New-York tribune., 1867-09-11


That it is physicked too much is apparent to
every thoughtful observer. Scarcely month
of all the disorders incident to humanity is not
broached. Each has its little day, its prose
lytes,--many or few, as the case may be,-and
then drops into oblivion. To use the words of
Byron:
Every month and year brings forth new one,
Till, after cloying the gazettes with cant;
The age discovers IL is not the true one
Strange to say, all the so-caled "infallible
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 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
other preparation in use; while as remedy
for large class of complaints and vitalizng
strength renewing agent in cases OF physical
debility, whether constitutional or produced by
adventitious cause, its great value is admitted
by all a-minded medical practitioners, and
avouched by the most volunnnous array OF tes-
timony that has ever been accumulated IN Ia
vor of any tonic and Alternative.
Fifty years ago the faculty, as 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
treatment were atrociOusly wrong. Blistering,
bleeding salvation, violent purgaton, and stu
pefaction with narcotics, were then the main
resources of the profession. The lancet was
used freely in intermittent fevers o.; and II the
brain was excited, off came the patients hair
and was supplanted by cantharides plaster
Calomel and ialap were administered :" in heroic
doses" in bowel complaints, and the system
was saturated with mercury as specific for
liver disease and scrofulous distempers. This
sort of treatment was source of profit TO
apothecaries and undertakers, but deadly TO
the subjects of it, 1t brought mourning into
countless households, and filed 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 lnvigora-
ton is generally recognized. But until the
introduction of Hostetter's Stomach Btters
neither the public nor the physicians knew
where to look for a pure and harmless invigor-
ant. For many years the ordinary alcoholic slim
ulants had been becoming more and more I'M
pure until careful and conscientious practitioners
were afraid to prescribe them, and it was
blessed day for the sick and feeble when this
nnocuous and powerful Vegetable Tonic was
ushered into existence o supply their place.
Its advent was the great sanitary event OF the
nineteenth century. The spirituous liquors of
seventeen years ago were much adulterated,
but they were infinitely less dangerous than the
acrid and consuming posons now vended under
the same names in grocery-stOres and at tav-
em-bars On the other hand, the stimulant en-
ployed in the manufacture of the Bitters Is TAR
preferable to the finest ever distilled from the
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blood of the most wholesome of all cereals,
sound rye But this admirable stimulant is
merely the vehicle by which the rare medicinal
elements of the Bitters are ditfused through the
system, and the agent by which their active
power is increased. The vegetable ingredients
intermixed with the alcoholic base, comprise
thirteen of the most potent vegetable tonics,
cOrrectives, and alternatives at present known in
medical botany; and it is to their operation,
quickened as it is by the pure exhilarant with
which they are combined, that the preparation
owes its wonderful efficacy as a means of regu-
lating, reinforcing, and protecting from delete
riOus influences the human physique.
Although the medical profession are alive to
the value of Hostetters Bitters as a restorative,
and it has been introduced extensively in their
private practice and into many public hospitals
and infrmaries, they do not seem to form
proper estimate of its importance as a means of
combating the predsposing causes of disease.
Far more etiicacious than any sanitary Gordon
that could be established round an infected