Maxims on the preservation of health, and the prevention of diseases : selected from the best authorities : with The way to wealth, from Dr. Franklin.
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Credit: Maxims on the preservation of health, and the prevention of diseases : selected from the best authorities : with The way to wealth, from Dr. Franklin. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![sent for another box of the Lozenges, and took one dose,, which brought away a large quantity of worms, and I felt greatly relieved. Encouraged by this I took another dose, which was attended with the happiest effects, as it relieved me entirely, and am now in a better state of he a lth than for a considerable time past. I h-.ve since given them to my chil- dren, and can speak fr> m experience, that they are a mott valuable medicine, a d :tm i< ppy to add my testimony to numberless others of their tfficacy. SARAH JOHNSON, No. 140, North-Second-street. A daughter of Mr. Ewing Wiley, No. 109, Cedar-street, Philaf fcii'hia, was dreadfully afflicted with worms, insomuch thai her life w-s with great reason despaired of; her comprx- ion faded and grew pate and sallow ; her < yes sunken ; her appetite was lost, and succeeded by a painful and constant si kness at the -tomach ; find the genera] wasting and debility was accompanied with every appearanceof a dangerous lever. From this deplorable situation] she was relieved, and restored to a state of perfect he tlth and otrength in a few days by the use of Hamiiu.n's W orm-Destroying Lozengts, which expel- led a great number of large, pointed wo: ms, from six 'o nine or twelve inches in length, one of which being of a most ex- traordinary thickness (supposed from half an inch to an inch in diameter) was opened and found to contain a quantity of young ones. The above was communicated by Mr. Wiley, believing its pe usal may be useful to many, by extending a knowledge of a medicine which merits universal attention. HAMILTON'S ELIXIR. A Sovereign Remedy for Colds, Obstinate Corighs, Asthmas^ Sore-Throats andafifiroaihivg Consumptions. Thousands are too well acquainted with the nature and ef- fects of empirical medicines daily offered for the cure of the above complaints. Dear bought exper ente h- s taught them that oily and heating medicines, joined with strong opiates (or sleepy drugs,) repeated doses of which flitter and deceive the patient for the pre-en , by procuring momentary ease : experience, I say, has taught thousands, that the r.-,mM.on opiates ar<? babnmics, as they are called finally aggravate everv disorder of the breast and lungs, in rh^i nost distres- sing symptoms ; that thev load the s'.onvich and impajr -he digestion, inPame the whole system, inrre -se the difficult of breathing,and excite fever. B'it th qualities of this valua- ble disc»v«ry, are evinced by perfectly opposite effects, A](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21120754_0024.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
