This _panacea_ was warranted to cure ‘Gout, Dropsy, Coma, Lethargy, Caries, Apoplexy, Palsy, Convulsions, Falling Sickness, Vertigo, Madness, Catarrhs, Headache, Scald, and Sore Heads, sore Eyes, Deafness, Toothache, sore Mouth, sore and swollen Throat, foul Stomach, bad Digestion, Vomiting, Pain at the Stomach, sour Belching, Colic, Twisting of the Guts, Looseness, Worms, all Obstructions of the Pancreas, of the Mesaraic Veins, of the passages of the Chyle, and of the Liver and Spleen, the Jaundice, Cachexy, Hypochondriac Melancholy, Agues, Itch, Boils, Rheumatism, Pains and Aches, Surfeits by Eating and Hard Drinking, or by Heats and Colds (as some call them).’ Then there comes a charming bit of candour almost sufficient to disarm the unwary: ‘They are also good in taking the Waters. I would not advise them by any means in the Bloody Flux, nor in continual Fevers, but they are good to purge after either of those Diseases is over, or to carry off the Humor aforehand. They must also be foreborn by Women with Child. Otherwise they are good for any Constitution, and in any Clime. They are Durable many years, and good at Sea as well as on Land.’ Thomas Saffold knew well the value of advertising, and scattered his very varied handbills broadcast. Presumably, like modern quacks, he made money. Of course he died, and his epitaph is as follows (he originally was a weaver): ‘Here lies the Corpse of Thomas Saffold, By Death, in spite of Physick, baffled; Who, leaving off his working loom, Did learned doctor soon become. To poetry he made pretence, Too plain to any man’s own sense; But he when living thought it sin To hide his talent in napkin; Now Death does Doctor (poet) crowd Within the limits of a shroud.’ There was a harmless remedy advertised, even though it was a fraud--and this was the loan, or sale, of necklaces to be worn by children in teething. THE FAMOUS AND VIRTUOUS NECKLACES. ‘One of them being of no greater weight than a small _Nutmeg_, absolutely easing Children in Breeding _Teeth_ without _Pain_; thereby preventing _Feavers_, _Ruptures_, _Convulsions_, _Rickets_, and such attendant Distempers, to the Admiration of thousands of the City of _London_, and Counties adjoining, who have experienced the same, to their great comfort and satisfaction of the Parents of the Children who have used them. Besides the Decrease in the _Bills of Mortality_, apparent (within this Year and a half) of above one half of what formerly Dyed; and are now Exposed to sale for the Publick good, at _five shillings_ each _Necklace_, &c.’