Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1827-10-11
F-out the National IaieEgencer.

messed the powerful effects oil a little
vegetable, apparently simple, IN a case
of a formidable puIminary disease, and
wishing to make the facts as public as
possible, | have Il request you to per
mt me to do it, through the medium
of your widely circulated paper
A very respectable man, Joseph
Hams, about Al years old, formerly
Postmaster at Rock Hill, near Mid
dleburg, Loudoun County, was for
five years subject to a distressing al
fiction of the lungs. The first three
years he bad only periodical discharges
of blood from them, but for the last
two years he discharged large quaint
ties both of blood and pus-frequensly
from a half pint to a pint Of the former
at a time, attended with a most bar
RAISING and suffocating cough. He
was greatly reduced, and SO far gone
in what his friends thought consump.
ton, that they entirely ~dsspaired of
him, and abandoned all hopes of bis
ever being restored; as the ordinary
remedies, and almost every thing that
could be thought of had been tried in
vain.
Having been a patient of mine, as
we'll as a particular friend, | could no!
view without the deepest senslblllty
his deplorablc condition, and had my
self reIinquished any hope of his sur
viving. In this desperate situation be
was advised to use the Liverwort, in
the form of infusion, as a strong tea TO
be used cold, as common drink. In
less than ten days, he derived the most
positive benefit, end in four or five
weeks, every violent symptom had
vanished: No cough, no e~xpectora'
ton or discharge of blood or matter
a fine appetite, general health much
improved, gaining flesh and strength
rapidly, and Us such a change in his
whole appearance. as both astonlshed
end delighted every friend be had. II
has no! been more than eight weeks
since he commenced the use OF the
LiyerW0rt, and although hemight now
dispense with it, yet he will continue
it for weeks, or even months, longer
He is not the only n that has eXpe-
rienced It's salutary influences. There
are several others iD this nelghborhood
who have been laboring under breast
complaints, or pulmlnary consumption.
and who have been relieved by it.
will endeavor to describe the Ii
veriv0rt in such q name as shall ena.
bic the most common observer to trace
and distinguish ii. 1t grows mostly OF
the North sides of hills and mountain.
and strong places-the leaves are small,
frequently smaller, but seldom large,
than a dollar-they are green & round
ish, bat deeply notched SO as to divide
the leaf into three lobes, with a round
slender stem, varying in length from
about two inches tothree or four; of a
slight purple cast. This, as we'll as
the leaf itself, is a little dOwny; but
in addition to this, the leaf is besei
with fine, short hairs somewhat stiff
On chewing this, there is nothing re
markable in the taste, except a slight
degree Of pungency and astringency,
which it imparts to the mouth after
chewing it some time-the tea is rather
pleasant than otherwise. Should its
general application be attended with
the same happy result that its partial
exhibition has been, what an acquiSi
ton viii it be to the Materia Medica
of the u. States, and to the sufferers
under a malady which affords one of
the greatest outlets to human lifel It
was the opinion of Doctor Rush, one
of the great summaries in the Repub
lie of Medicine, that there is a RENE
dy for every physical evil, and time
and science will probably realize it.
have enclosed a leaf of the Liver
wort, hoping that it may be convenient
for you TO have it represented in the
Intelligencer.
lam, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
THO. +. HEREFORD.
Bs,0are Of QuGckery-To the kind
ness of the Coroner, mir. Pembsrton,)
we are indebted for the following par
ticulars, which came out on a Coroner's
inquest held before him, on the body Of
Mr.. John Hogle, who died on the goth
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