New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-05-14

GREY JACKET BTTERs REMEDY FOR CHOLERA
As will be seen upon referring to our advertising
columns, this popular beverage, which has hith-
erto been only used as an appetiser or aid to the
digestion, is claimed by the manufacturers to be
sure and speedy cure for that dread scourge, the
Asiatic cholera. If such really be the case, it is
a matter of great importance, for it will place in
the hands of all cheap and agreeable remedy for
disease which has hitherto bafled the skill of the
GREATEST physicians OF the world, and which has
only been attempted to be treated heretofore with
the most powerful drugs and nauseous herbs. 1t
would thus appear that the old idea that every dis
ease had its specific, will again hold true and that
Providence, while sending the scourge among men,
had mereifuly provided for their safety ii they
would be wise enough to take advantage of the
provision, Grey jacket bitters, its manufacturers
inform US, is composed of herbs which grow all
over the sunny South, and whose medicinal virtues
have been long known. All they claim in com
pounding them into the bitters is that they have
discovered a way Of distilling them together,
which, while it takes nothing from any Of the par
teular herbs adds to their virtues by the combine
ton. They DO not claim to have discovered uni
versal panacea, but to manufacture mixture Of
simples, which will strengthen the constitutions of
ture in the sick. They do not tell us that Grey
Jacket bitters will cure small pox, yellow fever,
or make manned mans limbs grow out again
but that it will improve the digestion, give tone to
weak stomachs, strengthen the blood and conse-
quently enable the system to successfully combat
such diseases as attack the digestive organs and
bowels. All physicians agree that those whose
constitutions are weakened by disease or vice are
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whose digestion is good and whose vital powers
are all at their best-cOmmon sense teaches that
Therefore if Grey Jacket bitters tends to place a
man in the last named condition, we must admit
that it is a most valuable medicine. But indepen
dent of its great medicinal virtues, its manufaCtur
ers claim that its general use would work a com
plete revolution in the drinking line that while il
stimulates and eEcites the blood to free action
and gives the brain healthy activity, it does moi
intoxicate nor is lis free use as a beverage at
tended by any bad results. If such be really the
fact, no person who has the good Of the country
at heart refrain from desiring to it take the
place Of alcoholic spirits everywhere, for drunken
ness is the peculiar and popular sin in America
and anything which has tendency to abate sucl
a nuisance should have popular support.
HOSPITALITY OF New ORLEANs.-The genera
conference Of the Methodist Church, recently ii
session in this city previous to adjourning, unani
moQsy adopted the following resolution:
Rescued, That the bishops and delegates Of the
several annual conferences of the Methodist Epis
copal Church, assembled in general conference
, unite in expressing their profound sense of the
great kindness and hospitality of the citizens oil
/ New Orleans, exhibited by their unwearfed kind
ness to us during the month of our session in this
city, and that we devoutly and solemny invoke
the blessings Of Almighty God upon all tile mem.
5 bers Of the several families with whom we have
J had our delightful sojourn and that we feryenty
pray for the growth of this great city in popula.
ton, prosperity and, especially in the culture oil
4 our most holy faith.
The BRIIlsn FLEET DEE HAL1EAx.-Tha Rritisl