The drop and pill of Mr. Ward, consider'd ... in an epistle to J. Jurin / [Daniel Turner].
- Daniel Turner
- Date:
- 1735
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The drop and pill of Mr. Ward, consider'd ... in an epistle to J. Jurin / [Daniel Turner]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[ *9 ] In a few Days more they came again, and told me, they had concluded upon the Removal of their Friend, to an equal Didance between me and Mr. C—for the Convenience of us both: I now ob¬ jected a Mifunderitanding between myfelf and that Gentleman, which he had not rectified in the man¬ ner I expeCted ; and therefore I propos’d Mr. D-—iey whom the C——/ had fo lately confulted, as a Per- fon more agreeable to me, and with whom I could ACt with more Freedom and Satisfaction: But whilit this Matter was under Debate, fome other Empirical Undertaker., who knows, I hear, as little of the Affair as the former, by means doubtlefs of ftronger affurance of a Cure, than he had from us, has undertaken him \ but with what Succefs I know not. This Cafe has been varioully reported about the Town j fome have taken the Liberty to give out, that Mr. Ward has cur'd him, after all thefe Con¬ futations: Others, of that Gentleman’s Friends, that he would have cur'd him, had he gone on ; and others again, that I had left him in as bad a Condition as I found him, intimating his having been under my Care, who never faw him more than once, nor preferibed one Grain of Medicine for him. The fecond Cafe of a Cancer, under this Method, I had from Mr. D-/>, in a poor Woman, recom¬ mended to him, with a painful Schirrous hardnefs in the Glands of her Bread, for which he advis'd her to be quiet, and not to tamper \ at the fame time fhe had the Opinion of the Surgeons of the Houle, particularly of Mr. F——key who were of the fame Opinion, that nothing could be done more than to pal¬ liate, and keep her quiet; however, by fome Intered or other, fhe \was recommended to Mr. Ward, and took his Medicines with fuch fuccefs, that when Mr. Z)-—faw her fome Weeks after, he told me, he was furpriz'd, the Tention of the Skin, by means of the ftrong Kevul/ton made by the Operation, un¬ der the repeated Vomiting, being much leffened, C 2 the](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b3049896x_0025.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
