Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1818-08-27
TO THE PUBLIC.

BY LEWIS MERLIN.
! 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 a rare and precious
collection of the most valuable secrets
in medicine, which the most skilfuI
physicians have discovered after long
researches. labor and experience. II
is, without contradiction, the fist Of
the kind that has ever appeared with
III the United States of America, and
a treasure which every head of ia
mily could not tno much appreciate ;
as II points out the symptoms of se,e.
raj diseases, Of which many persons
are only acquainted with their names;
"a, the receipt Of the quantity and
quality Of the drugs thai 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 ali
in this collection is easy to put into
practice, the expense is trifling be-
cause all the simplcs and plants which
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word. ina, it affords the means Ut Gu
ring. in a short time, all the diseases
and evils with which one may be adj
dictcd, and a, a low expense.
II i, to a benevolent society we are
indebted for such precious treasure.
| Their whole god wish towards sui
fering humanity, induced that society
20 spare neither pains, care nor ex-
pense in obtaining from all parts OF
| The globe, and to give in one and only
collection. 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-
powned virtues, the repeated expert
ence that has been made of them, G.
ven on patients who had been sive'
up by their physicians, and the cure
resulting from them, ba' e caused then
to be adopted as sovereign and iniaill
bic remedies.
Amongst the great number of dis
eases that have been cured by thes
inestimablc secrets, we shall only nam
some of them, of which the loreiS
journals and American newspaper
have borne the most authenticated tcs
: timony. such as apoplexy. asthma, b
Iious. windy and nephretique cole
consumption of lungs, debility, dysel
terry, diarrhea, dropsy in the breas
in the brain. compound dropsy, ana1
sarque ct ascites, epilepsy, diseases
the eyes, intermittent, terliap, qua
tan, continual and infiammatory I
vers, malignant, spotted and scarf
feycrs. hives ESQ fatal to childrenl. II
g ilamma,ion Of the bowels, of the liv'
and lungs, gangrene, itch, Jaundic
!, fits. hopping cough, lethargy, lep"
e sy, rheumatiSms, pulmonary, scur'
l. swellings, sore throat. worms, tap
it worm. complaints of the bowel
IT looscncss or bloody flux, folly or ma
'. ness originated after a sequel OF d'
s. ease. or through an incorporate u
D. of spirituous liquors. cold and SCI
AZ AZ tique gouts, gra,els. gonorrhea' d
y. drophnbia, bite of venomous animal
he hemorhagy, palpitation OF the hea'
lie stone, &c. &c.
er This precious collection c"ntal
ay likewise a great number OF receii
i'm for preparing several kinds OF o
MS same, ointment or salves, with
le- manner of using them, and the
he fccts Of which are so surprising U
- tbey cure in a very short time,
18th cancers, without the assistance OF
IN operation the kings evil, letter
ea rings worm, wens all sorts OF CT
-, oe wounds, however large and deep u
''' NAV be, both inward and outward ".
c. morhoids, all pains and sweliins'