Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1831-07-09
SWaim's Panacea.
COMMUNICATION,

COMMUNICATION.
SWAIM'S PANACEA is a Medicine Of the
~ highest regulations although such has been the
testimony of long experience in the United States yet
that is but small part Of its celebrity Orders have
been received from all parts of the world. The pro.
prietor has recently received from the Spanish
Consul General to supply the Military Hospitals i'm
Porto Rico. This order was given by the advice of
the most eminent Spanish Physicians In that islands it
forms an unimposnt article in tho exports of
our country The proprietor considers it despica.
bic triumph that an American remedy should be es
teemed by foreigners, while there those of his
| country enleayOring to condemn it.
From the New York Evening Posil
We perceive by the Philade'rhis papers that ar.
tice has appeared in the Medical Recorder tending to
bring into discredt the Panacea discovered BY Mr.
Swain, for the of Scrolula and oher disorders OF
the blood We are decided enemies TO all quackery,
whether in the politician, the lawyer, the divine,
medical practitioner. We believe that great portion
Of those calling selves Doctors, who have purchas
ed for few dollars diplomas from foreign Universities,
mpostors; ard VIC consider most of the extraorii-
nary cures, with which most countries are inundated,
mpuden, fabricaons, Invented for the purpose Of ex-
toring money from the tmid and unwary. But while
we thus avow our oplni1n, OF this class of men, AID
stgmatize their practices and their nostrums, we do
feel ourselves warranted go all lengths will ma
ny medical practtOn,rs, who consider every man
qisCk WHO has not gone through course Of regular
studies, AMI every thing he prescribes useless nay
dangerous, lit is not sanctioned by the faculty. We
are 40, great strangers to science not to know
that the virtues Of many of the most valuable articles
USED medicine, discovered by individuals v ho
had pretensions TO scientific knowledge, and the
most, It not all Of them, much of their ilnpcr.
lance to the classic names they have received -
STRIP MEDICINE OF THE MYSTERY
WHICH HANGS OVER II, IN CONSE-
QUENCE OF IT'S PRESCRIPTIONS BE-
ING COUCHED IN A DEAD LANGUAGE,
AND WE ARE AFRAID IT WOULD NO
LONGER CARRY WITH IT THE INFO
SING CHARACTER WHICH II NOW
POSSESSES.
Aswe have no direct proof Of prejudice or interested
opposition IN the conductors ofthe Medical Recorder
shall not impugn the motive that niduc, Them to
censure the use of Mr. Swainl'5 Panacea. But as We
possession Of leang facts, which show. al
least, chat these writers are unacqaaiDed with The
successful application Of the Panacea and Of the cs
nation in which il is held by intelligent individuals,
and eminent medical professors. WE CONCEIVE
IT WILL BE DOING AN ESSENTIAL
SERVICE TO THE PUBGC TO MAKE
THESE FACTS GENERALLY KNOWN.
The testimony given Of its particular cures in the
book of Nr.-swsin. in which the names of gentlemen
OF the highest reputation appear. bear strong evidence
Of the invaluable character of his medicine This,
presume, WAS known to the conductors of the Medical
Recorder, who must also been aware that the atesa
ton Of such men were MOTTO be put in competition with
those obscure and Yensl Personages whose certificates
ofqusckeries may be procured for triAe.
In addition 10 these testimonies. the Psnacca has
been advocated by several eminent ply scians in Phil
adelphia, and was compmented, during one of the
lectures by Professor of the peuns, vsna Medical
College, who. in Noticing the extraordinary cures
which had under hi, own observation, recon-
manded tbs medicine to his clas, valuable and
important discovery II has been introduced into the
Philadelphia Aims house and Hospital, aud such
its surprising effects in The latter pisce-its success
after all other dicne had tailed that tie surgeon Of
the Hospital, Dir. William Price WAS induced, 10 aban-
don his important AMI highly respectable offcc, from
the laudable design ofbene6,ng his fellow creatures
by carrying the Panacea 10 Europe.
But this is not ail-ln the city I " York We have
had number of cures effected by the Panscea in
chereae utmost skill Of the faculty had bee" tried in
oain, and w:erS the patients who had given up all
hopes of recovery. now entirely free from every
symptom of the disorder. We coulI enumcrate these
cases and mention names Bu, after what we have
advanced, and they sufficiently notorious, do
no. copser this necessary demonstrate the efficacy
Of Mr. Swaims discovery IT, after these val 'o,ls
Communications there should remain any incredibly,
we shall be inclined 20 think. that those who persist
cndeavoring to discred the psnacea, have returned
to the state c!. dams gnorance-not knowing how to
distinguish good from evil