Doctor Roger's Oleum arthriticum, or specifick oil for the gout / [John Rogers].

  • Rogers, John, active 1735.
Date:
1735
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Doctor Roger's Oleum arthriticum, or specifick oil for the gout / [John Rogers]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    , * ^ care and inftrudion in Stamford $ he was a p^r- fon of known skill and eminence, the moft con- {iderable, in his profeffion, in thefe parts. By his induftry and knowledge he acquired a very handfom fortune, brought up, and provided for, a large family, in a reputable manner. In the year 1700. he took me co-partner with him ; the bufinefs of an apothecary, from that time, was jointly' carried on by us, to the general fatisfadion of all the noble and other families under our care : Such were that of theMarquifs of Lind fey, Earl of Exeter, Earl of Ganesbo- rough, Earl of Nottingham, the Lord Vifcount Hatton, many gentlemen’s, and others. About 1710. he refigned his {hare of the co-partnerflup to me, which bufinefs I have carried on ever iince; I may fay, without boafling, fuccefsfully; I was many years received by a noble Peer in the neighbourhood, with particular marks of e- fleem ; and, as an inilance of his opinion of my judgment in phyfick, he commanded me, only, to attend him in his laft illnefs, which I did for 40 days and nights. Nor could my own remon- {trances, back’d with the weight of the Countefs his confort, and his friends, prevail on him to call in other advice. Further, to protect me from thofe that would be ready to refent my thus pradiilno, he commanded me that I fhould take out a licenfe' from the Archbilhop, which after fome time I did: Since then, I have pradifed phyfick, and, to fuch as have thought fittocon- fnlt me, I hope I may fay, without vanity, I have difcharged my duty with as much reputa¬ tion and fuccefs, as any other praditioner in thefe parts-.