A 
SHORT ESSAY 
ON THE 
VIRTUES 
OF 
Dr. NORRIS’s DROPS 
FOR 
FEVERS. 
TO WHICH ARE ADDED, 
LETTERS and CERTIFICATES 
OP MANY EXTRAORDINARY 
CURES, 
Among a great Number of others not made Publick, 
INCONTESTIBLY PROVING 
Their sovereign EFFICACY in FEVERS, &c. 
LONDON: 
Printed for the Author, and given gratis by Messrs. FIELDING and 
WALKER, Booksellers, in Pater-noster-Row, the Wholesale Venders of 
these Drops, which are also sold by Dr. NORRIS, at his House in Duke- 
Street, Westminster. 
MDCCLXXVIII. 

GEORGE R. 
GEORGE the Third, by the grace of God, of Great-Britain, France, 
and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c. to all to whom 
these presents shall come, greeting. Whereas THOMAS NORRIS, of 
Duke-street, Westminster, Chemist, hath by his petition humbly repre- 
sented unto us, that after many years study, labour, and great expence, 
he has discovered a Medicine, or Drops, for the cure of Fevers, and all 
Inflammatory Disorders; that his experience of its sovereign efficacy, not 
only in the above disorders, but in many chronic cases, is indisputable, 
and its operation so mild and gentle, that it does not in the least disturb 
the animal œconomy, even of the most delicate constitutions. And as he 
apprehends the said Medicine will be of general use and benefit to our sub- 
jects, he humbly prays us to be graciously pleased to grant him, his execu- 
tors, administrators, and assigns, our Royal Letters Patent, under our 
Great Seal of Great-Britain, for the sole use and benefit of his discovery 
and invention, for the term of fourteen years. We being willing to give 
encouragement to all arts and inventions which may be for the public 
good, are graciously pleased to condescend to the petitioner’s request. 
Know ye, therefore, that we, of our special grace, certain knowledge, 
and mere motion, have granted, and by these presents do give and grant 
unto the said THOMAS NORRIS, his executors, administrators, and assigns, 
our licence, full power, and sole privilege, during the term of 14 years, 
to make, use, and vend his said invention of a Medicine or Drops for 
Fevers, as to him shall seem meet, and to have and enjoy the whole pro- 
fit, benefit, and advantage thereof, for the said term of fourteen years. 
Witness ourself at Westminster. 
Duke-street, Westminster, By Writ of Privy Seal. 
January 25, 1778. COCKS. 
MORE than ten years extensive experience has proved the very great 
efficacy of these Drops in the cure of Fevers, and Inflammatory Dis- 
orders in general; likewise Head-achs, Lowness of Spirits, and Complaints 
in the Stomach and Bowels, and by removing Obstructions, which are 
generally the cause of bad digestion, they recover nature, and with a little 
perseverance in taking them, will restore health almost imperceptibly, 
(without causing any of those violent operations, too often the effects of 
Antimonials in powders) which is well known to many Gentlemen of the 
Faculty in the first practice, as well as the great numbers who have hap- 
pily experienced the great efficacy of these Drops, and sound relief even 
after all other means had been tried without success. 
These inestimable Drops used to be sold in bottles at 5s. 3d. and 10s. 6d. 
each, but are now, in order to render them as generally useful to the 
public as possible, sold in bottles at 2s. 6d. and 5s. each, 
At the Doctor’s House, in Duke-street, Westminster.
Also wholesale by Messrs. Fielding and Walker, booksellers, in Pater- 
noster-Row; and retail by G. Kearsly, No. 46, Fleet-street; W. Daven- 
hill, No. 30, Cornhill; J. Hitchcock, Printseller, and at the Carolina 
Coffee-House, both in Birchin-lane; W. Tilly, Fifth-street Hill; By field 
and Co. Charing-Cross; Southern, St. James’s-street; Shropshire, Old- 
Bond-street; and J. Fish, Edward-street, Portman-square, London; and 
at all the principal Towns in Great-Britain and Ireland. 

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A 
SHORT ESSAY, &c. 
THOUGH these is nothing should less plead for an apology to 
the public than addressing them on what so immediately and 
importantly concerns them, the continuance and restoration of their 
health; yet in a country like this,—where the necessitous, the ignorant, 
and adventurous are every hour practising on the constitutions of their 
fellow-creatures;—the most distant possibility of my being classed in 
this number would have prevented this address, was I not at the 
same time so conscious, from many years absolute experience in a 
variety of cases, of the superior efficacy of this medicine; that, ab- 
stracted from all other considerations, I should hold myself chargeable, 
in point of duty, to omit making it as universal as possible. 
Upon this principle, then, and the corroborating success of this 
medicine for many years, I beg leave to recommend to the Public 
These DROPS for FEVERS; 
which, upon a certainty of their composition and salutary effects, I 
pronounce a specific in the following disorders—Inflammatory Fevers, 
Putrid or Bilious Fevers, Slow Latent (commonly called) Nervous 
Fevers, and Putrid Sore Throats, &c. insomuch that, in a vast 
variety of cases, where life has been often despaired of, and under 
some of the most respectable of the faculty, there has been no one 
instance (at least that has ever come to my knowledge) when properly 
given according to the directions, of their being sound ineffectual. 
And such is the singular efficacy and quality of this medicine, 
that it may be taken with equal safety in infancy or old age, by deli- 
cate or robust constitutions, in small or large quantities as the case 
may require; and so far from producing any of those violent opera- 
tions, the usual effects of Antimonial Powders, it recovers nature in 
the most friendly manner imaginable, operating without any other 
sensible difference than a degree of perspiration, &c. proportioned to 
the necessity of the disease. 
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It is to be lamented, that, upon many occasions, In fevers, phy- 
sicians are obliged to wait for what they call the crisis of the disorder, 
and many days are often elapsed in this intermediate, doubtful state, 
before any thing can be pronounced in respect to an opinion on the 
patient; but this medicine is so immediate, yet innocent, in it’s 
effects, that it waits for no crisis or particular period; it may be 
taken in the first, middle, or latter stages of the disorder, with safety; 
in short, it wants but to meet the disease to effect a cure. 
From these positive declarations, I am not insensible what a risque 
I may be thought to run, both in respect to my own character and 
fortune; and indeed I should feel myself unworthy not only of the 
public patronage I have received, but of the common benefits of 
mankind, could I be so lost to my own honour and conscience, for 
the mere sake of interested views, thus to recommend a medicine, 
which I even remotely doubted of it’s success; but the repeated 
proofs I have had of it’s never-failing efficacy, it’s immediate, power- 
ful, and safe effects, all give me a consciousness of communicating 
it to the world under the most positive and certain assurances. 
These drops, besides being a specific for fevers, I have often known 
succeed in a variety of other disorders, such as bad digestion, nervous 
head-achs, latent scurvies, (the source of many evils) and infallibly in 
gouty habits, where insensible perspiration is suppressed. And indeed 
when the extent of their powers, as an universal deobstruent, which 
lead to a general strengthening and restoration of nature, are con- 
sidered, the universality of their effects will cease to be wondered at. 
Having thus given a summary account of the virtues of these 
Drops, I am aware of the objections which will naturally arise 
from a comparative view of the general mode of medicinal administra- 
tion, and that which prevails in this essay: I am likewise aware of 
the formidable opposition which every great discovery in medicine 
must unavoidably meet with, not only from it’s opposition to esta- 
blished practice, but the uncharitable endeavours of interested men, 
who, under the specious pretence of it’s not being in common use, 
have invariably reprobated all such (however beneficial to man- 
kind) as dangerous or uncertain. Though the use of these 
Drops would be a convincing answer to such insinuations; yet, as 
many have not experienced their effects; and as I would willingly 
obviate every difficulty, as well for the sake of my own reputation as 
the satisfaction of the Public; I shall submit the following apology 
for my conduct. 
it is generally objected to those, who have laboured through a 
painful course of years, and have been at great expences in the dis- 
covery and preparation of medicine, that to make a mystery for pri- 
vate emolument of what so essentially affects public benefit, is repug- 
nant to those principles of universal charity, which should actuate the 
human breast:—This, at first sight, I own seems plausible, but then 
it should be considered, that the means of throwing this into common 
use, may destroy its effects; as the excellency of a medicine depends
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not so much on the subject from which it is taken, as the great care 
and judgment in the preparation. A common chemist, in shorten- 
ing the necessary period of preparation, dispensing with accidents, 
substituting apparently similar bodies, or by any of those various 
means, which may save his time, or increase his profits, may think 
himself sufficiently justified for so doing by the usage of trade: But the 
more careful chemist, conscious that the least accident or mismanage- 
ment is frequently sufficient to extinguish the virtues of his process, 
and having nothing so much at heart as the credit of his medicine, is 
barred by no labour, no time, no expences, no disappointments, in 
bringing to perfection this his favourite object. 
Permit me then to rank myself in this last class, who, from dedi- 
cating the best part of my life to chemical Processes, must necessarily 
be supposed to be well acquainted with the minutest preparation of 
medicine; and on the credit of this experience let me add, that what 
from the judgment and accuracy required, together with the many 
accidents to which it is liable, the process of my Drops can 
scarcely be compleated in the way of common business. This con- 
sideration then alone, I flatter myself, will fully justify my conduit 
to the judicious and impartial part of mankind. 
I have already been sufficiently explicit in enumerating the virtues 
of this medicine; I do not therefore mean to take up any more of the 
attention of the Public; otherwise, than as the PRESERVATION and 
RESTORATION of health form the principal and greatest blessing of 
life, that they strictly examine into it’s merits. If it turns out to be 
productive of those benefits I have mentioned; surely I cannot be 
thought presuming to expect that a public reward should follow so 
public a benefit. If on the contrary I should be found one of those 
forward daring empyricks, who are heedless what sacrifices they 
make to their own interests; let me be branded with that infamy 
which those who endeavour to deceive mankind in such important 
matters deserve. 
