A letter from the facetious doctor Andrew Tripe [i.e. W. Wagstaffe], at Bath, to the venerable Nestor Ironside. With an account of the reception Mr. Ironside's late present of a Guardian, met with from the worshipful Mr. Mayor, and other substantial inhabitants of that ancient city. To which is added, a prescription from the doctor, by way of a postscript, exactly suited to his distemper / [William Wagstaffe].

  • Wagstaffe, William, 1685-1725
Date:
1714
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Credit: A letter from the facetious doctor Andrew Tripe [i.e. W. Wagstaffe], at Bath, to the venerable Nestor Ironside. With an account of the reception Mr. Ironside's late present of a Guardian, met with from the worshipful Mr. Mayor, and other substantial inhabitants of that ancient city. To which is added, a prescription from the doctor, by way of a postscript, exactly suited to his distemper / [William Wagstaffe]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ' 3 ' the Carrier in Three Gallipots, as a grateful Return for your late Prejent. This, by the Natural Antipathy of the Ingredients, will work poweriully upon the Crudities, correct the peccant Hu¬ mours, and you will foon find the power¬ ful EfFefts of it. It is a Sudorifick, retick. Carminative, and a soporifick.* It immediately puts all the Humours in a Ferment, feparates the Gzwd from chzBad, attrafts to it felf, by an occult Sympathy, all the Rebellious Particles, diflbives them in a Thrice, and fcowers all before it like a Scavmger. Take the Quantity of a Nut¬ meg hot is Midi cis. • ” Outwardly you mull: apply to the Re¬ gion of the Heart, a Plaijter of the Ru- Brum Henrici, and walh your Eyes twice a Day with the Opthalmick IVater I pre- fcrib’d to you, when at Bath. * i , jb ^ b ^ . But in cafe your Difiemper fhoifd prove fo obftinatej as not to yield to thefe mo ft fovereign Remedies $ your I a ft Refuge muft be, a Cataplafm of Hemp,, apply’d Cravat- wife to your Neck, which, tho’ in irsOpe» ration it be fomewhat violent, yet it is an