An account of remarkable cures, performed by the use of Maredant's antiscorbutic drops / prepared by John Norton.
- Norton, John, -1783
- Date:
- [1772?]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: An account of remarkable cures, performed by the use of Maredant's antiscorbutic drops / prepared by John Norton. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![' [ *7 ] vice, her Diforder ever taking the turn you told her. My -Wife prefents her Compliments, and cheerfully throws in the Mite of her Wifhes for the Succefs of your Medicine. And you have my Leave to make what Ufe you pleafe of this, for the Satisfaction of thofe afflicted with the like Dif- ' order. And am, Sir, Tour much obliged humble Servant THOMAS FORREST. Great-Kirby-ftreet, Hatton-Garden, March 19, 1767. A mofi amazing Cure, by the Ufe of Maredan?s antifcorbutic Drops, prepared by Mr. Norton* Surgeon, in Golden-fquare. To the PUBLIC. ABOUT twenty Years fmce, I got a violent Surfeit, by leaping into the Water when hot* After trying many Things to no Purpofe, was ad- vifed to drink Salt-Water, and go into the Sea, which I complied with fome Years, when my Dif¬ order (truck in; I afcribed it to my going into the Water in the Month of February, it being then at a longDiftance from the Shore* Lorn which Time I date the Lcds of Health. I then had an IiTue cut, which I thought did me Service. In a Morn¬ ing I was greatly afflicted with violent Reachings?i which greatly weakened my Spirits, and kept iiw creafmg till February, 1765. My head was fo greatly affedted, that I pitched out of a Chair, as if in a Fit of Apoplexy* I was now perfuaded to have two more Iffues cut betwixt my Shoulders. About June, 1765, I had the Advice of an emi¬ nent Phyfician, whofe Directions were fallowed, but no Benefit received * I grew worfe, had fuch a prodigious Unea/iftcfr- in my Stomach, that I was B almoft](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30365843_0017.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
