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)
Date:
1828
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Credit: 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. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ADVERTISEMENT. THIS MEDICINE has acquired a very extended and established celebrity in most parts of the world, both in Hospital and Private practice, which its efficacy alone has supported for these ten years past, as a remedy for Scrofula or King's Evil, Ulcerated Sore Throat, long standing Rheumatic Affections, Diseases of the Skin, White Swelling and Diseases of the Bones, and all cases generally of an Ulcerous character; Chronic and Nervous diseases arising in debilitated constitutions; but more especially for Syphilis, or affections arising therefrom, as Ulcers of the Larynx, Throat and Nose, Nodes, &c and those evils occasioned by an improper use of mer- cury, &c. &c.—It has been found to be a most useful spring and fall purifier of the blood for debilitated and nervous persons; it is also beneficial in dyspeptic and nervous complaints, and most internal diseases where the lungs and chest are supposed to be affected, &c. All those who are predisposed to pulmonary com- plaints, or affected with any of those distressing diseases arising from impurity of blood or indiscretion of their youth, and whose constitutions are broken down by the use of mercury, arsenic, or bark, from diseased liver, or injudicious treatment of any of the above diseases, should submit to a course of Swaim's Panacea. In all complicated cases of Scrofula and Syphilis, and where the Syphilitic virus of the parent causes a deve- lopment of Scrofula in the child, this is the only remedy upon which a hope of recovery can be reasonably found- ed : there has been no instance of its failure, where pro- perly used. It imparts vigour to the whole system while the cure is going on—an operation so long looked for in vain by the medical world; at the same time the patient is enabled to take nourishing food, which under the com- mon modes of practice is usually withheld from the suf- ferer. In many instances where the horrible ravages of ulceration had laid bare ligament and bone, and where, to all appearance, no human means but amputation could have saved life, have patients been snatched from the grave and restored to good health, and the devouring disease completely eradicated. The cures performed in this city alone establish its superior virtue on a basis too solid to be affected by the malignity of the envious. It is worthy of remark, that the greater part of the patients who have been perma- nently cured, had, previously to using Swaim's Panacea.
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