Mobile register and journal., 1841-12-24
PATENT MEpIClNES.

the minds of intelligent end enlightened individuals against any article introduced through the means of advertisement, nc matter how great it's merits may be, or high the founder may stand a sdical man. Nothing but the interpretation of Pro- oYidence save the lives of those per who day after day tamper with the poisonous and deadly compoui ds blazoned forth to the world through the public by ignor ant men who have abandoned some other calling and assumed the title of doctor without having re. ceived the least medical instruction. I know the difficulty have in -persuadng the public that an ad vertisng doctor IS cnn be regular Physician, but us address my ief y 10 the respectLb ble and intel lgcnt portion of the community, the following tesli monals my medical atiainnents will be deei.ed sufficient to convince the most skeptca
 received the degree of Doctor of ofmedicne ld Su geon in the College of Phyisinns and Surgeons | New York-am member of the New York State Medical Socety-Fellow of the Massachusetts Med ca Society and LincentIate of the mediaa Board of the State of Louisiana, and for the last eighteen years a general practitioner of Medicine.
 My compound Extract of Sarsaparilla, Liverwort, Pleursy Root and Lgnum Vita is the result of this long experience, and not the medicine of m hours consideration merely gotup for humbug or deception. Upon the responsibility of my medical testimonials my great a medical practitioner and the sal. utary and beneficial effects of my medicine, 1 stand fall. seek not to deceive the public with an ar ticle of whose component parts they ignorant What do tho public know of the poisonous and de- strucve ingredients contained in the various pillsand panaceas advertised throughout the Union The pro pretors of such medicines known too we'll if the pub lie were aware that out of every ten pills they have swallowed, eight of them Mercurv their trade was at an end. have analysed most of the hills and other medicines advertised throughout inc Union and found them contain, either corrosiye sbl,not, or Caloael. The reason is then obvious why tbf se base mpostors will not tell the component marie nj | 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. 1practce no such deception. My medi. cine has stood the test of years-t is recomInendrd by the eminent of the medical facul V and what is of more impo tance than all caudillv and honestly confess that my medicine is a combination of Sarsan arila, Lverwort Pleurisy Root, Lignum Vita and one two other ingredients. The only oripin,ltv l claim is in my peculiar mode of pre- paration If is true it has often been the wonder and amazt mep of my medical brethren the astonishing cures performed in eases that were considered within the power ofmedical aid The whole mystery consisted in my using this medicine, and this alone to the exclusion of all others, and of the correct principles upon which diseases ought to be treated It will not however be matter of surprise that such wonder. ful success should follow the use of this medicine when state the principles upon which acted.
 The human body cosists of solids and fluids
 Int former or long structure is about one .ffth.- The latter soft part five sixhs Man is linked to- gether by number of organs so beautifully arrapq. ed as to form perfect chain in the animal economy. One link of which when outof order is sufficient to destrpy he harmony of the whole These organs are furnished with innumerable blood vessels called arteres and veins, which have common cenlre.-
 
 or nutritive fluid to all parts of the system-be- ing furnished with valves which are all in one di. rection, the blood can only flow in corresponding colrse, Thus it is forced by the heart into the are- re', and after moistening the minute bres it is received by the veins and brought again to the heart and performs again the round ofthe body and so on in succession. The use the blood is 10 receive from the almentary canal the skin, lungs, such tcrs Is necessary for the nourshment of qn and to convey every part ofthe body for the purpose of reparing it's waste, and increasing it's growth.
 But if any effect poisonous foreign matter is car ried into the blood several organs provided the liver, kidneys. skin and lungs through which this poi son discharged from the blood in the form of bile urine eperspi iatonand puhnouaryexhalation. Fromthis bref sketch ofman slornaon the lnellig ligentreadercan easily understand, how fever and inflammation is pro- duced by suppression of precipitation, for fpersra-
 ton be afested n consequence ot cold, the perspra- ble matter will mix with the blood and give rise to inflammation. In like manner, 1.-the discharge ofbile be arrested in it's flow from the liver i, is taken into the circulation and gives rise to jaundice, yellow fe- yer, &c. All diseases therefore have one common origin not impurity of blood, for that is only an eff ecl) but the obstruction of one other of those three great outlets common sewers ofthe body the bowels, skin and kidnies.
