By Publick Authority.
DOctor SALMON's Pills, Drops & Balsam, those so famously known throughout all England, fitted for the cure of most diseases in Men, Women & children.
1. FAMILY PILLS, which cure the Headach. Megrim, giddiness or swimming Apoplexy, Lethargy, Melancholy, Frensy, Madness Dimness of sight, thickness of Hearing, pain and noise in the Ears, Distillation sore Throats, shortness of Breath, stinking-Breath, Green-sickness, want of Appetite, Vomiting, Pains and stoppages of the Head stomach, Liver, or spleen, pains in the sides, Plurisie, Wind Gravel, stone, Worms in Children, Pain, stoppage and heat of Ʋrine, pissing Blood Convulsions, Falling-sickness Palsie, Lameness, Numbness, SCURVY, DROPSY, GOUT, Sciatica, Jaundice Kings-evil Rickets, running of the Reins, Barrenness in Women (though of twenty years continuance) stoppages of their courses, and other Disease belonging to the Sex. They purifie, cleanse and sweeten the Blood, rectifie all Distempers of the Head, quicken the senses, clear the sight, add a good colour to the face, and make the Body able to withstand Diseases.
2. CORDIAL DROPS, which comfort the Heart, revive the Spirits, strengthen the Body, and after a strange and wonderfull manner cure Comsumptions in old or young, and give present ease in the GOUT, or any other Pains, though never so great, and in short time after perfectly cure them. They cure Feavors and Agues of all sorts, the Cholick, are eminently good against griping of the Guis, strengthen a weak Back take away fits of the Mother, prevent Miscarriage, and help the Tooth ach in a moment. They are good against coughs, colds, Destuctions of Rhume, Vomiting, pains of the stomach, Liver and Spleen They stop any Loosness, Lask, Flux, or Bloody-siux, in a day or two at most; they suddenly and strangly ease pains proceeding of Wind, Cold, Surfets, or any other cause; they are also very excellent against Mlancholy, and pains of the Spleen.
3. A BALSAM, which cures Pains, sprains, swellings, Bruises, Burns, scalds, scabs, Wounds, Sores, old Ulcers Fistula's, and the like: It is very good against Tetters, Ringworms, Morphew, Scurffs, Biting of Mad-Dogs, redness of the Face, Freckles, sunburning, seabs, Itch, pimples, or any other deformity or breaking out whatsoever. It strengthens weak Limbs, helps shrinking of the sinews, and cures any wound in the Head, or other parts. It is very good to anoint with in Palsies, Gouts, Sciatica, and Numbness; it is very good against the Cramps, or any external pain. It ripens swelling, cleanses Wounds, Ulcers and Apostumes, breeds Flesh, and skins any sore; not suffering Corruption, putrifaction or dead flesh [Page]in any Ulcer, Fistula, Kings Evil, or the like. The Price of a Box of the Pills is 6d. of the Drops 6 d. and of the Balsam 6 d.
4. The way of using them. The PILLS may either be swallowed down alone, or in the pap of an Apple, or Honey or a stewed Prune, or dissolved in a little Beer, Ale, or Mace-Ale, Wine, or Broth, as they like best, and so taken at night going to bed, without observation of any other order. You may give from half a year old to three years, half a Pill, or a Pill; from three years of Age to ten, one or two Pills: from ten years of age to fifteen give two or three: from 15 to threescore and upwards you may safely give four or five.
The DROPS give in Sack, or Ale, or Mace-A [...]e sweetned, five or ten drops to young Children: from three years old to fifteen give twenty or thirty Drops: from fifteen to threescore and upward, give from a quarter of a spoonful to half a spoonful or more; let them be given at night going to bed: but in Agues two or three hours before the fit, a whole spoonfull.
In using the BALSAM, anoint therewith morning and night, and apply it also Plaister-wise to the part afflicted.
5. These Family-Pills are of excellent use for all travellers, Seamen, and such persons who live on bad diet, in ill airs, moyst places, and near the sea coast, and of such as are given to excessive drinkings, and who cannot attend upon a cure, but are forced to go about their business; they may take them to sea with them, (because they keep their vertues many years, nor does the water spoyl them) the which will be found to stand them in great stead in all sea-sicknesses, sickly seasons, Calentures, Feavers, Fluxes, Poysons, Agues, Scurvys, Poxes, &c. which commonly afflict such as go to Sea.
6. They give present ease, relief, and comfort, working gently by Urine and stool. they strengthen the body, and agree with all constitutions; thereby curing most cureable diseases, taking away all pains lameness and inward stoppages: They are an excellent head-purge for all diseases in the head, as head-ach megrims giddiness and Rheumy Eyes, beyond any medicin ever yet known: and for all such as have spoyled their bodies by heats and colds, or hard-drinking, in their young days; more can scarsely be done by any medicine.
