WI3LLLMI BIODlTi:,M.D. 
E.E..H. S. 
louivruFkikUihfdMmx* *». J747 A 
GUIDE TO OLD AGE, 
OR 
A CURE 
INDISCRETIONS 
FOR THE 
OF 
YOUTH. 
IN TWO VOLUMES. 
BY WILLIAM BM. D. 
. 
VIRGINIBUS BUERISQUE CANTO. VIRGIL. 
To Youths I write; and Virgins uninformed. 
VOL. I. 
THE FIFTH EDITION. 
JLontson: 
Printed by J. W, MYERS, Raternofler-row, 
And fold at his Houfe, No. 9, Albion-Jlreet, near the Leverian 
Mufeuxn, Blackfriar’s-bridge, and may be had of all 
the Bookfcllers in the three Kingdoms. 
FOR THE AUTHOR, 
1797. 
[ENTERED AT STATIONERS-HA EL.3 TO THE 
KING’S 
MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY. 
SIRE, 
As every individual may be allowed 
a degree of merit, in proportion to the 
fervices he may render Society, I flat- 
ter myfelf that I fhall not be thought 
without fome claim to your Majefly’s 
moft gracious approbation, as well as 
to the favourable opinion of your Royal 
Contort, in whole country I have the 
honour of heimr born and bred*. VI 
DEDICATION. 
The ftrength and profperity of a 
nation, have ever been fuppofed to de- 
pend on the number of its inhabitants. 
Indeed, the mod; learned Writers of all 
ages have agreed in this univerfal 
truth, that a date is great only as it is 
populous; and as nothing can contribute 
more towards this than the preferva- 
tioii of the Health of the People, I can- 
not but feel myfelf particularly happy 
that I have been fo fuccefsful in my 
endeavours for that purpofe. 
In the courfe of the long and exten- 
dve pradice which I have had in this 
and other countries, it lias pleafed 
Divine Providence, not only to blefs 
my labours and exertions, in making 
myfelf ufeful to ray fellow creatures, 
but in difcovering the mod: effedual 
remedies for thofe Difeafes, that are 
not only m<sd liable to a debt the human 
frame, but particularly grievous in their 
mature and effeds. DEDICATION. 
It is a peculiar fatisfadion too for 
me to coufider, that the Royal Houfe- 
hold, as well as the Public at large, 
have experienced the benefit of my 
Medicines and Advice, of which I have 
been favoured with teflimonies- highly 
flattering to my reputation and future 
fame. 
I beg leave to allure you, Sire, that 
while I refled: on the good I have been 
able to do, in the exercife of my pro- 
feffion, it will ever be my pride and 
ambition to continue to Rudy the 
health of mankind, not only as the 
moil: laudable purfuit in which I can 
poffibly be engaged, but as the befl: 
and furefl; means of deferving your 
O J! 
Majefly’s encouragement and iupport, 
which mufh ever be coniidered as the 
firfl; mark of dbftindion, and the highefl 
honour a good fubjed can ever hope 
to enjoy. DEDICATION* 
Earneflly wifhing your Majefly every 
happinefs this world can afford, I en- 
treat you will have the goodnefs to 
permit me to fubfcribe myfelf, with 
all poflible humility, 
Your Majesty’s 
Mod; devoted Servant, 
WILLIAM BRODUM- 
No. g, Albion-ftreet, Blackfriar’s-road* PREFACE. 
following fheets are avow- 
edly written in recommenda- 
tion of two fpecific medicines, which 
the inventor has found, in the courfe 
of a long and extenfive pra&ice, 
highly beneficial in many difeafes. 
That any one who may have devoted 
his time to the difcovery of new 
and peculiar virtues in the phyfical 
world, has been engaged in a fer- 
vice of the firft merit and confidera- 
tion, is a truth too obvious to be 
denied. PREFACE. 
There are, however, fome men who 
think that thofe dilcoveries, together 
with the whole progrefs of them, ought 
to be laid before the public, without 
any regard to fee or reward. Such 
conduct is incontinent with the gene- 
rality of the actions of mankind, and 
particularly incompatible with that 
duty the inventor owes to himfelf and 
his family. 
Let thofe who thus fpeculate, dif* 
pofe, if they think proper, of their 
worth for the good of the community, 
and inculcate a fpirit of univerfai 
philanthropy and benevolence. “ The 
labourer is ” Hill “ worthy of his hire 
And he who difcovers a remedy for 
difeafes which have baffled the Ikill of PREFACE. 
the moil: fage, and, at the fame time, 
the moil: learned, furely will not be 
thought too much recompenfed, in 
requiring the reward his merit fo 
juilly entitles him to expedl from a 
liberal and difcerning public. 
It may be imagined by fome, that, 
however falutary and efficacious a 
medicine may be, in any particular 
cafe, it is idle to expedl that it will 
operate with equal efficacy in a variety 
of others. But, may not, in a number 
of inilances, many of the fame lymp- 
toms be traced, even in difeafes 
that do not at firft light appear to 
be at all limilar ? And where fuch 
an alfociation of lymptoms occur, and 
more efpecially, where they are fymp- PREFACE. 
Toms of confequence and importance, 
why may not the medicine, which 
is fure to be of the highefl advantage 
in fome complaints, promife an equal 
fuccefs in others } 
I have felefled a variety of cafes 
in which my medicines have been 
highly beneficial in the particular 
difeafes to which they allude. In 
fome inftances, I have been obliged 
to conceal the names and refuiences 
of patients. To thofe friends who 
have favoured me with their attefta- 
tions of my fkill, I confefs myfelf 
much indebted, efpecially as they have 
done it, with a view of rendering 
7 O 
fervice to the general health of man- 
kind, and without any folicitation of PREFACE, 
mine ; I hope, therefore, that thofe I 
have produced, in almofl every dileafe 
I have mentioned, will be thought 
fufficiently numerous to fatisfy the 
curiofity of the idle, and the doubts 
of the incredulous. 
Or, what is yet of infinitely more 
confequence to the general welfare 
of mankind, thefe attentions will, at 
leaf!:, ferve to inform the afßidled, 
where they may receive the affiflance 
they ftand in need of. 
WILLIAM BRODUM. 
Albion-ftreet, Elackfriar’s-briclge, ADVERTISEMENT. 
D* Brodum advifes all patients who 
take his Nervous Cordial and Bo- 
tanical Syrup, to purchafe the following 
Guide to Old Age, which, from the 
excellent advice it contains, and the 
aftoniftiing cures that are inferted in 
it, has caufed it to be tranflated into 
the French, German, and Spanifh 
languages, and the firft and fecond 
editions, two thonfand copies each, 
have been fold in the courfe of nine 
months. A new and enlarged edition 
of this truly interefting and valuable 
work is juft publiftied, with a dedi- 
cation to the King, and fo good a 
likenefs of the Dodor, as to pre- ADVERTISEMENT. 
vent all that have it in their porteffion 
from being liable to be deceived by 
a let of importers who artume the 
Dc<rtor’s name and perfon for the pur- 
pofe of more effectually deceiving the 
public. 
This work contains proper rertric- 
tions for diet, with much additional 
information that cannot be infer- 
ted in the Direction Books, how 
perfons Ihould live that take the 
medicines in queftion, and a variety 
of cafes, that bear an exadt analogy 
to what may happen to others, fo 
that it is impoliible to read and attend 
to it, without taking the beft meafure 
imaginable to fecure a continuance of 
health, as all ranks, ages, and fexes 
have already happily experienced. CONTENTS. 
A. 
A CUTE rheumatifm, remarks on it 128 
**■ Ajihmas, treated of 94, 
Aozo cwroi 96 
extraordinary cafe of one 97, 98 
Atrophy, or nervous confumptions, treated 0/73 
/iow owrod 7,4 
extraordinary cafes of it 77, 78, 79 
Allen, Mrs. her cafe, 32 
B. 
Bad breaft, extraordinary cafe of it 196, 197 
Baker Doftor, on dropfies 112- 
Baker Jane, her cafe, cured of a decline 34 
Bilious complaints, treated of 86 
extraordinary cafes of it 87, 88 
Birch Mr. his cafe, cured of rheumatfm 137 
Mr. on paljics 141* 
Bullivant Mrs, cured of a flone cancer 196 CONTENTS, 
C. 
Cancer extraordinary cure of it 197 
Capps Thomas, /zz*s cafe, deafnefs 55 
Carver Richard, Ais cafe, f one in the gall 93 
Carter Thomas, his cafe, palfy 150 
Chapman Mr. his cafe, of the gout 136 
Cheyne Doctor, on palfes 145 
Clarke Edward, his cafe, of blindnefs 66 
Collifon John, his cafe, cured of evil 197 
Ccnfumptions, treated of 67 
how cured 68 
D. 
Deafnefs, treated of 49 
its remedy 50 
remarkable cafes of it 54? 55? 56 
Durant John, Az's cafe, of afhma 97 
Dropfyi when expended 99 
cure of 105, 112, 113 
treated of 103 
Aow 105 
Da Mr. his cafe 64 CON TEN’TS 
E. 
Epilepfy, its fymptoms deferihed 40 
methods of curing it 41 
Epileptic fits, a perfon cured of them 44 
Evil, extraordinary cures of it 19.6, 197, 198 
Eye, difeafes of it 58 
how to be treated in difeafes of it 59 
difeafes of it cured 63, 64, 65. 
F. 
Fijlula lacrymalis in the eye, extraordinary 
cure of it 196 
Fits, a perfon cured of them 44 
Foot Mrs. cured of a cancer, in her womb 197 
Ford Edward, Azs cafe, bilious and dropfy 88 
Fothergill Debtor, on dropfies 111 
Frojl Ambrofe, /us cafe of a dropfy 113 
Gillingham William, his cafe, dropfy, oc. 98 
Goodall Thomas, his cafe, paralytic 150 
Gout, treated of 115 
how relieved 120 
Green-ficknefs treated of 155 
' how cured 359 
particular cafe of it 167 
G. C O N TENT S«- 
H. 
Hall Mary, her cafe, of an ulcer in the ear 195 
Hay lock Mary, her cafe, of hlindnefs 6 3 
Hardy Sufannah, her cafe, cancer in the 
mouth 194 
Hazard Sarah, her cafe, ffula, eye 196 
Head-ach treated of 36 
Aott; 37 
Hoffman Doßor, on palfies 141 
Hunter Doßor, on dropfies 111 
the gout 118 
menjlruation 154 
Hfleric fts, how known 27 
in what manner to he treated 29 
Hompefch, General, his letter 185 
Hobbs William, cured of the evil 399 
I. 
Indies Laf, of the palfy there 1-47 
J- 
Jaundice, treated of 80 
how cured 81 
Jewel Mrs. her cafe, dropfy and jaundice 114 
K. 
Kent Thomas, his cafe, deafnefs 57 CONTEN TS. 
XXI 
L. 
Learner Mary, her cafe, joint evil * 1-96 
Leprofy, extraordinary cure of it 195 
Line Rachael, her cafe, cancer and white: 
jwelling 198 
Xz'xzer difcafes of it, treated of 89 
/zcm; azred 91 
extraordinary cafe of it 93 
Lumbago, remarks on it 129 
Madnefs treated of 45 
ewm! 46 
Mcvflruation, treated of 152 
Aoa; /o he attended to 154 
Metralcourt Mr. his cafe, nervous, &c. 88 
Mills William, his cafe, nervous, &c. 33 
Moule Thomas, his cafe, nervous 32 
Macmillan Mr. cured of deaf nefs 56 
M. 
N. 
Nervous complaints, in what cafes incurable 27 
extraordinary cafes of them 
31’ 32, 33’ 34’ 35 
Newman John, 7us cafe, fts 44 
Norwood Thomas, /zzs cafe, blindnefs 63 XXII 
CON TEN T3» 
O. 
Opprohkm medicorum, what diford tvs are 
ranked under it 27 
F. 
Palfy, treated of 138 
how cured 142 
extraordinary cafes 149, 150, 151 
Parker Robert, his cafe, fits 44 
Phillips Mr. his cafe, blindnefs 63 
P ref on William, his cafe rheumatifm 137 
Q- 
Quincy, on palfies 14 a 
R 
Raymond, Mr. Ms cafe, deafnefs 56 
Reynolds Mrs. her cafe a cancer in 
womb 197, 198 
Rheumatifm, treated of 125 
how cured 130 
extraordinary cafes 136, 137 
R Hey Thomas, his cafe, dropfy 113 
Rutherford Doff or,- on the rheumatifm 130 CONTENTS. 
S. 
Scrofulous complaint, extraordinary cure 195 
Scurvy, treated of 172 
Aoty 176 
Shave Thomas, his cafe, palfy 149 
Shatter William, his cafe, fcorbutic 73 
Smith Doctor, on dropfies 104 
menjlruation 154 
Stevens Doctor, on the gout • 117 
Sydenham Dodtor, his opinion on confumptive 
cafes 70 
dropfes 103 
the gout 119 
T. 
Taceonus Dotfor, on the gout 117 
Thorp Sarah, her cafe, deafnefs ' 54 
Tahiti Thomas* his cafe, of fcrofula 84 
Tympanum, nature of it 110 
u. 
Univerfal temperance left preventions of the 
gout 123 
Valerian root, /ww to he ufed 144 
V. xxiv 
CONTENTS. 
W. 
Ward DoElor, on dropfies 106 
Welling Mrs. her cafe, dropfy in ovi 84 
Williams Elizabeth, her cafe, decline 78 
Wilfon Elizabeth, her cafe, joint evil 194 
Wind for Mrs. her cafe, decline 78 
Womb, fuelling in it extraordinary cure 197 
fTooi Elizabeth, for cafe decline 79 
Woolemore E. her cafe, cancer in the neck 193 
Witham Mr. his cafe, nervous &c. 35 
Y. 
Yellow jaundice 3 extraordinary cure of it 84, 85 A 
GUIDE TO OLD AGE. 
CHAP. I. 
NERVOUS DISORDERS. 
r j "'HE knowledge of ourfelves is 
doubtlels the moft rational and 
effential inveftigation that can occupy 
the attention of human beings, and 
therefore every attempt to delineate 
the caufe of thole diforders that are 
mod; prevalent in the fyftem, is par- 
ticularly worthy of conlideration. 
Amongd them none are more various 
in their appearances than thofe of a 
VOL. I. 2 6 
Nervous Nature, they differ fo eilen- 
tially, that they refemble aimed every 
other difeafe, and however general 
they may be, are fcarcely alike in 
any two perfons. 
Mod: pleafant, indeed, as well as 
mod fatisfadfory and beneficial would 
it be to -the public at large, as well 
as to pradfitioners of medicine indi- 
vidually, if the art of Healing were 
reduced to a certain fcience ; and 
every difeale to which the conditution 
is lubjedr, were fure of deducing from 
it a remedy complete and irreddible. 
But, unhappily, this is far from being 
true in any indance; and in no in- 
dance more generally, than in thole 
cialfes of difeafes which commonlv 
J 
pafs under the title of Nervous Dis- 
orders : complaints arifing from an 
infinite variety of caufes, both mental 
and corporeal, and whole fird founda- tiou is generally laid in" the tender 
and delicate period of youth, when 
the mind and the body are both 
equally fulceptible of the {lighted 
impreilions, mold eafily fubmit to their 
influence, and are with mod difficulty 
freed from their future e deeds. 
It is in confequence of the- dif- 
ficulty of curing this clafs of diforders, 
radically and edecdually, that they 
have often been called the Oppro*- 
brium Medicorum : but they are incu- 
rable either from their arifmg from a 
caule which medicine can not cure, 
luch as dilappoiutment in love, had 
hufbands, knits, tee. or the plan laid 
down for their cure is of luch a. 
nature, as the circumflanccs of the 
patient render incapable of being com- 
plied with, as riding, country air, 
lea-bathing, &c. An hyfleric fit is 
generally preceded by a paiu in the forehead, temples, or the eyes, with 
an effufion of tears, and dimnefs of 
fight, a languor feizes the whole 
body, palpitation of the heart, with a 
conffribfion of the thorax, fucceeds; 
likewife naufea and fpafms upon the 
inteffines, with borborygmi, from the 
rarefaeiion of the confined air. The 
globus hyffericus, or, as the good 
women term it, the riling of the 
lights, is owing to a fpafmodic con- 
traction of the cefophagus; the large 
quantity of pale, limpid urine, from 
a fpafm on the kidnies. If the patient 
falls afleep, he generally awakes, 
imprefled with the phantoms of a 
difturbed imagination; but in different 
patients, we fhall find a groat variety 
.and difference of fymptoms. 
The indications of cure are, firft, 
to palliate the fymptoms which arife 
during the fit; fecondly, to prevent a relapfe. For the firft, a moderate 
emetic, of ipecacuanha, or antimonial 
wine, may be made ufe of, with 
opiates, and other antifpafmodics, as 
camphor, affafoetida, &q. and for the 
lecond, whatever will tend to diminifh 
the general debility and relaxation of 
the fyffem, and to reftore to the 
mufcles a due and univerfal tone : 
hence the advantage of Peruvian bark, 
pure air, and lea-bathing; hence, 
more elpecially, the peculiar and 
exclulive benefit of the Nervous 
Cordial, which, from its bracing!: 
property, is acknowledged by the moffc 
eminent phyiicians, who have done 
me the honour to inveffigate its 
erf eels, to be the frff on the liff of 
tonic medicines, that was ever pro- 
poled in any age or country. 
[As a proof of the above fa cl, I 
beg leave to refer to the cafes .at the 
end of the chapter.] In feme meafure fynomymous to the 
hyfteric complaint, is the hypochondriafis 
or hypochondriac defeafe; though, in 
this laid, there is Seldom any extreme pa- 
roxyfm, or fuch violent contortion of the 
mufcles. It is owing to a relaxation of 
O 
the nervous and mufcular fyftem, or an 
unequal diftribution of the nervous in- 
fluence ; hence tremors, and fpafmodie 
contractions of various parts of the body. 
Delicate, relaxed people, the inaflive, 
fludious, and fedentary, are generally 
fubjedf to thefe complaints. Melancholy, 
and the various misfortunes in life, may- 
be conhdered as the pre-difpofmg caufes ; 
fo far at leaft as relate to its mental ori- 
gin. From a relaxation of the nerves, 
the folids will he weakened, and all the 
animal fundfions impaired; and the mind-, 
from the flighted caufe, will fail into the 
greatefl defpondency. It may like wife 
proceed from thofe imprudencies in the 
earlier $ ages of life, to which both fexes are too much addidled. This difeafe 
being,, as before noticed, of much the 
fame nature and tendency as the hyfteric 
diforders, it is ufelefs to fhite the precau- 
tions and medicines to be employed in 
the cure thereof, thefe being already 
recapitulated and explained above ; to 
which, therefore, I beg leave to refer 
the reader. 
CASE S. 
TO DR. BRODUM. 
Slßy 
For the fake of doing jultice to your extraordinary 
abilities, as well as to inform the enemies of public 
praißitioners in that fcience, that they fhould not be too 
precipitate to cenfure ingenious and honed men, I do 
hereby inform, the afHifled, and the public in general, 
of the mod furprifmg cure in the known world, per- 
fected by your Reiterative Nervous Cordial. I was 
afflifted with a nervous complaint, palpitation of the heart, 
which diftrafted my head, fo that X could fcarcely deep night or day ; took fometimes my fight away, that I could 
hardly fee half a yard before me. I applied to many 
eminent Phyficians, but all to no purpofe ; in which fitu- 
ation I was for fifteen years ; but by applying to you, 
Sir, I was cured in a fhort time. Any perfon doubting 
the truth, may be convinced by fending a letter, or by 
applying perfonally to me. 
Thomas Moule, 
Shopkeeper, Barkway y near Royfon, Cam hi-idgejhite. 
Witnefs to the above, John Germany Crofs Keys* 
Brighthelmfone Circulating Library, 
The annexed cafe was given me by a Lady to fend to 
you. 
SIR, Sept. 26, 1796. 
I am, Sir, 
Your moil obedient, humble fen-ant. 
