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Newspaper

Evening Mail

Location

London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

Mar 11, 1796

Page

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Forester s A Novel in Four Volumes and Other Works

This publication notice announces forthcoming novels and works including The Foresters A Novel in four volumes altered from the French by Miss Gunning author of the Packet Lord Fitz Henry and others. Other titles include Matilda and Elizabeth a Novel by the author of Honoria Somerville Rainsford Park the Benevolent Quixotte and Fatality a Novel in three volumes. Printed by and for Samon Law Berwick Street and sold by C. Law Ave Maria Lane.

Epthe Foresters Miss Gunning Lord Fitz -Henry Samon R&c

This Day is Published The Medical and Surgical Review

This issue presents a copious account of publications in medicine and surgery in various languages. It lists volumes and topics including fever, obstetrics, diagnostics, midwifery, and medical extracts. Printed for editors and distributed by booksellers in London Edinburgh and Dublin with postpaid communications.

Fes Bellon Woundes Nifbert Reyland Morbis-Cliven Lofenge de Sceleto Good Foot Smyth Hunter Meteger Skirtze Wichmann Ideen Gotthard Hamilton Johnson Cruikshank T. Boosey G. Mudie

Watson Surgeon and Midwife Advertises Ladies Infirmaries

A historic notice offers temporary retirement lodgings for pregnant women in airy apartments with lie-in facilities. Mr Watson, surgeon and man midwife, and Mrs Watson provide attentive care, emphasizing humane treatment and relief from pregnancy horrors. Contact at No 19 Charlotte Street Surrey Side of Blackfriars Bridge. Pills Benedicta advertised for obstructions and irregularities advertised at twelve pence per box.

Watson

Remarkable Cure Reported for Antiscorbutic Drops

Thomas Wood testifies after seventeen months of rheumatic pain and inveterate scurvy that Antiscorbatic Drops restored his health. The remedy, marketed by J Holmes jun of Leeds, claims bottles priced six shillings and eleven and two pence in Great Britain and Ireland, with witnesses including Thomas Joel. The notice promotes public dissemination of the patent medicine.

Spilsbury J. Holmes Mount Hall Leeds Yorkshire Thomas Wood Thomas Joel Sohoquare Alse Peta Veer Great Britain Ireland

St. Fitus’s Dance of the Mind Letter to Editor

A reader appeals to the Evening Mail editor describing an ailment named St Fitus’s dance of the mind. The writer laments mercurial fever of overthinking public affairs, seeks relief, and says illness presses him to reveal personal struggles and urge improvement of language for publication.

St. Fitus St. James’s Church

Descriptive Ledger of Scandalous Week in 18th Century Chelsea

A narrator recalls Monday to Sunday episodes of gossip and mischief in London society, detailing overheard plots among coiners, a fortune teller’s blank ticket purchase, a quarrel with a lawyer, an anonymous letter about a mistress, and a shop window glimpse as servants eavesdrop. An appended charity appeal praises Rowland Hill’s plan for cheap meat and soup tickets to aid the poor during high prices, urging parish adoption and noting supportive subscribers.

Rowzanp Hitu Bakclay Thrale

Provisions Shop Foon and Prices for Public Aid Meals

The CHEAP Provi sion Shop offers broth from boiled meat at 4d per pound plus potatoes, and a richer soup made from beef heads, legs, and shins with vegetables priced to 3 halfpence per quart. Puddings from marrow and broth fat cost 3 halfpence per pound, meat pies at 3d per pound, and varied meal options. About two pence per meal on average. The poor may obtain meals thrice weekly by tickets, with over a thousand meals weekly distributed at half-price, funded by subscribers and employers to double retail rationed output.

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Abolition of Offices and Pension Reductions Comment

A pamphlet by Mr Vansirtar defends a system used since Mr Pirr took office, arguing it shows virtuous practice by filling posts after incumbents depart with no personal fervor. It cites reduced pensions since 1783 totaling £30,000 per year as evidence of public benefit, responding to Mr Morsay’s criticisms.

Pirr Vansirtar Morsay Treasur Pitt

Ancient tobacco-box returned in Lord Chancellor ruling

In a Lincoln's Inn Hall case the Lord Chancellor ordered an old club tobacco-box, valued by Overseers of the Path, restored to the Westminster society and the defendant to pay costs. A Cumberland tale followed of a man who hid wealth in a hole, died there with a candlestick nearby, believed to have starved amid his treasure.

Lincoln’s Inn Hall Westminster Cumberland Releas

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