Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1849-03-16
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| T1ROHI the latin verb purgc, to cleanse or pu
L rl'v. as word which embraces With it.
ample folds The whcle ant of mrdicine. lIowtv,
much the ira h may be hushcd up or 81 source
behind Latin pre- ,criI ons, or mys'iiied V hrt
ereogene, Is compounds, ii is we'll known by al
who are conn ctent TO practice the heating ar
that no permanent cure ever was eiit cted eXctp
by purgation Srima'ants and anodyes some
times useful to torly The constitution. and ena
be it to weather particular crisis. while at the
same t;meI purga;;Cn Is at work removing he
canse: but what sane man ever believed that ST.
mulonts or aIody ncS could cure disease.
Many hesitate to adopt the pprgation theory
from harborng the idea that it is thing new
some Yankee notion. recently got up. So FIR
from curing disease by purgaton being a rev
theory, ii is evidently the oldest record and
the only one which hls received the sanction of
iIoiv writ Consult your bibles, there you viii
hnd the restoration Of health by tue process of
purging, used as familiar illustration Of The
souls restoration to rghleouSncss,t use tie Ian
glage OF Isaiah, ch. Vi. ver,7, our Inlquitlcs
t. ken away and our sins purged. Thus also.
Malichi Sd, speaks OF God purglng and Purit ing
the sinner, as retiuer purgcs his gold. And
how is that. Why 10 separate the impurities from
the pure gold. And this is the identical effect
which good purgativeS produce on the human boz
DIV. Pail, in his first epise to the Corinjhi; MS,
ch. v. ver Tin aiusion the fact that they had
a corrupt person in the chu CHI, OF which he wish
ed Them to rid themselves, tells them u Purge
out therefore, the old eayen, that ye may become
a new lump. Lst us change the phrasco"gy
rtIe, and it will read thus: Purge out, there lore,
the old and decayed atoms from your Pc rson that
you ms Y become new or healthy person.
Bat. nv dear doctor, rXCimms some counter,
Won will have The kindness 10 observe, that these
passages are used wholly with reference 10 spirit
ual matters and cannot see why the oprieiy
of purging the bodYls proved from such ieNis.-
Wen friend, | will endeavor TO make II plain. In
all the texts above quoted, the word purge Is used
only as Igura:I' expression, TO illustrate 0y re-
ference to a familiar, universally admitted let,
another and entirely new idea, W., The purgln4
away the corruplions Of our nature by the atrn-
ing sacrifice OF the son of God. Vow, to make
this figurave word a proper Que to use nndei
these circumstances TWO conditions were neCeS-
sary. First that purgation should really and 'rn.
Iv possess the power TO drive ont OF the system all
foul and corrupt humors, and make The patient Us
il were a new man, N other words perfectly
healthy man, and secon,ly that this connection
between purgation and perfect health should be
known and believed in by the whole people TO
whom these teachings were addressei. Ii the
first was not true, Meth might the doctrine
founded upon il be true, and i: the second were
not known aud believed by The people. the lllus-
rration could net be understood hope, there
FORE that il is conclusIvely proved. by the above
quotations. that the ancient Jews lnew and BE-
iieved that purgaiion would remove all corrup
lion 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 ana
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 medirine now before
the public, excep, the Great Western p,lls II
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