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PATENT MEDICINES.

o' intelligent and enlightened indis agunst any n iice introduced through the means oi an adNe'se- HI mt, matter how great Its merits may pe' or now high its founder may stand as medical man. Noth- 10 but inc interpretation of Providence can save the l,yes of those persons who day after day tamper with inc poisonous and deadly compounds blazoned forth
 the world through the public press by lgnorent men who have abandoned some other calling, ahi assumed tae title of doctor, without having ever received the east medical instruction. know the difficulty have m persrading the public thatan advertising doctor Is ar can he n regular physician, but as l address my self only o the respectable and intelligent portion oi le community, the following testimonials of my med
 al attainments will be deemed sufficient to convince the skeptical. -
 received the degree of Doetor of Medicine aud Sn- ee)n in the College of PhyyicanS aud SiHgeonS, Nec York-am member of the New York State Hedtcdt SociaV-Feliow of the Massachusetts Medical Socidy, aad Licsiae of the Medical Board ofthe State e Lo- ,aana, and for the last eighteen yeors general pdcf'- fioner of Medicine
 Mv Compound Extract of SarsapayiAa, Lir9tcort, P!eurisy Root aud Lignum Hta is the result of this ong experience, and not the medicine Of an hours consideration merely got up for humbug or deception aSUpon ie responsibility ol my medical testimonials my great success as medical practitioner ana the sautary and beneficial effects of my medicine stand or fall seek not to deceive the public with an ar tcle of whose component parts they are ignorant What do the public know of the poisonous and de- strIctye ingredients contained in the various pills and tanaceas advertised throughout the Union 1he nroprietors 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 l have analzed most of the pills and other medicines advertised throughout the 1nlon and found them to conian either corroSie sub l.nafe or Calond. The reason is then obvious why these base mposiers will not tell the component parts .f their medicines. They pretend that they have dis covered the philosopher's stone, and that you may
 live through countless ages, if you but swallow their medicine. l practice no such deception My medl- cine has stood the test of years--t IS recommended hy tl,e most eminent of the medical faculty, and what Is of more importance than all, l candidy and hon eslly confess that my medicine is combination of Sarsdpariiia, LipeDort, Pleurisy Root, Lgnnm Vna, and one or two other ingredients. The only origin aity claim is in my peculiar mode ot preparation. 1t is true, it has often been the wonder and 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 usng the medicine, and this alone to the exclusion of all others, and of the correct principles upon which diseases ought 10 be treated. It VIII mol however be matter of surprise that such wonderful success should follow the of this medicines when I state the principles upon which ac'ed
 4sChe human body consists of solids and fluids. The urmer or long structure is about one-fith. 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 to destroy the harmony of the whole. These organs are furnish ed with inumerabe blood vessels called arteries and veins which have T common centre. The heart for propelng through them the blood or nutrive fluid to all parts of the system from the heart being furnished with valves which are all in one 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 flores, it is received by the veins and brought again to the heart, and performs nf ti,a hodv auu usnn n in ssl The use of the blood, is receive from the alimenta " canal the skin lungs, such matters as IS neccessa, for the nourishment of man, and to convey to every part of the body for the purpose irepairg its waste and increasing it's growth. But If any eiiete poison ous or foreign matter is carried into the blood sever
 organs are provided the hper, kidneys, skin ant lungs through which this poison is discharged iron the blood in the form of pile, urine, precipitation ant pulmonary exhalation. From this bri9 sketch o mans formation, the intelligent reader can easily un derstand, how fever and inflammation Is produced by the suppression of perspraon, for Il perspnat'on be arrested in consequence of cold, the perspirbe mat
 ter will mix with the blood and give rise to inlama tion In like manner, if the discharge of bile be ar rested in its flow from the liver it is taken into the circulation and gives rise to Ja,ndce, yellow fever &c All diseases have therefore one common origin (not mpurity of blood, for that is only efec,) bu ,n the obstruction of one other of those three grea outlets or common sewers of the body, the bowels
 x,r and kidnevs
 k 'nae. u,o You pu, xnow how feai fully and woun oeri,lly you are constructed-how beautifully tn, Creator of the universe has provided for your pre- seryation and existence, independent of your will then indeed would your admiration of the perfection of his mighty handiwork never cease. During sleep
 when your mental faculties inactive, and your sou appears to be in a of repose, then is the wise provision and forekuowedge of the author of nature made manifest The heart continues to pour its vita
 dream to every part of the body-the lungs perform
 heir ofice-respiraiion is continued, and the blood decarbonzed--the skin pours out from its myriads o pores the poisonous matter of the bOOd-dgestior continues and the nutrtve particulars of our food 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- auence foow-the lungs would cease to perform their oice-suliocation and death be the consequence, or precipitation or digestion be interrupted the effects o which would be perpetual disease.
 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 the pretensions of g- norant and uneucated men, especially when they at tempt to meddlc with diseases they know nothing of You will likewise appreciate the services of the skill lul medical practitioner, who has labored for IS years
 in the study of science through all it's minuta, 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 it was out of repair, would you take it to tinker to have it set in order No you would surely bring it to good watcli-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 again--f mans machl- nery once stops, it stops forever. No human power can ever again set it in motion.
 You may always expect fever and il-beab to follow the stoppage of any of the secretiOns, If we except says Van Swienten, those who perish violent death and such as are extngushed by old age, all the rest die of inflammation, caused by suppression of one or the other of the secretions. Pny describes the terror the Romans had of this disease, and of their applications in the Temple of Faunum for the removal of all obstruc' tions to the natural outlets of the body Sickness therefore cannot unless one or other oi those outlets obstructed, except in disease dependent upon sp> siic contagon, such as small-pox measles yenereal Ae and these diseases are only cured by n- creasing the natural secre1ons. When yen labor un- der disease no matter of what naure whether maig- nant or otherwise, and you take Caiomel from a physician does he always ask you, are your bow els ree-is precipitation fees the secretion ofurine abundant-or, if you have pain, what ask you are those enquiries, but merely to ascertain II the secre- tions are duly performed. If they are well perform ed, then your doctor is puzzled to the nature oi your disease. Ifthey not duly performed, he then remoyes any obstruction This the great secret ot our professon, and thus we define reputation when we only assist nature in restoring the natural secre- tons the great difficulty in the pracfIce of medicines was the proper application of combination of medi, cina articles calculated to remove obstructons and act at the same time upon all the secretions There are many valuable articles in the maeria nedica that will act upon the liver Administered alone, but when combined with others to act upon the kidneys, they become neurazed. The concentrated ertract ef Sdr- saparilia Lpe,uorth Peursy, Root, and Lgnium Vita. as prepared by me, is the only combination ever yet discovered that possessed this idestimabe 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 40 pages published in the New England Medical and Surgical Recorder. will enumerate a few only of the diseases in which this medicine showed its mira