A collection of cases illustrating the restorative and sanative properties of Swaim's panacea in a variety of diseases.

  • Swaim, Wm. (William)
Date:
1831
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Credit: A collection of cases illustrating the restorative and sanative properties of Swaim's panacea in a variety of diseases. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    - opposed it altogether. I therefore offered and took upon myself whatever responsibility there was in the case, and notified Mr. Swaim that I would accompany him, and did so; the first case selected was that of a woman, whose appearance was horrible, and whose condition was so deplorable, that the patients in the same room wished to have her removed—and the evi- dence of my own senses justified their complaint. She was a woman of about 30 or 32 years of age, her right eye was already destroyed, the left eye was protruded more than half an inch out of the socket; the flesh of the left cheek was one complete ulcer—the flesh of the nose had disappeared and left the nostrils two naked holes—the up- per lip on the left side was destroyed, and the teeth and gums bare, and the whole face, as it appeared to me, in a rapid state of dissolution; her appetite had left her—she represented a living skeleton frightful to behold. Mr. Swaim said he could cure her; he could not restore the lost eye, nor restore the nose, but he could restore the left eye and the mouth. He undertook the case, and I frequently attended him in his visits to the poor woman, and she was cured —and I have frequently seen her since, going about her ordinary business with the alacrity usual to a person of that age; the deformity of course remained; but all that remained besides appeared healthful. I have confined myself to this case, upon which it was impossible to be mistaken, and forborne to introduce any other cir- cumstances than what belong immediately to it. William Duane. CERTIFICATE OF DR. EDWIN A. ATLEE, Member of the Philadelphia Medical Society. The case detailed in the preceding certificate came under my observation, and I believe Alderman Duane's statement to be strictly correct. Mr. Swaim showed me two other cases nearly similar, which were cured by his Panacea, after every other remedy had failed. Averse as I am to quackery, I hope ever to be pre- served from unjust and selfish prejudice; and, therefore, do not hesitate to give my name, in confirmation of the efficacy and safety of Mr. Swaim's Panacea. Edwin A. Atlee, M.D.