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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    [ 3’- ] I am at prefent entirely cured of that mofl: cruel and alarming Dl- fcafe of my Head, and the Palpitation of my Heart has never returned fince I took the two firft Bottles. I now fleep comfortably, and am high in Spirits; and thank God, and your fuperior Skill in my Ner- vous Cafe, have received a mpft furprifing, and, I hope, lafting Re- lief, which no Perfon in Italy, Germany, nor France, could remove, nor even give me any Kind of Relief, till I came to England, and put myfclf under your Care. I fhall keep the IfTues running between my Shoulders during the Time you defired me, and am happy to thank you for fuch a fpeedy and very extraordinary Cure. God blefs you, ' Vale, ^ St. James’s-flreet, ' JEAN BAPTIST DE PONT. 'Jan. 24, 1789. A CASE of INSANITY.. To Dr. FREEMAN, Haiion-Garden^ London, I HAD been afflicted almoft a Year and a Half with a moft wonderful flubborn Nervous Difeafe, and was fo intolerably and continually afFt^6fed with violent Palpitations of my Heart, and my Mind exceedingly agitated at all Times, that I abfolutely imagined I faw Spe(5tres and Devils, both fleeping and waking. In this moft dreadful and terrible Condition I languifticd many Months without Intermiftion. I applied to the moft learned of the Faculty in different Parts of Scotland to no Effe£I; was difeharged as incurable from Aberdeen Infirmary, all but raving mad. I then was fent to London for better Advice, and applied to the moft eminent in Phyfic there to no Eftedl', till I was recommended to you, who ordered me a Courfe of your Fothergel’s Nervous Drops, together with a Blifter to my Stomach, which foon perfeaed a moft furprifing Cure, and I have the Happinefs to acknowledge it for the Benefit of Man- kind in general, and remain, SIR, Glanbocket, Aberdeenfliire, March, 1788.^ (Copy) Your much obliged Servant, ALEX. MORISON. Witneffes, his Brother Kenneth Morifon, and John Moulton, No. 16, Caftlc-ftrcetrLcj^cftcr-Ficlds. I GL/
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