Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1842-08-25
Origin of tie Life .Med6ciases.


Origin of the Life Medicines.
EDHE reader may not perhaps be aware
l. that the origin of Moffat's Life Medi-
cines was the result of a protracted and pain
fui illness of their originator, Mr.. John Mof.
fat. When taken ill, Mr.. M. was prosper
Gus and fourishing merchant in the lower
part of the city and having consulted and
employed number of our most skiiful ply
sicians, he, after months of suffering, was
prevailed upon to purchase the recipe of the
invaluable vegetable preparation now offer
ed to the public.
The effect of the Life Medicines in his own
case was so singular and remarkable, that he
Immediately determined to Offer 10 the world
q medicine to which he had not only owed
his life, but his happiness. The uniform
success which has since attended their ad-
ministration in every instance, where fair
trial has been given them, has been attested
by thousands, and incon,estibly proves their
intrinsic merit.
The LIFE MEDtclSEs-GENERAL REMARKS.
These medicines are indebted for their name
10 their manifest and sensible action in pu.
rfying the springs and channels of life, and
enduing them with renewed tone and vigor,
and to the undoubted fact that at very early
period in their history they had rescued suf'
tfrers from the very verge of an untimely
grave, after all the deceptive nostrums OF the
day, prescribed by physicians, had utterly
failed in which cases they also permanently
secured that uniform enjoyment of health,
without which life itself is but partial bless
ing. So great indeed had their efficacy in
variably proved, that it was scarcely less
Than miraculous to those who were unac-
aua,nted with tho beautifully philosophical
principles upon which they were compound
cd, and upon which they consequently act
THE PHOENIX BIT Frs are SO called
because they possess the power of restoring
the expiring embers of health, TO glowing
vigors throughout the constitution, as tho
PhRnix is said to be restored to life fro n the
ashes of its own dissolution. The Phoenix
Bitters are entirely vegetable, composed OF
roots found only in certain parts of the west
ern country, which will infallibsy cure
FEVERS AND AGUES of all kinds will
never fail to eradicate entirely all the effects
of Mercury, infinitely sooner than the most
powerful preparations of Sarsaparilla, and
will Immediately cure the determination of
BLOOD TO THE HEAD; never fail in the
sickness incident to young females; and will be
found certain remedy in all cases of nerr-
ous debility and ,oeakness of the most impaired
constitutions. As remedy for Chronic and
jnRnmmatory Rheumatism, the efficacy of the
Phoenix Bitters will be demonstrated by the
use Of single bottle.
The proprietor rejoices in the opportunity
afforded by the universal diffusion of the
press, for placing his VEGETABLE LIFE
MEDICINES within the knowledge and
reach of every individual in the community.
Unlike the host Of pernicious quackeries,
which boast Of vegetable ingredients, the
Lite Pills are purely and SOLELY VEGETABLE,
and contain neither Mercury, Anthony,
Arsenic, nor any O;her mineral in any form
whatever. They nre entirely composed Of
extracts from rare and powerful plants, the
virtues of which, though long known to sew.
eral Indian tribes, and recently to some en-
inent pharmaceutical chemists, are alto
yether unknown to the ignorant pretenders
to medical science and were never before
administered in SO happily efiicacious CON-
bination.
Their first operation is TO loosen from the
coats of the stomach and bowels, the various
impurities and crudities constantly settling
around them; and to remove the hardened
faces which collect in the cODvOlutions of
the small intes;ines. Other medicines only
partially cleanse these, and leave such col
lected masses behind as to produce habitual
costiveness, with all its train of evils, or sud-
den diarrhGa, with its imminent dangers
This fact is well known to all regular anato-
nistS, who examine the human bowels after
death and hence the prejudice of these we'll
informed men against the quack medicines
of the age. The second effect of the We
GETABLE LIFE PILLS is to cleanse the
kidneys and the bladder, and by this means
the liver and the lungs, the healthtul action
of which entirely depends upon the regulari-
tv of the urinav organs The blond which
takes its red color from the agency of the
liver and the lungs before it passes into the
heart, being thus purified BY them, and
nourished by food coming from a clean sto-
mach, courses freely through the veins, re-
news every part of the system. and triumph
antly mounts the banner of health in the
blooming cheek.
The following are among the distressing
variety of human diseases, to which the We
getable Life Pills are we'll known to be in
faliible:
DYSPEPSIA. by thoroughly cleansing the
first and second stomachs, and creating a
flow of pure healthy bile, instead of the stale
and acrid kind ;-Flatulency, Palpitation Of
the Heart, Loss of Appetite, Heartburn and
Headache. Restlessness, Ill-temPer. Anxiety
Languor and Melancholy, which are the ge-
as a natural consequence of its cure. Cost.
iveness, by cleansing the whole length ofthe
intestines with solvent process, and without
violence; all violent purges leave the bowels
costive within two days. DiGrrheG and
Choler0, by removing the sharp acrid fluids
bv which these complaints are occaSiOned
and Nby promoting the lubricative secretiOns
of the mucous membrane. FeUeTS Of all kinds
by restoring the blood to q regular clrcula'