Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1848-10-27
PURGATION

kNROM the laun verb purge, to cleanse or nm
L rIty, sd word which embraces within its
ample folds the whole art of medicine. However
much the truth may be hushed up or obscured
peh;nd Latin prescriptions, or mysIitied ~ het-
ereogeneous compounds, it is well known by II,
VINO are competent TO practice the healing art,
that no permanent cure ever was effected except
|py purgauon Stimaianis and anodyes are some
hines useful TO fortify the constitution and ena.
pie 1t to weather particular crisis, while al the
same timer purga;on is at work removing the
cause; but what sane man ever believed that sti.
|mulants or aaodynes could cure disease
Many hesitate to adopt the purgaton theory.
from harborng the idea that it is something new;
some Yankee notion, recently got up, So far
/ rom curing disease by purgation being new
Theory. 1t Is evidently the oldest on 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
$purglng, used as a familiar illustration of the
SOULS restoration 10 righteousness, TO use the Ian
Iguage OF Isaiah, CHI vi yer. 7, our iniquties are
Pc Ken AWAY and our sins purged.' Thus also,
|Malichl Sd, speaks of God purging and purifying
/ The sinner, as a rehner purges his gold. And
how is that. Why to separate the impurities from
THE pure gold. And this is the identical effec,
which good purgatives produce on the human bo-
|dy. Paul, in his first episte TO the Corinthl ms,
ch W. yer. Yin alusion 10 the fact that they had
led them to rid themselves, tells them to Purge
out therefore. the old eaven, that We may become
la new lump Let US change the phraseology a
Itle and 1t will cad thus: Purge out, there lore,
the old and decayed atoms from your person that
you may become new (or healthy person.
But, my dear doctor, eXclalms some doubter,
you vii! have the kindness to observe, that these
passages are used wholly with reference TO spirit
uaI matters ; and | cannot see why the p oprie ty
q FROM
Well, friend. will endeavor to make it plain. In
all The texts above quoted, the word purge Is used
only as hguratve expression, TO illustrate by re
terence to familiar universally admitted fact.
another and entirely new idea, viz , the purging
away the corruptions of our nature by the atom
ing sacrifice of the son of God. Now, to make
th:s hgurative word proper Que to use under
these circumstances two conditions were neces+
sary. First, that purgaon should really and tru-
ly possess the power TO drive out of the system all
tout and corrupt humors, and make the patient rs
II were a 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 10
whom these teachings were addressed. Ii the
first was not true, Meth might the doctrine
founded upon it be true, and i: the second were
not known and believed by the people, the Illus
tratIon could not be understood hope, there
fore, that 1t Is conclusvely proved. by the above
quotations, that the ancient Jews l.new and be-
| lieved that purgation would remove all corrup-
ton or cause of disease from the hnman frame,
and make of the individual as ii 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
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