Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1867-10-17

a pr .'meuy "a sickness and q promnt
"'s'"'a"'e N Weakness aud Debility -
The world Is said TO be governed too ,... :.
That IL is ptysicked too much l. ..n.
every thoughtful observer. scs,e.,,
passes In which some rev th,o,v n, ~.
OF all the disorders incident 20 human,t, ..
preached. Each has its little dsY. u p,os.
'yse', many or few. - the case NAV be- apd
she" drops into oblivion. To use n, words al,
Byron:
avery month and year brings forth q new one
I"'' s''ef c'oying the gssettes with cant,
Inc age discovers II Is not The true On.
strange 10 say. all the SO called ..;,r.,tA.
systems of treatment" which . vo,, .,
public Is invited to pstronile propo.. "a do ,.,
tie with disease after il has f.s,,,.,
victims. not to anticipate and battle il, .,..,.
Now, the grandest aud most important n,..,.
OF medical science is. not to cure sickness. bu,
70 prevent il. Remedial Agcn,s would. Of course.
never be needed IT,. by means Of sn,idotes taken
IN advance. all disorders could b. sve,,.a
lhis. perhaps. is not possible; bu. is claimed
ss Tact established by seventeen years OF sue.
cessiul experience that Hos,rt,er.s Stomach
b'ssers come nearer to the standard Of perfce
tion. A. q protective medicine. than snv o,h.,
preparation in use while Is a remedy for
large class Of complaints, AMI = vtali,ip,
trength-renewing agent In cases of physical
debility. whether constitutional or producck d,
scventitious cause, its great value is admitted
by all liberal-minded medical practitioners. and
svouched by the most voluminous array Of ties
simony that has ever been accumulated in "a
vcr Of any tonic and altssative.
Fifty years ago. the faculty, - . rule, took
aides with disease. against nature. or course
such was not their design; but such was uu.
questionabiy their practice. Their intentions
we're good, but their pathology and method Of
treatment were atrociously wrong. Bistesiug.
bleeding. sAliv alton. violent purga.ion. and stu
pefaction with narcotics, we're then the main
resources Of the profession. The lancet was used
freely in intermittent fevers o. and IL the brain
was excited. on came the patients hair and was
supplsnted by . cantharidrs plaster Cslomei
and jalap were administered I'm heroic doses
n DO sel comp plants, and the system was sa,ur-
atcd with mercury As specific for liver disease
and scrofulous distcmpcrs. This sort OF trcA,
msnt was = source Of profit to npethecaries aud
brought mourning into countless houses and
filed inn SCRABBLE graves.
The era Of violent and indiscriminate d~ple
ton has passed away. never. it is hoped. to re-
turn, and the immense importance OF invigors.
PRODUCTION OF lostetters Stomach Bit,ers Meth.
er the public nor the phys, ms knew where to
look for pure end harmless invigorant. For
many years the ordinary alcoholic s,imuiants
had been becoming more and mere impure. un-
I'll careful and conscientious practitioners were
afraid to prescribe them, and il waa . blessed
day for the s,ch and feeble when this innocuous
and powerful Vegetable Tonic was ushersd into
sxistence.to supply their place. Its advent was
the great sanitary event Of the nineteenth cen
tury. The spurious liquors OF seventeen years
ago we're much adultersted. but they were in
fnitely less dangerous than the acrid and con
consuming poisons nov vended under the same
names in grocery stores and at tavern bars On
the other hand. the stimulaut employed In the
manufacture Of the differs 10 far preferable 10
tho finest ever distilled from the grape or the
ssne. II 10, 80 to speak, the life. blood OF the
most wholesome Of cereals. sound rye. Hut this
admirable st,mulant IL mcraly the vehicle by
which the rare medicinal elementsof ths Bitter
are difTused through the system. and the sgen.
BY which their active power Is increased. The
vegetable ingredients intesmixed with the a.
coholic bsse, comprise thirteen Of the nost 20
tent vegetable tonics. correctives and Alternative
at present known In medical botany and il i
to their operation. quickened a. IL In By the pure
sxhilsrant with which they are combined, that
the prepa, alton owes its wonderful efficacy ~ a
means Of regulating. reinforcing. and protect.
ing from deletsrious influence the humsn
physique.
Although the nsdiesl profession ere alive TO
the value Of Hostestsrs Btssrs - restorative
and il hes bsen introduced excessively in their
privsse practice sad int nasy publis hospitals
and isArmariss, they do not sssn 10 form
proper estimate Of lie importance - . mesns Of
combating the pssdisposins causes Of d,seaas.-
Far more sfIicssiOus than asy sanitary Gordon
that conld b. established rouad ~ Infected dis
tr,ct would BE- ths sss II this aatidois BY such
Of the snhabisssts - he'd ~ ~ bees Affected
BY the epidemic virus. It, eject b y sndow
the system with resistant power. lie properties
are In direct antagopism - the evil tendsnciss
Of an empoissned atmosphere, and 70 d! the de-
pressing and morbid influences which predisposs
the body 10 the reception Of disease. For those
reasons Il 10 specially and earnestly recommended
10 al whose circumstances sod SURROUNDINGS