Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1848-11-24
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E'ROM lie LAIN vtrb purge, to cleanse or pu
L my, sa word which embraces wjthia its
ample folds the whole art of medicine. HoweNe
much the tru h may be hushed up or obscure
behind Latin prescriptions, or myslltied y het
ereogeneous compounds, it IS we'll known by al
who are competent 10 practice the healing ar
that no permanent cure ever was effected eXcep
by pur2auon Sima!ants and anojyes are some
times useful TO iotlty the constitution. and ena.
bic it TO weather particular crisis, while at the
same tmeI pHrgation is at work removing the
cnuse; but what sane man ever believed that s-
NAL hts or aaodynes could cure disease
Many hesitate TO adopt the purgation theory,
from harhorng the idea that it Is something new;
some Yankee notion. recently got up, So far
from curing disease BY purgatnn being new
theory, II Is evidently the Oldest record, and
| the only one which has received the sanction of
| Holy writ Consult your Bibles, there you will
find the restoration of health by the process of
| purgng, used a familiar illustration of the
souls restoration TO righteousness to the Ian
guage oil Isaiah, CHI VI Yer, Z, InIquities are
| II ken away and our sins purged Thus also,
! Malchi Sd, speaks of God purging and purf ing
! the sinner, a rehner purges his gold. And
how is that. Why to separate the impurities from
the pure gold. And this is the ide nticaI elect
which good purgatives produce on the human bo-
| dy. Parl. in his first epstle to the Corinthians,
oh. ". yer. Z, in alIuson 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, thai We may become
| a new lump Let us change the phraseology a
little, and it will read thus; Purge ont there lore,
! the old and decayed atoms from your person that
| you moy become a new (or healthy person.
But, my dear doctor, excloims some doubter,
! YOU will have The kindness observe. that these
! passages are used wholly with reference to spirit
ual matters; and tanaot see why the oprle ~
/ OF pur2Hg the body IS proved from Such texts
J " ell friend | " tl{PnteaVnr n MAX q pidIn In
all the texts above quoted the word purge l. used
! only hgurathe expression. 20 illustrate by re-
/ ference TO familiar, universally admitted tsc',
/ another and eninely new idea, VIZ, the purging
| away the corTuptlons OF our nature by the atom
ing sacrifice OF the of God. Now, to make
/ this hgurauVe word a proper cue to use under
/ these circumstances TWO conditions were neces-
sary. Flrs', that pufgaIon should really and tru
y possess he power 10 drive ont OF the system all
! foul and corrupt humors, and make the patient rs
! il were a new man. IN 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, If the
/ first not true, Meth mIght the doctrine
/ founded upon 1t be true, and i: the second were
not known and believed by the people, the ilus.
iration could not be understood | hope. there
fore, that II IS concuslvey proved. by the above
quotations. that the ancient Jews lnew and be-
| lieved 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 naturif system cure, the medicines used
must he vEGETBLE and The growth of our own
soil, indications met by no medicine now before
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