Southern shield., 1847-01-09


 SEVEN THOUSAND CASES OF OBSTINATE PULMONARY COMPLAINTS CURED IN ONE YEAR!! H H 4 H 4 9 rYSTARS BALSAM OF WILD CHERRY, THE GREAT REMEDY FOR LUNG COMPLAINTS AND ALL AZTEC 1I0NS OF THE RESPRATO- BY ORGANS.
 WM7E do not wish to trifle with the lives WW or health of the afflicted and we sincerely pledge ourselves to make no assertions as to the virtues of this medicine and to hold out no hope to suffering bu- manity which facts will not warrant. We ask the attention of the candid to few con- alterations.
 Nature, in every part of her works, has | left indellible marks of adoption and design. The constitution of the animals and vegeta bles of the torrid, is such that they could not endure the cold of the frigid zone, and vice versa.
 In regard to the disease and it's cure, the adoption is more or less striking
 The Moss of Iceland, the Wild Cherry and Pines of all Northern latitudes, land "Dr Wistar's Balsam" is compound chemical extract from these,) have long been celebrated for complaints prevalent only in cold climates. Indeed the most distinguished medical men have averred that nature furnishes in every country med icines for its own peculiar diseases
 Consumption, in its confirmed and incipi, ent stages, Coughs, Group, and Liver Com plant, form by far the most fatal class of diseases known to our land.-Yet even these may be cured by means of the simple yet powerful remedies. (named above,) and which are scattered, by a beneficial Provi- dence, wherever those maladies prevail.
 DAYTON February il, l943. MR J ". WHlrMRE:
 Dear Sir-As you are the regular authorized agent in Dayton for the sale "DR. WIsTAR's BALsAM or WILD CHERRY" l take this method of making statement of facts 10 you (which hope will be pub lished to the word) in reference 10 an almost MRAc- ULOUs CURE. wrought In my by means Of the above invaluable Basam
 Language fails to describe the salutary effects it produced and the great benefit derived from tsu
 The citizens of Dayton and vicinity, well recolecs that on the Sh of August last, l received serious injury from the explosion of cannon portion of it's entered my light side and breast and in all probability some fragments or splinters of the ramrod passed through the "plura, and pierced the lungs.
 After the lapse of about weeks, was attacked ', ittI distressing cough and violent pain in my right side Some days after this, when in parox- 3 ysm of coughing, suddenly ulcer broke and large quantity of very offensive matter mixed with blood, discharged; of which found its pas sage through the opening of the wound. From this opening there frequently passed quantity of air, . supposed to issue from the lungs. During all this time my suterngs were almost inolerable. | My physicians, meanwhile, paid the strictest attention to me, and did all their power for my recov- 3 cry. But with all their skill they could not reach the seat of distress after the lungs had become affected was visited during this time by at least twenty'physicians.
 It was now reduced 10 certainty, that infiamma- ton of the lungs was rapidly taking place. and that this would terminate my life in a very short time, was in the highest degree probable
 At this critical stage, amessenger was dispatched to Cincinnati, and a celebrated physician of tha, place consulted. When he was made acQuant- :, ed with my situation, he remarked that nothing ! could be done by medical aid, if the constitution it. c self was not sufficient to throw off the disease. , My friends now despaired of my recovery, and = = had no earthly ground ofhope to survive many days U Fortunately, at this juncturc, one Of pr. Wis e tar's pamphlets entitled Family Medical Guide ' Q or 'Treatise on Consumption of the Lugsn As v had often heard of dying men catching at straws, " l felt like doing so myself. By the consent of my physicians, sent to you for bottle of the medicine described, viz "WIsTAR's BALs.M OF WILD CHER BY, which relieved me almost immediately. After had used some five six bottes so far recovered as to be up and about. My cough ceased, and my lungs was restored to healthy state-all from the Y healing and balmy influence and powerful med re lcinal virtues of Wstar's Basam
 By exposure, have since taken several severe colds, and my only remedy has been ''the Basam And now most cordially recommend the genuine WistarS Balsam 10 all who are afflicted with colds al coughs, or lung complaints Any person desiring d further information may call on me at any time. d Yours, truly,
 CHRISTOPHER R. SMITH.
 Dayton, Ohio.
 Subscribed and sworn to before me, a Justice o the Peace, this llth day of February, IS45
 E. FOWLER.
 We the undersigned, being intimately acquainted . with MT. smith, and having seen and watched ove y him frequently during his late illness, do not hesi tate to say that the foregoing is by no means an ex aggeraed statement, but is entitled to full credit 2 A. l.. STOUT, lc J. E. H. DODSON " ~ HENRY R. SMITH. J The true and genuine "WIsrAR's BAr.sAM OF W1Lr CHERRT IS sold at established agencies in all part. of the United States ' Sold m Cincinnati, on the corner of Fourth ant Walnut streets, by SANFORD & PARK
 General Agents for the Western States Sold sn Helene, by L. FREEMAN & Co and P. A. BARKER, IT.,
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