James Gregory. 
Singular Cafe of a Lady who was ref on d from a Nervous 
Complainty by Dr, Brodunis NcNjous Cordial. 
Sir, 
By the advice of an eminent Phyfician in London, 
I went to the Mot Wells, Briftol, where I attended 
to every means poflible for eight weeks; from thence 
to the Waters at Bath for fix weeks; but to my great 
di(appointment, could obtain no relief, for a moft vio- 
lent Nervous Complaint which I had for a long time 
laboured under, which was attended with violent tremb- lings, palpitations at the heart, depreftlon of fpirits, ic, 
fo that at the leaft fucldcn furprife I was thrown inta 
ftrong fits, fometimes crying for hours, which I could not 
avoid;, in fhort, my whole frame was fo impaired, that 
I was obliged to be carried to my bed and carriage. 
I was often perfuaded by my friends to try Dodor 
Brodum’s Nervous Cordial, but could not be prevailed 
upon to take an advertifed medicine. After having 
had the advice of many eminent Phyficians in town 
and country, I was advifed by a lady of my acquaint- 
ance, who had purchafed a publication oi Dodor Bro- 
dum’s, entitled A Guide to Old Age, wherein was fo 
many cafes fimilar to mine, I was induced to take 
the Nervous Cordial. I firft took a guinea bottle, 
which afforded me a little relief; I then feat to the 
Dodor’s houfe for a five-guinea bottle, and before I 
had taken half of it, I was able to walk without 
affiftance, and by continuing the medicine, and ftridly 
adhering to the Dodor’s advice to bathe at Brighton, am 
now happily reftored from the very verge of the grave to 
a better ft ate of health than I ever enjoyed. 
North-Jireef, Brighthelmfioney R ALLEN* 
I am. Sir, your obliged fervant. 
Aug. 27, 1796. 
I, C. J. M’Dowgall, was a (Hi cl cl witlra nervous 
complaint for about three years, winch affeded my head 
and eyes very violently ; by taking Dr. Brodum’s Reite- 
rative Nervous Cordial, am happy to fay, that I am able 
to work. 
Witnefs, William.Mitls, 
Bookbinder and Stationer, in Wadi’s PaJJkgc, Bath,. VOLUNTARY ATTESTATION. 
I, Jane Baker, of No. 5, Bird-court, Bhilip-lane, 
AI derm anbury, In confideration of the great benefit 1 
have received from Dr. Brodum’s Nervous Cordial, vo- 
luntarily dcpofc, that I was violently affiicded with an 
inward complaint, that fettled on rrty lungs, and termi- 
nated in a deep decline. This vifitation reduced me to 
a perfect fkeleton, rendered me incapable of walking, 
and was attended with frequent tremblings, and violent 
palpitations of the heart. During the extremities of my 
did re is I could not obtain any relief, until I fortunately 
heard of the great benefit that was difpenfed to fitch 
miferable objects as myfelf, by the adminid ration of the 
above truly excellent medicine, which was a fufficient 
inducement for me to make a trial of its efficacy : the 
remit of this experiment has been to me a bluffing of 
the lirft importance, fmee, after taking medicines for 
a fhort time, I am now completely returned to rny 
health; which induces me, for the good of me fellow- 
creatures, to make oath before the Right Honourable the 
Lord Mayor of the City of London, and I (hall ever 
confider Dr. Brodum as the agent of the Almighty, in 
putting a period to my calamities, and fervently pray, 
that he may continue to difpenfe the bleffings of health to 
objefts, like me, wdio have long been a ft ranger to fo in- 
cftimable a blefling. 
Sworn before me at the Manfon-houfe, 
JAMES SANDERSON, Mayor, 
London, February g, 1793. Sir, 
Tn the beginning of March laft, as I was fitting in my 
chair, I was feized with a violent Nervous Complaint, 
which caufed my whole frame to (hake, and fuch a 
finking and depreffion, that I was afraid my life was 
in danger; when I laid down to reft, I felt an intole- 
rable prefiure, like an inward fuffocation. In this 
debilitated ftate, I had the advice of fome of the moft 
eminent of the Faculty, but to no purpofe, for I got 
worfe rather than better, until hearing of the great 
virtues of your Nervous Cordial, I wras induced to take 
if, from which I foon found relief by its falutary 
effefts, and after taking it feme time, am now reftored 
to perfeft health. Therefore, in gratitude to you, Sir, 
and for the benefit of the aftiifted, I humbly requeft 
my cafe may be publifned, being ready to atteft the 
fame to any enquiring perfon. 
I am, Sir, 
Your obliged humble Servant, 
No. 21, Rofoman-jlrcet, ClerkennjjeU, T. With AM. 
Oflober 22, 1796. 
Wltnefles, Richard Hilton, No. 40, Long, Eliz, 
Bay lie, No. 39, Rofoman-Ji'reet, CHAP. 11. 
THE HEAD-ACE 
npHE Head-ach is fometimes acute 
**■ and fometimes chronical, and its 
feat is various. It may be either in 
the enciphalon, i. e. the contents within 
fide the cranium, viz. the dura and pia 
mater and their appendages, and it 
may be external, in the teguments of 
the cranium, viz. the fcalp and the 
pericranium, or in the fubftance of the 
bones themfelves. The caufes are 
various : it may proceed from inflam- 
mation, or a plethora, diftending the 
velfeis. The membranous parts are 
liable to fevere rheumatic pains. It 
may alio be intermittent, or owing 
to the venereal difcafe. We have likewife nervous and fpafmodic head- 
achs. 
If the pain be flight, and affects a par- 
ticular part, it is called cephalalgia ; if 
the whole head, cephalica ; if only one 
fide, hemicrania : if there be only a fixed 
pain on the top of the head, which.may 
be covered with the tip of the finger, it 
is called clavus hvflericus. The general 
J O 
caufe is an obflrufiled circulation through 
the veflels of the head and ftomach : it 
may fometimes proceed from a bilious 
tendency in the latter; or any morbid 
matter, abforbed from the external parts 
of the body to the internal. From the 
various caufes of the diforder, no one me- 
thod of cure can be recommended, but 
mufl be varied as the cale requires. If 
from inflammation or plethora, we mufl: 
empty the veflels by blood-letting, and 
lenient purges. If from a rheumatic 
caufe, warm, aromatic plaflers, or a blif- ter, with anti-rheumatics, may fucceed. 
intermittent commonly begins in the 
teeth, and fpreads firft in the forehead, 
and afterwards to the back part of the 
head. Daring the paroxyfm, the urine 
is clear and crude ; but in the interval 
depofits a copious fedirnent. In thefe in- 
dications, the Nervous Cordial has never 
failed being fuccefsful; and I do not 
hefitate to affirm, that no one remedy 
has evinced fo falutary an efficacy, 
in the moil dreadful frages of the 
complaint. 
Provided the caufe is of a venereal 
tendency, the Botanical Syrup may be 
recommended with greater propriety. 
For by expelling the lubtle particles of 
mercury, imbibed by an improper appli- 
cation or affumption, and too frequently 
from the ignorance of pretenders to the 
medical fcience, the means adopted are 
frequently far more pernicious than the difeafe itfelf. The fame deleterious ef- 
fects are too often produced by felf- 
quacking, and the life of family receipts, 
or injections of mercury, or other metals, 
which may ultimately prove baneful to 
the conftitutionat large, without alibiing 
the local difeafe. CHAP. 111. 
EPILEPSY. 
rin HIS difeafe is of a convuffive 
nature ; if hereditary, it is almoft 
impoffible to cure, if idiopathic, ex- 
tremly difficult, and if lympathic may 
be relieved by removing the difeafe 
from which it originated. In epileptic 
cafes the principal objedls are to avert 
an impending paroxyfm, to ffiorten its 
continuance when prefent, and to pre- 
vent a future attack. The patient is 
thrown fuddenly on the ground, whence 
it is called the falling ficknefs. It 
attacks with a laffitude of the whole 
body, pains in the head, and drowfmefs, 
a fudden deprivation of all fenfations, an involuntary emiffion of urine, and fome- 
times of femen, and a total forgctfulnefs 
of every thing that has happened. If it 
attack before puberty, it often leaves the 
fubjeft of its attack at that time; but 
when it makes its appearance after the 
age of twenty, it is feldom cured,. 
This difeafe, in itfelf, is not attended 
with any immediate danger; but if it con- 
tinue any long time, or return with much 
frequency, it often produces very mif- 
ehievous confequences and effe&s; fuch 
as lofs of memory, &c. and fometimes it 
introduces mere idiotifm. An epilepfy 
appearing foon after birth, is probably 
owing to fome injury done to the brain, 
as the head Ihoots through the vagina, 
and is feldom cured. A fright, or hidden 
paffion of the mind, will fometimes oc- 
eahon an epilepfy; worms in children 
often produce it, by irritating the nervous 
fyilem of the inteftines. In this cafe, if we can remove the caufe, the difeafe is 
generally cured. An epilepfy fornetimes 
ends in melancholy, or madnefs. When 
it brings on a palfy, or apoplexy, it proves 
mortal. Sometimes a quartan ague puts 
an end to it. We have three indications 
of cure. Firji, to prevent an impending 
paroxyfm; Secondly, to Ihorten it when 
prelent; and, Thirdly, to guard againft 
future attacks. In phlethoric habits, 
evacuation may fornetimes be necelfary, 
to ward off the fit: but if the pulfe be low 
and weak, the Nervous Cordial*, or a 
flight emetic, with a flrong opiate 
afterwards : thirty or forty drops at 
leafl: of the tindlure bearing this name, 
and repeated every night for fome 
days. 
The following powders may be after- 
wards taken occafionally : 
* Vide cafies inferted at the end of this chapter. Powder of Valerian 
of Peruvian bark, of each i oz. 
•of Senna 
Antimonial Powder, of each i dram. 
Mix them, and divide into thirty dofes ; 
of which one may be taken three times 
a day, in a glafs of wine and water. 
Cold bathing will likewife at this time 
be often of effential confequence. CASES. 
The fon of John Newman,- ofller, at the White 
Hart, Newmarket, was afflicted with fits, fo that he vas 
quite fpeechlefs; by: taking Dr. Brodum’s Reflora live 
Nervous Cordial, was perfectly cured in two month?. 
Witnefs, y. Newman, Newmarket* 
January 7, 1791. 
The fon of Robert Parkbr was violently afflifted 
with epileptic fits; by taking Dr. Brodum’s Reflorative 
Nervous Cordial, was perfectly cured in a fortnight. 
Witneffes, Richard Searle, M. Dawfon, Linen Drapery 
No, 4, Northgate-Jireet, and yohn Lacfiead. 
frog Lane, Bath, April 4, 1792, CHAP IV. 
MADNESS. 
T CONFESS, that but few opportu- 
A nities of making obfervations upon 
this difeafe have occurred to me, in the 
courfe of my practice. Some few, how- 
ever, have : and in thefe I have feldom 
purfued that coercion and complete de- 
privation of perfonal liberty, which is fo 
warmly recommended by many phyfi- 
cians. If any degree of irritability is 
prefent, it will add to that irritability; 
and in the mod: irritable habits, it will 
too much prevent that exercife, and thofe 
rural amufements and pure air, which 
are often of the highed confequence ima- 
ginable. The bed book on this fubjedl, with which I am acquainted, and which 
1 would therefore recommend, is Bailey’s 
Treatife on Mania. 
If there be any fever prefent, it is 
feated in the brain, and is of the chronic 
kind. But the bed: and mod immediate: 
diffeflions have never yet difcovered any 
phyfical difference or alteration, between 
a patient dying under this or any other 
difeafe. Dr. Brooke, of St. Luke’s hof- 
pital, has, with the hope of fuch a dis- 
covery, diffefted the brain of many of his 
patients ; but in every indance .it proved 
a ufelefs attempt, and he was never able 
to afeertain any thing like the proximate 
caufe of the fird paroxyfm. 
The practice purfued at Bethlem hod 
pital, is to give dradic purges and eme- 
tics every week, with the tonic applica- 
tions of the cold baths and chalybeates. 
This lad medicine was highly approved of, and much recommended, by my late 
intimate and worthy friend. Dr. Hugh 
Smith; but, though I Shall ever pay the 
greateft deference to his judgment, and 
refledl on his friendship with the higheft 
Satisfaction, I cannot avoid adding, that I 
have found many cafes, particularly in 
young women of delicate habits, and 
where the difeafe has been brought on 
from extreme difappointment, or Sadden 
frights, in which the Steel would not 
agree with the Stomach ; and in all thefe 
cafes, I have tried the Nervous Cordial 
in its Stead, with great advantage to the 
patient, as well as to my own reputation. 
Bliflers, by their irritation, would I think 
rather increafe the diforder; efpecially 
when owing to a violent agitation of the 
animal Spirits. Opiates are highly ad- 
vantageous, as they diminish whatever 
irritability is prefent, and as we Should 
always endeavour to divert the attention 
J 
of the patient, by a multiplicity of objects. and not permit the mind to be engroffed 
by one fubjedf, or train of thoughts ; for 
we fee that difappoin ted love, great loffes, 
deep ftudy, or in fhort, any thing that 
thus too largely occupies the attention, is 
of itfelf one prime and frequent caufe 
of the difeafe. 49 
CHAP. V. 
OF DEAFNESS. 
r I ''HE hearing is a fenfe by which 
found is perceived from a tremb- 
ling motion of the external air beating 
upon the tympanum, and fo moving 
the internal air by means of the fibres of 
the auditory nerve that is communicated, 
to the brain. The tympanum or drum 
of the ear, is a nervous; round, pellucid 
membrane of mod: exquifite fenfe, fe- 
parating the outward from the inward 
ear, and fprings, according to fome 
opinions, from the pericranium, to 
others from the pia mater, to others 
from the dura mater, and to others 
from the fofter procefs of the auditory 
nerve expanded. When it is taken 
VOL. I. away, a cavity on the inlide of it, in 
which are contained four little bones 
that are moveable, and very much con- 
duce to hearing ; malleolus, or the 
little hammer, incus the anvil, ftapes 
the ftirrup, and os orbiculare, fo called 
from its round drape. If by any ac- 
cident the tympanum is lafeerated, the' 
hearing of the ear is irrecoverably loft, 
therefore let the young furgeon be 
cautious how or with what he Ivrinsres 
j O 
an ear, aiid be ftire to ufe an ear- 
lyringe, and not one with a long pipe, 
nor do it too forcibly, left he defervedly 
obtain juft ftiame and fcandal, and do 
fuch mifehief as he can never make 
fatisfadlion for. 
Powers that can impede the undu- 
lating air from making a proper im- 
preflion on the auditory nerve, may be 
the caufe of deafnefs. This occurs in 
cafes where the externalpaffage is corked up with wax, or any other fubdance. 
Here the fird indication is, to foften the 
wax, by dropping in a little oil, mixed 
with ox’s or Iheep’s gall; and then to 
lyringe it with warm water, and a little 
Sp. Rorifmarin. 
But there is another and a more 
common caufe of deafnefs by far than 
the above. It is debility in the audi- 
tory nerve, and an incapacity of ex- 
erting its due tone and faculty, even 
when the meatus auditorius, or paffage 
of hearing, is open and not obdruefed. 
Of fifty cafes of deafnefs, that occur 
every day, forty-nine at lead, are ow- 
ing to this fource. And here, I confefs, 
I know of no very efficacious remedy, 
excepting the Nervous Cordial, which 
I have found fucceed, without failure in 
a fingle indance, after all the common 
preferiptions and modes of cure have 
been tried to no purpofe, I have, therefore, recommended it by way of 
trial to other medical pradlioners of 
great merit and eminence, and am 
happy in having the addition of their 
teftimony and fupport univerfally in 
my favour*. 
The adoption of Cantharides I would 
not, on any account, recommend. 
The cold bath, and fomctimes fmall 
eledbrical fhocks may be of ufe, both 
in deafnefs and blindnefs, when they 
proceed from paralytic caufes. Though 
I acknowledge, that among the mul- 
tiplicity of caufes from which deafnefs 
may arife, fome may defeat the in- 
tention of the before-mentioned reme- 
dies. 
And as the ear is a delicate organ, 
and may moft eafily be injured, I 
* Vide cafes at the end of the chapter. would advife no patient to quack or 
tamper with himfelf, but immediately 
to apph to fome eminent medical 
practitioner for‘advice. My own pa- 
tients are i'enfible of the propriety of 
this obfervation, and the perfonal ap- 
plication of their friends to me, whom 
they know labouring under fuch com- 
plaints, from which they have been 
relieved, have been very preffing and 
numerous indeed.. CASES. 
Copy of a Letter to' Dr. Brodum. 
Dear Sir, 
I fhould be totally deftitute of gratitude, were I to 
Omit returning you my fincere thanks, and taking every 
poffible means of informing the world of my fon’s afto- 
nifhing recovery from a total (and as many of the Faculty 
pronounced it an incurable) deafnefs, by applying to you, 
and taking your Nervous Cordial. It is impoffible any 
one can form an adequate idea of my fon’s fenfation on 
being reftored to perfect hearing, after having been to- 
tally deprived of that fenfe for upwards of two years. 
My gratitude to you. Sir, admits not of language ; fuffice 
it to fay, I regard you as the immediate inftrument of 
Heaven, in recovering my fon from a ft ate which refufed 
to yeild to any Ikill but your’s. It is my wifti to teftify 
my gratitude in the moft ample manner ; therefore, if 
you think the publication of this letter will do you any 
fervice, you have permixfton to make any ufe of it you 
think proper, and I fhall always efteem myfelf happy 
in teftifying how grateful a fenfe I have of your fuperior 
abilities. 
Sarah Thorp. 
Witnefs, William Brijlonv, Printer of the Kentifh 
Chronicle, and Samuel Kingsford, of Slurry, Banker 
in Canterbury. 
Slurry, near Canterbury, Dec, 11, 1793. A rcfpedable lady of Shard Sutton, near Maidftone, 
Kent, was afflicted with a nervous complaint and total 
deafnefs ; by taking fix bottles of Dr, Brodum’s Nervous 
Cordial (bought at Mr Blake’s, Maidftone) was perfectly 
reftored. 
July 10, 1794. 
A gentleman’s fon, in Artillery-ftreet, in the Borough, 
had long been afflifted with deafnefs; by taking Dr. 
Brodum’s Nervous Cordial, was perfectly reftored to his 
hearing. [This gentleman does not wifh to have his 
name publicly inferted, but has given permiflion to the 
Dotdor to refer to his houfe.] 
London 'Jan. 15, 1795"- 
Mr. D n, a wine-merchant in the city, was deaf 
feveral years; by taking the Nervous Cordial was reftored 
to his hearing. 
Thomas Capps, of Eaft Dereham, Norfolk, was 
afflifted with a violent noife in his head, and was deaf 
feven years, which proceeded originally from a Nervous 
complaint; by taking Dr. Brodum’s Reiterative Nervous 
Cordial, was perfectly cured, and can hear now as well as 
ever.—l have feen and converfcd with Thomas Capps, 
and believe him to be perfectly cured. 
Witnefs my hand, Samuel Ra/ht Efq; one of his Ma- 
jefty’s juftices of the county of Norfolk, Mr. Raymond, fttip-builder, of Southampton, was 
affiifted with a nervous complaint, had always a nolle in 
his head, which made him very deaf; by taking Dr. 
Brodum’s Reiterative Nervous Cordial, was perfectly 
cured in three months. 
Another remarkable hi fiance ofDeafnefs radically cured 
through the Virtue of the 
RESTORATIVE NERVOUS CORDIAL. 
Sir, 
I waited on you for your advice about the 18th of 
December, being afflicted with a nervous deainefs. I 
promifed to let you know if I received benefit. 1 left 
■word with my nephew, that is apprentice to Mr. Brif- 
toav, Canterbury, that I was better, and if you had 
not wrote to. Mr. Macmilian that you expect :d a line 
from him, fhould not have troubled you with a letter, 
as your (kill is two well known to receive any luftre 
from a ftngle cure. But as it is now fix weeks fincc 
I left my friends to return to Scotland, I have the- 
pleafure to inform you, that the five-guinea bottle of your 
Nervous Cordial that I bought at your houfe, has 
entirely removed the complaint, and I now at the 
writing of this, am recovered from the deafnefs, for 
which I return you my moll fincere thanks, and am. 
