The Statesman.
London, England, 1809-07-10 00:00:00

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Dr. TAYLOR'S ANTI-SPASMODIC PILLS,
A Calais Ours of the Epilepsy, or Falling Sickness, Cow
Mika Pits, Hysteric and Paralytic Alßeams, sad an in-
fallible Antidote of that Mortal Malady the Apoplexy.
lir has been asserted from respectable authority,
that a great majority of eases of F.pilepsy are incurable
by tray remedy that has yet been discovered. And indeed
opine of the Medicines prescribed by the Faculty for this
dreadful Comptaint, are not only ioe&.aeious, bet often hurt-
Electricity, Epi.spasties, are nearly
posieriess as Anti-Span:sorties. Valerian km hese recluse's/
by smoy Practitioners almost n specific in Convulsion Fits,
bet experience has proved that in nine cases out of ten it has
betty of no real service. Musk, Castor, Assalketbia, Peony
Root, Viscns quercinam, tructuni hyosciam and many other
Remedies, in which Treat confideoce has been placed by the•
Faculty, have been u,ed without success. A Medical Gen-
tleman of the present day, has, however, discovered, after
mach study and labour, a remedy for this Disorder, which ts,
In most eases, an absolute specific ; and in the course of bis
extrusive practice in one of the principal county towns is
this kingdom, be uses it with complete and unvarying sac-
ems. To extend, however, se happy a discovery beyond
Om detail of his immediate private practice, be has allowed
it to be advertised, for the use of those &Slimed with Epilep-
tic and Couvulsion Fits, and the dreadful effects of thaw
Disorders. Printed liirectioas for the we accompany ends
Boy, the price of which is Is. GI duty included.

'l' hr Epilepsy often auacks suddenly, and without riving
any warning; hut is more frequently preceded by a 1 ail io
the head, lassitude, some disturbance of the sensor, unquiet
sleep, unusual dread, dimness of sight, a anise in the ears,
palpitation of the heart, coldness et the joints, and in some
there la a sensatiou of fornication. or of cold air, tke.
cending from the lesser extremities towards the head.—ln
the Fit, the Patients fall suddenly to the ground (whence
the Dame of the Falling Sickness) frequently with a yi,ilesit
cry.—The thumbs are shut up close in the palms of the hand.,
and are with difficulty taken oat ; the eyes arc distorted, so
that nothiug but the whites are to be seen; all semstion is
'suspended, insosnuch that by no smell, ooiv, or otherwise,
nor eves by pinching the body, can they be brought to the
wires; tbiy froth at the mouth, with abusing kind of noise;
' the tongueis frequently lacerated by the teeth, and there is a
violent convulsise motion of the arms sad legs. Sometimes,
however, the limbs, instead of being agitated by convulsive
motions, are all stiff, and the Patients are as instooveahle
a statue. At length there is a rriniwi,m; of the symptoms.
and the Patients recover after a longer or shorter interval •
when they complain of a pain, torpor, or heaviness of the
head, skit a lassitude of all the joints.
The disease will attack strong= well as weak people; and
in those who are subject to it, any considerable excess in
drinking, violent passion, &e. will in general bring on a fit.—
Some have epileptic parosssins relenting vriodically after
considerable intervals and the disease lias been thosght to
have some dependence on the phase• or the insion.—( Vide the
Edinburgh Practice of Physic and Surgery.) When the epi-
lepsy attecks persona about their twenty-tit,t year, and the
Ms continue to grow snore frequent, the animal funetimis are
often destroyed as well as those of fiste mind, and the patient
becomes helpless and Sometimes it will terininiue iu
melancholy or madams, and sometimes iu a mortal apoplexy
or palsy.

To guard again 4 these dreadful cnnsequences Is a duty
which the public owe to their *dieted neighbour., by whin.
ni.tering to totem Or. Taylor's Anti-spasmodic and
which sre .)1(1 wholesale and retail by by Barclay and Sons,
95, fleet-street, London; and retail by Mathews and Leigh.
Pro. 18, Strand; Newberry and Sots, St. Paul's ; I)icey and
Co. Bow Church-yard; Tett and Bolton, Royal Eyehonge f
Withers, Strand; Sanger Oxford-stn.-et ; tirade, Cornball;
Cobb, Ilrt% market ; Swallow-street ; and by all re-
spectable readers of medicines in the kingdom. Price 4s. 6d.
per lois.

rj- We have authority to state that theve vreaderfully ef-
illtatiOnS Pills base been used a ith extraordinary success in
Stafford.