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  Think I hould be undeerving the Benefit I have received and greatly dificientdeficient [sic] in Point of Gratitude to you, did I not lay before the Public my late deplorable Situation, and the Benefit I have received by your Maredant’s Drops. My Cae was this. About a Year and a Half ince, I got a Cold, (by riding to Bath in a rainy Day) ucceeded by a malignant Fever, which, with Difficulty, I urvived: Some Months after this, I perceived an Eruption on my Arms and Legs, and afterwards on my Face, to uch a violent Degree, that it was one entire Scab, and melt intolerably; my Eyes, Noe, and Mouth, were almot cloed up, which obliged me, for ome Time, to live on Spoon-Meat only: I had alo three inveterate Ulcers on my left Leg, and was reduced to a mere Skeleton. I had the Advice of the mot eminent of the Faculty at Britol, to no Purpoe. In this deplorable Situation was I, when I heard of the almot incredible Cures performed hyby [sic] your Drops: By taking them the Ulcers in my Leg are healed, the Eruption has diappeared, and I enjoy a better tate of Health than I have for thee everal Years pat. I deire you will make this public, for the Benefit of my Fellow-Sufferers. I am, with Gratitude, Your much obliged humble Servant, ROBERT SHIELDS. 

 To Mr. NORTON, Surgeon,

SIR, Return you my mot incere Thanks for the Cure I have obtained by the Ue of your mot Rh