The Iowa patriot. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1839-1839, 1839-07-04

. iciny ia this form and the exi5sscve quantities
! which the public are advised to take by other
simultaneously engendered the humors anu
i corruptions wllick they profess to remove. Re
4 move them they may, but they create them
first, and the debilitated patient is doomed to
be pill-swallower to the end of his days. Mr..
]. Moffat wishes to benefit the public health, and
i not to destoy it for money.
! LETTER FROM DR.. CLEVELAND.
VAUDEVILLE, July 10, ls37.-sir: Although
Physicians do not often approve of the practice
/ Of medicine by laynsen, in any manner; and
have IN yself been accustomed to consider all
such as quacks, and therefore not to be patron
4 ised. Yet have lately seen such beneficial eff
fects. resulting from the use of your Life Pills,
j that am constrained to discard my pref udiccs
! and to declare, that they are worth more than
i all the patent medicines / have ever seen or
i heard of.
The case allude to, particularly, was that
Of an adult person, Iaboring under every symp-
tom Of worms. He was much emaciated, was
very feeble and suffered ut times extreme and
4 aponising pain. Three successive doses of your
/ pills, were administered to him which succeed
4 ed in expelng a small tenia or tape worm,
about three feet long, and the patient speedily
recovered his health and strength though he
had before tried many prescriptions, without
any relief
I Since that | have used them in every varietI
i Of complaint where cathartic medicines are APP
. pilcable, with general good success: their ope-
lation is very mild, producing less irritation
than any other cathartic remedy | have any
!. knowledge Of | have also furnished other
physicians with them, and persuaded them to
use them, in their practice. And | can assure
they are gaining rapidly in public estimation.
/ have not written this for the purpose OF d
, certificate, but if you think proper you are at
timony Of my brother, who is also physician
and who has used them in his own family and
J has very high opinion Of them. Yours, &c.
GEO. w. CLEVELAND, NJ. d.
LETTER FROM JUSTICE FLANAGAN.
New York, Oct. 9th, lo36.-To Mr.. JoHS
acknowledgement Sir: Having labored a
) number OF years under great indispositon, pro-
cccding from Reorganization OF the digestive
power, and after having tried many remedies
, prescribed by Respectable physicians, was in
duced, from my personal knowledge of your
own ease, to try the same remedies that you in
e formed me succeeded IN curing you: there
fore used few of your Vegetable Life Pills
and the Phoenix Bitters they are the only EN-
edies that have used, that have afforded any
+ thing like permanent relief. have great con
{. fidcnce in them, and intend continuing their
: USE Yours, &c.
- JAMES FLANAGAN, 9th Avenue, near l9th st
LETTER FROM THE REV. ROBERT SMITH.
e BALTIMORE, Jan. 18th. 1S37.-To DR.. Nor.
FATT-Dear Sir: feel it d duty | owe t., the
public and yourself, to place at your disposal a
case of q somewhat novel character, in which
your Lille Pills" have performed cure that
no other medicine / know of could have eieu
!, ted. 1t is as follows About the last of June
], ult. lswas poisoned by the flowers Of "Kalmia
Latifolia, ''* and again in October following by
an application applied TO the top of my head,
which | am convinced contained the ''Kalmia. u
!, In both cases violent nervous prostration was
the consequence. The latter case was exceed
ingly violent and of long continuance. 1t seem
+ ed at times that my nervous system was entire
, ly prostratcd-so much so that | was incapable
: of any active eXerton for some two or three
weeks. These symptoms am satisfied could
S have been produced by nothing else but the
y above named poison. My appetite and health
] in all other respects were usually good.
Three doses of your ''Life Pills. have restor-
e ed me to full health and vgor For two weeks
, before taking them | could neither sing, read
loud, walk fast, any kind of exerton
: now can sing by the hour, read at the top of
my voice for day, and was going to say run
' a mile no exertion has the slightest uni pleas
ant effect. l consider your Life Pills" the
: best medicine of which have any knowledge,
4 and | would not be deprived of them for any
\ consideration. Yours truly, ROBERT SMITH
Poisonous Laurel
To Mr.. ]. MorFAr.-Dear Sir: Above you
: will find certificate from the Rev. Robert
: Smith, Of this city He states in addition that
he was tronbl d with tullness of the head,
amounting almost to suffocation, which was
happily relieved by the use of your pills. Yours,
). &C. l.. F. w. ANDREWS, Art
n Letter from the Hon EDWARD WEBER, OF
r Rumney, N. Hampshire, to ANTHONY S. JONES
of Newburyport, one of Mr.. MoFFATr's A.
gents. Rulnney, February 9, 1887.
{: SIR-You may probably recollcct having
r seen me at your store on the 1st OF July last,
. three boxes of the Vegetable Life Pills, pre-
:, pared by DR.. MoFFATr, of New York. | have
J now the pleasure to say, that they have given
v great satisfaction in my family, and in several
cases in which | have lie tiny neighbors have
them; they have had better effect than any
: other medicine they ever tried. Ny own health
Il is greatly improved, and l have no doubt, with
: the Divine Blessing, those pills have contribu-
ted very much to my comfort. | wish you
= therefore to send me some more, for which
/ enclose you the money; but be particular and
q send me none but the GENUINE. have eXpe-
rienccd so much benefit from them, that think
! it my duty to introduce them into general use
here, as the best service can render to my fel.
low citizens.
:. With sincerity and respect, Yours, &c,
/; EDWARD WEBER
. The following letter is from Mn. BowIEs, Ed
tor Of the Republican & Journal Spring
e field, Mass.
d Springfield, June l, 1897.
IS Mr. MoFFATT-Sir: 1t is now thirteen years
Y that have suffered from an nfirmity of the
: bowels-the consequence, as suppose of a
seosre illness Of inGammatory rheumatism. The
= natural action of the bowels is lost frequent
l. and severe pains occur, with much weakness
le and depression. Cathartics being necessary
q every few days to counteract costiUeness.
!, have consulted good physicians, and have tri
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