Anti-Lancet, or, The destructive practice of bleeding, &c., exposed and denounced : showing the principles of life and death, and the origin of all diseases with a description of the most efficacious medicines ever made known to the world for their relief and cure / by Charles Rooke.

  • Rooke, Charles.
Date:
1870
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Anti-Lancet, or, The destructive practice of bleeding, &c., exposed and denounced : showing the principles of life and death, and the origin of all diseases with a description of the most efficacious medicines ever made known to the world for their relief and cure / by Charles Rooke. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    174/174
    DEOPS Y. Extract from a letter by Mr. William Lightfoot, late of No. 4, Randolph Si o; Sunderland, now residing at Sedgefield, Durham, dated January 6th, 1860 “ A female residing in this town, who had been suffering for a considerable time from dropsy, procured about six months ago, some of your Oriental Pills and Solar Ehxvr, which completely restored her to health. She has praised—and very justly—your medicines ever since. THE ORIENTAL PILLS. Extract from a letter by Mr. Thomas Lonsdale, Goodshaw, near Rawtenstall, Lan¬ cashire, dated February 6th, 1860 :— , „ “ I again trouble you for a supply of your Pills. I have recommended them to various persons m this neighbourhood, and am happy to inform you that in every instance they have done good to those who took them. I feel confident that were you to devise some means of making them moie public, their use would be considerably extended.” INDIGESTION, DEBILITY, *AND CHE0NI0 HEADACHE. Copy of a letter received from a female residing at Byker Barr, near Newcastle-on- Tyne, dated February 2nd, 1860 :— “ I take the liberty of asking your advice under the following circumstances : I am thirty-one years of age, married, and have had four children. For many years, until relieved by your medicines, I experienced very bad health. Last winter I lay ill in bed for four months, with intense pam in my head, and a bad breast brought on from cold caught at my last confinement. I was incapable o£ doing anything during this wearisome time. The surgeon who f .ended me said he was afraid my heart was affected, as I had much pain and throbbing. He did me no good, and so we got another surgeon, who told me I was excessively bilious, and he gave me medicines for that complaint, put l received no benefit from them. As I was becoming gradually weaker, my husband sent for a physioian, who, after sounding me, said I had irregular action of the heart from indigestion. He directed mustard blisters to be applied over the heart, and ordered me some medicines, winch relieved me a little for a short time, but soon I was as bad as ever. Just then I fortunately received from a friend a copy of your Anti-Lancet, in which I found my afflictions clearly enough explained, as arising from weakness and indigestion. When the book came into my hands I was reduced to such a state of weak¬ ness and suffering that my life was despaired of. I felt all the sensations of dying, without dying. “ We procured some of your Pills and Elixir, by taking which I soon found myself a good deal better. As I gradually regained my strength/the pains in my head and breast grew less and less daily, so that at present I am quite free from them ; but I still feel a curious numbness at the back of my head, which is worse when warm in bed, and it is for this I ask your advice. Pleasewrite as soon as convenient, and I will go by your directions. “ I am, your humble servant, M. S. I ordered the back of the head to be sponged with cold water at bed-time every night, and the medicines to be continued, when, in about three weeks, the sensation complained of was no longer felt. . . , , , , Can there be—need there be—-a more convincing proof that the pam m the head and palpitation of the heart entirely proceeded from general debility—the consequence of indigestion and depressed nervous power ? Then what on earth benefit could the sinking patient derive from blistering, &c. ? A little temporary relief at the most. Came, how¬ ever, into her possession a boolc, the pages of winch explain how that diseases proceed from depressed nervous energy, and further tell how they may be cured by means whic restore that energy. By the aid of those means the functions of digestion were improved, and the whole system strengthened, and the invalid told how that as she improved in healt her pains gradually left. In this manner may all curable diseases be cured by the use of the medicines, providing they be accompanied by the oovious auxiliaries of suitable diet, &c. THE CELEBRATED “ELEVEN” OF ENGLAND. It may gratify curiosity to know that most of the gentlemen comprising the Eleven of England, so justly renowned in the annals of “ bat and ball,” took with them, on em¬ barking for Canada and the United States, a supply of the Oriental Pills and Solar Elixir, procured from a chemist in Nottingham. Travellers, Merchant Seamen, and Emigrants of all classes, wherever bound, should not fail to carry a store of these medicines, as a resource in case of illness, when, perchance, neither medicines nor medical aid can be procured. PULMONARY COMPLAINT, WITH PAIN IN THE SIDE. Copy of a letter from a lady residing at Huddersfield, dated February 25th, 1863 : “ Sir,—After the lapse of some time, I now inform you of the state of my health, return many thanks for your services to me. I have been taking your medicines fora ’’ Y for a long-continued chest complaint and pain in the side, and with the best result possi . perfectly cured. Previously to taking your medicines, my complaint had insisted every means that could be suggested for its removal. I still take a pill occasionally. -pt'vtttt r « I am, Sir, yours obediently, M. A. GLEDHILL. VARIOUS DISEASES. | Extract from a letter by a lady in Exeter, dated April 21st, 1863 “ I can truly say I am indebted to your medicines, under God’s goodness, for my restorartn to health. They have had, moreover, a very beneficial influence^in the case of my daughter, an also in the eases of several friends to whom I recommended them. ’ _ ea Marram ualpiil piiixters. lonuok, fi.C.