Spring physic! : The propriety of taking some alterative medicine at this season of the year; to facilitate the efforts of nature, must on mature reflection be obvious to the weakest capacity; ... De Velno's vegetable pills: ... a specific remedy for the scurvy, the most inveterate stage of scrophula or king's evil, scorbutic eruptions, leprosy, the ill effects of mercury.

  • Pidding, James.
Date:
[1800?]
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Credit: Spring physic! : The propriety of taking some alterative medicine at this season of the year; to facilitate the efforts of nature, must on mature reflection be obvious to the weakest capacity; ... De Velno's vegetable pills: ... a specific remedy for the scurvy, the most inveterate stage of scrophula or king's evil, scorbutic eruptions, leprosy, the ill effects of mercury. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE Propriety of taking some Alterative Medicine at this Season of the Year; to facilitate tile Efforts of Nature, must on mature Reflection be obvious to the weukest Capacity ;—it is a salutary Practice founded by the Wisdom and Experience of our Ancestors,and sanctioned by theApprobation of every enlightened Medical Man ;—its Utility is not merely confined to the present Advantages (viz. the Acquisition of Health, additional Strength and Spirits) but extends also to the Prevention of many formidable Dis¬ eases, which frequently occur when Spring Physic has been neglected. It should be recollected how much the Perspiration of the Body (both sen~ sible and insensible) is obstructed or suppressed during the Winter Months by Fogs, Frosts, and piercing Winds ; which by constringing or contract¬ ing the Pores of the Skin, impede the necessary Discharge of Fceces from the Blood;—these by accumulation become acrimonious, and (unless Nature by vigorous Efforts, or the Assistance of some seasonable Alterative is en¬ abled to expel the Redundancy) lay the Foundation of a Yariety of Diseases. This is by no Means an abstruse Theory, but Facts deducible from annual Observations ; it requires not therefore the Aid of sophistical Reasoning to impress Conviction. But in the Choice of this Alterative, it is of Importance to decide with impartial Discrimination, between the usual Routine of Antimonials and Mercurials,ox the Substitute for those Minerals, De Velnos The former, if they appear to operate beneficially for the present,never fail to implant the Germs of future Debility and M isery, whilst the Vegetable Specific acts powerfully as a Restorative, not merely by subduing disease, but by encreasing the Vigour of Body and Mind. These invaluable Pills are proved, by the Expeiience of Thousands, to be the most safe, certain, and efficacious Medicine ever yet discovered, for infallibly and radically curing all diseases which proceed from an impure or impaired state of the Blood or Juices.——When the Abilities of the most Celebrated Physicians and all other Medicines have failed, these excellent Pills have effected the most astonishing Cures; (of which there are many living, and indisputably creditable Evidences) they may therefore be relied, ' .qn as a Specific Remedy for the Scurvy, •the most ifiveterateStageof Scrophula or King's Evil, Scorbutic Eruptions* Leprosy, the ill Effects of Mercury; and ail Disorders proceeding from -corrupt or vitiated f luids. They may be given at all times, in any weather,to Persons of both sexes and of all Ages, not requiring the smallest confinement or restraint in diet; its Operation being gradual and imperceptable, though certain and infallible^ it dissolves in the stomach, blends with the food, and gradually prevades the circulating fluids,. correcting in its passage, any deviation from a state of convalescence; in short, it is the long sought for vegetable specific, or safe but active substitute for that fashionable, mineral Mercury (which may be said to cure only by killing.) Its efficacy anticipates the expectations of the most sanguine.