Cases of cures performed by the use of Swaim's panacea.

  • Swaim, Wm. (William)
Date:
1829
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    few of which has it failed of entirely removing the dis- ease, has established for it the reputation of being, in this disease, almost a specific. Besides the diseases heretofore mentioned, we also see it a valuable remedy in that afflictive disease, Tinea Capitis, or ulcerated sore head ; a disease which so often tries the patience of the parent and the skill of the phy- sician, and under which children are frequently doomed to remain almost without hope of relief for a series of years. We also see it useful in that diseased state of the Liver, (Chronic Hepatitis) where the patient has en- dured long and severe suffering, without ever receiving the least benefit from a long continued use of medicines, and where a great quantity of mercury had been taken into the system, without having the desired effect, but where the disease seemed rather to be aggravated.* This medicine has been employed in a great number of cases of White Sivelling of the joints, with the most decided success. Several cases of this disease, which had resisted every means that could be suggested, and which seemed to be getting worse daily, have been per- fectly cured by a course of this remedy, and in but very few instances of this disease in which it has been tried (a great number,) has it failed of malting a perfect cure. It has also been used in that distressing affection deno- minated the Hip Disease, and cases are not wanting to demonstrate its utility. In general, where a perfect cure has not been effected, we find it exercising its bene- ficial effects by soothing the pain, increasing the appe- tite, and greatly adding to the comforts of the patient. This medicine is perfectly harmless, and no ill effects need be feared from it, when used in proper doses, ac- cording to the directions which accompany it. It may be given without hesitation, or the least apprehension of danger, alike to the most tender infant and the adult, with equally beneficial results. I shall now proceed to lay before my readers a num- ber of certificates from our most respectable physicians. A few interesting cases will then be given, and the truth with which they are severally delineated, if ques- tioned, may be easily obtained from the persons them- selves. * Several cases of decided liver complaint have come under my observation since the publication of the first edition, and from ac- tual experience, I am enabled to speak in far more positive terms of the beneficial efFects of this medicine both in dyspeptic com- plaints and diseases of the liver; in fact, in very few cases has it failed of doing good.