Medical hand-book : containing a statement of the principal diseases, with testimonials of remarkable cures / by E.D. Spear.

  • Spear, Edmund Doe.
Date:
1872
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Credit: Medical hand-book : containing a statement of the principal diseases, with testimonials of remarkable cures / by E.D. Spear. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    weighed I scaled one hundred and ten pound*, but soon gained my usual weight, one hundred and sixty-five pounds. Have no doubt that to I>k. Spbar, through God*i provi- dence, I OWC mv life. Have tlic utmost confidence in his powers, and were I again sick would en.ploy him in pre- ference to any physician in the city. I feel that I am not only paying a small portion of the debt that I Of SPBAR, but am also conferring a favor on the public, that many of the sick will appreciate if they give the Doctor a trial. If any persons wish to question me in regard to the above statements, I should be pleased to see them at any time, and give them additional particulars. I also refer to the Atwood child, whose case is stated in a letter from its mother. Three physicians had seen the child. I was told by the grandfather that the little one was given up by the doctor, who said it could not live twenty-four hours. A few weeks since I was called to see Mr. B., of this city, who had been rapidly failing eight weeks under the treatment of a physician, was considered a hopeless case, and only by the urgent solicitude of a friend was I called. At this time, June 8th last passed, all his symtoms were un- favorable— emaciation, restless nights, terrible cough. &c. In one day things looked hopeful, and in one week encour- aging, in three weeks Mr. B. was out of danger. Many other similar cases I might name. I do not write the above to reflect upon any man, as a man, or as a physi- cian. It is their rules of practice, their false notions of dis- eases, and more than all, the class of medicines which they make use of. In closing, I cannot help saying that, in my opinion, — and I am an old man, and have been a close ob- server for many years, — hundreds die prematurely year- ly, in Boston and its vicinity, for the want of more correct ideas as regards disease and medicines more suited to the human system.