Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1849-03-30
PU IL CATION

EROM the latin verb purge, TO cleanse or pm.
! L nGy, as a word which embraces Within il,
! annie folds the whole art of medicine. llowcvtI
| much the tru h may he hustled up or ohsrureC
| behind Latin precautions, or mys'ihed hel
ereogeneous compounds, 1t Is well known by a /
who are competent 10 practice the healing ar
thot no permanent cure ever effected eXccp
bv puroation Stimalants and anodycs are some
times useful TO fortiy the constitution, aud ena
BE it to weather particular crisis, while AT the
same timeJ pnrGa;ion is at work removing the
cuuse; but what sane man ever believed that SIT
mulents or aaodvnes could cure disease.
Many hesitate to adopt the pnrgaton theory,
from harboring the idea that II 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
HoIv wit Consult your Bibles, there you viii
find the restoration of health by the process OF
purpinc used as familiar illustration OF the
souls restoration to righteousness use tie Ian
qua ce OF Isaiah ch. vi. ver Z, oar lniquues are
T. ken away and our sins purged.' Thus also,
Malch Sd, speaks of God purging and purlt, ing
the sinner as a refner purgcs his gold. And
how is that. Why to separate the impurities from
the pure gold. And tins is the lde ntcaI elect
which good purgatives produce on the human bo-
DIV. Paul, in his first epistle to the Corinthians,
ch w. YER lin allusion TO the fact that they had
ed them to rid themselves, tells them 10 Purge
out therefore, the old leaven, that ye may become
a new lump Let us change the phrdseoogY a
little 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 my dear doctor rXcIalms some doub'er,
Won will have the kindness 10 observe. that these
passages are used wholly with reference to spirit
ual matters; and cannot see why the p opriety
of purgjng the bodyis proved from such texts
Well friend, | viii endeavor TO make II pidIn. In
all the texts above quoted, the word purge Is used
only as a fgurati, expression, 20 illustrate by re-
ference to a familiar, universally admitted I"ct'
another and entirely new idea, W., the pHF4'nG
away the corruptions Of our nature by the Atom
Ing sacrifice of The son of God. Vow, TO make
this figurative word proper Que TO use under
these circumstances Two conditions were ncreS-
sarv. First, that purgatlon should really and Iru-
" the power to drive ont oil the system All
foul and corrupt humors, and make the patent Us
il were new man, n other words perfectly
healthy man, and aeconlly that ihis connection
between purgation and perfect health should De
known and believed in by The whole people 10
whom these teachings ADDRESSED. II the
first was not true, Meth might the doctrine /
founded upon it be true, and !! the second were /
not known and believed by he people, the il'ns-
tration could net be understood i hope, mere
fore. that it is conclusirey proved. by the above
quotations, that the ancient Jews l.new ana De-
lieved that purgarion would remove all corrnp
ton or cause OF disease from The hnmdn iTamc'
and make of the individual as il were,a new man;
md further that the Divine Being approved ana
sanctioned The Practice.
Remember that to carry out to perlec'on '"P
above natural system ofcure, the medLc'heS used
must be yEGETBLE and the growth OF our own
soil. indications met by no medicine now before
the the public, except the Great Western p,lls; II
Prepared only BY DIR. JAMES NJ NlSH' and
sold IN Sonthnort. by lea LAY, only,
Nav, 1913 -iysl5n47 Agents for Southport.