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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    and the other from a medical journal of high repu- tation. . With respect to the use of the term Panacea as the title of his medicine, there is, in fact, nothing ostenta- tious or empirical in this designation. It has been often employed, both by the ancients and moderns, in the restricted sense of a remedy for a large class of diseases, and not in its literal and more comprehensive meaning. The Proprietor of the present remedy has never deemed nor really styled it an universal spe- - cific: but he became convinced that it. was applicable to a greater variety of morbid cases than any other of - which he had heard or read; and he thought himself therefore entitled to invest it with the name which would best express its peculiar merit, and under which _ it had been common to announce and distribute what was alleged or held to possess a similar character. Ce maa “ Observations on Gout and Rheumatism, by Charles Wilson, M.D. 3d edit. London, 1823, p. 50. * ‘From the first, I was of course aware, that by - keeping the composition of the Tincture secret, I ex- posed myself to some degree of censure, even from the