A Short treatise of the virtues of Dr. Bateman's pectoral drops: the nature of the distemperr [sic] they cure, and the manner of their operation. Publish'd by the King's letter patents under the great seal of Great Britain. : The seal of each bottle. : To be sold only by James Wallace, in New-York.

A Short treatise of the virtues of Dr. Bateman's pectoral drops: the nature of the distemperr [sic] they cure, and the manner of their operation. Publish'd by the King's letter patents under the great seal of Great Britain. : The seal of each bottle. : To be sold only by James Wallace, in New-York.

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The INTRODUCTION.

CHAP. I Of the GOUT.

CHAP. II Of The Rheumatism.

CHAP. II. Of The JAUNDICE.

CHAP. IV. Of the Stone and Gravel.

CHAP. V Of ASTHMAS,

CHAP. VI Of Colds, Agues, Fevers, &c.

CHAP. VII. Of the other VIRTUES of these DROPS.

Here follows some few, out of the many Thousands of Certificates of Cures effected by these DROPS; which Certificates are not extorted by any sinister Means; but they are the true, genuine and spontaneous Declarations which the Persons receiving Benefit from these Drops have voluntarily made, to let the World know their Efficacy and Virtue; many of which Persons who have been violently and grieviously afflicted with intollerable Pains, &c. have begg'd for God's sake, that it might be published for the Good of Mankind, that these DROPS ALONE restored them to their Health and Strength.

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A Short TREATISE OF THE VIRTUES OF Dr. BATEMAN'S PECTORAL DROPS: The Nature of the Distemperr They Cure, and the Manner of Their Operation. Publish'd by the KING's Letter Patents under the Great Seal of Great Britain.

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each Bottle.

To be Sold only by James Wallace, in New-York.

Reprinted by J. Peter Zenger, in New-York,

The INTRODUCTION.

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AS the Universal Good of Mankind is, or, at least, ought to be, as well the particular End of every private Member of that large Community, as the more general Aim and Ambition of all publick Societies; it consequently follows. That all Actions, Designs, and Inventions, tending mediately, or immediately to the promoting that great and glorious Design, must, in themselves, be essentially good, and therefore Praiseworthy; and to be encourag'd and supported by all those who, partaking of that Nature, are in a Capacity to receive the Benefit and Advantage of such Undertakings: And if so, as there is no Blessing in the Treasure of Providence of so true and inestimable a Value as HEALTH, which (as a good Ground in a Consort of Musick, modulates and forms the Variety of Sounds, into a most agreable and delightful Harmony) is the very Basis and Foundation of all other subordinate Pleasures, Delights and Satisfactions, so, on Course, the promoting, preserving, or, if lost, restoring so precious a Jewel, must necessarily be one of the principal and most acceptable Designs in the Latitude of humane Application; and, as such, worthy the Encouragement and Approbation of every one, who is desirous of advancing the Good of his Country, without this Consideration, (which, nevertheless, may be an accidental, additional Motive) That himself may, at one time or other probably stand in need of so great and useful a Benefit.

Now of all the numerous Train of Diseases, of all the vast Variety of Distempers, which at any Time affect the human System, there are none more to be dreaded, none [...]rder to be by Art remov'd, and, what is worst of all, none more Epidemical, than the Gout, the Rheumatism, [Page] the Stone, the Jaundice, and Asthma's; not to mention the more accidental, tho' frequently fatal Attacts, which Colds, Surfeits, Agues, Fevers, Colics, Pleurisies, Melancholy, Rickets, and a Thousand other Distempers, arising from Crudities, Flatuities, and a Thousand other different Causes, make upon our Constitutions; each of which, if not timely and strongly repell'd, is sufficient to subvert, and at length wholly destroy the Order and Method of the Animal Oeconomy; and thereby procure our certain, hasty, and, probably, unprovided Dissolution from the Life, which it is our great and main Care and Study to preserve and prolong: which Repulse can no how better, nor more effectually be made, than by the speedy Application of such Remedies as are best calculated to refill, break, absorb, and expel the noxious Particles of the morbific Matter, whose Mixture with the Particles of the Blood, and violent Attraction of one another, causing irregular Circulation, unequal and la [...]g [...]id Motion viscid Grumes, unnatural Rarefactions, rapid Collisions, or violent Impetus therein, or other how altering the Quality, disturbing the free Circulation, or disordering the natural Texture and Moment of that Fluid, necessary for the Support and Preservation of Health and Li [...]e; do by the Means give Birth to the most fatal and accute Destempers, and dispersing themselves and their dire Effects thro' all the Vessels and Channels of the Body, do in Time, if not speedily and vigorously repell'd, impair corrupt, and destroy the Solids also, and lay the Foundation of all those grievous and almost incurable C [...]nic Diseases, whereof some wretched Part, or other of Man-kind is daily and hourly complaining; among whom not a few prolong their Misery or hasten their End, by a tedious, unprofitable Course of Methodical Experiments, whereby they rather pall and weaken. Nature, than relieve and restore her; being resolv'd, as I have often heard them express themselves, To dye by the Hands of the Learned: While others, out of a contrary Prejudice to all Means in general, perish for want of a timely Application of such Remedies, as the Piety, Learning, and Industry, of some private Persons [Page] inspir'd with the Love of his Country, and Good of Mankind, has with great Pains and Labour, found out and produced to the World, as a more near, immediate, and effectual Preserver and Restorer of that Health they seem so de [...]irous to obtain, yet are so backward and unwilling to procure, tho', by that Means, attainable with very little Trouble, and less Charge.

Among which Productions, for the Good of Mandkind, and cheap and easy attaining, restoring, and preserving of Helth, there never yet has been any Thing made known to the World of that prodigious and almost incredible Virtue and Efficacy, as Dr. BATEMAN's Pectoral Drops, which are justly to be preferr'd to, and distinguish'd from all others, for thir wonderful, and almost infallable Effects, not only in Colds, Agues, Fevers, Colics, Melancholy, and Rickets; but also in curing those great and impacable Enemies of our Health and Ease, the Gout, Rheumatism, Jaundice, Stone, Gravel, and Asthma's. But before I can enter upon an Explanation of their Use and Manner of operating in all these several Cases, I will previous thereto, lay before you in short, the Nature, Case, Rise, and Progress of those Distempers; whereby you shall yourselves be able to judge of the Efficacy of these DROPS in relieving them: In doing whereof, I shall not abuse your Patience, as is too commonly done, with them probable Conjectuers, incoherent Notions, unnatural Opinions, and fantastical Inventions of the ignorant and unlearned Pretenders to Physick; but I shall deliver you the stanch and undoubted Judgments, Decisions and Opinions of the best and most approv'd Physicians and Philosophers, both ancient and modern, such as Hippocrates, Serapion, Averrois, Galen, Sydenham, Radcliffe, Keil, Quincey, and others of indisputed Authority and Reputation in the Arcana of Nature. And first of the GOUT.

CHAP. I Of the GOUT.

