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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    Discovery of the Age. I soon learned that a warrant was pledged that a certain num- ber of bottles would cure all those diseases that are consequent on a bad state of the blood; and having been a sufferer so long under the painful and'distressing calamity, ^hich is always attended with extreme itching, followed by the most excruciating smarting, I concluded to make a visit to Mr. Donald Kennedy, 120 Warren street, Roxbury, Mass., and use what little skill I might have in detecting any unworthy mo- tive, that might have induced him to make such a publication, and I found him (as he appeared to me) to be a perfectly unpre- tending man, manifesting no wish, that I could discover, to deceive the public, and that his certificates were generally sent to him from the towns in the vicinity of his residence. I received of him seven bottles of what he calls his Discovery, and have taken four bottles, and am astonishingly improved in my general health. The Salt Rheum, which was inherited, and conse- quently constitutional, and has rendered me sickly all my days, up to seventy years of age, is so far overcome by this medicine that I cannot doubt that my blood may be perfectly purified by its use. My humor was so exceedingly troublesome last fall, that I was obliged to swathe both my legs with cloths wrung out in cold water, and also lay six or eight thicknesses on my stomach when I went to bed to get any rest at all. My legs were so swollen, and my cough so distressing, that I could neither sleep nor rest. Before I had taken one bottle my cough subsided, my appetite and strength increased, and I am in bettsr health than 1 have been for many years. After having commenced the use of this medicine, I called on Dr. Root, at the Marlboro' Hotel, and he told me that I had three or four cancers on my face; and I expected to hear him say that I must adopt his practice, or I should fail of a cure ; but to my surprise, he magnanimously told me that I was doing well under the present treatment of my case. I have been somewhat lengthy and cir- cumstantial in this description of my case, but it is with a view to induce those who are suffering to try this medicine. This certificate is voluntarily offered, without solicitation from Mr. Kennedy. In conclusion, I do not believe there is any impurity of the blood that will remain if proper attention is paid to the directions jiven on the botttes. Rev. Bryan Morse, Groveland, Mass. FROM REV. GEORGE W. BIXBY. Mr. Kennedy: Dear Sir—Having been' roublfid for eight or ten years with a dis- ease, brought on by singing and speaking and having tried many remedies without effect, I had almost despaired of relief. The first of May last I left my field of la- bor, thinking that I would visit my friends in New Hampshire and Vermont, hoping that the journey and respite from labor would be beneficial to my throat and gen- eral health, but I was disappointed, for my throat became very much inflamed, so tha* with great difficulty I could eat or speak A friend who had been using your Medical Discovery with decided benefit, urged me to try the medicine; I did so, and to my great satisfaction I found it not only re- lieved my throat, but it improved my gen- eral health; my throat troubled me but very little, and my health is better than it has been for several years. I have taken a little more than one bottle, and judging from the past, I think one or two bottles will restore me to perfect health. George W. Bixby, Pastor of the Baptist Church, North Fairfax, Vt. Cure of Scrofula on the Face. Mr. Kennedy: Dear Sir—I think it my duty to you, and to my suffering fellow creatures, to make known the wonderfu effects of your medicine, hoping that _ al who are troubled with humor will give it a fair trial. I am confident from my own ex- perience, and seeing the effect of it on oth- ers, that a fair trial is all that is required to satisfy any one of its great curative'powers. I had the Scrofulous humor on my face for twenty-five years, which was at times as raw and red as a piece of beef; at other times it would matterate, raise white blotches, and then peal off, and the water that at times discharged would cause an- other sore. How I suffered and what I suffered you could no* believe unless you saw it. From year tct Jar I tried every- thing that came along. I used to think i! I let anything slip, that was the very thing that would cure me, but all \.o no parpose. At the urgent request of a friend, I tried your Medical Discovery. The first bottle drove the humor out. If I was bad be- fore, I was now ten times worse, but it was the first medicine that had any effect whatever. Nothing could start it before, good or bad. I reasoned to myself that if it kept on coming out I would yet get well. So it has proved. I took six bottles of.;. My face is now quite smooth; I can shave without the least inconvenience, a thing I have not done before for twenty-five years. Numbers have taken it on seeing the ef- fects of it in my case, and I am happy tt> say they t)l speak of it in the highest terms. Azarela Harris, Providence, R.L