Hypochondriasis and its cure in 17th century medicine
The piece explains hypochondriasis as low spirits with indigestion, detailing physical and mental symptoms and causes from sedentary life to excesses. It promotes Evanss Aperient Pills and Camomile Pills as remedies, notes cautious use of mercury, and cites a case of Mrs. Hannah Brown in Williamsburg treated by Dr Evans with reported relief.
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Wm. Evans
Hanpgh Brown
Jos, Brown
North Siefa
Williamsburg
Wa, Evans
Brown
W. Evans
Joseph Brown
City
County of New York
Willamsburg
L. Island
Hannah Brown
Pinckney, Com
Prominent Dr Evans Medicine Advertises Wide Health Claims
An 19th century advertisement lists nervous, digestive, respiratory and female ailments claiming relief through Dr Evans medicine. It cites offices at 160 Chatham Street, New York, offering personal visits or mail orders from anywhere in the United States. Patients are asked to send bank notes or orders for medicines and advice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wm. Evans
Chatham Et. St. York
Vans
Chatham St. G. York
Jeter
United States
C. Versons
Certificates praise Dr Warn Evans Camomile Pills
A seller advertises Warn Evans Camomile and Aperient Anti Bilious Pills from 101 Bowery. It lists chronic dysentery and bloody flux symptoms including severe griping flatulence tenesmus and bleeding discharge. The testimonial claims Mr Robert Cameron regained perfect health and thanks the remedy.
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Warn Evans
Robert Cameron
Bowery
Cameron
Remarkable Recovery From Asthma After Dr Evans Pills
Mr Robert Monroe of Schuylkill suffered three years with asthma including languor, breathlessness, cough, nervous headaches and chest tightness. After trying Dr W Evans Medicine, he reports complete relief of symptoms and urges others with similar complaints to consider the treatment.
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Robert Monroe
Schuylkill
R. Monroe
W. Evans
Revival of Dr Win Evans Medicine Proves Efficacious
A man, after ten years of illness with stomach distress and faintness, regained health under Dr Evans. He reports long battles with symptoms including oppression after eating, nausea, debility, and bilious vomiting, and credits Evans medicine with restoring strength. The patient, named Mr. MelWensie, now runs his business without recurrence and endorses the remedy to others.
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Win
Evans
J. M. Rkenzie
Stanton Street
MelWensie
Ife
Win Evans
Extraordinary and Remarkable Corn Mrs Mary Dillon
Mrs Mary Dillon of Poorth and North streets suffered severe illness with loss of appetite heart palpitations and breathing difficulty. Dr Win Evans of 160 Chatham Street treated her and doctors deemed recovery possible as she requested publication of her case.
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Mary Dillon
Betas
Poorth
North Streets
Win Evans
Chathamst
Evans Camomile and Aperient Pills advertised for sale
Price 75 cents a package for Camomile Pills and Aperient Pills. Dr William Evans promotes his medicines with offices in New York City and Louisville and lists agents across states. Cautions buyers to purchase only from advertised agents to avoid counterfeit pills. Multiple city offices and a roster of agents are noted including Logansport, Lafayette, and Crawfordsville.
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Wm. Evans
Chatham St. N.Y
Wall St
Louisville
General Western
Louisville, Ky
United Statees
Chatham St
New York
Evans
Decline of Doctor of Divinity Prefixed Titles Debate
The Reverend Albert Barnes refuses a D D degree from a New York college arguing no scripture authorizes doctors of divinity. A humorous critique follows on titles and prefixes like Excellency and Mister, praising plain names such as Charles or Garret and mocking aristocratic forms. The West Jersey Canalen Democrat notes the republican stance against feudal titles.
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Albert Barnes
New York
Adam
Eve
America
Europe
Marcus Cato
Caius Marius
D&c
Paminondas
Socrates
Julius Ceasar
Tullius Cicero
Esquire
Themistocles
Aristides
Scipio
Brutus
Martin van Buren
Henry Clay
Bloomfield
New Jersey
Thomas P. Johnson
Ass Johnson
Bonaparte
Talleyrand
Monsieur
Charles
Garret
Mister
West Jersey
Canalen
Democrat
Extraordinary Pedestrian Feat Near Completion
Reports detail Mr. Townshend’s bet to walk sixty four miles daily for six days between Prescot and Liverpool. He endured police custody delays, then exceeded the pace with seventy two miles on day three, attracting crowds as he nears finish this evening in Liverpool after sleeping at Williamson Square.
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Tine
Prescot
Rure
Liverpool
Mr. Townshend
Mr. Taylor
Williamson Square
Indian Murders Reported by Southern Papers
Reports from southern papers recount Seminole attacks killing Mrs Howell and two children, Mrs Green and wounding her daughter, and burning settlements up to Fort Gilmer. Fourteen children were slain on the St Marys fork, and a deserted military post near Manic was attacked with four people killed, including a woman and two children.
