Randolph County journal. [volume] (Winchester, Randolph County, Ind.) 1855-1862, 1861-06-13
Patent Medicine.

Va. EDlToa. haze q ,ery valuable
Patent Medicine. zhich wish . advcr-
fise ia your columns. aua - b.ch now has
lts retail ageats "a cveE iown 10 the
State; and - I sm tic sole sroor.s,or.
YOU wi.l please alIcw ne 70 ~ ny aeE
puEng. and give rag Own ,er..l-llcs ''ail.
made" And thOueh ! know yoa never
prisi puts for pay. il yoa NJ 10 i, this
once. / VII give you Z gill Of ,ios your
oxa exclusive rse sad benefit.
The history Of ny discovery = ~ fol-
lows: Soon after TIE INTRODUCTION Of Coal
OIL from tie recent wells CT Springs IN
tue East. .eafned IL extreme gsue.rc.
tility, surPa.slrs that Of ar7 ether SAB
stance known % ne. f3r example, Il
will soften CT olt dried pain,-Jrush shcn
lOlbing else will; take eli the rus, of'
rom plozs. or old irona. 50 that il easily
raba up With The anger, CT loosen old
Ns;y nuts AID screws, as noting else
ri.
Now i happens that n. father hsd a ter
:ibie scrofulous leg Tor more than 60vcars
- his life, which no medical art could
hTl; and long before his death a. Sc yrs..
]. vas sight terrible TO behold. Several
II his family inherited the faint, which
II times breaks cut and troubles them.
About 10 years ago such y sore appeared
on nv own ankle. tried FOR Years 10
heal il. but Ia vain. al good physicians
told me at mrst ave its Own ~ar;'' but
advised me. when IL assumed the form Of
terrible itching, 70 wash i- in cold vater.
merely 70 so0lhe i. for tie time. This
aid with some lizzie temporary relief
1te night vas doing this as the lamps
vere being filled with coal oil. and think
ing Of the extreme peuetrabilty Of this
oil. though, ] would try Z on my leg. ]
did 90, and to my surprise it soothed 1t
entirely ant instantly wherever it touched
tse sore. Icon,inued 70 DO this for some
weeks. "a mere temporary relicf--bow
loag can not say--as then thought
nothing Of it except as q temporary relief,
but ny lee socn began - heal. and even
al the rough scales, like leprosy or dan
drGf on the head which had resisted All
applications fos seven or eight years. fell
CT, and the ekiu .irelf became as sound.
and fair. and h,rl,hy. % that Of the other,
and has remained SO noH lor tao or three
years.
One Of ny sons had, this fall, such
series OF sores break cut or his leg in the
same way, which confined him TO the
house for some weeks applied this
oil, and he leg 10 EoT about well--,o that
h,!j abou; his business again. Another
~. with like eruption on his chest, vas
similarly benefited
Ny children are coustitutioaallv ~.
clined to Group. have generally wrap
ped their necks in cloths vet IN cold
water, whenever the paroxvsm came on.
usually abou, midnight, or before it came
on, with good success. But in the last
case | rubbed the throat Of the child In
this oil, smartly. with seemingly almost
instantaneous relief. have applied t.
for the uast tv1 Or three wears for about
every local disease, (in our family and
among our neighbors and personal friends
such as rheumatism, pains ia the eide,
shoulders, back and joints, croup, sore
throat. hruises. strains. cut5 and lace-t-
tions Of all sorts on mea and animals.
Nith almost uniform success; and rs some
doctors always prescribe Calomel even for
broken lee. 50 now as a Doctor of both
Medicine and Divinity, by M own iaher-
ent right by eif, O. Almighty God, al
ways prescribe Coal Oils for all human
ais AMI sins whatever-always - be ap-
flied and used as fellows: for all pains 4
tie body apply he coal oil directly 70 the
parts, snd ruo j. ~ well. and al unplCas-
ant smell vii scor be goae-for all SINS
and rains of the soal ponr the oil ia:o a
good lamp, and light Il, and rit down and
read the New Testament, and rub ito truth
well iato the conscience bv resolving 20
80 whatever Chris. commands. And thus
this simple Coal OIL Is worth more 70 both
the bodies ana souls Of laborins and sin.
ple-hesrttd men. than all the nosteums
and crseds that both Of the two learned
Faculties Of Doctors have ever eoncocted
or prescribed, 90 fag ss know. and IL u
IS not sovereign medicine tor soul AID
body. as well a. for CID nets, bolts. irons.
plows. and paint brushes. il ia as near 70
IL as can come.
Recently our cir vas afflicted with a
chronic tic.dou-lou-soux in the face, civ.
ing her sxcruciating pain. often forh.ddinS
sleep even after hard work. 4 few ap
plications, after soc came to live with rs,
heat in bv the Gre, entirely relieved her.
4 favor,te horse, which was strained IA
the cords his fore legs below the knee,
and which al. around here had tried O.
cure, for some years past, was cured ep-
pareutly D, G few applications. il speak.
iDg Of this matter aad relating these facts
% few geutle.coa last week, enc 81
whom is learned ard Philosophical ply
siciAn. said thar :, then occurred 10 him
that ;as OIL IS II fact. in al probability
precisely identical wiki tie celebrated
Rock OIL" or British O.I"vhich his
father used on al sorts al an mails and