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THIS is a Distemper of that inveterate and malignant Nature, as to be a continual Foil and Reproach to the best Physicians of all Ages: No Method of Physic, Diet or Habit, however regular, reasonable and orderly; no Prescriptions, tho' bearing the specious and plausible Sanction of Academic, Graduate, and Collegate Learning, being able to give a Turn to this Distemper, or reach its secret Recesses; for retiring into the Extremit [...]s of the fine Capillary Vessels, where by reason of the unequal Celerity and languid Motion of the Blood in those Parts, it's venemous Particles are suffer'd to attract one another with great Violence. It bids Defiance to all their Art, and will oftner yield to one lucky Nostrum, than all the repeated Assaults of what they call Regular Practise, which is never more ineffectual and at a Loss, than in this Case; and more especially, if that Nostrum be prepared as these DROPS are, for such a Species of Simples as are capable of being render'd, by such Preparation, fit to pierce the very inmost nervous Cells, increase the Impetus of the Vital and Animal Fluids, and follow the Particles of the morbific Matter thro' all the fine Meanders of the Blood till having disturb'd their Attraction, and broke them by repeated Collisions, one against on other, into the minutest Parts, it forces most of them thro' the Pores of the Body by Perspiration, obtunding, absorbing, and and carrying the rest away with it in its Course, til arriving at the Kidneys, they are secreted there from the Blood, and pass away by Urine. All which Operations These DROPS to a Miracle perform, by Virtue of their Diaphoretic, Absorbent, and Detergent Qualities; opening at once all the Emunctories of the Body, and forcing off, through them, they very Root an Ba [...]s of the Distemper they are to cure; and that this is the only [Page] effectual, rational Method of treating this obstinate Distemper the Gout, I appeal to that great Searcher of Nature, Dr. Sydenham, who says, Whatsoever is assistant in discharging the foul, vicious Humours, out of the Body, can never fail of answering the Intention of Cure for which it is design'd, whethe [...] in the Gout, Rheumatism, or any other Cronick Distemper. And his Authority, I should think, ought not reasonably to be disputed in the Cure of this Distemper, whom not only a vast Stock of acquir'd Learning, together with a prodigious natural Capacity, improv'd by long and great Practice, and Experience upon Others; but also a continued and unconquerable Gouty Habit in his own Body, confirm'd in this Opinion, That there was no other Method of treating this terrible Distemper; which is also confirm'd by what those two admiral Physicians, Dr. Keile, and Dr. Quincey, have told us concerning the Cause of it; which, say they, is created by the mucilaginous Glands in the Joints becoming gritty and stiff, by Means of a sharp acid Humour flowing thereon, which coagulating the oily Liquor secreted by them for lubricating the Ends of the Bones at their several Articulations, to render them apt and ready for Motion, makes it, instead of promoting and assisting that Motion, impeed and prevent it, by clogging the Interstices, so that they cannot move at all, at least, not without very great Pain, hard'ning, by Degrees, into white, chalky, gritty Stones, which are forced to be cut, or otherwise taken out by Art, from the Joints of the Hands and Feet of the miserable Patient, as daily Experience manifests.

Now you are to observe, That the Particles which compose this sharp acid Humour, are surrounded with little pointed Needles, which wound and irritate the Vessels thro' which they move, and the very Globules of the Blood it self, beating and coagulating thereby any Fluid with which they mix; but these being either obtunded and blunted, and the points of them, as it were, sheath'd and wrap'd up in some of the Particles of this Medicene, or else drove violently against one another [Page] with a Force sufficiently to break off those little pointed Spears, and render them capable of flying off by Perspiration by others; or else so disturb'd and separated by this new Auxiliary Force, that they cannot attract one another, but unwillingly disperse themselves in the Blood, and are many of them secreted and carried off by Urine; This I say, must necessarily answer the Intention of Cure; for by this Means they are rendr'd incapable of irritating, loading, or coagulating any of the Fluids; and then, on Course, the Distemper before caus'd by them, must by Degrees abate, and at length absolutely cease. To which Ends and Purposes. These DROPS are so excellently adapted and prepar'd, and are in their Nature so very Absorbent, Detergent and Diaphoretic, that it is morally impossible they should fail of working a Cure, which can only be perform'd by the joint Operation of those three Qualities, which are scarce to be met with, in any considerable Degree, in any one Medicine in the World, but THIS alone.

But perhaps, some who understand no nore of this Distemper than the Pain and Torture it gives them, will say, That probably in the former Stage of this Distemper, these Drops may be effectual; but, say they, mine is inmy Stomach, Bowels, &c. and they will not be able to reach it there. But how weak and trivial an Objection this is, will appear from a Reflection upon this Phase of the Gout, which is only caus'd by a Weakness and debility of Nature, thro' frequent Debauches, hard Drinking, long Courses of useless Physic, &c. whereby the Impetus of the Blood becomes so weak and languid, and its Motion so slow and irregular, as to permit the morbific Particles to attract one another in the Blood Vessels of those Parts, which can only be remedied by such Things as warm and increase the Blood's intestine Motion, so breaking and disturbing the Attraction of the venemous Particles, and sending them back again to the extream Parts, where they are to be treated as before: For which Purpose, nothing in Nature can be better fitted than these Drops, which have such a fine invigorating, Alexiterial Property in them [Page] as to render them one of the best Cardiacs in the whole Materia Medica.

THE Dose in the former Phase of the Destemper, is a large Spoonful, in any warm Vehicle, as Mountain Wine, strong Ale: &c. made as hot as you can drink it, repeated three Nights suc [...]ssively, going to Bed, and, by the Blssing of GOD, you need not fear Ease.

But in the latter Phase, where the morbific Matter is not only to be repelled, but the faint and languid State of Nature enliven'd and invigorated, it is necessary that you increace your Dose as the Cause may require, in any warm Vehicle, as before; composing your self after it, and encouraging Sweat by all proper Methods.

After this in order effectually to rout this most terible Enemy it is necessary you continiue to take a small Dose of about 100, or 150 Drops, every Three Nights alternately; taking three Nights, and missing three Nights; till such time as you find the Strength of the Distemper to abate, which it will sensibly do in a small time, and at length quite go off.

Instances of the Cure of this Distemper, by These DROPS, might be given in great Numbers, from Persons of undoubted Credit, and Reputation, on enquiry, would satisfy the Curious of their wonderful Effect in that Intention: but not bring willing to tire the Reader; and these Drops, by their continual Success, so strongly recomending themselves? I shall out of a very great multitude only trouble you with a few, as you will find at the end of this Treatise.

CHAP. II Of The Rheumatism.

HAving in the foregoing Chapter, been so very particular in describing the Origin, Nature, Rise Progress and Cure of the Gout; there will be the less need of enlarging in this upon a Distemper so near a kin to it as the Rheumatism; even so near, as, in many Constitutions, to be owing to the same Cause, with this only Difference in the Effect, that as the [Page] former preys chiefly upon the Joints and extream Parts of the Body; this for the most part affects the Membrana communis Musculorum, or rather, to speak more properly, the Membrana ad [...]posa; at least that part of it which lyes between the Muscles, and the Cutis, and is the Basis of the Cellulae adeposae; being fall of small, fine Glands for the Secretion of that Oily, Sulp [...]rous Matter, of which the Ade [...]s or Fat is composed, which Sulperous Oil being coagulated, by the same Means, and from the same Causes, says a learned Author, as the Juices of the Mucilaginous Glands in the Joints, are in the Gout; that is to say, from the Attraction of sharp, acid Particles, secreted from a viscous Blood; this Membrane becomes stiff, harsh and rigid, and unapt for Motion, the Oil which those Glands continually discharge for lubricating the Muscles, being all turn'd by Coagulation into a sizey thick Jelly: So that every time the Muscle or Muscles round which that Part of this Membrane is wrapt, contract, in order to perform Musculer Motion, they are, instead of [...]eing assisted therein by that lubricating Oil, impeeded and confin'd by the stiffness of the Coagulum, and the Rigidity and Harshness of the surounding Membrane, 'till by Force of the Nervous Fluid flowing into the Fibres, and extending them in the Contraction, they force it to give way; which is not without great Pain, and consequent Weakness and Soreness of that Part: Not to mention the Pains caused by the unnatural Distentions of the Vessels, from the Quantity of Visced Serum obstructing them a [...]d hindering the free Circulation of the Blood; especially in the fine Capillary Chanells, without a considerable Dilatation; from whence, not seldom proceed Asthmas, Pleurisies, Peripneumonies, Inflamations, Fevers and D [...]ata.

