Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1839-03-20
GENERAL REMARKS RELATIVE TO MOE.
FATS LIFE PILLS AND PHGNIX
BIITERS

These medicines have long been known and ap-
precateG, for their extraordinary and immediate
powers of restoring perfect health, TO persons suf.
fering under nearly every kind of disease to which
the human frame is liable.
In many hundreds Of certifcated instances thew
have even rescued sufferers from the very verge Of
untmely grave, after all the deceptive nostrums
OF the day had utterly failed; and TO many thou.
| sands they have permanently secured that uniform
enjoyment OF health, without which life itselfis but
partial blessing. So great, indeed has their eff
cacy invariably and infably proved that IL has . ~
peared scarcely less than miraculous to those who
were unacquainted with the beautifully philosopbi
cal principles upon which they compounded
and upon which they consequently act. IL was to
their manifest and sensible action in purifying the
springs and channels life, and enduing them with
renewed tone and vigur, that they were indebted
| for their name, which was bestowed upon them at
the spontaneous request ofseveral individuals whose
| lives they had obviously saved
The proprietor reloices in the opportunity afor-
ded by the universal diffusion Of the daily press. for
placing his Vegetable Life Pills within the knowl-
edge and reach of every individual in the commu-
nifty. Unlike the host Of pernicious quackerie.
which boast of vegetable ingredients, the Life Pills
axe purely and SOLELY VEGETABLE, and contain
neither Mercury, Anthony, Arsenic nor any other
mineral, IN any form whatever. They are entirely
composed Ut extracts from rare and powerful plants
the virtues of which, though long known to several
Indian tribes, and recently to some eminent phar-
msceutical chemists, are altogether unk nown to the
| ignorant pretenders to medical sciences and were
never before administered in so happily eicscious
q combination.
Their first operation is to loosen from the coats of
the stomach and bowels, the various impurities and
erudiIies constantly settling around them and TO
remove the hardened fieces which collect in the
convolutions of the small inte.tines Other medi.
cines only partially cleanse these and leave sucb
collected masses behind, as 10 produce habitual
cosiveness, with all its train of evils or sudden d.
arrhGa with its imminent dangers. This fact il
well known to all regular anatomists. who examine
the human bowels after death: and hence the pre-
Judce OF these wei informed men against the
quack medicines of the age. The second effect of
the Vegetable Life Pills is to cleanse the kidneys
and the bladder, and by this means. the liver and
the lungs the healihful action Of which entirely de-
ponds upon the regularity of the urinary organs
The blood, which takes It's red color from the agen
cy of the liver and the lungs before it passes into
the heart, being thus purified by them, and nourish.
ed by food coming from clean stomach courses
freely through the veins, renews every part of the
system, and triumphanty mounts the banner of
health in the blooming cheek.
The following among the distressing variety
OF human diseases, to which the Vegetable Life
Pills are we'll known TO be infalhbe:--
D1SfIfolA, by thoroughly cleansing The first
and second stomachs, and creating a flow of pure
healthy bile instead of the stale and acid kind -
F20tulency Palp,totioa Of tie Heart, Loss Of Ap-
petite. Heartburn and Headacks, Restlessness,
M-temper, AnSiety, Langaor, and Melancholy.
which are the general symptoms of Dyspepsia, will
vanish, natural consequence of its cure. Cos
ttUeness by cleansing the hole length Of the intes-
tines with solvent process, and without violence:
all violent puTges leave the bowels costive within
two days. Diarrhea and Cholera, by removing
the sharp acrid fluids by which these complaints
are occasoned, and by promoting the ubricative
| creion of the mucus membrane. FeperS of all
kinds, by restoring the blood to a regular crcula-
tion through the process of perspiration in some
cases aud The thorough solution of all intestinal OBJ
structions in others. The Life Pills have been
known TO cure Rheumatism permanently in thee
weeks, and Cont in half that time, by renewing To-
| cal Inflammation from the muscles and ligaments of
the joints Dropsies Of all kinds, by freeing and
strengthening the kidneys and bladder; they ope-
rate most delightfully."- these important organs,
and hence have ever been found a certain remedy
| ior the worst cases of Graoef Also, Worms, by
dslodgng from the turnings of the bowels the Shiny
matter to which these creatures adhere; Asthma
and Consumption, by relieving the air vessels of
the lungs from the mncus, which slight colds
will occasion, which il not removed becomes har-
dened and produces those dreadful diseases
ScnrUy, Ulcers, and IH1eterate Sores, by the per-
feet purity which these Life Pills give the blood
and ali the humors; Scor5utie Erupttons, and Bad
Compilations, by their Alternative effect upon the