Magnetism : its internal application for the alleviation and cure of disease.
- Darlow and Fairfax (Firm)
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Magnetism : its internal application for the alleviation and cure of disease. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![I 6 wholesome condition, the patient has little to fear a want of health. Where, however, the blood is watery in quality [Anaemia], from a deficiency of the red corpuscles and of al¬ bumen, it is then in need of Iron and Magnetism, and the use of Magnetic Tonic Pills will be found specifically valuable. They are also of essential use in atony of the nervous system, which is frequently the result of, or accompanied by, poverty of blood. The symptoms of nerve-disorder are almost inexhaus¬ tible in number. No class of affections are more distressing to the patient and to the patient’s friends than those which come under the name of nervous. We believe we are doing a valuable service in providing the excellent remedies of which this pamphlet treats. We have already been long privileged by our Patent Curative Mag- netine Appliances to do a vast amount of good among the suffering in every part of the civilized world. The well-known qualities of these appliances, their unexampled success, and, we would say it without egotism, the reputation we have acquired by their prevalent use, not only afforded us a perfect title to introduce into medical practice The Patent Magnetic Pills, but also gave a sufficient guarantee of genuineness. It is now acknowledged on all hands that “ the Magnet possesses a wonderful power over the human organism, and in many diseases cures specifically, though this has for a long time been doubted, laughed at, and ascribed to imposture.” The internal administration was adopted (though not in the con¬ venient form of Pills) by the most celebrated of the ancient physicians, men who derived their knowledge from those fountain-heads, Nature and Experience. Hippocrates, the father of medical science, in his Essay on Internal Diseases, recom¬ mends the administration of the powdered loadstone ; Galen, his disciple and equal, assures us that he found the pulverized- magnet of great value in melancholia and other diseases. The most eminent physicians of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30570062_0006.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