This is only to be remedied by Deluents and Evacuating Medicines, as in the Gout; but not by any common Evacuators; many or most of which weaken Nature too much in their Operations, and being us'd without proper Deluents will evap'rate all the real natural Serum, and leave nothing but a sort of Serous Jelly in the Blood; which thereupon will either immediately Stagnate, or Effervesce in such Manner, as to cause a violent putrid Fever, and, without almost a Miracle, the certain Death of the Patient: It is true, they may ease the violent Pains of this Distemper, but if at the same Time they increase [Page] the Inflamation, and Effervescence of the Blood, the Fever proportionably increases, and the poor deluded Patient dies; as too many do by common Practice: Whereas these DROPS delute and expel what is redundant; whereby the Blood is restored to its natural Crasis, its due Velocity, and Impetus recovered, the Pains cease, the Fever abates, perfect Health ensues. Besides which by their Alexiterial, Cardiac Qualities, at the same Time that they thus increase the Impetus and Moment of the Fluids, to the Discharge of the Morbific Matter in Perspiration; they also warm and comfort the whole nervous System, assist mightily in repairing the Wast of the Animal Spirits, occasioned thereby; which is evident in what has been already said of them concerning the Gout in the Stomach and Bowels, proceeding from a real Weakness and decay of Nature.

In short, no preparation was ever yet sound out so suitable to the very Nature of this Distemper as these DROPS; which will plainly appear from the vast number of Certificates of Cures wrought by them every Week, out of which I have thought fit to trouble you with but few.

THE Dose and manner of ordering your self, is the same as before directed in the Gout; to be varied according to the Distemper, and strength of the Patients Constitution, from 80, to 150 or 200 Drops, in any convenient Vehecle; which need not be so strong and spirituous as in that Destemper; but must be dra [...]k as warm as possible going to Bed, and covering your self up warm, as before.

CHAP. II. Of The JAUNDICE.

TO give you an exact Theory of this Distemper, would take up more room than this short Treatise will admit of: I shall therefore, as I have done by the other Distempers, in the foregoing Chapters, open it so far to you, as to convince you, that these DROPS are the best Specifick (if I may be indulg'd that Term) in the whole Materia Medica, to break thro' it's Schirrous Obstructions, and finally eradicate it and all its dreadful Symptoms out of the humane Body.

[Page] This Distemper arises from obstructions in the Glands of the Liver, thereby preventing a due Secretion of the Gall from the Blood, by them in that Viscus, which Bilious Particles circulating therewith, gives a Yellow Tincture to the Mucus or Curpus Reticulare spred under the Cuticula, which from thence appears of that Colour: This is the first and common Phase of this Distemper; but it will sometimes, and more especially in hard Drinkers, arrive to that height, as to Cause a frequent Spitting and Vomiting of Blood, which is generally reckon'd a Mortal Symptom; for it is caused by the Obstructions in the Hepatic Glands becomming schirrous; and so indurated, as with great Difficulty (if at all) to be opened again; which straitens the Motion of the Blood through that Viscus so much, as to cause it to revulse with a great Motion into the Gastrick Arteries, which go off from the Hepatic, insomuch, that breaking through them, it drains into the Stomach, and by that means the Course of that fluid is alter'd the Secretion of the Bile at an End, and the whole System destroy'd: So that this latter Stage of the Distemper is seldom or never to be cured; but may easily be prevented by taking the former Phase in time; powerfully deterging those tartarous abdurating Particles out of the Blood; which can only be by strong Detergents and Diaphoreticks, (which I have already prov'd to you these DROPS are; and therefore cannot [...]ail of Curing, if taken in time, and followed up, till by a Continuation they become perfect Alteratives:) And if any thing will cure the latter Phase of this Distemper, these DROPS will, having done Wonders in it, even when the Patients have been given over by their Physicians, and the Distemper baffled their utmost Skill.

THE Dose, and manner of ordering your self with them, is as before directed, in the Gout.

CHAP. IV. Of the Stone and Gravel.

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THESE are one and the same Distemper, in two several Degrees; the Stone being only concerted Gravel, and the Gravel the Matter whereof the Stone is form'd and in some what is wash'd off it by powerful Nepritic and Lytholutics; both of them being in their Degree an aggregate of the tartarous Particles of the Urine, pent up by the Straitness of the Urinary Ducts; which is only to be cur'd by dissolving the Stone, widening and deterging the Passages; and ridding the Blood of those tartarous Particles by Diaphoretics, before the Secretion of Urine is perform'd: All which several Operations these DROPS perform to a Wonder, and have, by their Detergent Diuretick Quality, brought away, from several Persons, STONES of the Size of a small Nut Kernel, when every other Remedy has fail'd to give them Ease; and, by being continued afterwards, cleans'd the Blood of it's tartarous Particles, so as to prevent another Fit for many years.

THE Dose is as in the Gout, in a Cup of White-wine Posset Drink, Old Hock Green Tea, or any other potent Diuretic; made very warm, and sweetned with an Ounce of Syrup of Mash-Mallows, going to Bed immediately on taking them, and they give Ease instantly.

CHAP. V Of ASTHMAS,

THHE prodigious Variety of Causes from whence this Distemper proceeds, in different Constitutions, gives it so many various Species and Degrees, as to render it one of the most difficult Disorders to be skilfully manag'd of any affecting the human System. But the chief sorts are, the Humid, the Dry, and the Nervous Asthma; of each of which I will separately give a few [Page] Hints concerning their Cause and Systems, and then proceeding to the Discription of the Eeffects of these Drops in all those Intentions.

But first, it is necessary to premise what an Asthma is in general: That it is a frequent, difficult, and short Respiration, or Breathing, join'd with a hissing Sound, and a Cough; especially in the Night, in cold Weather, and in a prone Posture, or lying down: The former because the Pressure of the Atmosphere is greater in the Night then in the Day, when the Noxious Vapours exhal'd and dispel'd by the Force of the Sun Beams. In the Night, by reason of the Pores of the Body being contracted by the circumambient Cold, our Tpanspiration is lessen'd, and consequently a Gravedo or Weight of perspirable Matter ensues; which being [...]lung upon the lungs, clogs them, and renders them less apt to perform their Office; and in the last Case, from the Pressure which the contents of the Abdomen, when the Body is in that Posture, make upon the Diaphragm, thereby lessening the Capacity of the Thorax or Breast, so that the Lungs are too much confin'd, and cannot dilate themselves sufficient to receive a due Quantity of Air.

This being premis'd, it will be easily understood, how these several Kinds of Asthmas are produced: The first or Humid, call'd also the Peluretic Asthma, arises from the Redundance of Rheumatic Serum, and viscous Humours in the Blood, which being too thick to pass through the small Fibres of the Lungs stick close to the Sides of those Vessels, and obstruct the Blood in its Circulation; the Parts swell and often ulcerate, with great Pain, feverish Habbits, and Difficulty of breathing: Or else the pituitous Particles are spewed out into the Bronchiae, especially if not impregnated with a due Proportion of Salts, causing a continual irritating Cough: In both which Cases all inciding Pectorals are good, all Diaphoretits, and whatever attenuates and lessens the Quantity of Serum; by that means depleting the extended Vessels, and Working a Revulsion of the stagnating Humours: Which nothing can better effect then these DROPS, which evacuate both by Perspiration and Urine, and are certainly, at the [Page] same time, one of the very best Cardiacs in the whole World.

The next Species of this Distemper, is the dry or [...] thoric Asthma, caus'd either by too great a Repletion of a cachochymious Blood call'd a Plethora, or else by too great a Rarefaction of that Fluid in it's Vessels; so that the fine Canalls of the Lungs are too far distended; and consequently there is not room enough for the Air to inflate the Vessels, which produces an Inability of Respiration, for want of a due Degree of Expansion in that Viscus: Such Persons are generally crying out for Air; they always seem as if girted hard upon their Chest, and are almost become Victims to a long Scorbutick Cachetic Habit; of which this is the last, and oftentimes, for want of proper Remedies apply'd in time, fatal Symptoms; or in this Case there is no time to use Alteratives, which work but slowly in the Mass of Blood; whereas here we want an immediate Assistance; which can only be obtain'd by a Conjunction of Cardiacs and Diaphoretics, both which Qualities are eminently distinguishable in these DROPS; Which can therefore never fail the Intention of Cure in this Distemper,

The Third and last Sort of Asthma I mention'd, was the Nervous; which is occasion'd by a Dificiency of the Pectorl Muscles, for want of a sufficient Quantity of Spirits to nourish and contract them; and is the dir [...] Effect of a nervous Atrophy; and to be r [...]m [...]d [...]'d by high, and vigorous Cardiacs; to rouse and invigorate daca [...]ing Nature, and as it were, re-enkindle the almost extinguish'd Lamp of Life; which nothing can perform more effectually than these DROPS, which have a prodigous Influence in reviving the drooping Spirits, warming and comforting the Nerves, encreasing the Moment of the Blood, and doing every other O [...] [...]quisite to call back the almost sleeting Life, by their admirable Cardiac Quality; insomuch that many have been restor'd to a Miracle, from even Death's Door by them alone, both in this and other Cases.

