An account of remarkable cures, performed by the use of Maredant's antiscorbutic drops / prepared by John Norton.

  • Norton, John, -1783
Date:
[1773]
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Credit: An account of remarkable cures, performed by the use of Maredant's antiscorbutic drops / prepared by John Norton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ IS ] the Fever ^rid lofs of Appetite brought her fo that oo one expedled her Life. In taking your Medicihe the Hurhbur gradually ceaikl, after that the Scales becarrie thinner and thinner, till the na¬ tural Skin appeared, and. now Hie has hot the leaft Blemiih on any Part of her feody. — You have my Leave tp pubhfh this mod extraordinary Cure for the Beneftt of Mankinds I am Tout humble Servant^ CORIOLANUS COPPLESTONE^ At C0bh4{m^ in Sitrry* Witneffes to thisCurc, John Hone, Dinah Wheady, P, S. The Girl Is nine Years oUl. To Mr. NORTON, Surgeon^ in Golden-fguarti s I K ■■ I Have the Pkafureto acquaint you that tny Wife has received a perfed Cure of a hioft inveterate fcorhuticDiforder by taking your MaredanPsDrops, vi^hich I Ihould think an Omiflion 6f Judice to your Medicine ahdfelf to conceal frorii the Public, as it is a 'Diforder fo incid'eht to the human Frame* I here ihclofe you the Cafe. — About the Year 1758, fhe was violently aMifted with a Kind of ah Inflarnmaiion in her Face and Arms, which ap¬ peared like what is called St. AnthonyFife, attended with large red Blotches and 'e]ftrerne Paiii. She applied to fcveral of the Faculty, but without Succeis, except one, who was a Foreigner; he adminiftered a Kind of a Diet-Drink, prepaned from Herbs, which gave her fome fmall Relief for about two Years. The next Turn the Diforder took, it appeared in her Stomach, attended with a moft dreadful bilious Colic, which Ihe was af- Aided with every fix Weeks or two Months; the