Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1849-01-12
PUR ATEON

TNROM the laun verb purge, to cleanse or pu
L. rfy, a word which embraces wiihi1 it,
ample folds the whole art of medicine. HowcvC
much the tru Ii may be hushed up or ohsrurel
behind Latin prescriptions, or mys!ihed y bet
ereogeneous compounds, il is well known by al
who are Competent TO practice the heating ar
that no permanent cure ever was eff, ctc1 exec p
by purgatiOn iSlimalants and anodyes ire Stone
times useful 10 tortfy III" constitution, and ena
be it to weather particular crisis, while al the
same tmeI purga:ion is at work removing the
cause; but what man ever believed that sn
mulants or aaodynes could cure disease
Mony hesitate TO adopt the pnrgation theory,
from harborag the idea that it is something new;
some Yankee notion. reccmty got up, So far
from curing disease by purgation beirg ne "
theory, il is evidently Tie oldest on record, and
the only che which has received the sanction 0i
Holy writ Consult your Bibles, there you will
find the restoration of health by the process OF
purging used as a familiar Illustration of the
souls restoration to righteousness, TO use the Ian
guage Of Isaiah, CHI. vi ver,7, 'our nquties are
ts ken away and our sins purged.' Thus also,
MaIichi Sd, speaks Of God purging and purif ing
the sinner, as a reGner purges his gold. And
how is that Why to separate the impurities from
the pure gold. And this is the ide ntieal effect
which good purgatves produce on the human bo-
dy. Paul, in his first epstle to the CurInihit MS,
CHI. ". ver in allusion 10 the fac, that they hsd
a corrupt person in the church. of which he wish
ed them to rid themselves, tells them to Purge
out therefore, the old leaven, that ye may become
new lump Let US change the phraseoSgy a
little, and it will read thus: Purge out, there lore,
the old and decayed atoms from your person thas
you may become a new (or healthy person.
But nv dear doctor, rxclams some doubter,
YOU will have the kindness to observe, that these
passa ges are used wholly with reielence 10 spirit
ual matters and | cannot see why the n oprlety
u L. Ia
Well, friend, | will endcayor TO make II plain. In
all the texts above quoted, the word purge is used
only as a tigurat. expression, 20 illustrate by re
ference to familiar universally admitted tact,
another and entirely new idea, VIZ, the purging
away the corrupitons of our nature by the atcn-
ing sacrifice of the son of God. Now, to make
this fgurative word proper Que TO use under
these circumstances two conditions were neces-
sary First, that purgaiion should really and tru-
y possess the power TO drive ont OF the system all
foul and corrupt humors, and make the patient ~
il were a new man, IN other words a perfectly
healthy man, and secondly that this connection
between purgaion and perfect health should be
known and believed in by the whole people 10
whom these teachings were addressed. If the
first was not true, Meth might the doctrine
founded upon it be true, and j. the second were
not known and believed by the people, the illus
traton could net be understood | hope, there
FORE that it is conclusively proved. by the above
quotations, that the ancient Jews l.new and be-
lleved that purgation would remove all corrup-
ton or cause of disease from the hnmsn frame,
and make Of the individual as 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 medl, ines 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
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