Mobile register and journal., 1841-12-09
PATENT MEDICINES.

TTVERWORT, PLEURISY ROOT AND LIG- i MUM VIrA-As there many Medicines of a useless and injurious nature already before the pub
 lie it is difficult to remove the prejudice existing in the minds of intelligent and enchtened individuals against any article introduced through the means of an advertisement, matter how great is merits may le or high the founder may stand Ill sdlcal man. Nothing but the interpretation ot Pro denee can save the lives of those persons who day after day tampet with the poisonous and deadly colnpou ds blazoned forth to ihe world through the public D ess by gnor ant men who have abaadoned some other calling, and assumed the title of doctor, without having ceived the least medical instruction I know the difficulty have in persuadng the public that an ad- vertsing doctor is can be regular Physi-ian but as address my lelf fly thc respect5 be and intel iqeut portion of the community, the following testi monias oimy medical attaiuments will be deei.ed sufficient to convince the most skepucul.
 received the degree of Doctor of medicine ald Su geon in the College of Physians and Surgeons New York-am member of the New York Stute Medical Society-Felow of the Massachsetts M ed ical So.zty and Liacentate of the medisal Board of the State of Lousiana 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 lu hours consideration, merely gotup for humbug decepton Upon the responsibility of my medical testimonials my great medical practitioner and tbe sal utary and beneficial effects ot my medicine, stand or fall. I seek deceive the pubic win an ar ticle of whose component parts they are ignorant- What do the public know of the poisonous and de- srucve ingredients contained in the various pills and panaceas advertised throughout the Union? The pro. pretors of such medicines known well if the pub lie were aware, thai out of every pills they have swallowed, eight of them arc Mercufg their trade was at an end, have analysed most of the pills and intermediates advertised throughout tue Union and found them to contain, either co,y6sice su5linatc or Calolael The reason is then obvious why the se base inpostors will not tell the component natts ot their medicines: They pretend that they have dis covered the philosophers stone, and that you may
 live through countless aTeS, if you but swallow heir medicine. Ipractice no such deception My medi- cine has stood the test of years-it is recommended by the mos eminent of the medical facul y and what is of more impo tance than all Icandi1y and honestly confess that my medicine IS combination of arsap. | arilla Liverwort Pleurisy Root, Lienum Vita and l one or two other ingredients The only or;pinaty 1 claim is in my peculiar mode of preparation It is true il has often been the wonder and alnaz, ent of my medical brethren the astonishing cures perorlned | in cases that considered not within the power | ofInedcal aid. The whole mystery consisted in my using this medicine, and this alone to the exclusion | of all o,hers 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 of this medicine | when state the principles upon which acted. The human body cossts of solids and fluids The former or long structure is about one iflh.- The latter soft part five .sixths. Man is linked to- | geher by number of organs so beautifully arraug l ed as form perfect chain in the animal economy One link of which when outof order is sufficient to | destroy the harmony of the whole These organs are furnished with innt merabe blood vessels called arteries and veins, which have common cenlre.- | The heart for propelling through them the blood or nutritive fluid all parts of the sysiem,-be- | ing furnished with valves which are all in one di- rection, the blood can only flow in corresponding course. Thus it is forced by the heart into the arte- ries and after mOistening the mostm minute ibres il is received by the veins and brought again the heart and performs again the round ofthe body and so on | in succession. The of the blood Is 10 receive from the almentary canal the skin lungs, such mat ters IS necessary for the nourishnen of m an and to convey it every part ofthe body for the purpose | of reparing its waste, and increasing its growth.
 But If any effect poisonous fore gn matter is red into the blood several organs are provided us the
 liver, kidneys. skin and lungs through which this poi son IS discharged from the blood in the form of bile e,perspirationandp punouarye exhalation. Fromths brief ch olnan sormation the ineigentreadercan easily understand, now fever and inflammation is pro- duced bJ suppression of precipitation for fperspira- ton be rested in consequence of cold the oelspira- ble matter will mix with the blond and give rise to | inflammation. In like manner, 1.-the discharge of bile be arrested in it's flow from the liver it is taken into the circulation and gives aundce, yellow fe- yer, &c. All diseases therefore have one common origin mpurity of hiood for that is only an eff fect but in the obstruction of one other of those three great outlets common sewers the body the | bowels, skm and kidnies.
 Reader, did you but know how fearfuly and won- dertully you are econstruced-ho beautifullythe Gre tor of the universe has provided for yonr prcserva. tion 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 inactive and uur soul ap pears to be in state of repose, then is the wise pro- vision and fore knowledge ofthe author ofnature made maifest. The heart continues to pour its vita stream to every part of the body-the lungs perform their otce-respiration is continued and the blood decarbonized-the skin pours out from its myrads of pores the poisonous matter of the bood-diges ton continues, and the nutritive particles of food are carried into the blood for the renovation of man. Were all the organs of the body therefore under the | control of the will, when slept, the heart would cease to pulsate death would necessary conse | quence follow-the lungs would cease perform their oiice-suocation aud death be the consequence perspiration digestion be interrupted the effects of which would be perpetual disease.
 Reader, you now know perhaps better than you | ever knew before. the 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 wher they attempt tc meddle with diseases they know noth
 ing of. You will likewise appreciate the services O
 the skilu medical practitioner, who has labored fol Is years in the study of science through all its mi nute and who now offers for your benefit the resul of his long and arduous labors ask if you
 watch eff five dollars raue and itwas out of repair would you take 1t to tinker to have il set in order No; you would surely carry it to good watchnaker How much more difficult then is the putting in orde 
 stop, it be set going again-if mans machinery once stops, it stops forever. No human power caI | ever again set il in notion
 You may always expect fever and lhealth to fol low the stoppage of any of the tions If ex cept, says Van Sweton those who perish by vioen death, and such extngushed by old age all tho rest die of Inammation caused by suppression of or other of the secretons. Pny describes the terro the Romans had this disease and of their supplica tions in the Temple of Fanurn for the removal of al ol, 1nt lafc of ha1, oI- ness therefore unless one other fthost outlets obstruced, except be disease depend ant upon specific conlagion such small pox, mea sles, veneria, &c and these diseases only cureo by increasing the natural secretions. When you labo under disease matter of what nature, whether ma | lgnant or otherwise, and you take Calomel from { Physician, does he not always ask you, your bow els frees precipitation freeis the secretion of urine abundant--of, if you have pain what ask you, are tho9e inquiries, but barely ascertain if the secre tions are duly performed. Ifthey are welperlormed then your doctor is puzzled the nature of youi disease. Ifthey are not duly performed, he then any obstruction. This is the great secret ofoul profession, and thus we define reputation when only assist in restoring the natural secretions The great difficulty in .he practice of medicine was the proper application of combination of fmedical ar tcles calculated to remove obstructions and | same time upon all the secretIons There are many | valuable articles in the matera medica that will ac upon the liver administered alone, but when combin | ed with others to act upon the kidneys they become neutraized. The concentrated extract of Sarsaparil | la, Liverwort Peurisy Root and Lignum Vita pre- pared by is the only combination ever yet dis covered that possesses thisinestimable quality which has been testified to by most of the medical in England For fullaccount ofthe properties of these plants must refer the reader my Prize Essay of 40 pages published in the New England Medical and Surgical Recorder. will enumerate few only ol the diseases in which this medicine showed its mirac uous powers-Consumpion arising from cold, or where hereditary disposition existed, liver com plaint, yellow fever. jaundice, i digestion torpid or inactive state of the bowels, palpi,ation of the heart pleursy, scrcfula, mercurial eruplons cutaneous disease arising from any cause secondary or consu-