Mobile daily commercial register and patriot., 1841-06-09
PATENT MEDICINES.
DOCTOR JOHNSON'S CONCENTRATED,
 FLUID EXTRACT OF SARSAPARlILA,
 LvERwoRT, PLEURISY ROOT X LIG-


 FLUID EXTRACT OF SARSAPARll.LA,
 LIVERWORT, PLEURISY ROOT & LlG-
 MUM VITA.
 A s there are many Medicines of useless and in-
 "A furious nature already before the public, Il IS difficult to remove the prejudice existing in the minds of intelligent and enlightened individuals against any article introduced through the means ot an advertise ment no matter how great it's merits may be, or how high its founder may stand as medical man. Moth ing but the interpretation of Providence can save the
 ives of those persons who day after day tamper w' the poisonous and deadly compounds blazoned forth 10 the world through the public press by gnorent men who have abandoned other calling, and assumed the title of doctor, without having ever received the
 east medical instruction. know the difficulty have
 m 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 ot my med Ical attainments will be deemed sufficient to convince the skeptica ...-I . ..
 received the degree of DoelOr cf Medicine and Sur sson in the College of Physcians aud Surgeons, Nsio York-am member of the New York State Medical iSociay-FeilOto of he Massachusetts Medical Socidy, and Liceidts of ths Medical Board ofhe State of Lou isiona and for the last eighteen years general racti- tionn of Medicine. .... 4 t.......
 My COmpOund Extract of Sarsaparaa, LveyWort, Piemisy Root aud Lignum Vita is the result of this long experience, and not the medicine of an hours consideration merely got up for humbug deception.
 Upon the responsibility of my medical testimonials
 my great success as a medical practitioner and the saluary and beneficial effects of my medicine stand or fall seek to deceive the public with an ar tice of whose component parts they are ignorant. What do the public know of the poisonous and de- suctive ingredients contained in the various pills and panaceas 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, their trade was at an end. have analized most of the
 and otla adv thronohnnf the Unon and found them to contain, either corrosire sub,
 Endts or Calonlei. The reason is then obvious why these base imposers 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 such deception My medi cine has stood the test of yearsit is recommended by the eminent of the medical faculty, and what
 is of more importance than all, canddly and hon. estly confess that my medicine is combination of
 Sarsapa,iHa, Lipesoort, Plet1isy Root, Lsnum Vifa, and one or two other ingredients. The only origin alty claim is in my peculiar mode of preparation 1t is true, has often been the wonder and amaze ment of my medical brethren, the astonishing cures performed in cases that were considered not within the 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 be treated It will not however be matter of surprise that such wonderful success should follow the of this medicine, when state the principles upon which ac.ed.
 The human body consists of solids and fluids. The former long structure is about one-fth. The lat ter or soft part five sxths. Man is linked together by number of organs so beautifully as 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 furnisi- ed with inumerabe blood vessels called arteries and veins, which have common centre The heart for propelling through them the blood nuirtve fluid to
 z .l- .l.-L E,. zl,.l with valves which are all in one direction, the blood can only flow in a corresponding course. That it is
 forced by the heart into the arteries, and after moist ening the most minute fbrss, it is received by the veins and brought again to tie heart, and performs again the round of the body, and so in succession The use of the blood is to receive from the amenta " canal the skin lungs, such matters is necessary for the nourshment of man, and to convey to every part of tic body for the purpose of repairing its waste and increasing it's growth. But if any efete, poson- foreign matter is carried into the blood several organs are provided the ivu, kidneys, skin and l4ags through which this poison is discharged from the blosd in the form of pile urine, precipitation and pulmonary exhalatiOn From this brisf sketch or mans formation, the intelligent reader easily derstand, how fever and inflammation is produced by the suppression of preparation, for fl perspration be arrested in consequence of cold, the perspirabe mat ter will mix with the blood and give TO inhama tion In like manner, if the discharge of bile be ar 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 one common origin, (not impurty of blood for that is only an eect) but
 in the obstruction of other of those three great outlets or common of the body, the bowels, skin and kidneys. .r'- ai zOi..a - l
 Reader, did you but know how feal fully and woun. derfully you are constructed-how beautifully the Creator of the universe has provided for your pre- servation and existence, independent of your will, then Sndeed would your admiration of the perfection of his mighty handiwork never cease. Dnring sleep, when yor mental faculties are nactiye and your soul appears to be in state of repose, then is the wise provision and oreknowlcdge of the author of nature made manifest. The heart continues to pour it's vital stream every part of the body-the lungs perform their oice-respiraton is continued, and the blood decarbonized-the skin pours out from its myriads 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 will, when we sleep, the heart would cease to pulsate, death would necessary conse- quence followthe lungs would cease to perform their office-suocation and death be the consequence, or digestion be interrupted, the effects which would be perpetual disease. Ii z
 Reader, you now know perhaps, better than you knew before the vast importance of keeping these organs 50 necessary to life in healthy state. You will also place less reliance on the preensons of g norant and uneducated men, especially when they att tempt to medde with diseases they know nothing of You will likewise appreciate the services of the skill ful medical practitioner, who has abored for IS years in the study of science through all its mnutia, and
 who now offers for your benefit the result of his long and arduous labors. ask if you possessed watch of five dollars value and 1t was out of repair, would you take it to tinker to have it set in order No you would surely bring it to good watch-rnaker.-l 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-if mans machi nery once stops, it stops forever. No human power can ever again set it in motion. .t.,t .l. N-
 You may always expect fever and ill-health follow the stoppage of any ofthe secretions If except, says Van Swhnten, those who perish violent death, and such as are extngnished by old age all the die off inaamation caused by suppression of one or the other of the secretons Pliny describes the the Romans had of this disease, and of their applications the Temple of Faunum for the removal of all obstuc lions to the natural outlets of the body, Sickness therefore, cannot unless other of those ,utlsts a ohstructed. except in disease dependent ipon SD sc contagion, such smallpox, measles, ,enereal A. and these diseases only cured by in ,reasing the natural secretions. When you labor Ter disease no of what nature, whether malg ,ant or otherwise, and you take Calomel from a ,hysician does he not always ask you your bow s free-is precipitation frees the secretion of urine 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 our disease If they are not duly performed, he then emoyes any obstruction This is the great secret of ur profession, and thus define reputation when ve only assist nature in restoring the natural secre ions the great difficulty in the practice of medicines ,as fbe nrtper appcatiun of combination of medi-