Des Arc citizen., 1859-09-28
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MOUNT VERNON FUND.


 We pronose to the medical faculty and manufacturers of medicine throughout the United States to raise the sum of. twenty y-hye thousand dollars for the benefit of the Mount Vernon Fund, by trial of skill in the cura- tive art, under the following stipulations, and to which we pledge ourselves, heirs and as- signs, to be governed, and to fully discharge the same:
 1. We propose to test the qualities, medici- nal virtues and curative eficacies of our sys- tenn of treatment of disease with our Railways Ready Relief, (Regulating Pills) and Reno- vating Resolvent, against all other treatments or medicines employed for the cure of the sick, either under the supervision of physicians of the regular practice, or the medication of Medicines manufactured as specialities, com monly called patent medicines, in a given number of cases, and if our Ready Relief, Re- solvent and Regulating Pills do not prove the most efficacious and successful in the treat of the said disases in which they are employed, and more speedily and ehectually cure the pa tients than the medicine and treatment of our opponents, we will pay over to the Treasurer of the Mount Vernon Fund the sum of twenty five thousand dollars, on or before the 1st day of January, 1860, on condition that those who accept our challenge will pay the same amount, on or before the above date, if our remedies prove victorious in this trial of skill.
 We invite all physicians within the United States, either in hospitals or private practice, to compete with us in testing their system Of medical treatment, against the efficaces of our three remedies--the Ready Relief, Renovating Resolyent and Regulating Pills-and we give to any physician who desires, the trial to be made in public, the privilege of selecting any hospital in New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Charleston, New Orleans, St Lou is, Cincinnati, or Chicago, in which said hospitals one-half of the patients are to be given over to our charge, and subject only to the treatment Of such of our Three Remedies as we may deem appropriate for the nature of the disease of said patient; the remaining half to be under the charge only of any three phy- sicians that may be selected for the same.
 2. We invite all pill manufacturers to test of the curative virtues of their pills against the medicinal efficacy of Railways Regulating Pills, in the Treatment of all dis eases for which they recommend their pills as possessing superior and extraordinary vir- tue.
 There are several spirited, liberal-minded and skillful gentlemen engaged tn the mann- facture and sale of pills who have not only realized great wealth, but have been highly successful in curing the sick with their pills. The most successful and popular of these pills, however, are made after the recipe of gen. tleman who fourished about 10S years since, and as medical science has progressed rapidly during the present century in other branches. we see no reason why great revolution and improvement should not take place in the manufacture of pills. @
 For ourselves, we know that we have made the greatest improvement in the art of com pounding pills, and that our Railways Regu- lating Pills are the best, most perfect, thor ough. mild and efIectual medicine in the form of pills known to the world; and, as an evil nFf hair t{a the learned skillfnl and celebrated grandson of the noble patriarch of l753, as well as oth- CT pill manufacturers, to public test of their medicines against Railways Regulating Pills, pledging ourselves to use only half the num- Der of our Regulating Pills in any disease, however severe, that are used by our oppo- nents.
 We invite and challenge physicians, and all others, to produce lotion, iiniment, or other preparation that will relieve or stop pain, and protect those exposed to the insid- uous influences of malaria against its effects, either in the form of feveFs, cholera, dysen- terry, croup and other diseases incidental to malarious poisons, with the same speed and efficacy as Radway's Ready Relief If there Is remedy in the known world that will ease mankind of the excruciating tortures of pain, either acute CT indamatory, or caused by ex- ternal or internal injuries or internal derange-
 
 much safety to the general health of the sys- tenn, as Railways Ready Relief, the public are entitled to the information; and if so proved, on fair trial, we will cheerfully withdraw our remedy and pay the forfeit.
 We invite all physicians, aymen and others, to produce a medicine for the enectual cure of chronic, scrofulous and constitutional diseases, against Railways Renovating Resol- vent. We care not how long the disease may octo I;nl,e. l ,v.x xls how many generations it may have run whether the disease is syphilis, bronchitis, consumption, ulcers, levers, sores, scorbutic eruptions, fits, or any other disease transmsi- ble from sire to son-we ins>te and challenge all inhaling physicians, homoeopathists, allo- pathists, and patent medicine manufacturers, to trial of skill against our Renovating Re- 
 We do not deem it necessary to make an apology in publicly giving out this challenge. It IS we'll known fact that, as society, here is no body or class of men so iliberal n their sympathies and opinions in medical matters as that obnoxious clique that custom alls "regular physicians"
 For these past ten years we have called in ain upon this medical oligarchy to give us a air trial to test our remedies--in the hospit- Is and private practice under their supervi- lon--and if our remedies were found worthy O receive their Endorsements. As the com etion of the Mount Vernon purchase is dear o every American citizen's heart, we mako his offer to raise fund of $25, ,O0o by trial f skill in the curative art. Other sciences ave generously come forward and contribu- ed their share to this glorious enterprise, and 'e see no reason why the medical Fraternity hould not make the sacrifice of little of it's alse dignity, and test it's right in the eyes of < le people to the position it assumes; and if, fter due trial and strict examination, it shalI e found worthy to occupy its position oyer le theory we advocate, and the treatment we ractice with our Ready Relief, Renoyating esolyent and Regulating Pills, then this edical fraternity will have achieved the reat and good work of securing to the Mount ernon Fund the sum of S25,000.
 RADWAY & CO,
 No. l62 Fulton Street, New York.
 Sep, 14, '59-2t.