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


SsWAIM'S PANACEA is Medicine Of the
- highest reputation: although such hss been the
testimony OF long experience in the United States yet
that is but small par, Of its celebrity Orders have
been received from al! parts Of the world. The pro.
preior has recently received from tie Spanish
Consul General, 20 supply the Military Hospitals in
Porto Rico. This ord, given by the advice Of
the eminent Spanish Physicians In that STAND;
now forms lnimpnran, article in the exports Of
our country The proprietor considers it 10 despca.
bic triumph that an American remedy shcald be es'
eemcd by foreigners, while there those Of hi, own
country endeavorIng to ondemn It.
tFrom the Ne,u York Evening Post1
We perceive by the philadelphia papers that an AZ.
c'e has appeared in the Medical Recorder, tending tc
bring into discredt the Psnaces discovered by Dir.
swam for the cure of Scrofuls and her 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 themselves Uoco's WHO have purclss.
ed for few dollars polnas from foreign Univsrstic
mpOstors; and We consider most Of the extrs0rd
nary cures, with which most countries are inundated
mpudent Invented iur The purpose Of eS
tortng money from the tp,d and unwsFy But while
we thus Gur opinions of this cas, Of men, and
sgms;ize their practices and uleir BOstrums, we 10
not feel ourselves warranted 10 go all lengths with
nv medical practitioners who consider every man a
qusck who has not gone through course of reguiar
studies, and every thing he prescrlbes as useless, nay,
not great strangers to science as not to know,
that the virtues Of many Of the most valuable articles
USED as medicine were discovered by individuals who
had 10 pretenson, to scientific knowledge, and the
most, # not all Of them, owe much Of their mpoF.
lance To The cassie names they have received
STRIP MEDICINE OF THE MYSTERY
WHICH HANGS OVER If, IN CONSE-
QUENCE OF ITS PRESCRIPTIONS BE- ,
ING COUCHED IN A DEAD LANGUAGE +
n
LONGER CARRY WITH IT THE IMP0 +
POSSESSES.
AsWe have direct proof Of prejudice interested
opposition in tie conductors of the Medical Recorde'
we shall not mpugn the motive that induced them
censure the use Of Mr Swani's Psnscea. But as We
are in possession Of some leading facts, which show,
least that these writers unacquainted with liz
.ucce>sfil application Of the Psnaces, and Of the EST
nation in which j, is held by intelligent indvid"s
and eminent medical professors. WE CONCENE
IT WILL BE DOING AN ESSENTIALf
SERVICE TO THE PUBLIC TO MANI
THESE FACTS GENERALLY KNOWN. .
The testimony given of its particular cures in th
book of Mr. SWAIN in which the names OF gentIms
Of the highest reputation appear bear strong e'idsm
of the inval, able character of his NE lcine Ihiss
presume, was known to the conductors of the Media
Recorder, who must also been that the aess III
ton OF such men were not to be put in competition
those obscure and yensl personages whose ccrtii IL
OF quackcries may be- procured for uihe. -
In addition 70 these testimonies, the Psnaces y
teen advocated by several emnen, ply scians in
alelplia, and compmented, during one Of
lectures by Prof s,ur Of the Pennsy lvania Ned
College, who. in ho,icing the extraordinary CT Y
which had come under his own observation req "A
mendcd this medicine to his class a valuable 4 81
important discovery. It has been introduced into
Philadelphia Ams.House and Hospital, and such u
it's surprising effects in the latter p!scets snos
after all other medicine bad faled-th that the surSef
the Hospital, DIR. " illiam Price, was nducedtOls
don his important and highly respectable office ~
the auiubie design OF bcnefting his fellow Greats ~
by carrying the Panacea to Europe. E'F
But this is not all.--Int the city f ~ York web 80
had number of cures effected by the Psnsc.stHf 80
phere the utmost skill Of the faculty had ben tn ~
rain, aud where the patients who had gwen "
hopes Of recovery are now entirely free from Z,
symptom pf the disorder. We could enumeTs'sp
cases, ard mention But after what We . &c
advanced, and as they sufficiently notorious 81
not consider tbs necessary 10 demonstrate the En- -
Of Mr. Swaims discovery. II, after these val ~
CONNIE ndatcns there should remain any ncis. -
we shall be inclined to think. that those who per ~
yndeavoring to discredt the Panacea have '',
to the state of Adam ignorance knowng N
distinguish good rom evil.