A letter to hypochondriac & nervous patients
Subtitle: particularly to all who are afflicted with lowness and depression of the spirits, alarming diseases of the head and stomach, horrid thoughts, vain fears, frightful dreams, insanity, fits, loss of memory, relaxations from miscarriages, or difficult labours, debilitated habits from long continuance in hot climates, palsies, dorsal consumptions, and weaknesses incident to both sexes, spasms from irregular influx of vital heat into the affected muscles, anomalous gout and rheumatism, obstinate bilious cases, indigestion, atonic gouty diseases, slow, nervous, putrid, malignant, petechial fevers, and broken constitutions, &c. To which are added, hints to prevent the above diseases, under the following headings ...; likewise, the copy of a letter from the author, together with his prescription to cure his Majesty's most tremendous disorder, that was laid before the Right Honorable Mr. Pitt, at his house in Downing-street, and very cordially received, on Tuesday, the 13th of January, 1789
By: by S. Freeman, M. D. author of the Ladies' friend and Practical midwifery, and proprietor of the most invaluable medicine called Fothergel's universal nervous cordial drops
Contributors: University of Glasgow. Library
Publisher: Printed for the author, and may be had at No. 72, Hatton-Garden; and at his country house, at Hinton St. George, Somerset; and of all the booksellers in the kingdom.
Published: 1789
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 32
Subjects: Medicine; Mental illness; Treatment
Notes: Dated on the basis that Freeman's cure was included. This would presumably have only occurred when the reception of the cure would have been sufficiently current to constitute a good sales pitch -- cf. ESTC.

ESTC, T193115.

This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

The University of Glasgow Library.

Boswell, James, 1740-1795. Probable previous owner.

Auchinleck Library. Inscribed by David Murray: From the Auchinleck Library.

London 1789?