Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1839-02-01

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Jan. 9Th, 1885,
ADDRESS TO THE AMERICAN rI
PEOPLE. AND
FELLOW CITIZENS:-At time like
the present, when our country is literally food
ed with nostrums brought from foreign chimes,
you may perhaps think il an act of temetity 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, must be better adapted to
our constitutions than .toreie medicines, how
ever useful the latter may have been in the
countries TO which they belong. The climate
! of the United States stands nnrivaled for the
production Of medicinal plants, and a very little
investigation will suffice to convince the most
skeptica that our otrn country is able to sup
| ply all our wants, independent Of foreign as
sistance. .r. N.a.r
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 an
tiquity OF its origin; thus one tells US that his
medicine is " a needy discovered chemical
compound, The result Of many years intense
study and scientific research;' and another
ascribes the honor to, somebody's GRAKDFA-
TIER, &c. Now, as the success of a medicine
must depend on IFS 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 ficti-
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 cdratipe effects are
incidentally superior TO those Of any other med
icine now in use. Proud of this superiority,
we scorn fictitious aid, but give il 10 the world
for what itis,SIPMLY A compound Of -FOUR
| SIMPLE HERBS, used for the cure of dis
ease, by THE COPPER COLORED WAR
RIORS OF THE WEST. One ofthe herbs
is an eIpeeiorant, one sudorifc, one dia-
retic, and one a catharfie. The proper COM
bination Of the above forms medicine, Of such
EFFICACY and POWER as has been hith-i
erto unknown in the art of healing. Its mode
of curing Is first 10 neutraliSe all putreiaciiye
matter in the body; second to cause The expul-
sion OF the same through the proper outlets,
provided by nature for that purpose; conse-
quently lis action is not confined TO the bowels,
although il is greatest there, but extends 10 the
nostris, throat, savial glands, lungs, skin and
kidneys. ff 5sgpa
Each ofthe above drains Us intended by na-
ture for the discharge of an excietion or impu-
1 rity peculiar to Itself, and although we may for
a time compel the constitution TO evacuaIe the
whole through one drain, such treatment can
not fail tn derange the mechanism Of the oody,
aud utterly ruin the health of The patient IL
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 arc
not likely To benefit the patient by frampling
on the laws of nature, in bringing all the dif-
ierent kinds OF excrciory matter through ono
channel; hence the evil of ATTEMPTING 10 cure
all diseases by course Of sweating, or vomit
ing, or physicing, or any other method which
| opens only one class of excretories tn
No .l...... A
sat Remedy unless its effects extend to each and
every one ui the natural drains, and this pow
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
the PATIENTS body. Thus, if the obstructng
matter is lodged in the urnal excretorics, It
VIII act as diuretic: if in the bronchial yes-
sells or pulmonary excretories, il will induce ex-
pectoration; ifin the cells Of the cellular mem
brane or excretories of the skin, gentle and eff
fectnal perspration will be kept up; and, under
every combination of circumstances, il win act
more or less as a caihartic. Here II is proper
to remark, that although the purgatiye always
induces an increased number OF alyine eyacua-
lions, and is capable of overcoming the most
obstinate cases OF costiveness, il does not raise
p" hurricane" in the bowels, nor waste the
healthy juices by oyer-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 inestmablc value of medicine which
will act on all the excretories, at one and the
same time, is more apparent when we reflect
that the human body is a complicated machine
consisting Of Dumberess 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
part; therefore, one part Of the body cannot be
diseased, and another part 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
a the blood is made healthy, every part Of the
body must be the same. ~'GTf y
| we have now illustrated the natural or In
d'an system OF practice, and the more il il in
Vesugated the more reasonable il appears. as
regards It's truth, we have only TO reflect that il
was taught by NATURE, and therefore must be
rue. When the body stands in need OF nonYTi
Ishment we are impelled by hunger to eat and
when It is diseased, we are impelled BY instinct,
70 use nledicinei and there cannot be a doubt,
that u we lived in state of nature, this .in-.
stInctive feeling would always direct as to the
PROPER MEDICINE: hence the superiori
ty OF the Indian System. The art Of healing
was first lpnrnpd in fhp vUnode IN th;,