Apr 27, 2006 - Sale 2077

Sale 2077 - Lot 73

Price Realized: $ 748
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
COLONIAL AMERICAN TREATMENT FOR DYSENTERY (MEDICINE.) HUBBARD, JONATHAN. Autograph Letter Signed, to Dr. Eleazer Mather, detailing his observations on and course of treatment for an outbreak of dysenterick fever. 1 page, single 4to sheet; some chips and tears with minor losses; inlaid and silked. New Haven, 8 September 1742
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". . . The only thing I can say upon it yet it obstinately refuses purging . . . the strongest cathartick will make but little alteration in the stool, either as to their frequency or the quality of the matter evacuated. My method has been this, first to give an emetic . . . on the intermediate day a purge; I have tried rhubarb . . . I frequently order clyster of mutton broath or a decoction of the large male cows . . . As to balsamicks I find no great benefit from them . . ."