The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1838-11-20
.MOFF.4I'.S LIFE PILLS and PHLE.N'LX
PITT ERS

MA CONTR Asst. All nations, from the re-
hottest ages, have had ships, hut Columbus only
found out the way 10 America. Before the time OF
the great Spanish navigator, people were only en-
abled to paddle about the shores Just so with the
Life Medicines. 1t is but two short years since
first ventured upon All unknown ocean, and have
discovered the precious obi ect was in search Of
HEALTH. Vegetable medicines indeed
known when l commenced my search, but their
use was not. By the use of them, have not only
passed from the detected invalidto the hale hearty
and active man of business, but, comparatively
speaking, I have renewed my youth. | can thus,
with cofidence in my own experience, advise with
my fellow-ctizens. Does the reader want proof
that the VEGETABLE LIFE MEDICINES are
suitable to his own case? have file my Office,
SAG 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-
ined by the"a-infaible' neutrality-suspicious. of the
day. will bear witness, that the Life Medicines,
good health JOHN MOFFAT
GENERAL REMARKS RELATIVE MoFFAT's LIFE
PILLS AND P9ENIX BITTERs.
These medicines have long been known and APP
preclated, for their extraordinary and Immediate
powers of restoring perfect healh,to 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 untimey grave after all the deceptive nostrums
of the day have utterly failed; and to many thou
sands they have permanently secured that unformi
enjoyment of health, without which life itself is
but partial blessing. So great, indeed has their
efficacy invariably and inalbly proved, that 1t has
appeared scarcely less than miraculous to those
who unacquanted 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 purify ing
the springs and channels of life, and enduing them
with renewed tone and vigor, that they were in
debted for their name, which was bestowed upon
them ut the spontaneous request of several ndivid
uals whose lives they had obviously saved
The proprietor rejoices in the opportunity afford
cd by the universal dffnsion Of the daily press, foI
placing this VEGETABLE LIFE PILLS within
the knowledge and reach of every individual in
the community. Unlike the host of pernicious
uuackeres (which boast of vegetable ingredients, the
| Life Pills are purely and SOLELY VEGETABLE, and
containing neither Mercury, Anthony, Arsenic
nor any other mineral lin any form whatever. They
are entirely composed of extracts from rare anc
powerful plants, the virtues of which, though Ions
known to several Indian tribes, and recently Il
some eminent pharmaceutical chemists, are alto
gether unknown to the ignorant pretenders to med
cal science; and never before administered il
| so happily efficacious combination.
| Their first operation is to loosen from the coats
of the stomach and bowels. the various impurities
and crudties constantly settling around them; and t.
remove the faces which collect in the convolutlon
of the small intestines. Other medicines only par
TALLY cleanse these and leave such collected masse
behind, to produce habitual costiveness, with al
its train Of evils sudden diarrhoea, with its imi
nent dangers. This fact Is well known to all reg
ular anatomists, who examine the human bowel
after DEATH and hence the prejudice of these wei
informed men against the quack medicines of tn
age. The second effect ofthe VEGETAB BILE LIFI
PILLS is to cleanse the kidneys and the bladder
and by. this means, the liver and the lungs til,
heathfhl action (which entirely depends upon tn
regularity of the urinary organs. The blood whlc
takes it's red color from the agency of the liver
lungs before passes into the heart, being thus pu
rified by them, and nourshed by food coming from
the clean stomach courses freely through the veins
renews every part of the system, and triumphant
mounts the banner of health in the blooming chee,
The following among the distressing varlet
of human diseases,to which the Vegetable Life Pill
, are we'll known TO be infalhle;-
DYSPEPSIA, by thoroughly cleansing the frs
and second stomachs, and creating flow of pur
healthy bile, instead of the stale and acrid kind
-Fiatalecy, Poipitation Of the Heart, Loss Of Alp
petite, Heart-burn and Headache, RcstlessnesS, IL,
temper, An1iety, Languor, and Melancholy, whic
are the general symptoms of Dyspepsia, will vanish
as natural consequence of it's cure. Costiveness
by cleansing the whole length of the intestines wit
solvent process, and without violence; all vioieu
purges leave the bowels costive within two days
Diarrhoea and Cholera by removing the sharp acri
fluids by which these complaints occasoned
and by promoting the lubricative secretion of tn