Three letters on medical subjects : addressed to the Reverend Gilbert Ford, Ormskirk, Lancashire. Containing I. An account of the effects of an aloetic medicine in the gout and other chronical complaints. II. A practice which has been successful in the individual prevention of the late epidemics. III. An account of the sedative properties of the granulated preparation of tin, in some affections of the mind / by John Ford.

  • Ford, John, 1731?-1807.
Date:
1803
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Credit: Three letters on medical subjects : addressed to the Reverend Gilbert Ford, Ormskirk, Lancashire. Containing I. An account of the effects of an aloetic medicine in the gout and other chronical complaints. II. A practice which has been successful in the individual prevention of the late epidemics. III. An account of the sedative properties of the granulated preparation of tin, in some affections of the mind / by John Ford. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    claration be thought premature, I will beg leave to say, that the instances of the efficacy of the medicine have been I think sufficiently numerous to justify it, and to induce me to consider this second address to you, as a duty I owe to society, under the impression that it may be the means of affording some comfort to a considerable proportion of its individuals: and I do it the more readily, conscious that there has been no bias on my judgment to support any particular theory, nor preposses- sion in favour of the remedy, for such a dis- position is not always favourable to truth. It was at first given for other purposes than as a cure or palliative of the gout; and to repeat what has bewi before been said, the event was as unexpected to me, as it has been agreeable. I had long before been persuaded of its ge- neral utility in various affections of the primae viae, the seat of many diseases, and where pro- bably a number of chronical complaints, al-