Southern telegraph., 1838-10-31
From The Philadelphia Gazette.

DIR. NILES EXTRACT OF TOMATO
This medicine is rapidly gaining ground
in all parts of our country where it has been
introduced, from its positive effects in vari-
GUS complaints. Many physicians have ex-
perlmented with 1t; but from not understand
ing its therapeutic effects, and observing its
neutrality-suspicious. in diseases ofthe glands,
Liper, aud other riScerd liable to derange-
ment, suppose that it contains mercury and
therefore use it with caution. A few, I'M
willing to believe the statements so often re-
lterated, that it performs the functions of
mercury without amy Of its dangerous ten
denotes, have attempted to decry it. Bat
borne down with overwhelming testimony
in opposition to this opinion, they have re-
sorted to the other extreme either from ava
rice, or to dscredit the medicine by iahrica-
ting counterfeit of it, which, to make its
effects more close imitation probably does
contain that mineral. TO remove the diff
Guilty it is said that the proprietor, Dr. Miles,
has offered reward of $1,000 to any chem
list who should "detect the least particle of
mercury, however small, in his pills, sold by
! himselfOr agents." | am also informed that
this reward has been many months before
the public, and is kept up as when first Of
| tered, but that no one has been able to claim
| it, though hundreds upon hundreds have
vainiy tried to secure the 'premiam This
affords the strongest possible evidence that
the medicine is all that is represented, "A
SUBSTITUTE FOR CALoMEL' because from the
| lips OF its delractors we have the proof that
it does perform the functions of caomel
and yet il it did contain calomel, any tyro
4, in chemistry has test enough at hand to de-
tect it. The facts stated have forced the
conviction of many to the belief, which hun
dreds of the physicians in the south and
west are ready to prove:
l. That the Tomato medicine of Dr. Miles
contalus no calome.
?. That its effects upon the licer, glaniu-
lar system, and The risccra of the abdomen
generally, are the same rs mercury, but
without its dangerous results.
3. From its sedatve and searching opera.
tons, and the ant-dispeptic qualities, in ef-
fects upon the nerves and the alimentary
organs are incidentally favorable.
4, That its benefits in the sick head ache,
are greater than any medicine known-pro-
bly, from the cause last stated.
D. That this medicine is never drastic or
weakening, but always leaves the bowels in
ahealthy aud natural condition, being mild
aperient.
q. That in diseases of the skin, being a
powerful diaphoretic, its effects are highly
beneficial in removing scurbutic &c. &C.;
in producing healthy action on the cuticu-
lar morbific tendencies, where congestion
and torpidity of the extreme vessels are to
be overcome, and by producing a change in
the system, a softness ofthe skin, and a mild
perspiration.
7. That it is universal stimulant, every
resseI, nerDs, and fibre of the body being
brought under its influence, and also that it
is less liable to induce debility and irritGba-
ty than any active medicine known.
8. That it produces no sdIirdti0R howev-
er exciting its power on the glandular sys-
tenn, or whatever its energy on the disorder
| cd viscera upon which it acts.
g. That hundreds of thousands are using
it in the South and West for the diseases
mentioned, with the happiest effects.
| III. mat IN diseases OF cnildren, Sucn as
the summer complaint, ohOopiHg cough,
measles, &c. its effects are more decidedly
favorable than any medicine which has now
a place in the Materia Medica.
Having used this medicine in my family
and noticed its effects in others, and having
had an opportunity to recommend it in ma
ny of the cases in which it is said to be spe-
cific, have no hesitation in saying that
where il is once or twice tried, il will nevor
again be abandoned. MEDICUS.
Edward Lalzenan and Godfrey Leeford,
who robbed a jewelry store some months
since of several thousand dollars worth of
valuables, have been arrested at Boston, and
are to be shipped to New Orleans under