The use of brandy and salt, as a remedy for various internal as well as external diseases, inflammation and local injuries : containing ample directions for making and applying it / explained by Samuel Fenton and Wm. Lee.

  • Fenton, Samuel.
Date:
1842
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    PREFACE. By the publication of the following little work, to give increased publicity to the remedy of Brandy and Salt, I am actuated by a desire to benefit my fellow men, and to do what in my power lies to alleviate the distresses of suffering humanity. Having myself experienced the beneficial effects of this simple but powerful remedy, and having seen it in numerous cases prove an antidote to many of the common ills of life, I am most anxious that the good thus effected should be generally known, that the afflicted may have the opportunity of reaping such advantages from it as their re- spective circumstances may require, believing it, as I do, to be the greatest discovery in medicine in modern times ; and its adoption, if not attended with any efficacious results, will yet be accompanied by no deleterious consequences. This pamphlet, though simple, like the remedy of which it treats, would be as a family book of reference in cases of sickness; in my opinion, one of the most useful ever laid upon a table, and I write from the experience often years of the use of this remedy. I shall close these prefatory remarks by recommending to those who may be induced to take this excellent remedy, perseverance in its use, and the total discontinuance of that mode of living which has a tendency to foster the malady, for the removal of which they have resorted to this prepara- tion ; and that as God is as well the preserver and re- storer of our health as he is the author of our being, and generally effects his purposes by the intervention of ordinary means, no one should use this or any other medicine either superstitiously on the one hand or irreligiously on the other, but in dependence on the Deity for his blessing, and in entire resignation to His will as to the result. SAMUEL FENTON, M. D. Liverpool, 28th January, 1841.