The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-01-08
SAPPlNGToN ON FEyERs.
II .Ne0 Theory and Treatment Of FeUers,
BY DR.. JOHN sAPPIKoToE,

OF Saline county, Missouri: revised and corrected by
+. SEth, NJ. d., Of Franklin, Tennessee.
- His work is now offered 60 the public for sale.
1 The author Aatters himself with the belief that
when Il shall have been attentyely examined, and
the System of practice therein recommended fully
and fairly tested, il will be found 10 so far ex-
coed that OF any other system that has hitherto
been offered to the public 10 the cure of feyers as
to obtain for decided preference in the estimation
of every practical man This work is intended 10 60
the families and 6fesdes Of the community at lag
TO the great body of the American people.
The aglhoT tntertaIns no doubt, but that the
farmer or mechanic, by carefully reading il over
few times, will fully comprehend the meaning of the
author, aud be enabled to carry out the practice
cessfully in his own family, ii he has confidence in
himself and thus enable him TO be his physician
in the cure of feyers, which constitute nine-tenths
of the bodily pain, suffering and mortality OF the hu
man family
The author himself has bestowed much time and
reflection it; he has also spared pains or ex-
pense TO employ competent persons to assist him in
preparing this work, and in making il as clear and
as acceptable To all classes Of the community as
possible. But he is aware, with very few exeep-
tons, that there is one class (the doctors) whose
sanction To work of this kind cannot be obtained,
for the reason that il conflicts materially with both
their principles and their interests; therefore he does
not except their appreciation to IL.
We have carefully contrasted this with mos
other theories and treatments, particularly the de-
pletiye one, and feel well assured that tile public
mind Is not much biased that il 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 secretons and
excretons, and at the same time they also sustain
the general system. The depletiye practice (espe-
ciay on very many ocoasions) not only adds TO the
general functional arrangement Of the system, but
supersdds prostration and debility, when there is
already too much of both. AYR
SO far as we conceive bleeding, puking, or purs-
ing necessary, or even admissible, we have in all
clearly pointed out the times and circumstances
under which we think they should be used.
Although we have mentioned variety Of sudor-
ics orrdaphoridcs, such the saline diaphoritics
Of the super-carbonates of potash soda, we have
also mentioned variety Of vegetable diaphoritics,
which are familiar to every one, and which, too,
are equally effcacious.
Under the head of anodynes we have mentioned
Doyer's powders, paragoric elixir, laudanum, &c.
Laudanum being the most common and familiar
preparation Of opium, in almost every instance, II
not in all it answers every purpose where either of
those preparations is required.
One chapter is devoted to what may be called No
terra .Nediea, giving description Of the different
tces 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 eff
fects upon the human system.
This book contains also:
LIST. The authors reasons why he has departed
from the practice of the old-sehool physicians, and
all others, in the treatment and cure Of levers;
ID. A short outline of the animal economy, &c. b;
Sd. The authors views and opinions in relation
TO the Inconsistency and irratonality of attempting
10 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. or intermittent, or ague and fever;
7th. Common bilious, or bilious remittent fever;
9Th. Cholera infantum, &c;
9th. OF yellow fever;
10th. OF influenza;
ii th. OF mild typhus, or nervous fever;
10Th. OF cold plague, or spotted fever;
18th OF scarlet fever;
.lith. OF measles;
18th. OF child-bed, or puerperal fevu;
10TH An alphabetical arrangement of the articles Of
medicine used in this work. a ..... .. .....
For the satisfaction of those persons at distance,
and unacquainied with my character and standing
as physician have thought proper to attach to
the work several letters and certificates from gen.
uemen Of the first responsibility in this State, who
have been personally and intimately acquainted
with for more than twenty years, and could have
obtained thousands of others had deemed it neces-
sary. H" .... ." .- ... ..w
have also attached many letters and certificates
to the work, speaking of the unrvalled efficacy Of
my Ant-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 dollar and fifty cents, if this was not
the most prompt and efiicacous remedy ever used
in the cure offcvers, can any one believe for mo-
ment that they would have sold at that apparently
high price, and TO largely upward ola million of
boXes' Certainly they would not.
A full disclosure of the component parts Of these
pills is given in this work, together with directions
for making and using them on all occasions.
The ingredients of which these pills are COM
posed, 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 Il believe) in every part of the United
States, and consequently be obtained with case
by every person, in abundance, that considered
admirable substitutes for the preparation Of which
the pills made IL.
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 it more donation than sale. D.. +
II this book and The facts upfolded 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,
espcCiulIy WHcH uiueu ny pooh, ooh uoot ioFcio
more successfully than the most experienced and
scientific physician 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
s. Co.. of Philadelphia; Messrs. Nafo & Cornish, OF
New York, and Messrs. Gushing q Brother, OF
Baltimore, book merchants in those places, where
merchants and others residing in those States and
Territories, as well as in all others, cam and it is
hoped will, be supplied upon terms calculated to in
duce purchases.
/ JOHN SAPPINGTON,
\ "t. Saline county, Missouri.
n nrMcssrs. A. G. SWITZER q CO.,
II "a. Z. St. Lou Missouri.
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