Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1857-05-20
THE GREATEST
MEDICAL DISCOVERY
OF THE AGE
DR.. KENNEDY, of Roxbury, has discoveredip one
OF our common pasture weeds a remedy that cures
EVERY KIND OF HUMOR.

VI HON
From the corst scrcfuIa dorm to a COM
mon plmpLe.
He has tried it in over HOO cases, and pevar
failed except In two cases, (both thunder humor0
He has now in his possession over two bnndrad
certificates of its virtue, ali within twenty miles of
Boston.
Two bottles are warranted to cure nursing sore
| mouth.
One to three bottles will cure the worst kind If
Two to three bottles will clear the system of
Biles.
Two bottles are warranted to cure the worst
canker in the mouth and stomach.
Three to FIVE bottles are warranted to cure the
woast case of Erysipelas.
One to two bottles are warranted to cure all bu-
NOR in the Eyes.
Two bottles are warranted to cure running of the
ears and blotches among the hair.
-Four to six bottles are warranted to cure cor
rupt and running ulcers.
One bottle will cure scaly e~ruptions of the skin.
Two to three bottles are warranted to cure tba
worst case ofringworm.
Two to three bottles are warranted to cure the
most desperate case of rheumatism.
Three to four bottles are warranted to cure the
salt rheum.
Five to eight bottles will cure the worst cases of
s~crofula.
A benefit is always experienced from the first
bottle, and a perfect cure is warranted when the
dpoNe qudullIy Is taken.
Reader, I peddled over a thousand bottles &c
this In the vicinity of Boston. / know the effect
OF 1T III every case. So sure as water will ext;n-
gulsh fire, so sure will this cure humor. I never
sold a bottle of it but that sold another: after a
trial 1t always speaks foritself. There are TWO thing
about this herb that appears to me surprising: first
that it grows in our pastures, in some places opits
plentiful, and yet its value has never bean
known until discovered it in 1S46-secopd. that
it should cure all kinds of humor.
In order to give some idea of the sudden risa
and great popularity of the discovery, I win STATE
that in April, 1853, I peddled it, and sold abont
SIX bottles per day-in April, 1854, I sold over ops
thousand bottles per day of it.
Some of the wholesale Druggists who bovo b.o.
in business twenty and thirty years, saw that moth
ing In the annals of patent medicines was sver
like 1t. There is a universal praise of it from ALI
quarters. all
In my own practice I always kept it strictly for
numors-but since its introduction as q general
+. family medicine, great and wonderful virtues have
been found In it that / never suspected.
E Several cases o. epileptic fts-a disease which
was always considered incurable, have been curad
by a few bottles. o, what a mercy if it will prove
enectual In all cases of that awful malady-there
are but few who have seen more Of it than have.
know of several cases of Dropsy, all of them
aged people, cured by it. For the various diseases
OF the Liver, Sick Headache, Dyspepsia, Asthma.
Fever and Ague, Pain in the Side, Diseases of the
spine, and particularly in diseases of the Kidneys.
DC. the discovery has done more good than any
medicine ever known.
, bo change Of diet ever neeessary-eat the best
f you can get and enough of it.
DIRECTIONS For UsE---Adults one table spoon
5 tul per day-Children over ten years dessertspoon-
tul-Children.from five to eight years, tea spoon
r ful. As no directions can be applicable to all con-
situations, take sufficient to operate on the bowels
a twice a day.