Remarkable cures, of gouty, bilious, and nervous cases / related by the patients themselves, and published at their desire, in sundry letters to John Scot, M.D. ...

  • Scot, John.
Date:
1783
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    From Sir William, Murray, Bart. Dear Sir, THE Cough and pain in my breaft are almoft gone, but if they recur, I (hall obferve your directions, and till they be perfectly gone, I fliall eat little meat; I niuft beg you will fend me a box of pills once in five weeks at leaft: as I cannot think cf at any time allowing myfelf entirely to run out of the only medicine which ever gave me real or lafting relief, after having for years tried all that have been prefcribed for me by the ableft phyficians in this ♦ country and on the continent; and I cannot come upon this fubjeCt without returning you my hearty thanks for thede- gree of health I enjoy, and which ] had given over hopes ofever attaining,as well as from the ill fuccefs of all other prescriptions, as from the conviCtion I had that all but yourfelf had miftaken my cafe, in not admitting it to be a flying Gout. Believe me. Dear Sir, your’s fincerely, » May 14, 1780. W. M* Lieutenant General MoRRrs, Ad. P. &c. &c• WAS fubjeCt to frequent attaeks of a regular Gout in the extremities, which were always preceeded bv complaints in his flomach ; lometimes he had fymp- toms which were deemed Bilious, and fometimes he was feized with the moff violent fpafms and cramps in his fto- mach.