Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1839-08-01
MiicS' Compound Extract OF
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A SUBSTITUTE FOR C.lLOMEL.

a SOHS IffC ~ ron GILOMLL.
sHROM the well known and established rep
4 ;'tu ion of Cniomei, it has been long employ
ed BY The empric, and scientific. physician. az
one OF the most powerful agents for the rcmn-
val OF disease. BY the former. almost every
land has been deluged with rostrums that rlr'ir
au lDrs claimed as specific. in every disease i'll
cident 10 The human family. The folly Of these
prste sions needs no Comment for uccura'e
chemical Investigation has shown, that the base
of most of the Panaceas. Caihoicons. &c.,
which have been trumpGtrd before the ronlmIl-
nity with so much assurance. is Cat0mci. or
mercury H. some form. Now, it this po:ent
article even in tn" hands of the most skilIul
physician, requeutl, cxcrts an 'nlluencr OH The
hlImlan system, unforeseen and 'ntrcly beyond
the control OF art: undermining the cons ituton.
ami bringing on premature old aye disease amd
d,ath, what result Sliond be expected when
prescribed b, the norant! Gould their many
thousand vi tins speak, u voice from The Tomb
would sop diSp he 'sprcifc' dclusion that now
swavs the lnint- of the living.
liuma physicians epiore the sad evils re-
SuliIg from tIie nsrrura prac;ic'. and wi.
ladly hail the nirnductIOn fan n ticlc that can
safely he +ub,tiruu,ed for Can They fri
and thai kccRfy. !hr g,eaf uncertainty cIiis prim
arv npe, alton; iiev cannot say whether it will
be favourable or nni;lvorahlc. They also En0ir
aud feel thai /. lis us;' is continued f0ranv con-
siderable ,m". iuinrioTS secondary consequent
ces mu,stcrrtainly follow Butthcy must choose
the least of two evils: they koow no other ar,i-
Gle that will arouse II t0rpM lircv. remove oh
slructiou and set IN free action the whole
glundular system. and it being Indispensable
necessary to do this. they continue it, rlse not
wihs,a ding the evil consequences which
follow.
They have long desired and sought an arti-
Gle that would produce the good effects of this
drug. without sub ec,ing the patient to its dele
terioms results. Such n desderaium, it is be-
lieved. has at length been obtained, in the article
now presented tothe public.
The nrOpretors of his article keeping in view
the fci that n ,rise and brncrolcni Being has
,lac"d within the reach oralI, remedies atlapted
to the diseases incident to tho climate they in
habit: and knowing likewise that most of the
diseas"s ofIhe UNITED STATES IRE based npon
organic or fncunl derangemen, of the liver:
directed their attention 10 those articles which
act moro esneciallv on the hillary organs.
Afierlong. laborious and expensive research,
they have slrccertled in extracting n substance.
from the TOMATO which. fr"mits ppculiar ef:
fcctuponthr hcpntic or hillary organs. they have
denominatcd Hrpafinc. Iiisn medicine that will
produce all the be:efirial results of CaIomel, in
bot!, acute and chronic diseases without the
possibility of producing the dcletcriols conSe-
unences common TO that article. Its action ,,,-
on the constitution is universal no part of The
system escaping it, influence. Tts. however,
upon the organs Of secretion and ex.rcton.