Sir,. 
Carfphaine, Scotland Your very humble Servant,. 
March 2L, 1796. Esther.Macmilxan,. I, Thomas Kent, at Darington, in Suflcx, was 
afflifted with a deafnefs for twelve years, and had a 
noife in my ears like the found of bells, which proceeded 
from a nervous complaint; by applying to Dr. Brodum 
am perfectly cured by his Reftorative Nervous Cordial. 
I am now fixty years of age, and can hear as well as ever, 
Witnefs my hand. 
Thomas Kent. 
Witnefs, John Boyce, at the Siar Intty Shoreham, Sujfex% 
January, J792, CHAP. VI. 
DISEASES OF THE EYE. 
TMPERFECT viflon may arife from 
whatever mav refradt or oblfrudl the 
J 
rays of light from falling upon the op- 
tic nerve. This may proceed either 
from a cataradl, an opake cornea, or 
a paralyfis of the nerve itfelf. For the 
firft, nothing but the operation, either 
of couching or extradfion can be tiled, 
as no medicine will have any falutary 
effedl on the chryidaline lens. Inflam- 
mations are the mod common caufes 
of the fecond, from the fluids being 
too forcibly pufhed on, and forming an 
error loci. This mud be treated like 
all other inflammations, and common fo- mentations of poppy heads will, there- 
fore, often be ufeful. A laxity often 
remains, however, after the inflammation 
has fubfided, and is fometimes removed 
with difficulty. The Collyrium formed 
from white vitriol, as a gentle aflrin- 
gent, bids fair to fucceed in all fuch 
cafes. 
Iffues are likewife of ferviee; but 
when this plan does not fucceed, we 
may rather fuppofe it to be of the 
rheumatic kind, and treat it accord- 
ingly. And here the bark and the 
Nervous Cordial will be of infinite 
life : But the pulfe mud: direcl us what 
plan to purfue. In ffirumous opthal- 
mics, the bark has been greatly re- 
commended, particularly by Dr. Fo- 
thergill; but Dr. Hugh Smi did not 
find it fo fiiccefsful. He ' ed the 
different preparations of chalybeate 
powders, in folution, which, he has often told me never once deceived 
him. Opacities from fpecks may be 
relieved by collyriums of glafs and 
fugar-candy reduced to an impalpable 
powder, and blown daily into the 
eye. The niblitation of the eye-lids 
over this laft fubftance, often makes the 
fpeck wear away. 
The ophthalmia is an inflammation 
in the tunica albugenea, and the other 
membranes of the eves. It is mold to 
j 
be dreaded when an original difeafe, 
and may proceed from any internal 
caufe capable of producing an inflam- 
mation, but frequently occurs from 
accident. When accompanied with 
the head-ach, it portends blindnefs. 
It is fometimes occalioned by the eye- 
lafhes turning inwards, and is then 
ealily cured, by removing the inverted 
hairs. When a flux of humours attend the complaint, it is relieved by what- 
ever abates the inflammation. 
The amanrofis, or gutta terena, is 
a tpecies of blindnefs that arifes from 
a palfy of the optic nerve, and is fre- 
quently owing to a fchrofulous habit. 
Here the pupil is dilated to its utmofl 
extent. If it contradts and dilates by 
rubbing, it is a good %n: If, on the 
contrary, it continues immoveable and 
inirritable, we mull not expect a cure. 
An incipient amaurofls may be relieved 
by bleeding and gentle purges. If 
there thould be any fvmptorns of in- 
flammation, blitters may be applied to 
the head, or behind the ears. It tome- 
times proceeds from a rheumatic caufe, 
and here the Nervous Cordial, or 
fuch anti-rheumatics as opium and 
antimonial preparations may be taken 
to advantage. Externally, Hungary 
water thould be applied as a collyrium. 6 2 
lii eafes of relaxation, the bark bids 
fair to be ufeful. I have often 
preferibed copper, or a folution of 
Roman vitriol, ufed externally as a 
collyrinm, and thefe, with the aflifl;- 
ance of country air and exercile, I 
have frequently found fuccefsful. For 
inflammation of the eye-lids, the fofter 
animal oils may often prove advan- 
tageous, thofe of poultry, perhaps, more 
particularly fo; or if thefe cannot be 
procured, the vegetable oils, free from 
rancidity, and formed into an ointment 
with white .wax, may be ufed with 
equal advantage. 
The reafon that owls, &c. cannot 
fee difl.inclly in the day, is becaufe 
their pupil being exceedingly dilated 
and ' incontraclible, admits too laree a 
quantity of the rays of light, for the 
purpofe of vifion. When, on the con- 
trary, the darknefs of the evening fu- pervenes, this extreme dilatation, which 
was fo injurious before, will now be 
highly beneficial, and enable the ani- 
mal to difcriminate objebls more mi- 
nutely. 
CASES. 
Mary Haylock:, wife of Thomas Haylock, of Fly, 
Canibrldgefhire, loft the fight of one of her eyes; by 
applying to Dr. Brodum, was perfectly cured in fix 
weeks.—Witncfs, John Vail, John Hairy Rf:, Mailer 
of the Cambridge Band. 
The Ton of Mr Phillips, of Bainton, Northamptonlhire, 
loft his fight; but by applying to Dr. Brodum, he was 
perfectly reftored, 
Witnefs, R. Lilly, Stamford, 
Thomas Norwood, keeper to his Grace the Duke 
of Buccleugh, was blind of one eye ; but by applying to 
and taking Dr. Brodura’s medicines was perfeftly cured. 
Remington, near bundle. Thomas Norwood. T'O DR. BRODUM. 
I feel It a duty incumbent on me to ftate my own cafe 
to you, and to acknowledge I have received much more 
benefit from taking your Reiterative Nervous Cordial, and 
Botannical Syrup, than from any other medicines or appli- 
cations I have ever made ufe of fince my illnefs. 
D EAR Sir, 
Exeter 2qth July, 1796. 
In September, 1793, I Walked from Exeter to Teign- 
mouth, 14 miles, in about four hours and a half; by over 
heating my blood, and neglecting to take the neceflary 
care of myfelf, a violent inflammation came on in my 
blood : I took cold, and in a few days felt great irritation 
in my Ikin, and particularly in the calves of my legs, which 
in the courfe of a fortnight Ipread all over my body, very 
flrong fcorbutic eruptions broke out and fo much affedted 
my fight as to deprive me ox reading or writing. I 
applied to feveral eminent gentlemen of the faculty, both 
here and in London;—after trying a variety of applica- 
tions, both internal and external, I found myfelf growing 
worfe every day for upwards of 18 months. I was fo very 
blind as not to be able to fee to read even the largeft print 
without glafles, and very imperfectly with them; nor did I 
know my own children at three yards diftance, except when 
they fpoke to me. Seeing an account of your Nervous Cor- 
dial and Botannical Syrup, I determined to try them; I 
have taken fome few bottles of each medicine, and now 
find my eyes fo much better as to be able to fee to read 
the fmalleft print as well ever I could, and my health is, I 
thank God, entirely reftored, I have alfo the pleafure to inform you, that I recommended the Cordial to a young 
lady of my acquaintance, who from a fright, was thrown 
into a very dangerous nervous complaint, which {he la- 
boured under for two years and a half, and her life was 
pronounced to be in imminent danger; fhs took fix or 
feven bottles of it, and is now perfectly rcftored to health 
and fpirits : her legs fwelled very much, fne had violent 
pains in the head and ftomach, and fainted frequently in 
the day—all which have now entirely left her. I have 
advifed her to continue the medicines two or three wmeks 
longer. This lady, does not wifh to have her name a pear 
in print, but you arc welcome to refer any perfon to me 
for the truth of thefe fafts. I will anfwrer any letters (pod 
paid.) You may advertife thefe cafes; and lam with 
cileera and refpeft. 
dear Sir, 
Your much obliged humble fervanf. 
Wm. SPICER DIX, Merchant. 
Witneffes, John Coward, and John ChiiTem, attorney, 
Exeter. 
I know the above to be true, having had all the circura- 
ftances from the gentleman’s own mouth. 
Rich. Graves, Captain in the Royal Navy, 
Hembury Fort, hear Honiton, Devon. 
Being In London, I had the fatisfadlion of feeing and 
converfmg with Mr. Dix, who confirmed the above cure 
to me. 
J. Baxter, Italian Warehoufe, Edinburgh, 
September, 1796. TO Dr. BRODUM. 
Sir, 
I return you my Sincere thanks for the great cure you 
have performed on me. I was afflidled with a complaint 
in my head, which grew fo bad, that it entirely took away 
the light of one of my eyes, and the other in darknefs for 
a conliderable time. Fortunately Dr. Brodum ufed to 
vilit a gentleman at Stand on, and my friend fpoke to him 
about me, to which the Dodlor immediately anfwered, 
that he would do his endeavour. He couched my eye the 
9th of July, and on the 12 th I was able to fee, and on 
the 25th following was quite recovered. I am now able 
to get my bread as ufual, for which I lhall always be 
bound to pray for the Doftor. Any perfon doubting the 
truth, may be convinced by applying by a letter, or per- 
sonally, by any of the witneffes. 
Edward Clarke. 
Witnefles, William Durranae, Bailiff to ’Squire Rook ; 
John Gutteridgc, Overfeer; William Chapman, George 
Whitaker, Paper Miller. 
Standou, Hertfordjhire, July 25, 1790# CHAP. VII. 
CONSUMPTION. 
A* opinion has been entertained by 
Shirk, R ingins, Willis, and fome 
others, that many have been afflided 
with confumption for the fpace of be- 
tween thirty and forty years, without 
interruption, and that without its hav- 
ing any fatal influence on their lives till 
the complete termination of fuch period. 
Having fo much time therefore, allowed 
to attend to the difeafe, and remove it 
in its origin, how obvioufly clear is it 
that thofe who have any fuch fymptoms 
in their confutation, fhould make im- 
mediate application to fome medical pro- 
feflbr of eminence. The fuccefs I have met with myfelf in this complaint is 
founded on a long experience, and tefti- 
fied by a hold of witnedes, who have 
done me the honour to place themfelves 
under my care. The cure of this com- 
plaint, in a great mcafure, depends upon 
the regimen which is obferved by the 
patient, and the mod: alarming lymp- 
toms will fubfide by a perfeverance in 
adopting fuch regimen. 
Mild balfamics, conveyed into the 
lungs .by inlpiration, will be of great 
fervice, when ulcers are formed, and 
proper exercite, frelh air, and bark taken 
freely, will accelerate the progrefs of 
the cure. The eolumbo root is an 
excellent fubditute for the latter me- 
dicine, when it cannot be employed,- 
and blunts the acrimony of the juices, 
at the fame that it improves the* 
appetite. The obfervation of the celebrated 
Dr. Fothergill deferves particular; at- 
tention, who very judly remarks that 
medicine at the commencement of the 
diforder, is the fared: way to relief. To 
elucidate his obfervation, a cough is oc- 
calioned by acrid ferum, which if not 
foon removed, will produce an inflamma- 
tion, and that, for want of refolution, 
will foon prove infurmountable Too 
late application in thele inflances is 
produdlive of the word: of confe- 
quences. 
When the inflammation is condder- 
able, bleeding is ferviceable, and the 
expedloration is encreafed by the follow- 
ing medicine: 
* This laft-mentioned fubjeft being too voluminious to 
difeufs in the prefent confined limits, I beg leav« to refer 
the reader to a work juft publifhed, entitled, “ A Treatifc 
on the Cough.” . Gum Arabic, in Pulv. gfs 
• M7rrh sj 
Scillye PP gr. vj 
Nit. Depurat 3 is 
Sacch. Alb. 3 is 
m f. Pulv. 
Divide, in chart No. xij, Cap. i, 
ter. die cum Cyath. Tincl. Rofar. 
The above prefeription continue 
three weeks, and then re-commence 
the Nervous Cordial. 
Acids, in this difeafe, cool the blood, 
and quench the third, efpecially thole 
of a vegetable nature, as apple’s, oranges, 
lemons, &c. the quantity rnuft be regu- 
lated by the ftrength of the flomach 
of the patient and his inclination. 
Sydenham, in confumptive cafes, fays, 
the bell: phyfician is a horfe, but enfee- 
bled patients Ihould confider, that by taking cold, or enduring too great fa- 
tigue, they may receive more injury 
than benefit. Confumptive patients 
fhould indulge themfelves in riding with 
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the greateft caution, otherwile, inffead 
of facilitating, they may retard their 
cure, but if after fuch exercife, their 
fpirits are improved, their appetite re- 
turn, and their freedom of breathing in- 
create, they may continue the exercife, 
provided they abide by the above in- 
flrudions. 
Women’s milk, if drawn from the 
bread:, is of great fervice, and next to 
it afs’s milk, from its abounding with 
fweet ferum. Goat’s and cow’s milk, 
have, likewife, in thefe cafes, been at- 
tended with excellent effedls. Thefe 
animals fhould be fed on thofe vege- 
tables beft calculated and conducive to 
health.. Night fweats, fhortnefs of breath, 
hedlic heats, and {pitting of blood are 
ail removed by a perfeverence in taking 
the Botanical Syrup, which I again, 
with confidence, recommend as produc- 
tive of the bed: of confequences in 
every fpecies of consumptions, THE ATROPHY, 
OR NERVOUS CONSUMPTION. 
nPHIS cliforder, though arifing from 
different caufes, and advanced 
to different degrees, is, in fact, nof- 
withftanding the variety of Symptoms, 
but of one and the fame nature. It is 
occasioned by the organs of digeftion 
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being weakened, and is known by a 
decreafe of flrength, deprivation of ap- 
petite, little or no fever, fhortnefs of 
breath, and the generally high, but 
inconlrant colour of the urine. 
Children are frequently afflicted with 
this diieafe from the Hidden change of 
their aliment, in being taken from the 
breaft, to fubfiit on more folid food. 
VOL. I. when their legs become pendulous, their 
habit flaccid, their ikin corrugated, and 
their appetite infatiable. This diforder 
is totally different from the rickets, or 
that leannefs that occurs from the bread; 
not affording a proper fubfiffence. 
When this diforder refults from a 
diarrhoea, fluor albus, diabetes, gonor- 
rhoea, &c. the one ultimately depends on 
the removal of the original difeafe. 
When cauled by indigeffion, as frequent- 
ly happens to children and aged perfons, 
gentle dofes of calomel and rhubarb 
Ihould be prelcribed, alternately chang- 
ing it for ffomachics and warm perfpi- 
ratives. Irritating purges, by inflaming 
the bowels, fliould be carefully avoided. 
The cure of this difeafe will be great- 
ly accelerated by a regular courfe of the 
Nervous Cordial, and the whole materia 
medica cannot lupply a more efficacious medicine. Twenty or thirty drops of 
elixir of vitriol, taken twice a day, in 
a glafs of wine and water, will be found 
extremely beneficial. 
Patients, in this difeafe, fhould amufe 
themfelves as much as poflible, and as 
ferenity of mind is, in this inftance, a 
grand point towards the re-effablifhment 
of health, they fhould adopt fuch 
amufements, and feledl fuch company 
as they know, from the nature of their 
difpofition, will afford them the greateff 
pleafure. 
The king’s evil, the aflhma, the fcur- 
vy, the venereal difeafe, &c. caufing a 
confumption, proper attention fhould be 
paid to the original malady. 
When extraordinary evacuations are 
the caufe, nature fhould not be con- 
trolled, but the ftrength preferved by the admiaiftratibn of facb reidoratives 
as the Nervous Cordial, with the afiifh- 
ance of gentle exercife and falutary 
diet. In tliefe cafes, a deeodlion of 
farfaparilla, faloop, chalybeate waters, 
and bark are powerful affiflants. 
In perfons of an irritable habit, the 
fpafmodic affections fhould be removed 
by opiates, mucilaginous fubdances, 
gentle glutinous aftringents, bark, and 
medicines agreeable to the nature of 
the fymptoms of the difeafe. 
The circulation in fcrofulous and can- 
cerous cafes, fhould be reduced as low 
as the patient’s flate of health is capable 
of bearing. A thin light diet, made of 
jellies, from vegetable and animal fub- 
ftances, fhould then be prefered, and, 
as corroborants, the bark and vitriolic 
elixir. Sarfapariila, vyith a milk diet, maj 
be recommended. When the com- 
plaint proceeds from a venereal infec- 
tion, but in no ftage of the diforder, let 
it derive its influence from what origin 
it may, is there fo fafe, fo innocent, fo 
efficacious a prefcription as the two me- 
dicines above recommended, viz. the 
Nervous Cordial and Botanical Syrup. 
CASES. 
SIR, 
I return you my hncere thanks for the cure you have 
performed on me: I was in a deep decline, and could 
fcarce walk, but by taking Dr. Brodum’s Botanical 
Syrup, I was reftored to perfect health in the fpace of three 
weeks. 
John Garratt. 
Witnefles, V/m. Harper, wool-ftapler, R, Lilly, f. 
Somersfeld, j. Perkins, Alex. Mitchell. 
St, Martin’sx Stamford Baron, Mrs. Wins or, the wife of Mr. Winfor, of Yeovil, 
Baker, being for fome time in a very weak ftate, with 
fhortnefs of breath, having no lleep, and lofs of fiefh, 
infomuch that every one thought her in a lingering decline, 
was advifed to a;ply to Dr. Brodum, at Sherborne, who 
made a perfect cure of her in fix weeks, by admi- 
niftering his Reftorative Nervous Cordial. 
Any perfon doubting of the above, may be fatisfied of 
the fame, by applying to Mr, Winfor, at Yeovil, Somer- 
fetlhire. 
Another proof of the efficacy of Dr* Brodurns medicines. 
George Hunt, Jun. carpenter of Aylesford, near Maid- 
Jione, Kent, was afflicted with a nervous complaint and a 
decline; he was fo debilitated as to be incapable of riling 
out of his bed without affiftance. By taking Dr. Brodum’s 
medicines was perfectly cured. 
G. Hunt. 
Any perfon doubting the truth of this, by writing to 
Mr. Hunt, may be fully fatisfied. 
Elizabeth Williams, of Weftdean, near Chichef- 
tcr, Suflex, was in a decline for fome time; by applying to 
Dr. Brodum, and taking his Nervous Cordial, was per- 
fectly cured.—Witnefs her Sifter, 
November 14, I 794. Ann Pennells, 
St, Martin s Lane, Chichejicr, Sujfex% In gratitude to you and for the good of my fellow-crea- 
tures, I do hereby tefrify, that my daughter, Elizabeth 
Wood, of Bervvich in Elmet, near Leeds, was in a decline, 
and her legs fwellcd in an extraordinary manner; by taking 
five bottles of Dr. Brodum’s Nervous Cordial, w'as per- 
fectly cured, and is now as hearty as ever fhe was in her 
life.—As witnefs my hand. 
Elizabeth Wood, Sen, 
Wltnels, Lheop. Steady of the Old-Swan, Call-laney 
Leeds. 
July 22, 1793. 
W. Shotter, journeyman to Mr. deed, fhoe-maker 
in High-ftreet, Southampton, was in a decline, which 
brought him fo low as to oblige him to walk with a crutch, 
and every one thought him paft recovery t but he was per- 
fectly cured in three months, by Dr. Brodum’s Nervous and 
Reftorative Cordial, and is now in as good health and 
fpirits as ever, and as able to work. The truth of which 
will be acknowledged by Mr. deed, to any that are 
doubtful. CHAP. VIII. 
THE JAUNDICE. 
"XT ATURE has formed a great 
apparatus for the formation of 
bile, which is of effential fervice in 
the animal oeconomy, but when it 
flows in two confiderable quantities, 
or poficfies too much vifcidity, the 
certain confequence is the Jaundice. 
