The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1863-10-08
DIR. RAILWAYS PILLS.

IF people understood the importance of purga-
Il ton with RAILWAYS PILLS, in contradis-
tinction of purging with other pills powders,
salts, oils, Seidlitz waters, they would need less
physicing, save themselves from much suffering.
and greatly improve their health
RAILWAYS PILLS
They are dperieat, tonic, laxative, silmulant,
counter irritant sudorifc, Alternative. They are
entirely Vegetable and the only vegetable substl-
tute for Calonel, Mercury, Anthony, Blue Pill,
in the Arcana of Medicine. As evacuants, they
are more certain and thorough than the Drastic
Pills of Aloes, or Croton and Harlem Oil or Flat
erum; and more soothing and healing than SIENNA,
or Rhubarb, or Tamarinds. or Caster Oil.
AS Alternatives ltfs3a
They exercise more powerful influence over the
liver, and its secretions than calomel, mercury
blue pill hence their Importance in cases of Liver
Complaints and Spleen difficulties, Jaundce. Dys-
pepsia, Bilious attacks, Headache, &c. In the
treatment of Fevers either Bilious, Yellow, Ty-
phoid, and other reducing evers, they superior
to quinine Their influence extends over the en-
tire SYSTEM controlling. strengthening, and brac-
ing up the relaxed and wasting energies, and reg
lating all the secretions to the natural performance
of their duties cleansing and purifying the blood
and purglng from the system all diseased despots
and impure humors. ,tf
They differ from all purgative pills. Their ac-
ton is not local. or confined to portion of the
bowels, Drastic Purgatire Pills augment what
is called the peristaltic movement OF the bowels,
A large dose of the Drastic Pills will by irritat-
ing the mucous membrane, produce a violent e x
pulson of the contents of the bowels, but in SO
doing other secretions are suspended In such
cases, the stools will be found to be lght-colored
and watery, and attended with cramps gripping
pains, nausea, sickness. By this increased un,
natural action of the bowels the secretons of the
kidneys, bladder, urethra, piles tenesmus, gener-
| al prostration, costiveness and indigestion.
| In active and infammatory diseases the irrita
not Increase the disease, but induce liberation
therefore, great caution is required in attacks o
| Inflammation of the bowels, bilious cholic, rheu-
matism, govt, &c, in the kind of pills to take Ii
RAILWAYS PILLS are taken, cure will follow
There a class of chronic diseases, Chronic
Rheumatism, Gout, Enlargement of the Liver
Spleen Enlargement, diseases caused by the ex
cessive use OF Calomel, mercury, Quinine in which
| Colchicum Golac are prescribed freely. In these
| diseases, RAILWAYS REGULATING PILLS are
far more certain, and the patient avoids the dan
| ger which an overdose of Colchicum would inflict
| In Yellow, Typhoid and Bilious Fevers, in Fry
sipelas, Small Pox, purgaton is entirely essential
but to administer a dose of Drastic Pills, the pur
cation they would produce, and the relaxation anC
depletion that would follow, would be be likely t
| prove fatal In these cases, mild soothing anC
| gently stimulating laxative, that will purge anC
heal, soothe and strengthen, like RADWA Az
| REGULATING PILLS, is required. The cause o
so many deaths in these diseases is owing to tn,
want of purgative like RAILWAYS PILLS, tina
will purge, without depicting interfering witt
the functions other secretions. Not one in
hundred of Yellow and other fever cases woul,
prove fatal if RAILWAYS PILLS were adoptet
in their treatment
Some advocates of Drastic PDgatiOn erroneous
ly hold that gripping, nausea, sickness, tenesmus
during the operation of their pills, is favorabl
sign; if their pills, expelled with the faces til
diseased humors left circulating in the system
there would be but little pain or gripping 1t is tn
absence of the bile and other humOrs, which thei
imperfect pills. fail to purge out of the system tina
occasions the pain. By examining the stool
evacuated after severe gripping, they will be toun'
thin and watery.