Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1849-02-16
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ENROM the latin verb purge, to cleanse or pm
L rify, as word which embraces Withia it.
ample folds The whole art of medicine. IlowcvcI
much the truth may be hushed up or oscuret
behind Latin prescriptions, or mys'Ihed Y het
err ogeneOus compounds, II is well known by al
who are competent 10 practice the healing ar
thnt no permanent cure ever was effected exctp
by purgation !Simaants and anodyes are sune.
times useful to !ortiiy the constitution. and tna
be it to wea her particular crisis. while II The
same timeJ purga:ion is al work Tam0vGg the
cause but what sane man ever believed that siI.
mulsnts or aaodynes could cure disease.
Many hesitate 10 adopt the pprgation theory.
from harboring the idea that it is something ncw :
some Yankee notion. recently got up. So far
from curing disease by purgaton being a 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
purqing, used as familiar Illustration of The
souls restoration to righteousness TO use the Ian
guage Of Isaiah eli. Vi. VERT, our lniquities are
ts ken away and our sins purged. Thus MISC,
Malich Sd, speaks Of God purgng and purif inG
the sinner, as a reliuer purges his gold And
how is that Why to separate the impurities from
the pure gold. And tins is the ide ntcal effect
which good purgdtves produce on the human bo-
dy. Paul, in his first epstIe to the Corinthians,
CHI. ". yer. Z, in alluson to the fact that they had
a corrupt person in the church. of which he wish
ed them to rid themselves, tells them 10 Purge
out therefore, the old leaven, that We may become
a new lump Let US change the phraseoogy
little, and it will read thus: Purge out, there fore,
the old and decayed atoms from your person that
you may become new (or healthy person
But, my dear doctor, cxclums some doubter
you will have The kindness TO observe, that these
passage are used wholly with refcience to spirit
ual matters and ] cannot see why The y opriety
! 4 1,
Welt friend, will endeavor to make IT PLAIN. In
all the texts above quoted, the word purge is used
only tigurauNe expression, 70 illustrate by re-
ference to a familiar, universally admitted fact,
another and entirely new idea, VIZ, the pHrgng
away the cOrruplons of our nature by the atom
ing sacrifice OF the son of God. Now, to make
this iguratjve word a proper Que to use under
these circumstances two conditions were neces-
sary. First, that purgaiion should really and tru-
lv possess the power to drive out of the system all
foul and corrupt humors, and make the patient rs
it were new man, m other words perfectly
healthy man, and secondly that this connection
between purgaiion 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 M ght the doctrine
founded upon it be true, and s the second were
not known and believed by the people, the illus
tratlon could not be understood hope, there
FORE that il is conclusively proved. by the above
quotations, that the ancient Jews Lnew and be-
iieved that purgation would remove all corrup-
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 to carry out to perfection the
above natural system fcure, the medicines used
must be vEGETBLE and the growth Of our Own
soil, indications met by no medicine now before
the public, except The Great Western Pills IL
Prepared only by Dr. JAMES NJ NlSH, and
sold in Southport, bv LEE & LAY, only,
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