Litchfield enquirer., 1842-07-28
Origin Of tIse LSfc Medicines.

UTG&G G2C Ok 6EGG AZGAC C GkCGGGCGAGSSs THE reader may not perhaps be aware N that the origin of Mofat's Life Medi- cines was the result of a protracted and pain full illness of their originator, MT. John Moi. fat. When taken i'll, MT. M. was prosper ous and flourishing merchant in the lower part of the city and having consulted and employed a number of our most skilful phy- sicians, he, after months of suffering, was prevailed upon to purchase the recipe of the invaluable vegetable preparation now otter- 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 to the world a 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 incontestibly proves their intrinsic merit
 THE LIFE MEDIcINEs-GENERAL REMARKS. These medicines are indebted for their name to their manifest and sensible action in pu- rifying 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 sui. terers from the verygverge of an untimeIy 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 a partial bless. ing. So great indeed had their efficacy in- varably proved, that it was scarcely less than miraculous to those who were unac- qualnted with the beautifully philosophical principles upon which they were compound ed, and upon which they consequently act
 THE PHOENIX BITTEIlS are so called because they possess the power of restoring the expiring embers of health, to glowing vigor throughout the constitution, as the Phoenix is said to be restored to life from the ashes of it's own dissolution. The Phoenix Bntcrs are entirely vegetable, composed of routs found only in certain parts of the west ern country, which will infalibly 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 Sarsaparila, and will immediately cure the determination of BLOOD TO TIE HEAD; never fail in the sickness incident to young females; and will be found a certain remedy in all cases of meru- ous debility and weakness of the most impaired constitutions. As remedy for Chronic aud InfammaiOry Rheumatism, the efficacy of the Phoenix Bittcrs 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 quackeres, which boast of vegetable ingredients, the Life Pills are purely and SOLELY VEGETABLE, and contain neither Mercury, Antimony, Arsenic, ncr any other mineral, in any form whatever. They are entirely composed of extracts from rare and powerful plants, the virtues of which, though long known to sev- eral Indian tribes, and recently to some en- inent pharmaceutical chemists, are alto gcther unknown to the ignorant pretenders 10 medical science and were never before administered in so happily efficacious com bination.
 Their first operation is 10 loosen from the coats of the stomach and bowels, the various impurities and crudities constantly settling around them; and to remove the hardened tnces which collect in the convolutons of the small intes;ines. Other medicines only partially cleanse these, and leave such col Iected masses behind as to produce habitual costiveness, with all its train of evils, or sud- den diarrhoea, with it's imminent dangerS.- This fact is well known to all regular anato- mists, who examine the human bowels after death and hence the prejudice of these well informed men against the quack medicines of the age. The second effect of the VE- GETABLE LIFE PILLS is to cleanse the kidneys and the bladder, and by this mea ns the liver and the lungs, the healthtul action of which entirely depends upon the regulari- ty of the urinay organs. The blood, which takes it's 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 Ve- getable Life Pills are well known to be in- fallible
 DYSPEPSIA, by thoroughly cleansing the first and second stomachs, and creating a flow of pure healthy bile, instead of :he stale and acrid kind ;-Flatulency, Palpitation oi the Heart, Loss of Appetite, Heartburn and Headache, Restlessness, Ill-temper, Anxiety, Languor and Melancholy, which are the ge- neral symptoms of Dyspepsia, will vanish as a natural consequence of its cure. Cost syeness, by cleansing the whole length of the fntestines with solvent process, and without siolence all violent purges leave the bowels knstive within two days. DiGrTh9G and GholerG, by removing the sharp acrid fluids by which these complaints are occasioned, and by promoting the iubrlcative secretlons of the mucous membrane Ferers of all kinds, by restoring the blood to regular circula- tjqa through the process ot perspiration Tn