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Below is a list of all the articles and advertisements which appeared in the first issue of the Bridgnorth Beacon, dated 1st October 1852. The transcriptions can be viewed by clicking on the titles.
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Serapiana.
PRESCRIPTIONS.
Though no doctor, I have by me some excellent prescriptions; and as I
shall charge nothing for them you cannot grudge the price. We are most
of us subject to fits; I am visited with them myself; and I daresay you
are also. Then, now for my prescriptions:—
For a Fit of Passion.—Walk out in the open air. You may speak
your mind to the wind, without hurting anyone or proclaiming yourself
to be a simpleton.
For a Fit of Idleness.—Count the tickings of a clock. Do this
for one hour, and you will be glad to put off your coat the next, and
work like a negro.
For a Fit of Extravagance or Folly.—Go to the Workhouse, or speak
with the ragged and wretched inmates of a gaol, and you will be
convinced—
"Who makes his bed of briar and thorn,
Must be content to lie forlorn."
For a Fit of Ambition.—Go into the churchyard, and read the
tombstones. They will tell you the end of man at his best estate.
For a Fit of Envy.—Come to the Bridge of Allan or some other place
of the kind, and see how many who keep their carriages are afflicted with
rheumatism, gout, and dropsy.
For a Fit of Despondency.—Look on the good things which God has
given you in this world, and promised in the next.
For a Fit of Doubt, Perplexity or Fear.—The following is a radical
cure, which may be relied on, for I had it from the Great Physician—
"Cast thy burden on the Lord, and he shall sustain thee."—From an
album at the bridge of Allan.
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