Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1856-05-21
Who2 What and Wherefore?
A FEW FACTS FOR THE INVALID.

A FEW FACTS 0 THE INVALID.
Have our readers ever heard of Professor
Holloway? Undoubtedly they have, just
as they have heard of Humboldt, Arago,
Oersted, Silliman, Agassiz, and other nota-
BILE men Of learning. But have they ever
asked themselves acho and whdt he IS? If
they have no definite information on that
matter, We will proceed to enlighten them,
The Professor is an English physician,
a native of that country which produced
Harvey, Hunter, Abernethy, and other
aWnnatnott of medical science. So much
for the WHO; and now for the WHAT. He
is to other physicians what Clay, Webster
and Calhoun were to statesmen, what Wash
ington-reverend name!-was to patriots
and generaIs.-what Shakespeare was to
dramatists, and Irving snd Chalmers to
preachers, viz: the greatest of his age and
profession. His reputation has penetrated
the encrustations of prejudice, surmounted
the barriers Of malice, and he avowedly
stands alone, the MEDILAL COLOSSUS Of
the word. So much for the WHAT.
WHEREFORE do we speak of him here?
If, when our fellow countrymen were
dying by thousands, Of yellow fever, at
Norfolk and Portsmouth, we had hearG of
aremedy which would arrest the progress
of the disease, and stay the footsteps of the
spoiler, and we had neglected to communicate
it, what would have been ourdesert? Truly,
a very summary punishment by Lynch law.
For if there be any duty more imperative
than another til this" to visit the sick
in their afaietion," and to use every means
for their restoration to health. This is why
we speak of Professor HOLLOWAY. This
is our answer to the
Years ago, when the Professor was a
much younger man than he is at present
his attention was directed to the great dis.
proportion between the cures performed BY
the Physicians, and those which they un.
dertook to perform. He observed that not
once in a score of cases were they successful
1t semed to him; either that medicine
was not worthy the mann of a science,-tha
it was merely a thing Of chance, nd there
fore a positive injury to mankind, Or tina
the Physicians were ignorant of the tru'
healingart Having embarked on the stud,
of human physiology, and understanding tn
pathology of diseases, he alighted upon tn
true reason of want of success, and mad
that discovery which will immortalize hi
name. To cure a disease, doctors treate
it locally, topically. Was it the kidnie
that were deranged? Or the liver? O
the stomach? Or thelugs? straightwa
they proceeded to prescribe for kidnies
liver, lungs, or stomach, not knowing tn:
the evil was contained in the blood, whic
fed those organs with its life giving strean
and that to arrest the disease at its very SCI
and centre, they should purify that Wit
fluid, and leave the rest to nature. This
the secret of DR.. HoLLowAY's astonishin
success in all parts of The world. He pr
rifles the blood and health follows.
Let any sick person, who has " suffere
many things of many physicians" an
obtained no benefit, give heed to the:
words of ours, and try HoLLowAY's Pill
If he is internally afflicted, or HoLL
WAYS OINTMENT, if he is suffering fro
wound or sores. He will thank us for o.
advice, and rejoice that the Professor h;
arrived in this country, and opened an e.
tensive establishment in New York, whi
promises to rival his mammoth one in Lo
DOM. S. Journal.