[Page] THE Dose in all these three Cases, is as before in the Gout, in any convenient Vehicle, but good Mountain Wine is best, if it can be procur'd, made very warm, as before; and taking Care you do not get Cold after it.

CHAP. VI Of Colds, Agues, Fevers, &c.

I Put these Distempers all in one Class because they have a mutual Relation the one to the other, as the Cause has to the Effect, & e contra, and as different Effects produced from the same Cause have to another; for it may generally be allow'd that what we call Colds are the Basis, or Ground work of most of those Epedemic Fevers, which so commonly rage in this Kingdom: For perspiration being diminish'd thro' a Contraction of the pores, caus'd by the perception of external Cold, the Perspirable Matter flies of in a less Quantity than when the Pores are more relax'd; and that part thereof which cannot get out, returns back into the Blood, which it heats and irritates more or less according to the Quantity of Matter retain'd, forcing it to distend it's Vessels, and producing thence frequently a Solutio continui, whence follows the Idea or pain in that part, with a Gra [...]do or Heaviness of the whole Frame, but especially of the diseas'd part; or else, a Coryza or Defluxion of serous, sharp Humours from the Glands of the Head, thro' the Eyes, Nose, Mouth, &c. From whence, if speedy C [...]re is not taken, are engender'd Asthma's, Consumptions, Fevers, &c. And a whole Train of Evils which may be easily and certainly prevented, by a timely Use of some proper Evacuator, which shall by it's Diaphoretic Quality, discharge the Blood of it's Load of foreign deleterious Matter; and force off the offending Particles thro' the Pores; which we call Sweating: To which Purpose, there is no one Thing in Nature more effectual than these Drops, which are most powerful Diaphoretic, and never fail of Success in the most stubborn Cold whatever. It is an old and indeed most excellent Maxim,

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"veni [...]nti occurrite morbo.

Prevent a threatning Disease, for as the English Proverb has it,

A Stitch in Time saves nine.

And so 'tis here, a single Dose seldom or never sails curing a Cold, whereas if you let that Cold grow into a Fever, it may be the Work of several to compleat the Cure; and glad you may be to come off so; for nothing corrupts the Blood more than a Cold, by irritating, and inflaming it to the highest Degree; whence proceed Putrifactions, which if not evacuated by proper Remedies, increase the Fervour, and often generate acute, putrid, and malignant Fevers, whose dire Effects daily Examples sufficiently demonstrate to every ones Experience. These deleterious and malignant Particles are therefore to be evacuated both by augmenting the before diminish'd Perspiration, and the urinary Secretion; for by that Means, a great Quantity of them pass off with the discharg'd Serum, and on Course lessen the Fermentation in the Blood: But unless at the same Time, you use proper Cardiacs to refresh Nature, she will [...]nk under this vast Burthen, for, the Hurry and Heat the Blood is in, necessarily consumes a vast Quantity of the animal Spirits, which decaying faster than Nature can possibly return them, she must certainly fall beneath the prodigious Wast, unless reliev'd by some auxiliary Force. Now, as I have often mentioned before, these Drops are both Diaphoretic, Diuretic, and Cardiac; containing in themselves all those three great Qalities, absolutely necessary in a compleat Febrifuge, and themselves by the Blessing of God effect a perfect Cure with out the Help of any other Medicine.

As for Agues, they are only the Intermissions of Fevers, the cold Fit being only an accidental, a [...]d not an essential Property thereunto; so that as they are properly a Sp [...]s, of a Fever, they are to be treated after the same Manner, and the Method and Intention of Cure, is the very same; and if so, then consequently the same Remedy that prevails against one, cannot fail in the other.

[Page] And here, I cannot omit mentioning one peculiar Property in these Drops, sufficient of it self to recommend them effectually to all the reasonable part of Mankind, who are not wedded to methodical Error; and that is, their powerful Energy in clearing the Blood from the Dregs of that fashionable (but in many Cases pernicious) Drug, the Bark of Peru, commonly called, The Jesuites Bark. This is the Publik Asylum of Mankind, the Panacea of the World, the sovereign and universal Orvietem against all the Diseases of Pandora's Box, and what not, in the Opinion of those valetudenarian Wretches, who dare not eat a Meals Meat, open a Chamber Window, or so much as go to Stool, without the Leave of their Physician; whose constant Prescription is still the Bark, in some Form or other: If Madam has got a fit of the Vapours, the Bark will chear her Spirits: If she has taken too plentiful a Dose of Ratifea, the Bark will make her as sober as a Nun: If she is Lovesick, the Bark is to moderate her Desires: And if she is in the raging Fever of Jealousy, the Bark is to make her believe that her Husban [...] is as Constant as a Turtle: In short, whenever the Privy-Counceller of Health is at a Loss what to do for his Guinea, he perswades his Patient she has an intermitting Fever, a [...]d Bark is the Word to save the Expence of further thinking. Now by this you may Judge, whether this gigantik Drug, which is whimsically apply'd to so many chim [...] rical Evils, is of any valuable Use, any substantial Benefit to Mankind in real Disorders, and Maladies, arising from a vitiated State of the Fluids. We seldom play with serious Matters, nor make Childen Ratles of Diamonds. One learned Practitioner says, the Bark is a violent Stiptic, and Astringent; another, it is solutive, and will of it self, without proper Alteratives, pass immediately downwards. One says it consists of a [...]ixt Salt, another of a voaltile, and a third that it is a Composite of both. One that it gives the Spur to the intestine Motion of the Blood; another that is locks up every Thing in the Blood. Some, and those of Note too, assert, that if given in large Quantities, it will by its attenuating Property create an Anasarca, or Dropsy; others that it is it self sufficient to cure the Dropsy. One forbids the Use of it in Rheumatic Fevers, for fear its attenuating Virtue rarefy the Mass of Blood, and thereby enlarge the Dimensions of its Vessels, so far, as to occasion an Anurisma[Page]or Rupture, or at least greatly increase the Idea of P [...]in, of which Opinion are no less Men than the famous Morton and Sydenham; whereas another late Practitioner, no Ways i [...]feriour to either, by all means indciates the Bark in this Case, grounding [...]s Notion upon Reason, and to use his own Words, contemning and changing the common and trite but deceitful Method of Practice by Observation.

Now if this be the Case, that these great and learned Men cannot agree among themselves, neither as to the Nature, nor Effect of this magical Drug; is it not greatly to be fear'd, and that with very good Reason, that if one is mistaken, they may all of them be so; the Consequence whereof will be, that this famous Panacea, like the Jay in the Fable, stript of all its borrow'd Pomp, will appear of no other Use, but to fill up the Variety of Nature's Works, receiving a Value only from Opinion, grounded on the Weakness of the one Part of the World, and the Wileyness of the other.

