Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1849-04-06
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| ENROM the latin verb purge, 20 cleanse or pm
! L riiy, a word which embraces Withia il
! ample folds the whole art of medicine. lI0wpvt
| much the tru Ii may be hushed up or ohscurej
| heh;ud Latin Prescrft ons, or mysIlhed y htt
| eyeogrneous compounds, it is well known BY al
who are competent to practice tie healing ar
that no permanent cure ever was ellccreI excep
by purgdton StimaIants and anodvcs are some
times useful to 70 s-A the constitution. aud ena
be it to weather particular crisis, while at the
same time; pGrgauon is at work removing the
cause; but what sane man ever believed thai SIT
mulsnts or a3odynes could cure disease,
Many hesitate TO adopt the pprgation theory.
from harboring the idea that il is something new
some Yankee notion. recently got Up. So far
from curing disease by purgation being new
theory it 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 as familiar Illustration Of The
souls restoration to righteousness 10 use t. Ian
guage of Isaiah, Oh. vi. ver Z, Iniqnities are
Ia ken away and our sins purged. Thus also,
Malichi Sd, speaks Of God purglng and purif ing
the sinner, as reliner purges his gold Aud
how is thai. Why to separate the impurities iron
the pure gold. And this is the de ntcaI elect
which good purgatives produce on the human bo-
DIV. Paul, in his first epistIe to The Corinthians,
CHI v. ver Tin ausion to the fact that they had
corrupt person III lliE Gnu CIi, VI Nitp t WISH
ed them to rid themselves, tells them II Purge
out theref fore, the old eaven, that ye may become
a new lump. Let us change the phrAseology
ttle and it will read thus Purge ont, there lore,
the old and decayed atoms from your person that
you me- y become new Tor healthy person.
But, nv dear doctor, eXclnlms some doubter,
YOU will have the kindness 10 observe. that these
passages are used wholly with reference TO spirit
ual matters; and cannot see why the = oprety
of purqing the bodyis proved from such texts
Well. friend, | will endedvor to make II paIn. IN
all the texts above quoted, The word purge Is used
only is fgurati, expression to illustrate by re-
ference TO a familiar, universally admitted tici,
another and entirely new idea. W., the pur2ln9
away the corruptions Of our nature by the atom
ing sacrifice OF the son of God. Now TO make
this fgurative word proper QUO to use under
these circumstances two conditions were neces-
sary. First, that purgaton should really and tru-
" possess the power 10 drive ont oil the system al!
foul and corrupt humors, and make the patient rs
it were a man, IN other words perfectly
healthy man, and oeconcly that this connection
between purGaiion and perfect health should be
known and believed in by the whole people to
whom these teachings were addressed. Ii The
first was not true, Meth nHght the doctrine
founded upon it be true, and if the second were
not known and believed by The people, the Illus
iration could nat be understood | hope, there
fore, that it Is concluslveiy proved. by the abov
quotations, that the ancient Jews Lnew and be
lieved that purgaton would remove all corru2
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 Practice.
Remember that 10 carry out to perfection tHe
above natural system of cure, the medicines USED
must be vEGErBLE and The growth OF our own
soil, Indications met by no medicine now before
the public, except the Great Western Puts. IL
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