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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    r ] twee, her Diforder ever taking the Turn you told her. My Wife prefents her Compliments, and chearfully throws in the Mite of her vVilhes for tlie Succefs of your Medicine. And you have my Leave to make what Ufe you pleafe of this, for the Satisfa<5tion of thofe afflicted with the like Dif¬ order. And am, Sir^ Tour much obliged humble Servant THOMAS FORREST. Great Kirby-ftreet^ Hatton-Garden^ March 19, 1767, . • ’ • ' • ■ • * * ' A tnoji amazing Curey by the Ufe of Maredant*s an^ tifcorbutic Drops^ prepared by Mr. NoRTONi- I Surgeon^ in Golden-fqu are. , To the ¥ \J ^ About twenty Years fmee, I got a violent Surfeit, by leaping into the Water when hotv After trying many Things to no Purpofe, was ad- vifed to drink Salt-Water, and go into the S^a, which I complied with fome Years, when my Dif¬ order flruek in: I aferibed it to my going into the Water in the Month of February, it being then at a long Diitance from the Shore j from which Time I date the Lofs of Health. I then had an Ifllre cut, which I thought did me Service. In a IMorn- ing I was greatly afRidted with violent Reachings, which greatly weakened my Spirits, and kept in- creafing till February, 1765. My Head was fo greatly aife6ted, that I pitched out of a Chair, as if in a Fit of Apoplexy ; I was now perfuaded to have two more Iffues cut betwixt my Shoulders. About June, 1765, I had the Advice of an emi¬ nent Phyfician,- whofe Diredions were followed, but no Benefit received j I grew worfe, had fuch a crodimousUneafinefs in my Stomach, that I was al- ^ ^ mod