The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1850-09-11
MOFFAT'S
Life Pills and Phoenix BitterS.

These Medicines have now been before the
public for period of FIFTEEN YEARS, and
during that time have maintained q high charac-
tor in almost every part of the globe for their
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 certifcated instances, they have even rescued
sufferers from the very verge OF an untlmely
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
partial blessing. So great, indeed, has their
efficacy invariably and infallbly proved, that it
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.
Unlike the host of pernicious quackeres which
boast of vegetable ingredients, the LIFE MEDI.
CINES are purely and solely vegetable; and
contain neither Mercury, nor Anthony, nor
Arsenic, nor any other MINERAL III any form
whatever. They are entirely composed of ex-
tracts from rare and powerful plants, the virtues
of which, though long known to several Indian
tribes, and recently to some eminent pharmaceu-
teal chemists, are altogether unknown to the
ignorant pretenders to medical science and were
never before administered in so happily eficacious
combination.
The first operation is to loosen from the coats
of the stomach and bowels the various impure
ties and crudties constantly settling round them ;
and to remove the hardened fgces which collect
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medicines only partially cleanse these, and leave
such collected masses behind to produce habtual
Costiveness, with all its train of evils, sudden
Diarrhna with it's imminent dangers. This fact
is well-known to all regular anatomists who ex~
anime the human bowels after death and hence
the prejudice of these well-nformed men against
the ouaclx medicines of the age. The second
effect of the VEGETABLE LIFE MEDI-
CJNES 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 it's red color from the agency
of the liver and lungs, before it passes into the
heart, being thus purified by them, and nourshed
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 infallibe.
DYSPEPSIA, by thoroughly cleansing the
first and second somachs, and creating flow OF
pure healthy bile, instead of the stale and acrid
kind Flatulency, Loss OF APPETITE, HEART
BURN, HEADACHE, REsTLEssNEss, ILL-TEMrER,
ANXIETY, LANGUoR, and MELANCHOLY, which
are the general symptoms of Dyspepsia, will
vanish, as a natural consequence of its cure,
Oostiveness, by cleansing the whole length
of the ntestines with solvent process, and
without violence; all violent purges leave the
bowels costive within two days.
Diarrhea and Cholera, by removing the
sharp acrid fluids by which these complaints are
occasoned, and by promoting the lubricative So
erection of the mucous membrane
Fevers of all kinds, by restoring the blood to
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 ligaments 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 a certain remedy for the
Also Worms, by dislodging from the turnings
of the bowels the Shiny matter to which there
creatures adhere.
Asthma and CONSUMPTION, by relieving the
air-vesses of the lungs from the mucous which
even slight colds will occasion, and which, if not
emoved, becomes hardened, and produces these
dreadful diseases.
scuryy, Ulcers, and 1n 1Eaet Sores BY
CINES give to the blood, and all the humors.
ScortEtic Eruptions and Bad Complex
ions, by their Alternative effect upon the fluids that
feed the skin, and the morbid state of which occa-
sions all eruptive complaints, sallow, cloudy, and
other disagreeabe compilations.
The use of these Pills for a very short timo
will effect an entire cure of Salt Rheum, and
striking improvement in the cearness 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
deserve distinct and emphatic
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 TIIIRrY-FIvE YEARS and
that he tried in vain every remedy prescribed |
within the whole compass of the Materia Medica.
He however at length tried the Medicine which |
ID now O1tered 10 the puDic, ana ne was cured IN
very short time, after his recovery had been pro-
not only improbable, but absolutely i'm
possible, by any human means.
FEVER AND AGUE.
For this scourge of the western country these
will be found safe, speedy, and GER
tain remedy. Other medicines leave the system
subject to return of the disease-a cure by these
medicines is pcrmanent-TRY THEM, BE
AND BE CURED.
Bilious Fevers and Liver Complaints.
General Debility, Loss OF APPETITE, 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
its worst forms, yields to the mild yet powerful
action of these remarkable Medicines. NIGnr
SwEArs, NEnvoUs DEBILITY, Nervous CON-
PLANTS of all kinds, PALP1rATIoN OF TIE HEART,
PAINTEn's Collie, are speedily cured.
MERCURIAL DISEASES.
Persons whose constitutions have become inn
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
of sarsaparlla. single trial will