Dr. S.S. Fitch's almanac for 1855 and guide to invalids : comprising directions for the treatment of consumption and asthma, bronchitis, heart diseases, liver complaints, dyspepsia, costiveness, diarrhea, dysentery, falling of the womb, piles, salt rheum and scrofula, female diseases, etc. etc. / by Samuel Sheldon Fitch.
- Fitch, Samuel Sheldon, 1801-1876
- Date:
- [1854?]
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Credit: Dr. S.S. Fitch's almanac for 1855 and guide to invalids : comprising directions for the treatment of consumption and asthma, bronchitis, heart diseases, liver complaints, dyspepsia, costiveness, diarrhea, dysentery, falling of the womb, piles, salt rheum and scrofula, female diseases, etc. etc. / by Samuel Sheldon Fitch. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![TESTIMONIALS. Tarry rowv. N\ Y., Mnr Dr. S. 9. Fitou—Dear Sir: I feel it to be a duly I owe lo yourself and the community, U make a public acknowledgment of the fact (hat, under >our treatment, l>y the blessing ol ■ I have been restored to comfortable health, alter going down to the rerj borders ol the grave v ith true pulmonary As I am informed by physicians, il is nearly or quite impossible to determine, »ilh aba< certainty, thai any Individual now m health ever nad tr loneumptloo; that atltl on rrrav be curable, still tbe fact of snob cure can onl) ■intion of the Inns*. This may. in most C8S6S, be true; lull il is not in iu\ case. :. ciroumatancee which 1 will relate conclusively show, eredliary la n»y family, i have losl several relatives, one a sister, by this It Brat began to develop Itself in my own lungs in 1844, by a cough, and the usualh attending symptoms of decline in st nglh and Oesh, pain about the region ol the cheat, thi inTder, and under ehonlder blades. The disease continued slowly, but steadII) and The besl medloal advici and assistance I could get appeared lo opp no rheob lo it. My the year 1S4B 1 bad beoome very feeble, coughed mueh, expectorated largely, with all the ordinary Indications of diseased and wasting lungs. During Ihe last-named year a new feature presented itself: a large abscess gathered In tbe left side, and broke, dle> quantlty ol thick matter, resembling very much that which 1 coughed up, This discharge continued until 1 called on you iu I Icereus and tuberculous cheesy matter wa* Imchnrged: bul wh ng was Into the substance of the lungs was, that the air issued oul from Ihe lunge through the abi ■' by placing ii immediately before the opening, and making asuddi i poel naive nloeration, Involving the substance ol the lungs, was going on. am Diploma Indicated consumption—cough, expectoration, great debility and emaciation, disire'-s for breath, hectic fever, night-sweats, etc. My frtenda and my physician, n as » n ■.. the grave by ihe disease which wna on me as though l had been already in my colllu. This win my apparently hopeless condition, wben, la January, 1847, I most fortunately ap- plied to yon, I did so with verj little hope of relief. You yourself did not express a very con- lid.-nt hops that you could reaone me from the grasp «f a disease so firmly fastened, but still encouraged me by say nig Ihat you thought it possioU I might be cured if I adopted and faith- fully pursued your IreaHiieni. 1 did so. and, With gratitude lo God Ibr his blessing upon the yon employed, and with gratitude to you for your skill and kindness in treating me, I can say that I haw been in the enjoyment of good health for the last four or five yearn. I pur- sue m> ordlBarj business, have no cough, no pain, have my usual flesh, and nearly my usual strength. I du no) suppose Ihat 1 am as strong as I would be with lungs Hint bad never been I. The front lobe of the left lung is nearl) all go Mv ease may appear almost Incredible to those who regard sealed consumption as Inourabl -. But if the skeptical will write or call on m« at Tarrylown, N. V.. 1 can. 1 think, convince them that at least one mch ease has been cured by your admirable treatment. Willi the sincere ' ^ similarly afflicted may apply to von and Bud relief, [ am most gratefull) yours, CORNELIUS D. REVERE. SMiiiiviM.it, N. C, Feb. 19. 1864. Pk. S. S. Frrcn—Dear Sir: I have at length taken up tny pen to apologize for m\ long si- lence, for I feel that I have treated you with ingratitude, although I assure you thai no feeling has caused the long silence. I feel, doctor, that I am Indebted to you, through God, |b] my life and health, for when you first undertook my ease, it was evldl nt le all who knew my real situation, that I could live but a very short time t. which fat I I w< il aware of when l wrote to yon and placed myseit under your skillful care; and 1 feel truly thankful that your Lectures ever (ell Into my bands, for I believe, long ere tins, I been numbered with the dead, and my poor child r n, like roal J others, would now l><- deprived of Hieir mother. I have not felt the least effect*' of my long d nigh. or pain in the side, uo sourness of the chest, have had no cause ' i of any kind for several months. I feel as well as I possibly could, under present circum you abundantly for the benefit that I have received from you, as well as man >our profitable life be spared for many long successful years, and may many poor be benefited as much by your prescriptions as I have been. G Your well-wisher, SARAH E, 280 Columbia Btbj De. P. 8. Fitch—Dear Sir: I owe it to the public and yoursetl to give case. I was bom and gn-wr up at Islington, near London; occupation, clerk From early life I was subject to wheezing and a subject to dreadful attacks of asthma. I of course received tb in England—Dr. Leman Teignmouth, Dr. Frederick Salmon. and a great with only slight relief. In 1836 I went t but had a bad dysentery ; there met Dr. Abb, England, follow immediate dreadful attneks ol asthma. 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