Some observations of the power and efficacy of a medicine against loosenesses, bloody fluxes, etc / by the late Dr. William Cockburn ... Also cases where the said medicine was administered by Mr. John Dove.

  • Boësnier de la Touche, Henry
Date:
1764
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Credit: Some observations of the power and efficacy of a medicine against loosenesses, bloody fluxes, etc / by the late Dr. William Cockburn ... Also cases where the said medicine was administered by Mr. John Dove. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    cated it to Mr. John Dove ; who has been faithful to the Truft I repofed in him ; I mean by not com¬ municating it to others, tho’ earneftly prefled fo to do. This I did by the following Advertifement, To the P U B L I C. SINCE no Talent was ever trufted with any Man, nor any good thing put into his Poflef- flon, for his fake only; and flnce I wilh every Man as happy as myfelf, and would do any thing in my Power to make them fo ; I fliould think it an Injury to the Public and myfelf, if I did not take this Method to inform fuch as it may con¬ cern, that I am poflTeflTed of the late Dr. William Cockburn’s Specific for curing Diarrhoeas, Dyfen- leries, and Fluxes of all kinds, thofe that attend Wo¬ men, proceeding from Weakneflfes, included. The high Reputation the Do6bor and his Medi¬ cine had during his Life, the particular Compli¬ ment he received from his late Majelly King Wil¬ liam', from Lewis the XIVth, (who ordered his Envoy Mr. Fouffin to treat with him about it^ which was prevented by the War’s breaking out then) from the celebrated Boerhaave, the learned Dr. Lancifi, Phyflcian to Pope Clement XL the Accounts from our Army, from our Admi¬ rals, Sea Captains, and Surgeons, ^c, (which are lodged in the Admiralty) the great Good done, and