The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-05-29 00:00:00

MOST IMPORTANT TESTIMONIAL OF LIEUT.
MASTERS, H.P. LATE OF THE ROYAL NEW-
FOUNDLAND VETERAN COMPANIES.
(CERTIFICATE.)
St. John's, Neulatindland,l2th March, 1838.
Conformably to a Garrison Order, dated 9th March, 1838,
for the assembly of a Medical Board, to take into considera-
tion the state of health of Lieut. Masters, R.V.C., and to
report accordingly, we, the undersigned, Staff Officer and
Civil Practitioner, forming the Board authorised by that
order, after a strict examination of the case of Lieut. Masters,
consider him as entirely unfit for military duty. Lieut.
Masters has for several years been afflicted with Rheumatism
Gout, which has produced serious functionary derangements
of his stomach, liver, and other viscera, and finally given
rise to infirmity, weakness, and enlargement of the articula-
tions, especially of the ancle joints ; his general health and
constitution is much impaired, and therefore, in ouropinion,
he is incapable of further service.
(Signed)
ANDW. FERGUSON, M.D., Staff-Assist.-Surg.
EDWARD KIELLY, Surgeon.
LETTER OF LIEUT. MASTERS TO MR. PROVT, 229, STRAND,

• LONDON.
Hawley, near Bagshot,l3lll Jan., 1840.
SlR,—Considering that the public would be greatly bene-
fitted by the publication of the extraordinary benefit which I
have derived by taking Blair's Gout and Rheumatic Pills, I
herewith send the particulars of my case, and the Medical
Certificate by which I was invalided. I was first attacked
with Rheumatic Gout in 1826, from which period to 1833 I
was under the treatment of the late Drs. Rod, Horner, and
Jacobs, as well as by the present Dr. Davis, all of Hamp-
stead. From 1833 to 1838 I was at St. John's, Newfound-
land, doing duty as a Subaltern in the Royal Veteran Com-
panies, where I suffered most severely, and was under the
care of Surgeon Huston, R. V. C., Staff Assistant-Surgeon
Ferguson, and Mr. Shea, private practitioner there, without
being able to prevent the most violent fits of the gout three
or four times annually, which becoming so bad caused the
Garrison Order for the Medical Board, as before named.
About the middle of last February and the whole of March
my sufferings were dreadful ; in fact, I was unable to move
without being carried ; when Major Birch, of Crondale, near
Farnham, a Magistrate of tlis County, kindly commiserating
my situation, called on me for the purpose of taking my
affidavit, that I might receive my half-pay ; and seeing me in
so miserable a state, advised me to try Blair's Gout and
Rheumatic Pills, saying, although not gouty himself, he
knew several who bad derived benefit from them. I had
previously been advised by a then neighbour, Mr. Fedgent,
of Aldershot, to try them, but I declined until the Major
recommended them. I commenced by taking them accord-
ing to the directions ; and, after taking six pills, found a
cessation of all pain, and the remainder of the box effectually
settled that tit. I have since had several attacks, but as soon
as I feel the least sensation of the disease I take the pills,
which have at once removed all symptoms. I may also men-
tion that the chalk which had formed on my ears has disap-
peared, and where it formed in my fingers is decreasing. I
have ceased to have those very weakening perspirations to
which I was subject before trying the pills.
Were you to print my case, and appoint an Agent in St.
John's, Newfoundland, where my sufferings were known,
and where there are so many afflicted with Rheumatic Gout,
you would vastly increase the sale of this valuable Medicine.
I am, Sir, your obedient Servant,
JOHN MASTERS,
Lieut. H. P. Royal New'oundland Veteran Companies.
Sold by the Vendors of Medicine throughout the Kingdom.
Observe the name and address of " Thomas Prout, 229,
Strand, London," on the Government Stamp.