But if there be any Virtue in the Drug, the Tast it self seems to point it out to be Stiptic, and Astringent, which is also generally allow'd by all who have any Skill in it; while for Fashion sake they admit of other Qualities, as if it were by prescriptive Right; and for Interest invent new ones to Authorize its Administration in some Present Necessity: Now, if once it is allow'd, the Bark is Styptic and Astringent, it points out directly to the Manner of its Operation and Effect; in seemingly giving a turn to some certain periodical Exacerbations; for which it is more generally administred, as intermitting Fevers, Hemicraneas, Haemoptoes, Epilipsi [...]s, and Hysterics; which, says a great and learned Author, are to be reliev'd the Cortex only; but what Way is this Relief to be had? why, says the same Author, the Cortex lo [...]ks up the febrile Ferment in the Blood; and, says he, in another Place, if Cathartics be given soon after it, they make the Type of the Fever return in its old Shape, for when the Bark is carried off, what looks up the Distemper? From whence I conclude, that this mighty Medicine, like a cunning Mountebank, deludes us with plausible Appearances, and instead of really [Page] working a Cure, only postpones the Exacerbation, it may be for a Week or a Fortnight, by locking the Cause up in the Veins, which upon any accidental Cold, little Irregularity, or Imprudent Management, breaks out again with double Violence; the Consequence whereof is not seldom attended with the Death of the Patient; as common Experience daily confirms; unless, with Morton, you continue dosing your Patient with it every ten Days, till the next S [...]z [...]gy; or else, with another great Physician, give him as much after the Distemper is taken off as was sufficient to take it off in order to prevent a Return supposing that,

'qui facta liberant, si ante fiant, prohibent.

And pray what must the Consequence of this be? why the Mass of Blood is impregnated with so prodigious a Quantity of Styptic Particles, that the Price you pay for your imaginary Cure is a valetudenary State as long as you live; becoming entail'd upon your Physician, as much as his Patrimony, since few that have been weak enough to be perswaded into this Habit, have the Resolution to get rid of the Poyson afterwards, unless by the same Hand that gave it them: Whereas would they be wise at last, and get rid of their troublesome, dangerous Inmate as soon as they can, by deterging and cleansing their Blood, they might in Time, by the Blessing of Providence restore that Fluid to its natural Crasis and by Degrees overcome the malevolent Effects of their fashionable Physic; for which Purpose, as well as the other Intentions in this Treatise, these DROPS have been greatly commended by several who have happily experienced their Effects; and those among the learned World, of both our Universities, and by them recommended in this very Intention to the World, for the general good of Mankind.

CHAP. VII. Of the other VIRTUES of these DROPS.

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HItherto I have laid before you the particular Effects of these DROPS, in particular Cases; and that not by a dogmatical Assertion of their Virtues, or any canting Declaration of their specific Influence, and occult Qualities, Terms only serving to cover Ignorance and Imposition: But I carry'd you thro' all the Meanders of Nature, in her several Turns and Winding, in her several various Phases, and Symptomical Apperances upon every Case affecting the humane System; which this noble and efficacious Medicine is capable of searching: And from thence drawn such easy and rational Conclusions upon their Operations, as to make it visible to every Capacity that has but the least Notion of the Connexion between Causes and their Effects, &c. that they cannot fail in the several Intentions wherein they are advis'd; a Task which not any Self-Interest, nor any sinister View of serving my own Turn, has in the least induc'd me to; but purely the universal Good of Mankind, and Charity to my Fellow Creatures; as is plainly evident from the establish'd Reputation these Drops have already gain'd in the World, the surprizing Cures they have wrought, and the vast Quantities of them sold throughout the whole Kingdom: So that, there was no Occasion upon any of these Accounts to have been either at the Trouble or Charge of this Treatise, but purely to convince Gainsayer of their admirable Nature and Efficacy in the Intentions aforemention'd to inform the ignorant of the Nature of their several Cases, and where they may meet with a speedy, certain, and safe Cure for their respective Maladies. And lastly, to assure the whole World that these Drops are no Quack Preparation or Drugs injudicicously mixt and jumbled together, without either Art or Design, but such as are grounded on both, and carefully suited to answer the [Page] several Intentions to which they are design'd, which any one capable of forming a right Judgment of Things, may on the reading this Treatise, be sufficiently convinc'd of: Wherefore I shall enlarge no further on this Subject, only to assure you, that besides the several foregoing Intentions, these Drops are also wonderful in their stopping Diarrhea's and Fluxes of all Kinds Vomitings, Hamoptos, and other dangerous unnatural Discharges which weaken and destroy the entire human System; They give immediate Ease in Colics of what Kind soever, whether Stone, Wind, Bilious or Hysteric; raise the languishing Frame of Nature in Consumptions and Marasmi; if taken before the Lungs are entirely corrupted, raise and chear the Spirits in melancholly Despondency, Hypocondriac and Hysteric Vapours; give a new life to all Paralytic Evils; restoring Sense and Motion to the almost perish'd Limbs; They bring out the Small Pox, Measles and Rashes, to a Wonder; cure the Rickets in Children, ease After-Pains, prevent Miscarriages to a Miracle, and in short the greatest Restorer and Strengthner of Nature in the whole World.

Note, No Person ever yet afflicted with the most violent Cough and Cold, took this Medicine, [...] [...]ha [...] hath been cured by taking one [...]ottle only.

A printed Paper of Directions is given with each Bottle.

Here follows some few, out of the many Thousands of Certificates of Cures effected by these DROPS; which Certificates are not extorted by any sinister Means; but they are the true, genuine and spontaneous Declarations which the Persons receiving Benefit from these Drops have voluntarily made, to let the World know their Efficacy and Virtue; many of which Persons who have been violently and grieviously afflicted with intollerable Pains, &c. have begg'd for God's sake, that it might be published for the Good of Mankind, that these DROPS ALONE restored them to their Health and Strength.

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I Gregory Cripwell, of P [...]nny, near Nottingham, was for a long time grievously troubled with the Rheumatimsm, and had not the least Use of one Limb or Joint about me, insomuch that I have often desir'd to dye to be out of my Misery: All the Medicines that I took was to no Purpose: At length, by the Advice of Sir Thomas Parkyns, of Bunny abovesaid, Bart: I took a Dose of Dr. Bateman's Drops, and immediately sound Ease, and slept the greatest part of the Night, though I had not slept for above a week before, and am now, blessed be God, as well as ever I was in my Life.

Witness my Hand.

June 4. 1725.

[...]r [...]go [...]y Cripwell,

We whose Names are under-written, are Witnesses to the Truth of the abovesaid Certificate. [Page]

Sir Thomas Parkyns, Bart. Nathaniel Henson, Thomas Henson, Thomas Lineker, John Lineker, Thomas Hornbuckle, Henry Shepheard, Joseph Street, John Shepheard, John Brown,* George Smith, Henry Cooper, Humphrey Wainwright.

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I Mary Treslove, Boddice-maker in Northampton, was for many Years afflicted with intolerable Pains in the Back, not inferior to those I had felt in Travil, I could find no Relief, 'tall I made use of Dr. Bateman's Pectoral Drops. Two Doses of which entirely freed me from all my pain and Misery.

Mary Treslove,

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I Richard Row of Moulton-Marall Lodge, in the County of Warwick, was for many Months troubled with a Third Day Ague and Fever, and could find no Relief, 'till I made use of Dr Bateman's Drops, which restor'd me to my former Strength.

Richard Row.

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I Mary Wright of Stapleton in Leicestershire, was for many Years troubled with the Rheumatism, insomuch that I had entirely lost the Use of one Arm. Tongue could not express my pain, physicians could do me no good; but blessed be God, Bateman's Drops eas'd me of all my pains. Witness my Hand,

Mary Wright.

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I William Kempion, Farrier, of Dainton in Northamptonshire, had lo [...] the Use of my Arms with the Rheumatism, and could find no Relief 'till I took Dr. Batman's Drops which perfectly restored me to the Use of my Limbs. Witness,

William Kempion.

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I Edward Thirst of Rushden in Northamptonshire, was brought so low with an Ague, that I could not walk [Page] cross the Room; and no Medicine did me any good, 'till I took Dr. Bateman's Drops, which restor'd me to my former Strength.

Edward Thirst.

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I Robert Abbott; Servant to Mr. Martin of Catesbrook in Northamptonshire, having lost the Use of my Limbs by a Numbness or dead Palsey, was restor'd to my former Strength by Dr. Bateman's.

Robbert Abbott.

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I William Emlee of Shaftbury, having been for above ten Years past so violently afflicted with the Gout, that my Life was burthensome to me, was restor'd to perfect Health and Strength by Dr. Bateman's Drops, and can ride or walk as well as ever.

