Then I thank Heaven that you are not so afflicted.

"The next disease it is good for, is the _peripneumonia_, or
inflammation on the lungs--the diagnostics or symptoms of which are, a
small pulse, swelling of the eyes, and redness of the face. Say, have
any of you these symptoms--if so, you have the disease. No one. I
thank Heaven that you are none of you so afflicted.

"It is also a sovereign remedy for the _diarrhoea_, the diagnostics of
which are, faintness, frequent gripings, rumbling in the bowels, cold
sweats, and spasm."

Here one man came forward and complained of frequent gripings--another
of rumbling in the bowels, and two or three more of cold sweats.

"It is well. O I thank Heaven that I am here to administer to you
myself! for what says Hippocrates? _Relativum cum antecedente
concordat_, which means, that remedies quickly applied, kill the disease
in its birth. Here, my friends, take it--take it--pay me only one
shilling, and be thankful. When you go to rest, fail not to offer up
your prayers. It is also a sovereign remedy for the dreadful _chiragra_
or gout. I cured the whole corporation of city aldermen last week, by
their taking three bottles each, and they presented me with the freedom
of the city of London, in a gold box, which I am sorry that I have
forgotten to bring with me. Now the _chiragra_ may be divided into
several varieties. _Gonagra_, when it attacks the knees--_chiragra_, if
in the hands--_onagra_, if in the elbow--_omagra_, if in the shoulder,
and _lumbago_, if in the back. All these are varieties of gout, and for
all these the contents of this little bottle is a sovereign remedy; and,
observe, it will keep for ever. Twenty years hence, when afflicted in
your old age--and the time will come, my good people--you may take down
this little phial from the shelf, and bless the hour in which you spent
your shilling; for, as Eusebius declares, `_Verbum personate concordat
cum nominativo_,' which is as much as to say, the active will grow old,
and suffer from pains in their limbs. Who, then, has pains in his
limbs, or lumbago? Who, indeed, can say that he will not have them?"

After this appeal, the number of those who had pains in their limbs, or
who wished to provide against such a disease, proved so great, that all
our phials were disposed of, and the doctor was obliged to promise that
in a few days he would have some more of this invaluable medicine ready.

"Ladies and gen