Hayman's; or the genuine original Maredant's Antiscorbutic Drops; late Norton's. : The celebrity of this remedy (paradoxical as it may seem) renders this mode of publication, sometimes necessary. Not to enhance its value, but to protect affliction seeking relief from imposture. Mr. Hayman has just published the fruits of his experience and investigations, during a 28 years practice, in a second edition; improved by several additions and a biographical sketch of his predecessor; entitled a Treatise on the scurvy.

  • Hayman, John.
Date:
[1802]
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Credit: Hayman's; or the genuine original Maredant's Antiscorbutic Drops; late Norton's. : The celebrity of this remedy (paradoxical as it may seem) renders this mode of publication, sometimes necessary. Not to enhance its value, but to protect affliction seeking relief from imposture. Mr. Hayman has just published the fruits of his experience and investigations, during a 28 years practice, in a second edition; improved by several additions and a biographical sketch of his predecessor; entitled a Treatise on the scurvy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A few 'Testimonies of Cure, hy Hayman’s Maredant’s Drops, selected from those which illustrate his Treatise. jEdinburgh) Feb. 15, 1802. Victims to that dire disease scrofula are here again consoled with local evidence of care. Mr. Robert Pennycook, of Abernyte, near Perth; to benefit others, certifies what he has seen oi the power of Mr. Hayman’s Props. The arm of one of his kindred was encircled with carious ulcers, perforating deep in the bone; and at the awful crisis of consulting Mr. Hayman, amputation was Said to be indispensable; yet his Drops saved a recourse to so shocking a mutilation, by working, as he predicted, a radical cure; restoring to him the flexibility of his joints, the use of Ids limb, and perfect health.” “ Overton, near Ellesmere, Salop, March 2. “ Mr. Hayman, « Sir,—I have the pleasure to inform you, that my health is perfectly restored by taking your invaluable Drops. The wounds in my leg, &c, have been healed up almost twelve months, and quite well. Nor have I the least remaining symptom of my complaint, except a very trifling lameness; the natural consequence, I apprehend, of the long con¬ traction of the sinews by the violence of my disorder. “ As my former letters fully described my case*, I have now only to say, that you are at liberty to publish it, with this testimony of my cure. (( Wishing to keep a few bottles of your excellent Drops by me, to take in the Spring, be pleased to forward to the amount of the inclosed Bank bill. “ I am, Sir, <c Your most obedient humble servant, “ EDWARD SHONE, “ Knokon.” * In 1795 Mr. Shone was confined to his bed by a violent pain in the back, and a fever; shortly after which a scrofulous tumour formed itself in the thigh, and a swelling of the leg succeeded, with an high inflam¬ mation and violent pain. A caustic was applied by the surgeon attending him, and sea-bathing advised; which, in the course of two summer excursions, apparently did him good. But it was not long before his leg broke out in two wounds, when he revisited the sea side. Alas! more wounds, even there, ensued ; and on his return home he took to his bed, with little hopes of surviving. At length, however, amending in his health, he, by advice, the sores con¬ tinuing unabated, once more recurred to sea-bathing; and though the faculty aided, with their utmost skill, his wounds ulti¬ mately multiplied to thirty, besides that in his thigh, and others in his,.groin. In this desperate stage of his disorder, he had recourse to Mr. Hay'man’s Drops, and wrote for his advice. The effects of those are now manifested by his perfect rcovery ; and, it is presumed, a cure more merito- ricus has seldom been performed by the power of medicine. tl London, March 13, s8otf “ Miss Blenkern’s compliments to Mr. Hayman; he mav, if he thinks proper, re- fer to her at Mr. Bower’s, haberdasher. No. ig, Holborn, for an additional evidence of the good effects of his Maredant’s Drops; eight bottles of them having removed a dry Scurvy on her arms, and which appeared in a singularly distressing manner on the back, of her left hand. * 11 Mr, John Kermain, draper and grocer, at Thornton Curtis, Lincolnshire, had some years a disgusting scorbutic disease, which appearing on his hands, greatly impeded him in his business. Every medicine re¬ curred to for its removal proved useless, till a few bottles of Mr. Hayman’s Maredant’s Drops, procured from Mr. Booth, stationer. Castor, and taken as prescribed, so completely restored him, that a sense of the blessing prompts this, his unsolicited acknowledg¬ ment of the fact,” A remarkable cure of Scrofula, or King's Evil, performed on the son of Mr. Robert Davidson, of Hart Street, the fourth door from Bloomsbury-Square; who, with Mrs. D avidson, hereunder certifies the same, which numerous eye-witnesses of the fact are also icady to do. The devastation of the disease on the child himself, however,, proves more than in an host. His Tight arm, from the shoulder down¬ wards, was perforated with seven deep ul¬ cers. (foetid to the last degree) one of which, from its acrimony, penetrated through the bone, forming a chasm sufficient to absorb a full sized pullet’s egg. His elbow was as inflexible as though nature never intended it to move; rendering him unable to convey even a table spoon to his mouth, however much he reclined his head to favour the ope¬ ration; and the fourth finger of his left hand, with a caries of his bones, was swelled to an incredible size, and shockingly ulcerated. His parents had, at a very great expence, year after year, recurred to different reme¬ dies, which they administered with unex¬ ampled perseverance; and he was under the hands of a surgeon of the first practice for the space of nine months, which served only to plunge them into deeper despair, as that gentleman ultimately told them, unless they would, at least, permit his finger to be taken off, they need not bring the child to him any more. %