An impartial and uncontrollable account of the effects of the late Dr. William Cockburn's specific, for curing diarrhoeas, bloody fluxes, &c. since its revival, i.e. within three months past : exemplified in various cures performed by it, when all other medicines had been tried for many years together, to no purpose ... / By John Dove.

  • Dove, John, active 18th century.
Date:
1751
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An impartial and uncontrollable account of the effects of the late Dr. William Cockburn's specific, for curing diarrhoeas, bloody fluxes, &c. since its revival, i.e. within three months past : exemplified in various cures performed by it, when all other medicines had been tried for many years together, to no purpose ... / By John Dove. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Thef Cafes had not been published fo foon, but they were demanded, and, as it were, wrefied from me, which is the Reafon of this , . . , I V M - . r •> 1 r . - * , s ^ I r. • v' , r APPE NDI X. CASE XI. RS. Belly in Bull-TVharf-Laney aged Seventy- two, had a violent Bloody Flux of more than two Years (landing, with fixteen or more Stools in a Day, fhe took the Medicine, and was cured in ten Days. CASE XII. VARS. Miralilia Gibfony in the Strand, was funk very low with a Diarrhoea, of four Years (landing, after fpending her Subftance to obtain Relief to no Purpofe, was cured in four Days by hajf a Gallipot of the Medicine. CASE XIII. A YOUNG Woman, who was brought fo very low for two Years, as to defpair of Relief in a continual Haemorrhagia after a Mifcarriage, was cured in four Days with lefs than four Ounces of the Medicine. CAS E XIV. A YOUNG Gentleman, who has fafisficd fome, and will others whom it may con- cern, after having tried in vain, for more than one whole Year all that the Phy- cians and the Bath could do, was cured in about ten Days# CASE XV. A POOR Jewefs in the Synagogue-Tardy in Camomile-Streety who had been ill of a Di- arrhoea above a Year, and could obtain no Help, was cured in five Days. I attended her every Adorning, and on the fifth met two Gentlemen of the Faculty there, who had at¬ tended her for a confiderabJe time before ; they treated me in the mod genteel Manner, and wifhed me good Success with the Medicine, for that it had done naore in five Days than all theirs had done in twelve Months. MRS. Judith mnrp Stm C A S E XVI. —, in dll-hallow's-Lane y who was ill of a Diarrhoea, and had thirty or more Stools in a Day and Night 5 was cured in fourteen Hours, by taking about four Ounces of the Medicine in that Time. #*(.'• X* \ r •* f . * ll V . ) ' • > ' • • . > - ; ’ ' } r\ * \ ♦ ' J CAS E XVII. A Gentlewoman, who had been over-dofed with the Peruvian Bark, &c. and was thereby thrown into a violent Purging, not to be llopt by Aftringents, took only one Dofe of the Medicine, flept the whole fucceeding Night, had a confident Stool the next Morn¬ ing, and continues in an even Habit ever fince.