Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1849-01-19
HOU e ATEON

L'ROM the latIn verb purge, to elean?e or pm
l. riy, as wCrl which embraces Wthia ii>
ample folds the whole art Of medicine HowevoI
much the tru may be hushed up or obscureC
behind Latin prescrIl tons, or mysiiied v bet
ereogene0us compounds, it is we'll known by al
wko are competent 10 pr, ctce the hea ing ar
TINT permanent cure ever WAS effected exec
by purgatIon Stimaants and anodycs are some
times useful to !ortiiy the Constitution, and ena
be it TO weather plrttcuiar crisis, while AT the
same tmeI pnrgaHon is at work removing the
cause; but what sane man ever believed that ST.
mul2 ntS aaodyncs could cure disease.
Many hesitate to adopt the purgltion theory,
from harboring the idea that it is something new
some Yankee notion. recently got up SO far
from curing disease by purgaton being new
theory, IT is evidently tite oldest en- record aot
the only one which has received The sanction Of
Holy wit Consult your Bibles, there you viii
find the restoration of health by the process OF
purging, used familiar illustration OF the
souls restoration to righteousness, Ia use the Ian
guage OF Isaiah cil. Vi. yer. Z, IniquItics are
IL ken away aud our sins purged.' Thus also,
Malichi Sd, speaks OF God purgng and purif ing
the sinner, as retner purges his gold. And
how is thai. Why to separate the impurities from
the pure gold And this is the ide ntcal effect
which good purgatives produce on the human bo-
dy Paul, in his first eplste to the Corinthians,
oh. w. yer. in auOsion to the fact that they had
COTrnp person I'D tire cru ca, OF WHICH he WISH
ed them to rid themselves, tells them - Purge
out therefore the old caven, that We may BECOME
a new lump Let change the prdSecSgY
litle and it will read thus: Purge out, there lore,
the old and decayed atoms from your person that
You may become new Ter healthy person
But, my dear doctor, cXclnms some dOubter
YOU will have the kindness 10 observe, that these
passa ges are used wholly with reference to spirit
ual matters; and cannot why the p opriety
of purglng the bodYis proved frorn such lexis
Well. friend, VIII endeavor to make 1t plain. In
all the texts above quoted the word purge l. used
oaIy as Ggurati, expression, 70 Illustrate by re
ference to familiar, universally admitted fact,
another and entirely new idea, VIZ, the purglug
away the corrupilons OF our nature by TIE atom
ing sacrifice Of the son of God. Now, to make
this figuratiye word proper Que 10 use under
these circumstances, two conditions were neces-
sary. First, that purgation should really and tru
" possess the power 10 drive out Of the system all
foul aud corrupt humors, and make the patient as
it were new man. N other words perfectly
healthy man, and secondly that this connection
be ween purgaiion 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 nHght the doctrine
founded upon ii be true, and L the second were
not known and believed by The people, the iilus-
traton could net be understood hore there.
fore, that ii is conclusvely proved. by the above
quotations, that the ancient Jews hnew and be-
lieved that pureation would remove all corrup-
ton or cause of disease from she hnmsn frame,
and make Of The individual sit were,a new man,
md further, that the Divine Being approved and
sanctioned The Practice.
Remember that 10 carry out to perfection the
above natural system of cure, the medic ices 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 IL
Prepared only by DIR. JAMES Nj NISH, and
sold in Southport, by LEE d LAY, only,
May, I54S -lySl5ni7 Agents for Southport.