1831.] St. John Long on Consumption. 429 



the lungs is not beyond the power of medicine ; and that a patient seized 

 with the symptoms of this perilous and pitiable affliction is not neces- 

 sarily to be looked on as under sentence of death. The subject, divested 

 of all the extraneous colouring which has been given to it by exaggerated 

 feelings, by professional hostility on the one side, which may have been 

 excited by the natural alarm at any striking novelty, and by the enthu- 

 siasm of partizanship on the other, which may have not less been stirred 

 up by the evidence of that professional hostility, ought now to be made 

 matter of calm investigation. Men of benevolence, and men of science, 

 are equally interested in ascertaining the claims of any offered discovery 

 in the art of healing. We have been persuaded, by a general view of 

 the course of nature, that for every disease there is an intended 

 effectual cure, if we had the skill to investigate it. And it is not 

 either the singularity of the secret, nor the mysterious manner in which 

 a new discovery may be announced, that should prevent a man of real 

 science from examining how far it merits public attention. For theory 

 on this subject, as upon others, where all the value must be practical, 

 we can have no consideration. The only point in question is, has a prac- 

 tice been productive of good, has a deadly disease been disarmed, has 

 mankind one enemy the less to contend with, or even has that enemy 

 been diminished in its power ? 



The following certificates of the nature of the lotion have been circu- 

 lated : 



We, the undersigned, having been patients of Mr. St. John Long, and 

 having- had his lotion applied to us,, do declare, that no blisters were ever 

 raised upon us by it, and that we never heard of its producing them upon any 

 of his patients. That the irritation created by his lotion, heals again under 

 its daily application. That we have used the same to our faces and hands, and 

 that it will produce a discharge on diseased parts, while it takes not the 

 slightest effect on any other. Many of us have also held it in our mouth, and 

 swallowed it with impunity. We have farther to add, that we never knew 

 an instance of mortification taking place under its use, and believe it almost 

 impossible that such an effect could be produced by Mr. Long's lotion. 

 (Signed) 



M. Ash worth. George Lings. Ellen Gregory. 



Jane Rooke. M. Swindin. S. Sotheby. 



S. H. Oughton. HarrietFrances Roxburgh Geo. Manley, (for his in- 



Jane Macdougall. Francis Roxburgh. fant daughter). 



Rosetta Prendergast. Thomas Fussell. Ingestre. 



Jane Campbell. Nathaniel Higgs. Sally Otley. 



Jane Fortye. Wm. Abington. J. Spottiswoode. 



Maria Grindlay. Louis Verellini. M. G. Prendergast. 



William Conw'ay. M. Macdonald. 



March 2Uh, 1831. 



This is to certify that the irritation produced by Mr. Long's application or 

 lotion, created a discharge upon the diseased parts, whilst the same applied 

 to the sound portions had not the slightest effect whatever, and that the 

 irritation healed again by the daily employment of the same remedy, and that 

 I never knew an instance of mortification arise from its adoption, or any dan- 

 gerous effect whatever. (Signed) JOHN BRAITHWAITE. 

 New Road. 



