Receipts for preparing and compounding the principal medicines made use of by the late Mr Ward. Together with an introduction, etc / [John Page].

  • Page, John, 1699?-1779
Date:
1763
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Credit: Receipts for preparing and compounding the principal medicines made use of by the late Mr Ward. Together with an introduction, etc / [John Page]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ( 3° ) others, perhaps, he bought at High Prices: That, when he returned from Paris, His foie Dependence was upon the Sale of his Medicines ; and that He was at confiderable Expences, to keep himfelf up¬ on a Refpeclable Footing. Wherefore, if for thefe Purpofes, and the better to enable him to gratify his Inclination in giving to the Poor, he made the Rich pay, who will blame Him ? But, to me He gave thefe valuable Secrets: And I (who am not, Thanks be to God, in the Situa- tion in which Mr. Ward was, at the time I have been fpeaking of,) give them to the Public. Advertifement. JJZ H E R E AS two Charitable Inftitutions (the Afylum for the Support of Female Orphans, and the Magdalen for the Protection of Penitent Proftilutes) are to have, under certain Regulations, the Profits arifing by the Sale of fuch of the late Mr. Wardfr Medicines as are now made Public, and will be prepared by Mr. White and Mr. D’Ofterman, who have long prepared the great eft Part of them for the faid Mr. Ward : It has been thought ad- vifable for me to give this Notice, that I have re* quefted and appointed Sir John Fielding, Knt. One of the Guardians of the Afylum, and Robert Ding- ley, Efq*, Treafurer of /^Magdalen, to take upon them the Trouble of giving fuch Orders, Dir elf ions, and Public Notices, by Advertifement, or otherwife, as they ft all from time to time judge necejfary for carrying on the Sale of the Jaid Medicines, at the Prices before fpecified; and to do all fuch Matters and Things as Jhall be found expedient for the Pur<■ pofe above declared. J. PAGE.
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