Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1849-02-09
s3aTR g AY'EON

ENROM the latin verb purge, to cleanse or pl.
L nfy, as a wcr which embraces wiliia it,
ample folds the whole art of medicine. Howev,
much the tru h may be hushed up or oLscureu
behind Latin pr Prescriptions, or mystled bet,
err ogeneous cen pounds, il is we'll known By all
who competent 10 practice the healing ar
that no permanent cure ever was effected eXrep
by puraatidn .Simaants and anodyes are sume-
times useful to lottify the constitution. and ena
be it TO wea her particular crisis, while at the
same 'timeI pnrga;ion is at work removing The
cause but what sane man ever believed that stl-
muls nts or anodynes coatd cure disease.
Many hesitate to adopt the prrgation theory,
from hnrboring The idea that it is something new;
some Yankee notion. recently got Up, So far
from curing disease by purgaton being new
theory, it is evidently the eldest 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
purqng, used familiar Illustration OF the
souls restoration to righeousness,t TO use the lar
guage of Isaiah cs vi. yer. Z, our Iniqultles are
ia ken away and our sins purged. Thus also,
Machi Sd, speaks of God purgIng and purif ing
the sinner, as "A rehner purges his gold And
how is that. Why to separate the impurities from
the pure gold And this is the ide ntiCal elect
which good purgatives produce on the human boz
dy. Paul, in his FIRST epis;le 20 the Corinhi'As,
Oh. ". ver in ausion to the fact that they had
corrupt person IN the Oh Nliltt WEI
ed Them to rid themselves, tells them to Purge
out therefore, the old eaven, that We may become
a new lump Let us change the phraseology a
lule and it will read thus: Purge out, there lore :,
the old and decayed atoms iroPs your person that
you mey beeeme new Yer healthy person.
But, nv dear doctor, rxclUims some doubter,
YOU will have the kindness TO observe, that these
passa yes are used wholly with refelence to spirit
ual matters i; and cannot see why the p oprIety
Of purging the bodyis proved FROM such texts
Well. friend, will endeavor to make II ptafn. In
all the texts above quored, the word purge is used
only as fgGratlN expression, 20 illustrate by re-
ference to familiar, universally admitted fact,
another and entirely new idea, VIZ, the pnrgIng
away the corruptIons Of our nature by the atom
ing sacrifice OF the son of God. Now, TO make
this figuratve word proper to use undel
these circumstances two conditions were neces-
sarv First that pprgatlon should really and trn-
" rossess the power TO drive out of the system all
fonl and corrupt humors, and make the patient rs
il were new man, in other words perfectly
healthy man, and sccenrIy that this connection
between purga,ion and perfect health should be
known and believed in by the whole people 10
whom these teachings were addressed. II the
first was not tue, Meth m!eht the doctrine
founded upon it be true, and if the second were
not known and believed by the people, the 'iics-
tration could not be understood hope, there
fore, that il is conclusvely proved. by the above
onotatons, that the ancient Jews Lnew and be-
lieved that purgation would remove all coTruP-
ton or cause of disease from the hnman irame'
and make of the individual as it were, a new mar;
. md further, that the Divine Being approved ana
sanctioned The Practice.
Remember that to carry out to PERFECTION 'Ig
above natural system ofcure, the medicines u'eu
must be vEGETBLE and the growth OF our o.
soil, indications met by no medicine no" oe,oi
tho nnblic exceni The Great Western Pills. II
Prepared only BY DR.. JAMES M NLsH' and
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May, 1913 -lySl5n7 Agents Tor southport