Mobile daily commercial register and patriot., 1841-05-24
.51TENT MEDICINES.

of intelligent and enlightened individuals agalnst any article introduced through the means of an advertise ment no matter how great its merits may be, or now high its founder may stand a medical man.. Moth ma hn, inc ;nterposion of Providence can save the
 lives of those persons who day after day tamper with the poisonous and deadly compounds bazoned forth to the world through the public press oy ghorent men who have abandoned other calling, and assumed the title of doctor, without having ever receNed the least medical instruction. know the difficulty have in persuadina the public hatan advertising doctor IS or can be a regular physician, hut as address my self only to the respectable and intelligent portion of the community, the following testimonials of my med ca attainments will be deemed sufficient to convince the skeptical.
 received the degree of Doctor of Medicine aud Sur eson in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Nsw York-am member of the New York State Medical Sociav--Fellow of fhs Massachusetts Medical Sociay, and Licsaie o ihe Medical Board otht State of Lou sana and for the last eighteen years general Praet- fioner of Medicine.
 Mv Co,npotnd Ertract of SarsapaTiiia, LipertpOrt, Pleurisv Root aud Lagnupl Vita is the result of this long experience, and not the medicine of an hours consideration, merely got up for humbng or deception -Upon the responsibility of my medical testimonials
 my great success a medical practitioner, and the saluary and beaefcal effects of my medicine stand or fall I seek not 10 deceive the public with an ar tice of whose component parts they are ignorant. What do the public know of the poisonous and de- srctive ingredients contained in the various pills and 
 proprietors of such medicines know too well if the public were aware that out of every ten pills they have swallowed, eight of them are Mercury, their trade was at an end. have anazed most of the pills, and other medicines advertised throughout the Unon and found them to contain, either corrossDe s1 iimate or Caiomd. The reason is then obvious why
 these base iposters will not tell the component parts of 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. l practice no such deception My medl- cine has stood the test of years-t is recommended by the eminent of the medical faculty, and what
 is of more importance than all, candidly and hon esy confess that my medicine is combination of Sarsapayilla Lipaoort, Pieurisy Root, Lignun Vna, and or two other ingredients, The only origin ality claim Is in my peculiar mode of preparation. It is true it has often been the wonder and amaze ment of my medical brethren, the astonishing cures performed in that were considered not within the pow, of medical aid. The whole mystery con- sisted in my usng the medicines 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 wonderful success should follow the of this medicine, when l state the principles upon which ac:ed
 The human body consists of solids and fluids. The former long structure IS about one-ffth, The lat ter or soft part five sixths. Man is linked together by number of organs so beautifully as to form per
 feet chain in the animal economy. One link of which
 
 the harmony of the whole. These organs are furnish ed with inumerable blood vessels called arteries and veins, which have common centre. The heart for propelling through them the blood or ntritive fluid to all parts of the sysem from the heart being furnished with valves which are all in direction, the blood can only flow in corresponding course. That it is
 forced by the heart into the arteries, and after moist eung the most minute flores, 1t is received by tine veins and brought again to the heart, and performs again the round of the body and so on in succession The use of the blood is to receive from the alimenta ry canal the skin lngs such matters is necessary for the nourshnen of nan and to cohveyi 1t to every part of the body for the purpose ofrepairng it's waste and increasing it's growth. But if any eifete, poison ous or foreign matter is carried into the blood several organs are provided the Lper, hdneys, skin and lungs through which this poison is discharged from the blood in the form of pile, urine, precipitation and pulmonary exhalaton. From this briof sketch mans formation, the intelligent reader easily derstand, how fever and inflammation is produced by the suppression of preparation, for perspiration be arrested in consequence of cold the perspirabe mat ter will mix with the blood and give to inf1ama- tion In like manner, if the discharge of bile be rested in it's flow from the liver it is taken into the circulation and gives rise to Jaundicc, yellow fever, Sc. All diseases have therefore common origin, (not impurity of bood for that is only an eect) but in the obstruction of or other of those three great outlets or common sewers of the body, the bowels, skin and kidneys
 
 derully you are constructed-how beautifully the Creator of the universe has provided for your pre- servaton and eXstence, independent of your will, then indeed would your admiration of the perfection of his mighty handiwork never cease. During sleep, when your mental faculties are nactve and your soul appears be in state of repose, then is the wise provision and foreknowledge of the author of nature made manifest The heart continues to pour its vital stream to every part of the body-the lungs perform their office-respration is continued, and the blood decarbonized-the skin pours out fromit myrads or pores the poisonous matter of the blood-digestion continues and the nutritve 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 w when sleep, the heart weuld cease to pulsate, death would necessary conse- uuence folow-he lungs would cease to perform their oice-suffocation and death be the consequence, or precipitation digestion be interrupted the effects which would be perpetual disease. ,.t ...
 Reader, you now know perhaps, better than you knew before the vast importance of keeping these organs necessary to life in healthy state. You will also place less reliance on the pretensons of ig noran and uneducated men, especially when they at tempt meddle with diseases they know nothing of You will likewise appreciate the services of the skill ul medical practitioner, who has labored for IS years in the stndy of science through all it's minutia, and who offers for your benefit the result of his long and arduous labors. ask if you possessed watch of five dollars value, and it out of repair would d V you would surely bring it to good watch-maker.- How much 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 machi nery once stops, it stops forever. No human power can ever again set 1t In motion. te
 You may always expect fever and ilhealth follow the stoppage of any 1.-the secreons. If we except, says Van Swienten, those who perish violent death and such as are extngushed by old age, all the die nf infamafion cauSed hv RuDnre ssion nf inc other of the secretons Plny describes the terror the
 Romans had of this disease, and of their applications the Temple of Fauaun for the renoyalof all obstuc lions to the natural outlets of the body Sickness therefore, cannot unless or other of those outlets obstructed, except in disease dependent upon sp siic coptagion, such smallpex, measles venereai As. and these diseases only cured by in creasing the natural secretiOns. When you labor Ter disease, matter of what nature, whether malig- lant or otherwise, and you take CalOmel from d physician, does he not always ask you, are your bow els lee-is precipitation frees the secretion of urine lbundant-or, if you have pain, what ask you are hose enquiries, but merely to ascertain if the secre ions are duly performed. If they well perform- d. then your doctor is puzzled as to the nature of disease. Ifthey not duly performed, he then emoves any obstruction This is the great secret of ,ur profession, and thus we defe reputation when we only assist nature in restoring the natural secre ions, the great difficulty in the practice of medicines vas the proper application of combination of medi- nal articles calculated to obstructions, and ct at the same time upon all the secretions. There Ire many valuable articles in the materia medica that will act upon the liver Administered alone, but when combined with others to act upon the kidneys, they ecOme neutralized The concentrated erract of SaT- aparia, Lipeoorth, Pleurisy, Root, and Lgmun Kta, s prepared by me, is the only combination ever yet iscovered that possessed this inestimabie quality, ,hich has been testified by most medical men in En- land. For full account of the properties of these lans I must refor the reader to my prize Essay of 0 pages, published in the New England Medical and urgical Recorder. will enumerate a few only of ,e diseases in which this medicine showed it's mira ,lous spowers-Consumptiom arising from cold, or here hereditary disposition existed ,per com plai,t eIlow fepor, ,aundice, indigestion, torpid or iaactpe