Mobile daily commercial register and patriot., 1841-08-25
PATENT MEDICINES,

difficult the prejudice existing in the minds of intelligent and enlightened individuals against any article introduced through the means of an advertise lnen no matter how great its merits may be, or how high its founder may stand as n medical man. Noth- ing but the interpretation of Providence save the kyes of those persons who dny after day tamper with the poisonous and deadly compounds blazoned forth [ the world through the public press by ignorent men who have abandoned some other calling, and assumed the title of doctor, without having ever received the elst medical instruction. know the difficulty l have
 m persuadng the public thatan advertising doctor is or can be regular physician, hut as aadress my self only to the respectable and intelligent portion of the community, the following testimonials of my med ! 'a aftainments will be deemed sufficient to convince the skeptical
 received the degree of Docior of Medicine aud Sur gson in the College of Physicans and Sngeons, New York-am member of the New York State Medical Soeiay-Feiiop ef fhe Massachusetts Medical Socefy, and Lictiate o the Medical BOard of Stafe of Lou
 iaaa and for the last eighteen gears general praot foner of Medicine.
 Mv Compound Egtract of SnSapariHa, Lirericou, Pleurisy Root and Lgnum Vita is the result of this ong experience, and not the medicine of an hours consideration merely got up for humbug deception aSUpon the responsibility of my medical testimonials my great success medical practitioner and the saluiary and beneficial effects of my medicine stand or fall. l seek not to deceive the public with ticle of whose component parts they are ignorant What do the public know of the poisonous and de- StfuctlNe ingredients il Ils panaceas advertised throughout the Union The propretors of such medicines know too well if the public aware that ont of every ten pills they have swallowed, eight of them are Mercury, their trade was at end. l have analized most of the pills, and other medicines advertised throughout the UnIon and found them to contain, either corrosire sb Lmate or Caiomei. The reason is then obvious why these base mposters will not tell the component parts of their medicines. They pretend that they have dis covered the philosophers stone, and that you may
 live through countless ages, if you but swallow their medicine. l practice such deception My medi- cine has stood the test of years-it is recommended by the eminent of the medical faculty, and what is of more importance than al l canddly and hon. esty confess that my medicine is combination of SarsapariHa, LrsrioO1, Pieurisy Root, Lgnnm Nta, and one or two other ingredients. The only origin ality claim is in my peculiar mode of preparation. lt is true, it has often been the wonder and amaze ment of my medical brethren, the astonishing performed in cases that considered not within the pow, of medical aid. The whole mystery sisted in my using the medicines and this alone to the exclusion of all others, and of the principles upon which diseases ought to be treated It will not however be matter of surprise that such wonderful success should follow the of this medicine, when state the principles upon which ac:ed.
 s The human body consists of solids and fluids. The urmer or long structure is about one-fh. The lat ter soft part five sixths. Man IS linked together by a number of organs beautifully as to form per- feet chain in the animal economy. One link of which when out of order diseased is sufficient to destroy the harmony of the whole. These organs fnrnsh- ed with inumerable blood vessels called arteries and veins, which have a common centre. The heart for propelng through them the blood nuritve fluid to all parts of the system, from the heart being furnished with valves which all in one direction the blood can only flow in corresponding course. That it is forced by the heart into the arteries, and after moist ening the nest minute flores, it is received by tine veins and brought again to the heart, and performs
 ,f h..l anIS., The of the blood, is to receive from the almenta " canal the skin lungs, such matters as is necessary for the nourisment of man, and to convey to every part of the body for the purpose oreparng its waste and increasing it's growth. But Il any eitee, poson- ous or foreign matter is carried into the blood several organs are provided the hUg, kidneys, skin and lungs through which this poison is discharged from the blood in the form of pile urine, perspration and pulmonary ~exhalaton. From this brsf sketch ot mans iornation the intelligent reader can easily un- derstand how fever and inflammation is produced by the suppression of perspiratlon for fl precipitation be arrested in consequence of cold the perspirabe mat ter will mix with the blood and give to inlama tion In like manner if the discharge of bile be ar rested in its flow from the liver it is taken into the circulation and gives rise to Jaundce, yellow tever &c. All diseases have therefore one common origin, (noi impurty of blood, for that is only elect) but
 m the obstruction of one other of those three great tlets or common sewers of the body, the bowels,
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 k.sgr, cIo yoa nm know how feal fully and wom- oeriully you are constructed-how beautifully the Creator of the universe has provided for your pre- seryation and existence, independent of your will then indeed would your admiration of the perfection of his mighty handwork never cease. During sleep, when yar mental faculties inactiye and your soul appears to be in state of repose, then Is the wise provision and foreknowledge of the author of nature made manifest. The heart continues to pour its vital
 tream to every part of the body-the lungs perform
 ha,r off ion md he decarbonized-the skin pours out from it's myriads pores the poisonous matter of the blood-digestion continues and the nutritiye particulars of food is carried into the blood for tee renovation of man. Were all the organs of the body, therefore, under the control of the will, when sleep, the heart would cease to pusate, death would as necessary conse- ouence ollow-the lungs would cease to perform their ofiice-sufocaton and death be the consequence, or precipitation digestion he interrupted, the effects which would be perpetual disease. ....
 Reader, you know perhaps, better than you CT knew before the vast importance of keeping these organs so necessary to life in healthy state. You will also place less reliance the pretensons of ig norant and unelucated men, especially when they att tempt to meddle with diseases they know nothing of You will likewise appreciate the services of the skill
 ul medical practitioners who has abored for Is years in the study of science through all its mnutia, and who now offers for your benefit the result of his long and arduOus labOrs. ask if you possessed a watch of five dollars value, and il out of repair, would you take it to tinker to have it set in order No you would surely bring it to good watch-maker- How much more difficult then is the putting in order of the human body when out of repair. watch may stop, it can be set going again-if mans mach- nery once stops, it stops forever. No human power can again set it in notion
 You may always expect fever and ll-health follow the stoppage ofany of the secretons. If except, says Van Swenten, those who perish violent death, and such as are extnguishedby old age all the rest die of inAamation caused by suppression of one or the other of the secretons. Plny describes the terror the Romans had of this disease, and of their applications in the Temple of Faunum for the removal of all obstuc tons to the natural outlets of the body. Sickness therefore cannot occur unless or other of those outlets obstructed, except in disease dependent upon spa rife contagion, such as smallpox, measles, yenereal As and these diseases only cured by in creasing the natural secreions When you labor un- der disease no matter of what nature, whether mag- aant or otherwise, and you take Calomel from a physician, does he not always ask you, are your bow els free-s precipitation free-is the secretion o urine abundant-or, if you have pain, what ask you are those enquiries, but merely to ascertain If the secre- tions are duly performed. If they are well perform ed, then your doctor is puzzled as to the nature Of your disease Ifthey not duly performed, he then removes any obstruction. This is the great secret of our profession, and thus we define reputation when only assist nature in restoring the natural secfe- tions the great difficulty in the practice of medicines was the proper application of combination of medi- cinal articles calculated Instructions, and at the time upon all the secretions. There are many valuable articles in the materia medca that will act upon the liver if administered alone, but when combined with others to act upon the kidneys, they become neutrazed. The concentrated ertract of Sar sapariHa, LiueiOorth, Psursy, Root, and Lgnun Vita, as prepared by me, is the only combination ever yet discovered that possessed this nestimabe quality, which has been testified by most medical men in En- gland. For full account of the properties of these plants, must refor the reader my prize Essay of 40 pages, published in the New England Medical and