Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1838-10-05
ADDRESS TO THE AMERICAN
PEOPLE.

FELLOW CITIZENS:-At a time like
the present, when our country is literally flood
ed with nostrums brought from foreign chimes,
you may perhaps think il an act of temerity in
us to offer, as candidate for your favor and
patronage, Medicine which is strictly AMER
IcAN. Common sense, however teaches us,
that those herbs which spring spontaneously
from our native soil, must be better adapted to
our constitutions than foreien medicines, how
ever useful the latter may have been in the
countries 10 which they belong. The climate
of the United States stands unrivalled for the
production of medicinal plants, and very little
investigation will suffice To convince the most
skeptical that our ocn country IL able To sup
ply all our wants, independent of foreign as
sistance.
In bringing a medicine before the public for
the first time it is generally thought necessary
to impress the people with an idea OF the diff
culfies encountered in its discovery, or the an
fiquity of its origin; thus one tells us that his
medicine is Is a netcly discorered chemical
compound, the result Of many years intense
study and scientific researeh;' and another
ascrbes the honor to somebody's GRANDPA
TIER, &c. Now, as the success ola medicine
must depend on its own intrinsic merits, and
not on the time or manner in which il was dis
covered, we cannot see the use of classifying, for
the purpose of investing IFS origin with icil-
tious antiquity. Such auxiIiaries are not need
ed on the present occasion, a single dose Of
the Indian Putgative will suffice Ia convince
every invalid (and to such only we look for an
impartial vrrdict) that its curative effects are
intellectually superior To those OF any other med
icine now in use. Proud of this superiority,
we scorn fictitious aid, but give il to the world
for what il is, SIPMLY A compound Of FOUR
SIMPLE HERBS, used for the cure Of dis
ease, bv THE COPPER COLORED WAR
RlORS OF THE WEST. One lthe herbs
is an eJpeeforGnt, one a sudOrific, one diti-
retic, and one a eafhartie. The proper COM
bination Of the above forms medicine, Of such
EFFICACY and POWER as has been hith-
efto unknown in the art Of healing. Its mode
Of curing is first tn neutralize all puiretactive
matter in the body; second TO cause the expul-
sion OF the same through the proper outlets,
provided by nature for that purpose; conse-
quently lis action is not confined TO the bowels,
although il is greatest there, but extends To the
nostrils, throat, salivial glands, lungs skin and
kidneys.
Each ofthe above drains is intended by ma
tnre for the discharge Of an excretion or impu-
rtv peculiar to itself, and although we may for
a time compel the constitution To evacuaie the
whole through one drain, such treatment can
not fail tn derange the mechanism of the body,
and utterly ruin the health of the patient. IL
is true that all diseases arise from impurities Of
the blood, but il is also true that nature has
provided many different channels for the dis
charge OF these impurities; therefore we are
not likely 10 benefit the patient BY trampling
on the laws Of nature, in bringing all the diff
ierent kinds of excretory matter through one
channel; hence The evil of attempting To cure
all diseases by course of sweating, or vomit-
ing, or physicing, or any other method which
opens only one class of eXcTetories.
No medicine deserves to be called Unirer-
sal Remedy unless its effects extend TO each and
every one of the natural drains, and this pow
er is not even claimed by any medicine except
the Indian Purgative. In accordance with
these several properties, the operation of the
Indian Purgaiive is regulated by the state of
the patients body. Thus, if the obstructng
matter IS lodged in the urinal excretores, il
will act as dIuretic: If in the bronchial YES
sells or pulmonary excretories, il will induce eX-
pecioration; ifin the cells OF the cellular menu
brane or excretories of the skin, gentle and ei-
iectual perspiration will be kept up; and, under
every combination of circumstances, il will act
more or less as cathariic. Here il is proper
TO remark, that although the purgaiivc always
induces an increased number OF alvine evacua-
lions, and is capable of overcoming the most
obstinate cases OF costiveness, il does not raise
a " hurrcane'' in the bowels, nor waste the
healthy juices by over-action. Its effects ex-
tend to every part of the system, and for that
reason not liable to over action in any part.
will act on all the excretories, at one and the
same time, Is more apparent when we reflect
that the human body is a complicated machine,
consisting of numberess different and distinct
members, all of which are so intimately con-
nected, and mutually descendant, that no one
part, can be injured without producing cor
responding degree of injury on every other
part; therefore, one part of the body cannot be
diseased, and another part healthy; neither can
one part he cured while another part remains
diseased. Disease begins in the blood, and as
the blood flows to every part of the system,
every part OF the system must become more or
less diseased; no disease is cured unless the
cause is removed, and TO remove the cause we
must restore the blood to a healthy state, and
u the blood is made healthy, every part of the
body must be The same .
We have now illustrated the natural or In
dian system of practice, and the more il is in
vestgaied the more reasonable il appears; as
regards It's truth, we have only to reflect that il
was taught by NATURE, and therefore must be
rue. When the body stands in need of nour-
'shment, we are impelled by hunger to eat; and
when 1t is diseased, we are impelled by instinct
To use medicine; and there cannot be doubt
mat u we lived in state of nature, this in
stlncllve feeling would always direct as to the
PROPER MEDICINE: hence the SUPERIOR
ty OF the Indian System. The art of healing
was first learned in the woods, and to this day
the untutored savage is the best medical teach
or; for the Indian practice is the only one which
Is consonant tn those eternal and immuiabe
laws which govern the animal economy.
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