Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1838-09-14
The INDIAN Purgative
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MEDICINE
OF THE
North American College Of Health.
Established at Washington, ID. c.
Jan. 9Th, 1888, !
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 NAV perhaps think il an act Of temerty IN
US to offer, as a candidate for your favor and
patronage, a 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 foreign medicines, how
ever useful the latter may have been in the
counties to which they belong. The climate
of the United States stands unrivalled for the
production of medicinal plants, and a very little
Investigation will suffice to convince the most
s%keptical that our oien country is 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 dlti-
cuiiies encountered in its discovery, or the an
tiguity of its origin; thus one tells us that his
medicine is ga netoiy discovered chemical
compound, the result Of many gears intense
study and scientific reseGrch;'' and another
ascribes the honor to somebody's GRANDfA-
TIER, &c. Now, as the success OF a medicine
must depend on its own intrinsic merits, and
not on the time or manner in which IT was DIS
covered, we cannot see the use of classifying, for
the purpose of investing its origin with ticti-
tious antiquity. Such auXiliaries are not need
ed on the present OCCASION, as a single dose oil
the Indian Purgative will suffice TO convince
every invalid (and to such only we look for an
impartial verdict) 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 it to the W3TId
for what il is, SIPMLY A compound OF FOUh
SIMPLE HERBS, used for the cure of dis
ease, bv THE COPPER COLORED WAR
RIORS OF THE WEST. One ofthe herbs
is an eIpectorant, one a Sudorifc, one a dtu-
retic, and one a caihariic. The proper COM
bination of the above forms a medicine, OF suct
EFFICACY and POWER as has been hith'
erto unknown in the art of healing. Its mode
of curing is first to neutralize all putrefactlvt
matter in the body; second to cause the eXpul
sion of the same through the proper outlets
provided by nature for that purpose; conse'
uuently its action is not confined to the bowels
although it is greatest there, but extends to TIT
~nostrils, throat, salivial glands, lungs, skin ant
kidneys.
Each ofthe above drains is intended by ma
ture for the discharge of an eXcretion or impu
rity peculiar to itself, and although we may 10
a time compel the constitution 10 evacuate thu
whole through one drain, such treatment can
I not fail to derange the mechanism of the body
and utterly ruin the health of the patient. ]
I is true that all diseases arise from impurities o
f the blood, but it is also true that nature ha
e provided many different channels for the dis
; charge of these impurities; therefore we ar
a not likely to benefit the patient by tramplinl
q on the laws of nature, in bringing all the dlf
!, ferent kinds of excretory matter through on
channel; hence the evil OF attempting to cur
all diseases by a course of sweating, or vomit
ing, or physicing, or any other method whic
opens only one class of excretories.
No medicine deserves to be called a UniUer
snI Renedu unless its effects extend TO each an
) every one of the natural drains, and this pow
o er is not even claimed by any medicine exceT
S the Indian Purgative. In accordance wit
these several properties, the operation of tn
Indian Purgative is regulated by the state {
the patients body. Thus, if the obstructin
/, matter is lodged in the urinal excretories'
Z will act as a dluretic: if in the bronchial vel
sells or pulmonary excretories, il will induce 81
pcctoration; ifin the cells Of the cellular men