Mobile register and journal., 1841-12-27
PATENT MEDICINES.


 N thing but the interpostonof ydence can save the lives of those per who day after day tamper with the poisonous and deadly compoui ds blazoled forth the world through lhe public ess by gnor. mt men who have abandoned some other calling and assumed tue title of doctor, without having re. ceved the least medical instruction. I know the difficulty Thave in persuading the public that an ad. vertising doctor is CT can be regular Physician but as address self lly to the respect ble and intel ligent portion of the community, the following test monals ofmy medical attachments will be deel.ed sufficient to convince the most skeptcal.
 1 received the degree of Doctor of medicine anu Su geon in the College of Phyisians and Surgeons New York-am member of the New York State Medical Society-Feow of the Massachusetts Ned ica So,it y and Lincentlae of the medical Board of the State of Louisaua and for the last eighteen years a general practitioner of Medicine.
 My compound Extract of Sarsap~ rilla, Liverwort, Peurisy Root and Lignum Vita is the result of this long experience, and not the medicine of hours merely got up for humbug or deception. Upon the responsibility of my medical testimonials my great medical practitioner and the sal utary and beneficial effects of my medicine I stand or fall seek not deceive the public with an ar. ticle of whose component parts they are enorant- What do the public know of the poisonous and de- structve ingredients contained in the various pills and panaceas advertised throughout the Union The pro pretors of such medicines known too well if the pub lie aware that out of every pills they have swallowed, .eght of them Mercury, their trade was at an end. nave analysed most of the pills. and other medicines advertised throughout the Union and founf 9 to contain, either corrosipe s1blirata or Calod.s. The is then obvious why rho se base impostors will not tell the component 1arts nj their medicines They pretend that lbev have die. covered the philosophers stoae and thai won rnov live through countless ages, if yt. but s,vaio, ,h;y medicine Ipractice no such deceTrion. Mv mad;. cine has stood the test of years-t is reco,,,yna 1 by the eminent of the medical facul q and ,yha, is of more impo tance than all caadidly and honestly confess that my medicine is a cos.t5ination of S
 .no I nrisy one or two other ingredients. The only originality l claim is in my peculiar mode of preparation, Ii is tue it has often been the wonder and amaz, mept of mvnedical brethren the astonishing cures performed in cases that considered not within the power of medical 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 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
 The former or long structure is about one .ffth- The latter soft part five sxtbs Man is linked to- gether by number of organs so beautifully arrang- ed to form perfect chain in the animal economy One link of which when outof order is sufficient to destroy ihe harmony of the whole. These organs are furnished with inn; merable blood vessels called arteries and veins, which have common cenre.- The heart for propeiling through them the blood nCtritiye fluid all parts of the system-be- ing furnished with valves which are all m one di- reclion, the blJo can only flow in u core espondi ne Thus it is forced by the heart into the arte- ries, and after mostenng the minute fbres 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 of the blood is to receive from the anentary canal the skin, lungs such mat. tcrs is necessary for the nourshment of man. and to convey to every part othe body for the purpose of reParng its waste, and increasing its growth. But Ii any effect poisonous foreign matter is car ried into the blood several organs are provided us the iver kidneys skin and lungs through which this poi is discharged from the blood in the form of bile urne,perspirailena and punonaryexhaation Frointhis brief sketch ofman sornation the eintegentreaderca easily understand, how fever and inflammation is pro- duced by suppression ol precipitation, for iperspira-
 ton be arrested Tn consequence of cold the perspira- ble matter will mix with the blood and give rise to inflammation In like manner, ifthe discharge ofbe be arrested in it's flow from the lver il is taken into ihe circulation and gives rise to aundice yellow fe- yer, &c. All diseases therefore have one common origin, not impurty of blood for that is only an eff iect) but in the obstruction of one other of those three great outlets common sewers ofthe body the bowels, skm and kidniea.
 Reader, did you but know how fearfully and won. deruly youare econstructed-how beauiifullythe Gre tor of the universe has provided for your preserva ton and existence, independent of your will then in deed would your admiration of the perfection of his mighty hand work never cease. During sleep when your renal faculties inactivc and your soul ap- pears be in of repose, then is the wise pro- vision and fore knowledge ofthe author onature made maifest. The heart continues to pour it's vital stream every part of the body-the lungs perform their ofice-respiraton is continued and the blood decarbonized-the skin pours out from its myriads of pore the poisonous matter of the blood-diges- tion continues, and the nutrtve particles of our food carried into 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 to pulsate, death would necessary conse- quence follow--the lungs would cease to perform their oiice-sufocaton and death be the conseuuence or perspration 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 healthy state You will also place less reliance on the pretensions 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 it's mi nutia 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 out of repair would you take it tinker to have il in order How much difficult then is the putting in order of the human bo hen out of repair. watch may stop it can oi gagan-if mans machinery once stops, it stops forever No human power can ever again set il in notion
 You may always expect fever and ill-health to fol-
  cept says Van Sweon, those who perish by violent death and such extnguished by old age, all the rest die of Inflammation caused by suppression of one olher of the secretIons Plny describes the the Romans had of this disease and of their supplica tons in the Temple of Fanum for the removal of all obstrucons the natural outlets of the body. Sick ness therefore unless other fthose outlets obsruced, except 1t be a disease depend ant upon specific coniagon, such as small pox, sles veneria, &c and these diseases only cured by the natural secretions When you labor under disease. matter of what nature, whether lignant or otherwise, and you take Calomel from a Physician. does he always ask you, your bow els free--s precipitation free is the secretion of urine abundant---or, if you have pain what ask you are Ae inquiries, but barely to ascertain if the secre tioi,s are duly performed. Ifthey wellperformed then your doctor is puzzled to the nature of your disease Ifthey not duly performed, he then re- movesany obstruction This IS the great secret oiour profession, and thus we define reputation when we only assist nature in restoring the natural secretons The great difficulty in he practice of medicine was the proper application of combination of medical ar tcles calculated remove obstruetlons and act at the same time upon all the secretions There are many valuable articles in the maera meulca mat Will act upon the liver administsfed alone, but when combn ed with others to aot upon the kidneys they become neutraaenss The concentrated extract of Sarssparil la Liverwort Pleurisy Root and Lignum Vita pre- pared by me is the only one combination yet dis covered that possesses this nesmable quality, which has been testified to by of the medical men in England For fullaccount of the properties of these plants must refer the reader my Prize Essay of 40 pages, published in the New England Medical and Surgical Recorder. will enumerste few only of the diseases in which this medicine showed its mrac- ulous powers--Consumpion arising from cold, or where hereditary disposition existed, liver com paint yellow fever. jaundice, indigestion. torpid or inactive of the bowels papitation of the heart peurisy, scrofula, mercurial eruptons cutaneous disease arising from any cause secondary consttu- yenerial llsPasp q as blotches the skin throat, ucerated nose, and painful affections of the bones, termed nodes In fact the whole family of disease attributable to the great cause, obstruction of the natural outlets of the body. My Concentrated Extract of Sarsaparil- la Lverwort, Pleurisy Rootand LignumlVit removes all Instructions, cleanses the system from all poison- ous natter and stimulates the organs healthy ac tion: It is therefore evident that this the sovereign