Litchfield enquirer., 1845-08-14
Scientific Medicine.

HREAT experience and judgment aTe required ON 10 make valuable, and at the same time, in nocent purgative. This is possessed only by tcw.
 The great majority of the remedies advertised Ot this class, are manufactured by persons who have no idea of the relative or individual powers ot the drugs they use. It is this cause. more than any other, which occasions the inertness and often in- furious effects produced by advertised remedIes- And hence the general prejudice which prevails against them. Now there is a great difference m this respect, with regard to the pills made by Dr. B. Braudreth, and consequently their superior claims upon the public. Each of the articles composing the Brandreth Pills, are prepared in that way which will secure their beneficial effects to the system in the safest and easiest manner. For instance, some ingredients have !o be prepared in the vacuo ;- that is the air is exhausted in the utensil, and remains SO until combination is effected with oth. CT ingredients which afterwards prevents the air from acting injuriously upon ;he medicine. Again, the proportion for each ingredient depends upon it's multiplying power upon other ingredients. For the power of different vegetable purgatives upoE each other, IS governed by similar laws that govern inc power Of figures by multiplication. Nine addedtO nine, makes eghteen but nine times nine arc eghty-one. So 1t is with some vegetable purgai tIves. By adding nine parts of one ingredient, and nine parts of another ingredient together, the pow: CT IS increased, not to eighteen, but eighty
 For example, either of the articles to produce any purgarive effect, would have to be used to the ex. tent of eighty-one grains; by combining them only eighteen grains have to be used.. Again, another ingredient IS found to multiply this power again; which in proportion of two grains, would have no effect upon the animal economy, but which. added to eighteen grains of compound of two parts of nine grains, each of two ingredients, will again uI- tipIy the power which they have gained of eigh,y- one. to one hundred and sixty.two So again. the mixture ot twenty grains, can be again multiplied by addition of two grains, to the power of three hundred and tweny-four grains, Of the original power of the two first ingredients Here. we have twenytwo gra ins, which as purgative, contain the power equal to three hundred and twenty.fn,ir grains of either of the articles alone nevertheless also so powerful, after being thus combined aye safe in any quantity always having beneficial effect and in no case capable of doing injury, of which thousands bear ample witness.
 The pills are sold in Litch6ed County by the fol- lowing Agents. viz {:
 Baldwin 6 Candee, Litchfield; George w. Whit t1esey, New-Milford Lyman Smith, Bridgewatcr; B. $. Preston Roxbnrv; Alvah Merriam Wood. bury; S. H skdmores Bethlehem; William I.eavi't and Son, Washington; Moses Smith, Kent F.. and Q. Swift, Warren D. s. Gould. Sharon Myron Harrison, Corn wall Bridge "A, Miles & Sons, Co., shen: M L.. Graham & Co.,. Salisbury John C. Swift, Norfolk; A. Phe lbs, jr, Colebrook S. and l.. Hurlbut Winchester; M. & C. w. Merrill, Bark lamsted 1T. Wadsworth 6, Co., New Hartford E. rasius Hodges, Torrng;on: Talmage &c Cur,iss Plymouth : A. A. Gridley. Water,own !. c. Ged dngs, Gavlords Bridge c. B. Waller New Pres. ton B. H. Morse, WolcottvilIe M. and c. J. Damp, sWinsted ; John Franklin, North Canaan Garfield 8I Robbins Falls Village; Alexander H. Eo'ley. Furnace Village; John Phelps, Hi'chcock- vi|e Daniel DeWof CoIebrook River; Na,haniel Smith, Torrincford; Henderson & Go New Hartford Centre E. Grove Lawrence & Co Norfolk; Excl. logg, South Cornwall. 5.