And here I beg leave to request all those who have honoured me 
with their confidence, and who by experience or observation are 
vouchers of the efficacy of this medicine, to favour me with their 
names and address, that, by the permitted publication of such au- 
thority, I may be the better enabled to render as universal as possible
so great a benefit to mankind. 
Duke-street,
Westminster. 
THO. NORRIS.


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LETTERS and CERTIFICATES 
OF 
CURES 
BY THE SOLE USE OF 
DR. NORRIS’s DROPS for FEVERS. 
From the BRISTOL GAZETTE of May 14, 1778. 
To the PRINTER. 
SIR,
AS often as I hear of any one lately dead in a fever, my question 
is, Whether Norris’s Drops were given to the deceased? The 
answer is commonly, No—No—No. And truly. Sir, in the course 
of more than seven years, not one instance hath come to my know- 
ledge, of a patient doing otherwise than well, who tried that medi- 
cine.—On the other hand, I have been witness to such examples of 
its use and benefit, in the several kinds of fever—phrenzy, low ner- 
vous, putrid, &c. as have at last extorted from me this public ac- 
knowledgment—which cannot be deemed the effect of any partial 
bias in favour of Dr. Norris, to whom I am an utter stranger, nor 
of any selfish views of my own, being wholly distinterested;—the 
candid reader will therefore believe me, when I profess to have no 
other motive than the preservation of life and health, or in other 
words, the good of the human race. 
If it be objected, that “there are physicians enough to take care of 
the lives and health of mankind;"—Is it not also to he deplored, that 
(especially in fevers) the physician is too often followed by the sexton! 
But, if I have seen a fellow creature, who, a little before, lay dis- 
solving as it were in the flames of a burning fever, without any rest 
day or night, or dying away in the languors of the putrid fort—by 
the happy influence of this medicine, bless’d with refreshing sleep, or 
falling into a gentle perspiration, and these followed by all the signs 
of a speedy recovery;—it such reiterated scenes as these, in my own 
family, as well as others, have convinced me, that not only every 
fever, but even the cause of it, must infallibly give way to NORRIS’S 
DROPS; ought I still to resist the impulses of benevolence, and by 
an ill-timed shyness of appearing in print, lose perhaps an oppor- 
tunity of saving life? For I dare aver, from repeated proof, that 
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even in cases thought to be desperate, (if the patient has the good 
fortune to be given over, while the act of swallowing remains) the 
sore-mentioned Drops, administered according to the printed direc- 
tions given with the medicine, will effect a cure; earnestly wishing, 
nevertheless, that a timely application of the medicine may prevent 
such extremities. 
Now, Sir, if the foregoing should be thought an exaggerated ac- 
count, I will readily direct any enquirer to the very persons, who 
will bear witness to their own remarkable cures, and evince more 
than is before asserted; and could also name several others of fortune 
and abilities in this city, who will speak of this medicine in higher 
terms than I have done. Who am, Sir, 
Bristol, Your obliged humble servant. 
May 12, 1778. ARTHUR SAWIER. 
P.S. Persons supposed to be dying of the ulcerated sore throat, 
have been happily restored by the same medicine. 
From the BRISTOL GAZETTE of August 20, 1778. 
To the PRINTER. 
He robs his neighbour that relieves him not. JUV. 
SIR, 
WHEN I made bold some time ago to send you a few lines for 
your paper, (which I have the unexpected pleasure to see 
repeated in several other news-papers) in recommendation of the 
greatest medical blessing the world ever received, it was done, with a 
sole view to the preservation of life, and the relief or prevention of 
those miseries that so often attend fevers in the usual method of 
treatment. A news-paper is read by multitudes of every class, and 
may find its way into those hands where a book of attested cures may 
never come, and therefore appeared the most likely channel to con- 
vey the benefit intended. The end is not altogether unanswered, 
occasions of illness are but too frequent—the unprejudiced have be- 
lieved our report, and tried the medicine—to try it fairly and to suc- 
ceed are inseparable; and accordingly several have been lately added 
to the cloud of witnesses that have made Norris’s Fever Drops fa- 
mous in London and elsewhere.—But now so it is, that some are dis- 
pleased with my sincere endeavours: those who know no other spring 
of action but Self, insinuate that I am interested in the profits of the 
medicine; this I can safely disavow in the most plenary and solemn 
manner. Others who dread nothing more than the reputation of a 
medicine which may be taken without pomp or parade, affect to
doubt the truth of what is asserted; but this will be readily proved by 
all the evidence that things of the kind are capable of. A third sort 
allow me, indeed, the credit of a good intention, but wish “I had 
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let alone matters of health, and minded my own business.” To these 
the sentence of a heathen writer, above quoted, may be a full answer, 
as it sets in the very worst light the character of him who knows what 
will save his neighbour’s life, but does not reveal it. Others again 
are at a loss to know how a person not bred to physic should come to 
know any thing about the cure of fevers, &c. For the satisfaction of 
such, my introduction was as follows: 
At a time when I had not so much as heard that the medicine was 
extant, the printed directions for using Dr. Norris’s Fever Drops, 
by mere accident, fell into my hands; it happened at the same time 
that a young person of my acqaintance lay dangerously ill of a putrid 
fever. Going the same evening to see my friend, I found the family 
much alarmed at an intimation from the Doctor who attended, that 
it would be proper to call in further assistance, for that he was appre- 
hensive of a change for the worse. The urine, which had been re- 
served every day for his inspection, was hitherto without sediment, 
and every symptom had an unpromising aspect. By the look of the 
eyes, total absence of rest, extreme dejection, and low pulse of 
the patient, it was apparent even to me, who know no more of 
physic than is implied in common sense and observation, that no 
time was to be lost; and therefore taking the forementioned paper of 
directions out of my pocket, I earnestly requested that Norris’s Me- 
dicine might be tried—my entreaties prevailed, and several bottles 
were instantly sent for, that there might be no want in the night.— 
The Drops were given freely, and with the most happy success, for 
in an hour’s time the pulse and spirits were considerably raised; this 
was followed by a kindly propensity to sleep, and the abatement of a 
violent pain in the back part of the head and neck; the patient slept 
five or six hours that night, having had no rest for the six nights 
preceding.—And in the morning the face of things was so changed, 
that the same gentleman, (not knowing what had been done) ex- 
claimed with admiration at such an amendment in so short a time, pro- 
testing that if the present symptoms continued, he thought the 
patient out of danger.—By the sole use of these Drops entire health 
returned apace, and strength followed by degrees.—Such a convincing 
proof of the goodness of the medicine could not but engage me to 
recommend it occasionally wherever I had any influence, and in all 
such instances, in what kind of fever soever, a speedy and effectual
cure has always been obtained by these Drops, without the least un- 
easiness in the operation. From which, together with the concurring 
testimony of others, I conclude that Norris’s Fever Medicine is as 
infallible in the cure of fevers, as water is in the quenching of fire. 
Pardon the length of this letter from, Sir, your most humble servant, 
Bristol, Aug. 10, 1778. ARTHUR SAWIER. 
P. S. It is constantly sound, that if these Drops are taken soon 
after the shivering fit, so often preceding a fever, it will never 
rise to any considerable height, but go off by perspiration, &c.
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To Dr. NORRIS, Duke-street, Westminster.
SIR, 
SOME time ago at Plymouth I was suddenly taken ill; it began 
with a shivering all over me, a dreadful sickness at my stomach, 
together with a nausea and vomiting; which soon terminated in a 
violent Fever; an Apothecary was sent for; I took of his draughts, 
&c. But hearing so much of your Drops for Fevers, I thought, 
while I remained in my senses, (for I found a delirium coming on 
very fast) I would give them a trial; accordingly I sent for a bottle, 
and took only a tea-spoonful, though by your directions I should 
have taken three times the quantity; I suppose, like many others at 
first, I might be timorous: I continued taking a tea-spoonful every 
hour for three or four hours, when I found myself in a profuse sweat, 
in which I continued the whole night, free from pain or anxiety, my 
nurse supplying me plentifully with baum tea. The Apothecary 
not knowing what I had done, called in the morning, and was 
agreeably surprised on finding the fever quite subdued in so short a 
time, and inspecting the urinal, expressed his astonishment at the 
consistence of its contents, discharged in the course of the night, 
which was very thick indeed: not chusing to give offence, I did not 
undeceive him; I continued your Drops, and nothing else, taking 
them every two or three hours, more or less, and in the course of 
three days, finding myself so well recovered, I set off in a post- 
chaise for London, upwards of 200 miles, in severe frosty weather, 
and never went to bed till I got home; I took your Drops all the 
way, and found them very comfortable. 
Upon my arrival, I found my child, a boy about 9 months old, 
very bad, and given over, with an inflammation on his lungs, and 
such a difficulty of breathing, that he might be heard all over the 
house, expecting every breath to be his last, and reduced to a mere 
skeleton, From the great benefit I so recently received from your 
Drops, I ordered his nurse to give them to him immediately, and 
continue them every three hours, from twenty drops to a tea-spoonful, 
which had the desired effect, and removed the complaint in a few 
days, I have recommended them to my own family and friends, 
who speak as highly of them as I do, and from the many instances 
where I have been an eye witness of their salubrious effects, do 
earnestly recommend them to the public as a sovereign remedy for 
Fevers of every kind, and a safe and efficacious medicine in many 
Other disorders, to my knowledge. One proof of the many which I 
could give, is the following; One Mr. Loughlin, brother to one of 
my servants, had been upwards of six weeks an out-patient of St. 
