The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1863-04-09

They are dperient, tonic, laxative, stimulant,
counter irritant, sudorifc, Alternative. They are
entirely Vegetable, and the only vegetable substi-
tute for Calomel, Mercury, AntimoDy, 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,
or Rhubarb, or Tamarinds, or Caster Oil.
AS Alternatives
They exercise more powerful influence over the
| liver, and its secretons than calomel, mercury
blue pill hence their Importance in of Liver
Complaints and Spleen difficulties, Jaundice. Dys-
pepsia, Bilious attacks, Headache, &c. In the
treatment of Fevers, either Bilious, Yellow, Ty-
phoid and other reducing fevers, they superior
| to quinine. Their influence extends the en-
tire system, controlling strengthening, and brac-
| ing up the relaxed and wasting energies and reg
ating all the secretion> to the natural performance
of their duties, cleansing and purifying the blood
and purglng from the system all diseased despOtS
and impure humors.
| They differ from all purgative pills. Their ac-
ton Is not local, or confined to portion of the
bowels, Drastic Purgative Pills augment what
is called the peristaltic movement of the bowels,
| by irritating the coats of the intestnes.
A large dose of the Drastic Pills will by irritat-
ing the mucous membrane, produce a violent ex-
pulsion 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 infiammatory diseases the irrita-
tiOn produced by the Drastic Purgative Pills will
not increase the disease, but induce liberation ;
therefore, great caution is required in attacks OF
inflammation of the bowels, bilious cholic, rheu-
matSm, govt, &C., in the kind of pills to take III
| RAILWAYS PILLS are taken, a cure will follow
| There are a class of chronic diseases Chronic
| Rheumatism, GOut, Enlargement of the Liver,
Spleen Enlargement, diseases caused by the ex-
ccSsive use of Calomel mercury Quinine in which
COchicum 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 Colchcum would inlict
In Yellow, Typhoid and Bilious Fevers, in Erv-
Sipeas, Small Pox, purgation is entirely essential
but to administer dose of Drastic Pills the pur-
CATION they would produce, and the relaxation and
depletion that would follow, would be be likely to
prove fatal. In these cases, mild soothing and
gently-stimulating laxative, that will purge and
| heal, soothe and strengthen ike RADWAY'S
REGULATING PILLS, is required. The cause of
so many deaths in these diseases is owing to the
want of purgative like RAILWAYS PILLS, that
will purge, without depicting or interfering with
| the functions or other secretions. Not one in a
| hundred of Yellow and other fever cases would
prove fatal if RAILWAYS PILLS were adopted
| in their treatment.
Some advocates of Drastic PUydtiOn erroneous
ly hold that gripping, nausea, sickness, tenesmus,
during the operation of their pills, is a favorable
sign; if their pills, expelled with the faces the
diseased humors left circulating in the system
there would be but little pain gripping 1t is the
| absence of the bile and other humOrs which their
imperfect pills. fail to purge out of the system that
occasions the pain. By examining the stools
evacuated after severe gripping, they will be found
| thin and watery.
AVOID SALINE PURGATlVES
| Many persons are in the habit of taking Salts.
Seidlitz Water, Magnesia, &C., to regulate their
bowels. This is erroneous. They succeed in OBJ
tanning evacuation of the watery parts only.
leaving the corrupt humors, and that is all; but
at the expense of the liver. pancreas, kidneys, &C.,
not one atom of bile or other impurities is elimin
ated from the blood or Serious fluid, If you are
dyspeptic, or troubled with heartburn, sour eruc-
tions headache, indigestion, these difficulties still
remain to torture and yex you. You do not ad-
vance one step towards cure? and the continued
use of these evacuants are apt to accumulate and
| form concertions in the stomach A dose of RAD
WAYS PILLS, once or twice week, will keep all
the secretions in healthy condition. and cure the
worst cases of dyspepsia, indigestion costiveness,
&c.
| If gentle movement in the bowels is required,
| take from one to three; il brisk and thorough
passage is desired, take from four to SIX
PRICE 25 CTS. per Box, containing Thirty Pills,
| SOLD BY DRUGGISTS,
RADWAY & Co.,
dec11-40w4 81 Maiden Lane ". Y.