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Okefenoke
Howell
Green
Fort Gilmer
St. Mary's
Art Maniac
Policarpa La Salvaretta Heroine Of Colombia
A Backwoodsman correspondent recounts Policarpa La Salvaretta a young Colombian patriot executed by Morillo. Her courage inspired renewed resistance as she refused to disclose secrets, uttered a defiant death line and sparked a swift Patriot uprising against the Spanish forces.
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Policarpa LA Salvarietta
Colombia
Jerseyville
Illinois
Retrepo
Historia de la Revolucion de la Colombia
Morillo
Spain
Columbia
Policarpo la Salvaretta
New Granada
la Salvarietta
Sabarain
la Salvariella
Duff Green Attacks Gen Harrison Over Colombia Mission
The excerpt from Duff Green's Telegraph reprints Richmond Whig attacks on General Harrison and the Colombia mission. It argues Harrison cost the nation blood and treasure, questions his fitness to represent the administration, and links the controversy to Mr Clay's influence and coalition politics. Duff Green now edits the Baltimore Pilot and backsarrington.
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Dorf Green
Harrison
Salisbury
N. C
Duff Green
Telegraph
U.S. Telegraph
Richmond Whig
Colombia
Pleasants
Gen. Harrison
Clay
Whig
Baltimore Pilot
Arrigon
Van Buren Gains Broad Southern Backing in 1836 Race
Still they come George M Troup former Georgia governor and late Whig presidential candidate endorses Van Buren. Georgia lawmakers 28 in number shift to Van Buren over Harrison. South Carolina states rights party rallies to Van Buren and the Independent Treasury. Clark county Kentucky citizens renounce Harrisonism after a celebration. North Carolina governor Branxen abandons Whiggery for Van Buren. Wm J Duane former Treasury secretary also backs Van Buren.
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George M. Troup
Georgia
Martin van Buren
Mr. van Buren
Gen. Harrison
van Buren
Treasury
R. M. Hunter
South Carolina
Wm. J. Duane
the Treasury
Dreadful Shipwreck Ends in Fifty Lives Lost
The brig Florence of New York, Captain Rose, sailed for Rotterdam in ballast with seventy nine passengers. In fog near Newfoundland she struck rocks and wrecked in three hours. The second officer died during line rescue. Captain Rose survived. About thirty seven, including many with money bound for the west, perished. Survivors wandered for shelter four days, then were aided in Renouse and St. John with funds and clothing.
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Florence
New York
Rose
Rotterdam
Anstani
Newfoundland
Wmn. Robbs
Springfield
Mass
Renouse
Boston
Destructive landslide wrecks New Orleans bayside wharves
A Saturday afternoon landslide between Conti and St. Louis streets collapsed the front alluvial deposits and part of the old levee, destroying the Bayou Sara wharf and heavily damaging the adjacent one. Sugar and other produce on the wharf were swept away, with six fathoms of water reported at the site and the Conti to St Peter streets wharves now in ruinous condition.
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New Orleans
Conti
St. Louis
Bayou Sara
Conti Street
St Peter Street
Gen Harrison’s Stance On Key National Issues
Whig editors are urged to publish Gen Harrison’s views on four questions. Is he for or against a National Bank Is he for or against assumption of state debts by the General Government Is he for or against abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia Is he for or against Henry Clay’s system of national Internal Improvement.
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CrraLtence
CuHattrencr
Ilarrison
District of Columbia
Henry Clay
Lancaster Convention Demonstrates Democratic Awakening in Keystone State
The Lancaster gathering drew vast crowds—figures from fifteen thousand to forty thousand reported—showing a lively Democratic momentum. The article contrasts it with the Baltimore Whig event, noting Lancaster's printing press on wheels distributing documents as a sign of respect for public intelligence.
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Baltimore
National Whig
Lancaster
An eventful life of James Greenleaf Jr.
Bristol native James Greenleaf Jr. died in New Orleans on August 9 from injuries after falling through a trap door. An obituary from the National Intelligencer recounts his perilous career at sea from 1822 pirate capture off Cuba to later shipwrecks and close calls, ending with a fatal moment of supposed safety.
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James Greenleaf, Jr
Bristol
R. I
New Orleans
National Intelligencer
Baltimore
Cuba
Matanzas
United States
Lieut. Allen
U. S. Navy
Mississippi
Ife
Execution of Sir Walter Raleigh described in vivid death scene
The account details Raleigh's composure before execution in Westminster Abbey style, his witty exchanges with peers, and the dramatic moment on the scaffold. He greets friends, requests to see the axe, calls it a sharp medicine, and signals the headsman before the two blows end his life.
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Walter Raleigh
Sir Walter Raleigh
Westminster
Sir Walter
St. Giles’s
Tyburn
Hugh Beeston
Tiugh
Walter
Raleigh
Transatlantic Passage Record Cited by V Signal
The Acadia completed the voyage nine pays and twelve pays on the Liverpool to Boston leg, described as speed without precedent. Bostonians urged Chapman to crow about the achievement in a stark remark from the V Signal.
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Acadia
Liverpool
Boston
Chapman
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