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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    have no hesitation in pronouncing it a remedy of ines- timable value. In Chronic Hepatitis, however, and all its attendant and concomitant affections, I have abun- dant testimony to its excellence. In Hysteria, and the whole host of nervous affections, this medicine is entitled to our highest commendation. It allays nervous irritation, calms the agitation of the spirits, alleviates distress of mind, and promotes tran- quillity, comfort and ease. It is, however, in all diseases which originate in any depraved habit, vitiated taint in the blood, or hereditary predisposition to disease, that the Panacea is productive of the most beneficial results. It is in these diseases, that my highest and most sanguine expectations are more than realised. It promotes healthy secretions, purifies vitiated blood, cleanses the animal fluids, and thus counteracts all hereditary predispositions. That the great proportion of the diseases that afflict the human race are to be ascribed to a vitiated condition of the blood, and to improper and diseased digestion, is my deliberate opinion. It is by the great power that the Panacea possesses over these morbid states of the 'sys- tem, that it relieves such a variety of diseases. Physicians will early discover this fact, and I have no doubt will recommend this medicine in most of the diseases of this nature that are submitted to their charge,—other- wise, the good sense of the public will no longer be imposed on, and it will be resorted to in preference of their boasted remedies. Many of the cases advanced go far in proof of this fact; a review of which will have more weight than all the arguments that could be ad- duced. The influence of the Panacea over the Syphilitic virus entitles it to our unqualified approbation It has been used in a great number of cases of this disease in its very worst form, with the most decided advantage: and I can with the most perfect truth declare, that in no one instance has it failed of effecting a radical cure, where it has been properly used: in fact, its success in this disease entitles it to the appellation of a specific, and I hesitate not to use it now in every case with the great- est expectations, especially in scrofulous constitutions, where the regular treatment for Syphilis always tends to increase the violence of the disease. In those pa- tients, who have taken it, I observe with its other effects, that it almost invariably tends to give strength