Observations proving that Dr Wilson's tincture for the cure of gout and rheumatism is similar, in its nature and effects, to that deleterious preparation, the eau medicinale / by William Henry Williams.

  • Williams, William Henry (1771-1841)
Date:
1818
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Credit: Observations proving that Dr Wilson's tincture for the cure of gout and rheumatism is similar, in its nature and effects, to that deleterious preparation, the eau medicinale / by William Henry Williams. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    OBSERVATIONS, &c ^oo< I addressed the following Letter to the Editor of 'The Suffolk Chronicle on the 21st of November, 1817 :— “ CAUTION “TO THE GOUTY, THE RHEUMATIC, AND THE UNWARY. The new specifics for Gout and Rheumati'ni, which are sold under various names and forms, and which coasist prid- cipnlly (however disguised) of the Colchicum Autumnale, or Meadow Saffron, are at once a reproach to the age in which we live, and a disgrace to humanity and science! Indeed the public safety, in my opinion, requires that such specifics should be snatched from the hands of a set of Empirics, who, elated with the novelty attendant upon their occasional operation by suddenly relieving Gouty and Rheumatic pains, and intoxicated with the idea of enormous profits a: ising from the sale of them,* have been scattering through the nation these dangerous and poisonous drugs like firebrands among the Philistines !” Medicus (Cantab:) on Emyiricimn. “ * These Medicines, which cost the Proprietors only a few shillings per quart, are sold at the rate of for that quantity!! “ Mr. Editor—A sense of duty to the public induces tne to address you on the prevalence of Quackery, and more especially that part which is so forcibly animadverted upon in the motto pre- fixed to my Letter, with the Author of which motto I am well acquainted—and to state in a brief, but conspicuous point of view, the degj'ee of confidence to be placed in the Advertisements which occasionally appear in the public prints, wherein magnificent promises of cure for Gout and Rheu matism, at a cheap rate, allure the unwary to hazard a future or more more serious disease, for the chance of momentary relief.