The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1837-12-19
MOFF.aY"S LIFE PILLS and PHOENIX
BTYrTtEIRC

I37A CONTRAST. ALI nations, from the re-
hottest ages, have had ships, but Columbus only
found out the way to America. Before the time Of
the great Spanish navigator, people only
abIed to paddle about the shores Just so with the
Life Medicines. 1t is but two short years since
first ventured upon an unknown ocean, and have
discovered the precious OBJ ect was in search Of
HEALTH. Vegetable medicines indeed
known when | commenced my search, but their
use was not. BY the use Of them, have not. only
passed from the detected invalid to the hale, hearty
and active man of business, but comparatively
speaking, have renewed my youth. | can thus,
with cotidence in my own experience, advise with
my fellow ciitizcns Does the reader want proof
that the VEGETABLE LIFE MEDICINES are
suitable to his case? have file at my office,
$40 Broadway, hundreds Of letters from some of the
most respectable citizens Of this my native land,
voluntarily offered in testimony of the virtues of A
GOOD VEGETABLE MEDICINE.
Persons whose constitutions haye been nearly rl-
ined by anallible' mineral preparations O the
day, will bear witness, that the Life Medicines
and such only, are the true Conrse to permanent
good health JOHN MOFFAT.
GENERAL REMARKS RELATIVE TO MoFFATs LIFE
PILLS AND P0ENIX BIrTERs.
These medicines have long been known and ap-
precIated, for their extraordinary and Immediate
powers of restoring perfect health ito persons suffer-
ing under nearly every kind of disease to which the
human frame is liable.
In many hundreds Of ccrtihcnted instances thov
have even rescued sufferers from the very verge of
an unlmely grave, after all the deceptive nostrums
of the day have utterly lpiled and to many thou
sands they have permanently secured that uniform
enjoyment of health, without whch life itself is
but partial blessing SO great, indeed, has their
efficacy invariably and nallib!y proved that it has
appeared scarcely less than miraculous to those
who We're unacquainted with the beautifully philo-
sophical principles upon which they are compound
ed and upon which they consequently act 1t was
to their manifest and sensible action in purifying
the springs and channels Of life, and enduing them
with renewed tone and vigor, that thew were in.
debed for their name, which was bestowed unor
them at the spontaneous request of several ndivid-
uals whose lives they had obviously saved
The proprietor rejoices in the opportunity ofnrd
ed by the universal 6Hnsion Of the daily nross for
placing this VEGETABLE LIFE PILLS within
Inc knowledge and reach Of every individual in
the community. Unlike the host of nernicions
quacker!esw (which boast ofvegctable ingredients, The
Life Pills are purely and SOLELY vEGEr,nIr onJ
containing neither Mercury, Anthony, Arsenic,
nor any other mineral in any form vhnt9yor III
are entirely composed of extracts from roro az
powerful plants, the virtues of which, though low
known to several Indian tribes and recen,I,, %
some en Iheht pharmaceutical chemists, are alto
gether unknown to the ignorant pretenders TO mod
zeal science; and were never before administered in
so happily etticacious a combination "
Their hrst operation is to loosen from the coots
OF the stomach and bowels, the various imnur;,;as
and crudies constantly settling around themt Nd ~,
remove the fEces which collect in the convolnt,on
OF the small lntestines. Other medicines onI,, M
aiiy cleanse these and leave such collected misses
behind, as to produce habual costvenoss ,y;,b iii
It's tram oil evils, or sudden diarrhoea with tic IN;
nent dangers. This fact is well known 70 nj raa
uGar ANTAGONISTS, who examine the human bowels
,ater ueatn: ana hence the prejudice of these we'll
informed men against the quacE medicines Of The
age. The second effect ofthe VEGETABLE LIFE
rlLLo Is to cleanse the kidneys and the bladder,
ana py inns means, the liver and the lungs, the
heailhful action ofwhich entirely denonds nrn 49,,
regularity of the urinary organs Tie blood which
takes Its red color from the agency of the liver and
nngS before 1t passes into the heart being thus pu
tined ny them and nourished by food coming from
inc clean stomach, courses freely through the yrin
renews every part of the SYSTEM and triumpbantIy
mounts the banner ofhealth in the BLOOMING cheei:
Inc following are among the distressing VARIETY