Thomas’s Hospital, for a complaint in his side; the pain made him 
walk almost double; thus rendered unable to work, he applied to 
me to get him to be an in-patient: as I am never without some of your 
Drops by me, I gave him part of a bottle, which he took; and al- 
though they operated quite in an insensible manner, the effect was
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such as removed his complaint, and rendered him capable of working 
at his business in the course of a week. 
In compliance to the justice and reasonableness of your request in 
one of your books, which sell into my hands some time ago, I send 
you the above recital of simple facts, of which you have my liberty 
to make what use you please, for the general good of mankind. 
Old Gravel-lane, Radcliffe 
Highway, May 5, 1778. 
I am, Sir,
Your friend and servant, 
JOHN HINDLEY. 
To Dr. NORRIS, in Duke-street, Westminster. 
SIR, 
I Have two daughters, who, I think I may safely say, under God, 
owe their very existence to the virtues of your Drops for Fevers; 
I herewith send you their case, which you have my consent to pub- 
lish, if you think proper, for the benefit of those labouring under the 
like afflictions.
In the spring of the year 1776 my youngest daughter was seized 
with a nervous fever, with an extreme dejection and loss of appetite, 
which continued for some time, and brought her extremely low. 
She had the advice and assistance of some of the most eminent of the 
faculty, but without any relief; as the last recourse, I sent for a 
bottle of your Drops, which, in a few days, entirely took away the 
Fever, and by the use of two small bottles only, she was quite re- 
stored to a good state of health. 
In the summer of 1777 she was again seized with a violent putrid 
fever, and the week following I had another daughter fell ill of the 
same fever; the symptoms ran very high in both, a constant watch- 
fulness and delirium to a very great degree. I now declined calling 
in any of the faculty, but trusted entirely to the efficacy of your Drops, 
and by administering them pretty freely, every dangerous symptom 
was soon removed, and by a short continuance their health was per- 
fectly re-established. I shall be ready and willing to satisfy any per- 
son who chuses to be further informed of the truth of the above. 
No. 116, And am, Sir, with gratitude and respect,
Fetter-lane, London, Your very humble servant, 
May 4, 1778. ELIZ. MARKS. 
E. NEWHAM, Housekeeper to Mr. Frears, in Wych-street, 
St. Clement Danes, was sorely afflicted with an inveterate 
sharp corrosive humour in her blood, for the space of one year and a 
half, suffered great pain, and scarce able to move about for some 
months; by applying to Dr. Norris, in Duke-street, Westminster, 
and taking a few bottles of his Drops, received a perfect cure. 
Mr. Frears will authenticate this account at any time. 
July 31, 1778. Letter

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Letter from THOMAS DOBSON, at Mr. ELDERTON’S, in Salisbury, 
to Dr. NORRIS, Duke-street, Westminster.
SIR,
IN justice to your excellent and most valuable Drops for Fevers 
and Colds, I send you the particulars of my case, which, if you 
think proper, you are welcome to publish for the benefit of others. 
Sometime in the beginning of last winter I caught a violent cold, 
attended with a fever and hoarseness, which reaching my lungs, 
fixed there, and I grew worse daily, till at length I was quite weak, 
much emaciated, and so deprived of my speech, as only to be able 
to speak in a very low, whispering voice, scarcely to be heard by any 
person, though ever so near me; and notwithstanding I tried every 
remedy that could be thought of, I continued thus for more than 
three months, and instead of mending, grew still worse, till at 
length I was got into a very weak and dangerous way. However, 
after every other medicine which I had applied proved unsuccessful, 
I was persuaded to try your Drops, which I took according to the 
directions given with them, and soon found myself begin to grow 
better, and before I had quite finished taking only one bottle, to my 
own and all the family’s astonishment and surprise, I recovered the 
use of my speech, so as one morning, when I arose, I could speak 
as articulately and loud as ever; I continued taking the Drops, and 
daily encreased in strength, and now, and for these two months 
past, have been in perfect health, without the least remains of my 
disorder. 
I am, Sir, 
Salisbury, Your very humble servant, 
July 17, 1778. THOMAS DOBSON. 
Dear SIR, 
IT is now some years since I gave you mine and my son’s case, ex- 
pressive of the effects your Fever Drops had in the recovery of 
us both, from a violent Fever, and putrid Sore Throat; since 
which, I am happy to find them so universally approved of, and so 
well established, as to leave little room for any thing I can say farther 
in support of their real merit. Yet, as there cannot be too many 
instances brought to view, for the advantage and satisfaction of the 
public, you have my consent to publish the inclosed narrative of the 
late recovery of my son from a dangerous Fever, and Sore Throat, 
by the sole use of your inestimable Fever Drops. About ten weeks 
ago my son, between ten and eleven years of age, was taken very ill 
at an Academy a very little way from town, where he has been 
some years; such is my opinion of your Drops, I made it a point 
with his Governor, that if at any time he should be taken ill, no 
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matter what, to give him a tea-spoonful or two of your Drops, 
taking care a bottle for that purpose should be always in the house, 
and repeat it occasionally, and if that should not remove the com- 
plaint, to send for you immediately. Instead of either being done, 
an Apothecary was sent for, &c. The boy becoming worse and worse 
daily, his Governor, whose care and tenderness in all other respects is 
remarkable, called with great concern to acquaint me of the dangerous 
way he was in; fortunately you dined with me that day, which 
afforded you an opportunity of hearing all that passed, upon which 
you concluded to have him brought home immediately; and, though 
late at night, you would wait his arrival. A carriage and faithful 
woman servant were dispatched, and returned with him wrapped up 
in a blanket, just as he was taken out of bed; and though contrary 
to the opinion of all present, you gave me some hope of his recovery, 
which was soon verified; in two days you pronounced him out of 
danger, and, in a few days more, was perfectly restored by your 
invaluable Fever Drops; which I do most heartily recommend as 
the first medicine in the world, and particularly for Fevers. 
P. MAYLOR. 
Little East-Cheap, No. , London.
—W—, Esq. 
THIS gentleman, struck with some expressions in my directions, 
(viz. “A Fever is produced by an extraordinary exertion
“of the powers of nature, to expel whatever has a tendency to be 
“destructive or noxious to the animal oeconomy”) was determined, 
after having sufficiently proved many things ineffectual, to send for 
me, which he did. I found him sorely afflicted with a Bilious, 
Putrid Fever, attended with a most violent Vomiting and Purging, 
and in all appearance near a dissolution; however, being convinced 
of the healing powers of my medicine, I gave him a smile of hope, 
and after administering a small dose, left him to rest. The next day 
I found him considerably better, and in a few days, without other 
assistance, he was perfectly cured. 
SIR, 
I Was sorely afflicted with a lingering Fever, occasioned by a cold, 
which brought on a loss of appetite and weakness of stomach, 
that would suffer very little nourishment to stay on it. After more 
than six months illness, my physicians* having so far given me over 
as to discontinue their prescriptions, thinking every possible means 
had been tried, at last consented that your Drops should be adminis- 
tered: the first dose gave manifest signs of amendment, and in a
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short continuance of them I was restored from the brink of the 
grave to perfect health. It is now upwards of five years since I ex- 
perienced their happy effects; since which I have not only recom- 
mended, but administered them to many in fevers, and do declare, I 
never found them to fail in a single instance. This you have my 
permission to make public for the benefit of mankind. 
I am, SIR, 
Lambeth Palace. Your very humble servant, 
GEORGE TEGETMEYER. 
To Dr. NORRIS, Duke-street, Westminster. 
Mrs. G—. 
THIS gentlewoman had been afflicted many months with a Slow, 
Latent, Nervous Fever, with a total loss of appetite, and bad 
digestion; insomuch that she was reduced to a very deplorable con- 
dition. In this state, after every advice and assistance of the faculty, 
and when her recovery was generally despaired of, she was induced, 
by the persuasion of Mr. Tegetmeyer, to try my Drops; which, to 
the astonishment of herself and all who knew her, very soon restored 
her to perfect health. 
JOHN WHITE, servant to Mr. TEGETMEYER.
NOtwithstanding this man was delirious, and had every dan- 
gerous symptom that could possibly attend an Acute Inflam- 
matory Fever; upon taking my Drops, a gentle perspiration ensued, 
and a very copious sweat soon followed, which carried off his Fever 
in a few hours; and in a few days he was able to go about his 
business. 
SIR, 
MY servant was delirious, and in all respects so bad in an In- 
flammatory Fever, attended with a putrid disposition, that 
it was generally thought she could not recover; but on taking these 
Drops she presently began to mend, and the continuance of one 
small bottle perfected her cure. 
Some time after my son had a violent Inflammatory Fever, and 
from the almost immediate effects of these Drops on my servant, 
and the good report I had heard of them from many of my ac- 
quaintance, I trusted in them altogether, and gave him no other 
medicine: I gave them to him freely, which threw him into a fine
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perspiration and a sweet sleep; the Fever was carried off in a few 
hours, and he recovered health and strength in a few days. This 
you have my permission to publish for the good of mankind, be- 
lieving your Drops to be the most safe and effectual remedy for 
Fevers ever yet discovered. 
I am, SIR, 
John-street, Adelphi. Your very humble servant, 
JOHN ARNOLD.
To Dr. NORRIS, Duke-street, Westminster. 
Letter from GEORGE DOWNING, Esq. 
SIR, 
I Have read your Treatise on your Drops for Fevers, and having 
experienced their good effects in a variety of instances in my family 
for above six years, I consider it as a duty to add to your catalogue 
my testimony of their safety and efficacy; of which, to particularize 
no other, there cannot be a stronger proof than the following case: 
A daughter of mine, sixteen years of age, of a delicate constitution, 
was last autumn seized with a Putrid Fever and Sore Throat; so 
rapid was the disease in it’s progress, that she was near a dissolution 
before your Drops were administered. We gave them in large 
doses, and very freely, by which the danger was presently overcome, 
and my daughter soon perfectly restored to health. You have my 
permission to subjoin this to your Essay, 
And am, SIR,
Brompton. Your most humble servant, 
GEORGE DOWNING. 
