The Illinois free trader and LaSalle County commercial advertiser. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1841-1843, 1841-06-11
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For removing diseases arising from all
abuse of Mercury, chronic and consti-
mtional diseases, such as scroiua or
kings evil, secondary syphilis, ulcera-
tons and corrosons of the throat, nose,
checks, lips, ears and other parts OF
the body, cruptions of the skin, rhcu-
matte affections, white swellings, pains
in the bones and joints, fever sores,
obstinate old sores, scald head, salt
rhcum, rlngworm and other diseases
arising from an impure state OF the
blood. Also, habiiual costiveness,
piles, chronic affections of the liver,
lungs and chest, pains in the stomach
and sides, night sweats, &c. tbs also
much recommended as cleansing
Spring medicine.
VVNIIlS compound fluid extract is Alternative,
/ Diurciic, Di0phmefic, LGratire, AromGfic,
uud ShghtLy aimuhnt, and may be most success
fully used III scroiulous and syphilold diseases,
and that shattered state of the constitution which
often follows the imprudcnt use of Mercury;
eNostoscs or morbid enlargement of the bones,
surpiglnous pustulcs or rngworms; alterations
generally carries of the bones, cartilcges 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 phagcdcnie
variety of herpes; and i'll spite of all the remedies
he could bring against this cruel disease, was
compelled to acknowledge their incihcacy, and
allow the monster TO corrode and destroy the nose,
checks, lips, eyelils, ears and tempes--parts for
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 will even yield to this remedy III very short
time.
G. W. Merchant taking advantage of these
facts, has adopted an improved process for cNtrac-
ting the medical virtues from the actual ingredi-
ents of this compound fluid extract, which are
nine i'll number, without heat that is to say,
neither decoction, infusion maccration are made
use of; nor is the temperature of the mcnstrum
used, allowed to exceed so deg. Fab. until every
particle OF active principle is extracted, leaving
tastcless inert mass behind; thereby attaining the
whole OF the soluble active principle i'll highly
concentrated state, leaving out the tecula, woody
fibre, ETC., which cncumbers the extract obtained
by decoctlon.
The proprietor, therefore, has not only the sat
lsfactlon OF assuring the medical faculty and the
public, that this remedy is prepared according to
strict chemical and pharmaceutical rules, but that
he has also united some of the officinale yalua-
bic and active Vegetables, all of the choicest sclcc-
ton, which materially enhance its value in the
treatment of the diseases above mentioned. lie
is therefore induced to offer this fluid extract TO
ply sicians and others under the fullest assurance
of its superiority over that in common use.
Physicians will find great advantage in the use
of this extract, and great relief from the per
plexitics 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 patient under their
immediate care, they will prescribe such diet
and regimen as in their judgment the case would
seem to indicato--thcrcby giving the extract its
full influence.
Prepared at the Chemical Laboratory of &. w.
Merchant, Chemist, Lockpor, n. Y.
n. b. A liberal discount made to Dealers and
Physicians.
or For sale by LIZ. & W. A. SANGER g. co.
Ottawa, Illinois. Also, at the stores ofthc principal
Druggists at Chicago aud juliet, J. II. Elmorc,
Peru, and James barley, IIcnnipen, ILL., All
orders sent to ii. Harris u Co.. Ashtabuls, Ohio,
for the above medicine will be promptly attended
to.
Ottawa, August IA, 1910. I3---Iy.