attacked and wronged in like manner. He places his trust in the fruits of experience for a complete triumph over all the devices of enmity and cupidity. ‘There is one topic, however, among the invidious strictures of the day, upon which he will venture to touch now, though probably no necessity exists for noticing it at all: he - means the concealment of the composition of the Pa- NACEA, supposing it to be as general and powerful a remedy as he proclaims it to the world. He is con- tent, as his defence against this ground of accusation, to refer the reader to the annexed quotations—the first from the work of a distinguished regular physician,