Kennedy on the diseases of the skin.

  • Kennedy, Donald, 1812-1889.
Date:
[1858?]
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Credit: Kennedy on the diseases of the skin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    have been written on this disease in the English language than on any other disease except Syphilis; and ytt strange to say, they have never been able to find a remedy that can in any way be depended upon. While reading their prescription of on thing, and then another, without any hope of effecting a cure, my heart fairly ached for them. I am happy and thankful to be able to give the afflicted, a perfect and safe remedy for this disease in all its stages You will take a table spoonful of Kennedy Medical Discovery, or as much as will keep your bowels gently open, every night before retiring to rest, until you are per- fectly cured. It may require ten or a dozen bottles. You will apply Kennedy's Scroffula Ointment to the Ulcer, laying it on thick, twice a day. Next day, you will apply Kennedy's Healing Ointment, twice a day, for two days ; and so on, the Scroffula Ointment one day, and the Healing Ointment two days, until you aie cured. If you apply the Ointment thick enough, you will see an improvement in a week. You will see the edges of the ulcer turn white, then the dark liver skin around it is getting a shade lighter or yellower, until the whole bad matter is drawn out. You will now begin to experience a comfort, and a light heartedness that ) ou have been a stranger to for years. You will even be willing to put a few pennies in the contribu- tion box on Sunday. It is really astonishing how penurious Scurvy makes a man. NURSING SORE MOUTH. This is a disease, peculiar to American women; European Medical writers are entirelj silent on the subject. I have made frequent enquiries among English, Scotch and Irish women, and all de- clared they never heard of such a disease and some ridiculed the idea of such a disease existing. A German Physician in translating my first circular from English to German, gave the expression Nursing Sore Mouth a most amusing and ludicrous meaning. . This disease is caused by an excess of lymph over the lacteal, the infant drawing the milky secretion from the system, giving the lymph or acrid juice the ipperhand. As the term Lymph may not be understood by all my patients it will be well to state, that it is the water raisfed by Spanish fly blister, and is in its nature caustic or acrid. Common as nursing sore mouth is, and excruciating as are the sufferings caused by it, and thousands of infants have to be weaned before their time on account of it; yet no re- aedy was ever known to relieve it, even the slightest except a gargle of gold thread and oorax. Many a loving and affectionate mother, unable to swallow nourishing food, has lived upon slops, cold tea and cracker and such like and ruined her own health for the sake of nursing her infant. In recommending the Medical Discovery to you, I feel both proud and thankful that you can rely on it. I have had more good wishes showered upon my head for relieving this disease than foi many other ; if mothers who are constitutionally liable to this disease, will take two bottles before confinement it will eradicate every symptom of Canker from both herself and her infant. Will not some of our Medical writers who have time and opportunities examine into the subject why this is peculiarly an American disease ; are we as a nation more billious are the secretions thiner ? are the lacteals less active ? why are our dwn women's breas so much smaller than that of European women ? If we cannot apply a remedy it will well to know the cause, in one secretion, at least we can challenge the worl The Milk of Human Kindness. You will find, that whatever part of the system is affected with disease, the Discovery will first manifest its presence in that spot. In Rheumatism of the knee I have known it to cause the knee to swell and to become painful; the same of the ankle joint and even the great tee. Singular as it may geem.i 3