The extraordinary life and times of Thomas Parr, who lived to be 152 years of age : with remarks on disease and health, and the means of prolonging life / [T. Roberts & Co.].

  • T. Roberts & Co.
Date:
[1890?]
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Credit: The extraordinary life and times of Thomas Parr, who lived to be 152 years of age : with remarks on disease and health, and the means of prolonging life / [T. Roberts & Co.]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the System, and, by assisting the secretions, give such a healthy action to the organs as to give the colour of the rose to the com¬ plexion, and tone and vigour to the whole frame. EMIGRANTS, SEAMEN, MISSIONARIES, OFFICERS OF THE ARMY AND NAVY, MERCHANTS, &C., are respectfully informed that Parr’s Life Pills are considered to be the most useful and saleable medicine in the English Colonies ; and in all affections and disorders especially incident to the tropics they will be found invaluable. It is the best medicine ever used in Scurvy and every variety of Scorbutic affections, making it very desirable to take to sea. THE SCIENCE OF MEDICINE. Admitting that no man was ever better acquainted with human nature than Shakespeare, it is quite true that he had but very little sympathy with doctors. If medical science were based exclusively upon principles of reason, doctors would not differ so much. Parr took reason and experience for his guides, and hence the wonderful cures which his pills have effected. They purify the blood, and prevent the establishment of disease in the system. Parr, who, like .Shakespeare, had studied human nature thoroughly, laughed at many of the contradictory mys¬ teries assumed by the medical profession, being fully convinced of the power of his discovery to eradicate disease, and thereby help to prolong life. The period has now arrived when the necessity for economy, precaution, and judicious attention to the purchase of good medicine is beginning to be felt and acknow¬ ledged. The large sale of Parr’s Life Pills shows that the English public are not behind-hand in discernment, when they patronise an article of such established repute and of such decided usefulness, which has stood the test of time and experience.
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