The Illinois free trader. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1840-1841, 1840-10-23
S A II S A p A RILL 4

For removing diseases arising from an
abuse of Mercury, chronic and consti
tutional diseases, such as scrofula or
kings evil, secondary syphilis, ulcera-
ions and corrosions of the throat, nose,
cheeks, lips, ears and other parts of
the body, eruptions of the skin, rheu-
matte affections, white swclings, pains
III the bones and joints, fever sores.
obstinate old sores, scald head, salt
rheum, ringworm and other diseases
arising from an impure state of the
blood. Also, habitual costiveness,
piles, chronic affections of the liver,
lungs and chest, pains in the stomach
and sides, night sweats, &c. lis also
much recommended as cleansing
Spring medicine.
yEVHiS compound fluid extract is AHe,uf;r,.
d Diurefic, D0phrettc, LQraiice, Aromatic.
and Eighty aimahnd; and may be most success
fully used in scroiulous and syphiloid diseases,
and that shattered state of the constitution which
50 often follows the imprudent use of Mercury:
eXostoscs or morbid enlargement of the bones.
surpiginous pustules or ringworms; ulccra,ions
generally carries of the bones carleges of the
nose, mouth, etc, etc., with the other diseases
above mentioned, and all diseases arising from
morbid state of the blood.
There is hardly physician who has not had
occasion to observe with pain, the phagedcnic
variety of herpes and in spite of all the remedies
he could bring against this cruel disease, was
compelled to acknowledge their inetlicacy, and
allow the mon 'ier to corrodc and destroy the nose,
r. Ike e..
which this maady generally affects preference
But in this extract will be found perfect remedy
IN all such cases, and where the disease has not
produced very great arrangement of structure.
II VIII even yield 80 this remedy in very Short
time.
q. W. Merchant taking advantage Of these
facts, has adopted improved process for sXtrac-
ting the medical virtues from the actual ingredi-
ents of this compound fluid extract, which are
nine in number, withoutxhe that is to say,
neither decoction, infusonor maccration are made
use of; nor is the temperature OF the menstrum
used, allowed to exceed 50 deg Fab. until every
particle OF active principle is extracted, leaving
!asteless inert mass behind; thereby attaining the
whole of the soluble active principle in highly
concentrated state, leaving out the tccnla, woody
fibre. etc., which encumbers the extract obtanes
by dccoction.
The proprietor, therefore, has not only the sat
isiaction of assuring thcInedical faculty and the
pablo, that this remedy is prepared according to-
strict chemical and pharmaceutical rules, but that
he has also united some of the oiicinale valua-
bic and active vegetables, all of the choicest sclec
ton, which materially enhance its value in the
treatment of the diseases above mentioned. He
is therefore induced to offer this fluid extract to
physicians and others Wnder the fullest assurance
of its superiority over that in common use
Physicians will fud great advantage ia tsc sse
OF this extract aad great relief from the per-
plexities attendant upon the treatment Of those
obstinate cases which bid defiance to every REM
cdy their confidence prompts them to prescribe;
more especially as having the pdGsn, under thsin
immediate care, they will prescribe sach diet
and regimen as in their judgment the case would
seem to indicate-thereby giving the extract its
full influence
Prepared at the Chemical Laboratory of 6. W
Merchant, Chemist, Lockport, ". Y
n. B. A liberal discount made te Dealers ans
Ply sicians.
or For sale by NJ. E. Hofisrer, Ottawa; tho
Drsggists st Chicago and JaIiet; J. H. Elmore.
Peru and James barley, Hennpen, III. Als
orders sent to Il. Harris & Co.. Ashtabula, Ohio,
for the above medicine, viii be promptly attended
to-.
Ottawa August IA. 1870, I3--ry.
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