To Dr. NORRIS, Duke-street, Westminster.
MR. F. a respectable tradesman in the city of London. His 
daughter, a weakly delicate child, about five years of age, 
was sorely afflicted with a swelled stomach, and constipation in her 
bowels; together with indigestion, a Slow Fever, and a sharp cor- 
rosive humour in her blood. To the inexpressible joy of her parents, 
who had despaired of her recovery, she is happily restored to health, 
by the virtues of this invaluable medicine. Two of his servants were 
cured of a Putrid Fever; the one in his own house, very speedily, 
and went about his business in a few days; the other soon after was 
attacked with the same disorder: for reasons best known to his master
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he sent him to Islington, and put him under the care of an apothe- 
cary there, but hearing very unfavourable accounts of him daily, he 
went to see him, and sent for the Apothecary, who told him, among 
other things, that his Fever was a very dangerous one, and must 
wait for a crisis, &c. This not appearing satisfactory to the old 
gentleman, he discharged the Apothecary, and immediately sent for 
me. Let it suffice to say, that I was under the necessity of giving this 
young man three times more in quantity of the Drops than is ordi- 
narily prescribed, before the desired effect was produced; he began 
to take them about eight o’clock in the morning, and between that 
and five in the evening he had taken four fifths of a half guinea bottle,
without their having the least sensible effect; he then called for a 
large bason of tea, which he drank, and about six had a very profuse 
sweat, in which he continued the whole night, and slept comfortably. 
I made him a visit the next day, and found him equal to my wishes; 
and the day following pronounced him out of danger, which I re- 
ported to his master. In a week or ten days after I saw him about 
his business. 
REMARKS. 
Very few people pay that attention to the directions given with 
the medicine which they ought; if they did, there would be very little 
occasion for my visits, particularly in Fevers. 
SIR, 
MY eldest son was seized with a most violent Fever and never- 
ceasing excessive head-ach, which defied all the various 
medicines that acknowledged skill and attention could prescribe for 
thirteen days and nights together, until he was evidently sinking 
under debilitating vomits, blisters, and four bleedings; the despairing 
father trembling for the fate of a youth who had never once swerved 
from the strictest rules of duty, and who but very recently lost 
another most promising youth, under circumstances exactly similar; 
and therefore as a last resource in such imminent danger, he applied 
for Dr. Norris’s Drops for Fevers, which in one night carried off 
the violent head-ach, and through a soft easy sweat, that terminated 
in a sound sleep, every dangerous symptom was at once removed; 
which I dutifully attest, to allay the excruciating anguish of all other 
unhappy parents in the like melancholy sorrow and distress for their 
beloved offspring, sinking, helpless, and without any hope of fur- 
ther relief from fast approaching dissolution. This, Sir, you have 
my permission to publish for the good of mankind. 
Charing-Cross. ALEXANDER DINGWALL. 
To Dr. NORRIS, Duke-street, Westminster.
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A Letter from the Rev. Mr. CHAUNCY, Rector of Ayot St. Peter, 
in Hertfordshire. 
SIR, 
I Was greatly afflicted with a weak stomach, frequent head-achs, 
a vitiated appetite, and a scorbutic habit; let it suffice to say that 
your Fever Drops, without the assistance of any other medicine, 
under God, have restored me to a good state of health. My wife 
also, by a short continuance of them, was cured of a Nervous Fever, 
frequent head-achs, and a general loathing of food. This you have 
my permission to subjoin to your Essay, and am,
SIR, 
Your humble servant, 
CHARLES CHAUNCY. 
To Dr. NORRIS, Duke-street, Westminster. 
—H. Esq. 
WAS cured by these Drops of a Slow Latent Fever, indigestions, 
crudities, &c. This gentleman, from a charitable motive, 
has had much experience of the sovereign effects of this medicine in 
an Endemial Fever, which prevailed in his neighbourhood. To use 
his own words, “This Fever prevailed in my absence from home; 
“my housekeeper administered them to the poor, as long as she 
“had any; all who took them recovered, and two, for whom she 
“had none left, died.” 
Mrs. D'HAYNES, Prince’s-Court, Story's-Gate, Westminster, 
WAS afflicted with a violent pain in her chest, a weak stomach 
and bad digestion, attended with a Slow Nervous Fever;
she is perfectly restored to health by the sole use of this medicine. 
Mrs. MAY, No. 8, Buckingham-street, York-Buildings, 
WAS afflicted with the most distressing Miliary Fever I ever was 
acquainted with, which species of Fever is universally allowed 
to be of longer continuauce (though not so dangerous) and requires 
more judgment in treating it, than any other kind of Fever; not- 
withstanding, under a course of my Drops, taken according to 
directions, she was perfectly cured in seventeen days, which, in the 
common way of treating it, rarely happens in as many weeks. 
This she is ready to attest when called upon.
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Mrs. ANN WRIGHT, James-street, Golden-square. 
CURED of a most violent pain in her stomach, so excruciating at 
times as not to be described, attended with a total loss of appe- 
tite, so that very little nourishment would stay on her stomach. In 
two years continuance of this malady, her strength and spirits were 
quite exhausted, and her skin became very yellow; insomuch that 
she was reduced to the most deplorable state. After proving every 
effort of the faculty vain, and taking various medicines to no good 
purpose, she was induced, by the recommendation of a gentleman 
who had sufficiently proved their virtues, to take my Drops, one 
small bottle of which restored her to perfect health. 
SIR, 
I Caught a severe cold, which terminated in a violent Inflamma- 
tory Fever; and notwithstanding I had every assistance that could 
be obtained, I continued growing worse and worse for eighteen days; 
when few signs of life appearing, your Fever Drops were admini- 
stered as the last effort to restore me, when, to the surprise of all my 
friends, in the course of three days, I was perfectly recovered, with- 
out any other sensible effect than a degree of perspiration. This 
you have not only my permlssion but my request you will make pub- 
lic for the good of mankind. 
Finch-lane, CornhilL. THOMAS HEPBURN.
REMARKS. 
This young than, after bleeding, blistering, leeches applied to 
his temples, and every other means in common practice made use 
of to no good purpose, his brother with whom he lives, was advised 
to try in this desperate case my Fever Drops; he made some en-
quiries about me at the Carolina Coffee-house in Birchin-lane, 
where I frequently go when in the city; satisfied with Mr. Carr’s, 
and several gentlemen’s report of me there, the Drops were imme- 
diately administered according to directions; the next day I happened 
to call at the coffee-house, when Mr. Carr, who keeps it, after re- 
citing what had past, was sorry to inform me the young man was no 
better, and then past all hope; that as I was so near, he thought it ad- 
viseable I should call; I did; and never did I see a human being 
nearer death: I could feel no pulse; he lay on his back with his eyes 
wide open and fixed, speechless, and motionless to all appearance. 
Being the first instance of my Drops failing in Fevers, at least that 
ever came to my knowledge, made me more particularly inquisitive
about the administration of them, when (to my great surprise) the 
brother of my patient assured me with much concern, they were ad- 
ministered according to directions, and he had taken of nothing else 
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since, but the Apothecary’s stuffs, as he called them, every two hours, 
as they were directed to be given. There was no time to be lost in 
reproof; it was now one o’clock at noon; I immediately dispatched 
a messenger to Mr. Parker’s, for a half-guinea bottle of Drops, a 
table spoonful of which was poured down that instant, with directions, 
if he lived an hour and an half, to repeat it, and continue to 
give him that quantity every two hours after, till a sweat, or some 
visible signs of amendment, were discovered; and then to diminish 
the dose gradually; that no other medicine should be administered on 
any account, but to let him have as much baum tea, or any simple 
diluting liquor as they could get down, by little and little, every now 
and then; the blunder committed before, made them now doubly 
diligent and punctual; I called the next day, and found him very 
weak, low, and languid, but happily the Fever was quite gone. 
The nurse informed me he lay very quiet till five o’clock; about 
fix he began to perspire, and continued so to do plentifully the 
whole night, sleeping all the time; which from his laying very 
still and motionless, and as she thought breathless too, made 
her several times conclude he was dead, till, by laying on her 
hand every now and then, she was satisfied to the contrary. I then 
ordered the Drops to be given very sparingly, not above twenty or 
thirty, every two or three hours, till I called the next day, when I 
pronounced him out of danger, and ordered him to be wrapped up 
in a blanket, put into a carriage, and taken somewhere to breathe 
a purer air as soon as possible, which was accordingly done soon 
after. He now gathered strength, and in a few days was able to re- 
turn to his business, and has continued ever since in good health and 
spirits. 
CERTIFICATE. 
I, THOMAS REYNOLDS, master of the ship Mentor, be- 
longing to the port of London, do hereby certify to whom 
it may concern, that upon my late voyage from St. Kitt’s to 
Carolina, with negro slaves, several of them falling ill of Fevers, 
and some of them very dangerously so, I administered to them Dr. 
Norris’s Drops; and they all perfectly recovered without the aid of 
any other medicine whatsoever. 
London. THOMAS REYNOLDS. 
REMARKS. 
