A short essay on the virtues of Dr. Norris's antimonial drops.

  • Norris, Thomas, active 1780.
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[1775]
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Credit: A short essay on the virtues of Dr. Norris's antimonial drops. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    * innocent, in it’s effedts, that it waits for no crifis or particular period ; it may be taken in the firft, mid¬ dle, or latter ftages of the diforder, and in any quan- tities, with fafety ; in fhort, it wants but to meet the difeafe to give it an abfolute overthrow. From thefe pofitive declarations, I am not infenfible what a rifque I may be thought to run, both in re- fpedl to my own character and fortune; and indeed I fhould feel myfelf unworthy not only of the public patronage I have received, but of the common bene¬ fits of mankind, could I be fo loft to my own honour and confcience, for the mere fake of interefted views, thus to recommend a medicine, which I even remotely doubted of it’s fuccefs ; but the repeated proofs I have had of it’s never-failing efficacy, it’s immediate, powerful, and fafe efredts, all give me a confcioufnefs of communicating it to the world under the mod po¬ fitive and certain affurances. T hefe drops, befides being a fpecific for fevers, I have often known fucceed in a variety of other dis¬ order?, luch as bad digeftion, nervous head-aches, latent feurvies, (the fource of many evils) and infallably in gouty habits, where infenfible perfpiration is fuppreffed. And indeed when the extent of their powers, as an univerfal deobftruent, which lead to a general ftrengthening and reftoration of nature, are confi- dered, the univerfality of their effects will ceafe to be wondered at. Having thus given a fummary account of the virtues of thefe Antimenial Drops, 1 am aware of the objections which will naturally arife from a compara- five J