This difeafe frequently occurs from 
o bflru&ions, fmall or fpafms 
in the biliary du£ls, inflammation or 
fcirrhus, and often proceeds from an 
impeded influx of the bile into the duode- 
num, and an abforption of it into the 
circulation, whereby the ferous parts of the blood are tinged, and will be 
vifible in the more pellucid parts, as 
the white of the eves. The urine, 
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being loaded with it, will be very 
high coloured, and will dye a cloth 
of a faffron hue; the faeces will be 
white, for want of bile to colour 
them, and a dropfy often fucceeds, the 
parts becoming relaxed for want of 
nouriihment. The caufes are various ; 
they may either proceed from calculi or 
fpafms, in the biliary duels, or inflam- 
mation, or a pituitous lentor. If from 
the find caufe, we mud endeavour to 
relax the du6ls, that the done may 
pafs into the duodenum; for this pur- 
pofe we advife blood-letting, opiates, 
and clyders, till the pain is eafed, and 
fuch medicines as will keep the body 
open; afterwards, a courfe of Bath 
waters may be employed advantage- 
oufly. We may have violent pains in 
the loins, from calculi paffing through the du£ts, which may lay in fuch a 
/iteration as not totally to obhrudi: the 
pafTage of the bile, therefore will be 
unattended with the jaundice. Sait of 
tartar will diffolve gall flones, as will 
foap lees, and the bile of vipers. Vio- 
lent paffion, or the cholic, a6l by in- 
ducing a fpafm upon the dudls; this 
fpafm will be but relieved by the courfe 
of medicines noticed above, and when 
the cholic paffion fubfides, the jaun- 
dice will fubfide likewife. Stomach ca- 
thartics, aloetics, and faponaceous medi- 
cines will be neceffarv, and form the 
regular routine of pra&ice among phy- 
ficians ; but when thefe medicines are 
found to fail, I would advife, from a 
convidlion of its utility, the immedi- 
ate ufe of the Nervous Cordial. 
The other remedies to be ufed for 
peripneumonia notha, will in common, 
be advifeable in this cafe, as the gene- ral caufe and cure is one and the fame 
thing, the feat of the difeafe only con- 
ftituting the difference. Afterwards 
the body is ftrengthened by exercife, 
&c. the Nervous Cordial being flill 
continued. 
The languor, inactivity, and indo- 
lence fo common in the jaundice, arife 
from a want of bile in the find paf- 
fages, whereby no intimate union of 
our food can be effected, from whence 
want of digeflion and nutrition, which, 
of courfe, mud: produce general debility. 
A dropfy will often fucceed a long 
continued jaundice, in confequence of 
this debilitv, and is onlv to be removed 
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by removing fir ft of ail the jaundice 
that produced it, and afterwards by 
the application and ufe of thole tonic 
medicines which are recommended in 
cafes when the dropfy is idiopathic, or 
uncompounded with any other difeafe. CASES. 
I return my fxnccre thanks for the great cure you 
have performed on me. I was afflifted with the feurvy 
and dropfy, and likewife the yellow jaundice; my legs and 
body were fwelled in an amazing manner; at laid it fell on 
my lungs, fo that I could hardly breathe ; I thought every 
moment would be my lad; I tried many remedies, but all 
to no purpofe, and every body thought I could not live 
many days ; but by the bleffmg of God, Dr. Brodum, by 
his (kill and Botanical Syrup, made a perfeft cure of me in 
a Ihort time, which I am ready to atteft on oath, either 
perfonally or by letter. Witnefs my hand, ‘Thomas Tobilt, 
Miller, at Mr. Sfo-vill’s mill, Stcyning, Suffix. 
Winches to the above, H. Lcggatt, Butcher, Steyning, 
John Curtis, Ironmonger. 
The wife of William Welling, of Breeding, near Steyn- 
ing, was a drifted with convulilons in her doraach, and the 
yellow jaundice, likewife the gravel, with which die had 
before laid for upwards of fix months, when (he was given 
over by the other doctors, who told her they did not know 
what to give her more. We can declare die did not expe- 
rience, for fix months, one night’s reft, nor even three 
hour’s eafei together, but always laid fereaming and cry- 
ing, praying to the Lord to take her out of her mifery, 
which all her neighbours know, but through the mercy of God, we heard of the great fldll of Dr. Brodum with his 
Nervous Cordial, and what cures he had done to people. 
He was fent for, and was fo kind to tell her the complaints 
exaftly, before Ihe fpoke ; he likewife told her, that {he 
might make herfelf eafy, for when all Doftors had given 
Tier over, there was a Doctor above which had not, and, 
with the blefllng of God, he would recover her. Any 
perfon doubting the above, may have the fulleft fatisfaction 
by applying to 
Catherine Edward?, 
Witnefs, Richard Goddard, Schoolmjiftcr. CHAP. IX. 
BILIOUS COMPLAINTS. 
rT'IIE burning bilious fever in the 
A Weft Indies, that is often called 
the yellow fever, frequently attacks 
the Europeans, who indulge to excefs, 
and become victims to this fatal dif- 
eafe, through not guarding againft the 
heats and dews that are general in 
that part of the univerfe. It gene- 
rally occurs fuddenly, and commences 
with a fenfe of dibility and extreme 
lownefs of fpirits: thefe fymptoms 
are accompanied with a greater or 
lelfer degree of chilnefs, giddinefs, 
pains in the head and loins, and 
tremblinG: of the hands. As the 
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Paroxyfm encreafes, the naufea becomes more violent, and there is generally 
vomited a confiderablc quantity of 
bile. 
This fubjedt is fo copious, that 
volumes might be written to eluci- 
date the various caules by which it 
i$ produced ; but as the mod: expref- 
hve language that was ever conveyed 
on paper, could not give fo competent 
an idea of the virtues of the Nervous 
Cordial, as the perufal of the following 
cafes, the publication of the truth is 
preferred in the indance in quedion, 
to elegant or fublime expreliions. 
The following attedations are dif- 
tinguidied by a veracity that mud foon 
convince, even the incredulous, to an 
implicit belief of their truth. CASES. 
To W. BRODUM, M. D. 
No. 9, Albion-flreet, Blackfriar’s-bridge, London. 
At the defife of Mr. Mctralcourt, I forward his cafe 
*0 you. 
Richard Crutwell, Printer, Bath, 
Sir, 
The wonderful good effects of your Reftorative Nervous 
Cordial I (hall ever be proud to acknowledge, either in 
public or private. I know your repute, and the falutary 
effect of your medicine are too well eftablifhed to need 
any atteftation of mine, but gratitude induces me to caufe 
to be publifhed the following wonderful cure (performed 
by the adminiflration of your Nervous Cordial) for the 
fake of my friends, and the public in general, who labour 
under fimilar complaints, that they may in like manner 
make application to you, before their complaint gets to 
fuch an alarming pitch, as to be almoft paft recovery. 
I was afflicted with a nervous and bilious complaint, 
which affedled (very feverely) my head and hearing, with 
a continual palpitation of my heart, in fuch a trem- 
bling ftate as to prevent the exertion of my profeflional 
talents (as a dancing mafter) on which refts my dependance 
for fupport; at length my breath became fhort and he£lic> 
and my whole frame difordered. I was then advifed to drink the waters, and bathe, which I alfo did to no pur- 
port ;at laft, by the blefling of God, and by taking your 
Reftorative Nervous Cordial, I am happily and thoroughly 
re-eftablifhed in my former ftate of health. 
C. Metr.ucourt, 
«SV. ’James's Parade, Bath, 
June 26, 1795. 
I, Edward Ford, was afflifted with a bilious com- 
plaint for fome time, my face quite yellow, my breath 
very flaort, and at laft my body began to fwell, and my 
appetite failed me, which prevented me walking; after 
trying the moft eminent phyficians to no effeft, by taking 
Dr. Brodum’s Nervous Cordial, was perfectly reftored in 
two months, which cafe I particularly wifh to have pub- 
-11 (hed for the fake of others,, my fellow creatures who 
labour under fuch painful diforders. 
Edw. Ford, Whitftable. 
Witnefs, John Terry, Betherfden, near Ajhford. 
Any perfon doubting the above cure, by applying per- 
fonally or by lettter, poft-paid, to Edward Ford, at the 
Ship, Whitftable, near Canterbury, may be fatisfied of the 
fame. CHAP. X. 
DISEASES OF THE LIVER. 
r j HE hepatitis or inflammation of 
A the lim*, is known by a pun- 
gent pain in the region of that vifcus 
Ihooting towards the throat * and 
clavicle. It is fometimes attended 
with a dry cough, vomiting, lofs of 
Ilrength, quick pulfe, and a tendon 
of the hypochondrium. Sometimes 
the eyes and fkin are yellow and the 
urine faffron-coloured, accommpanied 
with coftivenefs, and difficulty of 
breathing. This difeafe is very fre- 
quent in the Eaffc Indies. The liver as a gland fecretes the 
bile, a fluid of the greatefl confequence 
to the animal oeconomy, flnce, 
without it, the great work of digeflion 
cannot be performed. There are two 
fpecies of it, the cyflic and hepatic, of 
which the latter is the ftrongefl. It is 
a natural foap, compofed of oil, water 
and alkaline fait, which is capable of 
uniting oily and mucilaginous fob- 
fiances into one mafs. Painters fome- 
times ufe the bilious juice for mix- 
ing fome vifcid matters that nothing 
elfe will diflblve. Inflammation of 
the liver is attended with fevere pain 
under the fhort ribs, a full quick 
tenfe pulfe, and the fymptoms of 
inflammation in general. It termi- 
nates and is cured in all the various 
ways of other inflammations. If the 
tumour fuppurate and point externally, 
it may be treated as a common 
abfcefs, and be opened. If it burfl. and the contents fall into the abdo- 
men, a purulent afcites is the conle- 
quence. If it ends in a fchirms, it 
produces what is called the black 
jaundice, a dheafe well known by 
the black lead colour calf upon the 
countenance, which is generally, 
therefore, efteemed a dangerous fymp- 
tom, though in fome infiances thought 
favourable of by Van Sweiten, who 
relates the cafe of a perfon laboring 
under this difeafe, who was cured 
by living upon vegetables only. t 
In difeafes of the liver, proceeding 
from inflammation, large and repeated 
bleedings from the arm, or the region 
of the liver itfelf, by the application 
of leeches, will be always found 
ufeful. To this may be added the 
topical application of emollient lini- 
ments and fomentations. Internally 
fmall dofes of calomel, fo as not to excite ptylifm, combined with opium 
-and rhubarb, will be highly beneficial, 
and it forms the common mode of 
practice purfued in thofe countries 
where hepatic difeafes are moft fre- 
quent. Here likewife the Nervous 
Cordial will be highly advantageous, 
as will be found by perufing the cafe 
below. 
CASE. 
I return you my fxncere thanks for the cure I have re- 
ceived. I have been afflidled with an inflammation of the 
liver for three years, was always in pain and mifery, and 
my face was as yellow as faffron; I applied to many 
eminent phylicians, but all to no purpofe ; by taking your 
Nervous Cordial, (you told me the nature of my cafe) 
and informed me I had the Hone in the gall, which proved 
a fact; by taking medicines a week, I fpit up ftones as 
large as a final! bean, of which I am now perfectly reco- 
vered, and am able to do my bufinefs the fame as if 
nothing had ever ailed me, Witnefs my hand. 
William Carver, 
Blackfmith, St. Michael’s Parijh, Lewes, 
Witnefles, Richard Tahiti, Schoolmafler, Maidjlanet 
Kent ; and Thomas Whaphaniy Cooper. CHAP. XI. 
ASTHMA. 
rPHE Aflhma is a difeafe of the 
lungs, and is divided into two 
fpecies, the humoural, pituitous or moifl:, 
and the fpafmodic, dry, nervous, or 
convuliive. Perfons of a fanguine 
habit are mod: fubjedl to it, or thole with 
fmall veffels or flrait chefcs. It generally 
occurs after the prime of life, but 
may take place at any age. It is 
generally preceded by a disinclination 
to motion, lofs of appetite, oppreflion, 
flatulency at the flomach, and fre- 
quent erudlations. The fucceeding 
lymptoms are the cheeks becoming 
red, eyes growing prominent, and fuch 
a fenfe of fuffocation, that the patient can only breathe in an eredt poflure, 
and is fcarely able to fpeak or expec- 
torate. 
A cafual and flight difficulty of 
breathing is called a difpnoea; when 
this difponoea, or difficulty of breath- 
ing is more habitual and confirmed, 
it is denominated aflhma, and in its 
word flate an orthopnoea. The dif- 
eafe is owing to a Ipafmodic conftric- 
tion upon the lungs, and is without 
expectoration. The antifpafmodics, as 
aflafoetida, in large dofes, with vola- 
tiles, and other ftimulating medicines, 
in the fit, will be of fervice. After 
this paroxyfm has ceafed, deception of 
bark, pure air, exercife, &c. will be 
neceflary to prevent a return. If it 
is owing to a hydrops pedloris, nothing 
but the operation for the empyema, 
can relieve it. The Nervous Cordial, 
has, however, even in this cafe, but more particularly fo in cafes proceed- 
ing from other caufes, proved advan- 
tageous, when given in a morning. 
New milk, and a fmall quantity of 
old rum, taken on firft riling: from 
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bed, has been often recommended. 
Tar water will likewife, at times, 
fucceed, and I have often witneffed 
its periodical returns completely pre- 
vented by the free ufe of the Peru- 
vian bark, though this is a medicine 
in general difrepute, in cafes where 
refpiration is in the leaf: affected, and 
phyfcians are very fcrupulous in the 
recommendation and ufe of it. GASES. 
I am very certain that your reputation is already too 
well edablilhed in the opinion of the world, to require 
any attedation of mine; but in judice to my own 
feelings, and for the fake of others, who may (land 
in need of relief, under funilar atttaeks on their con- 
ditution, I think it incumbent on me to date, that 
being afflicted with an adhmatic and nervous complaint, 
attended with a ftrong palpitation of the heart, which 
nearly deprived me of the power of breathing, and 
rendered the lead exercife, efpccially in walking, ex- 
tremely p>ainful to me; I had rccourfe to your Reite- 
rative Nervous Cordial, which has not only given me 
freedom of refpiration, but happily reltored me to the 
ble flings of health. 
O 
Sir, 
Si. James's-Jireet. 
John Durant, 
Sir, 
I was afflhftcd with "an aflhma on my lungs, and a 
bilious complaint; likewife the gravel and done, and 
at lad with a dropfy and the jaundice; my body and 
legs were fvvelled amazingly, my face was as yellow as 
faffron, and my breath became fo fhort, that I thought 
every fucceeding moment would be my lad. My re- 
lations and neighbours thought it was out of the power 
of man to do me fervke; but by taking your Ner- rous Cordial five weeks, through the bleffing of God, 
lam perfeftly recovered. Therefore I think it not 
only my duty to acknowledge the fervice you have 
done me, but to inform the public, for the benefit of 
others who may labour under the fame, or any difeafe 
fimilar to thofe from which I am happily reftored. 
William Gillingham. 
Witnefs, BaiJJy Redhead, Gentleman Farmer, Wim~ 
llington Toll-bar, near March, Cainbridgejhire. 
Wimhiingtoh, Ofishery i 785, CHAP.. XII. 
THE DROPSY. 
A DROPSY is a practer natural 
collection of watry fluid, either 
received into the .cavities of the body, 
collected between the duplicatures of 
fome of the membranes, or ftagnating 
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in the cells of the membrana adipofa, 
it may be either partial or univerfal; 
if general, it is in the cellular mem- 
brane and is called anafarca; if par- 
tial, it is confined to fome cavity of 
the body only; if its feat is in the 
abdomen, it is called afcites ; if in any 
other part, it takes its name from its 
■foliation. The inner fuperfices of IX>0 
our parts have an exhalation of fluid, 
or lymph, which if not re-abforbed, 
is accumulated in too great quantities; 
this may be occafioned by various 
and different caufes, fome of the chief 
of which feem to be as follows: Firji, 
from a relaxation of the folids, and 
diiTolution of the fluids: Secondly, 
from a difeafed flate of the vifcera 
from drinking: Thirdly, from any 
hindrance to the free tranfit of the 
blood from the arteries to the veins, 
whereby a rupture of the fmall lymp- 
phatic veffels will be produced, and 
their contents infufed into the cavities 
they open into, and by ffagnating 
and accumulating, they will dilate 
and didend them. A dropfy is fre- 
quently the confeqnence of a difeafed 
liver, becaufe, where the fecretion of 
the bile is obdrudted, the digedion 
will be weakened, the nutrition of 
the body, of courfe, ledened, the folids thereby relaxed and debilitated, 
and the fluids, of courfe, greatly im- 
poverifhed ; or lome have imagined it 
to proceed from re-abforbed bile 
attenuating and diflblvino; the crafla- 
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mentum. A dropfy fucceeds a long 
intermittent, from the laxity and debi- 
lity brought upon the whole animal 
lyftem; gravid women are fubjedl to 
fwelled legs from the pre flu re of the 
uterus on the iliac veins, whereby 
they are prevented from difcharging 
their contents; as fradfured limbs are 
odematous from the preflure of the 
bandages, Aflhmatie people who 
labour under ulcerations and infarc- 
tions of the lungs or vifcera, from 
the blood not being well and duly 
elaborated in the lungs*- The diffi- 
culty of breathing which attends an 
anafarca, is owing to the cellular 
membrane of the lungs being loaded 
with water, whereby their expanfxon is impeded; in afcites, it arifes from 
the diaphragm being prefled upwards. 
The effects of a cohesion of water 
will be different according to the 
part affedled. In a leucophlegmatic 
patient, the thighs, legs, and feet fwell 
from the gravidation of the fluid 
downwards; in this cafe, the advan- 
tage, by fmall crucial incifions, is very 
apparent, the dyfpmea being frequently 
relieved immediately. By the preflure 
Upon the lungs and diaphragm in a 
dropfy, refpiration is greatly diminifhed. 
The urine is made but in fmall 
quantities, high coloured, and lixivial 
from the oil and fait not being pro- 
perly diluted, in time, the flagnate 
fluids, from their clofe confinement, 
become acrimonious, whence a flow 
fever, peripneumonia ulcers, gangrenes, 
bleeding at the nofe, mortifications 
of the vifcera, and, at length, death. 
The common caufe of fudden death is fuflbcation by the fluids being 
determined to the kings, wherefore 
we fliould never fitter our patient to 
lie horizontally, but in a poflure be- 
tween flttino; and lying* 
O JO 
The indications of cure are three : 
Firji, to invefligate and remove the 
caufe. Secondly, to evacuate the water* 
And Thirdly, to flrengthen the habit, 
and prevent a future collection. 
By enquiring into the caufe, we 
may be able to make a jufl prog- 
noflic, but we mull: make it a rule 
never to hope for a cure where it is 
owing to dram drinking; for here 
the internal- organs are parboiled, andv 
it would be as ealy to unboil a piece 
of meat as to effeCl a cure. Syden- 
ham fpeaks highly of vomits, and as 
they difcharge a large quantity of ferum from the mouth, fauces, and' 
ftomach, they feem likely to be of 
ufe ; but Dr. Smith has feldom found 
them anfwer. In an encyfted dropfy, 
nothing can be expedfed from them.- 
Both they and cathartics Ihould be 
given in free dofes, according to the 
ftrength of the patient. As they adb 
by their ftimulus, occafioning a flow 
of humours to the parts, the more con- 
fiderable their effedf the greater advan- 
tage to be expected from them. 
Elaterium (as the dodlor expreffes it) 
works even to the finger’s ends; it 
operates fiirft by vomit, and afterwards 
by flool; from three to fix gallons 
of water have been evacuated, where 
the conflitution can bear it; no 
hydragogue equals ■ it, both in the 
afeites and analarca ; fcammony given in 
fmall dofes, and encreafed according 
to the ftrength of the patient, is fre- 
quently attended with fuccefs; it works gently, and has been of fervice 
where the elaterium has failed ; diure- 
tics are of uncertain operation ; the 
mod efficacious are alkaline and neu- 
tral falts, cantharides,&c. (vid. formulae) 
as by thefe the blood will be induced 
to part with its aqueous parts; fra aII 
quantities of calomel, as a diuretic 
are much recommended. By joining 
famulus to feme diuretic, iuch as 
milliard, horfe-radifh, &c. the circu- 
lation will be greatly promoted. 
