Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1838-09-21
ADDRESS TO THE AMERICAN
PEOPLE.

EbLON vi llLLNO.-AL n time ike
the present, when our country is literally food
ed with nostrums brought from foreign climes,
you may perhaps think il an act of temerity in
US to offer, as a candidate for your favor and
patronage, Medicine which is strictly AMER
IcAE. Common sense, however teaches us,
that those herbs which spring spontaneously
from our native soil, mist be better adapted IL
our constitutions than foreign medicines, how
ever useful the latter. may have been in the
countries TO 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
skeptica that our olon country is able 70 sup
ply all our wants, independent Of foreign
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
culties encountered in its discovery, or the an
tiqutty Of lis origin; thus one tells US that his
medicine is " a netoly discovered chemical
compound, The result Of many gears intense
study and scientific resedrch;" and another
ascribes 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 its origin with iicti-
tious antiquity. Such auxiliaries are not need
ed on the present occasion, as a single dose Of
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 10 those OF dny other med
icine now in use. Proud Of this superiority,
we scorn fictitious aid, but give it to the world
for what it is, SIPMLY A compound of FOUR
| SIMPLE HERBS, used for the cue oi dis
ease, by THE COPPER COLOREDWAR-
RIORS OF THE WEST. One oftle herbs
| is an ezpeciorGnt, one sudOriic, one a diu-
relic, and one cGthGrtic. The preper CONF
bination of the above forms medicine, Of such
EFFICACY and POWER as has been hth-
erto unknown in the art of healing. Its mode
Of curing is first to neutralize all putreiactve
matter in the body; second to cause the expul-
| sion OF the same through the proper outlets,
provided by nature for that purpose; coIse-
quently lis action is not confined to the bowels,
although it is greatest there, but extends to the
| nostrils. throat, salval glands, lungs skin and
| kidneys.
Each ofthe shove drains is intended by ma
ture for the discharge Of an excretion or ilnpu-
| rty peculiar to itself, and although we may fer
| time compel the constitution to evacnate the
whole through one drain, such treatment caE-
! not fail TO 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 it s also true that nature has
provided many different channels for the dis
charge Of these Impurities; therefore we a:e
! not likely 10 benefit the patient by trampling
! on the laws of nature, in bringing all the diff
! ferent kinds of eXcretory matter through one
channel; hence the evil OF attempting To cure
all diseases by course of sweating, or vomt-
| ing, or physcing or any other method which
| opens only one class of eXcretores.
No medicine deserves to be called Univer-
! sat Remedy unless its effects extend to each and
every one of the natural drains, and this DOW
er is not even claimed by any medicine except
the Indian Purgative. In accordance with
these several properties, the operation of The
Indian Purgative is regulated by the state of
ms, 1'satient's body. Thus, if the obstl ucting
will act as AGED Gsed in the urinal exerelorles' it
sells or pumonaryeS; II IN me bronchial YES
pectoraton; ifin the cells ~ WIN ,huuce eA-
brane or excretories of the skim celIu,ar n'st-
lectual perspiration will be kept up; We andei
every combination of circumstances, il wiii"ei
more or less as a cathartic. Here il is proper
to remark, that although the purgative always
| induces an increased number OF avine evScua-
| tons, and is capable of overcoming the most
obstinate cases of costiveness, it does not raise
a 4" hurricane'' 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 are not liable to over action in any part.
| The nestimable value of medicine which
will act on all the excretories, at one and the
same time, is more apparent when we reject
that the human body is 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
parts therefore, one part Of the body cannot be
diseased, and another port healthy; neither can
one part be 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 healthy state, and
if 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
vestigated the more reasonable il appears; rs
regards its truth, we have only TO reflect that il
was taught by NATURE, aud therefore must be
true. When the body stands in need of nour-
] ishment, we are impelled by hunger to eat; and
when il is diseased, we are impelled by instinct
to use medicine; and there cannot he doubt
that if we lived in state of nature this in
stnciive feeling would always direct as 10 the
PROPER MEDICINE: hence the supeliori
ty of the Indian System. The art of healing
was first learned in the woods, and TO this day
err; for the Indian practice is the only one which
is consonant to those eternal and immuiabe
laws which govern the animal economy.
l W-PRINCIPAL OFFICE for the New
England States, for the sale Of the above PUR
GATIVE PILLS, No. 1913 fremont street,
Boston.