This gentleman informed me, that from Africa to St. Kitt’s he 
had lost upwards of seventy slaves, not being able to prevail on the 
Surgeon to administer my Fever Drops to them. When he arrived 
at St. Kitt’s, the Doctor quitted the ship, and the Captain then 
had about seventy slaves left, which he was to take to Carolina: in
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the passage ten or twelve of them were seized with the same Fever 
the others died of; being then without a Surgeon, he had recourse 
to my Fever Drops, which recovered them, verily believing, if 
timely administered, nine out of ten of those that were lost might 
have been saved. These Drops were sent, by way of experiment, 
at the instance of a worthy Gentleman, a Merchant in the city, 
much interested in African affairs, and under the peculiar care of 
Captain Reynolds, the only one, he said, he could depend upon 
to make a just report; before which, and since, several small boxes 
were sent to Merchants at Liverpool for the same purpose, and some 
few from the port of London also; but, strange to tell! when im- 
mediately under the care and administration of the Surgeon, all 
their influence were gone, and they became of none effect. It would 
be no very easy matter to prevail upon many commanders of ships 
who fail without Surgeons, to credit this report from their own ex- 
perience. This I am very well assured of, and could venture my 
credit, reputation, and fortune, upon the event, that if the Sur- 
geons of ships were actuated by the same disinterested principles, my 
Fever Drops would prove a great acquisition not only to the African 
Company in preserving their negroes, but the lives of thousands 
subject to putrid Fevers in hot climates. 
Letter from Capt. STOTT, of his Majesty's frigate the JUNO, to 
Dr. NORRIS. 
IN justice to you, and from a desire of being serviceable to the 
community, particularly that part of it which I have the honour 
to be a member of, I send you, attested by the Officers of his 
Majesty’s ship Juno, under my command, an account of the effects 
of your Drops for Fevers, in the course of my late voyage to and 
from Falkland’s Island. 
In the outward passage, by the Surgeon of the ship’s report to me, 
of the 5th of April last, it appeared, that Geo. Hunter and Laur. 
Pittman, two of the seamen, were taken ill with Malignant Fevers; 
that having for several days been given the usual medicines without 
effect, he thought them past a possibility of recovery; judging this 
a fit opportunity to make a trial of the efficacy of your Drops, (for 
notwithstanding the recommendations which were given me of them, 
and which induced me to take them with me, I had resolved to let 
every usual means take place before I gave them) I then therefore 
gave a bottle to the Surgeon, and desired they might be administered; 
he said, it would, he believed, be of little consequence whatever 
was given them, as he thought they could not live to the next day; 
however, he would try them. The next morning, in his account 
to me of the sick, he told me the men were much better, and he 
believed they would recover; which from that time they did, and 
were soon after able to do their duty in the ship. 
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On the 27th of July following, being in the southern part of the 
Torrid zone, Mr. Joslin, the boatswain of the ship, was taken ill of 
the same Fever, with the like symptoms as the two former; and 
after the Surgeon had represented to me, that he had used all the 
means in his power for his recovery to no purpose, the Fever Drops 
were given, and had the desired effect, by his immediate recovery. 
Sometime afterwards, in the southern ocean, James Hamm, and 
Evan Williams, the one a boy, the other a marine, were seized 
with a Fever, and were, by the Surgeon’s report to me, given over 
for many days; the Drops were given them also, which produced 
a plentiful sweating, and their immediate recovery. Such repeated 
success gives me the highest opinion of the virtue and efficacy of your 
Fever Drops, and on these grounds I cannot too strongly recom- 
mend them. 
I also enclose you the Surgeon’s attestation taken from the journals 
of his practice in the ship; and which, as well as this letter, you are 
at liberty to make public. Wishing you every success. 
I am, SIR, 
Your most obedient humble servant, 
Juno, Portsmouth. 
JOHN STOTT. 
We, the undermentioned Officers of his Majesty’s said ship Juno, 
do also testify what is mentioned in the above letter, and are of the 
same opinion with regard to Dr. Norris’s Fever Drops. 
CHARLES C. CROOKE, 1st Lieutenant. 
WILLIAM BARROW, 2d Lieutenant. 
JAMES HOLROYD, Master. 
WILLIAM JOSLIN, Boatswain. 
THOMAS TURNER, Purser. 
The Surgeon's Attestation taken from his Journal. 
George Hunter taken ill of a Malignant Fever; symptoms, a 
head-ach, vomiting, burning heat, for many days; the medicines 
given had no effect; then the purging came on, with an insensibility; 
he continued in that state four or five days, when Dr. Norris’s 
Fever Drops were given, which threw him into a perspiration, and 
he recovered. 
Same day Laurence Pittman was taken ill; symptoms the same as 
Hunter, and given over; when the Fever Drops were administered, 
which, without any sensible operation, had the desired effect. 
Mr. Joslin was taken ill of the same Fever as Hunter and Pittman; 
symptoms the same; and after medicines were administered to no 
purpose, and he was given over, the Fever Drops were given, and 
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James Hamm and Evan Williams were both seized with the same 
Fever; symptoms the same; and were both given over for many 
days; the Fever Drops were then given, which brought on a 
plentiful sweating, and both recovered. 
JOHN BOYD, Surgeon. 
Extract of a Letter from ROBERT WILLIAMS, Merchant, to 
Dr. NORRIS, Duke-street, Westminster. 
Newbern, North Carolina. 
Much respected Friend, 
THY favour, with a box of Fever Drops, I received by means 
of our Friend Eyre, about 16 last 12 mo. They have gained 
great reputation in these parts, and being the time our general assem- 
bly in Newbern, and my own acquaintance being very extensive in 
this province, I had an opportunity of recommending them to many 
people; carried some to our good Governor Martin. Immediately 
on receiving them, I gave some to my own child, about two years 
old, who was feverish, and much out of order. Everyone in my 
family could observe a sudden change for the better: I have continued 
to give him a few at times, and the child is brave and hearty. Ano- 
ther child, about twelve months old, that had been long sick, had 
lost all appetite, I advised them, which in a few days recovered his 
health and appetite. A negro man in my own employ, about 23 
years of age, by much wading in the water, got a severe pleurisy; it 
being about 20 miles from where I reside myself, they bled him, 
after some days sweated him ; he went out before his sweat was off, 
and grew so bad, they sent me word they thought he would die. I 
immediately dispatched orders to give him thy Fever Drops, and he 
soon recovered. 
Two persons, that had them of me, were cured of stubborn 
coughs, which, I believe, would soon have terminated in consump- 
tions. 
A married woman, not with child, catched a considerable cold, 
which occasioned a suppression of the menses, with fever and great 
pains. I advised the use of the Drops, which soon abated the pains, 
fever, and head-ach, and in about two days time set nature to act 
for herself in the natural way. 
I mention these few particulars more for the conviction of others 
than thy own confirmation. Indeed, for my own part, I believe 
the Drops to be the most sovereign remedy ever yet found out for 
what thou recommends them, and may prove advantageous in many 
cases which are not mentioned in thy directions.
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Mr. CARTER, Attorney at Law, George-Yard, Tower-Hill, 
WAS miserably afflicted with a depression of spirits, bad digestion, 
and a debility of natural strength, proceeding from a most 
violent scorbutic habit; but is now in perfect health by the sole use 
of Dr. Norris’s Drops for Fevers. 
THOMAS CARTER. 
SIR, 
FROM extreme weakness, and a total loss of appetite, I was re- 
duced to so deplorable a state that I had five successive miscar- 
riages; in my sixth pregnancy your Fever Drops were administered, 
which restored my appetite and digestion, and strengthened me to 
my full time in a happy delivery. I recovered to the astonishment 
of all who knew me, and, together with my child, am preserved in 
health, by the sole use of this invaluable medicine. 
Charter-house-Lane. A. BROOKS. 
SIR, 
I Had for many years a violent scorbutic humour, which at last 
not only grew troublesome, but occasioned my breaking out in 
blotches, with continual itching, attended with a heaviness and 
sudden heats, particularly after eating, so that I became very disa- 
greeable to myself. After six weeks application of these Drops I 
felt every desired benefit, and am now in a better state of health and 
vigour than I ever had before. I have administered with my own 
hands the Drops to many people in Fevers; in all I have succeeded, 
and in some cases where the patients have been greatly despaired of. 
This you have my permission to subjoin to your essay; and I am, 
SIR, 
Philpot-Lane. Your very humble servant, 
R. CRACRAFT. 
A Letter from WILLIAM NORRIS, Esq; of Nonesuch, Wiltshire.
SIR, 
AS you seem desirous of communicating to the public the obser- 
vations which have been made by those who have either taken 
themselves, or administered to others, your Drops for Fevers, I can-
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not but think it incumbent on me, in consequence of the good effects I 
have experienced from it, both in myself and family, to transmit you a 
short account of the result. With regard to myself, my constitution 
is rather valetudinary, and has been so as long as I can remember. 
It is now about fifteen years since it was first invaded by the gout, 
which I think I may call hereditary, as I cannot accuse myself of any 
irregularities adequate to the severity with which I have been visited 
by this formidable enemy. 
Among many causes that combine to bring on the gout, I was al- 
ways of opinion, that an obstructed perspiration was one. To remove 
this, I was advised, when perspiration was suppressed, to take your 
Fever Drops frequently and plentifully; these, by promoting a good 
digestion, and it’s consequent attendant, a brisk circulation of the fluids, 
kept open my pores, which before, upon any sudden change in the air 
from heat to cold, were generally closed. 
In the fits of the gout I frequently take them in small quantities, 
and find them promote, assisted by small dilutive liquors, sensible perspi- 
ration in a high degree; and, upon any uneasy sensations in the stomach 
or bowels, during the fit, they seldom fail to remove the cause. In 
Fevers, either Putrid or Inflammatory, frequent occasions have 
offered to try their effects in a numerous family of my own; and, 
from repeated experience, I never found them fail of success, and 
that by removing the disease in a very few days. 
Thus much I am warranted to say in their favour, and think 
them possessed of much greater virtues than even I have described. 
I am, SIR, 
Bedsord-Row. Your most obedient humble servant, 
WILLIAM NORRIS. 
