The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-12-20
THE DAILY UNION
SAPPINGToN ON FEvERS.
Il .Neo Theory and Treatment Of Fever
ny DIR. JOHN sAprMGroS,

ny DIR. JOHN sAPPiHoToS,
OF Saline county, Missouri revised and corrected bt
r. Stith, NJ d., Of Franklin, Tennessee.
HIS work is now offered to the public for sale
The author aatters himself with the belief, that
when 1t shall have been attentyely examined, and
the system of practice therein recommended fully
and fairly tested, it will be found to so far ex-
coed that Of any other system that has hitherto
been offered to the public in the cure of fevers, a
to obtain for it decided preference in the estimation
of every practical man. This work is intended 10 &c
TO the families and fresdes Of the community at large
Ito the great body of the American people
The author enlertans no doubt, but that III,
farmer or mechanic, by carefully reading IL over
few times, will fully comprehend the meaning of the
author and be enabled to carry out the practice sue
cessfully in his own family, if he has confidence in
himself and thus enable him to be his own physician
in the Of fevers, which constitute nine-tenths
of the bodily pain suffering and mortality Of the hui
man family.
The author himself has bestowed much time and
reflection on it; he has also spared no pains or ex
pense to employ competent persons to assist him in
preparing this work, and in making it as clear and
as acceptable to all classes Of the community as
possible, But he is aware, with very few excep-
tions that there is one class (the doctors) whose
sanction to work of this kind cannot be obtained
for the reason that it conflicts materially with both
their principles and their interests; therefore he does
not except their appreciation to it.
We have carefully contrasted this with mos
other theories and treatments, particularly the de-
pletive one and feel well assured that the public
mind is not so much biased that it cannot do other
wise than pronounce decidedly in its favor; for
whilst under this treatment, all the remedies tend to
restore the lost balance to the circulation by acting
mildly and uniformly upon all the secretions and
excretions, and at the same time they also sustain
the general system. The depletive practice (espe-
cally on very many occasons) not only adds to the
general functional arrangement Of the SYSTEM but
superadds prostration and debility, when there is
already too much of BOTH
So far as we conceive bleeding, pulsing, or purg-
ing necessary, or even admissible, we have in all
cases clearly pointed the times and circumstances
under which we think they should be used.
Although we have mentioned a variety of sudor-
ifcs otdiaphoritics, such the saline daphoritcs
of the super-carbonates of potash or soda, we have
also mentioned variety of vegetable daphoritics,
which are familiar to every one, and which, too,
are equally eificacious.
Under the head of anodynes we have mentioned
Dover's powders, paragoric elixir, laudanum, DC.
Laudanum being the most common and familiar
preparation of opium, in almost every instance, il
not in ALL it answers every purpose where either of
those preparations is required.
One chapter is devoted to what may be called Ma
terra .Msdica, giving description of the different
tices of medicine recommended in this treatise, with
the manner of mixing them whether in the liquid or
other forms, with the size of the dose and their ef-
fects upon the human system.
This book contains also:
lst The authors reasons why he has departed
from the practice of the old-school physicians and
all others, in the treatment and cure Of fevers;
I'd. A short outline of the animal economy, &c;
Sd. The authors views and opinions in relation
to the Inconsistency and irratonality Of attempting
to cure fevers principally by depletion;
4th. The authors practice and treatment in the
cure of fevers;
5th. The authors views on the subject of the uni
ty of feyers;
9Th. OF intermittent, or ague and fever;
7th. Common bilious, or bilious rcmient fever;
9th. Cholera infantum, &C.;
9th. Of yellow fever;
10Th. OF influenza;
18th. Of mild typhus, nervous fever;
18th. OF cold plague, or spotted fever;
18th OF scarlet fever;
18th. OF measles; 49,. e..
18th. Of child-bed, or puerperal fevrr;
10Th. An alphabetical arrangement of the articles OF
medicine used in this work.
For the satisfaction of those persons at distance,
and unacquanted with my character and standing
as physician, | have thought proper to attach to
the work several letters and certificates from gen.
temen of the first responsibility in this State, who
have been personally and intimately acquainted
with me for more than twenty years. and could have
obtained thousands of others had deemed it neces-
sary.
have also attached many letters and certificates
to the work, speaking Of the unrivalled efficacy Of
my Anti-Fever Pills, wherever they have been sent;
and for the last ten years they have had circular
ton coextensive with all the southern and south
western States Of the Union.
The retail price per box of twenty-four small
pills being one dollar and fifty cents, if this not
the most prompt and eficacious remedy used
in the cure offevers, any one believe for a mo-
ment that they would have sold at that apparently
high price, and to largely upward of a million OF
boxes! Certainly they would not.
fall of he, IF tbaca
pills is given in this work. together with directions
for making and using them on all occasions.
The ingredients Of which these pills are CON-
posed can be obtained at most of the stores in the
country, and at, perhaps, every drugstore.
There are also mentioned in the work two herbs,
which grow q beleve) in every part of the United
States, and consequently can be obtained with ease
by every person, in abundance, that are considered
admirable substitutes for the preparation of which
the pills are made
The treatise here offered to the public on fevers,
the retail price of which being only two dollars per
copy, WILL doubtless, be found to be the cheapest,
and to contain the simplest and most useful remedies
ever offered to the public at any price, Indeed,
consider 1t more donation than sale.
If this book and the facts unfolded by it do not
awaken the people from the mesmerc, or some other
almost as unaccountabe sleep, that they have been
in for centuries past, confess know not what will.
have repeatedly said, and unhesitatingly repeat
it now, Crash and vain as the expression may APP
pear that any common observer, under this plan,
especially when aided by the book, can treat fevers
more successfully than the most experienced and
scientific physician can upon the common plan,
even if he were to sit all the time by the patents
bed side.
To those States and Territories where the medi-
cine has been sent, arrangements have been made,
and it is confidently expected that an ample supply
of the books for the demand will be sent and kept
up; but if this should not be done the author has
made contracts with Messrs. Thomas Cowpathwait
& Co., of Philadelphia Messrs Nafo & Cornish, Of
New York, and Messrs. Gushing & Brother, of
Baltimore book merchants in those places, where
merchants and others residing in those States and
Territories, as well as in all others, can, and it is
hoped will, be supplied upon terms calculated to in
duce purchases.
JOHN SAPPINGTON,
Saline county, Missouri.
n5-Mcssrs. A. G. SWITZER & CO.,
st. Lou Missouri.