The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1838-02-20
DIOFF.4I",S LIFE PILLS and PHOENIX
BIT'YEI{iS

MA CONTRAST.-All nations, from the re-
motcst ages, have had ships, but Columbus only
found out the way to America Before the time oil
the great Spanish navigator, people were only en-
ubled to paddle about the shores. Just so with the
Life Medicines. 1t is but two short years since
first venturcd upon an unknoWn ocean, and nave
discovered the precious object was in search Oh
HEALTH. Vegetable medicines were indeed
known when l commenced my search, but then
use was not. BY the use of them, have not only
passed fcm the detected invalid TO the hale, hearty
and active man of business, but, comparatively
speaking, have renewed my youth. can thus,
with coiidcncc in my own experience, advise with
my fellow citizens. Does the reader want proof
that the VEGETABLE LIFE MEDICINES are
suitable to his own 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 have been nearly ru-
ned by -inallibic' mineral preparations of the
day. will bear witness, that the Life NJ cdicines,
good health JOHN MOFFAT.
GENERAL REMARKS RELATIVE TO MoFFAT 5 LIFE
PILLS AND PnENIX BITTERs.
These medicines have long been known and APP
preclated, for their extraordinary and immediate
powers of restoring perfect health, persons suffer
ing under nearly every kind OF disease to which the
human frame is liable.
In many hundreds of certifcated instances they
have even rescued sufferers from the very verge Of
an untmely grave, after all the deceptive nostrums
of the day have utterly failed; and to many thou
sands they have permanently secured that uniform
enjoyment of health, without which life itself is
but partial blessing So great, indeed, has their
efficacy invariably and n!ably proved, that it has
appeared scarcely less than miraculous TO those
who were unacquainted with the beautifully phlo.
sophical principles upon which they are compound
cd and upon which they consequently act. 1t was
to their manifest and sensible action in purifying
the springs and channels Of life, and endung them
with renewed tone and vigor, that they We're in.
debed for their name, which was bestowed upon
them at the spontaneous request of several ndivd
uals whose lives they had obviously saved.
The proprietor rejoices in the opportunity afford
ed by the universal dfnsluu of the daily press, fol
placing this VEGETABLE LIFE PILLS within
the knowledge and reach of every individual il
the community. Unlike the host of perniciou
quackeries which boast ofvegetabe ingredients, tho
Life Pills purely and SOLELY VEGETABLE, ant
containing neither Mercury, Antimony, Arsenic
nor any other mineral, in any form whatever. They
are entirely composed Of extracts from ant
powerful plants, the virtues of which, though lonG
known to several Indian tribes, and recently Il
some eminent pharmaceutical chemists, alto
gether unknown to the ignorant protenders to med
zeal science; and were never before administered ii
so happily effcacous combination.
Their first operation is TO loosen from the coat
/, of the stomach and bowels. the various inpurilie
remove the fEces which collect in the couv olutIon
OF the small intestines. Olher medicines only par
TALLY cleanse these and leave such collected masse
behind, as to produce habitual costvencss with al
tsstrain of evils, sudden darrhoea with its imi
nent dangers. This fact is we'll known 20 all reg
uar anatomsts, who examine the human bowel
after DEATH and hence the prejudice of these wei
informed men against the quacll medicines of iii
: age. The second effect ofthe VEGETABLE LIFE
PILLS is to cleanse the kidneys and the bladder
> and by this means, the liver and tho lungs, tn
healthi1 action of which entirely depends upon til
4 regularity of the urinary organs The blood wI.c
takes it's red color from the agency of the liver an
lungs before it passes into the heart being thus pu
: riied by them, and nourished by food coming fror