SIR, 
TO be silent where the health of mankind is concerned, I deem 
a crime; must therefore return you my sincere thanks for the 
great advantage I and my son experienced, within these few months, 
from the use of your justly esteemed Fever Drops. We were both 
attacked with a Putrid Fever and Sore Throat, he in particular so 
bad that he became delirious; but, on taking a proper dose or two 
of the Drops, both were in a few hours much relieved, and in a 
short time restored to perfect health. Beside my own experience of 
their salutary effects, I have known several since that have been 
cured by them of Fevers, and in consequence I take the liberty of re- 
commending them strongly to all persons labouring under such dis- 
orders, as one of the most sovereign remedies. If you think proper,
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you have my permission to make this letter public, as it is but doing 
common justice to that heavenly medicine, and my fellow creatures 
also. 
I am, SIR, 
Your much obliged and 
Little Eastcheap. most humble servant,
PAUL MAYLOR. 
To Dr. NORRIS, Duke-street, Westminster. 
SIR, 
I Was greatly oppressed with a bilious disorder, and severely 
afflicted with an hereditary Gout; insomuch that for the most
part of my time I was rendered incapable of doing any business, ’till 
by the generous effects of your Fever Drops my bilious complaints 
are removed; and each fit of the gout rendered so short, by support- 
ing a gentle perspiration universally, when it came on, which they 
never yet failed to do in all my experience of them. I have used 
them, at times, these five years, and never enjoyed a better state of 
health than since I have taken of them; wishing the same good 
effects on others that I have experienced from them. 
I am, SIR, 
Crown-Court, Butcher-Row. Your very humble servant, 
R. LEDGLEY. 
To Dr. NORRIS, Duke-street, Westminster. 
SIR, 
I HAVE read your late publication on the virtues of your Fever 
Drops. In justice to the medicine, and in compliance to truth, 
I think, it my duty to give the following account of them within my 
own knowledge. 
I had a Slow Fever upon me for several years, and could find no 
relief. When I heard of the efficacy of your Drops, I immediately 
got a bottle, and took them as directed; in a few hours I found re- 
lief, and in a short time after a perfect cure. It is now upwards of 
two years, and I never had the least return. I have since admini- 
stered them to my spouse and niece, both in violent Fevers; a copious 
sweat ensued, and the Fever ceased in a few hours, without a relapse. 
Finding their efficacy such, I recommended them to several friends, 
to half a score at least, in similar cases, in all which they had the de-
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sired effect; I do not know of their failing in a single instance. This 
you have my permission to publish for the good of mankind. 
I am, SIR,
No. 1. Inner Temple, Yours, &c. 
King's-Bench-Walks. EDWARD SHUTE. 
To Dr. NORRIS, Duke-street, Westminster.
Letter from Mr. ANDERSON, Merchant, Billiter-square.
SIR, 
I Was for some time troubled with a Slow Fever, with loss of ap- 
petite, and lowness of spirits; but by taking your Fever Drops 
I was soon perfectly relieved. 
I am, SIR, 
Your most humble servant, 
RICHARD ANDERSON. 
To Dr. NORRIS, Duke-street, Westminster. 
SIR, 
I Was some time ago attacked with a Fever: I sent for my Apothe- 
cary, who took some blood from me, and sent me medicines, 
which I took to no good purpose. I then desired him to administer 
Dr. James’s Powders, which also not succeeding, one of the most 
eminent of the Faculty was called in, who in about ten or twelve 
days took off the violence of the Fever, and, thinking all would be 
well soon, took his leave, giving the Apothecary instructions how 
to treat me. In this doubtful state I continued about a fortnight, 
taking a great quantity of medicine, even till he told me, that seeing 
his applications had done me no good, he was ashamed to make me 
a charge. Your little Essay on the virtues of your Fever Drops, 
at this time lying by me, I asked his opinion concerning it: He said, 
by all means try it, if you like it. I immediately sent for a bottle of 
your Drops, and, taking them according to your directions, my Fever 
soon left me; so that in ten or twelve days I was better able to walk 
five or six miles, than I was a few turns in my room before I took 
them. It is my request that you make this public, that, through 
the good hand of Providence, others may find that relief which I 
have so happily experienced. 
I am, SIR, 
Broad-street, St. James’s, Your much obliged, and 
Nov. 1, 1775. very humble servant, 
C. LOLE. 
To Dr. NORRIS, Duke-street, Westminster.
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SIR,
HAVING lately seen an Essay on the virtues of your Fever 
Drops, and the pleasing happiness of my being restored to 
good health and spirits, with the recovery of a lost appetite, by taking 
ten bottles of them; which, with the blessing of God, also cured 
me an inveterate Scurvy and its baneful effects, which I laboured 
under for twelve years past, though attended by many of the Faculty 
both in town and country,—is the reason of your receiving this 
letter from me, that you may shew it, or publish it, for the benefit 
of mankind, to return you my grateful thanks for the unex- 
pected change in my constitution, particularly as to my hearing and 
memory. 
I am, SIR, 
St. Martin's Lane, With great respect, 
April 15, 1775. Your most obliged humble servant, 
MICHAEL BOURKE.
To Dr. NORRIS, Duke-street, Westminster. 
SIR, 
ABOUT sixteen months ago I was recommended to try what 
effect your Fever Drops would have in a complication of 
disorders which I then laboured under; but being in the sixty- 
fourth year of my age, I had very little hopes that any medicine 
whatever could reach my case. However, I was prevailed on to 
consult you, and was so pleased with your judicious observations on 
my complaints, that I submitted myself at once entirely to your care. 
I had a Slow Fever, which generally came on in the evening, and 
continued till morning, which so dried me up, that my skin felt like 
a skuttle-bone. My digestion was very bad, and I had an obstinate 
costiveness, for which I took purging medicines so long, that at last 
they lost their efficacy. An obstinate obstruction in my stomach 
and bowels, with a violent palpitation of the heart succeeded, which 
altogether rendered me incapable of any kind of business. These 
and many more were my complaints, when I applied to you, and 
which are entirely removed by taking your invaluable medicines, so 
that I am enabled to prosecute my usual daily labour with chearful- 
ness. The truth of this, the family in which I have lived these forty 
years, will testify, and to which my master is pleased to subscribe 
his name with that of,
SIR, 
Your ever grateful and 
JOHN RYALL, most humble servant, 
BREWER. WILLIAM SIMS. 
Stratton-Ground, Westminster, May 1, 1775. 
To Dr. NORRIS.

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SIR, 
A Particular friend of mine, some time ago, had a scorbutic hu- 
mour settled in his leg. He was cured by taking your Fever 
Drops. 
Being a witness of their extraordinary good effects in that case, 
and seeing in your short Essay on their virtues, they are particularly 
recommended in Fevers, I was induced, about three weeks ago, to 
make trial of them on myself. I was attacked with a most violent 
Inflammatory Fever, attended with the most alarming symptoms, 
but, by taking one bottle of your Drops, in about sixteen hours, I 
felt myself greatly relieved; and a second bottle perfected my cure, 
without the least appearance of a relapse. You may make use of this, 
in any manner you please, for a public good, and am, 
SIR, 
Lady Lakes’s Grove, Your most humble servant, 
Mile-End. ROBERT EYRE. 
To Dr. NORRIS, Duke-street, Westminster. 
SIR,
I Was afflicted with a Nervous Fever, attended with Gouty 
Rheumatic pains in my head and face, which would sometimes 
fly to my stomach, legs, feet, &c. with violent reachings, and al- 
most a total loss of appetite. In this miserable state, at the time 
your Drops were recommended, I had kept my bed six weeks. I 
took them more freely than recommended in your directions, know- 
ing that my complaints were very obstinate, and found almost im- 
mediate relief. By continuing to take them for a short time, my 
Fever left me, my appetite was restored, my pains were removed, 
and I recovered the use of my limbs; so that I now enjoy a better 
state of health than I recollect to have done for many years. I had 
lost the use of my right-hand and arm for nine or ten months before 
I took your Fever Drops; and as I gradually recovered of my other 
complaints, my hand and arm also recovered their natural strength 
and feeling, and have remained well ever since. 
I am, SIR, 
Your humble servant, 
ELIZABETH SMITH.
Tothill-street, Westminster, May 8, 1775. 
To Dr. NORRIS. 
SIR,
ABOUT three years ago I had a Slow Fever on my spirits, 
which hung upon me for a considerable time. I took of many 
things which were ordered for me, to very little purpose; at length 
I was prevailed on to try your Fever Drops, from which I found
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immediate relief, and by continuing to take them for some little 
time, I got perfectly well. 
On the 12th of September last I was seized with a violent putrid 
Fever; the symptoms were dreadful. I was first taken in bed with an 
unusual restlessness, a sickness and nausea at stomach, attended with 
great pain in my limbs, and a burning heat the whole night: the 
next day I had such a dejection, and lowness of spirits, as is hardly 
to be described. In this situation I fancied I could drink half a pint 
of porter, which I did, and; when I had got it down, I thought 
it would have been my last, it gave me such a shock, as seemed to 
deprive me of all strength and power. I then dispatched one of my 
people for you, and found you were out of town. However, contrary 
to the advice of all my friends, who were for sending immediately 
for a Physician, I was determined to try what your Drops would do; 
and immediately I sent for a bottle, and went to bed, and took them 
according to the directions; they threw me into a moderate sweat, 
which gave me almost immediate case. I continued taking them 
every two, three, or four hours, and sometimes every hour, ac- 
cording as I found myself, for three days successively; when I found 
my Fever entirely vanished, and all those painful sensations gone; 
but left me very weak, though I did not keep to my bed constantly, 
nor was I in the least delirious the whole time. However, my appe- 
tite returning in a day or two after, I began to pick up a little, when 
you called, and advised my sleeping in the country, which I did, 
and in a few days was perfectly recovered. This you have my 
liberty to publish for the benefit of mankind, believing your Drops 
to be the most safe, mild, pleasant, and efficacious remedy in the 
world for Fevers; they never gave me the least disagreeable sensation 
or uneasiness whatsoever. 
