An address to the public, on a subject of the utmost importance to health : highly necessary to be read by all those who are, or may be afflicted with a certain disease. To which is subjoined, An essay on the heat of the blood, and the motions of animals and vegetables / By J. Elliot.

  • John Elliot
Date:
[1780]
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Credit: An address to the public, on a subject of the utmost importance to health : highly necessary to be read by all those who are, or may be afflicted with a certain disease. To which is subjoined, An essay on the heat of the blood, and the motions of animals and vegetables / By J. Elliot. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    refpcdt to the other, and more amiable fex, whofe modedy, tho’ they may have been feduced and injured by the villainous arts of infiduous lovers, frequently rather buffers them to fall filent victims to the evil, than expofe themfelves to the Hill greater didrefs of applying for a cure. The baits by which the unwary are chiefly taken, are the cures advertifed to have been uer- formed by the medicines propofed as infallible remedies in thefe complaints. .Tut we fhall find on examination, that even in the advertifements for thofe medicines which have the greated fale, a new cure does not occur three times in a whole year ; and yet a cure feldom efcapes the induftry of the proprietors, and thofe agents whofe bud* nefs and intereft it is, by bribes, or otherwife, to obtain an account of them. Thefe cures are publifhed with every pofiible exaggeration. Mod of the real ones we find happened under the immediate infpedtion and treatment of the proprietors; and in the performance of which a variety of other means befides the advertifed remedy were doubtlefs employed. But this is viewing the cafe on the mod favourable fide ; for it is well known to individuals, tho’ unhappily^ not to the public at large, that by far the great* cd part of thefe cures never happened ; but are B 2 inlerted