A treatise on the method of curing the gout, scurvy, leprosy, elephantiasis, evil, and other cutaneous eruptions : shewing the rise and progress of those diseases, and by what medicines they may be cured illustrated by many cases extracted from the writings of the most eminent men of the faculty, and the author's own observations the whole interspersed with a variety of efficacious receipts, collected, and now published for the good of the public ... / by F. Spilsbury.

  • Spilsbury, Francis.
Date:
[1775?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A treatise on the method of curing the gout, scurvy, leprosy, elephantiasis, evil, and other cutaneous eruptions : shewing the rise and progress of those diseases, and by what medicines they may be cured illustrated by many cases extracted from the writings of the most eminent men of the faculty, and the author's own observations the whole interspersed with a variety of efficacious receipts, collected, and now published for the good of the public ... / by F. Spilsbury. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    But, here, I muft beg to explain myfelf in t more clear and explicit manner. By the Poor are generally underftood two claffes, of peo¬ ple, viz, fuch as are intirely deftitute, and another fort which would not like to be ranked among them, though, on account of the fmallnefs of their yearly ftipends, they cannot afford to pay an equal price with people of fortune.—To the former, I abfo- iutely give my attendance, advice, and me¬ dicines gratis; to the latter, at half- price. — And it is the better to enable me to give that friendly, humane, compaffionate, falutary, and, at the fame time, juft and e- quitable affiftance to thefe two different, and far prae-nurnerous, parts of the nation that, on the i ft of September, 1774, I found my¬ felf under a neceffity of railing the price of my bottles, viz. thofe of 2s. 6d. to 3s. and thofe of 4s. to 5s. And it is but juft to ac¬ knowledge here, in gratitude to the humanity of the Public, acquainted with the motives of this trifling advance in the price, that they then not only approved of the equitable- nefs of it, but have ever since freely, and readily complied with it. ' P. S. I think I cannot find a better oppor¬ tunity to apologize here for fome apparent negleft