Des Arc weekly citizen., 1867-12-21
A rapid and never failing cure for
Fever & Ague, or Chiils & Fever.
Every poison has it's antidote--Every disease has it's cure.

Every poison has it's antidote--Every disease has its cure.
 It is a known fact that the powerful miner al medicines so often administered in copious doses in Intermittent and Bilious Remittent Fevers are as perlous to the constitution. as he levers themselves, while their operation is generally slow and upcertain, and their eff fects evanecsent. Remedies of this class, hazardous under any circumstances, cannot be used with any approach to safety except under the directions of physician; and in the regions where Fever and Ague, Bilious Fever, Chill and Fever, Dumb Ague and their kindred complaints chiefly prevail, medical men are sometimes few and far between, and medical advice almost unobtainable. It is obvious, therefore, that medicine like the Texas Tonic Syrup, prompt ond cer- tain in it's action as A curative, and equally 10 be relied on as preventive, of these dan gerous maladies-a preparation as harmless 10 the constitution as water---muss be of price less value in the valley of the Mississippi, or wherever ese they may exist.
 The common cause of all remittept and intermittent levers is the mephitic vapor or miasma evaporated by heat from tlS sell, or from the surface of stagnant water and il is usually when the torrid warmth of summer has prostrated the system and rendered il incapable of contending energetically with the disease that the attack comes on. July, August, September and October are the months during with all bilious complaints are most common, and most violent, The organs immediately affected by Fever and Ague and lntcrmittents and Remittents, are the Liver the Spleen the Stomach and Kid neys. Upon each and all ofthese organs, the Texas Tonic Syrup acts specifically, regu'a ting and controlling he flow of bile, preyen ting or relieving that enlargement of the spleen. known as the Ague Cake. strengthening the d gestive powers and removing those severe pains of the back which arise from the tor pidity or inflammation of the Kidneys As it's name indicates, il gives a healthy tone to tue Viscere, which perform the secretion, circula ton, and excretion Instead of inficting shock upon the internal, es mineral medicines necessarily do, it invigorates and assists nature and seconds with wonderful efforts which she makes to tlirow.off the disease It. is not mere palliative that checks or modi- fes tie symptoms for brief period but radical remedy that reaches and removes the cause of the disorder.
 Of these facts the inventors of he Texas Tonic Syrup have had innuinsrabe proofs and they arc prepared to establish them by the highest testimony; Medical men of acknowleugeu emlnence pisSclIof IL lu 'ueti private practice, and it is rapidly sapercedlag all other preparations of it's class throughout the west Southwest and South No family residing in any section subject to the yisita- tions of Ague and Fever, or any bilious con- plaint, should be without t, if they desire to escape the penalties of protractel sickness and it's coneonitant dangers, agonies and expenses.
 It is not alone for it's curative properties that the Tonic Syrup is to be prized. As preventive it is invaluable. The virus oi disease often lies hidieu in the system for months, and even years, weakening the vital forces, and slowly, yet surely sarping the foundations of health and life.
 The symptoms of this process appear in sallow skin the dull eye, the growing feeble ness of the unconscious victim As soon as these or any other foceshadowipgs of sickness are observed, such as pains in the small of tho back, in the left side, or between the shoulders, the Tonic Syrnp should be given and it is guaranteed that course o; this remedy will, in all cases, remove every germ of bilious disease from the system, restore the natural color to the complexion, remove all local pain, and renew the bodily vigor of the individual It is especially recommended to the unacclimatcd settler, as q sure safe guard against Ague and Fever.