Receipts for preparing and compounding the principal medicines made use of by the late Mr Ward. Together with an introduction, etc / [John Page].

  • Page, John, 1699?-1779
Date:
1763
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Credit: Receipts for preparing and compounding the principal medicines made use of by the late Mr Ward. Together with an introduction, etc / [John Page]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Great and Radical Cures eifedled upon thofe of my Acquaintance who have taken them, in the Space of more than thirty Years*, and that, without com¬ plaining of the Medicines far their manner of Opera-f ting. When I have faid this, no one will wonder, that I not only hope, but prefume to exped, that the Publication of thefe Medicines, and caufing them to be fold at very low Prices, will prove Beneficial to Mankind*, whatever fome may think, whofe Minds remain warped by Prejudice; or others may fay, whofe Intereft, perhaps, may have prompted them to infufe thofe Prejudices, To the former of thefe I cannot help faying, I iliould wonder extremely, (if Time and Obfervation bad nor fhewed me the great Force of Prejudicej^^ that any flrong fufpicion fhould ftill remain of thefo Medicines being cliingerous, when taken in proper Quantities, and under proper Regulations, now that all the World knows they have been gaining Ground and reputation for fo many Years, only by the Force of their own Ads; notwithftanding they had to break their Way through the flrong Barriers of Jnterefl, Prejudice, and Ridicule. To the latter I fhall only fay, that the Medicines I am now going to make Public are fuch as have been moftly applied to Cafes called Chronical; and, generally, to fuch as were of Old-flanding, before the Sufferers under them would confult Niv Ward: And if, in the fame Sort of Cafes, they fhould hereafter be taken, without waiting fo long^ I hope the Gentlemen of the Faculty, efpecially the Can*?, did and Refpedable, will not fet up an Oppofition to them, and endeavour to difeourage the Middling and Lower Sort of People from taking what will cod fo little? and probably do them a great deal of Qoodo ... In