Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1857-07-01
THE GREATEST
MEDICAL DISCOVERY
OF THE AGE.

u EDlCAL DlSCUVERI
OF THE AGE.
DR.. KENNEDY, of Roxbury, has discoveredin one
of our common pasture weeds a remedy that cures
EVERY KIND OF HUMOR:
From the Uorst scrcfuta dozen to a COM
mon peDaple.
He has tried it in over HOO cases, and nevar
failed except in two cases, (both thunder HUNGRY
He has now In his possession over two hundred
certificates of its virtue, al, within twenty miles of
Boston.
Two bottles are warranted to cure a nursing sore
mouth
One to three bottles will cure the worst kind Of
Pimples on the face.
Two to three bottles will clear the system of
Biles.
Two bottles are warranted to cure the worst
canBer 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 hu-
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 viii cure scaly eruptions Of the skin.
Two to three bottles are warranted to cure the
worst case of
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
~scrofula.
A benefit is always experienced from the first
: bottle, and a perfect cure is warranted when the
above quantity is taken.
Reader, / peddled over a thousand bottles of
It this in the vicinity of Boston. 1 know the effect
of it i'll every case. So sure as water will extin-
i guish fire, so sure will this cure humor. | never
sold a bottle of it but that sold another; after a
/ 4:oI - aT-o uc cnaalS -
about this herb that appears to me surprising; first
that 1t grows III our pastures, in some places quite
plentiful, and yet its value has never been
y known until l discovered it in 1S46-second, that
it should cure all kinds of bumor.
In order to give some idea of the sudden rise
and great popularity of the discovery, 1 will state
), that IN April, 1853, L peddled it, and sold about
six bottles per day-in April, 1854, I sold over one
- thousand bottles per day of it.
Some of The wholesale Druggists who have beer
!. in business twenty and thirty years, say that moth
ing in the annals of patent medicines was eve
Dr. like it. There is a universal praise Of it from al
quarters.
70 In my own practice 1 always kept it strictly 70
humors-but since its introduction as a gepers
family medicine, great and wonderful virtues hay
been found in it that / never suspected.
see Sew eral cases o ~epileptic fts-a disease whiC
was always considered incurable, have been cure
by a few bottles. o, what a mercy if it will prov
= ehectual in all cases of that awful malady-the
are but few who have seen more of it than / hay
know of several cases of Dropsy, all of the
aged people, cured by it. For the various diseas
til of the Liver, Sick Headache, Dyspepsia, Asthm
Fever and Ague, Pain in the Side, Diseases of
Spine, and particularly in diseases of the Kidne,
DC. the discovery has done more good than a.
uch medicine ever known.
ave No change of diet ever necessarv-e.t tbe h,
you can get and enough of it.
try. DIRECTIONS For UsE-Adults one table spoo
ling full per day-Children over ten years dessert spoC
the full Children from FIVE to eight years, tea spoC
full. AS no directions can be applicable to all Ct
, of situations, take sufficient to operate on the bow
twice a day.