Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1849-02-02
EDGJH2sn IAI'EON

TyROM the latn verb purge, TO cleanse or M.
Z rfy, as a wcrJ which embraces Within lis
ample folds the Whclc art of medicine. However
much the tru may be hushed M or olsrnred
behind Latin prescriptions, or myslfcd bet.
ereogeneous compounds il is well known by 4
who are competent to practice the healing ar
thnt no permanent cure ever effected exrcp.
by pur9ation Smalants and anodvcs are some
times useful to iortify the constitution. aud ena
be it to weather particular crisis, while at the
same timer pgrgation is at work removing the
cause; but what sane man ever believed that SUI
mulants or aaodynes could cure disease.
Many hesitate to adopt the purgatjon theory.
from harboriag the IDEA that it is something new;
some Yankee notion. recently got up, So far
from curing disease by pnruation being new
theory, it is evidently he 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
purging, used familiar Illustration of the
souls restoration to righteousness, TO use tie Ian
guage OF Isaiah eli. vi. ver,7, our niqutIcs are
t. ken away and cur sins purged.' Thus also,
Malichi Sd, speaks OF God purgng and purif ing
the sinner, rcfner purgcs his gold. And
how is that. Why 10 separate the impurities from
the pure gold. And tins is the ide ntical effect
which good purgatives produce on the human bo-
dy. Paul, in his first epstle 10 the Corinthians
CHI. ". ~ allusion 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, thai We may become
a new lump Let US change tho phraseology
little and it will read thus: Purge out, there fore,
the old aud decayed atoms from Your person that
you may become a new Cor healthy person.
But, my dear doctor, cxclnms some doubter,
YOU will have the kindness to observe, that these
passa ges are used wholly with reference to spirit
ual matters and cannot see why the n oprIety
of purgng the bodyis proved FROM such texts
Well, friend will cndeavor to make it plain. In
all the texts above quoted the word purg- Is used
only iigurative expression, 20 illustrate by re-
ference to familiar, universally admitted tact,
another and entirely new idea, viz, the pureing
away the corruptions Of our nature by the atom
ing sacrifice OF the son of God. Now, to make
this figuratlve word a proper Que TO use under
these circumstances two conditions were neces-
sary. First, that purgaiion should really and tru-
ly possess the power drive ont Of the system all
foul and corrupt humors, and make the patient
it were man, in other words a perfectly
healthy man, and secondly that this connection
between purgation and perfect health should be
known and believed in by the whole people TO
whom these teachings were addressed. II the
first was not true, Meth might the doctrine
founded upon it be true, and L the second were
not known and believed by the people the illus-
tration could not be understood | hope, there
fore, that it is conciusively proved. by the above
quotations, that the ancient Jews hnew and be-
heved that purgation would remove all corrup
lion 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 lactlce.
Remember that to carry out to perfection the
above natural system Of cure, the medicines used
must be vEGETBLE and the growth Of our own
soil, indications met by no medicine now before
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