Salivation has proved efficacious, but 
this can be only tried in the afeites, 
in young perfons where the conltitu- 
tion is found, and ail other methods 
have been attempted in vain. Another 
method is, by promoting perforation; 
this is to be attempted by Dover’s 
powder; the compofition is as follow : 
Opii Colat. Ixs 
Sails Nitri 
Tart. Vitriol ana 311 
Ipecac Glycirrh. aa |j m. Dofe i fs. acf. 3i. 3 j contains grv.- 
of opium r 
The ipecac and opium counteract 
each other; the former Simulates 
very powerfully, the latter allays very 
powerfully all fenfe of 
Ipecacuanha thus given, is taken into 
the circulation, and flimulates the 
fmall feries of veflfels ; it never weak- 
ens, yet is always the mod certain 
fudorific we have; v gr. of opium 
thus given, do not exert their lopo- 
rific qualities, fo much as one grain 
by itfelf; if it does not promote per- 
fpiration, it attacks the kidneys, and 
occaiions a moil copious dilcharge 
of urine, but like every other medi- 
cine in a dropfy, it muft not be 
depended upon as infallible; it is* 
to be found in Dover’s Treatife on 
the Gout. Dr. Ward’s fweat, which 
is opium and hellebore a6l, upon the 107 
fame principle. The colchicum 
(meadow faffron) Dr. Smith has twice 
found ufcful. It a6ts by irritating the 
kidneys, and producing large quan- 
tities of water; it is alio fervice- 
able as a pedloral in afhmatic cafes; 
it is given in the form of an oxymel, 
but does not occaiion flcknefs as the 
fquills. 
1> . Coley chi fj 
Acet. Ibj. diger et colat. ad. 
Mell, Anglic. Ibis. f. oxvmcl. 
O J 
The juice of artichoke-leaves 
given |fs ter die has been fuccefsful. 
Some have been cured by a refolute 
abftinence from all liquors, living 
only upon a toaft dipped in brandy, 
laid upon the tongue, which promoted 
a flow of faliva, but few have refolu- 
tion equal to this. The reafbn the 
liver is more injured by fpiritous li- quors than any other vifcus, from a 
portion of liquor being conveyed 
diredtly to it from the domach, by 
the vafa brevia, belides what is car- 
ried there in common with the red: 
of the vifcera by the circulation. 
Emetics and cathartics, if they do 
not evacuate great quantities of water, 
ought not to be perlifted in, as they 
only weaken the patient without any 
advantage. 
If we cannot procure a difcharge 
by the natural outlets, we mud: make 
ufe of artificial ones, fuch as fcarilica- 
tions, paracenteiis, the empyema, and 
bliders. 
When fcarifications are ufed, they 
diould be crucial incifions of the fize 
of an orifice, after bleeding, one on 
each fide of the leg, or on the fcro- 
tium, and made in this form; they 109 
give room to the defcending fluids, 
continue open, caufe but little pain to 
the patient, and are not liable to be~ 
come gangrenous, which large incilions 
are very apt to do. Tapping is 
never ufeful where drinking is the 
caufe, but often haftens death. In 
the dropfy of the ovary, it may be 
ufeful as a palliative. I once had a 
cafe where the navel burft, when the 
patient was very full, and remained 
open, whereby the water oozed out 
as faff as it collected, and fhe lived 
a number of veers. I think it misrht 
J O 
fucceed more frequently if it were 
ufed earlier, but by being poftponed, 
the vifeera become affected from the 
quantity of the extraneous fluid. 
1 differs, though they difeharge the 
waters, are with great difficulty dif- 
poled to heal, and fometimes mortify, 
therefore are not always recommended: 
if they are applied, it mult be to the 
VOL. I. mod depending part. The operation 
for the empyema is nfed when the 
water is collected in the cavity of 
the thorax; diould we fucceed by 
any of thefe methods in evacuating 
the water, we mud: endeavour to 
prevent a return, by bracing up the 
folids, and invigorating the fluids with 
the ufe of cordial bark, bitters, chaly- 
beates, &c. 
The tympanum is a didention of 
the belly by air, either lodged in 
the intedines, or cavity of the abdo- 
men. No fluctuation of the water 
can here be perceived, but the belly, 
on being {truck, founds hollow like a 
drum. A corrupted vifcus is fome- 
times the caufe, or elfe its feat is in 
the colon, which may be known by 
the dwelling frequently changing Tides, 
and following the courfe of the gut. 
The cure is very difficult, as the tone of the parts is deltroyed by the dimen- 
sion, and conlequent relaxation, gentle 
flomachics, cathartics, and cly tiers-. 
The aromatic pill, with ginger, tea, 
and warm carminatives, will palliate, 
but a cure is fcldom effected. I have 
fometimes tried bark clylters, but 
without much fuccefs. The paracen- 
tefis may palliate, but nothing further. 
Dr. Mead recommended cauteries and 
blifters to the abdomen, but I Ihould 
imagine the above methods promile 
fairer. 
Dr. Hunter is diametrically oppo- 
fite in opinion to Dr. Fothergill, 
who advifes the operation to be made 
without waiting for any great dilten- 
lion, as foon as there is a fufficient 
quantity of water collected to render 
it practicable. Dr. Baker fupports the arguments 
advanced by Dr. Fothergill, and urges 
the neceflity of an early operation. 
CASES, 
To \V. BRODUM, M. D. 
No. 9, Albion-ftrcet, BlackfriarVbridge, London, 
Sir, 
Next to God, my grateful thanks are due to you, for 
having, through your {kill and advice, happily refeued 
me from the brink of the grave, to which I had been 
reduced by the Dropfy, which for a year fwelled my 
legs and body in a manner that was not only truly 
alarming in itfelii but frightful to be fecn. It was 
in vain that I fought relief from an eminent phylician 
at Cambridge, and other gentlemen of the Faculty. 
My breath became very fhort, and my whole frame 
exceedingly weak, and every one defpaired of my 
life; by taking Dr. Brodum’s Reftorative Nervous 
Cordial, however, in a few months, I was enabled to 
walk, and to the furprize of all my friends I foon found 113 
myfelf re-cftablilhed in my health, which by the blef. 
fmg of Divine Providence, I have ever frnce fully 
enjoyed, without any return whatever of the dreadful 
complaint I laboured under. I can now attend to my 
bufmefs as well as ever, and I {hall hare a pleafure, 
in juftice to you, and for the information of my fellow 
creatures, to communicate any farther paticulars that 
any one may require of me, or wifh to know of the 
aftonilhing cure I have received from you. 
Ambrose Frost, 
Witneffes, John Clement, John Frojl, Swajfhart, 
near Newmarket. 
I, Thomas Ryley, of Stanftead, in Effex, was- 
afflicted with the Dropfy for eighteen months, and was 
Iwelled all over my body and legs in a confidcrable 
manner, fo that I could hardly fetch my breath. By 
taking Dr. BrodunPs Reftorative Nervous Cordial (to 
whom I am very thankful for his great fkill) he made 
a perfeCl cure of me, fo that I am able to walk like 
a young man who had never any ailment, though I am 
now between fixty and feventy years of age. 
Witnefs my hand. 
Thomas Rylsy, 
Clerk of the Church, Stanjiead Monnifichet, Ejjex, 
Witnefs, Silvanus JVard, Hat Manufacturer, at 
iijhop Stanford, Mrs. Jewel, Linen-draper, oppofite the Royal Oaky 
Chatham, was afflifted fix years with a complication 
of diforders, which baffled the flcill of feveral perfons 
in the profeffion; her body was fwelled in a violent 
manner, fo as to be called by fome the dropfy, fome 
a bilious complaint, &c. her legs were in the fame 
fituation as at the ancles to fpread over the Ihoes at 
times; (he was afraid, from an oppreffion in her breaft, 
of being choaked for want of breath. In this con- 
dition her life became a burthen, being hopelefs of any 
relief from medicine, but fortunately applying to Dr- 
TBrodum, was perfectly recovered by his Nervous 
Cordial. 
Any perfon, queftioning the authenticity, may, on 
application, or by letter (poft-paid) receive any fatis- 
faftion. CHAP. XUh 
THE GOUT. 
"pHyficians have defined the Gout 
or Arthritis to be an inflammation 
in the joints. It is cauled by intempe- 
rate living, and a want of that aHivity 
which would otherwife preferve the 
patient from thofe acute pains that are 
the infeparable companions of this 
difeafe, and fometimes originates from 
being too much addiHed to wine, wo- 
men, gluttony; hence epicureans are 
feldom without this troublefome com- 
panion. Intenfe ftudy, exceffive per- 
turbation of mind, will likewife occa- 
flon the mofl violent paroxyfms of this 
difeafi?, Dr. Hales has affirmed, that the 
grofs tartarine gouty particles produce 
obdrudlions of an inflammatory nature, 
in the feet and hands, where the blood 
has the lead: circulation, from being 
farthefl from the fountain of life, the 
heart. 
A redundancy of humours and weak- 
nefs in the joints are certainly the 
primary caufes of the Gout. The 
general feat of the diforder is in the 
limbs, when it feldom proves fatal; but 
when it occupies the main trunk, the 
worfl: of confequences may, with rea- 
fon, be apprehended. 
The Gout is divided into two 
the regular and irregular. The regular 
Gout is when it is feated in the extre- 
mities of the body, and affedts the 
tendons, nerves, membranes, ligaments, 
and joints, and the fymptoms encreafe and Tubfide with alternate pain and 
pleafure to the patient. 
The irregular Gout is when the 
paroxylms occur at uncertain periods, 
when the fymptoms vary, and the 
difeafe takes different petitions in the 
human frame, as in the ffomach, brain, 
&c. thereby threatening a fpeedy dif- 
folution. 
The opinion of different profeffors 
concerning the Gout, I here annex for 
the fatisfadion of my readers. 
Dr. Stevens earnedly endeavours to 
prove, that the humours of the Gout 
are more of an acid than alkaline 
nature. 
Dr. Taceonus, in his experiments of 
the mucilage of the joints of both men 
and brutes, concluded that the humour was fometimes of the one and fome- 
times of the other nature* 
Dp. Hunter thinks the ohious matter 
is feparated by minute arteries, and 
thrown upon the membranes, and that 
this feparation is encreafed or dimi- 
nilhed agreeably to the hate of the 
vis vitae. He farther obferves, that the 
formation of chalk-hones is occalioned 
by the redundancy of offious matter 
that is produced in this difeafe. 
The Gout, if not hereditary, feldom 
attacks young men, women, or chil- 
dren, or indeed makes its appearance 
until the patient is nearly forty years of 
age, and fometimes not till the politive 
decline of life. Corpulent perfons are 
the moft fubjedt to it* The pain en- 
creafes with the approach of night, 
and diminilhes at the return of day. 
The longer the interval the more lo- vere the paroxyfm. This difeafe ufually 
returns every fpring and autumn. 
Sydenham, in his regimen for the 
Gout, advifes the patient to take no 
more food than he can with eafe di- 
geft, nor lefs than is pofitively neceflary 
for the prefervation of his fpints. 
The appetite will determine the qua- 
lity and quantity of food requiiite, and 
that which the patient is mod partial to 
is ealieft of digedion. Mead is an un- 
exceptionable cordial. Although the 
Gout is ranked among incurable difeafes, 
yet the Nervous Cordial has been 
preferred with much relief to feveral 
patients who have been affiibled with it, 
and I can affirm that thofe who are 
inclined to make the defirable experi- 
ment will find it a mod admirable af- 
fuager of thofe intenfe pains that are 
the infeparable concomitants of this difeafe. Pitcairn and Etmuller recom- 
mend emetics as fmgularly ferviceable. 
Bleeding is requifite for thofe who are 
of a plethoric habit of body, or leeches 
applied to the hremorrhoidal veins, and 
cupping is extremely proper for others 
of a moift habit. 
Aftringent, cooling, and faturnine 
applications applied externally, afford 
a temporary relief, but producing a 
contraction of the parts are lo danger- 
ous as often to be attended with the 
moif fatal effects; thirty or forty drops 
of laudanum, if taken at bed-time, will 
relieve the pain, encreafe the perfpi- 
ration, and advance the crifis of this 
difeafe. Aftringent preparations from 
fteel remove excretions, and too fre- 
quently produce droplies. Camphorated 
jpirit of wine, and bags of dry ingre- 
dients fprinkled with it, are proper in 
alhftaees of the difeafe, and may be ufed by perfons of every fpecies of 
confldtution. Galbanum. and camphor 
formed into a cerate are likewife ex- 
tremely efficacious, if applied in the 
height of the paroxyfm, after bleeding; 
as is the ibap plaifler, where there is 
a large portion of camphor. 
The feet Ihould never be wafhed 
with warm water before the com- 
mencement of the lit, as it greatly en- 
hances the pain, nor ever negledfed 
afterwards, as then it is really of eflen- 
tial lervice. PeiTpiration ought always 
to be promoted largely, for which pur- 
pole the part affedfed fhould be care- 
fully wrapt in wool, fur, or flannel of 
the lofted texture. The inhabitants of 
JLancafhire and other parts of Eng- 
land deem wool an infallible fpecific, 
and having carded and combed it with 
the greated care, apply a conliderable 
quantity to the part adedded, which 
VOL. I. they fatten, on with a ikin of the 
foftett drcffed leather, nor remove it 
until the pain is gone. 
Gouty patients fhould refide in a 
warm and dry air, and daily take as 
much exercife as from the nature of 
their lituation they are able to bear. 
After the fit, fridions with coarfe flan- 
nel, or the flefh-brufh, and well rcgu-' 
lated labour, will, by occafioning per- 
Ipiration, facilitate the termination of 
the difeafe. As the Gout may be re- 
moved by the patient being ditturbed 
in the fit to the mott dangerous parts 
of the frame, the greatett care fhould 
be taken to eive to his mind that 
CJ 
ferenity which can alone enable him 
to bear this fcvere afflidion with proper 
fortitude. The Gout being an effort 
of nature to free herfelf from an of- 
fending caufe, ought not to be re- 
ttrained by any repellent applications. When it is feated in the head or 
lungs, every effort fhould be ufed to 
remove it to the feet. They fhould 
be bathed in warm water, acrid cata- 
plafms placed to the foies, buffering 
plaiffers to the ancles and calves of the 
legs, warm ffomachic purges fhould be 
given to the patient, who fhould like- 
wife undergo the operation of bleeding 
in the feet. 
When the Gout is in the ftomac;h> 
the warmeff cordials fhould be pre- 
ferred to remove the attendant cold. 
Patients fhould go to reft exceedingly 
early, but need mot be exa£l in refpe£l 
to their hour of riling. The body 
fhould always be kept in a regular de- 
gree of heat, as the beft mode of aftift- 
ing perfpiration. 
Univerfal temperance and proper ex* 
crcife are the beft preventives of the 124 
Gout, the former to be obferved with- 
out intermillion at every meal, and the 
latter directed by that degree of nfeful 
labour, which is fo great a fweetener 
of life, and promoter of health, and to 
which, perfons who are in the habit 
of taking it, always return with frefh 
pleafure. A regular courle of living, 
light and ealy fuppers, a proper and 
unvaried divilion of hours for reft 
and labour, and above all, abftraCtion 
from that intenfty of thought, which 
is generally productive, in the end, of 
the worft of effeCts. Thcfe are the 
bell: precautions that can be given to 
prevent the intrufion of that fatal enemy 
to mankind, the Gout. CHAP. XIV. 
THE RHEUMATISM. 
rTPHIS diforder is divided into two 
claffes; when attended with a 
fever, it is called the acute, and when 
there is no fever, it is termed the 
chronical rheumatiim. 
The ancients denominated all pains 
in the external parts or joints, by the 
appellation of arthritis, but fomc cele- 
brated French phyheians, about a cen- 
tury fince diftinguifhed all diforders 
in the tendinous and nervous ligament, 
by the name of Rheumatifrn. The cellular membrane is the im- 
mediate leat of this diforder, without 
variation, let it affeft whatever part of 
the human body it may, or be the 
fpecies of the diforder ever lb various 
or changeable. 
Perfons in the prime of life, and 
thofe of an a6Hve dilpofition, are par- 
ticularly liable to be attacked by this 
complaint, which is exceedingly preva- 
lent in cold damp marfhy countries. 
The Rheumatifm is totally different 
from the Gout, the former being the 
companion of thofe peafants who are, 
from their extreme poverty, indifferent- 
ly cloathed, refide in huts that admit 
the inclemency of the weather, and 
fubfilf upon that coarfe unwholefome 
food, which, from its affording little 
or no nourilhment, is difficult of di- 
geffion. The latter, on the contrary, 
attends the opulent, who are vifited by it through their highnefs in regard to living, 
and inactivity in refpeCt to exercife. 
The Acute Rheumatifm is occafloned 
by whatever may tend to produce an 
inflammation. The Chronic by an ir- 
ritating acrimony occurring in the juices 
ofthe parts where it firih makes its attacks. 
The Acute or Inflammatory Rheu- 
matilm is attended with pains in the 
joints that prevent the motion of the 
limbs. On the pain becoming fixed, 
the fever abates, but it frequently con- 
tinues many days, always encreafing in 
the evening. The pain generally varies 
to different parts of the human frame, 
as from the knee to the foot, from 
thence to the hips, &c. The feats of 
pain are generally the feet, ancles, 
knees, hips, loins, nape of the neck, 
fhoulders, fhouider blades, 
wrifls, &c. which clearly evinces that 
it is a complaint of the joints. The parts affected are fo tender, 
that the patient complains of the leaf! 
motion, and thofe mod: fevere are 
ufually the neck, the loins, and the hips. 
The Acute Rheumatifm feldom con- 
tinues violent above fourteen days, 
though a weaknefs and fwelling in the 
parts may remain many months, efpe- 
cially if the complaint attacks the 
patient in autumn. The latitude that 
frequently follows the pain will not 
leave the patient until an eruption ap- 
pears on the Ikin. 
The Chronic Rheumatifm is known 
by the long duration of the pain, and 
by the little alteration that appears in 
the affe£fed parts. 
The fciatica is when the pain centers 
m the hip, and extends down the thigh. 
This fpecies of Rheumatifm is attended 
with excruciating agony. The Scorbutic Rheumatifm derives 
its name from appearances of a fcor- 
butic nature, attending tbe other 
fvmptoms. 
The Rheumatic Lumbago is when 
the pain fettles on the lungs, reaching 
to the os facrum, and attended with 
nephritic fvmptoms. In this Rage of 
the complaint, the patient is forced to 
keep his body in a recumbent poßure, 
perpetually leaning forward. This atti- 
tude is doubtlefs extremely wearifome 
to the patient, but muR not be difpenfed 
with on any account whatever. Thus as 
the loins are the feat of the diibrder, the 
niceß care is requisite to dißinguifh it 
from an abfcefs, an inflammation in the 
ureter, the gravel and Rone in the 
kidnies. The Rheumatifm in the 
mufcles of the belly fhould likewife be 
known from the cholic. There is little danger when the pain 
is in the external parts,- but very great 
when it affedls the internal organs. An 
inflammation frequently occurs when 
it is fltuated in the ftomach or bowels, 
a fuffocation when the lungs are af- 
fected, and a delirium from it terminat- 
ing in the brain. 
Dr. Rutherford has obferved, that 
the parts aide died with the Rheumatifm 
never perfpire, and that if they can 
be brought to fweat, nothing is fo cer- 
tain an indication of a cure. A free per- 
fplration generally produces a turbid 
and copious difcharge of urine. The 
excellence of thefe obfervations are 
elucidated by an obflrudted perfpiration 
and inflammatory difeafes, being two of 
the principal caufes of the Acute Rheu~ 
matifm. 
