An answer to a pamphlet written by Doctor Lettsom, entitled Observations preparatory to the use of Dr. Mayersbach's medicines.

Date:
1776
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Credit: An answer to a pamphlet written by Doctor Lettsom, entitled Observations preparatory to the use of Dr. Mayersbach's medicines. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    in the ftomach, back, and fides, which held her fome hours, and returned again in about a month. I fent for a phyfician, who ordered her medicines; the pains ftill continued to return more frequent. Since which fhe has had feveral of the moft eminent of the faculty, with no better fuc- cefs; the diforder coming on more fre¬ quent and violent, that {he has moftly been obliged to be held in bed by two people, the pains being fo very dreadful that. few could bear to be in the room without {hedding tears, on feeing her h\ thofe violent agonies. The phyficians or¬ dered her to Bath, where fhe went in June 1774, and ftaid above three months, attended by the firft of the faculty, by whofe orders* {he bathed, drank the waters, and took many. medicines, but to no effect: the diforder growing worfe upon her, hav¬ ing the pains four or five times in a week, from four to fifteen hours at a time, which reduced her fo much, that her fiefh was in a manner gone, and fhe
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