American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1827-05-18
CONN. STATE LOTTE
TO Mr.. WILLIAM ,SW.4L.U,
OF PHILADELPHIA

CIR-On seeing your advertisement in the American
y Watchman Of the 18th inst, it reminded me of the
fable Of Hercules with his club staying Cacus the of
Vulcan, for stealing his You complain that there
less than twenty limitations nj least of the ana-
prepared by you, which all spurious mixtures,
which you caution the public agains' and in your from
down all those mtators of your panacea for intrudng
your fat beef mutton, veal and poultry. Sir If you
more reserved before you Numbered out your anahemas
against all the preparations ofthe panacea would not
pose your ignorance. | acknowledge it was With reuc
lance refraned from doing for time back seeing
your gasconsde founded on ignorance Though you got
fortune by chance which you indebted to the gentle
that signed their names TO your advertisement for the
few the panacea effected in the Hosptaland for
that received benefit from it that had taken it, hundreds
did know that Moses Couts the Quaker brotherin-
law to Doctor Moore of Phsde phia, had taken many
bottles Of your psnacea and had not received cents worth
of benefit from ii and others could Dr Cox
senior Clarkson and other gentlemen of the acn in
Philadelphia told me that your panscea saya'ed diff rent
people that had taken it, from which effect they supposed
that preparation Of Mercury compou ded in it res
pended that If there particle of Mercury the paua
imposition also remarked to them that If the
articles which the pansces is principally composed of
not properly pnihedhey would salvate, and unless
man understood the chemical decompustions of the ar
cles that the panacea composed Of, he could not give
it perfect preparation.
III your advertisement YOU say that your panaccs is
posed Of vegetable syrup know you mix the medicine
in vegetable which you sweeten with sugar Or honey.
You may mix it in wha, you lke-and though it effected
now tell you the bes, preparation you are
able give the panacea is but imperfect one-and TO
prove what say to be true; challenge you n meet
in the College in Philadelphia in presence of DR. Hrs
Professor of Chemistry-Dr Cox, Professor OF Ma ia
Medca-Dr. GARRISON, and many you lke-and
shall prepare my paoacea in the presence Of the above
aamed gentlemen and there shall not be particle of vege-
table substance in panacea which can be gwen Ps
or in liquid and shall effect the of scrotua, s,phs,
any other corruption of the blood which the only
diseases the panacea effect and not the
tenth part OF the diseases you it You
shall prepare your panscea from vegetable substances
The time that shall prepare mine. and in the pre-
of the aforesaid gentlemen You shall leave any
quantity you like with these gentlemen, to give 70 any
poor person afflicted with the sbove diseases, and say
that your panacea prepared of vegetable matt shall not
any Of the named diseases, and that mine will
cure them-and shall let the above named gentlemen
that you ignorant of The component parts in
which the principal article is composed Of its natural
state as child is Appoint your time aud shall meet
you JAMES PURCELL, NJ. ID. p. G
WHINING, on. Del, MAY 18, 1897 55-4tp