Mobile register and journal., 1841-12-18
PATENT MEDICINES.
NUGTt k JUHNSoN'S CONC &NTRATEI OFLuID EXTRACT OF S,lRSAPARlLLi

aEFLTID EXTRACT OF S.ARSAPARILLA, BIVERWORT, PLEURlSY ROOT AND LlG. MUM VlTA.-As there many Medicines of useless and injurious nature already before the pub lc it is difict to the prejudice existing in
 the minds of intelligent and enlightened individuals against any article introduced through the means df | advertisement, nc matter how great it's merits may be, or high the founder may stand Il s,cal man. Nothing bu; lle nterposition ol Pro ~euce save
 inc lives of those perS sons who day after day tulnper with tic poisonous and deadly conpuut ds baZoned | forth to the world through the public ess by i1nor ant men who have abandoned some other calling, | and assumed the tile of doctor, without having ceived the least medical instruction. know inc | difficulty have in per'uadng the public that an ad- versing doctor is or can be regular Physician, but address my jei ily to the respect; b!e and intel ligent portion of the community, the following tcsti rnonias ofmy medical attachments will be dcer.ed sufficient to convince the most skepieal.
 received the degree ol Doctor of mrdicine ld Stu geon in the College of Phy ysians and Surgeons New York--am member of the New York State Medical soeieiy-Felow "f the Massachsetls Med. ical So;i ty and Llncenate of the medical Board of the State of fLousana and for the last eighteen years general practitioner of Medicine.
 My compound Extract of Sarsaparilln, LiverwOr
 Pleursy Root and Lgnum Vita is the result of this long experience, and the medicine of m hours consideration, merely got up for hunbug decepon Upon the responsibility of my medical testimonials my great medical practitioner, ail the sal
 utary and beneficial effects of my Eledicine stand fall. l seek not to deceive the public with an ar.
 
 What do the public know of the poisonous and de- stracve ingredients contained in the various rills and panaceas advertised throughout the Union The pro pretors of such medicines known well il the pub. lie were aware, that out of every pills they have swallowed, eight of them Mercury, their Trade was at an end. I have analysed most of the pills and other medicines advertised throughout the Union and found them to contain, either corrosiee sabtimatc or Cdlomc The reason is then obvious why 1e sc base impostors will tell the component paris oi | their medicines. They pretend that they have dis. covered the philosophers stonc, aud thar you may live through countless agrs if you but swallow their medicine. practice no such -deceptinn Nv medi. cine has stood the test of yearSit is recommended by the most eminent of inc medical iscul v and what is of more impo tancc than all candily and honestly confess that Hy medicine is q combination of Sars,p arilla Liverwort Pleurisy Root, Lignum Vita and one or two other ingredients The only originality 1 claim is in my peculiar mode of preparation IL is true has often been the wonder and amaze nent of my medical brethren the astonishing cures performed in cases that considered not within the bower ofmedical aid. The whole mystery consisted in my using this medicine, and this alone to the exclusion | of all others, and ot the correct principles upon | which diseases ought to be treated. It will not however he T matter oi surprise that such wonder ful success should follow the of this medicine | when state the principles upon which acted.
 The human body cosists of solids and fluids
 The former or long structure is about one fih- The latter or soft part tive.sxths Man is linked to- getheI by number of organs so beautifully arrang- ed as to form perfect chain in the animal economy One link of which when outof order is sufficient to destroy inc harmony of the whole. These organs are furnished with nntinerable blood vessels called arteries and vens which have common centre.- The heart for propelling through them the blood or nutritive fluid to all parts of the sysiem-be-
 ing furnished with valves which are all m one di- reciion, the bluoI only flow in a corresponding Thus it is forced by the heart ino the are- ries, and after mostenng the minute lbres is received by the veins and brought again to the heart
 and performs again the round otthe body, and so on
 in succession. The use of the blood is 10 receive from the anentary canal the skin, lungs such mat iers is necessary for the nourishment of man. and convey it 10 every part othe body for the purpose ut reparing its waste and increasing it's growth.
