Mobile daily commercial register and patriot., 1841-08-18
PATENT MEDICINES.

4lNERNoR1, fLEuRlSA ROOT Elt'- yNUM VITA.
 there are many Medicines of a useless and in- / A jurious nature already before the public, II Is difficult 10 remove the prejudice existing m the minds oi intelligent and enlightened individuals against any lice introduced through the means of an adverlse- meni, matter how great its merits may he, or how high its founder may stand as a medical man. Nom ing but the interpretation of Providence can save lhe Ewes of those persons who duy after day tamper with the poisonous and deadly compoinds blazoned forth the world through the public press hy lgnorent men who have abandoned some other calling aFi asshned the title of doctor without having received the east medical instruction. know the difficulty have m pesuading the public thatan advertising doctor IS or can be q regular physician, but as l address my self only fo the respectable and intelligent portion of tie community, the following testimonials of my med | al attanments will be deemed sufficient to convince the skeptical
 Irece,ed the degree of Doctor ef Medicine and Sur esoa in the Coege qf Physiciaas and Surgeons, Ne,c Y,rk-am member of the New York State Meoiicdt S,ciay-Feiion of he Massachusetts Msicai Sociefy, and Leniate of the Medical Board offhe State qf Lou ,iana, and for the last eighteen yeorS general pdcf tioaer of Medicine.
 Mv Compound Ertyacf qf SarsapaTiaa, Lire1cort, pieluiSV Ro0t and Ldgnum Ia Is the result of this ,ng experience, and not the medicine of an hours consideration merely got up for humbug deoeption AsUpon the responsibility of my medical testimonials my great success as medical practitioner, and the salutay and beneficial effects of my medicine stand
 
 ticle 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 panaceas advertised throughout the Union The proprietors of such medicines know too well if the public aware, that out of every ten pills they have swallowed, eight of them are Mercury, their trade was at an end. l have analzed most of the pills and other medicines advertised throughout the Unlon and found them to contain either oorosipe sub Ii,nate or Calond. The reason is then obvious why has thp 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 test of years-lt Is recommended by the most eminent of the medical faculty, and what is of importance than all, candidly and hon- estly confess that my medicine IS n combination of SarsapariHa LiueiCort, Pieauisy Root, Llgnmn Vta, and one two other ingredients The only origin aty claim is in my peculiar mode of preparation. It is true, it has often been the wonder and ment of my medical brethren, the astonishing cures performed in cases that were considered not within the pow, of medical ad The whole mystery con sisted in my usng the medicine, and this alone to the exclusion of s others and of the correct principles upon which diseases ought to be treaed 1t will not however be matter of surprise that such wonderful should follow the of this medicine, when state the principles upon which acted.
 z The human body consists of solids and fluids. The urmer or long structure is about one-fifth The lat
  by number of organs beautifully to form per- feet chain in the animal economy. One link of which when of order diseased is sufficient to destroy the harmony of the whole. These organs furnish ed with inumerabe blood vessels called arteries and veins, which have common centre. The heart for propellng through them the blood or nutrtiye fluid to all parts of the system, from the heart being furnished with valves which are all in direction, the blood only flow in corresponding course. That it is forced by the heart into the areres and after moist al. ... I., al veins and brought again to the heart, and performs again the round of the body, and in succession. The of the blood to receive from the almenta- " 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 oreparng its waste, and increasing its growth. But if any efete, poison- foreign matter is carried into the blood several organs are provided the hDer, kidneys, skin and lungs through which this poison is discharged from the bood in the form of pile urine, precipitation and pulmonary exhalation. From this br9f sketch oI mans formation, the intelligent reader easily derstand, how fever and inflammation is produced by the suppression of preparation, for if precipitation be arrested in consequence of cold, the perspirable ter will mix with the blood and give rise to inlana- 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 Jaundce, yellow fever, &c. All diseases have therefore common origin, (no mpurity of blood, for that is only effect0 but
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 k.suc. ..,1 you pm know how feai fully and woun- oerfully 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 handwork never cease. During sleep, when ynIr mental faculties inactive, and your soul appears to be in state of repose, then is the wise provision and foreknowedge of the author of made manifest. The heart continues to pour it's vital ,tream to every part of the body-the lungs perform heir ofice-respiration is continued and the blood decarbonized-the skin pours out from its myrads or pores the poisonous matter of the blood-digeston continues, and the nutrve particulars of our 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 sleep, the heart would cease to pulsate, death would necessary conse- quence foow-the lungs would cease to perform their ofice-suffocaton and death be the consequence, or precipitation digestion be nterrupted the effects which would be perpetual disease
 Reader, you now know perhaps, better than you ey- knew before the vast importance of keeping these organs SO necessary to life in healthy state. You will also place less reliance the pretensions of g- norlnt and ue,Iucaed men, especially when they att tempt to meddc with diseases they know nothing of You will likewise appreciate the services of the skill fI medical practitioner, who has labored for IS years in the study of science through all its minutla, and who now offers for your benefit the result of his long and arduous labors. 1 ask if you possessed watch of five dollars vaue and it out of repair, would you take it tinker to have it set in order No; you would surely bring il to good watcl,-maker.- How much more difficult then Is the putting in order of the human body when out of repair. A watch may stop, it can be set going agan-if mans machl- nery stops, it stops forever. No human power ever again set 1t Tn motion.
 You may always expect fever and ihealth to follow the stoppage ofany of the secretions If except, says Van Swienten, those who perish violent death, and such as extngushed by odage, all the rest die of inflammation, caused by suppression of one or the other of the secretons Pny describes the terror the Romans had of this disease and of their 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 other of those outlets a obstructed, except in disease dependent upon SD, yiic conEagion, such smallpox, measles, venereal As. and these diseases only cured by n- creasing the natural secre6ons. Whsn you labor un- der disease no matter of what nature, whether mag 1ant or otherwise, and you take Calomel from physician does he not always ask you are your bow els free-is precipitation freeis the secretion of urine abundant--Or, if you have pain, what ask you are those enquiries, but merely ascertain if the secre- tons are duly performed. If they are well perform ed then your doctor is puzzled as to the nature oi your disease Ifthey duly performed, he then removes any obstruction. This is the great secret of our profession and thus we define reputation when we only assist nature in restoring the natural secre- tions the great difficulty in the practice of medicines was the proper application of combination of medi- cna articles calculated to remove Instructions, and act at the same time upon all the secretions. There are many valuable articles in the materianedica that will act upon the liver if administered alone, but when combined with others to act upon the kidneys, they become neutralized. The concentrated erract o Sar- saparila Lipetoorth, Pieisy, Root aud Lgmun Vita, as prepared by me, the only combination ever yet thn ".