The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-07-13 00:00:00

LAMB'S VEGETABLE COMPOUND.

AN effectual CURE for all descriptions of WORMS
that infest the human body, indigestion in all its varied
forms, nervous diseases, bilious or liver complaints, all cases
of fits arising from intestinal irritation, impurities of the blood
early stages of consumption, and all other ailments producin
a delicate state of the constitution.
The Vegetable Compound is extremely mild and easy in its
operation; females of the most delicate constitution, either
suckling or during pregnancy; young children, or persons at
an advanced age, may take it with perfect safety, without hin-
derance of business or change of diet, and at all seasons of the
year, without the least danger of taking cold; and warranted
not to contain any preparation of mercury or turpentine.
The following are a few of the many thousands of cases suc-
cessfully treated by the Vegetable Compound, during a practice
of upwards of twenty years :
RECENT CASE IN BASINGSTOKE.
Jan. 22nd, 1847.—William Painter, a railway porter, at the
Basingstoke Station, and living at Mr. Law's, Chapel-street,
Basingstoke, while taking of Lamb's Vegetable Compound,
passed a tapeworm fifteen feet long? with several hundred
Joints. The symptoms that affected him for upwards of eight
years were as follows :—Pain and giddiness in the head, with
dimness of sight and heaviness over the eyes, bad acrid taste in
the mouth in the morning, a sensation of something rising in
the throat, with retchings to vomit, the food appearing to
produce nothing but wind in the bowels, frequently violent
gnawing pain, together with weakness between the stomach
and bowels, aching pains in the limbs, pains in the back and
sides, and scarcely ever felt refreshed from food or sleep. Mr.
Painter states, he has taken various preparations of turpentine,
until he has been laid up with it for a fortnight, altogether un-
able to follow his work, and had consulted every medical man,
not only in the neighbourhood, but anywhere where he could
hear of one that was eminent in the cure of worms. The worm
may be scan by applying to the patient, wilb will with pleasure
speak to the mild action of the medicines over any other he
has taken. _ _

May 18, 1847.—Mrs. Sims, living servant with Mrs. Hill, of
6, St. James-walk, Clerkenwell, London, while taking of Lamb's
Vegetable Compound, passed a tapeworm several yards long.
She had complained of pain and giddiness in the head, sickness,
weakness of the limbs, shortness of breath; and palpitation of
the heart, pains in the stomach, side, and back, and scarcely
ever felt refreshed from food or sleep.
_ _

May 10,- 1847.—Charles Stuart, aged 39, shoemaker, of 17,
Hill-street, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, while taking of Lamb's Ve-
getable Compound, passed a tapeworm ten yards long. Symp-
toms : Pain and sinking sensation in the stomach and bowels,
pains in the back and side, shortness of breath and tightness
across the chest, sickness and retching to vomit in a morning,
fullness after eating, as if all the food produced nothing but
wind; often felt drowsy and listless, and want of inclination to
exert himself, and scarcely ever felt refreshed from food or
sleep.
March 20, 1847.—Mrs. Draper, aged 60, wife of John Draper,
of Wild Moor, in the parish of Sherfield Green, near Basing-
stoke, while taking of Lamb's Vegetable Com
tapeworm several yards long. She had been subject to almos,
every symptom of indigestion for many years, and never could
obtain any benefit, until taking the Vegetable Compound, since pound,
Health u
which she has enjoyed a good state of pound, passed a
ip to the present
time.—May 22, 1847.
Sold wholesale and retail by the Proprietor, Richard Lamb,
75, High Holborn, London, in packets, at 2s. 9d. each, one
packet being sufficient for a child from one to ten years old; all
persons above ten years require two packets. It will be sent to
any part of the kingdom, carriage paid, on remitting 84 postage
stamps, for persons above ten years old; under ten years, 48
postage stamps; directed to Mr. Lamb, 75, High Holborn,
London.
*** Observe.—All persons above ten years old must ask
ex forextra,
rgi,
the double packets.
Mr. Lamb may be consulted personally at his residence, everyMonday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, from ten till four, or by
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letter, stating age and symptoms, on payment of 3s.
either by sti mps or post-office order,