The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1850-05-08
MOFFAT'S
Life Pills and Phoenix BitterS.

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Life Pills and Phoenix Bitters.
These Medicines have now been before the
public for period of FIFTEEN YEARS, and
during that time have maintained high charac-
ter in almost every part of the globe for their ex-
traordnary and immediate power OF restoring per-
feet health to persons suffering under nearly every
kind of disease to which the human frame Is liable.
IN MANY THOUSANDS
of certfcated instances they have even rescued
sufferers from the very verge OF an u mt
grave, after all the deceptive nostrums OF the day
had utterly failed and to many thousands they
have permanently secured that uniform ENJOY
ment of health, without which life itself is but
q partial blessing. So great, indeed, has their
efficacy invariably and infalbly proved, that 1t
has appeared scarcely less than miraculous to
those who were acquainted with the beautifully
philosophical principles upon which they are COM
pounded, and upon which they consequently act
It was to their manifest and sensible action IN
purifying the springs and channels of life and en-
DUNG them with renewed tone and vIgor, that
they were indebted for their name o..
Unlike the host of pernicious quackerles winch
boast of vegetable ingredients, the LIFE MEDl;;
CNES are purely and solely vegetable; ana
contain neither Mercury, nor Antlmony, nor
Arsenic. nor any other mineral, IN any form
whatever They are entirely composed OF ex-
tracts from rare and powerful plants the virtues
of which, though long known to several lna!an
tribes, and recently to some eminent pfarmaceu-
teal chemists, are altogether unknown to the
ignorant pretenders to medical science and were
never before administered in so happily eficacious
q combination
The first operation is to loosen from the coats
of the stomach and bowels the various impure
ties and crudities constantly settling round them;
and to remove the hardened faces which collect
in the convolutions of the small intesthes Other
medicines only partially cleanse these, and leave
such collected masses behind to produce habltual
Costiveness, with all its train of evils, or sudden
DiarrhGa with its imminent dangers This tact
is WELL known to all regular anatomsts VINO eX-
anime the human bowels after death and hence
the prejudice of these well-informed men against
the auack medicines of the age. The second
effect of the VEGETABLE LIFE MEDI.
cINES is to cleanse the kidneys and the blad-
der and, by this means, the liver and lungs,
the heathful action of which entirely depends
upon the regularity of the urinary organs. The
blood, which takes its red color from the agency
of the liver and lungs, before it passes INTO the
heart, being thus purified by them and nourlshed
by food coming from a clean stomach, courses
freely through the veins, rcnews every part OF
the system, and trumphantly mounts the BAN
ner of health in the blooming cheek.
The following are among the distressing va
riety of human diseases in which the VEGE-
TABLE LIFE MEDICINES are well known
to be infalIible.
DYSPEPSIA, by thoroughly cleansing the
FIRST and second somachs, and creating How OF
pure healthy bile, instead of the stale and acrd
kind; Flatulency, Loss OF APPETITE, HEART
BURN, HEADACHE, REsrLEssNEss, 1LL-TEmpER,
ANXIETY, LANGUoR, and MELANCHOLY, which
81. Of nySnpnSia
vanish, as a natural consequence of its cure,
Costiveness, by cleansing the whole length
of the intestines with solvent process, and
without violence all violent purges leave the
bowels costive within two days.
Diarrhna and Cholera, by removing the
sharp acrid fluids by which these complaints are
occasioned and by promoting the lubricative So
cretion of the mucous membrane
Fevers of all kinds, by restoring the blood to a
regular circulation, through the process of persni
ration in such cases, and the thorough solution
all intestinal obstruction in others.
The LIFE MEDICINES have been known to
cure Rheumatism permanently in three weeks,
and GOut in half that time, by removing local
inflammation from the muscles and igaments Of
the joints.
Dropsies of all kinds, by freeing and strength
ening the kidneys and bladder: they operate most
delightfully."- on these important organs and hence
have ever been found certain remedy for the
worst cases of Gravel.
Also Worms, by dislodgng from the turnings
of the bowels the Shiny matter to which these
creatures adhere.
Asthma and Consumption, by relieving the
ar-vessels of the lungs from the mucous which
even slight colds will occasion, and which, if not
removed, becomes hardened, and produces these
dreadful diseases.
Scurvy, Ulcers, and Inveterate Sores, by
the perfect purity which these LIFE MEDI-
CINES give to the blood, and all the humors.
IONS by their Alternative effect upon the fluids that
feed the skin, and the morbid state of which
sons all eruptive complaints, salow, cloudy, and
other disagreeable compilations.
The use of these Pills for very short time
will effect an entire cure of Salt Rheum, and q
striking improvement in the clearness of the skin.
Common Colds and Influenza will always be
cured by one dose, Or by two even in the worst
cases.
PILES. As remedy for this most distressing
and obstinate malady, the VEGETABLE LIFE
MEDICINES deserve distinct and emphatic
recommendation. 1t is well-known to hundreds
in this city, that the former proprietor of these
valuable Medicines was himself afflicted with this
complaint for upwards of TIIIRTY-FIvE YEARS and
that he tried in vain every remedy prescribed
within the whole compass of the Materia Mcdica
lie however at length tired the Medicine which
is now offered to the public, and he was cured in
very short time, after his recovery had been pro-
nounced not only improbable, but absolutely i'm
possible, by any human means.
FEVER AND AGUE.
For this scourge of the western country these
Medicines will be found safe, speedy, and GER
tain remedy. Other medicines leave the system
subject to return of the dsease-a cure by these
medicines is permanent-TRY THEM, BE
SATISFIED, AND BE CURED.
Bilious Fevers and Liver Complaints.
General Debility, Loss OF ArrEr1TE' AND
DISEASES OF FEMALEs-these medicines have been
used with the most beneficial results in cases Of
this description :-K1NG's EVIL and ScRoFULA, in
it's worst forms, yields to the mild yet powerful
action of these remarkable Medicines. NIGHT
SwEATs, NERVOUS DEBILITY, NERVOUS COM
PLANTS of all kinds, PALPIrATIoN OF TIE HEART,
PAINTER's Colo, are speedily cured.
MERCURIAL DISEASES.
Persons whose constitutions have become i'm
paired by the injudicious use Of MERCURY, will
find these Medicines perfect cure, as they never
fail to eradicate from the system all the effects of
Mercury infinitely sooner than the most powerful
preparations of Sarsaparilla. A single trial will