 But Il any effect poisonous or foreign natter is
 red into the blood several organs provided as the liver, kidneys. skin and lungs through which this poi
 is discharged from the blood in the form of bile urine, ,perspr auonand puhnonaryexhalatou Fromthi- brel sketch oiman sornaton, the igent easily understand, how fever and inflammation is pro duce,i pJ suppression or persplraton for perspira
 tion be arrested in consequence of cold the perspra
 ble matter will mix with the blood and give rise tt inflammation. In like manner, the discharge obile be arrested in it's flow from the liver il is taken int, the circulation and gives rise to jaundce yellow fe , ver &c. All dseases therefore have one common origin, (not impurity of blood for that is only
 ect but in the obstruction of one other of thus, three great outlets common sewers ollhe body h, eowels skin and kidnes
 Reader, did you but know how fearfuly and won
 deruy you arc constructed-how beautifully the Gre
 tor of the universe has provided for your prcserva
 ton and existence, independent of your will then in
 deed would your admiration of the perfection of hi
 mighty hand work never cease. During sleep, whe
 your mental faculties inactive, and your soul ap
 pears be in state of repose, then is the wise pro
 vision and fore knowledge ofhe author ofnature mad naifest. The heart continues pour it's vitu stream every part of the body-the lungs perlorr l their oilice-respraton Is continued and the bloo n decarbonzed-the skin pours out from it's myriad . of pores the poisonous matter ofthe bool-diges
 and tna
 are carried into the blood for the renovation Of man
 Were all the organs of the body therefore under th
 control of the will when we slept, the heart woul s cease to pulsate, death would necessary conse quence foow-the lungs would cease to Pcrion
 their ofce-suifocation aud death be the consequence
 or precipitation digestion be interrupted the effect h of which would be perpetual disease.
 q Reader, you now know perhaps better than yol
 ever knew before the vast importance of keepin these organs SO necessary life in a healthy salt You will also place less reliance the pretensiou | of ignorant and uneducated men, especially whe
 they attempt tc medde with diseases they know notl n | ing of. You will likewise apprecate the services
 the skilful medical practitioner, who has abored ft Is years in the study of science through all it's m ? nutim and who now offers tor your benefit lhe resu
 of his long and arduous lsbors ask if you possesse a watch sf five dollars ~alue, and it of repai U would you take it to a tinker have it in order :. No you would surely carry it to good watchmake How much difficult then is the putting in ordt C of the human body when out of repair. watch ma y stop it be set going ugain--if mans machner l. once stops, it stops forever No human power ca
 ever again set il in notion.
 You may always expect fever and ill-health to fo . low the stoppage of any of the secretons. If we "a cept says Van Swieton, those who perish by vioe death, and such exnguished by old age, all t
 die of Inflammation, caused by suppression ofou
 other of the secretons Pliny describes the terrs
 the Romans had of this disease and of their supplic , tons in the Temple of Fanum for the removal of a obsructons the natural outlets of the body. Sic ness therefore unless other fthos
 outlets obstructed, except 1t be disease depen ' ant upon specific contagion, such as small pox me
 sles yeneria &c. and these diseases only cure
 by increasing tho natural secretions. When you labt
 under disease, no matter of what nature, whether m gnant or otherwise, and you take Calomel from
 Physician does he not always ask you are your bow
 els free pc rspiration trees the ion of urir abundant-or, if you have pain what, ask you ar those inquiries, but barely to ascertain the e tons are duly performed. Ifthey are wellperforme }, then your doctor is puzzled the of yor c disease. Ifthey are duly performed, he then r any obstruction This is the great secret ofo' }, proession and thus define reputation when ', only assist nature in restoring the natural secretion
 The great difficulty in ,he practice of medicine W;
 the proper application of combination of medical a
 cles calc uated Instructions and act al 1T o same time upon all the secretions There are mal l., valuable articles in the matera medica that will s upon the liver administered alone, but when conhi ed with others act upon the kidneys they becon neutralized The concentrated extract of ofSarsapar s la, Liverwor Pleurisy Root and Lignun Vita as pr :. pared by me is the only combination yet di p covered that possesses thisinestimable quality, whic has been testified to by most of the medical men a England For fullaccount of the properties of thes plants must refer the reader to my Prize Essay . 10 pages, published in the New England Medical an d q Surgical Recorder. I will enumerate few only the diseases in which this medicine showed its mira : ulous powers-Consumpon arising from cold, s where a hereditary disposition existed, liver con ' plant yellow fever. jaundice digestion. torpid
 inactive state of the bowels papitaiion of the hear T pleurisy, scrcula, mercurial erupions cutaneor
 disease arising from any cause secondary constt tiona effects arising from the veneral disease,