Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1839-03-08

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| PEOPLE.
FELLOW CITIZENS: AT q time like
the present, when our country is literally food
ed with nostrums brought ffom foreign clifnes
you may perhaps think il an act Of temerity In
US to offer, as candidate for your favor and
patronage, Medicine which is strictly AMER
rcAE. 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 tho
countries 10 which they belong. The climate
ofthe United States stands unrvalled for the
production Of medicinal plants, and very little
investigation will suffice TO convince the most
skeptical that our oica county is able 10 sup
/ by all our wants, independent Of foreign as
sstance.
In bringing a medicine before the public for
the first time, il is generally thought necessary
to impress the people with an idea of the diff
cuiiies encountered in its discovery, or the as-
iiquiiy Of its origin; thus one tells US that his
medicine is " a ne,cfy discorcred ehe,aicaI
compound, The result Of many years. intense
study and scientific Tesearch;'' and another
ascribes the honor TO somebody's GRAaDrA-
TIER, &c. Now, as the success ofa medicine
must depend on its own intrinsic merits, and
not on the lime or manner IN which il was dis
covered, we cannot see the use of falsifying, for
the purpose Of investing its origin with ficti-
tious antiquity. Such nuxiIiaIies are not need
ed on the present occasion, as a single dose of
the Indian Purgaiive win suffice TO convince
every invalid (and TO such only we look for an
impartial verdicD that It's carGiire effects are
intellectually superior 10 those OF any other med
icine now in use. Proud of fhis superiority,
we scoru fictitious aid, but give il to the world
for what il is, lPMLY A compound Of FOUR
| SIMPLE HERBS, nsed for The cure of dis
case, hy THE COPPER COLORED WAR
RIORS OF THE WEST. One ofthe herbs
is an eIpecforani, one a sudOrifc, one diu-
reiic, and one cafhariic. The proper COM
bination of the above furms medicine. of such
EFFICACY and POWER as has been hiih-
eric unknown in the art Of healing. It's mode
of curing is first to neutralize all nutreiactive
matter in the body; second 10 cause the expul-
sion OF the same through the proper orteis,
provided by nature for that purpose; conse-
quently it's action is not confined to the bowels,
although Il Is greatest there, bat extends to the
nostriis, threat, sayial glands, lungs. skin and
kidneys.
Each ofthe above drains Is intended by ma
ture for the discharge of an eacIetion or impu-
rity peculiar to itself, and although we may for
q time compel the constitution 10 eyacuate the
whole through one drain, such treatment can
not fail To derange the mechanism Of the oody,
aud utterly ruin the health of the patient Ii
| IS true that all diseases arise from impurities of
the blood, but il is also true that nature has
/ provided many different channels for the dis
charge OF these Impurities; therefore we are
not likely IN hensff The ,aafs-ni by tramp lina
on tne laws OF nature, an Bringing all the diE
ieTent kinds of excretory matter through oue
channel; hence the evil of attempting 10 eure
All diseases by course of sweating, OF vomit
ing, or physicing, or any other method which
opens only one class Of excfetories
No medicine deserves to be called a Unirer-
sal Kennedy unless its effects extend 10 each and
every one OF the natural drains, and this now
er Is not even claimed by any medicine except
me Indian Pufgaiive. In accordance with
.hese several properties, the operation of the
ihdian fuTgative-is regulated BY the state of
Tue PATIENTS body. Thus, if the ubstructing
mailer IS lodged in the urinal excFeiories, il
WIN act as diuretic; IL in the bronchial YES
ses or pulmonary excTeiories, il " i'll induce ex-
Ptctoiation; lin the cells Of the cellular mem
b'ane or excretores of the skin. gentle andef
irctuai perspiration will be kept up; and, under
every combination of circumstances, il win ACT
more or less as a cathartic. Here il is proper
70 remark, that although the pureaiive always
induces an increased number OF ayiue eyacna
lions, and Is capable of overcoming the most
obstinate cases Of costiyeness, il does not raise
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.
ne lnesiimable value Of medicine which
y - ~ y" ati tfic cAcfetoreS, nj one and the
same time, Is more apparent when we reflect
that The human body as complicated machine,
consisting of numberless different and distinct
members, all of which are so intimately con-
necied, and mutually descendant. that no one
part, can be injured without producing n chr
responding degree of injury on every other
part; therefore, one part Of the BODY cannot he
diseased, and another part healthy; neither can
one part he cured while another mart remains
diseased. Disease begins in the blood and ~
lhe blood flows 10 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 ca,,se W..
must restore the blood 10 a healthy state.7anJ
Y the blood is made healthy, every part az The
body must be HE same i'N'''s' ~
we nave now illustrated the natural or In
dian system of practice, and the more It il in
Vestgated the more reasonable il appears. as
regards It's truth, we have only TO reflect that IA
was taught by NATURE, and therefore must be
true When the body Stands in need Of nopr
isnmeni, we are impelled by hunger to eat; ana
When II IS diseased, we are impeled bv instinct
70 use medicine; and there cannot be donbt
that IL we lived in a state OF nature This in-
stncilve feeling would always direct MS 10 The
fhOPER MEDICINE: hence the superiori
" OF The lndian System. The art Of healing
was first learned in the woods, AMI To this day
the untptoEsd savage is The best medical teach
~ ior tpe Indian practice is The only one which
= cohsonant 70 those etetnal and immuiabe
avs winch govern the animal economy.
!, Us-PhiNClPAL OFFICE for the New
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