Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1842-09-01
Origin Of the Life .Mesgtci,es.

FHHE reader may not perhaps be aware
Il that the origin of Moffat's Life Medi-
cines was the result of a protracted and pain
full illness Of their originator, Mr. John Moi
fat. When taken i'll, MIR. M. was prosper
Gus and aourishing merchant in the lower
part of the city and having consulted and
employed number Of our most skilful ply
Sicians, he, after iIivutns 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 TO the world
u medicine to which he had not only owed
his life, but his happiness. The uniform
success which has since attended their adj
ministration in every instance, where fair
trial has been given them, has been attested
by thousands, and incontestibiy proves their
intrinsic merit.
TIE 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
euduing them with renewed tone and VigOr,
and to the undoubted fact that at very early
period in their history they had rescued sut'
ferers from tho 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-
Quainted with the beautifully philosophical
principles upon which they were compound
cd, and upon which they consequently act.
TriE fHENIX BITTERS are 50 called
because they possess the power Of restoring
the expiring embers of health, to glowing
vigor throughout the constitution, US the
Phoenix is said to be restored to life from the
ashes of its own dissolution. The Phoenix
Biters are entirely vegetable, composed OF
roOts found only in certain parts of the west
ern country, which will infallibly 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
vii! Immediately cure the determination OF
BLOOD TO THE HEAD; never fail in the
sickness incident to young females; and will be
found u certain remedy in all cases of neru.
Gus debility and weskneSs of the most impaired
constitutions. As "a remedy for Chronic and
Iyaammatory Rheumatism, the efficacy of the
Phoenix Bittcrs wiz be demonstrated by the
use Of u single BOTH
The proprietor rejoices in tho 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,
aud contain neither Mercury, Anthony,
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 sew
eral Indian tribes, and recently to some en-
inent pharmaceutical chemists, are alto
gether unknown to the ignorant pretcnders
10 medical science ; and were never before
administered in so happily etiicacious 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 10 remove the hardened
faces which collect in the convolutions OF
the small intes;ines. Other medicines only
partially cleanse these, and leave such col
Iected masses behind rs to produce habitual
costiveness, with all its train of evils, or sud-
den diarrhea, with its imminent dangers
This fact is we'll 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 We
GETABLE LIFE PILLS is to cleanse the
kjdneyS and the bladder, and by this means
ahe liver and the lungs, the heallhful action
of which entirely depends upon the regulari-
ty of the urnay organs. The blood, which
takes its red color from the agency Of the
liver and the lungs before il passes into the
heart, being thus purified by them, and
nourished BY food coming from 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 check.
The following are among the distressing
variety of human diseases, to which the We
getable Life Pills are we'll known TO DO in
fallible:
DYSPEPSIA, by thoroughly cleansing the
first and second stomachs. and creating
flow of pure healthy bile, Instead Of :he stale
and acrid kind -Fiatulency. Palpitation OF
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 q natural consequence Of its cure. Cost
iveness. by cleansing the whole length ofthe
intessines with q solvent process, and without
violence; all violent purges leave the bowels
costive within two days. DiarFhea anu
CkOlcra, by removing the sharp acrid fluids
by which these complaints are occasioned,
and sbv promoting the lubricative secretionS
of the mucous membrane. FeVers If all kinds,
by restoring the blood 10 a regular ciTcula-
ton through the process Of PGrspiration IN