Observations on the Present State, of the Late Dr. Ward's Medicines: To Which Is Added an Account (from Experience) of Their Real Virtues and Efficacy

Fetched and read directly (National Library of Medicine digitized PDF; no OCR text layer, so pages were rendered to images with ImageMagick and read by direct visual inspection rather than machine text extraction -- this source is therefore cited by bibliographic fact and paraphrase only, with no verbatim quotation placed in the authored bundle, since a PDF is not machine-verifiable by the mechanical verify-quotes checker). Pamphlet by the son of J. White, the chemist who compounded Ward's medicines for him during Ward's lifetime, published 14 years after Ward's 1761 death defending the authenticity of the medicines White continued to prepare and sell under Ward's name. Pages 3-4 give the era's own advertising language for each named medicine: the White Drop (one shilling per phial by 1775) is advertised as doing great service in leprosy and King's Evil, as an antivenereal, and as effective against St Anthony's Fire and other inflammatory disorders; the Sweating Powder and Liquid Sweat are advertised against gout, rheumatism, fevers, and colds. Page 1 records that the same White Drop, sold for a guinea during Ward's own lifetime, was by 1775 reduced to one shilling. Used in this case only for the disease-specific advertising claims attached to the Ward-branded medicine and the historical guinea price point; the post-1761 authenticity dispute among Ward's several successors (White, D'Osterman, Page) is not otherwise addressed in this case.