Columbus Democrat. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-18??, 1841-06-19

ANTi-DYsPErIIc Plus. These pills are made /
Of AlOes, CASTLE Soap, Coocyuih, GambOge.
Extract Of Genilan and oil Of Cloves;-and are
gwen 10 Dyspepsia as a laxative.
HYDRoGOGUE Puts. are composed Of equal
parts OF Jaap, lScammony and IGamboge; and
are administered to curs dropsy Of the chest. Let
Us examine and ascertain how many Of the differ.
snt substances are in the Anu-Dyspeptc and Hy'
drogogue Pills are found exhumed from the Mis-.
slssIppl bills and valleys by our voclleTatng and
gssconVdng charlatansl None whatever Aloes
is foreign plant. There are three kinds Of al
oes, VIZ: the Socotorine, which is imported from
the Island Of Socotua & the kingdom Of Melinda
upon the eastern coast Of Alrica.-2nd The He
patio aloes which Is brought from SPAN and the
West Indies; and lastly, the Cabalins or Horse
aloes, which is nothing more lhan the dregs and
impurities Of the two former named kinds, and
are introduced into the U. S. from the same
countries. OF castle soap il is unnecessary to
say any thing. Calocynth:-the plant which yields
this substance, is native 'of Turkey, and is cu.
tyated in the Islands Of the Archipelago and in
various parts Of Africa and Asia. 1t is called
bitter Cucumber, and is one of the most irritating
cathartcs used-producng frequently, violent
pains and inflammation Of the bowels. See U S
DlsPensatory, page 1852 GambOge is the con-
clete juice OF a tree which grows in Siam and
Cochn-C China; It likewise is another most power.
lul and drastic purgatve. Vide U Dspensatory.
Gentlan is the root Of plant which tlouIshes a.
mong the Apprentices, A ps and other mountain
Gus parts Of Europe; and is one of those med,
clGes called tonic, or such as give tone and
strength to the system. The Glove and JaIap
plants have beer described heretofore. Scam
mony Is the solIdlied juice of plant which is a
native OF Syria, and is imported into our country
| from AIeppO and Smyrna and is another one of
the most energetic calharics, operating with great
tarshness. Vide U 5 Disp. page 500. have
thus shown, successfully it is hoped, that there is
not one single article in HE Anti, Dyspeptic or
| HydrogoguC pills, which our Botanic reform Drs
find in either Mississippi or the U States. Every
substance which enters into the composition of
these pills has been known and described for
ages, by the regular faculty; besides, every well
read physician will at once perceive that these
very same combinations have been taken by re-
former Beach, from dffeI ent scientific writer's on
twill now give the composition of the highly
extolIed and loud sounding reform .Anh-Spdsmo'
die and Sudorifc Tnctures. And first of the
Anli-Spasmodic Tincture This is make by mix i.
ing together the tinctures of Lobelia, Cayenne
pepper and Neryne or Ladies Slipper, or Amer
lean VaIevan, II is given in 'Flts" and as a
speedy emetic. extract this tncture from the
work Of the immortal Horton Howard, Of Ohio
steam notorIety.
| SUDoRIFlC TIECTURE OR DRoPs. This tine
ture contains lpecacuanha, Camphor, Virginia
Snakeroo Saffron, Opium and Gin Ii is
strong comphorated tIncture of Opium and is
prescribed in tea spoonful doses to the adult; each
tea spoonful contains medium dose of Opium.
THIS constitutes the celebrated sweating drops of
the steam reform Doctors; which oduces such
wonderful exudaons from the skin, and in the
hands Of our Columbus charlltans, remarkable
stupor and drowsincss. Ii is these effects of the
Sudorlhc drops upon the brain, which the reform.
ers mistake and call typhoid condition or symp-
toms" From whence do our magnIloquent bo.
tanlco reform quacks procure The principal and
most active articles which enter into tho compo
sillon OF this much vaunted Sudorhc Tincture!-
Do they find them in their scientific ptregrlnaons
in Mississippi and Alabama! Mos, undoubtedly
not All the ingredients, which give exclusive
activity to lhe tncture except two, are imported
from foreign parts of the d:-Camphor from
China and Japan, lpecacuanha from South Anne.
rca and Opium from Persia, Hndos,an and
Turkey.
have thus given the public some Of the chief
and most active curative reform compounds. |
have analysed every ono Of them, and have pro.
we'd, satisfactorily as hope, that the people have
been most woiuIIy deceived, when they supposed
that thor new tangled medical pretenders had
vegetable remedies not known to, and used by,
the regular profession. must now indulge the
hope. that enough Of these boosted steam com
pounds have been unraveled and explained, to
satisfy the most sceptico, how egregiously the
people have been gulled and imposed upon by
hose corrupt and designing impostors, who g
about the country singing theiI medical Halleu
jahs.
In my next, shall attend to the poisons, SC.
- M. DIS.