Sermons to the rich and studious, on temperance and exercise. With a dedication to Dr. Cadogan / By a physician [i.e. B. Rush].

  • Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813
Date:
1772
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Credit: Sermons to the rich and studious, on temperance and exercise. With a dedication to Dr. Cadogan / By a physician [i.e. B. Rush]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ 76 1 amufed them with encomiums upon fome medicines, which they affured them would afford infallible relief in all cafes. One boafted- of an elixir—another of a powder, brought from America—a third, of a me- dicine, invented and prepared in Germany —all of which, they faid, were certain antidotes to the gout—a fourth cried up a noftrum for the vapours—a fifth, drops for the gravel—a fixth, a balfam, prepared from honey, as a fovereign remedy for a confumption—a feventh, a pill for cuta- neous eruptions—while an eighth cried down the whole, and extolled a mineral water, which lay a few miles from the place where they were aflembled. The credulous multitude partook eagerly of thefe medicines, but without any relief of their refpective complaints. Several of thofe, who made ufe of the German pre- paration, were hurried fuddenly out of the world. Some faid their medicines were adulterated—others that the doctors had miftaken their diforders—while moft of them