A letter to hypochondriac & nervous patients, : particularly to all who are afflicted with lowness and depression of the spirits, alarming diseases of the head and stomach, horrid thoughts, vain fears, frightful dreams, insanity, fits, loss of memory, relaxations from miscarriages, or difficult labours, debilitated habits from long continuance in hot climates, palsies, dorsal consumptions, and weaknesses incident to both sexes, spasms from irregular influx of vital heat into the affected muscles, anomalous gout and rheumatism, obstinate bilious cases, indigestion, atonic gouty diseases, slow, nervous, putrid, malignant, petechial fevers, and broken constitutions, &c. To which are added, hints to prevent the above diseases, under the following headings ...; likewise, the copy of a letter from the author, together with his prescription to cure his Majesty's most tremendous disorder, that was laid before the Right Honorable Mr. Pitt, at his house in Downing-street, and very cordially received, on Tuesday, the 13th of January, 1789. / by S. Freeman, M. D. author of the Ladies' friend and Practical midwifery, and proprietor of the most invaluable medicine called Fothergel's universal nervous cordial drops.

  • Freeman, Stephen, M.D.
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[1789?]
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Credit: A letter to hypochondriac & nervous patients, : particularly to all who are afflicted with lowness and depression of the spirits, alarming diseases of the head and stomach, horrid thoughts, vain fears, frightful dreams, insanity, fits, loss of memory, relaxations from miscarriages, or difficult labours, debilitated habits from long continuance in hot climates, palsies, dorsal consumptions, and weaknesses incident to both sexes, spasms from irregular influx of vital heat into the affected muscles, anomalous gout and rheumatism, obstinate bilious cases, indigestion, atonic gouty diseases, slow, nervous, putrid, malignant, petechial fevers, and broken constitutions, &c. To which are added, hints to prevent the above diseases, under the following headings ...; likewise, the copy of a letter from the author, together with his prescription to cure his Majesty's most tremendous disorder, that was laid before the Right Honorable Mr. Pitt, at his house in Downing-street, and very cordially received, on Tuesday, the 13th of January, 1789. / by S. Freeman, M. D. author of the Ladies' friend and Practical midwifery, and proprietor of the most invaluable medicine called Fothergel's universal nervous cordial drops. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    J \ t 24 ] at the trifling Abfijrdltles of the ordinary Practice in this ufeful but \Jangerous Art--and at the too feebIe--or too harfh EfFe61 of moft Medicines as commonly ufed,--I was compelled with a certain, as it were divine or fupernatural Energy or Impufe, to fearch for wider and more rational Paths, and more efibdfual Means for the Prevention and Cure of Difeafes; how far I have fucceeded thofe who are ac- vjuainted with my Medicines and Pra6fice, or who even have read niy late Publications, will be able to judge. — I will only fay, that V according’ to my Abilities, and agreeable to the Ideas and Directions of thofe great Men, I have ft udied and endeavoured to unite every Affinity that there is betv/een the Elements and Man; and in fhort between Man and every Thing in tfc? great Syftem of the Univerfe, however remotely, however invifibly connedled with his Frame. But as the perfeSiing all this vaft and moft comprehenfive Syftem requires a Degree of Intelligence far—very far fuperlor to what I can pretend to, I truft that God will raife up a Succeftion of Men who will carry on and psrfcdl: what I have fo happily begun. \ In order to repel -the Pretenfions of the Ignorant Druggift, the pitiful Apothecary, the murdering Quack, and the needy Tradef- man, from encroaching upon the Pockets of the Public, by felling their fpuriouG and poifonous Remedies, under Samftion and Title of Futhergel’s or Fothergill’s Universal Nervous Cordial Drops, Dr, FxREEMAN begs Leave to inform the Afflidled, and Pub- l;c in genera], that no Man in the knowm World -can prepare this Nervous Remedy, himfelf excepted : And he further DECLARES • UPON OATH, BEFORE THE LORD MAYOR OF LON- DON, that he never (hewed the Prefeription, or even informed any Man whatever, of any the leaft Preparation thereof. Therefore as Dr. Freeman warns the Aftlided again ft the Frauds * and Villainies of fuch wretched Creatures above deferibed, he hopes all Perfon^who want the Medicine will take this notice, and fend im- mediately to him for it, at his Houfe, Hatton-Garderiy London \ or if in the Weft of England to his Country Houfe, Hinton St. George^ Somerfei, where they may be fare to have it perfectly Genuine, with an Allowance ht Exportation.
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