William Emlee.

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I Robert Hinton of Shaftsbury hath been for near twenty Years past grievously afflicted with the Gout and Rheumatism, and for the last five Years was forc'd to use Crutches, and liv'd in continual Pain and Misery, in spight of all the Physicians or Remedies that could be procur'd for Money; was by Dr. Bateman's Drops restored to the Use of my Limbs, and I thank God I have now thrown away my Crutches.

Robert Hinton.

The following Letter came from Mr. Johnson of Chelsea.

HAving for a long Time been violently troubled with the Gout and Rheumatism, I was advised to make use of Dr. Batemans Drops, which I did, and, to my great Surprize, and the Wonder of my Friends, in two Hours I found so much Ease, that I thought my self in Paradice; and (blessed be God) by taken but one Bottle of these Drops I am perfectly [...]ur'd Yet, seeing (in the Driections given with the aforesaid Drops) that it was good in many other Cases, I sent for another Bottle for a Neighbour that was troubled with the stone and Gravel, the first Dose whereof occasion'd him to void a vast Quantity of [Page] Sli [...]e and Gravel: and he is now as well as ever he was in his Life. I desire you'll publish this for the Good of my Country. I am to be heard of at the white Heart near the Horse [...]erry in Chelsey.

July 3, 1725.

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I Robert Howkins, Porter, near the Angel Inn, in Angel street, London, (where I have lived for above 40 Years) having been troubled with the most racking Pains of the [...]out and Rheumtaism; and so very ill, that I could not walk a-cross my Chamber without Cruthes; and reading in the News Papers of a Medicine (sold at the Printing-House in Bow-Church-Yard) called Dr. Bateman's Pectoral Drops, which had done Wonders to many in my Case I sent for one Bottle, tho' without Hopes of Success, the two first Doses of which, caused such an Alteration in me, that I was able, the third Day after, to go to the said Printing-House, and enquire after the Author of this noble Medicine, to return him (under God) Thanks for my safe Deliverance from that Deplorable Distemper; I being now as well as ever I was in my Life. This I am ready to testify upon Oath, if required.

Witness my Hand,

Robert Hawkins.

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A Child at the two Brewers in Hoxton, near London, was extreamly weak, and worn to a mere Skeleton, occasioned by an intermitting Fever, one Bottle of the aforesaid Drops made a perfect Cure of it, to the great Surprize of the Neighbours, by whom the same will be attested.

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MRS. Elizabeth Hull of Islington, (aged 70 Years) sent her Servant to the Printing-House in Bow-Church-Yard, to desire it might be made Public, That she had been a long time troubled with the Gout and Rheumatism, and was cured by taking only three Bottles of these Drops.

June 25, 1725.

Enquire at the Ch [...]monders in Ivey-Lane.

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MR. James Long at, at the Queen's Head, near White-Chapel Church, came, some time since to the Printing House in Bow-Church Yard, and declared, That both himself and his Wife had been troubled with the Rheumatism, and in a very bad Condition; but were both cured by taking but two Bottles of Dr. Bateman's Pectoral Drops. This he is ready to testify upon Oath, as declared,

June 7, 1725.

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I John Legate, Carpenter, at the three Pidgeo [...]s in Bedford-street, Convent Garden, having been for a long Time troubled with the Stone and Gravel, do hereby declare, That by taking but one Bottle of Dr. Bateman's Pectoral Drops. I voided, not only a vast Quantity of S [...]nd and Gravel, but several Stones of a very uncommon Size, some as big as Horse Beans. I desire this may be Publish'd for the Good of my Fellow Creatures.

April 27, 1725.

Witness my Hand,

John Legate.

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Mr. Cluer,

Bunny. Sept. 23, 1727.

WE whose Names are under writen, do here by thankfully acknowledge, and freely under our Hands do Certify, for the public Good of our Fellow Sufferers, That through the Assistance of Almighty God, and by the Advice of Sir Thomas Parkyns of Bunny-Park, in the County of Nottingham, Part. That we have been lately cured, and are now perfectly well of the present raging Distemper, viz. A violent Fever, &c. by taking only 2 or 3 Bottles at the most of Bateman's Pectoral Drops, and, according to his Advice, we took four Days together successively, every time about the same Time of the Day, one Spoonful (having first shaken the Bottle, to make an equal Mixture of the Medicine) in a Class of soft, smooth mild hot A [...]; after which we forbore and rested two Days, then we took again the third Day, and so on every other Day, as the Fit returned, till we were perfectly well, but were advis'd to take the third Day, and after, viz. The second taking, or second Bottle, four or five Hours sooner than we did the first four Days, for [Page] then it gives a Check to the approaching Fit. One Bottle generally takes off the Distemper; but Sir Thomas advises taking another, it not two, to compleat and perfect the Cure. By these Drops, taken ofter the Method above said he has cur'd Hundreds, whilst others by Bleeding, Vomiting and taking the Bark, lie dead two of a Night in some Families in these Parts.

Thomas Hallam

Mary Smith,

Thomas Smith,

George Walker,

Mary Poxon,

Richard Cripwell, [...]en.

Elizabeth Wainwright,

John Davis and Wife,

John Taylor,

Stephen Smith,

John Bacon

Peter Tompson and Wife,

John Sheppard.

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I Mary, the Daughter of Nathaniel Pryor, of Much Hallingb [...]ry in the County of Ess [...]x, being in a very violent manner afflicted with the Ag [...] and Fever, was perfectly cured by taking [...] one Bottle of Dr. Bateman's Pectoral Drops, and I [...] desire this may be publish'd to the World in Justice to t [...] Author of that Medicine.

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I John Rolfe, of Dunmow, in the County of Ess [...]x, was for a long time so grievously troubled with the Rheumatism, that I could not turn my self in my Bed, and at last it settled with such a violent Pain in my Bowels, that Tongue can hardly express. I took a power of Medicines, but to no purpose, till a Friend of mine sent a Bottle of Dr. Bateman's Pectoral Drops, t [...] first Dose of which gave me Ease in a quarter of an H [...], and after I had taken two Bottles, I walk'd seven Miles with great Ease and Pleasure, for which I give God great [...], and the Author my nearly Thanks.

John Rolfe.

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I Thomas Coote, Servant to the Reverend Mr. Dauverg [...]e, [...] of Much- [...], in the County of Essex, was [...]r [...]d of an Ague and Fever, by taking only one Bottle of Dr. Bateman's Drop [...] and I desire it may be made Publick.

Thomas Coote,

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I Mary Havers, Widow, of the Parish of Little- [...]. in the County of Essex, think my self bound to declare to my [...]llow Creatures, that I was perfectly cured of the [...] by taking only one Bottle of Dr. Bateman's Drop.

Mary Havers.

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WIlliam Eather of Cotesbrook in the County of Northampton, being for a considerable time troubled with an Ague and Fever, and thereby brought to so miserable and weak a Condition, that he was not able to perform his necessary Business for the support of Life; and altho' he had taken the Je [...]uits bark and abundance of other Medicines, yet could he have no Relief, till he was perswaded by some Persons in the same Town, to move use of Dr. Bateman's Pectoral Drops, and before he had taken three Bottles, his Ague and Fever both left him, and to the Astonishment of his Neighbours, he was suddenly brought to his former Health and Strength. This he is ready to testify, as many of his Towns-people will do the same.

April 20. 1724.

William Eather.

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A Lad who belong'd to some, Drovers, and quarter'd at the Coach and Horses in Horton in the County of Northampton, being taken violently with an Ague and Fever, and so very bad that he could in no wise perform his Journey, but was obliged to lie there for some time in that Condition, till by the Advice of the Woman of the House he took part of a Bottle of Dr. Batsman's Drops, which in a few days so reliev'd [...]im, that [...]e was able to proceed on his Journey. This will readily be t [...]st f [...]d by the landlord and Landlady at the House aforesaid.

