For the benefit of the afflicted : the late celebrated Dr. Ratcliffe's most wonderful cleansing and strengthening drops, for all sorts of gleets and seminal weaknesses and imbecilities of the generative parts and faculties, preventing miscarriages in women; they also cleanse and strengthen the reins, kidnies, and bladder, cure weak backs, stranguries, gravel, and stoppage of the urine, and are a certain cure for the bleeding piles, and for which it has gained such repute, that near 90,000 bottles have been sold since April 1743, that they were first published.

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[1775?]
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Late 18th century newspaper cutting advertising a cure for diseases of the generative organs and intestines. Available from Mrs. Johnson, in the Lincoln's Inn Fields area "at the Seven-Stars in Vere-Street, near Clare-Market, sealed up, with directions for use".

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[London?] : [publisher not identified], [1775?]

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1 piece ; 5 x 7 cm

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