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.
- Date:
- [1789?]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
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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![[ 3.] T O I ' Hypochondriac & Nervous Patients. OF all Diforders that afflict the human Race none defervcs our Pity and Attention more than thofe of the Nervous Kind, which arife from a Variety of different Gaufes, as a fedentary Life, long fading, clofe ftudy, free living, extreme Heat, Paflion, Grief, fudden Frights, Love, Hatred, Mifcarriages, and bad Lyings-in, Colds, Fevers, &c. &c. They alfo produce innumerable bad EfFedls, of which the follow- ing are a Part: The Lofs of Appetite, bad Digeftion, reftlefs Nights, frightful Dreams, defponding Thoughts, confufed Ideas, Lofs of Memory, Dimnefs of Sight, Pains in the Head from Vapours, Heavi- nefs, Laflitude, Weakncfs, Wind, and Pain in the Stomach and Bowels, Inftability of Mind, extreme Laughing or Crying, Lownefs of Spirits, Hypochondriac Paflion, Melancholy Madnefs, Lethargy, Apoplexy, Palfy, St. Vitus’s Dance, Falling Sicknefs, Hyfteric and Convulfion Fits, Dumbnefs, wandering and fixed Gout, Dread, Horror, Fear, flow Fever,* &c. Thus follow a Train of Mifery to the unhappy Sufferer, as well as Diftrefs to his or her Family, in feeing them confined in Mad- iloufes, others ftarvips to Death, fearing Want in the Midfl of A 2 Affluence, t](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24921361_0005.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