I am, SIR, 
No. 44, Cow-Lane, With all due respect,
Snow-Hill, London, Your very humble servant,
Aug. 1, 1778. 
ROBERT FEARN.
To Dr. NORRIS, Duke-street, Westminster. 
Almost innumerable other instances might be given of extraordinary 
Cures perform'd by these Drops, but as in the foregoing there are a 
variety and number sufficient, I apprehend, to satisfy every one of their 
Virtues and great Efficacy, I thought it quite needless to trouble the reader 
with more. 
J. NORRIS. 
N. B. As there it a similarity between the names of NORTON and 
NORRIS, to prevent one being mistaken for the other, it may not 
be amiss to desire all persons to attend to the directions with NORRIS’S 
DROPS, which are peculiarly adapted for Fevers, and NORTON'S 
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Since the foregoing Cases were printed, the 
following have been received. 
To Dr. NORRIS, in Duke-street, Westminster. 
Kent-street, in the Borough, Southwark,
July 14, 1778.
SIR,
IN the month of July, 1777, my sister, Sarah White, about twenty- 
three years of age, was seized with a violent Putrid Fever, and 
Putrid Sore Throat. I immediately sent for my Apothecary, who 
attended her some days, and finding the Fever very alarming, and 
growing worse and worse, she having now lost the use of her limbs, 
he thought it highly necessary a Physician should be called in; and 
accordingly I sent for one of the most eminent in London, who in 
the course of three days finding her still growing worse, and expect- 
ing nothing but death, I sent for my aunt Mrs. Barclay, of All- 
hallows-lane, who immediately recommended the use of your Fever 
Drops, and thought, as the case was so very desperate, that you 
should be sent for. When you came, and saw her situation, you said 
you were afraid you were sent for too late, as there was no passage 
for any thing to be got down her throat; however, you would try 
what could be done, and immediately ordered a table spoonful of the 
Drops to be poured into her mouth, and there held as long as possible. 
This operation had so far the desired effect, as to bring away a large 
quantity of corrupted matter tinged with blood; after which, the first 
words she uttered (in broken accents) were, Pray let me die easy. 
However, by this means, a passage in some measure was obtained, 
and agreeable to your orders, in about a quarter of an hour after, 
a table spoonful of the Drops, with an equal quantity of red port, 
was used as a gargle, and repeated at proper intervals, to her great 
relief, in bringing off abundance of thick phlegm and corruption 
from her throat; after which, we were enabled to get some of the 
Drops down, and by drinking plentifully of balm and sage tea, a 
fine breathing sweat ensued, and a comfortable sleep soon followed; 
in twelve hours, she could move one of her feet, and by the next 
day was able to turn herself in bed, and in forty-eight hours her 
Fever was gone, and so much recovered as to bear fitting up while 
her bed was making, and gathered strength daily; and to the asto- 
nishment of myself, and all who saw her, she was happily recovered 
in a very short time, and has ever since continued to enjoy a perfect
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state of health. To my aunt, whose care in seeing that no part of 
your directions had been omitted, much is owing, who thinks it 
her duty, together with myself, for the benefit of others, to send you 
this case to add to your catalogue of cures, performed by your most 
excellent Drops. 
I am, SIR, with great esteem, 
Witness Your very humble servant, 
ELIZ. THIA. BARCLAY. JOSEPH WHITE. 
To Dr. NORRIS, Duke-street, Westminster.
Dear SIR, 
YOUR favourable reception of my former letter induces me to 
trouble you with the present; wherein I shall recite, in the 
order they occurred, some of the late successes of your excellent 
Fever Drops. 
One of our Night Constables having been strapped down in his 
bed for several days, delirious and frantic, in a violent Fever, his 
wife was persuaded to try your medicine; the effect was, a fine 
breathing sweat, which turned the disorder, so that he thenceforward 
grew better, till quite recovered. The wife told me, that she 
“believed Norris’s Drops had saved her husband’s life.” 
The child of Mr. Edkins, (a painter in St. James’s Church-yard) 
a boy about four years old, given over in a Spotted Fever, supposed 
to be dying, and pronounced incapable of living through the night. 
An acquaintance of mine advised the father to try your medicine: 
The Doctor’s consent being asked, he told them, “all things were 
alike, for that nothing could either hurt the child or do him good.” 
The poor little creature was now emaciated to a skeleton, and as he 
lay motionless and gasping, a tea-spoonful of half-and-half Drops 
and port wine was poured into his mouth, part of which returned 
through the nose, for he was almost past swallowing; but the next 
attempt was more successful, the greater part went down, and 
brought on some little agitation; the third dose made a visible change 
for the better, and (as the mother expressed it) the child began to 
look not so deathly. In short, Sir, next day the child was able to 
take sustenance, and from this time amended apace, till quite re- 
covered. 
A boy about nine years old, in a Fever, at a boarding-school, 
growing worse and worse, without one good symptom about him, 
the master grew very uneasy: It was now about the eighth day of 
the disorder, when he seemed stupid, and the Doctor had said, “it 
would be some time before he was well, if he recovered. The 
Drops were now secretly given in plenty, and every thing else laid 
aside. The next visit, the Doctor liked the symptoms better, and
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exclaimed, “Hah! this is what I wanted, now we begin to gain 
ground, &c.” I will only tell you that the lad recovered in a short 
time, to the great joy of his father, master, &c. 
My son told me of a carpenter in the neighbourhood, who com- 
plained of terrible pains from his breast through to his back. A large 
family depended on his daily labour. We gave him the Drops in 
Port wine (as he was excessive low); in the morning he found him- 
self quite easy, and was getting up in the bed to thank me, if I had 
not prevented, and charged him not to check the sweat that had been 
so much his friend. 
Next in course I am to thank you, Sir, under Providence, for 
my own life. Having been playing in my shirt, on a cold morning, 
with my little ones, in a room adjoining to my bed-chamber; I 
was waked in the ensuing night with a pain in the side of my belly, 
not so acute as that of the pleurisy, but a dead fort of pain that 
seemed like a stoppage; I felt also such a depression upon the urinary 
passage, as made me seem to want relief that way more than twenty 
times in an hour. About day-light I got up, to try the success of an 
upright posture. My distress encreased very fast, and the warm 
liquids that were given me, returned in a few seconds, for nothing 
would yet remain in my stomach; they gave me castor-oil, but it 
came up in a moment; and now I grew fo deplorably bad, that my 
life seemed to be in danger. An universal cold sweat, accompanied 
by faintness, was followed by a benumbing cold, that seized my 
hands and feet, (although in a warm parlour) and was approaching 
to my knees, when they trembled under me, and I was no longer 
supportable by those who held me, but desired to return to my bed. 
All positions were alike intolerable, and I began to think of a disso- 
lution. In this extremity, my son (late your happy patient in Lon- 
don) came to the bedside, and asked me what I thought of the Fever 
Drops; now I had no feverish symptoms that I knew of, and in my 
consternation had forgot the madness of yesterday, and therefore 
answered that I could not look upon my case as coming within the 
prescription of that medicine; but he replied, that if a cold was the 
cause, the Drops might be a cure. He then poured half a wine 
glass of Drops, and filled it with Port wine; I drank it immediately, 
and (my stomach being otherwise empty) could sensibly feel it per- 
vade the passages to the part affected in my bowels; and now a genial 
warmth soon began to take place of that coldness in my limbs, and 
in half an hour I was in a moderate sweat, being able to lie quiet 
for about two hours, when my sweat abating, I raised the perspira- 
tion by taking another dose as before, and so continued repeating my 
glass, at times, .’till I found myself perfectly well at ease, for about 
36 hours; and in less than a week went abroad as well as ever. I 
ought to have mentioned, that after taking the Drops, instead of the 
depression above mentioned, a very free diuretic discharge followed 
in a few hours without the least uneasiness.
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Next follows a case that I can hardly think to have been exceeded 
since the invention of your noble medicine, and which, even though 
(as I feared) it had not been finally successful, must have reflected 
no little reputation thereon, for having repeatedly put off the stroke, 
and revived the patient in the very hour of death. But as the patient 
is now quite out of danger, I must congratulate you, Sir, on such 
a signal cure, as may deserve a place among your greatest achieve- 
ments in the art of healing. 
A poor industrious woman, the unhappy wife of a wretch who is 
gone a privateering, caught the Spotted Fever, by adventuring to 
assist a house full of sick, which every one else had abandoned. She 
was herself an invalid at the time, never having been her own 
woman (as she said) since (two years ago) she underwent a course of 
mercurials for a bad distemper received from her husband, which had 
left her subject to pains in the bowels and limbs, with a complication 
of disorders; in this state she received the infection, the putrescent 
symptoms were accordingly very rapid; but what increased the dan- 
ger and misery of this poor woman, cathartic medicines had been 
given her, which had brought on a black, flux; and now the Doctor 
was so certain of her death, that he cautioned those about her, not 
to let the body remain long unburied, &c. And thus the patient 
lay, in a close-ground apartment, very ill-attended, and under 
every disadvantageous circumstance; when a well disposed person, 
who had already sent her two small bottles of your Fever Drops, 
wished me to call and see her, as a person lying ill simply of a fever; 
which I did; but when those about her had told me the particulars 
above-mentioned, I despaired of her recovery. She was, how- 
ever, still able to swallow, and therefore having furnished a sup- 
ply of Drops, and altered the vehicle to Port wine, (for the first 
had been ignorantly given in tea) I left orders for the night, pursuant 
to the printed directions. The next day produced very little altera- 
tion, except (as we thought) some amendment in the pulse, which 
had been very tremulous and obscure; but at eleven the succeeding 
night, we were shocked with an account that the woman was dying. 