By adopting the Botanical Syrup, the 
fever will be reduced, the pulfe abated. fo as to indicate a return to health, the 
pain relieved in a confiderable degree, 
and by being aHiffccd with the operation 
of bleeding, a happy convaleicence be 
the coniequence. Attenuants and dilu- 
ents have often been adminiffered to 
the patient’s great advantage. Bleeding 
to weakly patients is productive of more 
harm than good, as it generally intro- 
duces other difordcrs that are not ealily 
eradicated from the conffitution. When 
they are attacked with the Acute Rheu- 
matifm, their bell: relief is by taking 
the above recipe, afhfted by a cooling 
and nourifhing diet. 
Whev, in thefe inftances, is remark- 
j ' 
ably wholelbrne. Bleeding is efficacious 
where there is a violent fever, and the 
pain affects the breath, and wanders 
from the extremities to the internal 
parts. When the head is affected, a 
laxative clyffer may be repeated night and morning, or every other day a 
cooling purge. Purging is the bed; eva- 
cuant for conditutions that are more 
ferous than fanguine. 
In Inflammatory Rheumatifms, nitre 
didolved in the patient’s drink, and 
taken in fuch quantities as the domach 
can bear, is Angularly ferviceable. 
Opiates will fail of their intended 
effedt, unlefs preparatory to the admi- 
nidering of them, bleeding is per- 
formed, and proper purges edven to the 
patient. Preparations from antimony 
may be ufed between every dole of the 
Botanical Syrup, as above directed. 
Bark, in old Chronic Rheumatilm, is 
a fovereign remedy, and when the 
Acute Rheumatilm proves intermittent, 
the fame may be preferibed. When a 
copious fediment is depotited in the 
urine, and plentiful fweets are produced, 
the bark will facilitate the cure. Warm bathing producing proper 
evacuations, has often an excellent 
effedt, but particular care fhould be 
obferved that the patient does not take 
cold in thefe neceffary immeriions. 
The white muftard, water trefoil, 
ground ivy, camomile, and feveral 
plants that are reared in this country, 
have, from the genial warmth of their 
nature, and other fanative .qualifications, 
been prefcribed in this diforder, with the 
greateft hiccefs. They may be infufed 
and taken in wine, ale, or tea, and 
ihould be continued with perfeverance, 
the , want of which is the grand caufe 
that a cure is fo feldom e fleeted in 
chronic complaints. 
Notwithstanding the medicines I have 
prefcribed have been attended with the 
greateft fuccefs, yet, this fuccefs would 
have been greatly encreafed had all 
VOL. I. the patients who have placed them- 
felves under my care had refolution 
to perfevere in invariably attending to 
my advice. 
The volatile tin&ure of gum guaicum 
tD O 
may be given from sij to ffs twice a 
day, in any thing that the patient 
drinks; if it paffes off too freely by 
ffool, add a few drops of the tinbh 
thebaica to each dofe. 
Salt-water bathing often relieves the 
Rheumatifrn. Iffues are indifpenfably 
neceffary in chronic cafes, but fhould 
be made in a part regulated by the feat 
of the difeafe. The iffues Ihould be made 
in the arm when the pain affe£ls the 
fhoulders, and in the leg or thigh when 
if affe&s the loins. 
Dr. Cullen obierves, that blifters 
fcldom fail of producing the defired effieft, if applied to the part afFcded 
before the fwelling makes its apperance. 
In Chronic Rhenmatifms their efficacy 
is wonderful* 
The cure being accofnpliffied, the 
cold bath prevents a return, and the 
patient’s ftrehgth is conliderably re- 
cruited by the applications of chalv- 
beates, aromatics, and bitters. 
Chronic Rheumatifms ffiould be rub- 
bed daily with a flannel cloth, thus 
leffiening by fri£Hon the intenfity of the 
pain, which binders and iflues in the 
infide of the lower part of the thigh 
will likewife alleviate. 
A deco6lion of the rad Aeneka, which 
is a fpecific, and the tinft. guaiac. 
vol. in large doles, are of lingular 
efficacy. When rheumatic diforclers are at- 
tended with a fcorbutic habit, the pa- 
tient Ihould drink freely of, and often 
bathe in the fulphureous water at 
Harroo-ate. 
O 
CASES. 
PORTSMOUTH. 
I, Joseph Chapman, was affl idled with the gout, 
and many other diforders, for five years, which obliged 
me to go on crutches, I had all pofiible advice from the 
faculty at Portfmouth, but found it all to no purpofe. I 
was advifed to go to London, where I had the raoft 
Ikilful and eminent advice, but never received the leaft 
relief till, through the mercy of God, Dr. Brodum came 
to Portfmouth, and when he faw me he told me not to 
make myfeli uneafy, that he would try to the utmoil of 
his Ikill to reftore me to my health, which he did perfedlly, 
dn the fpace of three months, by his Reiterative Nervous 
Cordial. lam now able to walk twenty miles a day, if 
neceffity requires. The above can be attefted by all my 
neighbours if enquired into. • 
No. 2, Cloak-lane, Portfea. Joseph Chapman. 
Witnefs my own hand, 
Witnefs, John King, Quarter-mailer of his Majefty’s Yard, 
Portfinouth. I, Harry Birch, wasafflifted with the Rheumatifm, 
and applied to many of the faculty to no purpofe; 
applying to the Doctor I am perfeflly cured. 
Witnefs my hand. 
Harry Bircj* 
Singleton, near Chichefier, SuJJex, 
November g, I^9l. 
To Dr. BRODUM, 
No. 9, Albion Street, Black Friar’s, 
Having been grievoufly afflifted with a Rheumatic 
Complaint, for upwards of feven years, which at laft fell 
into my knee, and produced a fwelling, which often ren- 
dered me incapable of walking, and totally deftroyed my 
reft in the night; but by taking youf Reftorative Ncrvowj 
Cordial one month, am quite relieved from my pain. 
Sir, 
I remain. Sir, with gratitude. 
Your obedient {errant. 
Wm. Preston1, 
Witnefs Matthew Rcfe, Joiner, Kelham, 
Kelham, March 28, 1795, >38 
CHAP. XV. 
THE PALS Y. 
palfy or paralyfis is a difeafe 
in which the patient lofes much 
of the fenfation, and often the motion 
of his body or limbs. 
The palfy is caufed by an impeded 
influx of the nervous fpirits into the 
villi of the mufcles, which arifes from 
fome defedf in the brain, or the nerves- 
proceeding from thence. 
Frequent intoxication, wounds of the 
brain, or fpinal marrow, extreme pref- 
fure on the nerves, cold or damp air, 
fuppreffion of cuftomary evacuations. fudden fear, not taking proper exer- 
cife, drinking tea or coffee to excefsy 
and, in fa6l, every tiling that relaxes 
the fyffem, is, in different patients, 
a caufe of this complaint. 
The pally is complete when there 
is a privation of motion and fenfa- 
tion; and incomplete, when the one 
is deffroyed and the other remains 
unimpaired- 
The danger of this diforder is 
known by the importance of the 
part affedted. A palfy of the heart, 
lungs, or any of the vital parts, is 
inevitably mortal. Of the ffomach, 
inteffines, and bladder, Jiighly dange- 
rous : as likewife in the face, it then 
evidently proceeding immediately from 
the brain. When the judgment and 
memory begin to fail, or the part 
affedted is cold, lofes all fenfation, or 140 
wafles away, it is incoiiflflcnt to the 
1-aft degree to flatter the patient with 
the expedation of a cure. 
Hoffman divides Palfles into ferous 
and fanguineous. 
The ferous kind is often cured by 
hot bathing, vigorous exercife, or an 
artificial fever produced by medicines 
of a volatile, aromatic, and acrid 
nature. 
The fanguineous kind being genc- 
rafty accompanied with febrile motions, 
thefe remedies ought not to be 
applied. 
The PaHy is either univerfal, late- 
ral, or partial. 
The univerfal Pally is a general 
immobility of all the mufcles, except 
thefe of the head. Etmuller imagines it confifls in a 
O 
relaxation of the membranes and 
ligaments, but the paraplegia is merely 
an obftrudhon of the nerves, and gene- 
rally follows an apoplexy, fcorbutus, 
carus, or arthritis. 
The lateral Pally or hemiplegia 
affefts only one fide of the body, 
though it originates from the fame caufe.* 
Mr. Boyle defcribes one of thefe 
Pallies, occafioned by a fmall fplinter 
of a bone, prefling on the dura mater, 
when in lefs than five hours after the 
extraflion, the patient was able to 
move his finger, and in two or three 
days, to lift his arm, which although 
reduced to fkin and bone, loon reco- 
vered it s proper fize. 
The partial Palfy is where the mo- 
tion of the leg, arm, or any particu- 
lar part or member is alone deflroyed. Quincy obferves, that even where 
the ..motion is entirely deftroyed, fen- 
fation may be produced by the four 
foilowing means. 
By humidity, increafing the fenfi- 
bility of the mufcular fibres. 
By cold application, thickening the 
juices. 
external compreflion. 
By heated applications, {lengthen- 
ing the injured membranes and veflels. 
The Pally mutt be treated in a 
fimilar manner to the {anguine apo- 
plexy, if the patient be young and of 
a full habit, then bleeding, blifWing, 
{harp clyflers and purgative medicines 
fhould be alternately adminiftered. 
But when it proceeds from relaxation or debility, as is generally the cafe 
in perfons who are advanced in years, 
a courfe fhould be purfued exaCtly 
oppolite. The diet fhould be warm 
and attenuating, chiefly compofed of 
fpicy and aromatic vegetables, as horfe- 
radifh, muftard, &c. the drink gene- 
rous, wine, muftard whey, or brandy 
and water. Friction fhould be admi- 
niftered to the parts affected with a 
warm hand or flelh brufh. Blifter- 
ing plafters may be ufed with advan- 
tage, as may the nervous ointment 
of the Edinburgh Diipeniary, or any. 
volatile liniment. 
Electricity is an excellent external 
application, the fhocks of which fhould 
be directed to the part affcCted, and 
the repetition continued daily for feve- 
nd weeks. Emetics fhould often be 
given, and any thing is of great fer- 
Vice that can make the patient fneeze. When the tongue is affected, the 
mouth fhould be repeatedly gargled 
with brandy or murtard, or the patient 
may hold a piece of fugar in his 
mouth, wet with the compound fpirits 
of lavender. 
The wild valerian root fhould be 
taken either in an infulion of fage 
leaves, or half a dram three times a 
day in a glafs of wine. If the pa- 
tient’s rtomach cannot bear the nau- 
fea of this medicine, he may take 
half an ounce of each of the follow- 
ing ingredients: lal volatile oleofum, 
compound Ipirits of lavender, and 
tindture of carter, which fhould be 
well incorporated together, and forty 
or fitfty drops adminirtered three or 
four times a dav. Murtard-feed cin- 
namon, and bark-ginger, are of great 
utility. Cold air is* extremly inju- 
rious, and exercife extremely fervice- 
able. Dr. Cheyne afferts, that if patients 
can confine themfelves to a cow’s 
milk diet, a radical cure will be the 
confequence. 
In the Philolbphical Tranfadlions 
many lingular cures of this terrible 
difeafe are quoted, when of a perio- 
dical nature. 
The German Ephemerides inflances 
a young man who was affii6fed with 
a paralytic complaint, who had the 
gift of fpeech only one hour out of 
the four and twenty, and that between 
twelve and one at noon every day, 
his taciturnity commencing between 
one and -two, with little or no varia- 
tion. The- affliction continued on 
him twelve years. 
The Philofophical Tranfactions par- 
ticularife the cafe of a ruddy, lan- 
VOL. I. guine young woman, who, through a 
violent ftroke of the Palfy, loft the 
J ' 
ufe of her voice and legs. Medici- 
nal afliftance at firft reftored them, 
but the power of the complaint re- 
turned with greater force, and theft 
dreadful fymptoms appeared on the 
Tuefday of every week, and left her 
on the enfuing Friday, with only two 
variations in the courfe of the firft 
year. But through a laudable perfe- 
verance, which every perfon in Inch 
a fituation fhould adhere to, ftie con- 
tinued in a courft of proper medicine 
for a confiderable fjpace of time, until 
her fits continued only a day and a 
half, commencing on Tuefday morning, 
and retiring on Wednefday afternoon. 
A few months longer continuing this 
practice perfe£fly reftored her. 
The natives of the Eaft Indies are 
afflicted with a fpecies of Palfy called Beriberie, which fignifies a Iheep ia 
the Indian language, which vifits 
them in fuch a manner, as to oblige 
them to thru ft out their knees, and 
lift up their legs, lb that they exadtly 
referable the gait of that animal. 
The hrft fymptoms of this difeale 
are manifeftly perceptible. A lati- 
tude pervades the frame. The motion 
of the hands and feet become vitiated 
and depraved, and that lort of tltil- 
lation is experienced, which wc feci 
when we immerse our finders ami 
e> & 
toes in cold water. The voice 'is 
generally fo much injured, as to 
affect the articulation. 
Bontius was fo afflicted with this 
diftemper in the Eaft Indies, that for 
a whole month he could not, without 
the moft extreme difficulty, hear the 
converfation of the perfon who fat 
in the next chair to him. The cure of this complaint is ge- 
nerally very tedious, and although in 
many cafes not mortal, yet death is 
too often the neceffary conlequence. 
The patient fhould on no con fid e- 
ration confine himfelf to his bed, but 
ufe all forts of exercife, and apply 
frong and fmart fridions, at which 
the Bengal fervants are extremely 
dexterous and expert. 
There are many articles that have 
afforded temporary relief in this com- 
plaint, but none that have been at- 
tended with fuch remarkable fuccefs 
in every Rage as the Nervous Cordial, 
which by its fearching and fanative 
quality immediately attacks fucccfsfuly 
this dire afßidion, nor ceafes its friendly 
influence, until it has overcome its 
antagoniß, CASES. 
John Stanford, ofßilting, in the parifh of God- 
manfham, near Wye, was, for three years, afHifted with a 
violent Scorbutic diforder, and at laft had a ftroke of a 
Dead Pally, the greater part of which time he was unable 
to walk without the help of crutches; but feeing the nu- 
merous cures effected by Dr. Brodum’s Botanical Syrup 
and Nervous Cordial, was refolved to have recourfe to 
the fame, after making a few trials of the medicine, which 
I received from Meffrs. Symonds and Kirby, Canterbury, 
found great benefit—he his now, by having perlevered in 
thofe admirable remedies, perfectly reftored to the ufe of 
his limbs, to the great bleffing of his parents. 
This will be attefted by Mr Symonds, at whole houlc 
the medicine was bought. 
The Son of Thomas Shave loft the ufe of his limbs; 
by taking Dr. Brodum’s Rcftoracive Nervous Cordial, he 
was cured in a Ihorr time, fo that he is able to walk. 
Witnefs, ’Thomas Shavey his father, at R. Vernon s Efq; 
Newmarket; Thomas Si?no/tdy Farrier. 
KtVJmarket} "Jan. 41 179 T. I, Thomas Cater, was afllifted for a long time, 
and loft the life of my limbs, fo that I could not move or 
ftir; I tried many of the faculty, without relief. By 
taking Dr. Brodum’s Rcftorative Nervous Cordial, I was 
cured in a fhort time, which all my neighbours can teftify, 
and am now able to walk i z miles a day, and am as well 
as ever. 
Witnefles, Mr. John Kelfiey, Billl Inn, Stanford, near 
Ware, in Hertfordjhire, and Mr. W, Pyphars, Mill- 
wright, High- Crofis, near Ware, 
TO W. ERODUM, M. D. F. R. H. S. 
Mam field, March 14, 1795. 
I, William Goodall, of Mansfield Woodhoufe, 
do declare, that next to God my grateful thanks are due 
to you, for having, through your fkill and advice, been 
happily refcued from the brink of the grave, to which I 
have been reduced, aud deprived of the ufe of my limbs, 
through a dead ftroke of the palfy. I could not put my 
hand to my legs, and was obliged to ufe crutches; but by 
taking a few bottles of your Rcftorative Nervous Cordial 
three times a week, am quite reftored, and walk without 
the leaft a (liftancc. 
Wm. Goodall, 
Witnefles, Peter Shepperd, bookfeller, and Edmund 
Titterton, at the Crown, Mansfield; Samuel Turner, of 
Norton, near Workfop; and Mr. Gregory, Mafter Builder, 
Nottingham, Another proof of the efficacy of Dr. Brodton s Nervous 
Cordial. 
A poor man at Taunton, who had a pally to fuch a 
violent degree, that he had not the leaf! fenfe of feeling in 
his arms ; was perfectly recovered by taking Dr. Brodum’s 
Nervous Medincine, and is able to attend his work as 
ufual. It is now fix years fmee, and he has had no relapfe. 
We authenticate this for the merit of Dr. Brodum, as 
witnefs our hands. 
James Foy, Goldfnith, 
Robert John Foy, Taunton, 
James Bailey, Tallow-chandler, 
St. Sidwcll’s, Exeter. 
Taunton, July 3J, 1796. CHAP. XVI. 
®N MENSTRUATION. 
VITO MEN, by the laws of nature, 
* are fubjeft to a monthly dif- 
charge of blood from the uterus and 
vagina. This dhcharge ufually ap- 
pears about the fourteenth or fifteenth 
year of age, but the time varies accord- 
ing to the confHtution of the female. 
Upon an average, it generally ceafes 
fpontaneoufly at forty-five years of age, 
at which time, women are no longer 
capable of conception. 
I have known inftances of this dif- 
charge appearing regularly at the age 
of eleven years, but in fuch cafes it generally ceafes as early as the thirty- 
eighth or fortieth year. The later they 
appear, the later the prolongation* 
The common quantity of difcharge 
from a healthy woman may be from 
two to four or five oz. upon an ave- 
rage* It continues from two or three 
to five days. In foment returns rather 
before the expiration of twenty-eight 
davs. In others not till five or fix 
j 
weeks have intervened, who, never- 
thelefs, continue in a ftate of regular 
health. Some, again, who have a great 
redundancy, or plethora, cannot pais 
more than ten or twelve days without 
the renewal of this appearance. The 
caufe of fuch a diicharge is not clearly 
afcertained. Dr. Smith fuppofes it to 
proceed from a particular plethora, hut 
to account for this plethora we know 
not very fatisfadtorily. Probably it may 
be rather owing to a particular IHmnlus, 
analogous to that which excites the 
brute creation to vencry. *54 
In all chronic diforders of young 
women, it becomes the phyfician to 
attend to the ftate of the Menfhuation, 
and to make it his object in the indica- 
tion of cure, to promote it when fup- 
preffed; which, if he can effeci, the 
patient will foon recover of every 
other complaint; but if, according to 
the opinion of the late Dr. Smith and 
John Hunter, this luppreffion is more 
frequently a confequence than a caufe 
of any other difeafe, then ought we to 
attend to the concomitant difeafe as 
well, for where fuch difeafe, us a 
general relaxation of the fyftem, for 
inftance, is attendant, till we have 
corredled that, all our flimulants arc 
vain, and will prove abortive. CHAP. XVII. 
