Some Remarks upon a Publication by the Philadelphia Medical Society Concerning Swaim's Panacea
primary document · 1828
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SUMMARY
William Swaim's own 1828 reply pamphlet contesting the Philadelphia Medical Society's report against his Panacea, digitized by the Wellcome Collection (work avydpj7r, Public Domain Mark). The work record itself (title, author, place, and year fetched directly from the Wellcome catalogue page) independently corroborates, from Swaim's own side of the dispute, that the Philadelphia Medical Society had published a report concerning his Panacea by 1828 and that Swaim contested it in print; this case cites the pamphlet only for that corroborating fact of the dispute's existence and timing, not for any claim about its content beyond the title.
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This is William Swaim’s own 1828 pamphlet responding to the Philadelphia Medical Society, cataloged by the Wellcome Collection. Its title and existence corroborate, independently of James Harvey Young’s later academic account, that the Society published a report on Swaim’s Panacea and that Swaim contested it publicly the same year. It is cited in this case only to establish that the dispute occurred and was contemporaneous, not for any claim about the pamphlet’s internal arguments.