Cases of cures performed by the use of Swaim's panacea.

  • Swaim, Wm. (William)
Date:
1829
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    symptom of the disease has ever appeared since she was cured. Mrs. Hooker's Child, then at the breast, was in an equally deplorable condition with its mother; it was re- duced almost to a skeleton—had a sore throat—could scarcely move—appeared to suffer very much, and was in such a state as to induce the friends to believe that it could not possibly live much longer. As it was decidedly of a similar nature to the disease of the mo- ther, the Panacea was also used in the child's case, and with the most decided success; for, from being a weak, puny child, its health was perfectly established, and it became as healthy as most children generally are, and remains perfectly well. REMARKS. Nothing could more decidedly illustrate the character of Swaim's Panacea than the history of this case. There can be no doubt that the child suffered an hereditary taint from the mother, and there are no kinds of disease more difficult to manage, nor any that more fre- quently disappoint the practitioner, than those which depend upon a constitutional taint, derived from the parent of the patient. We have, in this case, the testimony of a highly respectable phy- sician, relative to the awful nature of the disease and happy effects of the Panacea, after other remedies had been tried in vain. In these cases we again see the tendency of this medicine to purify the blood; for that the blood was in a depraved state in these in- stances seems to be demonstrated by the fact that the disease was communicated by the mother to the child either in utero, or by her milk. If in the former way, it must have been communicated through the blood ; for there being no direct nervous communica- tion between the mother and the fetus, no disease can be sympa- thetically communicated from the former to the latter. If the child's disease was contracted from the mother's milk, it is quite evident that the blood of the mother must have been contaminated. In this case we have a useful hint, that where any constitutional taint of disease is suspected before marriage, a few bottles of Swaim's Panacea may be of inestimable value. CASE OF OWBN LOUGHRAN. Cured in the Pennsylvania Hospital Owen Loughran, aged 30, for two years was afflicted with the most excruciating pain in his head and limbs e2