Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1818-08-25
TO THE PUBLIC,

The work which is this day Offer
ed for public usefulness, ought not to
be looked upon as those which de-
sire of gain bring forth every day a.
mong us. This is rare and precious
collection of the most valuable secrets
i'm medicine, which the most skilful
physicians have discovered after long
researches, labor and experience. 1t
is, without contradiction, the first of
the kind that has ever appeared with
in the United States of America, and
a treasure which every head of a ia
mily could not too much appreciate;
as il points out the symptoms of se,e-
raj diseases, of which many persons
are only acquainted with their names;
I'd, the receipt of the quantity and
quality of the drugs that are made
use of: Sd, their preparations so care
fully described and detailed that the
least intelligent person cannot be mis-
taken; and finally the necessary doses
and the manner IF administering
them. One may rest assured that all
in this collection is easy to put into
practice, the expense is trifling be-
rause all the simldes and plants which
:, impose the greatest part of the re
ceipts il contains, may be found il,
h" fields and In the gardens ; in a
word, tina, il affords the means of Gu.
ring, in short time, all The diseases
and evils with which one may b. adj.
dicted, and al low expense.
1t is to benevolent society we arc
indebted for such a precious "a ASSURE.
Their whole god wish towards sui.
fcrins humanity, induced that society
to spare neither pains, care nor cx-
pcnse in obtaining from all parts of
the globe, and to give in one and only
collection, a valuable and complete Sc
lection of receipts for the cure of all
diseases with which the human body
is every day afflicted, which their re-
nowncd virtues, the repeated expert
ence that has been made of them, c.
ven on patients who had been given
up by their physicians, and the cures
resulting from them, have caused them
to be adopted as sovereign and infalli-
bic remedies.
Amongst the great number of dis
eases that have been cured by these
inpstimablc secrets,w shall only name
some of them, of which the foreign
journals and American newspapers
have borne the most authenticated tes-
timony, such as apoplexy, asthma, hi.
liOus, windy and nephretique collie,
consumption of lungs. debility. dysen-
terry, diarrhGa, dropsy in the breast.
in the brain, compound dropsy, anar-
sarque ct ascites, epilepsy, diseases of
the eyes, intermittent, tcriiaD, quar-
tan, continual and inhammatory fe.
vers, malignant, spotted and scarlet
fevers. hives ESQ fatal to children). i'll
flammation Of the bowels. of the liver
and lungs, gansrrnc, itch, jaundice,
fits, hopping cough. lethargy, lepro
sy, rheumatisms, pulmonary, scur,y,
swcllings, sore throat, worms, tape
worm, complaints of the bowels,
loosencss or bloody flux, folly or mad
ness originated after sequel of dis
ease, or through an Incorporate use
of spirituous liquors, cold and scia-
tigue gouts, grayels. gonorrhna, by
drophobia, bite Of yenOmous animals,
hemorhagy. palpitation of the heart,
stone, &c. 81.
This precious collection contains
likewise a great number oil receipts
for preparing several kinds of bal
same, ointment or salves, with the
manner of using them, and the Ell
ftcts IF which are so surprising, that
they cure in very short time, the
cancers. without the assistance. Of any
operation the kings evil, letter or
rings worm, wens /; all sorts of cuts,
wounds, however large and deep they
may be, both inward and outward he.
morhoids. all pains and swcllings a..