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I John Richman of the Parish of Mary's in [...]i [...]st [...] do under my Hand signify to the world, for the publick Good, that my daughter Sarah Richman was for a long time troubled with a grievous Lameness and Numbness in all her Joints, so as [...] to be able to stir or help her self, [...]or could I [...]ind any Help in any of the Things I had (to a very great Cost) try'd for her Reco [...]ry at Length I was desir [...]d to give her a Bottle of Dr. Bateman's Pectoral Drops, by a Neighbour who had received great Be [...]f [...]t thereby, four Bottles of which [...] st [...]r'd her to a perfect State of Health, entirely removing and the numbness and disorder in her [Page] Joint, and she is now as well as ever she was in her Life. All which I am ready to t [...]st [...]fy to any who shall give t [...]mselv [...]r the Trouble of calling at my House in St. Mary's aforesaid.

July 20. 1724.

John Richman.

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MRs. Mary Clark of Rushden, in the County of Northampton, being afflicted to a very great degree with the Ague and Fever and could not by any Means get rid thereof, till by taking of Dr. Bateman's Drops by the Recommendation of some Relations and Neighbours in the same Town, who had some time before been cured thereby, a few Bottles of which, she takes this publick Method to declare for the Good of those who labour under such like Distempers, made a porf [...]ct Cure of her.

Nove. 12. 1723.

Mary Clark.

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MRs. Anne Norman of I [...]eham in Cambrigeshire desires for the good of the afflicted and mis [...]rable, who are ready to despair of Relief under the long and racking Torments and Pains of the Rheumatism) that her unfortunate Condition under mention'd may be made publick, that having been troubled with Rhumatick Pains; and having used all proper Means that could be perscribed to get rid thereof and altho' it cost me a great many Pounds, yet coul [...] I get no Relief, but as I grew in Years so my Pains encreased, and at last lost the Use of my Limbs, but hearing of the Excellency of Dr. Bateman's Drops, I resolved, as the Charge thereof was but smal, to use the Eendeavours of that Medicine, and accordingly bought one Bottle of the same, in the taking of which I found so much Ease and Satisfaction, that I resolved to proceed and accordingly taking a few Bottles more found the Use of Limbs return'd, and in a very short space I was as well as ever I was in my Life. The surprising and wonderful Effects of this Cure, scores of People can testify, as well as m [...] self.

July 18 1724.

Anne Norman.

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I Elizabeth A [...] of Long Stanton in the County of Cambridge, do here certify, that I had many Months been [...]orely afflicted with the Ague and Faver, and, by the [Page] long Continuance thereof, render'd so weak that I even despaired of any Help, having taking many Medicines to little or no purpose, for if my Faver or Ague left me for a Week or so, it return'd with greater Violence. At last, I was happily advis'd by some Friends and Neighbours, who had by Experience found the greatest Relief under the like Distempers, by Dr. Bateman's Pectoral Drops, make Trial thereof, which to my Comfort I soon, found answered the great Character my Frienes had given them; for in taking one or two Bottles more, my Ague quite forsook me; so that I am, blessed be God, in as good Health as ever I was in my Life.

Witness my Hand,

Eliz. Addey.

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I Thomas Martin of Newmarket, having for above these 2 Years last past, been troubled with a violent Cough, attended with Shortness and Stoppage of my Breath, so as very frequently to be depriv'd of whole Nights Res [...]s, and my Stomach and Appetite also brought thereby to so bad and low a Condition, that I could never get any settled Relief, notwithstanding I had all the Advice imaginable and that to a very great Expence; till by Advice of Mr. John Morley of Newmarket, I was recommended to Dr. Bateman's Drops; the which Medicine he hereby for the publick Good declares, relived himself and Family from a languishing Illness that had for a long Time attended them. From the Character and known Credit of Mr. Morley aforesaid, I made trial of the above mention'd Drops, and found in taking a few Bottles that satisfactory Relief that many poundsworth of Medicines before taken, could never effect; for my Cough and Shortness of Breath soon abated I took my natural Rest, which I had not done for many Years, and my former Appetite and Stomach return'd to my entire Satisfactiom. This I think my self bound in Duty to Mandkind in general, publickly to declare, under my Hand.

Sept. 6, 1724.

Thomas Martin.

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MRs. Hutchinson of Ashby de la zouch, in the County of Leicester, being for many Years troubled with the Gout and Rheumatism in her Limbs, to so great a degree, that she was not able to walk a-cross her Room: After taking abundance of Medicines to no purpose, and despairing of Cure, being reduced to the greates [...] Extremity and Misery; had the good Fortune to make trial of Dr. Bateman's Pectoral Drops, a few Bottles of which have made a perfect Cure of her; and she now remains in a good State of Helth, desiring this may be publish'd to the World, that all who labour under the like Misfortunes, may endeavour for the same Relief.

Ashby de la Zouch, Dec. 29, 1721

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I John Jones of Webley in the County of Hereford, being long afflicted with a Violent pain in my Stomach, as also with Pains in my Limbs aud Back to such a degree, that I was helpless to my self; and having try'd a multiplicity of Doctors and Apothecaries, to a very lit [...]le purpose. I was advised (by a Gentl [...]men who had receiv'd entire Satisfaction in pains of the Gout, from Dr. Bateman's Pectoral Drops) to try a Bottle or two, and in the taking the first Dose I found Ease in a few Minutes, and before I had taken three Bottles, my Pains entirely left me, and am as well as ever I was in my Life, I make this Publication for the Good of my Co [...]try.

June 18, 1722,

Witness my Hand,

J. Jones.

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BEing willing to inform the World, for the publick Good of Mandkind. That my Son was very much troubled with the Stone and Gravel in the Kidneys, and had been so for some Years, he took many Medicines to no purpose; at last an ingenious Gentleman in the Neigbourhood, advis'd me to buy a Bottle of Dr. Bateman's Pectoral Drops, which hath given him Ease to a Miracle, and made a perfect Cure, for it hath brought from him not only a large Quantity of Sand and Gravel, but many Stones, some as big as Peas.

Octob. 10, 1721.

John Barret.

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MRs. Mann of Swell near Dunstable, bring troubled with violent [...]ore [...]es: and afflicted extreamly with the Cholick, for which she declares she could find no Ease, and that after many fruitless Try [...]s of Medicines to a great Charge, and no Purpose [...] sh [...] resolved to make trial of Dr. Bateman's Drops, of which she had heard [...]o universal a Character, two Bottles of which she declares made a perfect Cure of her.

Mrs. Mann.

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I William Skevington from Irchester, [...] Welling borough, being troubled with a violent Pain in my Joints for [...]ear three Weeks together, that I could have no Rest neither day nor night untill I took a Bottle of Dr. Bateman's Pectoral Drops, and in a little Time, by the blessing of God I was [...]ased of all my Pa [...]s, and am now in perfect Health, I bless Almighty God for it.

Witness my Hand,

Will. Skevington.

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I Richard Ball at the White-H [...]rt in Bridge-Street. Northampton, having for several Years been very frequently and grieviously afflicted with violent Pains in my Hips, Back, Loins, Kidneys and Stomach and thereby r [...]d [...]ed to so miserable a Condition that I was never out of my Be [...], no longer than 'twas turn'd o [...] made, for 20 Weeks, nor never once out of my Room, for three quarters of a Year, having spent under that unhappy Condition, above 50 l. to no manner of Satisfaction. I have been so terrified by this Disease, that I verily believe that if me [...]ted L [...]d, or any other scalding Metal had been pour'd down my T [...]oat. I could not have underwent more racking and torturing Pains, being expected by all that saw me under the abovesaid Agonies, to have expired every Moment. I was advis'd (very fortunate for me) to use Dr. Batsman's Pectoral Drops, the first Dose whereof removed my Pains, and immediately gave me Ease, and in taking a few Bottles I recover'd my Strength and Limbs, and shortly after became as well and strong as every I was in my Life, and I bless God I still am altho' 'tis now two Years since, and have never o [...]ce had the least Sympt [...]om of my old Disease, or Pain; t [...] formerly if I met with any Medicine that gave me Ease, yet if I took the least Ca [...]d, I was dr [...]ve into Extremity of Pain. This Publication I think my self in Duty [Page] both to God and my Country, bound to make, that all suffering [...], whose Torments, like mine nonot be expres'd may find [...] happy Relief.

