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

TIME celebrated Life Pills and PLnnix Biuers,
u prepared and sold by DR.. VIM b. Mofat,
375 Broadway, New York, may nov be said 10 be
the most respectfully established and extensively
adopted family medicines in the United States.
They have not oniy won the sanction and recon-
mendasion Of all tho candid and philsnthropic por-
ton Of the medical profession, who have observed
their invafiable e scy in general arrangements Of
The stomach and bowels, and their astonishing ef-
fects ia many varieties OF and chronic disease,
but what is far better these medicines have recon-
mended themselves. and fully and fairly achieved
the distinguished and certainly pre-eminen Mt Po-
siiion which they now occupy in public and doines-
tic estimation. They are proved by their works
and make no appeals TO vulgar creduliiy. the
proprietor we're dis posed 10 make an inydous com
parison between these sef-estabiished medicines
and any oIhers, he might confidently assert. and
challenge contradiction, that there is no medicine
known to the medica professions or named IN theif
books. concerning which so many clear, unques.
tonable and conclusive evidences Of usefulness and
remarkable cures are recorded as those which he
can adduce concerning the Life Pills and PbGnix
Bittrrs. IL it be admitted that sufferers are the
best judges IS whether remedy has relieved
them and restored them to health and strength,
then the evidence in behalf Of these medicines de-
cisive and irresistible. Dr.. Moffat 10 in possession
Of an immense accumulation Of voluntary testimo.
mails from respe ctable persons aud families IN ell
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,
wiz Scrofuls, in its mos, dreadfully advanced and
destructive stages, when large portions Of the flesh
and bones OF the face had been destroyed; Piles, Of
FIVE, ten, twenty, thirty, and even thirty-hve years
standing; Rheumatism, both acute aud cb'onic, of
the most hopeless chaTscter Turgescence of the
Liver, and various other liver complaints; Bilious
Cholc and every conceivable variety Of bilious al
fections; Msrasmus Tabes, or Decline and Msras-
mus, Phthisic or Consumption, in more advanced
stages than any record; Dyspepsia, in all its
chronic and acute varieties with its frightful train
of distressing symptoms; Worm. Of all kinds, both
in children and grown persons Diarrb9a, both Sc
rious and bilious Costi,eness, both habitual and
occasional; Fever and Ague, in its three principal
varieties, and intermittent and Iemistent fevers Of
all kinds; Hypocondriasis, and other extremely
complicated and nervous affections, with nervous
debility In general; Sal, Rheum, Running Scald,
and eruptive diseases generally. including Enan-
thesis, Eryspelas St. An,honys ERE, and ssllow
unhealthy complexion; Pslpitation of the heart,
and Determination of blood to the head, settled
pains in the organs, limbs back, head and side, af
fectons Of the bladder, kidnies Spleen throat, and
pleura, jaundce, dropsy and govt, together with
those general affections of the system which arise
from complicated causes.
The certificates of these cures in the proprie-
tors possession, and will readily be shown to all
who desire to see them. A small selection from
them have been published in MoHat's Medical Man
ual Of which new and enlarged edition is prepar.
ing for the press. The why these medicines.
which in ordinary family use operate merely as mild
| and ehectual laxatves, cure great variety Of
fol midable diseases. is, that while as cathartcs.
H., r..
liver, and the absorbent vessels Of oil impurities.
they lay the foundation for the cure Of oil specific
diseases they are compounded of unique and unpre-
cedented variety Of choice and exquisite ingredi-
ents some Of which are almost unknown to the pro-
| fession, which exert specific action upon many
complaints without in the slightest degree affecting
the general system, otherwise than simple puri-
fiers when those complaints not present. Both
the Pills and Bitters mild and agreeable in their
operations, causing neither prostration nausea
and requiring neither confinement nor peculiar diet
ate sense Of renovated health. and new life and
vigor to both body and mind. They cannot be ia
ken without benefit. and they should be procured
both by individuals and heads Of families and con-
stantly kept on hand, not only remedies but as
preven,ives of disease The, are prepared and
sold wholesale and retail by DR.. William B. Moi
fat, 375 Broadway, New York, and also by the
Agents.
For sale by WILLIAM DORSEY, Druggist, Agent,
MaItinsburg, Va.
June %. 1842-ly
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