Dr Norris' Drops in 1781

The Bath Chronicle

Thursday 21st June, 1781

 

Extract of a letter from a Gentlewoman at Shrivenham in Berkshire, to her friend in Salisbury, dated 9th March, 1781. 

 

We received Dr Norris’ Drops in good time, for my little boy was very ill indeed with a violent fever and cough, and at intervals light-headed, and could not get a moment’s rest, till I gave him the Drops, which I did the first night after I received them, a tea-spoonful in half a glass of water, which threw him into a gentle sweat, stopped the cough, and he had a very good night of it, and in the morning he had little or no fever, and has ever since had his usual good health and spirits. Were they not so expensive, I should be inclined to give them to the poor people of the parish, as I make no doubt but they would have the desired effect in fevers, coughs and sore throats, especially of the putrid kind, of which such numbers have lately died; and ‘tis surprising they are not more generally made use of, owing, I suppose, to their virtues not being sufficiently known.

 

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