Sep. 28, 1734.

Rich. Ball

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MRs. Pywel, at the Cross-Keys-Inn in Northampton, being troubled with the Rheumatism for a long time, and having try'd all the Help that could possibly be got to no purpose, her Distemper still raging with more Vehemence, 'till at last she became Bedridden, and not able to turn herself therein, and the Use of her Limb were taken away, in which Case she was in a short Time given over for one past Recovery; but being advis'd to try a few Doses of Dr. Bateman's Pectoral Drops, in the taking of which, that Numbness which seized on her Limbs begin to abate, and in about a Weeks time she was able to walk a-cross the Room, and soon after entirely recovered, to the Astonishment of all who had seen her in that deplorable Condition. This for the Benefit of those whose Misfortunes it is to be so miserably afflicted, she desi [...]es may be made publick.

Susanna Pywell.

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WHereas I William Osbourn, now living with Mr. John Da [...], Farrier in the Bridge-street, Northampton, was taken with violent Pains in my Back and Limbs, occasioned, as I believe, by exceeding Heats and Colds, and having try'd all Things as was thought necessary for Relief, could have no Benefit thereby, my Illness still grew worse, and worse, till at last I was entirely incapable of following my Trade; at which I was happily advis'd to take some of Dr. Bateman's Pectoral Drops, two Bottles carried off all my Pains, and enabled me to follow my Business, and am now, blessed [...] God, as well as ever I was in my Life.

Sept. 19 1724.

William Osbourn.

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MRs. Gudgeon of Dunstable, desires the [...] inform'd, That she had been for a long [...] with the Rheumatism and Colic, and tha [...] [...] happy Cure by taking of Dr. Batemans [...]

§

I Eleanor Lampry of Harberry near Warwick [...] been for 20 Years very much troubled with [...] in all my Limbs, was avis'd tho' I [...] Cure, to make trial of Dr. Bateman's Drops, the [...] Dose gave me Ease, and two Bottles cured me, so that I am as well as I ever was in my Life.

April 10, 1724.

Witness my Hand.

E. Lamprey,

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MRs. Wingfield, living near Twy [...]ross in Licestershire being a long time troubled with the Rheumatism and Shortness of breath, some [...]iends in her Neighbourhood advis'd her to take Dr. Bateman's Drops, two Bottles of which made a perfect Cure of her, and several other Persons have been cured of the Rheumatism, Colds Cholicks, &c. in the same Parsh, that had taken the same Medicine by Advice,

§

I John Smith of Wainington in Huntingdonshire, do declare that my Wife hath long labour'd under a great Fit of Sickness, occasion'd by a great Cold that she took I consulted all the Physicians in these Parts; I'm sure I paid for what she took, above Ten Pounds; yet still she was worse and worse. A great many of our Neighbours being cured of one Distemper or other by Dr. Bateman's Drops, occasion|'d me to buy her a Bottle, four of which m [...]de a perfect Cure of her Limbs.

John Smith.

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I John Chater of Brayfield in Northamptonshire, do declare, That for a long time I have been afflicted with the Rheumatism so very ill, that I could not mo [...]e an [...] farther than I was carried, and nothing could be found to do me Good, till I was advised b [...] a Friend to make use of Dr. Bateman's Drops, two Bottles of which hath made a perfect Cure of me.

Wit [...]ss my Hand,

J. Chater.

§

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I Hannah Tomlin, having been long troubled with an Ague and Fever, which render'd me so very weak, that my Life was despair'd of: I was advised by a Physician of this City (after great Expences) to make use of Dr. Bateman's Drops, it being a Medicine, he said, that had done wonderful Cures in this University, two Bottles of which hath made a perfect Cure of me.

O [...], O& 12, 1723.

Hannah Tomlin.

§

I Simon Smith of Hardick in Warwickshire, having been for a long time very ill of an Ague and Fever, that it was the Opinion of my Friends and those about me, that I must lose my Life, having taken hundreds of Medicines to no purpose, at last I was advis'd by a learned Gentleman, to take some of D [...]. Bateman's Pectoral Drops, one Bottle of which made a Perfect Cure of me.

Hardick Feb. [...] 1720 21.

Witness my Hand,

S. Smith.

§

THese are to certify, That I have been for several Years afflicted w [...] violent Pain in my Limbs and Joints, which at last brought me into a Consumption: I went to the Bata, and took hundreds of Medicines from several eminent Hands, which proved of no use to me, at last I had the good Fortune to make use of Dr. Bateman's Drops, 3 Bottles of which hath restored me to my perfect Health.

Witness my Hand.

John Iliff.

Thurp-mandivel near Banbury, March 26, 1721.

§

I Thomas Woodin [...] at the Swan in Hockle [...] near Dunstable, do certify, that I having been afflicted with the Fever and Ague and though I got the Fever off, yet the Dregs of it lay in me, and could not be removed, which kept me continually ill, 'till I procured a Bottle of Dr. Batemans Drops, by taking of which three Nights successively, my Illness was Removed I think this Cure very extraordinary [...] Reason I felt the Effects of it so suddenly.

No [...]. 28. 17 [...]0,

Thomas Woodin.

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I William Peach [...], [...] St. Bennet's Church in Cambridge having been vo [...]tly afflicted with the Gravel in the Kidneys, do testify, that upon taking but one Battle [Page] of Dr. Bateman's Pectoral Drops, I found present Ease; and not only so but voided a great Quantity of Gravel. I think my self in Duty bound to publish this to the World, that all those who labour under that racking Disease [...] may find Relief: As I am ready to testify upon Oath I have.

February 10, 1720 21.

William Peach [...].

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I George Moore, at the King's Arms in Dunton- [...] In Leicestershire, being frequently troubled with the Gout in the Limbs, and many times the very Use of them ware taken away. I have had Tr [...]als of many Doctors) been advis'd to take a few of Dr. Bateman's Pectoral Drops, and found there by the greatest and soonest ease of any. Thing I ever took.

George Moore.

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WIlliam Hewett, Esq of Dunton [...]a [...] in Leicestershire, being for many Yea [...] under a [...] Habit of body with the Gout and Rheumatism: and [...]ing but very little or no Ease and Relief from the many Medicines which he had taken from the ablest Physicians, was prevail'd on by some Friends, &c. in the same County, who had found great benefit in the like Cases, to take a Bottle of Dr. Bateman's Pectoral Drops, which immediately gave him Ease; and for the Good of Mankind he was pleased to affirm, that he found it the most immediate, safe, and only Disturber of that Cronic and Torturing Distemper aforemention'd.

§

THE Reverend Mr. Sunders of Gamlinga [...], near Position in Bedfordshire, declares. That these Drops, under God, cured him of a violent Cold and Pains in the Limbs, and he (as well as divers other Clergymen) bought several Dozens for the Good of his poor Neighbours.

§

MRs. Frances of Norton in Licestershire, having been a long Time troubled with the Rheumatism. Shortness of breath, &c, was restored to perfect Health [...] these Drops.

Notes

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This Man was cur'd of the Ague by taken one Dose only.

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A Short treatise of the virtues of Dr. Bateman's pectoral drops: the nature of the distemperr [sic] they cure, and the manner of their operation. Publish'd by the King's letter patents under the great seal of Great Britain. : The seal of each bottle. : To be sold only by James Wallace, in New-York.

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Shipton 39981

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APV8440

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— A Short treatise of the virtues of Dr. Bateman's pectoral drops: the nature of the distemperr [sic] they cure, and the manner of their operation. Publish'd by the King's letter patents under the great seal of Great Britain. : The seal of each bottle. : To be sold only by James Wallace, in New-York., Wallace, James..

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Reprinted by J. Peter Zenger, in New-York,,. [New York] :: [1731]. (Date of publication supplied by Bristol.) (A cut of the seal, depicting a boar and with the words "By the King's patent" appears before the words "each bottle" on the title page.)

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