Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1848-11-10
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L'ROh nc Iatn verb purge 90 cleanse or ~
l. rIiy, 81 word which euiGraces WlihI1 It's
ample 10 DIS the whole art of medicine. li0weve
much the tru h may be hushed up or obscure
behind baum ptescyli lions, or myslliIed het
erc0geleous Compounds, 1t is we'll known By all
who afe competent to practice the healing art
that no permanent cure effected excep
by pureatI0n Stmalants and anodycs are some
times useful TO iortity the constitution, and ena
be it TO veal particular crisis, while at the
same timer purgatiOh Is at work removing the
Cause; but what sane man ever believed that sti.
mul hts or aHodynes could cure disease.
Many he'itae to adopt the pprgation theory,
from harboring the idea that it is something new;
some Yankee notion. recently got up, So far
from curing disease by pGrgaton being d new
theory, it is evidently ;he oldest on record and
the Only one which has received the sanction Of
Holy wit Consult your Bibles, there you will
find the restoration of health by the process OF
purglng, used as a familiar illustration of the
souls restoration to righteousness, to the Ian
guage OF Isaiah, Cit Ti Yer, T. our InIQuities are
ts ken away and our sins purged. Thus also,
Machi Sd, speaks of God purging and purf. in Q
the sinner reiiner purgcs his gold. And
how is that Why TO separate the Impurltl' g from
the pure gold. And this is the ide nr,caI effect
which GOO purgatves produce on the human bo-
dy. Paul, IN his first epistle 10 the Corinthians,
ch. YER Z, IN aIIuson to the fact that they had
a corrupt person in the church, of which he wish
ed them to rid themselves, tells them - Purge
out therefore, the old leaven, tina ye may be ONE
a new lump Let US change the phrascology
little and it will read thus: Purge OUT there lore,
! the old and decayed atoms from your person that
you mGy become a new Cor healthy person.
! But, my dear doctor, PXclaims some doubter,
YOU will have the kindness TO observe, that these
passa ges are used wholly with reference 10 spirit
uni matters and cannot see why the oprie ~
of putEIng the body is proved FROM such texts
Well. friend, will endeavor to make II plain. In
all the texts above quoted the word purge Is used
only hguratN expression, TO illustrate by re :
ference to familiar universally admitted actI
another and entire y new idea, viz, the purgtng
away the cOrruptlOns OF our nature by the atom
ing sacrifice OF the son of God. Now, TO make
this hguratlve word a proper Que to use undel
these circumstances two conditions were neces-
sary. First, that purgaton should really and tru
" possess the power to drive out Of the system III
foul ard corrupt hunors, and make the patient as
it were new man, N other words a perfectly
healthy man, and secondly that this connection
between purgation and perfect health should be
known and believed in by the whole people TO
whom these teachings were addressed. II the
first not true, Meth Tlght the doctrine
founded upon 1t be true, and i: the second were
not known and believed by the people, the illus
tratlon could not be understood hope, there.
fore, that 1t is conclusvely proved. by the above
quotations, that the ancient Jews Lnew and be-
leved that Purgation would remove all corrup-
ton or cause of disease from The hnman frame,
and make of The individual as it were "a new man,
md further, that the Divine Being approved and
sanctioned the practice.
Remember that to carry out to perfection the
above natural system of cure, the medicines used
must be vEGETBLE and the growth of our own
soil, indications met by no medicine now before
the public, except the Great Western Pills. II
Prepared only by DR.. JAMES NJ NISH, and
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