A treatise on Swaim's panacea : being a recent discovery for the cure of scrofula or King's evil, mercurial and liver diseases, deep-seated syphilis, rheumatism, and all disorders arising from a contaminated and impure state of the blood, with cases illustrating its success.

  • Swaim, Wm. (William)
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1828
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A treatise on Swaim's panacea : being a recent discovery for the cure of scrofula or King's evil, mercurial and liver diseases, deep-seated syphilis, rheumatism, and all disorders arising from a contaminated and impure state of the blood, with cases illustrating its success. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Philadelphia : [Maxwell], 1828.

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24 pages, 4 unnumbered pages, [xiii]-xviii, 19-174 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm (8vo)

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Signatures: A-B⁶ *² ²B⁶ C-N⁶(-N6) [O]⁴ [P]⁶
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Frontispiece features an illustration of Nancy Linton, a woman supposedly cured of scrofula by using Swaim's panacea. "The Case of Nacy Linton" appears on p. [163]-174
Imperfect: Page 174 mutilated, with some loss of text.
Bound in half calf over paper boards. On the front cover is pasted Swaim's letter "To the Public" , dated Philadelphia, 1829; on the rear cover is pasted a list of agents selling Swaim's panacea.

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NUC pre-1956 v. 578, p. 78

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