A friendly letter of counsel and advice to consumptives and other invalids : also, prescriptions, with special directions for the cure of chills and fever / by S.S. Fitch.

  • Fitch, Samuel Sheldon, 1801-1876
Date:
1857
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Credit: A friendly letter of counsel and advice to consumptives and other invalids : also, prescriptions, with special directions for the cure of chills and fever / by S.S. Fitch. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    have walked a quarter of a mile nearly every clay this summer by stopping to rest frequently, and could ride three or four miles without very great fatigue. There is no doubt but that your medicines have done all this for me, under God's blessing, and I cannot but thank Him for directing me to you, to whom I offer the most heartfelt gratitude. Your remedies have done so much, it really seems as though they would ultimately cure me, which perhaps they will yet do, though my health is now equal to my former most sanguine hopes. You are at liberty to use any or all of the above for the benefit of those sim- ilarly affected. I believe I am a walking advertisement of the efficacy of your medi- cines ; and people who saw me before I came under your treatment, ask, Have you used no medicine but Dr. Fitch's? and as the invariable answer is No, the remark follows, Well, I did not suppose you would or could live till this time. Yours, respectfully, Mrs. T. E. Cadwell. A BAD CASE OF HEART DISEASE CURED. Case XVII.—Letter from A. H. W. Vansiclen, Esq. New Lots, Long Island, N. Y., February 28, 1855. Dr. S. S. Fitch : Dear Sir,—Having suffered exceedingly from that prevalent and truly alarming complaint, disease of the heart, I find words inadequate to express my gratitude for the benefit I have derived from your valuable remedies. As a trifling remu- neration for your benevolence and unceasing exertions so freely spent in my be- half, as well as a duty to an afflicted community, I hereby make a public acknowl- edgment of the facts of my case, knowing of no better method of accomplishing my wishes or desires ; and by doing so, can merely add another link to the long chain of testimony already produced in your favor for the treatment of chronic affections. If, however, by this brief communication, I should aid or alleviate suffering humanity, and cast a gleam of hope to those similarly afflicted, I shall not entirely fail of the object at which I aim. For years has this disease, with a complication of others, been making its fearful ravages upon my system, and picturing to me time after time (the only encouragement or consolation to be derived from a vast ■majority of the medical faculty) that of death in one or another of its forms. I have been so reduced or debilitated as to be confined to the house for months at a time, and frequently to my bed. I have been under the treatment of various physicians, all of whom arrived at nearly the same con- clusion, and left me, with the most terrible forebodings, to my fate. At present I am better than I have been for years, and every thing seems to indicate a steady course of improvement, so that I am led to believe that, with the blessing of God, I may yet walk the rosy path of life, so long to me unknown. To those that are sufferimc with this fearful malady, without being able to obtain relief, I would say, submit to the treatment of Dr. Fitch, and you will soon be convinced of the superiority and efficacy of his practice. It nevertheless requires unceasing care and good judgment on the part of the patient, and a strict compliance with his counsel or advice. And now, as I sincerely believe that you have been the instrument, through 9 kind Providence, of restoring me to my present comfortable condition, permit me, therefore, to hope that you may have health and happiness beyond the average period allotted to man on earth, and that you may benefit many a de- sponding sufferer as greatly as you have me. I will close with my ardent wishes for your welfare and prosperity. Respectfully yours, A. H. W. Vansiclen. [September 1, 1857, is very well.]