John Wild's rheumatism 1759

John Wild was a tenant of Barkers Row in 1829; this advertisement shows that there was a Robert Wild in the village eighty years earlier.  He evidently suffered from rheumatism:-

Caledonian Mercury, 12 September 1759

ANTISCORBUTIC PILLS

Made and prepared by L. LONG,

SURGEON,

At Mr John Edmonston's Goldsmith, Canongatehead, Hope's Land, Edinburgh,

An effectual Cure for the SCURVY, and all SCORBUTICK HUMOURS ..

and

Also prepared by L. LONG, Surgeon,

His SPECIFICK for the Cure of the RHEUMATISM, SCIATICA, or GOUT,

Which never fails in giving Relief, and for the most part compleats the Cure, when all other Medicines have failed.  It operates by Perspiration, and discharges such Humours as occasion the racking Pains in the Muscles, and restore a regular Circulation through the minutest Canals, and remove obstructions; and is of so innocent a Nature, that a Child may take it without Danger. 

"SIR, I Robert Wild, in Hutton rudby, Yorkshire, was confined in Bed, and not able to move any Part of my Body, being afflicted with the Rheumatism, I got one Box of your Pills and five Doses of your Medicine, and am now free from Pain,

As witness my Hand

ROBERT WILD"

Witness William Moody and John Bell