Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1849-04-27
PgTRE AVEON

TNROM the latin verb pug, 70 cleanse or M.
L ii y, as a word which embraces within is
ample folds the whole art of medicine. However
much the tru Ii may be hushed up or ojscured
behind Latin prescriptions, or myslltied het-
ereogeneous compounds, II is we'll known by al!
who ale competent TO practice the healing ar
that no permanent cure ever was effected eXcep;
by purgatIon Stma'ants and anodyes some
times useful TO foaISs the constitution, and ena
be 1t to wea her particular crisis while al the
same timer purga:loh is at work removing the
cause; but what sane man ever believed that SIT
mule nts or aaodynes could cure disease.
Many hesitate TO adopt the purgation theory.
from harboring the idea that it is something new;
some Yankee notion. recently got Up. SO far
IRON curing disease by pnrgaton being new
theory, 1t is evidently the oldest record ana
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
purgIng, used familiar illustration of the
souls restoration to righteousness TO use the Ian
qua ge OF Isaiah, Oh. vi. YER :, lniquiiies are
Ia ken away and our sins purged. Thus also,
Mallchi Sd, speaks OF God purging and purif ing
the sinner, rciiner purges his gold. And
how is that. Why to separate the impurities from
the pure gold. And this is the de nt.ca cltc,
which good purgatives produce on the human boz
dy. Paul, In his first epIstle to the Corinthians
Oh. ". ver Tin alluson TO the fact that they had
ed them to rid themselves, tells them 10 Purge
out therefore. the old leaven, that We may become
new lump. Let us change the phrhseology
little and it will read thus: Purge out, there lore,
the old and decayed atoms from your person that
you mcy become new Ger healthy person.
But, my dear doctor, eXClnlms some doubter,
YOU will have the kindness 10 observe. that these
passa ges are used wholly with reference spirit
ual matters and | cannot see why the y oprlety
OF purgIng the body is proved from such lexis
Well. friend, | will endcavor to make it plain. In
all the texts above quoted, the word purge rs used
only tigurat, expression, 20 illustrate by re
ference to a familiar, universally admitted t.ct,
another and entirely new idea, via, the purging
away the cOrruptons Of our nature by the atom
ing sacrifice OF the son of God. Now, to make
this hgurative word a proper Que to use under
these circumstances two conditions were neces-
sary First, that purgatlon should really and tru'
y possess the power to drive ont OF tie system all
foul and corrupt humOrs, and make ihr patient as
it were new man, m other words perfectly
healthy man, and eeconTly that this connection
between purgatlon and perfect health should be
known and believed in by the whole people TO
whom these teachings were addressed. If the
first was not true, Meth nHght the doctrine
founded upon II he true, and /: the second were
not known and believed by The people, the illus
tration could not be understood hore, there
fore, that II is conclusvely proved. by the above
quotations, tnat the anCIent Jews hneN anu De-
lieved that purgation would remove all corrup
ton or cause of disease from she hnmdn frame,
and make of the individual as it were, "a mar,
md further, that the Divine Being approved and
sanctioned The iactice.
Remember that to carry out to perfection the
above natural system ofcure, 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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