The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-05-19 00:00:00

Last year when I took the liberty to address this great
British empire in recommending the remedy which 1 had
discovered, I did expect that great good would be done by
it ; with respect to some neighbouring towns I have not
been entirely disappointed, as the knowledge of the remedy
has made great progress and has been attended by corre-
sponding good, but by no means equal to its merits. It is
now five years since I first laid it before the public through
the medium of the papers, and though it has attained to a
great degree of usefulness, it has by no means attained that
favour which it is entitled to.
There have been many striking instances of its efficacy
since I was in Leeds last year. I will particularise only two ;
the first was that of a lady in the village near my castle,
who had an attack of the nerves which produced extremely
low spirits and was fast verging to insanity. Every method
in ordinary use which could be devised was resorted to
without success. Though I saw both her and her husband
frequently, and was almost certain the remedy would cure
her, I only mentioned it and did not press them to use it :
at length her disorder became so serious that I got the gen-
tleman to promise me that it should be used ; two or three
applications removed the complaint, and I am happy to
assert that she has been well ever since.
I observe that those gentlemen who are the guardians of
the public purse in the West Riding, have voted or agitated
a vote of giving two thousand pounds for the enlargement
of the Asylum for the Insane at Wakefield. Judging from
the foregoing case, I do think that if they spent one hundred
pounds for this remedy, and applied it to every inmate of
the Wakefield Asylum, they would be able to discharge one
quarter of its present patients cured in a month, which
would prevent the necessity of the enlargement 'of the
Asylum.
During the prevalence of the late north-east winds, which
sometimes were very severe, several persons in the neigh-
bourhooa where I live in France, were attacked with illness,
shivering or trembling, a violent pain in the head, the chest,
and the side, and had difficulty in reaching home if at a dis-
tance. The first was my bricklayer, a fine young man in the
prime of health and strength ; I saw him in about three
hours after he was taken ill, but as they had sent for the doc-
tor, I thought it best not to interfere ; he was severely bled
and blistered, and put upon low diet, which made him very
weak, but I am happy to jay his life was saved though his
recovery was doubtful ancl%low. The second was one of my
woodmen, and I did not know until they said he was dying.
The third was a youth in one of the farms ; he was seized
on the Saturday and died on the day after (Sunday). The
fourth was a youth on one of the farms which I have in my
own hands, and which 1 visited on the Monday ; I was told
that he had risen at three o'clock that morning, and had
gone out to feed the bullocks, that he had been seized the
same as the others, and had difficulty to get home ; that he
was as bad as the youth in the neighbouring farm, who had
died the day before ; that without a change they thought he
could not survive beyond the following day. I saw ,him im-
mediately, and though they had sent for the doctor, as he
was my servant, I would try to relieve him ; I therefore had
his head washed or rubbed with the remedy, and did what I
thought was necessary in other respects; before I left the
chamber I inquired how his head was; he said the pain bad
gone from it; well then, I said, you are half cured. The
second day after, when I visited the farm, my first inquiry
was about the boy, the answer was, " Oh, he is quite well,
and has returned to his.work this morning." They said the
doctor had not been, having been occupied elsewhere; the
pain had left him the day on which he was seized ; the day
atter he was very weak, but he had returned to his work that
morning. He came immediately to thank me for having
cured him ; I told him all the return he had to make was to
do well his duty in the situation in which he was placed. He
appeared highly delighted that he was well again, indeed, we
were both very much pleased at the result of the application ;
be is a fine and rather handsome youth, and I considered his
his case as bad as the first; the other two I did not see.
Since I was last in Leeds, I observe that some gentlemen
who have derived benefit from the remedy, have begun to
publish one of my addresses in pamphlets. I have no doubt
but the intentions of these gentlemen were good, but this
practice is attended with so much inconvenience that I have
determined to publish one myself, therefore I hope that no
more pamphlets will be published. Six months ago I had
not the least intention to publish any pamphlet for sale, but
I think the public will see that there are great inconvenien-
cies in publishing the results of this discovery in an imper-
fect state, for in consequence of these publications I have re-
ceived letters at my residence in France, which it would have
been impolite not to answer, but as my occupations employ
the whole of my time, when there, from five o'clock in the
morning to the evening, it will he impossible in future for me
to answer any such letters, and if I did they might be in-
creased to a thousand or more each year. And it is easy for
any one to count the cost of such a number of letters, when
I inform you that those which I received cost me upon an
average nearly two shillings each ; therefore I beg leave to
decline receiving any letters upon this subject either here or
in France, as I cannot undertake to answer them, neither
will it be necessary after the publication of my pamphlet,
which I am convinced will carry consolation into every
family where its precepts are put in practice, which I intend
shall be printed in editions of one thousand each, the first
edition published by subscription, at 2s. Gd. each, the profits,
if any, to be applied to a charitable purpose under my di-
rection. As I cannot remain long in Leeds, of course the
publication must fall to the ground if the subscription is not
rompt.

I am, with true respect, yours sincerely,
WILLIAM LEE

P.S. This pamphlet, though simple, like the remedy of
which it treats, would be as a family book of reference in
case of sickness, in my opinion one of the most useful ever
laid upon a table, and I write from the experience of ten
years of the use of this remedy ; but unless a sufficient num-
ber of copies be subscribed for to defray the expense, I shall
not send it to press.