Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-04-16
ESOstOh StUVN N"TNVI'
BROKERS' BOARD-WEDNEsDAY, April 10.

GRAoEs CELEBRATED SALvE!-Rs HIStoyy.-As
the general inquiry of "Wh is Grace's salYe ana
who is its originator" may seem to be question o
worthy Of being answered, the manufacturer mas
been induced to give the foil owing brief yet truthful
account of its history This salye is vegetable
prepaIaton invented i'll the seventeenth century Dy
Dir. William Grace, who was surgeon IN hlng
James Irish army, and from that time he always
used it in his professional practice whenever sore
or Inflammation presented Itself AS medical
agent for the cure of wounds 1t was followed WIN
great success, and thousands of the veterans that
were wounded i'll the campaigns OF 1898 ana 1911
owe to this salve the salvation OF their Ilyes.
Colonel Richard Grace, who was King James
chamberlain introduced this sale into the royal
palace where il used with the greatest success
and highly esteemed for its virtues in the cure of
sores. At the siege Of Athlone, colonel hlcnaru
Grace ordered it to be administered to his compatrl-
OTIS who were wounded during the memorable days
of the battle The order was complied with, and it
was used with such great that the head sur
geOn of the Irish army at Aughrm ordered DIR.
Wm. Grace to manufacture one hundred gross in
season to have it distributed among the hospitals
before the battle. On the sad defeat OF the lTlsh
army at AughTim, after Ginckle's army took posses
sion of the battle field they found several ambu-
lances abandoned by the retreaing army, and in
each of them found sealed cases of the salve.
The English surgeons tested it upon their wounded,
and ascertained its value, and thus were both of the
contending armies befriended by it.
Both Dr. VIM. Grace and Col. Richard Grace died
in the campaign of 1691-the former of disease, the
latter killed in the entrenchment of Athlone with
the Irish flag wrapt around him. cheering on his
men TO victory. AFTER lDe ueaIH OF 1t. OTuCe lHe
salye was notmuch used outside of his family until
the rebellion of 1898. when William Grace, grand
father to the present subscriber The being "uned
Irishman applied its virtues at the battle of Ross
to his brave comrades who fell, wounded, while
fighting for the rights of their country
The celebrated Doctor Fitzpatrick, who was con.
nected with the leading medical institutions Of his
day held in such high estimation this salve that he
ordered large quantities of it manufactured Tor him
self, to in lis professional practice.
The saVe was used in Ireland, and in certain To-
Il lpH frnn
until the year 1913, when the Subscribers parents
left their happy home and the land Of their ma
tiYity to seek home in the land of Columbia With
them they brought the secret of the saye they re-
ceived from their predecessors. After landing in
this country they continued to make it, before
for their neighbors free of charge until the fail Of
1861, when the frequent calls made for it, and the
serious cases that it cured. induced the subscriber ia
bring it to general notice and to charge small
price for the article that has received the common
dation of patriots upon the battle fields of yOre,
well as from persons of the present day. / am now
resolved to lay it before the world remedy that
is destined to relieve human suffering.
Yours truly, WILLIAM GRACE.