7. They cure the Scurvy, when it is grown so bad, as to become scandalous, so as that many people think it to be the POX: for the Scurvy often causes great pains in the head and nose, shoulders and shin bones, with other pains all over the whole body, dulness and heaviness, and redish or blewish spots and breakings out in the skin, weaknesse in the back and loyns, a bad stomach, and sometimes losse of appetite, loosnesse and sorenesse of the teeth [Page]throat, and mouth, a discoloured skin, with spots, stains, pimples, morphew and scurf, and a general weakness, and faintnesse all over the whole body, insomuch at last that it gets into the bones, and infects the very marrow of them; this cruel disease these family pills cure at a few times taking.
8. They purge by stool flegm, choler, and melancholy; they dispose old Ulcers, Fistula's, running sores, sore-Breasts, sore-eyes, scald heads, Kings-evil sores, tetters, ringworms, salt humours, scabs, or any other breakings out to a speedy healing, by purging away the evil humors which feeds them.
9. They are an excellent help for all risings, Vapors, cloggings, stuffings, gnawing or illnesse at the stomach; for such as grow too fat, pursie, sweat or spit much, have costive or hot bodies, and for all such as have lost their complexions by the Scurvy, Jaundice, or green-sickness; such as are overtaken with lingring diseases, growing worse and worse every year than other, with melancholy stoppages in the head and brest, shortness of breath, and ill digestion, till such time as they fall into dropsies, the Jaundice, Hectick feavers or deep Consumptions, lingring and wasting away with dry coughs, wheesings, faint sweats and the like; these my Family-Pills carry off all those diseases the right way, by taking them once twice thrice or four times a month.
10. They are the only Pills now used, in the Cure of all the aforesaid diseases, not only in England, but in many forrein countries and Kingdoms, being cryed up, and prized above all other medicins whatsoever, insomuch that in some hundreds of families, on most occasions, they are their only Physick; (and from hence they came to be called Family-Pills) bei [...]g known to be safe in opperation; and certain in the end proposed: for no person curable, troubled with any of the aforesaid diseases, hath failed of Cure, who has continued, (without delaying of time, or taking of other Physick) the use of these pills according to the directions aforesaid.
11. With these my Family Pills, I have cur'd two hundred and twenty Persons of the Scurvy; one hundred and twelve of the Dropsie; one hundred Eighty Six of the Green-sicknesse; one hundred twenty five of the Evil; one hundred and fourteen of the Headach; ninety seven of Worms; Eighty four of the Jaundice; seventy three of stinking breaths; besides vast numbers of people, (which come dayly to me) of most other distempers, with the drops I cured one hundred and thirty of Consumptions; one hundred fourty two of pain and weaknesse of the back: and I have sold them and caused them to be given away to above two thousand persons that have had agues, with a promise to all such as bought them, that if they cured them not, they should have their money again; [Page]and yet never heard to this day, that ever they mist the cure of one man, woman, or child; although I have used them upwards of 20 years. By using these pills and drops inwardly, and the balsam outwardly, I have cured above one hundred persons of the Gout, some of which had gon on Crutches above a dozen years.
12. They cure the Gonorrhaa and sharpnesse of Urine, with all manner of Diseases Veneral, although of many years standing; all ulcers and stoppages in the reines, bladder and womb; they kill all sorts of worms, cause a good appetite and a strong digestion; taking away all swellings from the belly, Thighs, and Legs, being the best remedy known in the world for the Dropsy and Gout; taking away all manner of pains from the very bones, when no other means whatsoever [...] they dissolve the Stone, and bring away slime, Sand, and Gravel causing those to make water plentifully, which could not in many dayes before; this they have done in several hundreds to admiration. Many bed rid, and given over to all appearance, have unexpectedly met with a cure almost to a miracle; in so much that many learned Phisitians, could not but admire at their Vertues.
13. The successe and safety of these Pills, have brought them into credit and Estimation, almost through the whole world; forasmuch as they that take these, need not go under long, dangerous and chargable courses of Physick, suffer by bad medicines, and be driven time after time from one Physitian to another.
14. Where the disease has been of long continuance, a perfect Cure cannot be expected in 5 or 6 times taking, in those cases take them in the largest dose; and at le [...]st ten, fifteen, or twenty times, as need requires, omitting them sometimes a day or two, as you see cause.
Lastly, They may be taken without confinement to the house, or keeping [...] there any positive necessity to take broth or posset drink, or the like with them, as in other Physick, but as the patient pleases, being safe and gentle in their opperation, and fit to be taken by all persons, from half a year old to threescore and upwards, at any time and season of the year.
They are to be Sold in
- London, at the Doct. house at the Blew B [...]ls Mitre-court Fleetstreet.
- Kingston, by Tho. Brichet, at Rob. Shorters neer the Kings-head.
- Worcester, by William Tompkins, Barber, near the Cross.
- Newbury, by Thomas Stockwell Habberdasher of hats.
- Braintree, by Joseph Hunwick.
- Ruthin, by Richard Wynne Postmaster.
- Leichfield, by Edward Millward Bookseller.
- Stafford, by Thomas Jennyns at the Maidenhead.
- Dochester, by Samuel Coven at the George.
- The Devises, by Cornelius Cork at the White Swan.
- Glocester, by Anna Jordan Bookseller.