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Newspaper
Bristol Journal
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jul 07, 1787
Page
4
A long essay extols poetry's power by Burns and classical visions, then shifts to 1787 New York laws. It reviews Burns,Egyptic imagery, and poems, then details acts imposing debts relief and broad import duties on goods, with specific rates and conditions.
The medicine is praised for fevers rheumatism small pox measles pleurisies erysipelas and all inflammatory disorders. It is recommended at first fever with five or six grains every six hours then increased to ten or more if needed. It has aided even severe delirium cases and is touted as best for colds after lying in and for milk fever urging readiness for emergencies.
Roe s English Coffee a blend of aromatic herbs roots barks and other ingredients used as a substitute for tea and foreign coffee. It acts as an alterative correcting blood and juices with continued use aiding asthma long standing coughs low spirits and nervous complaints. Safe agreeable to taste and nutritionally superior to common restoratives, once prescribed by the late Dr Fothergill and trusted by many in the medical faculty.
Advertising notice warns that Dr Hooper’s Female Pills have over forty years of use and urges buyers to look for the genuine stamp on each box bearing John, Joseph, and Benjamin Hooper. Imitation stamps or fake packaging is a capital offence, buyers urged to confirm authenticity.
The advertisement cautions buyers to avoid imitations of Dr Stepas's Opodeldoc with a counterfeit stamp bearing F Newsery. It praises the medicine for rheumatism cramps sprains and numbness and claims usefulness for head face toothache burns wasps and horses in back injuries wind galls cracked heels and other horse ailments.
A damaged OCR inspired excerpt echoes Robert Burns style lament to a frightened mouse. It riffs on nature and human dominion, referencing winter, harvest ruin, and fragile prospects. The fragment hints at misdirected toil, lost shelter, and speculative hope for the future.
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