The 1830 New Year's gift to the world : in a short treatise on ... the small pox virus, wherein it is proved to be ... harmless and beneficial, if judiciously treated with practical evidences of the all-sufficiency of Morison's 'Vegetable universal medicine' / [Thomas Moat].

  • Moat, Thomas
Date:
1830
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Credit: The 1830 New Year's gift to the world : in a short treatise on ... the small pox virus, wherein it is proved to be ... harmless and beneficial, if judiciously treated with practical evidences of the all-sufficiency of Morison's 'Vegetable universal medicine' / [Thomas Moat]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The long anticipated period has arrived, when, from the experience of his able coadjutors, and the confidence of the public, in the soundness of his theory, is incontestibly confirmed, the Hygeist has erected his standard of ^opposition to all past practices in the management of the Small Pox ravages, in the rising hopes of our families : as he is convinced (and the growing approbation of the world supports him in the assertion) that the disease may be wholly prevented, or its inveteracy, if attacked? reduced, by a previous cleansing, when in the midst of the danger of infection ; its rancour rendered harmless, by brisk doses when under the affliction ; and its after consequences obliterated by keeping up the action of the medicine for a week after recovery. Mr. Morison, the Hygeist, then, thus publicly challenges the whole Faculty, and offers to take one hundred Children under his treatment; to supply them with his medicine gratis; and to settle ten pounds a year upon the parents of any child who may die under his care, on the condition that they (the Faculty) will undertake one hundred Children, and, withgoing their charges, paying the expences of the funerals of all the children falling under their treatment. The Cure of Gout, Rheumatism, Tic Doulereux, Asthma, Consumption, Nervous Debilities, Strictures, Gravel, Stone, Urinary Obstructions, Bilious Affections, &c., &c., is now no longer dubious, but absolutely certain, by a persevering con¬ fidence and reliance of the harmlessness and powers of Morison’s “Vegetable Universal Medicine,” which in every instance of the many thousands of cases that have proved its infallibly benign influences has invariably produced the desired cure, and established its fame incontestibly beyond all precedent.