Regency Advertisements: Welch’s Female Pills

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WELCH'S FEMALE PILLS A Medicine long known for its very uncommon virtues in removing Obstructions and other Disor ders more especially incidental to the younger part of the Female Sex and had not the numerous de ceptions continually practised upon the Public by substituting other compositions of very inferior value in lieu of this induced the Proprietor to come forward in a more amenable situation to support its pretensions to public favour its circulation would have still continued rapidly to increase through the medium of private recommendation These PILLS are eminent in removing Complaints to which unmarried Ladies at a certain period are subject also what is commonly called the Green Sickness which is denoted by a yellow or pallid countenance which proceeds from want of exercise or relaxation of the system They create an appe tite correct Bad Digestion remove Giddiness and are of distinguished excellence in Windy Disorders Head aches Pains in the Stomach Shortness Breath and Palpitation of the Heart To Married Women they are recommended as the best strengtheners after bad Lyings in or for Debi lity either proceeding from too long Suckling or fre quent Miscarriages As the surest testimony of authenticity purchasers requested to remark that each Bill of Directions is signed with the name of Chearsley in hand writing of which the annexed is a facsimile No others are genuine To be had wholesale and retail at 28 9d per Bux at the following places Messrs Harpur aud Co Successors to Mr Kearsley 46 Fleet street Barclay and Sons Fleet market Newbery and Son St Paul's Church yard Sutton and Co Bow Church yard Butler Cheapside Evans and Co 42 Long Acre Ward Holborn Sanger 150 Ox ford street Johnston Greek street Sobo and all the respectable venders of Medicine in the Unit ed Kingdom

This ad appeared in La Belle Assemblée November 1817 edition.

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One Response to Regency Advertisements: Welch’s Female Pills

  1. Nancy Mayer says:
    October 16, 2023 at 8:21 am

    Sometimes such ads are really for abortifants. Sometimes they will say “to bring down the menses”.There were also ads for the use of Galvanism ( electricity) for these same symptoms,, as well as hysteria, and “bringing down the menses.”