Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1849-04-13
PUHe CATION

ENROM the ldtln verb purge, TO cleanse or pu-
l. ny, as word which embraces within its
ample folds the whole art of medicine. Howeve r
much the tru h may be hushed up or o5scurcd
behind Laun prescriptions, or myslItied y het-
ereogeneous compounds, il is well known by II
who are competent TO practice the healing arr
that no permanent cure ever effected except
by purgatlon Stmalants and anodyes some
times useful to toNes[l the constitution, and ena
be it to wea her pfrttcular crisis, while at the
same timer purga;ion is at work removing the
cause; but what man ever believed that sii-
mulsnts aaody could cure disease.
Many hesitate TO adopt the purgat;on theory,
from harborng the idea that it is something new;
some Yankee notion. recently got up, So far
IRON curing disease by purgatlon being
theory, ii 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
purging, used a familiar Illustration of the
souls restoration to righteousness TO use the Ian
qua e of Isaiah, CHI. vi. VERT, our InIqui,ies
Ia ken away and our sins purgcd. Thus also,
Malichi Sd, speaks of God purging and purif ing
the sinner, as retiner purges his gold And
how is that. Why to separate the impurities from
the pure gold. And this is the de nt.ca elect
which good purgatives produce on The human boz
dy. Paul, in his first epIstIe to the Curinh. MS,
CHI. ". YER Tin allnsion to the fact that they had
a corrupt person in the chu oh, of which he wish
ed them to rid themselves, tells them - Purge
out therefore, the old lcaven, that We may become
a new lump Let us change tho phraseology a
little and it will read thus: Purge out, there lore,
the old and decayed atoms from your person that
you mt Y become new (0r healthy person.
But, my dear doctor, rXclulms some doubter,
YOU will have the kindness to observe that these
passages are used wholly with reference to spirit
ua matters; and cannot see why the % oprety
OF purging the body is proved from such texts
Well. friend, will endeavor TO make it plain. In
all the texts above quoted, the word purge Is used
only iigurati' expression, 10 Illustrate by re
ference to familiar, universally admitted fact,
another and entiely new idea, viz, the purging
away the corruptions of our nature by the atom
ing sacrifice OF the of God Now, TO make
THIS hguratlve word proper Que to use under
these circumstances, two conditions were neces-
sary. First, that purgalon should really and tru
" posses the power to drive ont OF the system all
foul and corrupt humors, and make the patient as
it were new man, IN other words a perfectly
healthy man, and secondly that this connection
between purgatlon and perfect health should be
known and believed In by the whole people 10
whom these teachings were addressed. II the
first not true, Meth nHght 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 it is concIuslvely proved. by the above
quotations, that the ancient Jews knew and be-
leved that purgaton 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 lactice.
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. IL
Prepared only by DIR. JAMES Nj NISII, and
sold in Southport, by LEE II LAY, only,
May, 1913 -ly$l5n47 Agents for Southport.