Mobile daily commercial register and patriot., 1841-06-30
PATENT MEDICINES.

: there are many Medicines oi a useless anu TIT "A furious nature already before the public, lt IS difficult the prejudice existing in the minds of intelligent and enlightened individuals against any article introduced through the means ol an adVertise- men, matter how great it's merits may be, or how high its founder may stand as a medical man Moth ing but the interposion of Providence can save the
 ives of those persons who day after day amper with the poisonous and deadly compounds bazoned forth 10 the world through the public press by gnorent men who have abandoned some other calling, a'i assumed
 the title of doctor, without having ever received the east medical instruction. l know the difficulty have m persuading the public hatan advertising doctor is or 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 ical attanments will be deemed sufficient to convince the skeptical. .-. .
 received the degree of Doctorof Medicine and Stp- aeon in the College of Phyycians and Surgso's, NeD York-am member of the New York State Medical Sociav-F Feoo of the Massachusetts Medical Society, and Lce,ais cf ihe Medical Board ethe State e LOn ,siano and for the last eighteen years general racti- tioner of Medicne atli. t5z't. ,' t
 Mv Compound Estracf oj Sdrsapariitd, Loeroorf, Pleraisv Root aud Lignum Ktd is the result of this long experience, and not the medicine of an hours consideration, merely got up for humbug or deception.
 Upon the responsibility of my medical testimonials my great success medical practitioner, and the salutary and beneficial effects of my medicine stand or fall. seek not to deceive the public with an ticle of whose component parts they ignorant What do the public know of the poisonous and de- structve ingredients contained in the various pills and panaceas advertised throughout the Union [! The Drobrietors of such medicines know well if the public were aware, that out of every ten pills they have swallowed, eight of them are Mercury, their trade was at end. l have analized most of the pills, and other medicines advertised throughout the UnIon and found them to contain, either corroslpe sb hndfe or Caio,et .Ihe reason IS then obvious why these base mposters 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 medi- cine has stood the of years--t is recommended by the eminent of the medical faculty, and what is of more importance than all, candidly and hon. esty confess that my medicine is combination of Sarsapariia Liuertoott, Pieurisy Root Ligaum Vita, and one two other ingredients. The only origin ality claim IS in my peculiar mode of preparation. It is trlIe it has often been the wonder aud amaze ment of my medical brethren, the astonishing cures performed in cases that were considered not within the pow, of medical aid The whole mystery con sisted in my using the medicines and this alone 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 should follow the use 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 sxths. Man is linked together by number of organs so beautifully 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 urnish- ed with uumerabe blood vessels called arteries and veins, which have common centre. The heart for propeling through them the blood or nWritive fund 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 itis forced by the heart into the arteries, and after most ening the nest minute 6brss, it is received by tine veins and brought again to the heart, and performs again the round of the body, and in succession The of the blood, is to receive from the alimena ry 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 ofreparng its waste and increasing its growth But if any eIiete, poison foreign matter is carried into the blood sever organs provided as the hve, kidneys, shin and lungs through which this poison is discharged from the blood in the form pile urine, precipitation and pulmonary exhahtion. From this brief sketch or mans formation, the intelligent reader can easily u
 derstand, how fever and inflammation is produced by the suppression of perspratIon, for If perspraon be arrested in consequence of cold, the persprabe mat ter will mix with the blood and give to inAama- 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 Jaundce, yellow fever, &c. All diseases have therefore common origin, (not impurity of blood, for that is only an eec,) but
 in the obstruction of one other of those three great
 
 skin and kidneys. fIN4.lll. JOE
 Reader, did you but know how fea fully and wouIl derlully you are constructed-how beautifully the Creator of the universe has provided for your pre- servaton and existence, independent of your will, then indeed would your admiration of the perfection of his mighty handiwork never cease, During sleep when yr mental faculties inactive, and your soul appears to be in state of repose, then is the wise provision and ioreknowedge 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 ofice-respiraton is continued, and the blood decarbonized-the skin pours out from its myriads pores the poisonous matter of tle bhod-dlgestion 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 sleep, the heart would cease to pulsate, death would necessary conse- quence folow-the lungs would cease to perform their ofice-sutiocation and death be the consequence, or precipitation digestion he interrupted, the effects or which would be perpetual disease ''i ,'' ''' q.
 Reader, you now know perhaps, better than you ev- CT knew before the vast importance of keeping these organs so necessary to life in healthy state. You will also place less reliance on the pretensions of g 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 full medical practitioner, who has abored for IS years in the study 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 a watch of five dollars value, and it was out of repair, would you take it to tinker to have it set in order No; you would surely bring il to good watcll-maker.- How much more difficult then is the putting in order of the human body when out of repair. A watch may stop, it be set going agan-if mans lnach nery once stops, it stops forever. No human power can ever again set it in motion. <
 You may always expect fever and iA-fealth to follow the stoppage of any of the secretions If except says Van Swienten, those who perish violent death and such as are extngushed by old age, all the die of inflammation, caused by suppression of one or the other of the secretions Pny describes the the 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 one other of those outlets a obstructed, except in disease dependent upon SD. yic contagion, such smallpox, measles, venerea At. and these diseases only cured by in creasing the natural secre1ons. When you labor un der disease no matter of what nature, whether mag :lant or otherwise, and you take Calomel from does he not always ask you are your bow els free-is precipitation free-is the secretion urine abundant-or, if you have pain, what ask you are those enquiries, but merely to ascertain if the secre- tions are duly performed If they are well perform your disease Ifthey are 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 secrer tions, the great difficulty in the practice of medicines was the proper application of d combination of medi cnal articles calculated to remove Instructions, and act at the same time upon all the secretions. There are many valuable articles in the materia medca that ,y arf Inon the liver if administered alone but when