Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1857-05-13
THE GREATEST
MEDICAL DISCOV Y
OF THE AGE
DR.. KENNEDY, of Roxbury, has discoveredin one
of our common pasture weeds a remedy that curas
EVERY KIND OF HUMOR.

h'GAOA NAAND UT hOMOR
From the ocorst scrotula doun to a COM
mon pinph.
He has tried it in over 100 cases, and nevar
failed except in two cases, (both thunder humor.1
He has now in his possession over two bundro5
certificates of its virtue, al. within twenty miles If
Boston.
Two bottles are warranted to cure a nursing sora
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
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 cura all bu
NOR in the Eyes.
Two bottles are warranted to cure running of tbs
ears and blotches among the hair.
-Four to six bottles are warranted to cure cor
rupt and running ulcers.
One bottle will cure scaly eruptions of the skin.
Two to three bottles are warranted to eure tho
worst case o~fringworm.
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 If
s~erofula.
A benefit is always experienced from the first
bottle, and a perfect cure is warranted when the
above quantity is taken.
Reader, L peddled over a thousand bottles of
this In the vicinity of Boston. know the eaect
OF 1t Ill every case. So sure as water will extin
gulsh IRE, so sure will this cure humor. 49,
sold a bottle of it but that sold another. aftara
trial 1t always speaks foritself. 1here are two th;nr-
about this herb that appears to me surprising &C.
that 1t grows IN our pastures, in some places ouits
plentiful, and yet its value has never booD
known until l discovered it in lS46-second az.
it should cure all kinds of humor. A'
In order to give some idea Of the sudden r;ss
ana great popularity Of the discovery. I will stots
that In April, 1853, I peddled it, and sold sbont
SIX bottles per day-in April, 1854, / sold over one
thousand bottles per day of it.
some OF the wholesale Druggists who have been
IN business twenty and thirty years, say that moth
ing in the annals Of patent medicines was evsr
IKE It. There is a universal praise of it from all
quarters. HH
In my own practice 1 always kept IL strictly for
humors-but since its introduction as a general
family medicine, great and wonderful virtues have
eeen found IN 1t that | never suspected.
Sev eral cases 0 e~pileptie fts-a disease which
was always considered ineursble, have been cured
by a few bottles. o, what a mercy If II viii nrove
: enectual In all cases of that awful malady-tbere
are out lew who have seen more Of it than Ihaye-
know OF several eases 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
ep1ne, and particularly in diseases Of the Kidneys.
DC. the discovery has done more good than any
medicine ever known.
/, 10 change of diet ever neeessary-eat the hest
f you can get and enough of it.
/, DIRECTIONS For UsE-Adults one able spoop-
5 tul per day-Children over ten years dessertspoon-
ni-Chldren from FIVE to eight years, tea spoon
fui. As no directions oar be applicable TO ell cor
stltuhons' take sufficient to operate on The bowels
, twice a day.