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

  • Norton, John, -1783
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[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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    tinued the Medicine, and dill rernairi In perfe^l Health. 1 am your obedient humble Servant^ December 17, 1772. MARY LUTE^ At Mr, Field*in Caftle-fireet^ WitnefTes, near Leicefter-Fields,. Thomas Fields Cadle-ftreet. Henry Hide, Butcher, Sti James’s Market* To Mr. NORTON, Surgeon^ in Golden-Jquare^ London^ ! SIR, November 28^ 1772. I' Return you my mod fincere Thanks for the Cure I have obtained, by the Ufe of your mod excel¬ lent Dropsy of an inveterate fcorbulic Humour in my Face. Its Virulency fo afFedted my Eyes, as to ! render me a) mod incapable of feeing for above I twelve Months. I alfo was fevereJy adlidled with ! the Piles, which I have intirely got rid of by the farhe Means. Any doubtful Perfon may be con¬ vinced of this, by applying at the Mufic-Shop^ Number 78, Snow-hill, near Wed-Smithfield* 1 am. Sir, your very humble Servant, MARY BRIDE; To Mr. NORTON, Surgeon, in Golden^fquare^ SIR, November i(), 1772. T Return you my mod fincere Thanks for the I ^ Cure 1 have obtained, by the Ufe of your Maredant’s Drops •, which, in Judice to you, and for the Benefit of others afflidled in the like Man¬ ner, I defire may be made public. My Cafe was as follows. About thirty YeaErs ago, a violent fcorbutic Complaint broke out in one of my Legs,, which foon after fpread over mod Part of my Body, and caufed fuch an Itchingj that I feldoni i could get any Red at Night : when one Leg i feemed near well, the Humour would break ouc I in the other. I have had the Advice of the mod ' eminent of the Faculty, without EfFedf : After I which, I was advifed to two Hofpitals, where I continued for near two Years j from both which