Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1849-04-20
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IRON the latin verb urgo, o cleanse or ru-
L MY, as word whte h embraces wiIhia its
ample folds the whole art OF medicine However
much the tru h may be b, shed up or oLscured
behind Latin preScrI t.ons, or myslitied " het-
ereogeneous compounds, il is well known by a u
who are competent TO acrice the healing arr
Tint no permanent cure ever was eff cted except
by purgaton Stmaiants and anodyes are some.
times useful TO 70 sazs the constitution, and ena
be it to weather particular crisis, while at the
same tmeJ pnrga'loh is at work removing the
cause; but what man ever believed that sIi.
mulsnts or aaodynes 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
| from curing disease by pnrgation being new
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
purgng, used familiar Illustration of the
souls restoration TO righteousness 10 use tie Ian
qua ge OF Isaiah, CHI VII yer, 7, our Iniquities are
ts ken away aud our sins purged. Thus also.
! Malichi Sd, speaks of God purging and purif ing
the sinner, rehner purges his gold And
how is that. Why to separate the impurities from
the pure gold. And tins is the de ntica effect
which good purgatives produce on the human bo.
dy. Paul. in his first epistle to the Corinthians.
CHI w. yer. :, in allusion to the fact that they had
a corrupt person in the church, Of which he wish
| ed them to rid themselves, tells them to Purge
out therefore, the old leaven, thai We may become
a new lump. Let us change the Phrdseology
little and it will read thus Purge ont, there fore,
the old and decayed atoms from your person that
you me Y become new Cor healthy person.
But, my dear doctor, cxclaims some douber,
YOU will have the kindness TO observe, that these
passa ges used wholly with reference to spirit
uai matters; and cannot see why the y opriety
OF purglng the body is proved froln such texts
Nch. friend, | will endeavor to make il plain. In
all the texts above quoted the word purge is used
only as hgurat, expression, 70 illustrate by re-
ference 10 a familiar, universally admitted fact,
another and entirely idea, viz, the purging
away the corruptIons of our nature by the atom.
ing sacrifice OF The son of God. Now, to make
this igurave word proper cue TO use under
these circumstances two conditions were neCes-
sary. First, that purgation should really and ira
ly possess The power to drive out OF the system all
font and corrupt humors, and make the patient IS
ii were new man. IN other words perfectly
healthy man, and SeccnCly that this connection
between purgation and perfect health should be
| known and believed i'll by the whole people 10
whom these teachings were addresse /. If the
first was not true, Meth nHght the doctrine
founded upon 1t be true, and i: tho second
not known and believed by the people, the illus
traton could net be understood hope, there
fore, that 1t Is conclusvely proved. by the above
quotations, that The ancient Jews lGew and be-
lieyed that purgatlon would remove all corrup
lion or cause OF disease from The hnman frame,
and make of the individual as il wcre,a new 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. Il
Prepared only by DR.. JAMES NJ NISH, and
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May, 1913 -lySl5n47 Agents TO. Southport.