The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1838-03-27
.MOFE4I"S LIFE PILLS and PHOENIX
BJT'TERS

IFA CONTRAST ALL nations, from the
motest ages, have had ships but Columbus only
found out the way to America. Before the time Of
the great Spanish navigator, people were only en-
ubed paddle about the shores. Just so with the
Life Medicines. 1t is but two short years since
first ventured upon an unknown ocean, and have
discovered the precious object in search Of
HEALTH Vegetable medicines indeed
known when | commenced my search, but their
use was not BY the of them, have not only
passed from the detected nvalid,to the hale, hearty
and active man Of business, but, comparatively
speaking, | have renewed my youth. | thus,
with coidence in my experience, advise with
nv fellow citizens. Does the reader want proof
that the VEGETABLE LIFE MEDICINES are
suitable to his case? have file my office,
SAG Broadway hundreds of letters from some of the
most respectable citizens of this my naive land
voluntarily offered in testimony of the virtues of A
GOOD VEGETABLE MEDICINE.
Persons whose constitutions have been nearly ru
ned by the''al-inflibe neutrality-suspicious. of the
day, will bear me witness, that the Life Medicines
and such only, are the true course TO permanent
good health. JOHN MOFFAT.
GENERAL REMARKS RELATIVE TO MoFFAT's LIFE
PILLS AND PGENIX BITTERs.
These medicines have long been known and APP
preclated, for their extraordinary and immediate
powers of restoring perfect health persons suffer-
ing under nearly every kind of disease to which the
human frame is liable.
In many hundreds of certificaed instances, they
have even rescued sufferers from the very verge of
an untimey grave, after all the deceptive nosrums
Of the day have utterly failed; and to many thou
sands they have permanently secured that uniform
enjoyment Of health, without which life itself is
but partial blessing. So great indeed, has their
efficacy invariably and in!aIlbly proved that it has
appeared scarcely less than miraculous to those
I who were unacquainted with the beautifully phio-
sophical principles upon which they are compound.
ed, and upon which they consequently act. 1t was
to their manifest and sensible action in purifying
the springs and channels Of life, and enduing them
with renewed tone and vgor, that they were in
debted for their name, which was bestowed upon
them at the spontaneous request of several fdvid
uals whose lives they had obviously saved.
The proprietor re oices in the opportunity afford
ed by the universal dflnsuu 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 pernicou.
quackerie5 " hch boast Of vegetable the
Life Pills are purely and SOLELY VEGETABLE, anC
containing neither Mercury, Anthony, Arsenic
nor any other mineral in any form whatever. The,
are, entirely composed of extracts from rare anC
powerful plants, the virtues of which, though Ion.
known to several Indian tribes, and recently Il
some eminent pharmaceutical chemists, are alto
gether unknown to the ignorant pretenders to med
ica sciences and were never before administered il
so happily etticaclous combination.
Their first operation is to loosen from the coat
E OF the stomach and bowels, the various impurities
and crudltles constantly settling around them; and t.
remove the faces which collect in the onvolutlon
OF the small lntestnes. Other medicines only par
TALLY cleanse these ,and leave such collected nasse
behind, to produce habiual costlveness, with al
Its tram OF evils, or sudden diarlhoea with its imi
q nent dangers. This fact is well known TO all reg
uIar anaomiss, who examine the human howell
t after death: and hence the prejudice of these wei
( informed men against the quack medicines of TIT
age. The second effect ofthe VEGETABLE LIFE
FILLS Is to cleanse the kidneys and the bladder
ana Dy TINS means, the liver and the lungs thu
heaiihiul action of which entirely depends upon tn
= regularity oil the urinary organs. The blood whIcl
takes Its red color from the agency of the liver ant
lungs peore II passes into the heart, being thus pu
rihed by them, and nourished by food coming from
the clean stomach,co freely through the veins
) renews every part of the system, and triumphant
mounts the banner of health in the blooming cheek
4. The following are among the distressing yariet
of human diseaseso which the Vegetable Life PHI
: are well known TO be infalIible:-
= DYSPEPSIA, by thoroughly cleansing the frs
and second stomachs, and creating flow of pur
healthy bile, instead of the stale and acrid kint
-flatuteney, PdpitGtion Of the Heart, Loss Of Al