The Statesman.
London, England, 1809-09-07 00:00:00

WE have authority to extract from a Pam-
phlet published by Mr. GUEST, of No. 9, (great
Surrey-street. tilackfrines-road, several remarkable Letters
and Calla the GUESTONIAN MEDICINE, which we
shall costlesse to insert every hlooday and Thursday until the
whole are completed.
LETTER 11.
Copy of a Letter from Mr. Gerais Chyalist. Re. Ac. Great
Dealt Sin.
Surreys-street, Blarkfriars-road.
Since my first inirodeclion In the knowledge of your Me-
dicines., and their very twos &Jai effects, I have had a variety
of subjects no whom 'I have given them the fairest trial. and
with emcees. Ti enumerate them, with particulars,wouldecrilTia volume; I shall therefore cogitate myself to a
return of thanks, for the complete release you have erected
in me, from a pain in my hip, to which I had been a con-
stant 'offerer, more or lees, for many years. These circum-•
stances were of so convincing a nature to ine. that in coosi-
&ration of soda a remedy being much wareed in the arms. I
took the liberty to address a letter to his Rosa! Highness the
then Commander in Chief, stating my opinion. in the follow-
ing Wools. '6 That during several sears service as a Regi-
mental Surgeons I bad to lament my own its-sufficiency, and
that of others, in the cure of Rheumatism. but more partiets-
tarty, when subsequent to a long course of Mercury, with
which diseases Military Hospitals were constantly filled,
and the service annually deprived of a great number of
(mberways) useful soldiers, as emit for duty; and that with
the most respectful deferencel to the profeisiim to which I
have the hoarier to belong, and !pithiest intending the most
distant refiection on, or interference with, Military Medical
Gentlemen, I wished his Royal Highness would allow me I
some opportunity to shew, and to prove. the effects of a Me-
dicine
I- wou:d I,•nture to recommend the general use of in
the Army, both as a national advantage, and upon principles
of humanity." After waiting a long time without receiving
any answer, I made a second application to his Royal H iglu.
ne,y, through the medium of his Secretary, Colonel Gordon,
by whom was at last referred to the Army Medical Board,
his Royal Highness having ordered my communicatioits to be
made there, a circumstance that heightened my e v pectatiom,
from having been boooured by a letter of thanksfrom the In-
spector-General, while I held a Regimental Sergeancy, for
my attention to, and 4aceiss in the execution of my duty.—
Atter somelittle time, I was hooaured by an interview nt
the Board, where I candidly stated my knows k.lge of the
efficacy of these Mediei..er, and the merle of practice, offer-
ing my own personal services, and the Medicines neccears to
a fair trial, to any extent, free of expence to Government,
nod that I had no motive, but what originated in Say zeal for
the service, and a humane emeideration for tee many I knew
were sufferiag, who might at ail times be insured relief. in
short, 1 omitted not to mention, th it upwards of fifteen years,
the credit of the Medicine anal your mode of practice had
been established; and that althinigh the principles of the
component parts could not be esplairsei. I set was con-
vinced it would prove a must useful addition to the Regi-
mental Medicine Guest. Now, Sir, guess ms astonishment,
or if you can, iinagiue my feelings on bring firs interrogated
as to my opinion of Rheumatism., &c. I was told that it was
impos.itile for that Board to inn /niece a Medicine (even for
the benefit and comfort if our brave soldiers) unless they
were made acquainted with the composition. What was
thee left me, but sincere regret, that there could inexisteere
a single tieing be found, who would surer any prejudice to
present his eagerly embracing a prospect of lessening those
tostferino so daily witnessed in this useful and necessary p art
of oar brave protectors; and in justice to you I must add.
that, until I had the honour to know you, I never knew of
any cliectu.il remedy for tbese complaints. Alas! Sir, sorry
:on I to obserse, last in th ! present fashionable and corn-
mendable refinement in learning. those littlenesses with nhich
a nuts great mind would neser degr.ide itself. are still so
universal, that all is last in self; the road even to humanity
is hluckeJ up by obstacle that can be placed in it, to
answer the purpose of securing to themselves an aggrandise- 1
anent they dread should he divided. or wholly wrested from ,
them, by an exposure of that inefficiency, which it would '
be the more noble and manly at owe to acknowledge.
But, Sir, according to the present system of things, nothing
nut of she common routine of professional cumbivatitro can be
accepted, or admitted as advantageou.; nor, however ex-
pensive or usersl any discovery, can it merit reward, be-
cau-c it is a secret; and sour Medicines being such. were the
only grounds on which my disiteerested offers were rejected.
1 amigo help complimenting the truly liberal plan on which
you have introduced your Medicines and mode of practice,
iiy such a public invitation to Medical men to practice with
them, as amounts to that sort of challenge, at once evincing
sour own confidence founded in conscious rectitude, and
would at the same time have brought some nee forward long
crc this, to have condemned both you, your Medicines, and
your practice, had not facts Isere such as to defy even mt-
ligrainey ittelf. Your whole proceedings, indeed, have been
such as to do away every accusatinn tending to stigmatize you
with the character of on Impostor ; a suspicion, that in my
opinion should be entirely obliteruted in the generous consi-
deration you have sheen for the pm .s.ts of all classes, in
making the prices so unusually low, that they are atiainahle
by the poorest mechanic. Many nt the Medical Gentlemen
aho have been practising with sour Medicines, I hare the
honour to he acmsainted with, and from them I have had
the most respectable testimony of the Creestonian Medicine.,
which in all cases, where they are used fairly, speak so plainly
for themselves, nothing can he raised in refutation of them.
I will (many to you, that at reading the cases published
in your Pamphlet. with such sudden truritioas (rum pain to
ease, appeared to me almost incredible; to sntisfy myself of
which, I took the pains (before my otter to the Array Medi-
co! Board) in find out, and see each of those desperate cases
discharged from different Hospitals (I think. twelve in num-
ber). and to my very great surprise. I found every one of
them in good health, and followiou his usual avocatiuo, ex-
cept one. whom I learnt was from old ace and natural infir-
mities, reduced to the necessity of cla..alidA admission to
Clerkeewell Poor Howse, but i.s in fulcra!, c ..:11th for a mu
near eig!ity years of age. It Ishii% you every possible en-
joymeet in the result of your truly uteiel researches, I am,
dear Sir, your obll/2ged bumble servant.
I WILLIAM NELSON LUCAS,
Late Sorgesin to the Verbs Regiment of Militia.
Leedom, March 97, 1809. 1