A sovereign remedy for the dropsy. Published by desire, for public benefit.

Date:
1783
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A sovereign remedy for the dropsy. Published by desire, for public benefit. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    OBSERVATIONS. The foregoing Recipe was, many years ago, given to an Engliffi Countefs by the then Prior of the Maurus Benedi&ines, of Corbie, in Picardy, with the ttrongett atturanees of its efficacy. About eighteen years fince, her ladyffiip gave it to a lady in England, whom ffie honoured with her friendffiip and who in the year 1767 recom¬ mended it to a lady, who feemed to be in, or nearly in, the laft ttage of a Dropfy. She was fo very much fwoln, that ffie appeared like a woman in the laft month of her pregnancy, and her diforder had refitted every thing that had been done for her by the faculty. She took the Broom-Seed, but could not take the whole of the Oil : however, in a very few months, her huffiand wrote a letter of thanks for her fpeedy and furprizing recovery. B Soon