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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![[ »■ ] Thefe are the Cafes which have fallen under my own Xnfpedtion, or have been confirm’d by the Per- fons concern’d, relating to the Cure oi Cancers. I have heard indeed of more, and fome which com¬ mon B.umour has fpread for Cures compleated: But whether or no they have been really, or truly Cancers, or only fo reported, remains with me a Doubt. I Ihould be glad if the Author, or his Confident, who gives them out, would be careful to collect a Hiitory of his Cures, more efpecially of this kind, well attefted, where any Artiffc had before paffed the Sentence of a true Cancer, which might very much conduce to the clearing up of this Affair* and we may allow, I dare fay, of nine Mifcarriages, if every tenth Experiment in this terrible Diitemper has been attended with Succefs. Among thofe I have talk’d with, or have heard from others, the far greater Number, on whatever Occafion they may have taken the fame, have bitterly inveigh’d againft the roughnefs of the Operation, without any benefit thereby. From the Cancer, in the inverted Order I took notice of them, I come to the Scrofula, or King's Evil; and here I mu ft fay, that I have feen fome ftubborn Ulcers, where there were no foul Bones, better difpos’d for healing, after taking of thefe Fills three or four times; but they have crack’d, fefter’d, and ipread again quickly after: nor have I heard of any Jlrumous Glands about the Neck and Fauces thereby refolv’d : here indeed the Kevulfton is loft, becaufe the Humours in the Operation of 'Vomiting, are It ill more derived to thefe Parts, as is evident in thofe conftant Tiplers of ftrong Li¬ quors, who fometimes from their violent retchings, and throwing up all they take, whether Food or Phylick, fliall have their Faces bloated, when the reft of their Bodies are emaciated and wafted away. Thefe Remedies have been alfo cried up as infal¬ lible in the Lues Venerea, or French Fox. Here al¬ fo, as in the foregoing, as likewife in Scorbutick Affedts](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b3049896x_0028.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
