The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-02-13
MEDICAL.
DIR. POLAND,S
WHITE AEt9MPOUkD,
The Great Popular Remedy
For Colds, Coughs, Hoarseness, Sore
..''w Throat, Group. and Whooping
sa Cough. e
. E Cures Gravel,
And ALI Kidney Diseases

THERE have been many severe cases I'm Roston
IL and vicinity cured by the White Pine Com
pound WI Sas San er 70, and hundreds Of
the white Pine Compound, having beea reported
by druggists. 9ia1 irl
no ono seems to have gained favor like the White
Pine Compound This Medicine was frst made as
lately as the spring 1856 aud then merely for one
individual, who was affected with an Inflammation
Of the throat. A cure was effected by it. This ia
duced others to apply for the same remedy, and
every using 1t received great benefit. The ar
ticle, however, went without q name till November
following ,wheu 1t was called White Pine Compound.
During that month it was advertised for the hrst
time.
bottle Tor hard cough, was not only cured Of the
cough, but also or severe kidney complaint of ten
years enduraIce. This being truly discovery.
the fact was mentioned to skilifu physician, who
replied, in substance that, the BARK of white
pine was one of the best diuretics known provided
ats astringency could be counteraced. 1t the other
articles entering into the compound would effect
this q fortune was In the medicine The fortune has
not yet been reached but the hundreds of cures Ell
iected by the compound, in the most aggravated
csses of Kidney diseases including Diabetes prove
1t to be wonderful medicine for such ailments. A
largs number oiphysicians now employ II, or recon-
mend 1t Tor such use.
Kidney inflammation, 1t Is also wonderful curative in all
throat and lung diseases 1t quiky and sooth ngly
aays inflammation, that hoarseness and
moved as BY magic Numerous cases have been report
ed the originator where relief in very has
been experienced In one hour and cure effected in
twenty-f6ur hours. 80
There very natural for this. The bark and
even tho leaves, needles Of White Pine contain
eminent medicinal qualities. The Indians employed the
bark Of Whits Pine ain treating diseases long before the
settlement of America BY Europeans. One instance
hrming this may here be gwen. Tffo
james Cartier, bod french mariner, early 1884,
sailed along the northern coast Of North America, aud
the first among discoyerers to enter the River st.
Lawrence. On his down the river, he found his
sadly afflicted aud disabled by atssailors call the
scurvey Its ravages fatal, and the survivors
scarcely able to bury the dead Some Of the Indians
along the shore were likewise attacked by the dis
but Cartier observed that they recovered He
therefore earnestly enqured about their mode OF treat
ment and they pointed cut to him tree the bark and
leaves Of which they used In decoction with signal
cess Cartier tried the remedy and had the ga-
cation of seeing all Of his who afflicted rapidly
Improving. This tree was the White Pine.
wash Of the bark, stepped In WATER is exceedingly
useful in reducing inflammation and cleansing old
In ne the virtues of White Pine Bark known every
where and this doubtless Is grand why the
White Pine Compound was so fyoraby received at the
first. N4N 27
The past year has given great opportunity to test the
virtues Of the White Pine Compound. 1t has been an
unusual time for Colds and Coughs, and very large
quantities Of the White Pine Compound have been sold
and used with the happest effects 1t speaks we'll for the
Medicine that the people living where it Is prepared
are high In its praise.