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Credit: The people's doctors : a review / by 'The people's friend.'. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Given inwardly to Jss it greatly acts against all manner of Con* Sumptions and stuffings of the lungs: prevails mightily over Quartan Agues, and is infallible, in a Tertain Ague, when other means are of no avail: It removes Epilepsie or Falling sickness, stops Apoplexie, even in the third fit, and disperses evil humours from the Brain and elsewhere. Applyed outwardly, thrice aday, it cleanses and purifyes the skin and takes away corns, warts and other defoedations—does good in baldness—stops ringworms, and the shingles tho' well nigh round the body—is no less certain in the itch and other impuritys of the outside, and prevails to a miracle against the King's Evil. We find it impossible to copy out this remarkable compo- sition of doctor Salmon without a smile. His confidence in it, as we see from the closing paragraphia unbounded;and, perhaps, from the great power of articles which it contains, and the care with which it must be prepared, it is as well entitled to the epithet Vegetable Specific,' as any other in his books, or most of the 'cures' that are sold under that title at the present day. Professor Rafinesque informs us, that his Pur- ine/consists of the essence of several different plants, many of which are, perhaps, the same contained in this receipt. To the Thomsonian or botanical doctors,' this composition can- not fail to recommend itself, as having a great predominance of botanical plants, and, more especially, by the virtues it must acquire, from being prepared in a steam bath. If it really cures King's Evil to a miracle, as doctor Salmon avers, it is not far behind the ''Panacea] and quite equal to the hand of the king or a seventh son. We would not, however, take the responsibility of recommending it in preference to the Hand, as the evidence in favor of that method, is too strong to be easily overturned. But, unhappily, in this re- publican country, a king's hand is out of the question, and many populous neighborhoods have not the advantage of a seventh son; under these circumstances we would advise a resort to the 'specific' As to Agues, whether tertian or quartan,—we have but little hesitation in saying, that it will be less dangerous than the Arsenic drops which the 'Regular' Doctors are apt to give; far less expensive than 'the Quinine,'and decidedly more effi- cacious, than cutting in a stick as many notches as the patient](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21115928_0051.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
