Mobile daily commercial register and patriot., 1841-10-15
aA-la n.y. PATENT MEDICINES.

'Ha < there are many Medicines of useless and n- IA jurious nature already before lhe public, il ls d cut to remove the prejudice existing m the minds n intelligent and enlightened ndi, idlus against any ticn introduced through the means of an advertise n mt, matter how great it's merits may be, or how hgh is founder may stand as a medical man. Noth- Y hat the interpretation of Providence can save thf ! Nes of those persons who day after dhy tamper with | ie poisonous and deadly conpo'nds bazoned forth the world through the public press by gnorent men who have abandoned some other calling, and assumed tle title of doctor, without having ever received the Asast medical instruction know the difficulty have persuading the public lhaan advertising doctor Is or can be a regular pENsican, but as ..aadresS n.y. self only to the respectable and intelligent portion D the community, the following testimonials of m, med
 al aItanmeuts will be deemed sufficient 10 con, nce khe skeptical.
 received the degree of Doctor of Medicine and Sur gem in the College of PhyricidnS and Stngeons, Aso Yrk-am member of the New York State Noleat Spciay-Fsliow of the Massachusetts Medcai Soody, and Lciae ef ihs Medicdl Board etthc State ef Lon saano and for the last eighcen years general naot fiener of Medicine.
 Nv Co,nppand Erfract of Sarsaparilia, LiresDoyt, Plemisy Root aud Lgnum Vita is thesresut of tlAs sng experience, and not the medicine of ,au hour g cnsi iteration, merely got up for hnbg Of deeeplmn s-SUpon the responsibility of my medical testimonials my great success as medical praetnimefs and life saluiary and beneficial effects of my medicine lstand or fall. seek not deceive the public with ar ticle of whose component parts they are ignorant. What do the public know of dIe poisonous and de- sructi,e ingredients contained in the various pills aml panaceas advertised throughout the. Union The nroprietors of such medicines know too well if the public were aware, that out of every ten pills they have swallowed, eightol them are MerCigy, their trade at end. l have analize,f rhosrOf the pills, and other medicines advertised throughout the ilnon and found them 10 contain, either corroSine sub male or CaloDei. The reason is then obvious why these base mposters will not tell the component parts "l ther 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 yearsit is recommended b, tle most eminent of the medical faculty, and what is of more importance than all, Fl candidly and hon esIy confess that my medicine is eombiEtiOn of SarSapariua Lipglco,t, Pieurisy Root, L,snnm Vla, and one two other ingredients. The only orgini ality claim is in my peculiar mode of preparation lt Is true, it has often been the wonder and alnaze- of my medical brethren, the astonishing cures performed in that considered not within the pow, of medical aid. 'The whole mystery con sisted in my usng the medciue 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 d 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 fuils The former long structure is about one-fifth. The lat ter or soft part five sXhs. Man IS linked together
 
 feet chain in the animal economy. One link of which when out of order diseased is sufficient to destroy the harmony of the whoie These organs are iurnsll- ed with numerable blood vessels called arteries and veins, which have common centre. The heart for propelling through them the blood ntdritye fluid to all parts of the syste from the heart being furnished with valves which are all in one direction, the blood Can only flow in corresponding course. That 1t Is forced by the heart into the arteries, and after moist enng the nest minute ibres, it is received by tine
 sl.. again the round of the body, and in succession. The of the blood, is to receive from the aimenta " canal the skin lungs, such matters is neccessary for the nourishment of man, and to conveyt to every part of the body for the purpose ofrepairlng its waste, and increasing its growth. But if any eete, poison ous foreign matter is carried into the blood several organs provided as the Gvey, .kdnsys, skin and lungs through which this posons discharged from the blood in the form of pile, urine perspation and pulmonary exhalation. From this bfisf sketch oI mans formation, the intelligent sea,er can easily derstand, how fever and inilanatinn is Friluced by the suppression of perspratOn, for hperspnaton be arrested in consequence of cold the persprable mat- ter will mix with the blood and give to nlama- ton. In like manner, If the discharge of bile be ar rested in its flow from the liver 1t is taken into the circulation and gives rise to Jaundce, yellow fever &c. All diseases have therefore one common origin (not mpuriiy of blood, for that is only an efect but m the obstruction of or other of those three great tets common sewers nf the body, the bowels tt'r aps' k'dnevS
 = ieaue,, uIu you xpow ho~ feal fully and woun ueriuy you are constructed-how beautifully the Creator of the universe has provided for your pre- servation and existence, independent of your will then indeed would your admiration of the perfection of his mighty handiwork never cease. During sleep when ynnr mental faculties are inactive and your sour appears to be in state of repose, then is tic swst provision and foreknowedge of the author of nature made manifest The heart continues to pour it's vita dream to every part of the hody-the lungs perform heir ofice-respiration is continued, and tAe blood decaibonzed-tlie skin pours out from its myriads pores the poisonous matter of the blooa-digestiOn continues and the nutrve 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 wii when we sloep, the heart would cease to pulsate, death would necessary conse- ouence foow-the lungs would cease to perform their oice-suifocation and death be the consequence, or precipitation digestion be interrupted, the effects which would he perpetual disease. '
 Reader, you know perhaps, better than you ev- knew before the vast importance of keeping tlese organs necessary to life in healthy state. You w also place less reliance the pretensons of ig. norant and uneucated men, especially when they at tempt meddlc with diseases they know nothing of. You will likewise appreciate the services df tliesskiE fu medical practitioner, who has abored for IS years in the study of science through all its mnuta, and who now offers for your benefit the result of his long and arduo,.s labors. ask if you possessed watch of five dollars value and it out of repair, would you take it to tinker to have it set in order No you would surely bring it to good watch-lnaker-- How much difficult then is the ptatmg-iitott of the human body when out of repair- watch may stop it can be set going again-lf man. s mach- nery stops, it stops foreier. Nc human power can ever again set it in moton.. ..,: ...'~- You may always expect fever andillheah to follow the stoppage of any of the secietions. If except says Van Swienten, those who perish violent death, and such as are extngused by old age, all the rest die of inflammation, caused by suppression ofone or the other of the secretions. Pny describes the error the Romans had of this disease, and of their applications in the Temple of Fanum for the rehoval of all obstSic fions to the natural outlets of the body. Sickness therefore, cannot unless other of those outlets obstructed, except in disease dependent upon SD tiic contagiop, such as smallpox, measles, venerea As and these diseases are only cured by in creasng the natural secretions When you laborun-
 der disease no matter of what nature, whether nalig aiut or otherwise, and you take Caomel from u physician, does he not always ask you, are yonr baw- els ree-s precipitation irees the secretion ofnrne abunlant-Or, if you have pain, what ask you are she< enquiries, hut merely to ascertain If the secre tions are duly performed. If they well perform ed, then your doctor is puzzled as to the nature of your disease Iftey not duly performed, he then removes any Obstruction This is the great secret o our profession, and thus defne reputation when only assist nature in restoring the natuFa' secre tons the great difficulty in the practice of medicines was the proper application of combination o medl- cinal articles calculated obstructios, and act at the same time upon all the secretions, There are many valuable articles in the materia nedica that will act upon the liver if administered alone, buwhen combined with others to act upon the kidneys, they become neutralized. The concentrated ertract o Sar- sapsAi, Liuernth, Piearisy, Root, and Ldgmun Nta, as prepared by me, Is the only combination ever yet discovered that possessed this inesimable quality; which has Been testified by most medical men ii En- gland For full account of the properties of these nl,nts must refor the reader my prize Essay of 10 pages, published in the New England Medical and Sprpical Recorder. I will enumerate few only of