Mobile daily commercial register and patriot., 1841-10-06
PATENT MEDICINES.


 n jurious nature already before the public, II k icult to remove the prejudice existing in the minds of intelligent and enlightened individuals against any 1icle introduced through the means of an adveIse- mant no matter how great its merits may be, or how high its founder may stand as a medical man. Noth- a hut the inierposision of Providence the Ewes of those persons who day after day taer with tie poisonous and deadly compounds blazoned forth the world through the public press by lgnorent men who have abandoned some other calling, aiHi assumed the title of doctor without having received the east medical instruction. know the difficulty have
 n persuadng the public thatan advertising doctor is can be regular physician, but as address my self only to the respectable and intelligent portion of the community, the following testimonials of my med fca attachments will be deemed sufficient to convince she skeptica
 received the degree of Doctor ef Medicine aud Sur gs'n in the College of Physieians and SaEgsOns, Nsc York--am member of the New York State Medical SDIdy-Feii0g of the Massachusetts Medical Sociefy, aud Biciiae ef fhe Medicai Board ethe Sdfe ef Lou sdaHa, and for the last eighteen years general prGcf tionr et Medicine.
 My Compound Extract of Sarsa7,ariiia, Lirer,Uort, PieHriSy Root aud LgnHR VIfd Is the result of this long experience, and the medicine of an hours consideration, merely got up for humbug deception. 7supon ihe responsibility of my medical testimonials
 -ily great success medical practitioner and the salulary aud beae6cia effects of my medicine stand or fall. seek not 10 deceive the public with an ticle of whose component parts they ignorant. What do the public know of the poisonous and de- sructive ingredients contained in the various pills and panaceas advertised throughout the Union The prnprietors of such medicines know too well if the public aware, that Oiti ot every ten pills they have swallowed, eight of them are Mercury, their tradeiwas at end. l have analized most of the pillS and oier medicines advertised throughout the union and found them to contain, either corrOsire sb- aafe or Cdionfi. The reason is then obvious why these base imlosters will 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 medi- cine has stood the of years-it is recommended by the most eminent of the medical faculty, and what
 Is of more importance than all, candi,lly and hon esty confess that my medicine is combination of SaySapariiia LinrwdSt, Pleurisy ROof, LgaHm Fta, and one two other ingredients The only origin ality claim is in my peculiar mode of preparation. 1t Is true, it has often been the wonder and 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 usIng the medicine, and this alone the exclusion of all others, and of the principles upon which diseases ought to he treated It will moi however be matter ot surprise that such wonderful success should follow the use of this medicine, when state the principles upon which acted.
 s The human body consists of solids and fluids. The former long structure IS about one-hfth. The lat ter or soft part five sixths. Man is linked together by number of organs beautifully as to form per feet chain in the animal economy One link of which when out of order or diseased is sufficient destroy the harmony of the whole. These organs furnish ed with inumerble blood vessels called arteries and veins, which have common centre The heart for propelng through them the blood or nutrtive fluid to all parts of the system 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 ening the most minute 6brss, it is received by the veins and brought again to the heart, and performs again the round of the body and SD in succession. The of the blood, is to receive from the amena " canal the skin lungs such matters is necessary for the nourshment of man. and to convey it to every part of the body for the purpose of repairing its waste and increasing its growth. But if any eiete, poison ous or foreign matter is carried into the blood several organs provided the hDe, kidnsys, skin and lungs through which this poison is discharged from the blood in the form of pe, urine, precipitation and pulmonary exhalati0n. From this brief sketch oI mans formation, the intelligent reader can easily derstand, how fever and inflammation is produced by the suppression of perspraon, for if precipitation be arrested in consequence of cold, the perspable mat ter will mix with the blood and give to infama- ton. 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 Jaundice, yellow fever, &c All diseases have therefore common origin, (not mpury of blood, for that is only eect) but the obstruction of other of those three great itlets common sewers af the body, the bowels, g.r anf kdnevs -f-
 ,eauc, ,ilu you um xuow ho feai fully and woun- ueriully you are constructed-how beautifully the Creator of the universe has provided for your pre- seryaton and existence, independent of your will, then indeed would your adnraaen of the perfection of his mighty handiwork cease. During sleep, when your mental faculties inactive, and your soul appears to be in state of repose, then is the wise provision and foreknowledge of the author of nature made manifest. The heart continues to pour it's vital tream to every part of the body-the lungs perform heir oitice-respiration is continued, and the blood ak frpl ts pores the poisonous matter of the blood-digestion continues and the nutritiye 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 will when we sleep, the heart would cease to pulsate death would as necessary conse- quence followthe lungs would cease to perform their oiiiee-sutocation and death be the consequence, perspration ar digestion be interrupted, the effects which would be perpetual disease.
 Reader, you now know perhaps better than you knew before the vast importance of keeping these organs so necessary to life in healthy state You w,l also place less reliance the prcensons of ig nor;,lt and lleducated men, especially when they at tempt to meddle with diseases they know nothing of You will likewise appreciate the services of the skill f medical practitioner, who has abored for IS years in the study of science through all it's mnutia, and slo now 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 yon take it to tinker to have it set in order No; q How much more difficult then is the putting in order of the human body when out of repair. watch may stop, it be set going again-f mans nlachi- nery once stops, it stops forever No human power can again set it in motion.
 S ou may always expect fever and l-iealth to follow tae stoppage of any of the secretions. If except, says Van Swienten, those wO perish violent death, and snc are exnsnished by old aye all fbe rest die of inflammation. caused by suppression ofone the other of the secretions. Pny describes the terror the Romans had of this disease, and of t,eir applications in the Temple of Faunum for the removal of all obstuc tions to the natural outlets of the body Sickness therefore cannot occur unless one otber of those outlets a obstructe,l, except in disease dependent apon sp sifc conlagon, such as smallpox, measles, yenereal s and these diseases only cured by in creasng the natural secreGons. When you labor pn- der disease matter of what nature, whether malg- aant or otherwise, and you take Caiomei rom physician, does he not always ask yon your bow els free-s precipitation free-is the secretion urine abundant---or if you have pain, what ask you are those enquiries, hut merely to ascertain If the secre- tons are duly performed. If they are well perform l, then your doctor is puzzled to the nature Of your disease Iftey are duly performed, he then removes any obstruction. This is the great secret of our profession, and thus define reputation when we only assist nature in restoring the natural secre- tons the great difficulty in the practice of medicines was the proper application of combination of medi- cnal articles calculated to remove obstructons, and act at the same time upon all the secretions. There are many valuable articles in the materia nedca that will act upon the liver if administered alone, but when combined with others to act upon the kidneys, they become neutralized The concentrated ertraef ef Sa sapariia, Lpe.o,rth Pissrisy, Ross and Lgmun Nta, as prepared by me. is the only combination yet that possessed this inestimable quality, which has been testified by most medical men in En- gland. For full account of the properties of these plants, must refor the reader my prize Essay of 70 pages, published in the New England Medical and Surgical Recorder. will enumerate few only of he diseases in which this medicine showed its mira ,ulous powers-Con Consumption arising from cold, or la.a hereditary dispOsiton existed lifer com plainf