Taylor's alterative and fever powders for children / [prepared only by Mr. Roope].

  • Roppe, Druggist, of Norwich.
Date:
1833?]
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Credit: Taylor's alterative and fever powders for children / [prepared only by Mr. Roope]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THESE Medicines are sovereign in the removal of most of the Acute and Chronic Diseases to which Children are liable, and in cases of great danger they have effected the cure after other remedies have failed. THE ALTERATIVE POWDERS are given as an occasional Aperient, and are also particularly recommended for Infants at the time of Teething, and in the following diseases :—Worms, Convulsions, Relaxation of the Bowels, Enlargement of the Body, accompanied with loss of Appetite and Shrinking of the Limbs ; and as a Purgative in Vaccination and Hooping Cough they will be found highly serviceable. For Adults, one or two Powders taken at Bed-time, and a weak solution of Epsom Salts the following morning, will prove a most useful and important domestic Medicine. The above Powders produce neither the violent nor exhausting results of drastic or saline purges : their action consists in restoring the functions by those gentle and lenient means which, in medical language, are termed alterative, from the gradual but certain alteration which attends their introduction into the system and the habits of the Patient. They may be given to an infant of a week old, to those of maturer age, or to the advanced in life, without the slightest fear or inconvenience, while the manner of their composition prevents all difficulty on the part of the Child, who will take them with as much ease as a lozenge or a lump of sugar! THE FEVER POWDERS are given with great success in decided cases of Fever, such as Scarlet and Inflammatory Fevers j also in Measles, Small Pox, and all those diseases attended with Febrile Symptoms With respect to the exhibition and the operation of the above Medicines, the pre¬ ceding remarks may not be considered impertinent, since, in the million oi instances, their efficacy will probably be tried from a persuasion of their excellence, when there is no medical adviser at hand. Nothing, therefore, can be more important than that they should be administered with judgment, and (as I confidently assure the Public they may be) without danger. When a regular Practitioner deems it right to step out of the customary course, and to open to the Public the use of particular Medicines, it may be thought incumbent upon him to state the grounds upon which he is induced to venture beyond the ordinary duties of his profession. The circumstances which hav e led me to do this are—first, the experience of the efficacy of these prescriptions, for nearly forty years, in the disorders most generally incident to Children; and secondly, the demand for them which has arisen beyond the circle of my immediate practice. Of their good effects I have the most perfect and absolute conviction. With respect to the second cause, if I have over-rated the estimation in which the numerous applications for many years past made to me for the Medicines should seem to demonstrate they are held, the error and the disappointment will light upon my own head. Such an alternative appears preferable to confining the possible utility of the remedies within a circle which, upon any other plan, must necessarily be comparatively narrow. WILLIAM TAYLOR, Surgeon, Great Yarmouth. The Powders are sold in SEPARATE Boxes of 2s. 6d.4s. 6d. ID. and 2\s.andprepared ONZiV by MR.fROOPE, Druggist, Red Lion Street, Norwich. N.B. Families going on the Continent and to the Indies will find these Medicines a most valuable acquisition. Sold Wholesale (by appointment) by BARCLAY & SONS, FAimiNGBON STREET, LONDON And retailed by all respectable Venders of Medicine.