Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1842-07-14
The Family Life Medicines.


TIME celebrated Life Pills and Phoenix Biucr.,
prepared and sold b, DR.. VIM B. Mcfat,
375 Brosdway, New York, may nov be SAID to be
the most respectfully established and extensively
adopted family medicines in the United States.
They have not only the sanction AID recon-
mendarion Of al the candid aDd philan,hfofic por-
ton Of the medical profession, who have observed
their invarisbe efficacy 10 general arrangements OF
the stomach and bowels, and their astonishing Ell
tects in many varieties Of acute and chronic disease
but what is far better these medicines have recon.
nended themselves, and fully and fairly achieved
the distinguished and certainly pre-eminent po-
siion which they now occupy in public and do'nes-
tic estimation. They proved by their works
and make appeals to vulgar creduiiiy- IL the
proprietor we're disposed 10 make an inv'dious com,
pafison betws en- these sef-establisbed medicines
and any others, he might confidently assert, ana
challenge contradiction, that there IS no medicine
known to the medical profession, or named IN their
books, concerning which many clear. unqnes-
tiouable and conclusive evidences Of usefulness and
remarkable cures arc recorded, Is those which he
can adduce concerning the Life Pills and fbnnix
Bitters IL it be admitted that sufferers are the
best Judges as to whether n remedy has relieved
them and restored them to health and strength,
then 10 the evidence in behalf of these medicines de-
cisive and irresistible. DR.. MoHat is in possession
Of an immense accumulation Of voluntary testimo.
parts of the Union, far and near, who give their
names and residence to the unsolicited statement
that have been completely and speedily cured OF
the following diseases. and Of many others not here
| enumerated, by these Life Medicines alone, when
other medicines had been long employed in vain,
viz: Scrofula in its most dreadfuly advanced and
destructive stages when large portions OF the flesh
and bones Of the face had been desroyed Piles, Of
FIVE, ten, twenty, thirty and even thirty-hve years
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the most hopeless character; Iurgescence Of the
Liver, and various other liver complaints; Bilious
Choc and every conceivable variety Of bilious af-
fections; Marasmus Tsbes, or Decline and Marss-
mus Phthisc Consumption, in more advanced
stages than any on record Dyspepsia, in all its
chronic and acute varieties, with its frghtful train
Of distressing symptoms; Worms of all kinds, both
in children and grown persons; Diarrh9a, both So
rious and bilious; Costi, eness, both habitual and
occasional; Fever and Ague, in its three principal
varieties, and intermittent and Iemttent evers Of
all kinds; Hypocondriasis, and other extremely
complicated and nervous affections, with nervous
debility in general; Salt Rheum, Running Scad
and eruptive diseases generally, including Enan
thesis, Erysipelas St. Anthonys ERE, and ssllow
unhealthy complexion; Palpitation of The heart
and Deter minstion Of blood to the head, settled
pains in the organs, limbs. back head and side, at
sctions Of the bladder kidnes, spleen, throat, and
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those general affections Of the system which arise
from complicated causes.
The certificates Of these in the proprie'
tors possession, and will readily be shown TO al
| who desire to sec them. ANAL selection from
them have been published in Mofat's M edical Man
ual, Of which now and enlarged edition is prepar
ing for the press. The reason why these medicines
which in ordinary family use operate merely as mild
and efiectual laxatives, cure so great variety o
| formidable diseases, 10, that while a. cathartcs
cleansing the alimentary canal and relieving the
liver, and the absorbent vessels of all impurities
they lay the foundation for the OF all specific
diseases. they compounded of unique and UMPIRE
cedentsd variety Of choice and exquisite ingredi
fesson, which exert specific action upon man.
complaints, without in the slightest degree affecting
the general system, other wise than simple puri.
6ers. when those complaints are not present. Both
the Pills and Bi,ters mild and agreeable in ,hei
operations, causing neither prostraton nor nausea
and requiring neither confinement peculiar diet
Their effects are uniformly to produce immed
ate sense Of renovated health. and new life and
vigor TO both body and mind. They cannot DO ia
ken without benefit. and they should be procured
both by individuals and heads OF families, and con.
stantIy kept on hand not only as remedies but ~
Preventives Of disease. The, are prepared and
sold wholesale and retail, by DIR. William b. Moi.
fat, 375 Broadway, New York, and also by the
| Agents.
| For sale by WtLLiAA DoRsEr. Druggist, Agent
Mnrtinsburg, Va.
June %. 1842.-ly