In Days of Old: Extracts from Our Files: 158 Years Ago: From the Essex Chronicle of 1766: … … This day is sold for the benefit of his Majesty’s subjects, the only true Court Elixir, or Grand Specific, for the cure of Gout. To be had of the noted High German Doctor, Baron Van Pynsent, at his seat near Chatham. Also prepared by the same hand, the Pilula Aurata, or right Royal Bolus Double Gilt, being an admirable remedy for all persons afflicted with a volubility of tongue, and of sovereign use long since in curing that feverish disorder of the mine called patriotism. N.B. Both these remedies are marked with the Doctor’s own Privy Sea, and all other who pretend to sell them must be Counterfeits. … …
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