Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1849-03-02
EsETERG AT1EON

TIROM the latin verb purge, TO c'ean-c or pu-
L nfy, as word which embraces withia it,
ample folds the y hole art of medicine. Howevt
much the tru il may be hushed up or o.scurcd
behind Latin preSc rlftons, or mys@Iilcd y het-
ereogeneous compounds, 1t is well known by al
who competent to practice the healing ar
that no permanent cure ever was eirctcd eXcrp
by puroati0n Stimalants and anodyes are some.
times useful to iortiy the constitution. and ena
be it to weather particular crisis, while at the
same tneI pnrga;ion is at work removing the
canse; but what sane man ever believed dat ST.
mulants or aaodyncs could cure disease.
Many hesitate to adopt the pprg ton theory,
from harborng the idea that 1t Is something new;
some Yankee notion. recently got up, SO tar
from curing disease by purgatiOn being 1t new
theory. it is evidently the Oldest record, and
the only one which has received the sanction Of
Holy witt Consult your Bibles, there you viii
find the restoration of health by the process OF
purqjng used as familiar illustration Of the
souls restoration to righteousness to use tie Ian
qua ce of Isaiah Oh. VI. ytr I, our IuiqGities are
t. ken away ard our sins purged. Thus also,
Malichi Sd, speaks of God purqing and puff ing
the sinner, as reliner purgcs his gold. A1d
how is that. Why to separate the impurities from
the pure gold. And thus is the ide effect
which good purgatives produce on the human bo-
dy. Paul, in his first epistle 20 the Curinth. MS,
CHI. ". yer. Tin allnsion to the fact that they had
a corrupt person in the church, of which he wish
ed them to rid themselves, tells them ID Purge
out therefore, the old lcaven, that We may become
a new lump, Let change the phrdseology
little and it will read thus: Purge out, there tore,
the old and decayed atoms from your person that
you mc Y become a new Ger healthy person.
But my dear doctor, cxclaims 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 oprlety
of purgng the bolys proved froln such teXts.-
Well. friend, wiii endeavor to make 1t plain. In
all The texts above quoted, the word purge IS used
only tiguraN expression, 10 illustrate by re-
ference to familiar, universally admitted fact.
another and entirely new idea, viz, the pureiug
away the corruptious OF our nature by the atCn-
ing sacrifice oil the son OF God. Now, to make
this fguratiye word proper Que to use undel
these circumstances two conditions were neces-
sary First, that purgaiioa should really and tru-
Iv possess the power to drive out Of the system all
foul and corrupt humors, and make the patient ts
it were a new man, in other words perfectly
healthy man, and oeconely that this connection
between purgaton and perfect health should be
known and believed in by the whole people 10
whom these teachings were addressed, II the
first not true, Meth mlght The doctrine
founded upon il be true, and /. the second were
not known and believed by The people, the Illus
traton could net be understood | hope, there
fore, that it Is conclusvely proved. by the above
quotations, that the ancient Jews Lnew and be-
Iieved thai Pnrgation 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 Iactice.
Remember that to carry out to perfection the
above natural system Of cure, the medicines used
must be vEsETBLE and lhe growth OF our own
soil, Indications met by no medicine now before
the public, except the Great Western Pills. IL
Prepared only by DR.. JANIES~M NlSH, and
sold in Southport, bv LEE& LAY, only,
NAV, 1913 -iySI5n47 Agents for Southport.