Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1849-05-04
PURGATION

ENROM the latin verb purge, 10 cleanse or pu'
l. MY, as a word which embraces wiihia IL
ample folds the whole art of medicine. Howevt
much the tru Ii may be husled up or odscured
behind Latin prescriptions, or mysiitied bet.
ereOgeneOus compounds, ii is well known by all
who are competent to practice the healing arr
that no permanent cure ever was effected except
by purgatlon Simalants and anodyes some E
times useful to forsip the constitution, and ena
be it TO wea her pTfttcular crisis, while al the
same times purga;ioh is at work removing the
cause; but what sane man ever believed that sil
mu5 nts aaodynes could cure disease.
Many hesitate to adopt the pnrgaton theory,
from harboring the idea that it is omeihing new:
some Yankee notion. recently got Gp. So far
from curing disease by purgatlon being
theory, 1t Is evidently the oldest on record, and
the only which has received the sanction Of
Holy wit Consult your Bibles, there you will
find the restoration OF health by the process of
purging, used a familiar illustration OF The
souls restoration 10 righteousness, TO use the Ian
guage OF Isaiah, ch. vi. vert, our lnlquities are
t. ken away and our sins purged.' Thus also.
Malichi Sd, speaks of God purging and purIf ing
the sinner, as retiner purges his gold And
how is that. Why 10 separate the impurities from
the pure gold. And this is the ide ntical effect
which good purgatives produce on the human bo-
dy. Paul, in his first epistle TO the Corinthians.
CHI. ". ver TIN allnson 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 ye may become
a new lump. Let us change the phraseol0gv a
little and il will read thus Purge out, there lore,
the old and decayed atoms from your person that
you may become new Tor healthy person.
But, my dear doctor, exclaims some doubter,
YOU will have the kindness TO observe, that these
passages are used wholly with reference to spirit
ual matters and cannot see why The p oprlety
of purgIng the bodyis proved FROM such texts
Well. friend, will endeavor TO make II pian. In
all the texts above quoted, the word purge Is used
only fgurati, expression, 20 illustrate by re-
ference to familiar, universally admitted tact.
another and enuIely new idea, W., the purging
away the corrupions OF our nature by The atom
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 purgation should really and tru-
ly possess the power to drive ont OF the system all
foul and corrupt humors, and make the patient rs
il were new man, IN 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 nIght the doctrine
founded upon II be true, and /. the second were
not known and believed by the people, the Illus
tration could not be understood | hoIe, there
fore, that it is concuslvely proved. by the above
quotations, that the ancient Jews Lnew and be-
Iieved that purgaton would remove all corrup
ton or cause of disease from the hnmdn 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 ofcure, the medicines used
must be vEGETBLE and the growth OF our Own
soil, indications met by no medicine now before
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