Receipts for preparing and compounding the principal medicines made use of by the late Mr Ward. Together with an introduction, etc / [John Page].

  • Page, John, 1699?-1779
Date:
1763
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Credit: Receipts for preparing and compounding the principal medicines made use of by the late Mr Ward. Together with an introduction, etc / [John Page]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    upon what Foundation I raife my Expectation of feeing fo happy an Effedt refulting from it. It is, Ihortly, this. I knew the late Mr. Ward at Paris, before he began to adminifter Medicines\ and, when he did, I refided there for a confider- able Time, at different Periods. I had attention to the Operation and Effects of them there; as well as here, when their Reputation had opened his Way to his Native Country. I took his Emetic Drop and Swears myfelf, a- bove Thirty Years ago and at a time when I was reduced (by a Complication of Diforders, occalion- ed by my Stomach having loft the Power of di- gefting properly the moft fimple Food) to fo low and wretched a State, both in Body and Spirits, that thofe who were fuppofed to underftand moft, and knew we beft, looked upon me as paft all Hope of Recovery. To the Ufe of thefe Medicines, under God, I always thought I owed the happy Removal of the Caufe of all my Diforders. I have often given them, with Succefs, in my own Family ; and, at times, to that part of it which fat neareft my Heart: I have encouraged many to apply them- felves to Mr. Ward\ in very ftrong Cafes : I have diftributed his Medicines to the Afflidted, in vari¬ ous Diforders, which he ufed to give me for that Purpofe : And I can wind up all I have faid upon this Head with averring to the Publick, that I my- felf never, as far as I can recoiled!, knew any Per- fon, excepting one *, who thought himfelf hurt by taking, or diffatisfied for having taken Mr. Ward’s B 2 Medicines ; * The Perfon here referred to, had great Pains in the Body ; and took Mr. Ward's Sweating Powders Thirty-two fucceflive Nights; taking fometimes half, fometime3 three Quarters of a Dofe, which brought on a Weaknefs, of which this Perfon complained : But this feems to have been owing to the Quantity of thefe Powders, taken in fo Ihort a time, and not to their Quality,