Requesting That Dr W W Barden Send A Sure Cure Certain Preventive For The Ague To Help Her Treat

by Mrs Benjamin P Rench Laura Blackford Rench

$200 · Offered by Bartleby's Books

A 4 pp. autograph letter, on lined paper, approx. 500 words. A very good copy in a clear hand. Mrs. Rench, evidently a proponent of homeopathic remedies, requests that Dr. Barden send his cure for ague, which she calls the great bane of this country. Ague commonly referred to malaria and other illnesses in which chills and fever were present . She says that she had used Dr. Barden's medicine last summer & fall, with no perceptible benefit, until two of our little girls had spasms &

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