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sAPPINGToN ON FEvERs.
/ Mem TheOyU and Treatment of Fepers

II .NeD Theory and treatment " FeperS
BY DIR. JOHN sAPrlSGros,
or Saline county, Missouri! rsrsed and corrected BY
r. Stih, NJ d., Of Franklin, Tennessee.
'tNHlS work is now offered 10 the public for sale.
l. The author Aatters himself with the belief, that
when II shall have been atlentlyey 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 10 the public in the of leveTs,
to obtain for IT decided preference in the estimation
of every practical man. This work is intended to go
TO the families and hTesides of the community at large
to the great body of the American people.
The author entertalns no doubt, but that the
farmer or mechanic, by carefully reading il over
few times, will fully comprehend the meaning Of the
author, and be enabled to curry the practice sue
cessfuly in his own family, If he has confidence in
himself and thus enable HIM 10 be ais own physician
in the of feyers, which constitute nine-tenlhs
of the bodily pain, suffering and mortality of the hui
man family.
The author himself has bestowed much time and
reflection on il; he has also spared no pains ex-
pense to employ competent persons TO assist him in
preparing this work, and in making II ms clear and
as acceptable 10 all classes Of the community as
possible. But he is aware, with very few eXcep-
lions, that there is class (thr doctors) whose
SANCTION TO a work of this kind cannot he obtained,
for the reason that it conflicts materially with both
their principles and their interests; therefore he does
not except their appreciation TO 1t.
We have carefully contras;ed this with mos
other theories and treatments, particularly the de-
pletiye one, and feel well assured that the public
mind ia not so much biGsed that il cannot do other
wise than pronounce decidedly in its favor for
whilst under this treatment, all the remedies tend TO
the lost balance 10 the circulation, by acting
mildly and uniformly upon all the secretions and
excretions and at the time they also sustain
the general system. The depletive practice (espe-
cially very many occasioRs) not only adds to the
general functional arrangement Of the system, but
supersdds prostration and debility, when there is
already too much OF both.
So far as we conceive bleeding, puking, purg-
ing necessary, or even admissible, we have In oil
cases clearly pointed the times and circumstances
under which we think they should be used.
Although we have mentioned a variety Of sudor-
i6cs OF diaphortics, such the saline diaphoritcs
Of the superAcarbonstes of potash or Soda have
also mentioned variety Of vegetable diaphortics,
which familiar TO every one, and which, too,
are equally efheacious.
Under the head of anodynes we have mentioned
Dover's powders, paragoric elixir, laudanum, &c.
Laudanum being the most common and familiar
preparation Of opium, in almost every instance, if
not in ALL 1t answers every purpose where either Of
those preparations il required.
One Chapter IL devoted TO what may be called Ma
terra .usdea giving description of the different
ticeso of medicine recommended in this treatise, with
the 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 od-school ply scans, and
all others, in the treatment and cure Of feyers;
ID. A short outline Of the animal economy, &c,
Sd. The authors views and opinions in relation
to the inconsistency and nationally of attempting
to cure fevers principally by depletion;
| 4th. The authors practice and treatment in the
cure Of fevers;
5th. The authors views the subject of the uni
ty Of fevers;
9th. OF intermittent or ague and fever;
7th. Common bilious, or bilious remlttent fever;
9Th. Cholera infantum, &c;
| 9th. OF yellow fever;
| 10th. or influenza;
llth. OF mild typhus, or nervous fever;
10Th. or cold plague, or spotted fever;
18th OF scarlet fever;
18th. OF measles;
| 18th OF chid-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 unacquainted 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 than twenty years, and could have
obtained thousands Of others had deemed il
sary.
have also attached many letters and certificates
| TO the work. speaking of the unrivaed 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 dollar and fifty cents if this not
the most prompt and eticscious remedy ever used
in the cure offevers, can any one believe for mo-
men that they would have sold at that apparently
high price, and to largely upward of a million of
boxes' Certainly they would not.
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, can be obtained at most of the stores in the
country, and at, perhaps, every drugstore.
| There also mentioned in the work two herbs,
which grow q believe) in every part of the United
States, and consequently can be obtained with ease
by every person, in abundance, that considered
admirable substitutes for the preparation of which
! the pills are made.
The treatise here offered to the public 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 useful remedies
ever offered to the public at any price. Indeed J
| consider it more n donation than a sale.
If this book and the facts uDfolded by 1t do not
awaken the people from the mesmeric, or some other
| almost unaccounable 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 the expression may APP
| pear that any common observer, under this plan,
especially when aided by the book, can treat ievers
more successfully than the most experienced and
scientific physician can upon the common plan,
even if he to sit all the time by the patients
| bed side.
To those States and Territories where the modi-
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; Mcssrs Nafo & Cornish, of
| New York. and Messrs. Gushing g. Brother, OF
Baltimore, book merchants in those places, where
merchants and others residing in those States and
Territories, 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.
u5rMessrs. A. G. SWITZER e. Co,
St. Louis Missouri.
VIRGINIA LAND OFFICE,
February 9, 1916.