Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1821 edition. Excerpt: ...certainly die, as he had been dealt urithfor a length of time by physicians!' One box of the ointment, however, enabled him ' in a few days/ to prosecute his ' usual employment in perfect health!'--The 'little son' of a gentleman, 'burnt his band badly with a hot shovel;' the ointment was applied, ' and in the course of two minutes, the pain left his hand, and the skin never came off nor blistered!' But it is useless to multiply examples: the following certificate alone would afford the most satisfactory evidence of its sanative j)owers. ' Sir--Iran a large pitch-fork through my foot, which, from the loss of blood, and pain, disabled me from walking. I immediately applied your ointment, wkich enabled me to go to work next day.' '.' Far be it from me to disparage the authenticity of these miraculous certificates: on the contrary, I take honour to myself, for propagating, according to the best of my abilities, the knowledge of the Patent Specific Ointment. It would require considerable time and labour to analyse the system of puffing, adopted by those medical gentlemen, who are too independent to encounter the irksomeness of collegiate studies, and to whom nature has been sufficiently lavish to obviate the necessity of a collegiate examination: but in very truth--if that quality appertain to all the puffs in question, --our weekly bills of mortality must be swelled out by the ignorance and incapacity of regularly educated physicians! From what other cause can ' consumption, ' (that scourge of the human race, ) claim its melancholy precedence, when we have a surgeon-dentist, within the very walls of our city, who never failed in ' the most hopeless cases' to effect ' a permanent cure in Thirty-four Days?'--Why should the cholera morbus claim so
