New-York tribune., 1867-06-26

N much." That 1t is phySicked too much ia
apparent to every thoughtful observer. Scarce
ly month passes in which some new tbeorv
for the cure of all the disorders incident ~
humanity is not broached. Each has his Gs,lo.
day, its proselytes,-m or few, as the coso
may be,-and then drops into oblivion. Tousa
the words of Byron
Every month and year brings forth new ore
TILL after cloying the gaees with cant.
The age discovers 1t is not the true one"
Strange to say, all the sO-caed infaliblo
systems of treatment" which q good-natured
public is invited to patrOnize, propose to do
battle with disease after it has fastened upon
its victims, not to anticipate and battle its at.
tacks. Now, the grandest and most important
mission of medical science is, not to cure sick
ness but to prevent it, Remedial agents would
of course, never be needed if, by means of an
tidotes taken in advance, all disorders could be
averted This, perhaps, is not possible; but it
is claimed as a fact established by seventeen
years of successful experience that Hostetter's
Stomach Bitters come nearer to the standard Of
perfection, as a protective medicine, than any
a large class of complaints, and vitalizing
strength-renewing agent in cases of physical
debility, whether constitutional or produced by
adventurous causes, its great value is admitted
by all liberal minded medical practitioners, and
avOuched by the most voluminOus array of tes-
tmony that has ever been accumulated in favor
of any tonic and Alternative.
Fifty years ago, the faculty, as a rule, took
sides with disease against nature. Of course
such was not their design; but such was un-
questionably their practice Their intentions
were good, but their pathology and method of
bleeding, salvation, violent purgation, and
stupefaction with narcotics, were then the main
resources of the profession. The lancet was
used freely in intermittent fevers o; and if the
brain was excited, off came the patients hair,
and was supplanted by cantharides plaster.
Calomel and jalap were administered in heroic
doses" in bowel complaints, and the system was
saturated with mercury as specific for liver
disease and scrofulous dstempers. This sort Of
treatment was a source of profit to apOthecar-
les and undertakers but deadly TO the subjects
of it. 1t brought mourning into countless
households, and filled innumerable graves.
The era of violent and indiscriminate deple-
ton has passed away, never, it is hoped, to re-
turn, and the immense importance of invigora-
ton is generally recognized But until the in
PRODUCTION of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters neither
the public nor the physicians knew where to
look for pure and harmless inrigordht For
many wears the ordinary alcoholic stimulants
had been becoming more and more impure until
careful and conscientious practitioners were
afraid 10 prescribe them, and it was blessed
day for the sick and feeble when this innocuous
and powerful Vegetable Tonic was ushered INTO
existence to supply their place Its advent was
the great sanitary event of the nineteenth CEN
tury. The spirituous liquors of seventeen years
ago were much adulterated, but they were IN
fnitely less dangerous than the acrd and con-
suming poisons now vended under the sams
names in grocery stores and at tavern bars on
the other hand, the stimulant employed IN Una
of the Bitters is far preferable TO
rho finest ever distilled from the grape OF tina
cane. II is, so to speak, the life-blood OF the
most wholesome of all cereals, sound rye. buu
this admirable stimuant is merely the vehicle
by which the rare medicinal elements OF the
Btters are diffused through the system, ana tno
agent by which their active power Is increased"
Tho veoetable ingredients intermixed with the
alcoholic base comprise thirteen of the most POI
tent vegetable tonics, correctives and altera-
tiyes at present known in medical botany; and
il is to their operation, quickened as it is by the
pure exhilarant with which they are combined
that the preparation owes its wonderful efncacy
as a means of regulating. reinforcing and pro-
tecting from deleterious influences the human
physique.
Although the medical profession are alive u
the value of Hostetter's Bitters as restorative
and it has been introduced extensively IN ther
nrivate practice and into many public hospitals
and inirmaries, they do not seem TO form
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