A grateful corset customer in 1807

Loretta reports:

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A LETTER TO MRS. LLOYD GIBBON,

OF SACKVILLE-STREET, LONDON.

“My dear Madam, to thank you, or be grateful to you, for the essential service you have been to me, would be impossible.  I feel all the gratitude that I am capable of, which is more than I can express; but not as much as you are entitled to from me.  You have almost restored me to health, after a painful and tedious suffering of ten years.  You I must consider as my preserver, with your PATENT STAYS, together with your other ingenious contrivance for Pendulous and Weak Bowels; otherwise I must necessarily have fallen a victim to my unfortunate complaint.  Now, thank God, and you, I have no fear; for while I live I shall never cease to remember you with every sentiment of gratitude.  And believe me, my dear Madam, to be,
                                    Your most grateful and obliged,
                           July 10, 1807.                                                    A.M.D. ”
 

N.B.  The original Letter may, for satisfaction, be seen at Mrs. Lloyd Gibbon’s, together with many others to the same effect.

—La Belle Assemblée, Advertisements for October 1807

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I leave readers to speculate what A.M.D.'s "unfortunate complaint" was. 

My apologies for the bizarre spacing.  Blogger decided to go mental.

llustration from The book of English trades, and library of the useful arts, 1818