The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1863-10-15

IF people understood the Importance of purga-
Il ton with RAILWAYS PILLS, in contradis-
salts, oils, Seidlitz waters they would need less
physcing, save themselves from much suffering,
and greatly improve their health.
RAILWAYS PILLS
They are aperient, tonic, laxative, stimulant,
counter-irritant, sudorifc, Alternative. They are
entirely Vegetable, and the only vegetable substi-
tute for Calomel, 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
erium; and more soothing and healing than SIENNA,
OF Rhubarb or Tamarinds. or Caster OIL be
as Alternatives a
They exercise amore powerful influence over the
liver, and its secretions than calomel, mercury
blue pill, hence their Importance in cases of Liver
Complaints and Spleen difficulties, Jaundice. Dys-
pepsia, Bilious attacks, Headache, &c. In the
treatment of Fevers, either Bilious Yellow Ty-
phod, and other reducing feyers, 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
latng all the secretions to the natural performance
of their duties cleansing and purifying the blood
and purging from the system all diseased despots
They differ from all purgative pills. Their &C.
ton is not local, or confined to portion of the
bowels Drastic Purgative Pills augment what
is called the peristaltic movement of the bowels
large dose of the Drastic Pills will by irritat
| ing the mucous membrane, produce violent ex-
pulsion of the contents of the bowels, but in SC
doing other secretions suspended. In such
cases, the stools will be found to be light-coored
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, costiyeness and indigestion.
/ In active and infiammatory diseases, the irrta
ton produced by the Drastic Purgative Pills will
not increase the disease, but induce liberation
/ therefore, great caution is required In attacks oil
/ Inflammation of the bowels, bilious cholic, rheu
matism, govt, &c, in the kind of pills to take. Il
| RAILWAYS PILLS are taken, a cure will follow
There are class of chronic diseases, Chronic
Rheumatism, Gout, Enlargement of the Liver
Spleen Enlargement, diseases caused by the ex
cessive use OF Caomel, 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, purgation is entirely essential
but to administer dose of Drastic Pills, the pur
cation they would produce, and the relaxation anG
depletion that would follow, would be be likely tt
prove fatal In these cases, mild soothing anC
gently-stimulating laxative, that will purge anC
heal, soothe and strengthen, like RAILWAYS
REGULATING PILLS, is required. The cause o
| so many deaths in these diseases is owing to thu
want of purgatiye like RAILWAYS PILLS, tina
will purge, without depicting or interfering will
| the functions or 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 Purqation erroneous
ly hold that gripping nausea, sickness, tenesmus
during the operation of their pills, is fayorabl
sign; if their pills, expelled with the faces th
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 foun
thin and watery.