THE CHLOROSIS, 
OR 
GREEN SICKNESS. 
r I 'HIS is an obftru£tion in the 
womb-vefifels of young females, 
under or about the time of menftrua- 
tion. It is attended with a vifeidity of 
all the juices, a fallow, pale, or greenilh 
colour of the face, a difficulty of breath- 
ing, a ficknefs in the ftomach at the 
fight of proper food, and an unnatural 
defire of feeding on fuch things as are 
accounted hurtful, and unfit for nou- 
rifhment. It is alfo called by phyficians 
the white fever, or virgins’s dileafe, 
and the white jaundice. It appears, at times, to proceed from 
an alteration of the fluids, about the 
time that the menfes flrfl; begin to 
flow, or from the inaptitude of the 
veflels to perform thole difcharges 
which nature then calls for. It may 
alfo proceed from an obflruflion in the 
bowels, or a fluggifh languid motion 
of the blood, whether natural or ac- 
quired by eafe, indulgence, or want 
of exer’cife ; and this latter, no doubt, 
is the cafe when the difeafe happens 
to very young girls, who are not capable 
.of fufferlng an hvfleric disorder. Fi- 
O J 
nally, it may proceed from a longing 
deiire after the enjoyment of lome 
particular perfbn; or, in general, from 
a violent inclination to exchange a 
Angle life for the ftate of matrimony, 
o j 
This difeafe fometimes, though not 
frequently, happens to children about 
eight or nine years of age, but the 
O J <J 7 mo ft ufual time is thirteen or fourteen, 
when it generally continues till the 
terms appear. It is known, as before 
obferved, by the palenefs, green or 
leaden colour apparent in the counte- 
nance. The face in fome perfons is 
fwelled, efpecially about the eye-lids, 
and after deep. The thighs, feet, 
and ancles fwell towards night; efpe- 
cially when the diforder proceeds frornr 
obdrudtions; the whole body being 
then lax and foft. An univerfal dulncfs 
pervades the lyftem, and total dilincli- 
nation to exercife; the patient com- 
plains of a predate or weight, chiefiv 
about the loins, and the extremities of 
the body. Upon any brilk motippn, the 
confequence is, a difficulty of breath- 
ing, and the tendon and quick pulia- 
tion of the arteries in the temples, 
which feem to beat with great violence; 
alfo a heavy, and frequently a lading 
pain in the head, and fometimes a pal- 
VOL. I. pitation of the heart. The pulfe, 
generally fpeaking, is quick and low, 
attended with a linali degree of fever, 
and a lots of the natural appetite, but 
chalk, coals, ftones, clay, tobacco-pipes, 
and fuch minerals that in their nature, 
are pernicious, ought to be removed as 
much as poffible out of the patient’s 
way, for fhe generally has more incli- 
nation to thofe, than to a proper diet. 
The green ficknefs is feldom dan- 
gerous, though it often proves of long 
continuance; but when very violent, 
and too much negledted, proceeding 
from a fuppreflion of the monthly 
and attended with the whites, 
it may, in time, bring on weakneffes, 
hard fwellings, and barrennels. When 
it happens fometimes before the menfes 
ought to appear, and they break forth 
without obftru£Hon, it is ufually cured 
by this circumftance, without other means. If the whites appear after the 
green ficknefs has been long fixed, it is 
held to be a bad fign; if before, and it 
happens upon the floppage of the 
menftrual flux, it often proves critical; 
if the courfes flow regularly during the 
diftemper, it is accounted a good 
tom, and there is no danger. 
To forward a cure, the patient ought 
to be placed in a thin and clear air, to 
drink tea, barley-water, and other atte- 
nuating liquors warm, and made agree- 
able to the patient’s palate. Her food 
ffiould be nourifhing, hurt eafy of digef- 
tion,, and not fuch as may inflame. 
Moderate exercife every day, fuch as 
walking, riding, ftirring about the 
houfe, is highly ferviceable, notwith- 
standing the difficulty and uneafincls 
that attends it, and the great antipathy 
of the patient to any kind of motion* Sleep ought to be moderate, and taken 
at a due didance from meals, not till 
an hour at lead after fupper. All paf- 
lions of the mind, efpecially thole of 
melancholy and delpair, are highly 
prejudicial; if the difeafe, therefore, be 
found to proceed from a fettled incli- 
nation to marriage, the parents of the 
patient would evince their prudence 
by providing a fuitable match, as the 
mod ede&ual cure; or, if the delire 
be after a particular perfon, to let her 
have him, provided they have no for- 
cible reafon to difapprove of her choice. 
But if matrimony be not judged con- 
venient for her, either on account of 
youth, or for any other reafon, they 
mud then have recourfe to medical 
remedies, according to the following 
diredlions. 
If the patient be in the fmalled de- 
gree phlethoric, that is, if her veins be well flored with blood, bleeding will 
be highly proper to begin the cure; and 
this is to be fucceeded by proper purga- 
tives, mixed with calomel. 
If the menfes are conliderably ob- 
ftrudted, or the time of their firft ap- 
pearance Teems at hand, the purges 
ought to be pretty ftrong, and given 
about the expected time of ther erup- 
tion,. or of their monthly returns. As 
to the. precife quantity of the dole, all 
circumftances being considered, a pru- 
dent practitioner, and, in Tome cafes* 
the mother alone will be able to regu- 
to 
late it from the common appearances. 
In Tome cafes, efpecially when the 
patient is very young, a vomit is often- 
luccefsful, being exhibited before pur- 
gation. Thofe cathartics that are either 
mixed with alterative medicines, or 
given in fuch quantities as to make 
them act as alterants, or lie a cenlider- able time in the body before they ope- 
rate, are nfually very efficacious; and 
in weakly conftitutions, preferable to 
other purgatives. The following forms 
are very good: 
Alterative Pills. 
Take Ruffus’s pill, fifteen grains; fait 
of Reel, five grains; oil of camomile, 
one drop; make three pills, which will 
form one dofe. Thefe ffiould be taken 
on going to bed, drinking after them 
a draught of white wine, and continu- 
ing the fame courfe ten or twelve days. 
Or, 
Take caftor, faffron, myrrh, all in 
powder, of each one drachm; fait of 
Reel, two fcnJples; befi: aloes, pow- 
dered, one drachm; oil of cinnamon, 
-fix drops; fyrup of orange-peel, a fuffi- dent quantity. Make twelve pills out 
of every drachm, of which let five be 
taken for a dofe every night, drinking 
after them water of penny royal, a 
quarter of a pint. Thele are excellent 
to warm and comfort the nerves, thin 
the blood and juices, and caufe them 
to circulate freely. They mutt be con- 
tinued as the others, for ten or twelve 
days. And, indeed, all cathartics of 
this nature, that are intended to make 
an alteration in the whole animal fyftem, 
which is often necedary in thefe cafes, 
muft have much more time to operate 
than thofe which are intended only to 
purge the inteftines. The fame direc- 
tions therefore mud: be obferved in tak- 
ing the following tindures, which may- 
be fubdituted in the room of the pills, 
where the latter are injurious, or cannot 
be fwallowed. 164 
Alterative Tinctures. 
Take tindhire of aloes, half an ounce; 
compound fpirit of lavender and tindlure 
of caftor, of each half a drachm, mix 
for a tingle dofe. 
Or, 
Take compound tindlure of aloes, 
and tindlure of fleel, of each two 
drachms, mix for drops, let the patient 
take thirty at a time in a glafs of wine. 
After purging a due time, either with 
the pills or tindlures, the patient mud* 
have recourfe to other methods. If her 
complexion be fo very tender, that fhe 
cannot bear purging for ten or twelve 
days together, fhe may omit it every 
third, or every other day, as the caf# 
requires, and take on the intermediate time, pills formed from a due propor- 
tion of prepared fteel, and extrad of 
gentian. But when there is a good 
confutation, and the cafe happens to 
be ftubborn, the purgatives may be 
continued to fixteen or eighteen dofes, 
obferving towards the end of the 
courfe to purge, and take the other 
remedies alternately. When the 
purging is quite over, the Nervous 
Cordial may be adminiftered with 
great benefit. 
It fometimes happens that women 
labour under a diibrder extremely 
fimilar to the green ficknefs, and yet 
with many fymptoms not different 
from the yellow jaundice. This dis- 
order proceeds from too great a quan- 
tity of bilious matter in the blood, 
which exhibits a yellow colour over 
the furface of the body. It is feldom 
mortal, or any more than the com- mon green ficknefs, unlefs extremely 
neglected. German fpa-water is fer- 
viceable here. Water-gruel, with 
MJ ' 
white wine whey, and the fame 
methods as before recommended. 
When the green ficknefs is fhibborn,. 
it is requifite to have recourfe to the 
cold bath, and to the ufe of mineral 
waters ; or an infufion may be made 
in lime water, with guiacum, faffa- 
fras, gentian root, and orange-peel 
dried, winter bark, and camomile 
flowers, to which add tincture of 
fteel, a fufficient quantity in propor- 
tion to the other ingredients; or inf ufe 
filings of fteel in a decodlion of woods 
and roots. This may be drank 
inflead of the chalybeate waters, and 
will frequently anfwer the fame pur- 
pofe„ Decoctions, or other prepara- 
tions of the Jefuit’s Bark, with fleet, 
wine, and -tkidlures. of black helle- bare and cinnamon, being continued 
a coniiderable time, arc alio very 
effectual in lax con dotations, and 
where the juices are vilcid. But 
when the green dcknefs is attended 
with the whites, it mud be treated 
with regard thereto; and the Ner- 
vous Cordial fhould here undoubtedly 
be introduced and continued till a 
falutary effedd is produced. 
A Chlorous, Angularly adonhhing, 
has lately come under my direction. 
A lady of family at the early age 
of fixteen, was the obfedl of the 
malady; during that juvenile period, 
her monthly dilcharges were entirely 
under the direddion of the dileafe, and, 
in proportion to its virulence, it 
added on the fyftem. The attendant 
confequences were, an entire fubverfion 
of the order of nature by the flag-na- tion of her courfes, and pains the 
mod: excruciating in the loins, &c. 
turgidity and every natural dii'order 
which a retention mud: occadon in 
the womb, attended with a flj.ong 
judication of catamenia, though not 
apparent to the. eye. Her appetite 
was drangely perverted-; fubflanc.es 
as charcoal, chalk, wax, tobacco- 
pipes, &c. were continually the ob- 
jects. One caufe from which it may 
have arofe, is her atTecfions engroffed 
on a young man, near her reddence, 
whole dtuation was by no means 
adapted to family views. 
The attachment being: difcovered, 
i ° 
confinement w-as the confequence ; the 
variation from free exercise to feden- 
tary employment and mental agita- 
tion, rendered her fubjeft to the 
dreadful train of nervous diforders. 
Her constitution thus totally fubverted. the vital organs were the objefls 
that fufFered. The progrefs was fo 
very rapid that the day following 
produced a violent fever, attended 
with lofs of appetite, and total depri- 
vation of fpeech. Phylicians of the 
flrft refpe&ability attended, but the 
dangerous fymptoms encreafing, their 
utmoft Ikill was baffled, and the 
wretched patient was pronounced 
pafl recovery. 
I attended under thefe diftreffing 
circumflances, and, on an examina- 
tion of the patient, found the pulfe 
had nearly lubfided. The adtion of 
the heart and lungs was hardly per- 
ceptible. Though the eyes were 
funk and fixed, yet they retained a 
great exprefiion of fentiment. Bliffers 
were adminiftcred indifcriminatelv. 
j 
The blood was fo far exhaufled, that 
fcarce enough remained to fupport 
the adfion of the heart. 
VOL. I. Such was her filiation when I 
bes;an adminifteriag my Nervous Cor- 
t) O •' 
dial, at periods not exceeding an hour 
and a half, the quantity each time 
not exceeding too table Ipoons full. 
Three hours after, I experienced the 
happinefs of perceiving a revolving 
flow of the blood, the pulfe refumed 
its powers, and the lungs dilated, 
Refpiration became free, accompanied 
by a profufe perfpiration, which ori- 
ginated from the Cordial, and in con- 
lequence, the patient evinced ftgns of 
eafe and fenflbily. The blifters I 
ordered to be immediately removed, 
and warm nourifhment taken in I'm all 
quantities, though the patient, it 
muft be evident, was to the laft degree 
enervated. She did not experience 
either torture or pain in the removal 
of the blifters. The Nervous Cor- 
dial ftie took fourteen days, the 
quantity a table fpoonful, in a glafs of red wine, three times a day, and 
fometimes in the night, when watch- 
fulnefs came on. On the eighth 
day fhe began to articulate, though a 
fufpenfton had continued {even weeks. 
The eleventh day her voice was re- 
ftored, and judging it not prudent to 
continue, a lapfe of fix days I allowed 
for reft, free from medicine. This 
method proved agreeable to my moil 
fanguine expectation, for nature and 
proper food afteded more than a con- 
tinuance of medicine. In three weeks 
fhe could bear the fatigue of gentle 
airings in the carriage; that and the 
calomels of mind Ihe experienced, 
promoted a rapid recovery; another 
month produced an aftonilhing altera- 
tion, and, on the appearance of the 
new moon, the menfes relumed heir 
natural powers and the patient’s 
entire relief inftantaneoufly. CHAP. XVIII. 
THE SCURVY. 
nHHIS chronical difeafe is called 
A by the ancients Stomacere Scele- 
tyrbe, and Hippocrates in his book 
De Intern. AfFed. has ranked it 
binder the clafs of his difeafes of the 
fpleen. 
It is feparated into two orders, the 
one arifing from a feverifh heat, and 
the other from the patient’s being 
confined to fait provifions during the 
courfe of a long voyage at fea. 
The putrefeent Scurvy is evidently 
caufed by whatever lefTens the vis vitae, too little or improper food, living in 
marfhy lands, imbibing a damp air, 
depreffive paffions, as grief, fear, &c. 
a too long continued ufe of mercury, 
a neglect to clean properly thofe cop- 
per veifels that have been appropriated 
for boiling animal diet. 
Lord Anton’s expedition to the 
South Seas, ihevved what a cruel ene- 
my this diltemper is to tailors.. That 
enterpriling commander then loft one 
third of his men.. The blood in this 
complaint becomes fo putrid,' that in- 
ftcad of its natural red colour, it re- 
fembles a dark muddy puddle.. 
The fymptoms by which this com- 
plaint is known, are a. pale or yel-> 
lowith complexion, a deje&ion of 
fpirits, a weaknefs in the knees and. 
legs, an itching,, fwelling,. and fre- 
quent bleeding in the gums.. Dr.. Lindoe feems to think that this 
change is the pathognomonic fymp- 
tom of difeafe. The lungs fwell and 
are oedematous, and a dyfpnaea enfues 
for want of their accuftomed elafti- 
city, which prevents their repelling 
the blood as faft as it is received 
from the heart. Ulcers that have 
been healed break out again at the 
commencement of this complaint, the 
edges are livid, with fungous excref- 
cences that are feldom to be refrained 
by any method that can poffibly be 
devifed, indurated tumours appear on 
the legs, with faintings, and often 
fudden death. 
This diforder is occafoned by re- 
flding in a cold damp atmofphere, 
which caufes the afflicted to abforb 
and imbibe damp particles of air, 
producing a relaxation of the folids, 
and a putrefaction of the fluids. The different ffate of health which thole 
officers and men enjoy on board a 
fhip, whole excellent food, good rai- 
ment, and comfortable births, reader 
their exigence a bleffing from thofe 
who are indifferently cloathed, con- 
tinually foaking in the wet, and feed- 
ing on a diet of a grofs, vifcid, indi- 
gelHble nature, is an unanfwerable 
proof, that it is not merely the a6t 
of going to fea that occalions the 
O O 
Scurvy, but the hardlhips which 
hundreds, nay thoufands, from the 
humility of their lituations, are obliged 
to endure. 
The Ikin of perfons afflicted with 
the Scurvy is generally fmooth, but 
covered with many fpots that are 
of a yellow and red colour, which 
become blacker as the difeafe en- 
creafes. The fwelling of the ankles encreafes, 
in the evening, and diminifhes in- 
the morning.. 
A violent pain affe&s the bread 
when a fcorbutic diarrhaea occurs,: 
which, is generally fatal.. In the 
Scurvy the lungs become ulcerated, 
the flools offensive, and the urine of 
a putrid quality. As the difeafe 
advances, the patient lofes the ufe 
of his limbs, the hams become con- 
traded, he faints upon the lead: mo- 
tion, and a hidden removal into the 
air terminates his exigence. 
Hemorrhages take place in the in- 
to (tines, lungs, &c. and although the 
appetite may be tolerable, the fpirits 
are always dejedecl. 
The only procedure to effeft a cure is, 
to terminate the progrefs of putrefac- tion, which will be accompliffied by a 
perfeverance in taking the Botanical 
Syrup, and likewife the whole habit fo 
confiderably flrengthened, as to indicate 
a return to health. 
The air admitted into the patient’s 
Toom fhould be regulated, fo as to keep 
it dry and warm, and bad water and 
improper food carefully avoided. 
Dr. Macbride recommends fixed air 
communicated to the patient’s water, 
which, with an infufion of malt, and 
the bark taken three or four times a day, 
will be extremely ferviceable. Elixir 
of vitriol and other antiputrefeents 
fhould be given in the patient’s drink, 
the fame as in the putrid fever. The 
root of the herba Britannica, or great 
w'ater dock, is of great efficacy in this 
difeafe. The Scurvy is much ea.fier prevented 
than, removed. 
Pure air and falutary diet are excel- 
lent remedies. If the patient is at fea 
when this diforder makes its appearance,, 
he Ihould go on fhore without the lead 
lofs of time, and if a relident of a clofe 
city, he fhould feledl the mold falubrious 
air, as the bed: effort in his power to- 
wards a recovery. He Ihould refrain as 
much as poffible from animal food, and 
take elpecial care that what little he eats 
is frefh and tender. Cooling vegetables 
are ftrongly recommended in this com- 
plaint, as forrel, endive, lettuce, purl- 
lain, &c. nor Ihould thofe that abound 
in alkaline fait be omitted, as fcurvy- 
grafs, creffes, brook line, &c„ oranges 
and lemons from their fub-affringent 
qualities, tnay be eaten frequently. ■i ;9 
A difcharge fhould be encouraged 
through the (kin and kidnies. When 
the gums are fpongy they fhould be 
wafhed with a decoflion of the bark, 
acidulated with the marine acid. When 
ulcers fpread in the mouth, ufe the mel 
rofie with the fame acidulation. 
Bliffers fliould be applied to different 
parts of the body, linapifms to the foies 
of the feet and hams, and a perfpiration 
fhould if pofhble be excited on the ap- 
pearance of a falivation. Boluffes of 
ffamphor and therica fliould be taken 
every four or fix hours during this ffric- 
tore of the fkin. Ulcers in the legs 
fhould be treated the fame as thole in 
the mouth. 
When the legs are oedematous, apply 
gentle frictions, and in cafes of hemor- 
t> 7 
rhage, at proper intervals, mineral 
acids. Gluttons febrifuge fpirit qualified with 
other medicines, are falutary in cafes of 
a feverifh nature. 
The land Scurvy is feldom accom- 
panied with thofe putrid fymptoms that 
attend thofe patients who have been 
long at fea, and obvioufly occurs from 
the unwholefome food that is eaten by 
failors on long voyages. Confined air 
and want of exercife like wife occafion 
thefe aggravated appearances. 
In the land Scurvy a milk diet has 
been attended with the heft of effects. 
The bed; beverage in the Scurvy is 
O j 
whey or buttermilk, and if either of 
thefe cannot be obtained, found cyder, 
perry, or fpruce beer fhould be feledted 
as the bed; fubditutes without exception. 
Wort is an exceeding proper drink at 
fea, malt keeping during the longed: voyage. A decodhion of the tops of 
jfpruce fir may be drank to the quantity 
of an English' pint twice every day, or 
deCoftions of any of the mild mucilla- 
ginous vegetables, as (krfaparilla, marfih 
mallow roots, &c. Infufions of the 
bitter plants* as ground-ivy, lefler cen- 
taury, maffh trefoil, &c. are of infinite 
fervice. 
Harrowgate water in the land Scurvy 
is an excellent medicine, and drinking 
J O 
and bathing in the fame has, in the moft 
lamentable ifages of this difeafe, been 
attended with a fuccefs that has efhi- 
blifhsd its medicinal reputation. 
A (light Scurvv affe6ling die gums has' 
o o o 
been frequently eradicated by lucking 
the juice of a Seville orange* which 
from its bitter quality,, is in thefe cafes 
preferable to the lemon. 
Vol. I. Sallacl eaten plentifully is remarkably 
lalutary in this difeafe. 
J 
The Leprofy which was fo general in 
this country fome years ago, is fo anala- 
gous to the Scurvy, that we recommend 
the fame courfe of diet and medicine* 
CASE S. 
