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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    [so ] Ta Mr. NORTON, Surg6m^ h Goldin*'quant SIR, IArri cured^ by the Ufe of Martdanitfs DfOjps, of a moft affliding DiTtkdcr of the fcOrbutiq KimJ, fcfter trying every Medicine that cogld be tbo^jght of, for rny Relief, in vain. My Cafe wa«’as lows: I firft had fmali Pimples como oyt oo my Bead and Face % in a little Time after, my Face was covered with Blotches, and, on the Side of my Nofe, fpUngy Fielh grew^ as big as a fmali Not; the fame round my Eyes and Mouth, chough not fo large, with Blotches on my Body, Arm$, and ' in the Palms of my Hands, attended wkh fo vio¬ lent a Pain in my Head, that I had aknoft loft the Sight of my left Eye, the Pain being moftJy oa that Side. I was in this Situation till Jaouaiy laft, when, by Providence, I met a Gcntkmaa, who was then at Bath, but is Irncc gene to the Weft-In¬ dies ; he rccomn^eiided Mr. Norton’s Drops to me, by which Medicine he had been cured of moft fhocking ulcerated Legs. I am now in perfeeft Health, and am continually praying for the Welfare of the Author of fo valuable a Medicine. JOHN ATT WOOD, ^oy -maker^ Mark^f^Piace^ Bath* As it hath been malicioufly infinuated I am not a Surgeon, with a Defign to prejudice me in sny Charader and Pradice, I therefore think it ne- Ceflary to vindicate myfelf, by afluring the Public, I ferved a regular Apprenticefliip to Surgery j have been examined both for the Navy and Army, and declared fufficiently capable, and tnat I alfo am a Freeman of the Corporation of Surgeons, of Lon¬ don ; to prove which, the following is a true Copy