Inventor R Brand Promises Cure for Ruptures at Greenwich Hospital
R Brand the Inventor and truffmaker to his Majesty's Royal Hospital at Greenwich claims the greatest variety and longest practice among surgeons. He asserts success where others fail and urges timely relief, with gratis advice daily at nine in the morning at No 31 Long Acre except Saturdays when he attends the hospital. Mrs Brand assists the ladies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. Brand
Truffmaker
Great- Briain
Truffaker
His Majesty’s Royal Hospital
Greenwich
Long-Acre
State Lotts Office Lottery Schemes Sale of Shares
State Lottery Office advertises No 18 opposite Garraway’s Coffee house selling shares in halves quarters eighths sixteenths etc at low prizes. Full value prizes up to 20,000 10,000 5,000 2,000 1,000 500 190 50. 60,000 tickets total 600,000 prize fund. Correspondents abroad may receive tickets by remitting good bills on London. Numerical register kept and results sent worldwide. Schemes gratis and letters post paid answered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pos ES
Garraway
London
Specific Drops Celebrated for Venereal Cure
A notice touts Specific Drops by J. H. Smyth M D as a mercury free remedy for lingering venereal disease symptoms and postcure infections. It claims rapid cure in days with secrecy, sold at several London outlets and by the donor at Johnson's Court Charing Cross with proper guidance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. H. Smyth
M.D
Fell
Pater-nofter-Row
Vallecue
Royal Exchange
Pridden
Fleet-tréet
Shoe-lane
Holborn
Johnson’s Court
Charing-cross
Caution to Public on Montpellier Jesuit Drops Fraud
An 18th century warning exposes a quack physician selling Montpellier Jesuit Drops as Dr Walker's cure for venereal disease. The public is reminded of a 1768 Guildhall trial where the impostor was cleared, while the drops are alleged to mimic genuine remedies. multiple warehouses and sellers are listed with prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Derrick
Buckingham
T. Fes
Paternofter Row
Leake
Frederick
Bath
Old Bailey
Montpellier
Wilmot
Guildhall
True and Original Jesuits Drops Advertised in London
A historic notice defends True and Original Jesuits Drops against rivals claiming a patent. It recounts the proprietor’s forty years of practice, court appearances at Guild Hall, and warns against further advertising to injure the medicine’s reputation. It cites remedies for venereal maladies, skin eruptions, and facial whitening, with sale points in Fleet Lane and Tunbridge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Angus
gate-Hill
London
Guild Hall
Whitcomb
Fleet-Lane
Angel-Court
Snow- Hill
George Wife
Tunbridge
Kent
London and Wiltshire petitions stir reform talk in 1769
Reports from London and Wilts recount electors debating petition presenters and protests over parliamentary representation. Observers note trepidation about influence, with mention of Dutch and Ottoman news, arrests, and public meetings urging redress and constitutional inquiry amid rising civic agitation.
Cordwainers Hall Petition to Mayor Over Public Grievances
In Hereford caded by wardens and associates of cordwainers and other crafts a call for a general meeting to petition the king for redress of grievances amid alleged constitutional violations and military cruelties. The document notes cooperation among master wardens of tailors bakers and smiths and mentions a warden's urgent personal interruption.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Cotter
James
Oxford
N. B
Hereford
Cordwainers Company
Cordwainers-hall
Eve
Company of
Merchant ‘Taylors
Bakers
black+ smith’s company
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Abe Middlesex Journal
Whitehead
Wits Chronicle
Samuel Derrick
Ravenscroft and Co
Fleet-land
Walkes
Dottor Walker
Efferts the Jew and Co
Southwark
Thule
Joseph Mawbey
Grace
Th—le
Amsterdam
Pondicherry
Hyder Ali
Englis
Constantinople
Russia
St. Luke
Royal Incorporated Society of Artists of Great
Black Friars Bridge
Esterday
Augusta
Prince Henry Wansports
Tower Wharf
Woolwich
Enigith
Squirrel
William Troy
Henry Tomlinson
Hackney
John Doyle
John Valline
Thomas Poot
Shoreditch
Peter Perrin
John Clare
Stepney
James Fefley
John Dupre
Bethnal Green
Bagnell
Graham
Wood
Shepherd
Northallerton
Mr. Snowden
Liberty
Mr. Simpson
Strawbery
Mr. Johnson
Poor Jack
Mr. Parker
Ariadne
Mr. Dixon
Mr. Colson
Chef
Fainwell
Kymer
Buttongirder
Gray’s-Inn-Lane
Islington
Wiltshire
Wilts
House of Commons
Middlesex
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