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WELCH'S FEMALE PILLS,

4-6 July
1793

A Medicine long known for its very uncommon virtues in removing Disorders, more especially common to the younger part of the Female Sex; and had not the numerous deceptions continually practised upon the publick, by substituting other compositions of very inferior value in lieu of this, induced the proprietors to come forward in a more amenable situation to support its pretenfions to publick favour, its circulation would have still continued rapidly to encreafe through the medium of private recommendation.

Of this recommendation the proprietors may without censure be a little proud, when many noble and affluent families having experienced its wonderful efficacy, have confidered it a duty incumbent upon them in gratitude for their recovery from dangerous Indipositions, to bear the strongest and most unequivocal testimony to its virtues. And to the honour of the Medical Profession, frequent instances have come to the knowledge of the Proprietors, where the Physician, having in