The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-02-16 00:00:00

MR. COCKLE'S PILLS for INDIGESTION,
BILIOUS HEADACHE, &c.
" What's rank or title, station, state, or wealth,
" To that far greater worldly blessing health ?
" What's house, or land, or dress, or wine, or meat,
" If one can't rest for pain—nor sleep—nor eat—
" Nor go about in comfort? Here's the question ;
" What's all the world without a good digestion."
By Indigestion is usually understood functional disturbance
of the Stomach, Liver, &c. These ovens are so intimately
associated in reference to their actiop; and so reciprocally de-
pendent, that any disorder occurrinfin the one must implicate,
more or less, the other. By vvayde illustration :—suppose the
liver to be torpid, and secretin less bile than usual—the bowels
then become inactive from t i loss of their appropriate stimu-
lus, and suffer accumul on to take place. Again :—as a
consequence of this latter condition the functions of the
stomach also becomeillsordered, and loss of appetite, nausea,
and oppression supervene. At length from these multiplied
local errors, constitutional disturbance is set up, inducing.
various sympathetic nervous affections : the key to the alle-
viation of which is the knowledge that disorders of the digestive
organs are the initial acts in the the production of such phe-
nomena. To the immediate subjects of these observations,
Mr. COCKLE'S COMPOUND ANTIBILIOUS PILLS are especially
recommended. By combining aromatic, tonic, and aperient
properties, they remove all oppressive accumulations, regulate
the secretion of the liver, strengthen the stomach, induce a
healthy appetite, and impart tranquillity to the nervous system.
Prepared by Mr. JAMES COCKLE, Surgeon and Apothecary,
18, New Ormond-street, London, and may be had of all re-
spectable Medicine Vendors, in Boxes, at Is. lid. ; 2s. 9d. ;
and 45. 6d.
Dr. Collier's Testimonial in favour of COCKLE'S PILLS, must
be admitted to be highly satisfactory, and will be read with
much interest.
The following is an extract from the second edition (page 188)
of the translation of the New Pharmacopoeia of the Royal Col-
lege of Physicians of London, by Dr. G. F. COLLIER, published
by Longman and Co. :
" It is no small defect in this compilation (speaking of the
NEw PHARMACOPCEIA) that we have no purgative mass but
what contains aloes; yet we know that Immorrhoidal persons
cannot bear aloes, EXCEPT it be in the form of Cockles Pills,
which chiefly consist of aloes, scammony, and colocynth, which
I think arc formed into a sort of compound extract, the acridity
of which is obviated, I suspect, by an alkaline process, and by
a fourth ingredient (unknown to me) of an aromatic tonic na-
ture. I think no better and no worse of it for its being a
patent medicine. I look at it as an article of commerce and
domestic convenience, and do not hesitate to say, it is the best
made pill in the kingdom ; a muscular purger a mucous purge,
and a hydrogogue purge combined, and their effects properly
controlled by a dirigent and corrigent. That it does not com-
monly produce haemorrhoids, like most aloetic pills, I attribute
to its being thoroughly soluble, so that no undissolved particles
adhere to the mucous membrane of the rectum."
NOTE.—Purchasers of Cockle's Pills ought particularly to
examine the Government stamp affixed to each box, and to see
that the words "JAMES COCKLE, APOTHECARY," are en-
graved upon it in white letters, as without thismark of authen-
ticity none can possibly be gfAuutue.