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"at a loss where to apply, he calls their attention "to the following extraordinary cures, many of "which were accomplished when given over by "the faculty.

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"In 1790, Anna, the daughter of James Conner, Broadway, Westminster, was restored to "life, though dead to all appearance six hours; "Thomas Clark, Orchard Street, Westminster, "had the dead palsy, and a great defect in his "sight and hearing, twelve years and a half, was "restored in twenty-seven days; Thomas Rose, "Orchard Street, Westminster, was cured of a "five years' consumption in fourteen days; Anthony Hartshorn, servant to Mr. Whitbread, "was lame seven years with a white swelling and "contracted muscles, one leg three inches and a "half shorter than the other, cured in thirteen

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days in 1790; Mr. Benyon, Windsor Court, "Little Knight Ryder Street, Doctors' Commons, "broke his knee-pan to pieces, was attended by "three surgeons sixteen weeks, and pronounced "incurable, was cured in eleven days; Mrs. Pul"ler, No. 3, Queen Street, Edgware Road, cured "of a dangerous canker in her mouth; Thomas "Clark, No. 1, Chatham Gardens, City Road, "cured of a seventeen years' consumption in

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twenty days; Joseph Clark, No. 2, Little Sut"ton Street, Goswell Street, had a leprosy on "him twenty years, was obliged to wear gloves "constantly, cured in three weeks; Mrs. Ülkes, "Whitecross Street, Cripplegate, was a long time "afflicted with an abscess on her liver, was re"stored to health in thirteen days; James New"man had a windy dropsy two years and a half, was restored; Mrs. Miller, the Bell Inn, Highgate, had a bloody urine, and a complication of complaints, cured in a fortnight; Mr. Simp

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"kin, sugar-baker, Charlotte Street, Whitechapel, "had a son cured of the king's evil, and another "of the falling sickness; John Donovan had the falling sickness twenty-eight years, cured in a "month; Mr. Graham, jun. No. 144, Old Street, "had the dead palsy between three and four years, "cured in a month; Mr. Newman, No. 38, Red "Lion Street, Clerkenwell, cured of a dangerous consumption in eleven days; Mr. Robinson, Clayton Place, Kennington, cured of a fifty years' bleeding cancer; Mrs Ferguson, Little "Catharine Street, Strand, cured of a stone cancer in her breast; and many hundreds labouring " ́under various afflictions have been restored by "the Doctor's invaluable Balsam of Life, six bot"tles of which will cure a consumption of twenty years. A certain complaint cured in a few "days, without mercury, or confinement from "diet or business."

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N. B. "The Doctor may be consulted at any "time, between the hours of 9 in the morning "and 9 at night."

ON THE MEDICINE ACT.

We agree perfectly in opinion with Mr. I. P. that the medicines of advertisers of every class are subject to duty, notwithstanding their nostrums are not noticed in their public addresses. An advertiser cannot be considered otherwise than an empiric, and whether he has been regularly educated to the profession or not, his remedies we conceive are liable to a stamp. Hence, the medicines of Dr. Lambert, Dr. M'Ghie, Mr. Bree, and Mr. Kierman, &c. &c. we believe to fall within

the meaning of the late Act of Parliament, for regulating the duties on quack medicines, and if informations were laid against them at the Stamp Office, for not duly stamping the same according to the said Act, they would stand a poor chance of escaping the penalty.

The nostrums of itinerant quack doctors or hawkers of specifics, are certainly subject to duty. Those impostors, we are however informed, from the supposition that they are no longer liable to be informed of by common informers, do not stamp their articles.

The schedule annexed to the Medicine Act of 1802, we apprehend was taken from a shop bill or small pamphlet of a vender of quack medicines, who, through selling a few pharmaceutical preparations and drugs, articles became inserted, which by no means fall within the meaning of the Act, such as arrow root, Spanish juice, &c. Through the indefatigable and very laudable exertions of Mr. Chamberlaine, surgeon, of Aylesbury Street, aided by a few chymists and apothecaries, these articles were not only omitted in the schedule of the amended Act, but many of the clauses which affected the regular profession were altered. One grand point obtained by the interference of these gentlemen is, that the trade should not be subject to common informers, but that all actions should be commenced in the name of the Attorney-General, or some person appointed by the Commissioners of Stamps. If the commissioners, however, appoint the common servants of Somerset House, and they employ the common informers, we confess we do not see the least advantage that can result from this alteration.

The idea prevailing throughout the country that etailers are not liable to be informed of by what

are termed common informers, itinerant quacks do not even stamp their nostrums, and many retailers, we are informed, are very indifferent about it; hence, it becomes necessary that the commissioners should appoint a person at least in every county, to see that no such evasions are practised.

Many articles are likewise omitted in the schedule, which we conceive still liable to duty. Why Godfrey's salt should have been omitted, and Henry's aromatic vinegar continued, we cannot conjecture. There is certainly a great difference in the articles, because one is really an useful and good preparation by a respectable and scientific chymist, viz. Mr. Henry of Manchester, but we conceive one to be as much an arcanum or secret as the other.

Godfrey's Salts are not the regular preparation of the pharmacopoeia, they are flavoured with what he terms 66 yellow essence," and rendered pungent by "the white essence," (both quackish titles) which are secret preparations and consequently proprietary medicines, and although they do not appear in the last schedule, we are of opinion they are still subject to duty.

Lozenges, it is stated, are not liable to duty, unless sold in boxes and with directions. Druggists have therefore sold them by weight to avoid the duty; surely this is not sufficient distinction. We believe, lozenges sold as prepared ONLY by the vender, whether in box or paper, are subject. to duty. The word troches has been entirely expunged, and hence, many retailers sell their lozenges under this title to avoid the duty; troches and lozenges are certainly synonymous terms, and if lozenges are subject to duty, troches are no less so, except they are preparations of the pharmacopoia of the College of Physicians. Again, the

venders of patent medicines, we are told have been informed at the Stamp Office, that Huxham's tincture of bark, although sold with directions, stating its doses, properties, and the diseases for which it is good, is not subject to duty, although every exterior appearance of a quack medicine; we are inclined to believe that this article so sold by a vender of medicine, is liable to duty according to the late Act.

The Act states, that all advertised remedies for diseases shall be stamped. If a person descends to advertise any regular medicine, is the whole trade afterwards under the necessity of stamping that medicine?-Or if a druggist advertises charcoal powder for the cure of scurvy in the gums, is every retailer of the article obliged to put a stamp to it. This is by no means clear.

Why arquebusade should be continued, appears very strange to us. We never heard of its being used as a medicine, and the formula is to be found in the old dispensatories; it is likewise an article generally sold at Italian warehouses, and by per

fumers.

According to the meaning of the late Act, we conceive that all preparations made contrary to the directions of the pharmacopoeias of the London and Edinburgh Colleges are subject to duty, whether sold by chymists, druggists, apothecaries, or venders of medicines. We mean, that if a druggist or chymist make his medicines according to his own private recipes, instead of the pharmacopoeia, they are, in our opinion, liable to duty, inasmuch as they are in every sense of the word proprietary medicines. So far from the formulæ of the pharmacopoeias being attended to by the trade, we are very credibly informed, that there is scarcely a druggist in London who has not a

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