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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    proofs of timr AN unexaggerated statement of the remarkable cure of E. EelBTuN, Esq. lately residing at No. 35, Mortimer-street, Cavendish-square, but now of Queen-xlnn-street, East, who had been eighteen years troubled with a most inveterate Scorbutic Humour, and was on the eve of being doomed to a hazardous, and, at all events, an unnecessary Salivation, This gentleman, from the purest motives of humanity and philanthropy, Requested his case should be’published, and has always very readily com¬ municated the particulars to any persons of respectability making applicat¬ ion at his house—an honourable example for imitation. . v i. >•- ; ■ HIS CASE PESC.RIBED. , Mr, EpLISTON had for eighteen years been subject to scorbutic symptoms, but for the last eighteen months they had increased to such a degree as to be seriously alarming. Innumerable large spots or eruptions, of a deep red, about the size of peas, and hard, appeared in clustery On various parts of the body, thighs, arms’, hands, head, and particularly on the forehead, which was dreadfully disfigured. In short, language can but faintly depicture his real condi- ^ iion. But appearances were only of trifling import, when compared with the violent heat and jtching which incessantly tormented him. In this situation he consulted his physician and jar- •geon, both men of respectability and eminence, who, after a consultation, decided on the necessity of bis submitting to a course of physic, alluding to Mercury, which would confne him to his room for some weeks Mr. E. being advanced in years (more than fifty of which had been fpent in ihe naval service of his country) told them he would take time to consider of it, as he cou Id not but with great reluctance submit to confinement. He' advised with his friends upon the subject, some of whom recommended him to try De Velno’s Vegetable Pills, which' he very fortu¬ nately consented to, and by persevering fii them, and them alone, he has received a perfect cure. j During this course he had not an hour’s confinement, nor was he restricted to any regimen or diet, except temperance; on the contrary, he perceived no effect whatever from the Pills, except¬ ing that of gradually recovering from his complaint, ancf daily acquiring an additiori of health, Strength, and spirits* 5 ; ' - , . 1 CASE II. J. MEREDITH, Coachman to Lord Selsey, Lower Grosvenor-street, was for a considerable time tormented with a most desperate Scorbutic Leprosy, hideous to the sight, and itching most insufferably; m reality, at least three-fourths of the surface of his body, from his head to his fot, Were completely incrusted with leprous scales. ’ By perseverance in De Velno’s Vegetable Pills, Without any confinement or limitation in diet, he is perfectly recovered. CASE III. / ... * . j A respectable Tradesman at Saxmundam, having a son about eight years old, in a dreadful Situation from the Scropula, or King's Evil, and being apprised of the remarkable cure Mr. Black- Bone had experienced from De Velno’s pills, was induced to try what effect they would have jpn his son: since which, in a letter now in possession of the Proprietor, he says, “ By the blessing of God they have been of astonishing benefit to him j for at that time he could not walk without a stilt and a stick, and sometimes for days together could not get out of Bed, being trou¬ bled with such excruciating pains ; but now he can walk three or four miles without any assist-* 4jUicc.”-Fuither particulars of this cure may be learnt at No. 76, Oxford-street. *•' . ' Xk ' 1 ' i ' ’ . - ' • : . CASE IV. ' , T* * t \ ' v . Mr. D. MEDHURST,. Cabinet-Maker, late of St. John’s-street, but now of No. 18, Dorrington- Street, Coldbath-fields, had likewise suffered much from the Scurvy several'years', and for six weeks was confined to his bed with a Scorbutic Humour, which broke out in his leg; attended with great inflammation. He was informed that De Velno’s Pills would give him speedy re¬ lief, and effectuate a speedy cure; and a short trial of them corroborated this account, for the' inflammation subsided, and the ulcer soon cicatrized, enabling him to pursue his business as ysuai. ‘ CASE V. JOSEPH HUETSQN, at Mr. Guest’s Pastry-Cook, No. 205, Strand, having been many years afflitted with a desperate Scorbutic Leprosy all over his body—encouraged by the success of Lord Selsey’s coachman, who had beer} cured of a similar complaint by De Velno’s Pills, re¬ sorted to the same medicine, and is perfefiity cured. * • » ♦ N.B. Those only who had seen this young man prior to his commencing a Course of Kills, can possibly form an idea of the deplorably wretched state in which he was.