Excerpt from The Scourge, Vol. 6: Or Monthly Expositor of Imposture and Folly

Mr. Editor,

I have been seriously troubled lately by alarming visions, which have disturbed my rest at night, and occasioned morning fever on my rise, which have given birth to symptoms of disease, and constitutional debility, threatening my existence. I am not sufficiently skilled in medicine, to prescribe for myself an antidote to their effects, and the state of my trade, my sole dependence, has not lately allowed me the means of more than common necessaries, and hardly that, so that I have been wholly incapable of obtaining physical advice. Thus circumstanced, with the load of disease upon my shoulders, and my constitute broken down by obstructions in the circulation of my blood, my pulse wild and irregular, my complexion flushed with consuming fever, and my body bearing all the appearance of a confirmed dropsical habit, I have been recommended To lay my case before you, Sir, with the various symptoms, being told that your prescriptions, though caustical, are salutary, and that they bear about them an additional recommendation, that of being given gratis!

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