Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1849-02-23
aoUEgG ATHON

! ORION the laIin verb purge, 10 cleanse or pu
rlfy, as a word which embraces wiihia it
ample folds the whole art of medicine. IIowevt
much the tru II may be hushed up or ohscuret
behind Latin prescriptions, or mys'ltled V lret
ereogeneous compounds, il is well known by al
who are competent TO practice the healing ar
that no permanent cure ever was effected excep
by purgat0n SlimaIants and anodyes are some
times useful to iortlty the constitution. and ena
be it to weather particular crisis, while al The
same timer pnrgaHon is at work removing the
cause; but what sane man ever believed that sill
mulants or aaodynes could cure disease.
Many hesitate TO adop, the purgaton theory,
from harboring the idea that ii is something new
some Yankee notion. recently got up. So far
IRON curing disease by purgation being new
theory, it is evidently the oldest on record. and
the only one which tls received the sanction of
Holy writ Consult your Bibles, there you will
find the restoration of health by the process OF
purging, used a familiar Illustration of the
souls restoration to Righteousness. To the Ian
guage of Isaiah, CHI vi. Yer, 7, our Iniquies are
ta ken away ard our sins purged.' Thus also,
Malichi Sd, speaks of God purglng and purf ing
the sinner, as a rehner purges his gold. And
how is that. Why 10 separate the impurities from
the pure gold. And this is the ide nt,cal effect
which good purgatves produce on the human bo-
dy. Paul, in his first epistie to the Curinihij MS
CHI v. yer. :, in alluson TO the fact that they had
ii
ed them to rid themselves, tells them 10 Purge
out therefore, the old leaven, that We may become
a new lump. Let us change the phrtscology
little, and it will read thus Purge out there tore,
the old and decayed atoms from your person that
you ms become new (or healthy person.
But, my dear doctor, cXcaims some donbter,
YOU will have the kindness TO observe, that these
passages are used wholly with reference TO spirit
ua matters and | cannot see why the p oprlety
of purging the bodyis proved froin such teXts.-
Well. friend, Will endeavor to make 1t plain. In
all the texts above quoted, the word purge - used
only fgurati, expression, TO illustrate by
ference to familiar, universally admitted fact,
another and entirely new idea, viz, the purging
away the corruptons Of our nature by the alien
ing sacrifice OF the son of God. Vow, TO make
this figuratye word proper Que to under
these circumstances two conditions were neces-
sary. First, that purgalion shouid really and Iru
ly possess the power to drive out Of the system all
foul and corrupt humors, and make the patient as
il were a new man, IN other words 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 IT be true, and /! the second were
not known and believed by the people, the illus-
tration could not be understood | hope, there
FORE that ii is conclusIvely proved. by the above
quotations, that the ancient Jews l.new and be-
Iieved 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 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
Prepared only By DR.. JAMES NJ NISH, and
sold in Southport, by LEE & LAY, only,
May, 1913 -lySl5n47 Agentsfo for Southport