Spring physic! ... De Velno's [sic] vegetable pills / [James Pidding].

  • Pidding, James
Date:
[between 1800 and 1809?]
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Credit: Spring physic! ... De Velno's [sic] vegetable pills / [James Pidding]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE Propriety of taking some alterative Medicine at tins Season of the Year ; to facilitate the Efforts of Nature, must, on mature Reflec¬ tion,be obvious to the weakest Capacity ;—it is a salutary Practice found¬ ed by the Wisdom and Experience of our Ancestors, and sanctioned by the Approbation of every enlightened medical Man —its utility is not merely confined to the present Advantages, (viz. the Acquisition of Health, ad¬ ditional Strength -andSpirits) but extends also to the Prevention of manv formidable Diseases, which frequently occur when Spring Physic has been neglected. It should be recollected how much the Perspiraton of the Body (both sensible and insensible) is obstructed or suppressed during the Winter Months by Fogs, Frosts, and piei cing Winds ; which by con¬ stringing or contracting the Pores of the Shin, impede the necessary dis¬ charge of Foeces from the Blood—these, by accumulation become acrimo¬ nious, and (unless Nature, by vigorous Efforts, or the Assistance of some seasonable Alterative is enabled to expel the Redundancy) lay the Found¬ ation of a Variety of Diseases. This is by no Means an abstruce Theory, but Facts Reducible from annual Observations; it requires not, therefore, the Aid of sophistical Reasoning to impress Conviction. But in the Choice of this Alterative, it is of Importance to decide with impartial Discrimination, between the usual Routine of Antimonials and Mercurials, or the Substitute for those Minerals, De Velno's Vegeta The Former, if they appear to operate beneficially for the present, never fail to implant the Germs of future Debility and Misery, whilst the veget¬ able Specific acts powerfully as a Restorative, not merely by subduing Disease, but by increasing the Vigour of Body and Mind. These invaluable Pills are proved, by the Experience of Thousands , to be the most safe, certain, and efficacious Medicine ever yet discovered, for Infallibly and radically curing ail Diseases which proceed from a.n im¬ pure or impaired State of the Blood or fuices.-When the Abilities of the most celebrated Physicians, and all other Medicines, have failed, these excellent Pills have effected the most astonishing Cures, (of which there are many living and indisputably creditable Evidences), they may there¬ fore be relied on as a specific Remedy for the Scurvy, the most inveterate Stage of Scrophula, or King’s Evil, Scorbutic E op¬ tions, Leprosy, the ill effects of Mercury, and all Disorders proceeding from corrupt or vitiated Fluids. They maybe given at all Times, in any Wreatlief, to Persons of both Sexes and of all Ages, not requiring the smallest Confinement or Restraint in Diet, its Operation being gradual and imperceptible, though certain and infallible; it dissolves in the Stomach, blends with the Food, and gradually pervades the circulating Fluids, correcting in its Passage any Deviation from a State of Convalescence; in short, it is the long sought for veget¬ able Specific, or safe but active Substitute for that fashionable mineral Mercury, (which may be said to cure only by killing.) Its Efficacy anti¬ cipates ihe Expectations ©f the most sanguine.