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

  • Swaim, Wm. (William)
Date:
1829
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Credit: Cases of cures performed by the use of Swaim's panacea. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    likewise seen and examined the scars since her cure by Swaim's Panacea. Joseph LehmaN; Hamilton Village, May, 1826. Philadelphia County, ss. Before me, May 29th, A. D. 1826, personally came the above Ann Green—who being duly sworn according to law, saith the contents of the above certificate is a true statement of facts as relates to her case. Witness my hand and seal, this 29th day of May, A. D. 1826. George Howorth. [tseal.~] REMARKS. It is characteristic of hereditary diseases that they usually resist those means of cure which are indicated by external symptoms.— S&ch diseases have their foundation in a constitutional taint.—As in this case, her mother having died of a scrofulous disease, hers must have been hereditary. The great powers of Swaim's Panacea are well exemplified in this as well as in numerous instances of the same disease, and the authority which is given cannot be doubted. the following case is extremely interesting in itself, and exemplifies in a particular manner the merits of Swaim's Panacea. Doctor Grayson, whose name is subscribed to it, is a graduate of the Medical School of the University of Pennsylvania; he is held in areat respect as a physician and a man at his residence; and the remarkable cure to which he so circumstantially and emphatically testifies, is of his own malady, of which he was able to judge with the nicest precision as to all the symptoms and the details of pro- aress and final removal. This is not like the case of an ordinary patient, to whom it might be objected that he decided merely ac- cording to results ; here is the evidence of a scientific individual, watchful of both cause and effect, and ultimately convinced by his own personal experience, not only of the special success of the me- dicine in his dreadful protracted disease, but of its general excel- lence and applicability. Salvington, Stafford County, Virginia, September 5,1825. Sir Conferring with Dr. Cook, of Fredericksburg, from whom I obtain your Panacea, I deem the following is