Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1849-01-05
PEIRGAE1EesN

! EROM tie latinsvcrb purge, 10 cleanse or pu.
L rfy, as word which embraces within It's
ample folds the whole art of medicine. IIowev,l
much the tru may be hushed up or ohscured
behind Latln presCrllt oEs, or mysutled V bet.
ereogeneous compounds, ii Is we'll known by all
who competent TO practice the healing ar
that no permanent cure ever WAS effected exec p
by purgdtlon Stimaants and anodyes are some.
times useful to tortiy thu constitution, and ena
be it to weather particular crisis, while at The
same tneJ purganon IS at work removing the
cause; but what sane man ever believed t4t siI-
mulants or aaodyues could cure dj-tasc.
Many hesitate TO adopt the pprgItjon theory,
from harboring the idea that it is something new;
some Yankee notion. receHty got up. SO far
irom curing disease by purgaton beng 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 viii
find the restoration Of health by the process OF
purging, used as a familiar Illustration OF The
souls restoration TO righteousness TO use tie Ian
guage of Isaiah, Oh. vi. yer, 7, our nlquties are
Il ken away and sins purged.' Thus also,
Malichi Sd, speaks OF God purgug and purif, ing
the sinner, as a reiaer purges his gold. And
how is that. W by to separate the impurities from
the pure GOLD. And thus is the lde nGcal eject
which GOOD purgatfyes produce on the human bo-
dy Paul, in his first episse to the CuIinihjln u.s.
ch w. yer. : in alusion to the fact that they had
a corrupt person in the chu.ch, of which he wish
ed them to rid themselves, tells them to Purge
out therefore, the old leaven, that ye may become
a new lump Let US change tho pIraseology
lttle and it will read thus: Purge out, there lore,
the old and decayed atoms from your person that
you may become new or healthy person.
But, NV dear doctor, exclams some Goubter,
Won will have the kindness TO observe, that these
passa ges are used wholly with IeIeIence TO spirit
ual matters /; and cannot see why the q oprtety
of purging the hodyis proved from such texts
Well, friend, will endeavor 10 make 1t pam. I'm
all the texts above quoted the word purge Il used
only as a gUratI,e expression, 20 illustrate by re-
ference to familiar, universally admitted Ect,
another and entire g new idea, VIZ, the purgtng
away the corruptIons Of our nature by the atom
inc sacrifice oil The OF God. Now, to make
this figurative word proper Que 10 use under
these circumstances two conditions were neces-
sarv. First, that purgdllon should really and tYu'
" possess the power 10 drive out Of the system all
foul and corrupt humors, and make the patient as
it were a new man. N other words perfectly
healthy man, and secondly that this connection
between purgation and perfect health should be
known and believed in by the whole people 10
whom these teachings were addressed. II the
first was not true, Meth mlght the doctrine
founded upon it be true and i: the second were
not known and believed by the people, the Illus
tration could net be understood hope, there
FORE that ii is conclusively proved. by the above
quotations, that the ancient Jews l.new and be-
lieved that pnrgation would remove all corrup-
ton or cause OF disease from the hnman frame,
and make of the individual il were, "a new man,
md further that the Divine Being approved and
sanctioned The Practice.
Remember that to carry out to perfection the
above natural system of cure, the medicines used
must be vEGETBLE and the GROWN Oh our own
soil, indications met by no medicine now before
the public, except the Great Western i'ili= IL
Prepared only by DR.. JAMES Nj NISH, and
sold in Southport, by LEE Il LAY, only,
Nav. 1913 -lySI5n47 Agents fol- Southport.