Volume 1

A candid and impartial state of the evidence of a very great probability, that there is discovered by Monsieur Le Fevre, a regular physician, residing and practising at Liege in Germany, a specific for the gout. Containing the motives which induced the author to listen to the pretensions of the Liege medicine; with an account of its operations and effects in his own [i.e. the author's] case. To which is added, a narrative of the cases of several other patients ... who have been cured, or are now in a course of cure of the gout, by the efficacy of Dr. Le Fevre's powders ... In an appendix is given an account of a house fitted up at Liege, for the reception of the English only ... Also a detail of the best ... inns upon the road to Liege / By Edmund Marshall, M.A.

  • Marshall, Edmund, 1733-1797.
Date:
MDCCLXX. [1770]
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Credit: A candid and impartial state of the evidence of a very great probability, that there is discovered by Monsieur Le Fevre, a regular physician, residing and practising at Liege in Germany, a specific for the gout. Containing the motives which induced the author to listen to the pretensions of the Liege medicine; with an account of its operations and effects in his own [i.e. the author's] case. To which is added, a narrative of the cases of several other patients ... who have been cured, or are now in a course of cure of the gout, by the efficacy of Dr. Le Fevre's powders ... In an appendix is given an account of a house fitted up at Liege, for the reception of the English only ... Also a detail of the best ... inns upon the road to Liege / By Edmund Marshall, M.A. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    been the fubjed of many a violent paroxyfni —and that the Gout had often begun its operations in that; particular member, and from thence.had diffufed itfelf.'over my whole - frame-- r: ■ ■ i • ^ j But here again—not more to my own very great fatisfadion, than to the hohour of Dr.' Le Fevre’s prognoftication—was I miftaken —When I Ihewed him my hand—at the ufual time of his coming to adminifter the Powders —without taking any notice of fny dejedion* which I could not conceal—Did I not tell you, fays he, my good friend, at OUr firft in¬ terview—that the very peculiar fafety of my remedy, confided in this circumftance, that it did not lock up or repel the Gout; but, on the contrary, that it would, for a courfe of twenty or twenty-two months, return into all the parts it had been accuftomed to attack— with this difference only—that in every future fit of the Gout, the duration as well as the pain of the diforder would be diminifhed ?— void done itrie autre example de h verite des mes predictions !—-but, continued he—Take courage, Sir, be allured the Gout will reft in the part where it now is, nor even fpread itfelf to any of the adjoining articulations— This-