Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1848-12-22
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T7RCM Tie latin verb purge, to cleanse Of ru-
L MY, "a a word w!Ich cmbr css vithja IFS
mplp 70 S the whole art Of med cue. llowev
mach the tru h may be hu,h, d up or ohscured
.en;ni Latin preScrI, cns. or m : flied bet
.reogentOus ccmpoun' 5, IL e. kuowa by ali
10 are competent to ! r cljce tie heal
a Mt 10 permneat Gu" ev VS. 81 &c j exc y
by pur2ation iStimalants end apodycs are me.
times useful totortiy the con-u,utIor, and ina
be it to weather particular crisis, while at the
same timeI pHrga;loh is at work removing the
cause; but what sane man ever believed ti,at sill
mulonts or aHodynes could cure disease.
Many hesitate TO adopt the purgatjon theory,
from harboring the idea that il is something new:
some Yankee notion. recently GOT Up. So far
from curing disease by purgatIon being new
theory it is evidently the oldest record, and
the only one which has received the sanction of
HoIy wit Consult your Bibles, there you will
find the restoration of health by the process of
purqing used as familiar illustration ct the
souPs restoration to righteousness TO use tie Ian
qua ce of Isaiah ch. vi. YER 7, lnlquities are
T. ken away and our sins purged. Thus also,
M,lichi Sd, speaks of God pur@InG md purIt ing
the sinner as retiner purges his gold And
how is that. Why to separate the impurities from
the pure gold. And this is the lde nt,Cal effect
which good pnrgatives produce on the human bo-
dy Paul, in his first eplstIe to the Curlniht ms,
ch v. ver I'm allnsIon TO the fact that they hid
a corrupt person in the chu ch, of which he wish
ed them to rid themselves, tells them to Purge
out therefore, the old leaVen, that We may become
a new lump. Let US change the phrdseology
little and it will read thus: Purge out, there lore,
the old and decayed atoms from yoar person that
you may become new (or healthy person.
But my dear doctor, eXcialms some doubter
YOU will have the kindness TO observe, that these
PASSAGES are used wholly with reference to spirit
uaI matters: and cannot see why the p Oprety
of purqinp the bodyi is proved roIn such texts
Welt friend, | will endeayor to make II PLAIN. In
all the texts above quoted, the word purge Is used
onlv as fgurati, expression, TO illustrate by re
ference to familiar, universally admitted fact,
another and entirely new idea, W., the purg'ng
away the corruptiOns of our nature by the atom
inc, sacrifice of The son of God Now, TO make
this Equratve word a proper Que TO use under
these circumstances two conditions were neces-
s,rv First that purga'on should really and tru-
Nv possess the power TO drive out OF the system all
foul and corrupt humors, and make the patent as
it were a new man, IN other words perfectly
healthy man, and secondly that TINS connc'"oh
he ween purgation and perfect health should be
known and believed in by the whole people 10
whom these teachings addressed. II the
first was not true, Meth r might the doctrine
founded upon it be true, and /: the second were
not known and believed by the people, the Illus
tration could net be understood hoPe, there
fore, that it is concuslvely proved. by the above
quotations, that the ancient Jews hnew and be-
lieved that purgation would remove all corrup-
ton or cause of disease from The hnman frame,
and make of the individual as il wcre,a new man,
md further that the Divine Being approved and
sanctioned the Practice.
Remember that to carry out to PERFECTION me
above natural system ofcure, the medic Ioes u'eo
must be vEGETBLE and the growth OF our Own
soil. indications met bv no medicine now before
the public. except the Great Western Pills; IL
Prepared only By DR.. JAMES NJ NISH' and
soId in Son,bnort. nv LEA LAY, only,
May, Is48 -lySl5n47 Agents for Southport