Mobile daily commercial register and patriot., 1841-09-06
PATENT MEDICINES.
OCTOR JoHNsoN's CONCENTRATED
 FLUID EXTRACT OF SARSAPARllLA

$ tbere are many Medicines of useless and m IA jurious nature already before the public, II E icult to the prejudice existing m the m'has oi intelligent and enlightened individuals agans any article introduced through the means oi an ad'efilse m snt matter how great its merits may be, or no" high its founder may stand as a medical man. No,o- ig but the interpretation of Providence can save te lives of those persons who day after day t'mpei Wa the poisonous and deadly compounds ba2ened loiln 1T the world through the public press by sn9rent men who have abandoned some other calling aRi assumed the title of doCtor without having ever te'eNG1 tue east medical instruction. know the dlthcuig nave m persuading the public hatan advertising doctor s or can be regular physician, but as aadfess hs self onlv to the respectable and intelligent polton oi tie community the following testimonials oi my nlea- al attanments will be deemed sufficient to convince the skeptical. ,c
 s,, in inc Collegs of Physioians aud SlngeonS Nec York-am member of the New York State -heflcat Feo,o of the Massachusetts Medicai Soady, and Les,ate o the Medical Board otthe State 9t Loa- tsana and for the last eighteen years general PTach- ti0n9 of Medicine.
 Mn Co,apo,aad Extract of Sarsapariila, Lireicort, Pis,a1sv Root aud Lgaua Kta is the result of thls ong experience, and not the medicine Of an hours considerations merely got up for humbug or deception
 sUpon the responsibility ol my medical testimonials
 Thy great success as a medical practitioner, and the saluary and beneficial effects of my medicine stand or fal I seek not deceive the public with an ar ticle of whose component parts they are ignorant What do the public know of the poisonous and de- s1ctiye ingredients contained m the various pills and nanaceas advertised throughout the Union The 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, thelr trade was at an end l have analized most ol the pills and other medicines advertised throughout the In,on and found them to contain, either cOrroSi'e Sub f,aate or Caione. The reason Is then obvious why these ase imposers will not tell the component parts of their medicines. They pretend that they have dls- covered tho philosophers stone, and that you may live through countless ages, if you but swallow ther medicine. l practice no such deception My medi- cine has stood the test of years-it Is recommended by the most eminent Qf the medical faculty, and what i; of more importance than all, candidly and hon estIy confess that my medicine is combination ol .SarsaparHa, Lireport, PetrSy Root, Lgnum Vtd and one or two other ingredients The only orlgln' av claim is in my peculiar mode of preparation 1t 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 inc powe of medical aid. The whole mystery con sisted in my using the medicine, and this alone to the exclusion of all others, and of the correct principles upon which diseases ought to be treated. It will moi however be a matter of surprise that such wonderful success should follow the use of this medicine, when I state the principles upon which acted.
 % The human body consists of solids and fluids. The former or long structure IS about one-fith The lat fer or soft part five sixths. Man is linked together = feet chain in the animal economy One link of which when out of order or diseased is sufficient to destroy the harmony of the whole. These organs are furnish ed with inumerable blood vessels called arteries and veins, which have common centre. | ne hear' TOT propelling through them the blood nmritive fluid to all parts of the system, from the heart being furnished with valves which are all in drection, the blood can only flow in corresponding course That It Is forced by the heart into tue arteries, and after moist enine the most minute flores, it is received by tine ain in tho again the round of the body and so on Tn succession Tine use of the blood, is receive from the amenta- " canal the skin lungs such matters as IS necessary for the nourishment of man, and to convey to every part of the body for the purpose oreparng its waste and increasing it's growth But If any etete poison os or foreign matter is carried into the blood several organs are provided the huer, kidneys, skir and lungs through which this poison is discharged from the blood in the form of pile, urine, precipitation and pulmonary exhaation. From this brisf sketch ol mans formation the intelligent reader can easily u- derstand, how fever and inflammation is produced by the suppression of preparation, for precipitation be arrested in consequence of cold, the persprable mt ter will mix with the blood and give rise to ntana- lion. In like manner if the discharge of bile be IT, rested in it's flow from the liver it Is taken into the circulation and gives rise to Jaundce, yellow fever Sc. All diseases have therefore one common origin <not mpurity of blood, for that is only an etect but n the obstruction of one other of those three great eItlets or common sewers of the body, the bowels E'n and k'dnevS
 Re..e, ,,o you nu, know how feal fully and voun oerfuIy you are constructed-hOw beautifully tht 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 haadiwork never cease. During sleep when ya,r mental faculties are inactlve and youf sou anpears to be in state of repose, then Is the wist provision and foreknowledge of the author of nature made manifest. The heart continues to pour its vita ltream to every part of the body-the lungs periprm heir ofice-respiration is continued. and the bbot decarbonized-fe skin pOurs out from It's myriadi O pores the poisonous matter of the blood-digeshor continues and the nuritive particulars of food carried into the blood for tee renovation of man. Were all the organs of the body, therefore, under e control of the will, when we sleep, the heart wolc cease to pulsate, death would as a necessary cons ouence fllow-the lungs would cease to perform thel ofice-suffocation and death be the consequence, o perspration digestion be interrupted. the effects which would be perpetual disease.
 Reader, you now know perhaps, better than you ev CT knew before the vast importance of Keeping thes organs so necessary to life in healthy state. fo will also place less reliance on the pretensons ot E norant and uneducated 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 labored for IS year in the study of a science through all its minuta, an who now offers for your benefit the result of hs lon! and arduous labors. 1 ask if you possessed a watc
 
 you take it to tinker to have it set in order No you would surely bring it to good wach-maker.- How much more difficult then Is the putting m orde of the human body when out of repair. watei may stop, it can be set going again-if mans macll nery once stops, it stops forever. No human power can ever again set 1t Tn motion.
 You may always expect fever and il-heah to follow the stoppage ofany ot the secretions II we except says Van Swienen, those who perish a violent death and such as are exngushed by old age, all the rest d of inflamation caused by suppression of one or ht other of the secretions. Pny describes the terror ht Romans had of this disease and of their applications in the Temple of Faunum for the removal of all obstfuc tions to the natural outlets of the body. Sickness therefore, cannot occur unless or other of those outlets a obstructed, except in disease dependent upon SD sifc contagion, such as smallpox, measles yenerea As and these diseases only cured by in creasinp the natural secrenons. When you labor un- der disease no matter of what nature, whether mag- oant or otherwise, and you take Calomel from a pbysican does he not always ask you, your bow els free-is perspration frees the secretion furine abundant-0r, if you have pain, what ask you are those enquiries, but merely to ascertain if the secre- tions are duly psrformeh If they are well perform ed then your doctor is puzzled to the nature Of your disease Ifthey are duly performed, he then removes any obstruction. This IS the great secret o 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 oi meal, cinal articles calculated to remove obstructons and act at the same time upon all the secretons There are many valuable articles in the materla medca that will act upon the liver Administered aone but when combined with others to act upon the Kidneys they become neutrazed The concentrated extract of Sdr- saparia Lpe,oorth, Pleurisy, Root, and Lgmun Vna, as prepared by mes is the only combination ever yet discovered that possessed this inestimabe quality, which has been testified by most medical men m En- gland. For full account of the properties of these