 Header, did you but know how fearfully and won deriuly you are constructed-how beautiullythe Gre tor of the universe has provided for your preserva
 on and existence, independent of your will then in decd would your admiration of the perfection of his mighty hand work never cease During sleep, when your mental faculties inactve and your soul ap pears be in state of repose then IS the wise pro- vision and fore knowledge ofthe author nature made malfest. The heart continues to pour its vital stream to every part of the body-the lungs perform their oice-respiraton IS continued and the blood decarbonized-the skin pours out from its myriads | of pores the poisonous matter of the blood-diges ton continues and the nutrve particles of food are carriedin the blood for the renovation of man. Were all the organs of the body therefore under the control of the will, when we slept, the heart would cease pulsate, death would necessary conse- quence folow-the lungs would cease perform their oce-suffocation and death be the consequence precipitation digestion be interrupted the effects of which would be perpetual disease.
 Reader, you now know perhaps better than you ever knew before. the vast importance of keeping these organs necessary to life in a healthy state You will also place less reliance the pretensons of ignorant and uneducated men, especially when they attempt meddle with diseases they know noth- ing of You will likewise appreciate the services of the skilfu medical practitioner, who has labored for IS years in the study of science through all its mi nutie and who offers for your benefit the result of his long and arduous ebors ask if you possessed
 watch of five dollars value, and it was out of repair would you take it to tinker to have it in order | No you would surely carry it to good watchnaker How much more difficult then is the putting in order of the human body when out of repair. A watch may stop, it can be set going again--if mans machinery once stops, it stops forever. No human power can ever again set Il Tn notion
 You may always expect fever and ill-health to fol- low the stoppage of any of the secrttions. five cept says Van Swieton those who perish by violent death, and such extinguished by old age, 1.-the rest die of Inflammation, caused by suppression ofone or other the Piny describes the terror the Romans had of this disease and of their suppca tons in the Temple of Fanum for the removal of all obstrucons to the natural outlets of the body. Sick therefore occur unless other fthose outlets obstructed except il be disease depend ant upon a specific contagion such small pox, mea. sles venerial, &c and these diseases only cured by increasing the natural secretions. When you labor under disease. matter of what nature, whether | ignant or otherwise, and you take Calomel from a Physician. does he not always ask yeu your bow els pc respiration frees the secretion of urine abundant--or, ifyou have pain what, ask you, are those inquiries, but barely to ascertain if the tons are duly performed. Ifthey wellperformed, then your doctor is puzzled to the nature of your disease. Ifthey are not duly performed he then any obstruction This is the great ofour profession, and thus we define reputation when we only assist in restoring the natural secretons. The great difficulty in he practice of medicine the proper application of combination of medical
 ces calculated to remove distractions and act same time upon all the secretons. There many valuable articles in the materia medica that will act upon the liver administered ed alone, but when combn- ed with others upon the kidneys, they become neutralized. The concentrated extract of Sarsaparil la Liverwort Pleurisy Root and Lgnun Vita as pre- pared by me is the only combination ever yetdis. covered that possesses this nestmabe quality, which has been testified to by most of the medical men in England For fullaccount of the properties Of these pants, refer the reader to my Prize Essay of 40 pages published in the New England Medicalan and Surgical Recorder. I will enumeratc few only of the diseases in which this medicine showed its mrac uous powers-Consumpron arising from cold, or where hereditary disposition existed, liver com. paint, yellow fever. jaundice, indigestion. torpid or inactive of the bowels paptation of the heart, peurisy, scrofula, mercural eruptions cutaneous disease arising from any cause, secondary constitu tona effects, arising from the yenerial disease, such hlatr rbaan fbea rim aora broaf ulr fad and painful affections of the bones termed nodes In fact the whole family of disease attributable