Spring physic! : The propriety of taking some alterative medicine at this season of the year; to facilitate the efforts of nature, must on mature reflection be obvious to the weakest capacity; ... De Velno's vegetable pills: ... a specific remedy for the scurvy, the most inveterate stage of scrophula or king's evil, scorbutic eruptions, leprosy, the ill effects of mercury.

  • Pidding, James.
Date:
[1800?]
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Credit: Spring physic! : The propriety of taking some alterative medicine at this season of the year; to facilitate the efforts of nature, must on mature reflection be obvious to the weakest capacity; ... De Velno's vegetable pills: ... a specific remedy for the scurvy, the most inveterate stage of scrophula or king's evil, scorbutic eruptions, leprosy, the ill effects of mercury. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CASE VI* The following Affidavit, made by T. Bbackbone, Taylor and Gaiter Ivlaker, No- 74, Wardour-street, deserve notice; aawjibit- 7, Thomas Blaqkbons, do hereby make oath that, having been afflicted with a bad Scro¬ fulous Qo’mplaint, to which my friends and acquaintance expected I must fall a .srcrifice, and having been a considerable time under the care of three very eminent Physicians, without success, X lastly underwent a course of De V'iiito’s Vecitablx Pills—derived benefit from the firs: hex, and have received a perfect cure from this medicine.—The symptoms were, three be,la on my beqd to the very bone j one in my forehead about the size of a shilling; three holes also on my body, which threatened ro~ penetrate even to my very vitals ; and large sCropulous ulcers on mv leg, one of them very deep)-and larger than a tea-cup ; t;he leg was also swelled to a violent de¬ gree, and I suffered most excruciating p£in in the bor.es of my bead, ieg>\ and joints ; indeed, some faint ideas of the shocking state I was then in may be conceived from a view of the scars now re¬ maining.-1 do likewise declare upon oath, that I have not received, or expect to receive, any reward whatever for making this public declaration, but arh led to it in juiiice to the Proprietor, $nd that others in a similar situation may be informed, where they also may seek a cure. (Signed) ' ' tHOMAS BLACOONE. Sworn at the Mansion-House, London, the; 26th day of AgfiL 1800, before ine, ‘ ’ ' H. C. COMBE, Mayor. CASE VI r. Mrs. WILLIAMS, Seamstress, Jate at Mr. Gayleard’s, Hatter and fdabit-maker, No. 82, New Bond-street, was afflicted with the Scurvy to a very violent degree for three or four years, ap¬ pearing on her hands, arms, and legs, in numerous large florid blotches, some about an inch, others two inches in diameter. Astonishing as it may appear, it is nevertheless true, that after taking only one box of De Velno’s Vegetable Pills, large scales dropt off from the surface of these eruptions, and, after another box, no vestige whatever of her complaint was discernable. This surprising cure (as is always the case with De Velno’s Pills) was effected imperceptibly, and. without any confinement or restraint of diet. CASE VIII. Mrs. G. a married Lady, has permitted the Proprietor to publish her case, and to com innnicatr her address to ary lady desirous oi seeing her. She had from infancy been more or less troubled with a Scurvy in her legs and other parts of her body, but for the last few years (being a critical period of lift; with her) it gradually assumed a more terrific appearance ; she was almost a stranger to sleep, constantly labouring under a nervous tremor, with frequent faihtings and lowness of spirits ; both her legs were covered with, one continued scurf, and she suffered, at the same time, most excruciation pain from the Piles. She took De Velno’s Vegetable Pills, and with the most flattering success, for she was soon cuped of the Piles and Scurvy, recovered her spirits and. strength ; and Mrs. G'. assures the Proprietor, that she is now stronger, and more lively, than when twenty years younger. The Proprietor has likewise had, the satisfaction to receive similar attest¬ ations of the happy effects of these Pills from some, of the most distinguished families in this kingdom ; and he presumes, from the late extraordinary de¬ mand for the Medicine, that the circumstance of their having been taken with great advantage by a Prince of the Royal Family of Great Bri¬ tain, as well as by certain other Noble Personages, has, through the medium of their Friends, obtained publicity, although it cannot be expected that the' Proprietor should have the privilege of publishing the particulars'; but he can with confidence assert, that the real merits of this Vegetable Preparation will, on a fair trial, plead more forcibly in its own recommend¬ ation than any thing that can be said of it. Those persons therefore who are afflicted with Scurvy, or any impurity ofi the blood, would consult both their Health and Comfort by embracing the earliest opportunity in the Spring, to give it a Trial,