The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1838-08-07
.NOFF.AT"IS LIFE PILLS and PHOENIX
RyTVTERS

found out the way to 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 l
first ventured upon an unknown ocean, and have
discovered the precious object was in search OF
HEALTH. Vegetable medicines were indeed
known when 1 commenced my search, but their
use was not. BY the use of them, have not only
passed from the detected invalid to the hale, hearty
and active Of business, but, comparatively
speaking, have renewed my youth | can thus,
with cofdence in my experience, advise with
nv fellow citizens Does the reader want proof
that the VEGETABLE LIFE MEDICINES are
suitable to his case? have on file at my oihce,
546 Broadway hundreds of letters from some OF the
most respectable citizens of this my native land,
voluntarily offered in testimony of the virtues OF n
GOOD VEGETABLE MEDICINE.
Persons whose constitutions have been nearly ru-
ined by the"al-infabe' neutrality-suspicious. Of the
day. will bear me witness, that the Life Medicines,
and such only, are the true course to permanent
rood health. JOHN MOFFAT.
! GENERAL REMARKS RELATIVE TO MoFFAT's LIFE
PILLS AND PoeENIX BITTERs
These medicines have long been known and APP
preclated for their extraordinary and immediate
powers of restoring perfect heahto persons suffer
ing under nearly every kind Of disease to which the
human frame is liable.
In many hundreds of ccrtiGcated 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 uniormi
enjoyment Of health, without which life itself is
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efficacy invariably and nallibly proved that 1t has
appeared scarcely less than miraculous to those
who unacquanted with the beautifully phllo-
sophical principles upon which they are compound
ed, and upon which they consequently act II was
to their manifest and sensible action in purifying
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 at the spontaneous request of several indlvid-
uals whose lives they had obviously saved.
The proprietor reoices in the opportunity afford
ed by the univ ersal otfnsipu of the daily press for
placing this VEGETABLE LIFE PILLS within
the knowledge and reach of every individual in
the community. Unlike the host of perncious
ouackeries which boast of vegetable ingredients the
| Life Pills purely and SOLELY VEGETABLE, and
containing neither Mercury, Anthony, Arsenic,
nor any other mineral in any form whatever They
are entirely composed OF extracts from rare and
powerful plants, the virtues of which, though long
known 10 several Indian tribes, and recently TO
some eminent pharmaceutical chemists, are alto
gether unknown to the ignorant pretenders to med
cal science; and never before administered In
so happily effcacious combination.
Their first operation is to loosen from the coats
of the stomach and bowels. the various impurities
and crudtes constantly settling around them; and to
remove the faces which collect in the COW outIons
of the small intestines. Other medicines only par
TALLY cleanse these and leave such collected muses.
behind, US to produce habtual costlveness, with all
its train of evils or sudden diarrhoea with its imi
nent dangers. This fact is well known 70 all reg
ul;r anaiomsts, who examine the human bowels
after death and hence the prejudice of these well
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age. The second effect ofthe VEGETABLE LIFE
| PILLS is to cleanse the kidneys and the bladder,
and by this means, the liver and the lungs, the
heathfu action of which entirely depends upon the
regularity of the urinary organs. The blood which
takes its red color from the agency of the liver and
lungs before it passes into the heat, being thus pu-
rfed by them, and nourished by food coming from
the clean stomach, courses freely through the veins,
renews every part of the system, and uiumphantly
mounts the banner of health in the blooming cheek
The following are among the distressing variety
/ of human dseasesto which the Vegetable Life Pills
are well known To be infallible--
DYSPEPSIA, by thoroughly cleansing the first
and second stomachs, and creating flow of pure
healthy bile instead of the stale and acrid kind;
-Ftatutency Patpitation Of the Heart, Loss of Ap-
petite, Heartburn and Head-achc, ResHessncss H.
temper, .an1iety Languor, and MeIanchoLy which
are the general symptoms ofDyspepsia, will vanish,
as natural consequence OF its cure. CostiUeness,
by cleansing the whole length ofthe intestineslwith
a solvent process, and without violence; all violent
purges leave the bowels costive within two davis
Diorrhoea and Cholera, by removing the sharp acrid
fluids by which these complaints are occasioned
and by promoting the lubricative secretion of the
muscus membrance. Fe0erS Of all kinds by restor-
ing the blood to a regular circulation, through the
process of perspation in some cases. and the thor
ough solution of all intestinal distractions in others
The LIFE PILLS have been known to cure Rheu.
anatism permanently in three weeks, and Go,t in
half that time, by removing local inflammation from
the muscles and ligaments of the joints. Dropsies
of alt kinds by freeing and strengthening the kid
neys and bladder; they operate most delightfully."-
on these important organs, and hence have ever
been found certain remedy for the worst cases of
Grautt. Also, Worms. fromits lodging from the
turnings of the bowels the slymy matter to which
these creatures adhere; asthma and Consuqnption
by relieving the air vessels Of the lungs from the
mucus which even slight colds will occasion, which
if not removed becomes hardened, and produces
those dreadful Diseases ScurDy, Ulcers and Iarei
crate Sores, by the perfect purity which these Life
Pills give to the blood and all the humors Scorbutie
Eruptions, and Bad Complementary their Alternative
effect upon the fluids that feed the skim the morbid
state of which occasions all r Eruptice complaints,
Sauoao Cloudy, and other disdgroedbe Compilations.
The use of these Pills for very short time will eff
feet an entire cure of Salt rheum. Erysipelas and
striking improv in the Ciearness of the skin.
Common Colds and Influenza, will always be-cured
by one DOSE by two, even in the worst cases.
Paes,-as rcmedYt o. this most distressing and