The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1863-01-14
DIR. RADWY's PILLS.

! DR. RADWlY's PILLS.
/ IF people unde.ttood the Importance I
/ purgation with RADWAY'S PILLS, j
Econtradistinction Of spurging with othe
Ipillsor powdsrss salts, oils, Seidiltz waters
they would need less physicingg, save them
selves ;fro@F much suffering, and great.
improve tfcir health. =
~ HADWAY'S PILLS
ARE PfRFEcT RGATIvEs-
They are arerienf, tonic, laxative, stim
ulant, cou1ter- irritant, sudorifc, altera
tive. They are entirely Vegetable, ant
the only We egetable substitute for Calomel
Mercury, Antimony, Blue Pill, in the
Arcana of Medicine. AS eyacuants, they
are more certain and thorough than. the
Drastic Pills of Aloes, or Croton and Har-
lem Oil. or Elaterium; and more soothing
and healing than SIENNA, OF. Rheubarb, OF
Tamarinds, or Castor Oil.
AS ALTERNATIVES
They exercise more powerful iafn
ence over the liver, and its sccretions than
calomel, mercury, blue pill, hence their
Importance in eases of Liver Complaints
and Spleen difficulties, Jaundice, Dyspep-
sia, Bilious attacks, Head ache, &c. In
the treatment of Fevers, either Bilious,
Yellow, Typhoid, and other reducing fe-
vers, they are superb to quinine. Their
influence extends over the entiressystem
controlling, Strengthening and bracing up
the relaxed and wasting energies, and
regulating all the secretions to the natural
performance Of their duties cleaning and
purifying the blood and purging from the
system all diseased deposits and impure
humors.
They differ from all purgatiyc pills
Their action is not local, or confined to a
portion of the bowels. Drastic Purga-
tive Pills augment what is called the per
istaltic movement of the bowels by irritat-
ing the coats of the intestines.
a large dose sf the. Drastic Pills will
by Irritating the" mucous III mbrane, pro-
duce violent expulsion of the contents
in the bowels, but in so doing other Sc
cretions are suspended. In such cases
the stools will be found to be light
colorcd and watery, and attended
with cramps, gripping pains, nausea.
aickness. BY this increased unnatural
action Of the bowels, the secretions of the
kidneys and pancreas. are diminished,
followed by affections of the kidneys,
blapeer, urethra, piles, tcnesmus, general
prostration, costiveness, and Indigestion.
In active and infammatory diseases, the
irritation produced by the Drastic Purga-
tive Pills will not only increase the dis
case, but induce liberation; therefore,
great caution is required in attacks of in
Of the bowells, bilious cholic,
gout, &c., in the kind Of
pills to take. IF RADWAY'S PILLS
are taken, cure will follow. i
There are classzof chronic diseases,
Chronic rheumatism; Gout, Enlargement
Of the Eivcr, Spleen Enlargement, dis
eases caused by the excessive use of CAL
omsl, Mercury, Quinine, in which Colchi-
cum Goiac are prescribed freely. Inthese
diseases, RADWAY'S REGULATING
PILLS are far more certain, and the pa
-ient avoids the danger which an overdose.
IF Colchicum would infict.
In Yellow, Typhoid, and Bilious Fe-
Ters, in Erysipelas, Small Pox, purgation
S highly essential; but to administer a
lose Of Drastic Pills, the irritation they
would produce, and the relaxation and
depletion that would follow, would be
likely to prove fatal. In these cases, a
mild soothing and gently stimulating lax
tive, that willpprge and heal, soothea and
like Railways Regulating
pilIs,sis required. The cause Of so many
Ieaths in these diseases is owing to the
want of a purgative like Radway' Pills,
hat will purge, without depicting or inter
ering with the functions or other secre-1
ions: Not one in hundred of Yellow.
md other fever cases would prove fatal
f Railways Pills were adopted in their
reatment.
Some advocates of DRASTIC RURGATIoN
'rroneously hold that gripping, nausea,
sickness, tenesmus, during the operation
If their pills, is a favorable sign: if their
bills, expelled with the faces the diseased
lumors left circulating in the system,
here would be but little pain or gripping ]
It is the absence of the bile and other
,umors, which their imperfect pills, fail
o purge out of the system, that occasions
he pain. BY examining the stools evac-
lated after severe gripping, they will be
fourd thin and watery
AVOID SALINE PURGATIVESI
Many persons are in the habit of taking
Salts. Seiditz Water, Magnesia,s &C., to
-egulate their bowels. This is erroneous
Fhey succeed in obtaining an evacuation
If the watery parts onlys leaving the cor
,upt humors, and that is all; but at the
expense of the liver, pancreas, kidneys,
&C., not one atom of bile brother impuri-
lies is eliminated from the blood or serous
iuid. If you are dyspeptic, or troubled
with heartburn, sour eructions, head ache,
these difficulties still remain!
% torture and yex you. You do not ad-l
vance one step towards azure; and thei
continued use Of these evacuants are apt
20 accumulate and form eenoretions in the
stomach. A dose of Radway' $. Pills, once
or twice week, will keep all the secre-
ions in healthy condition, and cure the
worst cases of dyspepsias indigestion, cos
siyeness, s&c.
. IF a GENTLE movement of the bowels is