Observation the Twelfth.
A Young Virgin of the same Town, who had strange Epileptic and Convulsive Fits, which were conjectured to be the Effects of Love, was by the continuance of these Fits
The true method of curing consumptions wherein 1. The vulgar method is discovered to be useless and pernicious, 2. A new method, by safe, pleasant, and effectual remedies is describ'd, 3. The original and immediate cause of this distemper explain'd, and 4. Several remarkable observations on persons lately cured by the same method, related, particularly the case of Mr. Obrian, whom the author undertook by his Majesties command : with an account of a cure performed on a person of quality at Paris, and several others / by Samuel Haworth.
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- The true method of curing consumptions wherein 1. The vulgar method is discovered to be useless and pernicious, 2. A new method, by safe, pleasant, and effectual remedies is describ'd, 3. The original and immediate cause of this distemper explain'd, and 4. Several remarkable observations on persons lately cured by the same method, related, particularly the case of Mr. Obrian, whom the author undertook by his Majesties command : with an account of a cure performed on a person of quality at Paris, and several others / by Samuel Haworth.
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- Haworth, Samuel, fl. 1683.
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- London :: Printed for Samuel Smith ...,
- 1683.
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- Tuberculosis -- Early works to 1800.
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"The true method of curing consumptions wherein 1. The vulgar method is discovered to be useless and pernicious, 2. A new method, by safe, pleasant, and effectual remedies is describ'd, 3. The original and immediate cause of this distemper explain'd, and 4. Several remarkable observations on persons lately cured by the same method, related, particularly the case of Mr. Obrian, whom the author undertook by his Majesties command : with an account of a cure performed on a person of quality at Paris, and several others / by Samuel Haworth." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A43110.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 14, 2024.
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reduced to a Marasmus, attended with a Feaver and large Sweat∣ings; she was at last wasted to a perfect Skeleton, and had no Appetite to supply Nature with Nourishment. The Empi∣rical Quack-Salver which I mentioned in the Tenth Obser∣vation, came and administred Physic to her, making use of his blind Receipts, but without any success or ad∣vantage; for she found after the use of his Medicines a vio∣lent pain in her Head, accom∣panied the other Symptomes; when I first saw her I had little hopes of her life, but she found such Relief by the first Dose I prescribed her, that I was in∣couraged to proceed, which I accordingly did, and by keep∣ing her in a strict method of such Remedies as I judged ex∣actly to answer her Malady, I
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perfectly cured her in two Moneths, and tho when I first saw her, she appeared deform∣ed by reason of leanness, yet af∣terwards she became a fresh co∣loured beautiful Virgin; and she now remains a living Testi∣mony of what is here related.