A few interesting remarks on bilious disorders, particularly the jaundice, and yellow fever, &c. : highly important to persons of fashion, the sedentary, and those who inhabit or frequent tropical climates, recommending the anti-bilious powder, a certain and experienced remedy / by Robert Priestley.

  • Priestley, Robert, -1799.
Date:
1798
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Credit: A few interesting remarks on bilious disorders, particularly the jaundice, and yellow fever, &c. : highly important to persons of fashion, the sedentary, and those who inhabit or frequent tropical climates, recommending the anti-bilious powder, a certain and experienced remedy / by Robert Priestley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TO THE RESPECTABLE INHABITANTS OF LEEDS. LADIES ANB GENTLEMEN, I THEN I first thought of publishing the V V following Sheets, Gratitude suggested that they should appear under your auspices. The favorable opportunity of expressing a fond attachment to the flace of my birth^ and a sincere esteem for its inhabitants, whose intimacy and friendship I have enjoyed during the exercise of my profession upwards of Thirty Tears, dic- tated the propriety of this address. I am also inclined to hope, that the public at large will receive with greater Candor the proposal of a nezv and important Remedy, when it appears under the sanction of those who have experienced its efficacy or witnessed its effects, and who are best acquainted with my professional character and conduct. At an early period of my medical practice, my attention was called to a variety of bilious cases, in the treatment of which I pursued for some time the usual and most approved methods. Their frequent inefficacy naturally led me to the trial of others equally safe, and, in my opinion, better adapted to the symptoms and causes of each complaint. 1 was much encouraged by the