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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    THE USE OF BRANDY AND SALT, AS A REMEDY FOR VARIOUS INTERNAL AS WELL AS EXTERNAL DISEASES, &c. USE FRENCH BRANDY ONLY. The inquiry lias often been made of me whether gin, rum, or spirits of wine, will not do as well as brandy, or if British brandy is not as good as French brr.ndy. With regard to the first three, gin, rum, or spirits of wine, I should recom- mend all such to make the experiment for themselves; for myself, I have always been content with French brandy. But with regard to whether British brandy is as good as French brandy, I will relate an occurrence which took place in a neighbouring town in this county :—Two gentlemen, from the perusal of one of my letters in the Intelligencer, agreed to make use of the remedy, for the same complaint; 1 believe, the rheumatism. They mixed and used it accord- ing to the prescription. After a few days they compared notes, when it was found that one of them was almost cured, whilst the other was not at all better. They then spoke of the manner they had mixed and used it, of the kind of brandy, &c, when it came out that the one cured used French brandy, and the other British brandy. If they had both used British brandy, they would have come to the same conclusion that one of the faculty of Leeds came to when my first letter was published, that what I stated was all lies, but upon much better grounds, though equally untrue. When my first communication was published in the Leeds Intelligencer, it was so pronounced to be; but as I suppose, this gentleman spoke more by his wishes and his interest, than actual knowledge, though I believe that he is clever in