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pATENT MEDICINES.


 ticult remove the prejudice existing m the minds ol intelligent and enlightened individuals against any a1ele introduced throng inc means o an a'i'eitse- laent matter how great it's merits may be of how high it's founder may stand as medical man. N"th- lg but the interpretation oi Providence can save the kycs of those persons who day after day tamper i the poisonous and deadly compounds blazoned forth h the world through the public press by ignorent who have abandoned some other calling, aiEl assumed he ltle of doctor, without having received the east medical instruction. know the difficulty have n peisuading the public thatan advertising doctor Is or can be a regular physician, hui as address my self only to the respectable and intelligent portion of ihe community, the following testimonials of my med- al attachments will be deemed sufficient cOnA ince tIe skeptical.
 received the degree of Doctor of Meooine and Sur geon in the College of Physiaans and Swgcoax, Ne1r P@k-am member of the New York State Medical .yocay-Feiiotc of he Massachusetts Msdicai Soci,fy, and Lcenfias ef he Medcai Board othe Stafs c Lou Idna, and for the last eghtsen yrarS general pTacti- f'ona ot Medicine.
 Ny Compoiend Estrdct of .SarsaparHa, LirerTort, Pieurisy Root aud Lignam Vita is the result of this long experience, and not the medicine of an hour consideration, merely got up for humbug deception.
 Upon the responsibility of my medical testimonials my great medical practitioner, and the sautary and beneficial effects of my medicine stand fall. seek not to deceive the public with ar tcle of whose component parts they ignorant. What do the public know of the poisonous and de- structNe contained the YarlOlS pills and paHaceas 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 oi them are Mercury, their trade at end. have analized most of the pills and other medicines advertised throughout the Union and found them contain, either corrosiue Sub- Emate or CaiOuiei. The 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. 1 practice no such deception My medi- cine has stood the test of years-t is recommended by the most eminent of the medical faculty, and what is of more importance than all, candidly and hon esty confess that my medicine is combination of SarSaparild, LiuaiOort, Pieuisy Root, Lsnum Vita, and one two other ingredients. The only origin ality claim Is in my peculiar mode of preparation. 1t is true, it has often been the wonder and ment of my medical brethren, the astonishing cures performed in eases that considered not within the pow, of medical aid. The whole mystery con- sisted in my using the medicines and this alone to the exclusion of all others, and of the correct principles upon which diseases ought to be treated. It will not however be matter d surprise that such wonderful success should follow the of this medicine, when I state the principles upon which acted
 The human body consists of solids and fluids The ormer long structure is about one-fth. The lat ter or soft part five sixths. Man is linked together 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 numerable blood vessels called arteries and veins, which have common centre. The heart for propeing through them the blood or nutritve fluid to all parts of the system from the heart being furnished with valves which all in direction, the blood only flow in 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 the heart, and performs tha I.,ft b,Ax, ,nc The use of the blood, is to receive from the amena- " canal the skin lungs such matters is necessary for the nourishment of man, and to convey il to every part of the body for the purpose ofrepairng its waste and increasing its growth But if any efete, poson- ous foreign matter is carried into the blood several organs are provided as the Hpe, kidneys, skin and iuags through which this poison is discharged from the bloed in the form of pile, urine precipitation and pulmonary exhalation. From this brisf sketch oI mans formation, the intelligent reader easily derstand, how fever and inflammation IS produced by the suppression of perspraon, for precipitation be arrested in consequence of cold, the perspirabe mat ter will mix with the blood and give inilama- ton. 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 Jaundice, yellow fever, &c. All diseases have therefore common origin, (n,t mpury of blood for that is only an efect) but in inc obstruction of other of those three great o tlets or common of the body, the bowels, s-'r and kidneys.
 T.aler, uu you but know how feal illly and woull- oerli,ly you arc constructed-how beautifully the Creator of the universe has provided for your pre- ser,ation and existence, independent of your will, then indeed would your admiration of the perfection of his mighty handiwork never During sleep, when yanr mental faculties inactive, and your soul appears be in state of repose, then Is the wise provision and foreknowledge of the author of nature made manifest The heart continues to pour its vital ,tream to every part of the body-te lungs perform heir oflice-respiration is continued, and the blood decarbonized-the skin pours out from its myriads pores the poisonous matter of the blood-digestion continues and the nutritye 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 pusate, death would a necessary conse- auence follow-te lungs would cease to perform their ofice-sufocation and death he the consequence, or precipitation or digestion be interrupted the effects which would be perpetual disease.
 -5Readr, you now know perhaps, better than you CT knew before the importance of keeping these organs so neces sary to life in healthy state. You will also place less reliance the pretensions of g norant and neducated men, especially when they at iesnpt to meddn 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 minuta, and who now offers for your benefit the result of his long and ar,luous labors. ask if you possessed watch of five dollars value, and it out of repair, would you take it to tinker to have it set in order No you would surely bring it to good watch-maker.- 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.
 You may always expect fever and il-health to follow the soppage of any of the secretiOns. If we except says Van Swienten, those who perish violent death and such extngushed by old age, all the rest die of inflammation, caused by suppression of fone or the other of the secretions Pny describes the the Romans had of this disease, and of their applications in the Temple of Faunun for the removal of all obstuc lions to the natural outlets of the body Sickness therefore cannot unless one or other of those outlets a obstructed, except in disease dependent upon 3D. yifc contagon, such as small-pox measles, yenereal A.. and these diseases are only cured by n- creasing the natural secre6ons. When you labor un- der disease no matter of what nature, whether mag- aant or otherwise, and you take Calomel from physician does he not always ask you are your bow els free-s precipitation free-s the secretion of 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 ed then your doctor is puzzled to the nature Of your disease. Ifthey not duly performed, he then removes any obstruction This is the great secret of our professon and thus we define reputation when we only assist in restoring the natural secre- tons, the great difficulty in the practice of medicines was the proper application of combination of medI- cinal articles calculated to remove obstructons and act at the same time upon all the secretons. There are many valuable articles in the materla nedca that vii, act ,pou the liver administered aone but when combined with others to act upon the kidneys, they become neuralized. The concentrated extract ef Bar saparia, Lue~orth, Pieurisy, Root, and Lgmun Nta, as prepared by me, is the only combination ever yet discovered that possessed this nestimable quality, which has been testified by most medical men m En- gland. For full account of the properties of these plants must refor the reader to my prize Essay of 40 pages, published in the New England Medical and Surgical Recorder. will enumerate few only of