The mother's book of hygeian midwifery : being a familiar treatise on the security of health to females, during that most interesting period of their lives, the state of pregnancy : with remarks on the management of infants : founded on the doctrines of the British College of Health / by H. Shepheard Moat.

  • Moat, H. Shepheard.
Date:
1837
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    the Universal Vegetable Medicine ; I soon experienced much relief; in a Very short period, T was restored to perfect health. My kind medical attendants, very naturally ascribed the cure to their prescriptions; but when quite well, I was obliged to undeceive them; and they learnt, with surprise, that to the Hygeian system alone was I indebted for an almost miraculous restoration to health, both bodily and mental. From this moment I became a staunch believer in, and deter- mined advocate for, your doctrine. My success with the Hygeian practice was beyond measure great; the conquest of disease was not the effect of accident nor of the application of a single remedy, but it was the triumph of a.principle in medicine ! Subsequently to the above distressing malady, while the cholera was fiercely raging throughout England, I was attacked with this dreadful scourge. Again, the Universal Medicine restored me to health. My wife, of an extremely delicate constitution, was attacked with confluent small-pox, and afterwards with hooping cough ; and notwithstanding the accounts of the York doctors, that purgative medi- cines ought not to be employed in the former disease, I administered nothing to her but the Universal Vegetable Medicine ; and she soon reco- vered. My children, one aged seven, the other three years, have recently had an attack of hooping cough; to them my wife administered as many as twenty or twenty-five pills, No. 2, every day. The cough ceased, and they are nearly well. These children have been in the custom of taking great quantities of those pills almost from their birth. My wife takes any number, and always with manifest benefit, sometimes as many as sixty in six hours. For myself, during the different maladies with which I have been afflicted, I have often taken as many as one hundred, and I always found that the greater the number, the more rapid was my recovery. From the above statement, no surprise need be evinced by my friends, or patients, when I express my determination to continue to practice upon Hygeian principles. To these principles I am indebted for sound health, which I had reason to expect I could never enjoy. My wife and family— my numerous patients, are under the same debt of gratitude to Hygeiaism ; and I beg to conclude this desultory epistle, with expressing the deepest thanks for the benefit I have received from your admirable discovery. I remain, Sir, Your obedient Servant, RICHARD TOTHILL, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, <&c Dated Heavitree, Exeter, Jan. 26, 1636.