I now wished from my soul we had never meddled with such impos- 
sibilities, and would have given up the point; but my son (being 
encouraged by his own experience in nearly a similar extremity) 
proposed giving the Drops unmixed. I commended his firmness, 
and by one means or other we got the dying patient to drink a wine 
glass of the Drops alone. She was so sensible of benefit from this ef- 
fort, that about an hour after, finding herself grow faint again, she 
took another glass of pure Drops; and now her hands and feet be- 
came warmer, her pulse much better, and thus we left her for the 
night, with proper orders to those who sat up. The patient was 
supported with good coniac-toddy, &c. and in the morning we found 
a tolerable pulse kept up. We ordinarily gave the Drops in Port; and 
now began a continued conflict, as it were, between death and the 
medicine, each alternately gaining ground. The spots were out in
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abundance, and the flux continued; the patient had not the least 
retention from the first, and lay in a deplorable condition; at several
other times she seemed to be dying, and even had what is called 
the death rattles upon her more than once; but when these ghastly 
symptoms appeared, the Drops were our sheet-anchor, and mani- 
festly saved her life, at three or four several times. In some three or 
four days the flux stopped, and at the same time the patient found 
herself better. Soon after this we got her shifted into a good wholesome 
bed, but after all were afraid it was but for her to die upon. Per- 
sisting however in our course, watching the symptoms, especially 
the pulse and degrees of heat, according to the directions, and after 
taking more than eight five shilling bottles of Drops, the disorder 
seemed to be got under. This has been the most obstinate case we have 
met with, and indeed there seems to have been the most eminent 
danger of a total mortification; for when at the worst, the general 
complexion of the patient begun to assume a livid cast, she was con- 
vulsed, and her hands for twenty-four hours were half clinched, 
after the manner of claws, as though never to be unbent again. 
The poor woman repeatedly charged her expected death to those 
medicines that brought on the flux; but now both herself, and all 
who knew her, ascribe, with astonishment, her recovery to your 
Fever Medicine, as the only thing in the world, under God, that 
could have saved her. 
In the course of my family’s attendance upon the above woman, 
my son Henry sickened in a Fever, which soon became violent; but 
by a timely application of the Drops, the disorder was thrown off 
in a few days by a great rash that relieved him, so that he was not 
confined above a week. 
My wife also complained of a Sore Throat in the morning. I 
wished her to take the Drops instantly, but she delayed it till even- 
ing, when the disorder increased so fast, that before bed time she 
was speechless, and the ulceration very considerable; thus being 
threatened with suffocation, she readily took the Drops, and even 
made signs to have them brought her frequently during the night 
by those who watched with her; in the morning following she spoke 
articulately, and in a day or two she was quite cured both of the 
Sore Throat and the Fever that attended it. 
About the same time a servant came to me, late at night, ac- 
quainting me that his master was taken violently ill; it was a mile 
distant, but I immediately returned with the servant, and found my 
friend in bed, rolling from side to side in great agony, groaning, or 
rather roaring with extreme pain in his bowels. He had repeatedly 
taken Bostock's cordial without any effect. Upon enquiry I found 
that a deplorable stomach-sickness accompanied his other complaints; 
and now I brought him a good wine-glass of more than half Drops 
filled with port wine, assuring him of instant relief; he drank it, 
and the event instantly made my words good; his head was no sooner 
on the pillow, but he fell asleep, and a sweat coming on, his nap 
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continued two hours; then waking a little restless, a glass of Fever 
Drops and Port wine, as before, gave him a good remainder of the 
night, and next day he was quite easy and chearful. 
I beg pardon for troubling you with this very long epistle, though 
on a subject that I make no doubt mankind in general will sooner or 
later be greatly benefited by; therefore hope you will excuse it, and 
am, wishing you many happy returns of the season. 
SIR, 
Your most obedient humble servant,
ARTHUR SAWIER.
Bristol, Dec. 12, 1778. 
To Dr. NORRIS, in Duke-street, Westminster.
SIR, 
FOR the great and unexpected recovery I have met with from a 
very long and painful illness by the use of your Drops for Fevers, 
I think, myself bound in gratitude to return you my most sincere 
and hearty thanks. At the same time I think it proper that you 
should be acquainted with the particulars of my case, as possibly it 
may be of great benefit to others labouring under the same or like 
complaints, and for that purpose you may make it public or not, as 
you think proper. 
It was as follows:—When I was about ten years of age I had a 
disorder in my head, occasioned in the first place by an Ague and 
Fever, which at times was so violent that it impaired my memory, 
and had almost deprived me of my speech, attended with a continual 
fever, frequent cold sweats, weakness and loss of appetite, giddiness, 
shakings, and tremors, particularly in my hands, sometimes to such 
a degree that I could scarce hold a pen to write. I applied to various 
physicians for advice for many years, and took variety of medicines 
in great abundance, but to very little good effect; for though I 
sometimes found myself a little better, ’twas but of short duration, 
my disorder still returning, and I was as bad as ever. I also drank 
the salt waters, by which finding myself, as I thought, now and 
then a little better, I continued them for a considerable time, but 
never to be well, or free from my complaints, even for a week to- 
gether, ’till some time in May last seeing Dr. Norris’s Drops for 
Fevers advertised in the Salisbury Journal, I was willing to try 
them, and accordingly bought of Messrs. Collins and Johnson, in 
Salisbury, a half-crown bottle, and took it according to the direc- 
tions; and finding great benefit from them, I purchased another, 
which removed the pain in my head entirely, took off the fever, 
and quite relieved me from the giddiness and tremblings, and re- 
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these Drops, I can ride journies, do my business with pleasure, and, 
in short, have enjoyed for upwards of six months past a better state 
of health than ever I did before, even when at best, for upwards of 
thirty years. 
I am your very obliged and 
Obedient humble servant, 
JOHN TULK. 
Gosport, Dec. 29, 1778. 
To Dr. NORRIS, Duke-street, Westminster.
SIR, 
MY Brother, Richard Fothergill, aged twenty years, was seized, 
about the middle of September last, with a violent Putrid 
Fever; when the Apothecary that attended him thought it prudent 
to recommend the best advice that could be had. Upon which one 
of the most eminent Physicians in the city was sent for, who attended 
for three or four days, in which time the Physician said, he had 
little hopes of his recovery. Mr. and Mrs. Leece, of the Edin- 
borough Coffee-house, relations of Mr. Fothergill’s, were telling 
some gentlemen in the coffee-room, who knew him, that his Phy- 
sician had little hopes of his recovery; when a gentleman in com- 
pany recommended the use of Dr. Norris’s Fever Drops; saying he 
had a sufficient proof of their safety and efficacy, in a case similar to 
this, in his own relation, who was restored, after being given over 
by her Physician, and having himself for years experienced their 
good effect. Accordingly two bottles of the Drops were sent for, 
and a proper quantity immediately given, which brought on a fine 
sweat; and the gentleman who recommended the Drops was so 
kind as to stay with Mr. Fothergill till near twelve o’clock that 
night, and then left him in a fine breathing sweat, insomuch, that 
I was afraid they would have been too powerful; and I the next 
morning gave him two of the draughts prescribed by the Physician, 
which abated the sweat, and he became worse. However, I was 
again prevailed upon by the Gentleman and Mrs. Leece, to give 
no more of the Physician’s prescriptions, but continue the use of the 
Fever Drops; and at the same time agreed to send for you, when you 
said, you would not promise any thing in his favour till he had taken 
of your Drops twenty-four hours at least. We followed your direc- 
tions in administering the Drops, and in the space of 48 hours you 
pronounced him out of danger. However, to give sanction to my pro- 
ceedings, in case of the worst, the Physician attended him, and pre- 
scribed regularly; and he was agreeably surprised, in the course of 
twenty-four hours after your Drops were administered, and said my 
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what he prescribed. But we were at length determined to rely on the 
Drops, and to give no other medicine whatever; by which, under 
God, my brother has been restored; for in eight days he was able to 
walk about the room, and in less than ten he went abroad; and has 
ever since enjoyed a perfect state of health. This, Sir, you have my 
permission to add to your catalogue of cures. 
And am, with all due respect,
Your humble servant, 
MARY FOTHERGILL. 
Witness, ALEXANDER BARCLAY, 
Fleet-Market, Feb. 15, 1779. 
These Drops are sold at most of the principal Cities and Towns in
England, particularly at the following Places. 
Bristol,— Mr. Pine, 
— Mills, 
— Cadell, 
— Routh, 
— Cocking. 
Salisbury, — Collins and Johnson.
Bath,- - Cruttwell. 
York,- -Frobisher.
Cambridge,— Fletcher, 
— Burgess. 
Chichester,— Jaques. 
Canterbury, Simmonds: and Co. 
Exeter, — Thorn. 
Worcester, — Berrow. 
Leeds,- - Binns. 
Nottingham, Burbage. 
Yarmouth, — Checkley. 
Liverpoole, — Crane. 
Reading, — Carnan and Smarf. 
Bridport, — Ackerman. 
Frome, — Mr. Hancock. 
Portsmouth, — Breadhower. 
Plymouth Dock, Maurice. 
Manchester, — Harrop. 
Hull, — — Brown. 
Shepton Mallet, Carey. 
Birmingham, Pearson and Co. 
Preston, — — Binns. 
Farnham, — Cooke. 
Gainsborough, Dickenson. 
Derby, — — Drewry. 
Rochester, — Fisher.
Chelmsford, — Frost.
Sherborne, — Goadby. 
Peterborough, Jacobs. 
Dartmouth, Leigh. 
Maidstone, — Mercer. 
Cirencester, — Stevens. 
Nenucastle, — Slack. 
Buckingham, Seeley.