A collection of cases illustrating the restorative and sanative properties of Swaim's panacea in a variety of diseases.

  • Swaim, Wm. (William)
Date:
1831
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Credit: A collection of cases illustrating the restorative and sanative properties of Swaim's panacea in a variety of diseases. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    wanted no witnesses; for he still possesses an enduring evidence in the crust of its own nature, and the Professor's art. Why, then, I repeat it, does he inform us of this fact? He might as well have told us of the state of his own digestion—or any other irrelevant matter. The honest truth is, as I have just stated, THE WHOLE ARTICLE WAS WRITTEN FOR EFFECT! and it was thought this purpose would be served, if those names were lugged in, no matter how. But, I trust, the public are not to be duped by such shallow devices. Other measures have been resorted to, of equal dignity with the whole process of this experiment. The offals thrown from my house, are carefully culled and curiously examined. Every movement of mine is watched, and all my purchases noted. Indeed were I a suspected traitor, residing under the most jealous despotism in Europe, I could not be subjected to a more rigid surveillance. Am I not justified in attributing all this to the same personages who have signalized themselves by running about collecting and repeating idle tales concerning my medicine? ICT* Dr. Emmons, of Kentucky, has written a long let- ter to the editor of the Journal, corroborating the result of this experiment, by informing him that a lady in that State took several bottles of my Panacea; and that he discerned globules of mercury rolling about in them, of metallic form.,uO| This proves nothing against my Panacea, on the same grounds of exception that I have stated to the above experiment. But, in addition, there is not a particle of proof that this patient had procured the genuine medicine. The physicians have long and loudly proclaimed, that mercury is one of the ingredients of my medicine; and all THE IMPOSTORS AND IMITATORS OF MY PANACEA, ACTING ON THIS HINT, DO NOT FAIL TO INTRODUCE IT INTO THEIR compounds; and mostly in the shape of the simple ox- ides, which readily decompose, when subjected to the action of heat and precipitate in metallic globules. Dr. Emmons states, that the patient boiled the Pana- cea to prevent its fermentation. It was, therefore, in all probability, one of those spurious imitations, and the heat to which it was subjected in the operation of boiling, precipitated the mercury and produced the ef- fect which Dr. Emmons saw. L 2