Mifs Dove, of Drinkftone, near Woolpit, Suffolk, 
was afflidcd for a long time with a fcorbutic dilbrder in 
her face, which deprived her of tire fight of one of her 
eyes* and her nofe was alfo in a very bad condition; by 
taking Dr. Brodura’s Botanical Syrup, was cured in a 
Ihort time.—l have feen and coaverfed with Mifs Dove, 
who has vouchfafed to me for the above fad, and that 
Ihe has not felt the Icaft relapfe in the courfe of three 
years* 
Witnefs my hand. 
Ann Bears a lc. 
Gun-maker, Ahergateffreet% St, Edmund's Eurj, Suffolk. 
SV/f. ii, 1795. The fon of Captain Smith, of Broad Street, Lynrt, 
Norfolk, was in a lingering decline, and a complication of 
other difordcrs which reduced him that he was obliged to 
keep his bed for nineteen weeks; he was not capable of 
bringing his arms to his head; and was given over by an 
eminent phyfician at Lynn. Meeting with one of Dr. 
B rod urn's books, made me apply to him, and am now 
perfectly recovered, by hi* Botanical Syrup. 
Wltnefs my hand, 
John Smith. 
Witness, Jofph Ward, Jofeph Hunt, William Old. 
madqvc, T. Racej, Linen draper, Lynn, 
I return you my fmccre thanks for the cure you have 
performed on me, and it is my defire it may be publifhed, 
for the good of the afflifte>i. I was troubled with a 
fcorbutic humour nine years, which broke out in large 
wounds in my legs, fo that I was not able to do any 
bufmefs, which my neighbours will teftify. I applied 
to many of the Faculty, without relief, but on appli- 
cation to Dr. Brodum, w'as cured by his Botanical 
Syrup, in fix weeks. 
Mary Mersam. 
Witnefies, M‘ll-wain, Ljmington, and Richard Hicks 
Efq; Brckenhurji, A refpectable tradefman in the Minfter-yard, York, 
was afflicted for fome years with the fcurvy, and had 
taken feveral public medicines, without relief; but for* 
tunately happening to hear of Dr. Brodum’s infallible 
medicines, and taking a few bottles, is perfectly cured. 
Any perfon wifhing to be more particularly informed, 
may, by applying to Mr. TeiTeyman, Bookfeller, York, 
be fully iadsiied, , 
Mr. H— Haberdaflrer, Blackfriar’s-road, was afflidted 
with a violent fcorbutic complaint, which fettled in his 
legs, and produced a wound uncommonly large. By 
application to Dr. Brodum, who adminiftered his Botani- 
cal Syrup, the complaint was eradicated, and his legs 
perfectly healed. Any perfon applying to Dr, Brodum, 
will receive a reference. 
A child of Mr. Newberry’s, of Mill-lane, Oundls, 
was afflicted with a Lcprofy and Scurvy all over her 
body, for three years; by taking Dr, Brodum’s Botanical 
Syrup, was perfectly cured in three weeks. 
•Witnefies to the above cure, Robert Cave, Thomas 
Chambers, Weldon, Nor-thampt9ire. 
Dee. 17, 1792. Letter from Baron Hompesch, General in his Majejiy's 
Service, to Dr. Brodum. 
■Sir,—Some of the individuals of my regiment having 
experienced fuch wonderful benefit from your Botanical 
Syrup, in fcorbutic complaints, fore legs, See. which has 
juftly merited my function, therefore you have my au- 
thority to publifh ray name, as an evidence of its virtue 
in my eftimation, and you may rely on my recommending 
its ufe in the army in the Weft Indies. I am, Your’s, &c. 
Charles Hompesch, Brigadier-General. 
30th Aug. 1796. 
P. S. You’ll pleafe to fend for me to Richarifon* s 
Hotel, two dozen of your large bottles, packed fafe, as I 
Audi take them with me to the Weft Indies. 
Mr. William Ho vs ton, Mafter Shoe-maker, ini 
Grcen-ftreet, near the Market-place, Cambridge, was 
aftUfted with the Scurvy for a long time, fo that he was 
not able to fit on & chair ; by taking Dr. Brodura’s Bota- 
nical Syrup, was perfectly cured in a fhort time. 
Witnefs my hand. 
William Royston. 
Mary Holloway, of Ron;fey, aftlifled with an 
inveterate Scurvy in her hands; perfectly cured by the 
Doftor. 
Witnefsi, Alrahqrn Saqdfts, John Chick, afflided with a bad leg for along 
time; perfedly cured by the Daft or in one month. 
Witnefs, Charles Church, fteward to John Fleming) Efq; 
I, John Archer, Shoe-maker, was afflided a long 
time with a dreadful fwelled arm, which was in great 
danger of a mortification; I could not move it by any 
means whatever—l applied to an eminent man of the fa- 
culty in vain, until providence direded me to Dr. Brodum, 
who has fo far relieved me by his medicines in three 
weeks, that I am able to ufe my hand at pleafure, and 
the fwelling is quite gone. 
Witncfles, Wm, Nelfon, Overfeer of Si. Mary’s ParKh, 
Colchejier ; John Cole, Churchwarden of St. Martins; 
William Smith, Wine-merchant; John Go/nel, Overfeer; 
Richard Pa t mar e> Baize Manufacturer; and Rev, 
Harris. . 
Oil. 24, 1795, CHAP. XIX. 
The SCROFULA or KING’s EVIL. 
r I ''HE appellation of King’s Evil is 
annexed to this difeafe, becaufe 
Edward the Confeffor, and other fuc- 
ceeding kings, both of France and Eng- 
land, pretended to cure it by the touch. 
Although every part of the body ap- 
pears to be affedled with this difeafe, 
yet the immediate feat of it is only in 
the lymphatic veffels. The lymphatic 
glands of the meientary are, in general, 
firfl affedted. 
This difeafe appears to be hereditary, 
yet is of fo ftrangc a nature as frequent- 
ly to lie dormant for two or three fuc- ceffive generations, when It moft unex- 
pectedly returns with its priftine acri- 
mony and force. There are inftances, 
however, in which it is originally pro- 
duced. 
Boulton, in his Surgery, obferves, that 
it is cauled by the acidity of the pan- 
creatic juice, but very probably it is 
occafioned by an improper diet, &c. 
the glands in the neck of children 
becoming undurated, in confequence of 
bad food, or a voracioufnefs of appetite. 
Quincy obferves, that the King’s Evil 
i: iimilar to the Gout, it generally 
aftecling perfons of rich habits of body, 
and Erong minds, and who particularly 
indulge themfelves in every viand and 
table delicacy in feafon. What is very 
remarkable is, that the King’s Evil 
generally leaves the patient before the 
Gout makes the firft attack. Thus 
the one is our companion to the age of puberty, and often to the more advanced 
llages of life, when it gives place to 
the other, whole vilitations terminate 
only with our exigence. 
The Scrofula generally affedls 
children of a florid complexion and 
healthy countenance. 
It is diflinguilhed by fchirrous tu- 
mours appearing in the glandular 
parts, which are rarely attended with 
pain, or brought to luppuration. 
The fymptoms of this complaint 
are fo various, that fcarce any two 
patients have them alike. The moft 
general are, a fwelled upper lip, 
forenefs about the nofe and cheeks, 
tumours that fometimes continue a 
long while before they heal; an in- 
flammation in the cheek, and a 
humour that corrodes the eyes, fo that they cannot be opened without 
extreme difficulty and trouble. 
The fbotoma, atheroma, and 
meliceris, are all Ipecies of the Scro- 
fula. 
When this diforder affedls children, 
it generally difappears at the age of 
manhood, and, if it appears after the 
fortieth year, the patient’s recovery is 
extremely doubtful. The clropiy, jaun- 
dice, fai ntings, vomitings, violent 
coughs, and other diforders coming- 
in to participate his exit. 
Alterative medicines are recom- 
mended by different writers on this 
fubjeci, but on none can the patient 
place the leaf; dependence. 
The Botanical Syrup has been 
known to be the bcfb medicine. If agreeable to the proper eftimate of 
luccefs, recipes are to be ranked 
according to their luccefs. Bark, 
when the blood is poor, and the 
fibres lax, has been adminiftered with 
proper advantage to the patient, ex- 
cept in a few inftances, when, by 
being ufed in conjundtion with tine 
aquacalcis, the uncertainty of its effi- 
cacy is considerable. 
Bark will not Succeed when the 
bones are affedled, nor when the Scro- 
fulous tumour is attended with pain 
in the joints, and under the membra- 
nous covers of the muScles; in thefe 
cafes it is too apt to encreafe the 
fever. Opium, accompanied with 
bark, and adminiftered as an altera- 
tive, is attended with advantages that 
will not be produced in either 
of them, being ufed as a Separate 
application. Narcotic plants that abound with 
volatile fait, are excellent in refolving 
the- fcrofulous tumours, particularly 
hemlock. When appli'ed as a cata- 
plafin, an extradt of which taken in- 
wardly is particularly ferviceable, but 
much more fo to adults than thofe 
who have not arrived at the age of 
puberty. 
In fcorbutic, leprous, and fcrofu- 
lous cafes, the Botanical Syrup, by 
being made from 'the mod: purifying 
and fanative roots and plants in th,e 
whole vegetable creation, has been at- 
tended with fuccefs in cafes that have 
baffled other medicines, and, confe- 
quently, been deemed by the Faculty 
hopelefs and incurable. 1 Thefe diforders 
as well as the cancer, the evil, and the 
ffflula, internally fap the confiitution, 
and outwardly disfigure the human 
perfon; how happy, therefore, it is for patients labouring under thefe 
complaints that a cure can be accom- 
plilhed, while the more regular mode 
of praflice would inevitably lead them 
to the grave. 
CASES. 
Sir, 
1 was afflifted with a dropfy, that my flefh was fwelled 
in a furprifing manner, and had likewife a cancerous evil 
ulcer round my neck, that w’as To large I could put my fift 
in it, and the windpipe cxpcfed to fight; by applying to 
Dr. Brodum I was quite cured of the Dropfy in fix weeks, 
by his Botanical Syrup, and the ulcers almoft healed up, 
fo that I could get my living with comfort, which I had 
not done for nine years before, and which I am ready to 
teftify on oath before a magiftrate, or any other peribn. 
Witnefs my hand, 
E, Woolemore. 
Box-maker, near the Red Lion, Strooi. 
Witnefles, J. Witham, White Hart, Rockier, Kent; 
IV, Alftotiy Butcher and Cornfaftor. 
VOL. I. To W. BRODUM, M. D, 
No. 9, Albion-ftreet, Black-friar’s-bridge, London. 
As there are many who difpute the curing of the Evil, 
to confute fuch, Dr. Brodum’s method of curing this 
complaint, has never yet failed; proofs of which have 
frequently appeared in all the public papers. But as a 
more recent proof, Elizabeth Wilfon, daughter of 
Thomas and Mary Wilfon, of Brattleby, near Lincoln, 
was afflifted for a long time with a dangerous cancerous 
Joint-evil, which at laft turned to a Fiftula; that the pipe 
of the wound, in which you might have put your finger, 
ran as far as the fhoulder. By taking Dr. Brodum’s 
Botanical Syrup, was perfectly cured in three weeks. 
Witnelfes, Thomas Father; William Fofs3 
Heighi?igton, near Lincoln ; Jofeph Smith, Lincoln ; and 
John Knaggs, (eye witnefs) Gentleman Farmer, Rife 
near Hally Yorkjhire, 
Susannah Hardy, ofMintern, Dorfct, cured of a 
cancer in her mouth, twelve years {landing. 
Susannah Hardy, 
Witnefles, EL Fnrber, Wm. Hardyy Churchwardens-; 
Thomas Furber, Overfeer, who paid for the cure ; James 
Way good, George Honfcy William Houfcy and Rev, Wm, 
Glaffpoole. 
Mintern-Magnoy July 15, 1791* Mary Ann Hall, daughter of Thomas Hall, baker 
•f Downham, Norfolk, was afflided with a fcrofulous 
tomplaint, which made her ears run very much ; likewife 
difcharged a great deal of matter from other parts. She 
tried many things to ftop it, but all to no purpofe; by- 
faking Dr Brodum’s Botanical, Syrup, was perfectly cureir 
in a fhort time. 
Witncfs my hand, 
Thomas Hall., 
WltnefTes, Thomas Chamlerlain, butcher, F. Rijing, 
Mr, Rich) Elfey, plumber and glazier, and Thomas Of- 
hornet bell-founder, Doavtiham. 
The daughter of Thom as Stinton, at Newmarket, 
was abided with the Leprofy all'over her face and body 
for two years; fhe tried a great many things, but all to no 
purpofe. By taking Dr. Brodum’s Botanical Syrup, fhe 
was perfedly cured in a fhort time. Any perfon doubt- 
ing the above wonderful cure, may be convinced by a let- 
ter, or perfonally. 
Witncfs my hand, 
Sarah Stinton, 
Witncfs to the above E, Holland, Sadler to his Royal 
Highnefs the Prince of Wales. 
Newmarket, No-v. 6. 196 
Mrs. Bullivant, of Setch, near Lynn, In Norfolk, 
was affufted fome time with a bad breaft, proceeding 
from a laying-in, which turned at laft to a ftoue-cancer, 
which put her in great mifery and pain; by taking 
Doctor Brodum’s Botanical Syrup, file was cured in 
ftiort time. 
Henry Bullivant, Setch, Excife-ofticer, 
Witnefs, John Roper, at the fign of the Bull, Setch. 
Mary Learner, of Rafh’s Green, Eaft Dereham, 
Norfolk, eleven years old, was afflifted with the Evil for 
two years; by taking Dr. Brodum’s Botanical Syrup, it 
made a perfedl cure of her. 
The faid Mary Learner acknowledged the above before 
Samuel Rajh, Efq; one of his Majefty’s Juftlccs for the 
county of Norfolk, the 2d day of April, r^qi. 
Samuel Rash, 
Sarah Hazzard, Baklerton-gate, Newark, had a 
Flftula Laciymalis in her eye, which at laft turned to a 
cancer in her nofe, and has continued for thefe nine years; 
by taking Dr. Brodum’s Botanical Syrup for a fortnight, 
the Fiftula is cured, and the Cancer almoft healed. 
Witneftes, Daniel Holt, Printer, Sarah Drury, Grocer, 
Nenvark • Richard Body, Hannah Hill, Kclkam, John Collison, of White-horfe-lane, Canterbury, 
was affllfted with the Evil, and running fores in the neck; 
tried feveral doftors to no cffeft, by taking Dr. Erodum’s 
Botanical Syrup, was perfectly cured.—lt is now two 
years fmce, without any return of the diforder.. 
Witnefs, Jervais Rcfe, late fbopman to Mr. Keen, now 
Drugged at Deal. Mary Colti/on, the mother, fwore 
to the truth of the above, at Canterbury, this 26th Day of 
February, 1796, before me. 
W. Bristow, Mayor. 
Mrs. Foot, late of Weft Quay, Southampton, now 
residing at the Six Bells, Lyminglon, Hampfhire, was 
aftlifted with a fwelling in the womb, and was continually 
in fuch excruciating pain, that fhe could take no reft, night 
or day; after trying the moft eminent phyficians, (he ap- 
plied to Dr. Brodnm, who immediately informed her of 
the nature of her cafe, and that large pieces of flefh would 
come from her, which , proved to be the faft, one piece 
weighing near , four ounces, which may be feen at the 
Do&or's. She is now perfectly well, by taking his Bo- 
tanical Syrup, and ready to teftify to the truth of this, moft 
extraordinary cure. 
Mrs. Reynolds, late Mrs. Sharman, at the Mar- 
quis of Grandby’s, Peterborough, had long been afflifted 
with the moft excruciating pains in her left breaft, which, 
at length, flew to hex womb; in this dreadful ftate ihe ap- plied to Dr. Gardner, phyfician, aflifted by another gen- 
tleman of the faculty, who attended her fome time, and, 
at length, gave her up as incurable, but by the advice of 
her nurfe, was prevailed upon to take Dr. Brodum’a Ner- 
vous Cordial, by taking which, in twenty-four hours, 
found great relief, and in two days, brought away the 
whole fubftance from the womb, that had been a long time 
gathering, and fince, has enjoyed her health uninterrupted. 
The wonderful effeft of the medicines and advice of Dr. 
Brodum, has induced me to requeft he would caufe it to be 
publifhed, for the fake of thofe poor creatures labouring 
under the fame disorders. 
Signed by me, m London, 
Lydia Reynolds, 
June 10, 1795. 
I, Rachael Line, ofßomfey, was afflifted with a 
cancerous fwelling in the thigh for three years and up- 
wards; was twenty-three, weeks in Winchefter Hofpital, 
and turned out incurable. In gratitude to Dr. Brodum, I 
am happy to fay, I have been entirely cured in one month. 
Any perfon doubting the truth of this, may apply to me, 
or the witnefs, vha Mr. Jofeph Tarver, Wine-merchant, 
Church-Jireet, Rom/ej, I, Charlotte Hobbs,of Upper Greev-fireet, Black- 
friar’s, voluntarily make oath, that my fon, William1 
Hobbs, was afflicted with the Evil, which broke out 
in every part of his neck, which, (after having tried 
many applications to no purpofej apparently was in a 
date of mortification; but by taking Dr. Brodunbs 
Botanical Syrup, has obtained an affeCtual cure, and 
now enjoys a perfeCt ftate of health; from two motives 
I am induced to atteft the above, one is for the benefit 
of my fellow creatures in fimilar afflictions, the other 
from a principle of duty and gratitude to Dr. Brodum 
for fo immediate a deliverance. 
Charlotte Hobbs, 
WitnefTcs, George Chapman, Scrub’s-fquare, Black- 
friar's ; Henry Hart, Hill-freet, Black-friar s ; Giles 
Hancock, Sadler, No. 12, Black-friar’s-road; and 
f. W, Myers, Printer, No. 2, Pater no fier- row. 
Sworn before fcs, at Public Hall, Umon-fireet, South- 
•tvark. 
Sept. lOy 1796, 
S, Robertfon, Efq; 
W, Hilly Efq; 
Juftices of the Peace, 20.0 
CONCLUSION’.. 
T/T7E now proceed to one of the 
* moft important fubje&s, per- 
haps, that ever refpeded the health 
and happinefs of mankind. 
In doing this, we feel'not a little con- 
cern at our being retrained, in a great 
meafure, fromTpeaking fo explicitly as 
we wifh,. or as. may indeed be necelfary. 
for the purpofe of making ourfelves 
fufficiently. underftood. 
We are unavoidably impelled to this, 
tly the delicacy we owe to the female 
part of the community. This is a re- 
ftraint, under which, we feel ourfelves. 
the more.- aukward,, fince both fexes are 
equally interefted in what we have to 
treat of in the following volume of our 
work.. The fad and dreadful effebis of the 
indifcretions of youth, under the idea of 
which may be comprehended what 
decency will not permit us to explain, 
are alike experienced by both the fexes. 
They have each of them, in their more 
juvenile moments, indulged in thofe 
exceflfes that have unfortunately laid 
the foundation of complaints, equally 
numerous and alarming- 
They are each of them, more or lefs, 
labouring under a train of the moft 
heavy and difmal confequences, and 
equally in want, not only of immediate 
relief, but of A Guide to Old Age. 
Under this impreffion, we have no 
' doubt, buf that our next volume, to 
which we have entirely confined our- 
felves ©n the important fubjefl alluded 
to,, will be read with the utmoft avidity,, 
and attended to as one of the greatefl bleffings that caw, tinder Providence,.- 
be coufered on our fellow^creatures.- 
There, we trud, will he found, 
pointed out in the plained: and mod 
familiar terms, not only the caufe and 
vortfeqnences of thofe practices, that are 
to be confidered as the Indifcretions of 
Youth, but fuch fafe and certain means 
of relief.\ as will not only give the mod 
ededtual and Ipeedy check to the far- 
ther progred of their fad and baneful 
effects,- but akb equally endure to the 
afHi&ed and defponding patient, a Jure 
and happy Guide to Old Age, 
and all the comforts it can pofHblj 
expert.. 
End of Vql- I.