Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1839-01-04
The Art Of Healing had its origin IN the
moods, and The forest is still The best
Medical School"
The INDIAN Purgative
u Ill l. s;
OR
UNIVERSAL MEDICINE
OF THE
North American College Of Health.
Established at Washington, ID. G. }
Jan. 9Th, 1888.
ADDRESS TO THE AMERICAN

FELLOW CITIZENS:-At a 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 temerity in
us to offer, as candidate for your favor and
patronage, Medicine which is strictly AMER
IcAS. 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 the
countries 10 which they belong. The climate
of the United States stands unTivaed for the
production of medicinal plants, and very little
investigation will suffice to convince the most
skeptica that our ot1n country is able to sup
ply all our wants, independent Of foreign as
sistance.
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
euliies encountered in IFS discovery, or the an
fiquiiy of its origin; thus one tells US that his
medicine is "A netciy discovered chemical
compound, The result Of many years intense
sitidy and scientific research" and another
ascribes the honor TO somebody's GRAEDxA-
Their, &c. Now, as the success of medicine
must depend on its own intrinsic merits, and
not on the time or mdnner.in which il was dis
covered, we cannot see the use Of falsifying for
the purpose Cf investing its origin with fcti-
tious antiquity. Such auxaries are not need
ed on the present OCCASION, a single dose Of
the Indian Purgative will suffice TO convince
every invalid (and 10 such only we look for an
impartial vrrdict) that its crGfire effects are
incidentally superior 10 those OF anu other med
icne now in use Proud of this superiority,
we scorn fictitious aid, but give il IN the world
for what il is, SIPMLY A compound of FOUR
SIMPLE HERBS, used for the cure Of dis
ease, by THE COPPER CCLORED WAR
RIORS OF THE WEST. One ofthe herbs
l 10 nm N Hr
reiie, and one cathartic. The proper COM
hinaiion Of the above forms medicine, Of such
EFFICACY ard POWER as has been hith-
erto unknown in the art of healing. Its mode
Of curing is first To neutralize all putreiactivc
matter in the body; second to cause the expui-
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 to the
nostrils. throat salivial glands, lungs, skin and
kidneys.
Each ofthe above drains Is intended by ma
ture for the discharge of an excreiion or impu-
rity peculiar To itself, and although we may for
time compel the constitution 10 evacuate the
whole through one drain, such treatment can
not fail to derange the mechanism of the oody,
and 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 are
not likely 10 benefit the patient by t,amping
on the laws of nature, in bringing all the DIFF
ferent kinds of excretory matter through one
channel; hence the evil oi attempting TO cure
all diseases by course Of sweating, or vomit-
ing, or physicng, or any other method which
opens only one class Of excTetories.
No medicine deserves to be called Unirer-
sal Remedy unless its effects extend to each and
every one of 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 obstructing
matter IS lodged in the urina excietories, il
will act as dIuretic: il in the bronchial yes
sells or pulmonary excretories, il will induce ex-
pectoIation; ifin the cells OF the cellular menu
brane or excretories of the skin, gentle aud eff
iectua perspiration will be kept up; and, under
every combination of circumstances, il will act
more or less as cathartic. Here il is proper
to remark, that although the purgaiive always
induces mn increased number OF alvine evacua-
lions, and is capable of overcoming the most
obstinate cases oi costivencss, il does not raise
a" hurricane" in the bowels, nor waste the
healthy juices by over-acton. Its effects ex-
tend to every part of the system, and for that
reason are not liable TO over action in any part
The inestimable value of medicine which
will act on all the excretores, at one and the
same time, Is more apparent when we reflect
that the human body is 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 a 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 he cured while another part remains
diseased. Disease begins in the blood, and as
'he oood hows To every part of the system,
every part OF The system must become more or
TESS Diseased; no disease is cured unless the
cause is removed, aud 10 remove the cause we
must restore the blood to healthy state. and
u the blood is made healthy, every part Of the
body must be The same.
we have now illustrated the natural or In
dian system of practice, and the more il is in
vestgated the more reasonable il appears. ms
regards its truth we have only TO reflect that II
was taught by NATURE, and therefore must be
true. When the body stands in need of nonr
ishmeni, we are impelled by hunger to eat; and
when II is diseased, we are impelled by instinct
To use medicinei and there cannot be doubt
mat y we lived in state of nature. this IN
stlncilve feeling would always direct as to the
PROPER MEDIClNE: hence the superiori
" OF the Indian System. The art of healing
was first learned in the woods, and 10 this dav
the untutored savage is the best medical teach
er; for the Indian practice is the only one which
IS consonant To those eternal and immuiable
laws which govern the animal economy
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