New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-10-14
. GIVE REMEDY IN SICKNESS. and a


q month passes in which some new theory for
the cure of all disorders incident to humanity
is not preached. Each has it's little day, its
proselytes-many OF few, as the case may be
and then drops into oblivion. TO use the
words Of Byron, ,--er.r..
Every Month and year brings forth new one,
TIN after cloying the gazcttes with can't
The age discovers 1t rs not q true one"
Strange to say, all the so-caled {" infallible
systems of treatment" which o goodnatured
public is invited to patronize propose to dc
battle with disease after it has fastened upon
it's 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
ayerted. This, perhaps. in not possible; but it
is claimed as n fact established by seventeen
years Of successful experience, that Hostetter's
Stomach Bitters come nearer to the standard
of perfection, as protective medicine, than
any preparation in use, while as for remedy for
a large class of complaints, and a yitalizng,
strength renewing agent in cases of physical
debility, whether constitutional or produced by
adventurous causes, its great value is admitted
by liberal minded medical practitioners, and
avouched 10y the most yOluminous array OF
testimony that has ever been accumulated in
| fovor of anv tonic and Alternative
Fifty years ago the faculty, as a rule, took
sides with disease against nature. OF course
such was not the design, but such was I'M
Questionaby their practice. Their intentions
were good, but their pathology and method of
treatment were atrocOusly wrong. Clustering,
bleeding, salvation, violent purgation and
stupefaction with narcotics, were then the
main resources of the profession. The lancet
was used freely in intermittent fevers % and
| if the brain was excited off came the patients
hair, and twas supplanted by cantharides
plaster. Calomel and jalap were administered
"in heroic doses in bowel complaints, and the
system was saturated with mercury as n spec-
fc for liver disease and scrOfulOus distempers.
| This course Of treatment was n source Of profit
! 10 apothecarles and undertakers but deadly to
the subjects of it, 1t brought mourning into
countless houses, and filed innumerable graves.
The era Of violent and indscriminate deple
ton has passed away, never, it is hoped, to re-
turn, and the immense importance Of inyigora-
ton is generally recognized. But until the
introduction Of IIostetter's Stomach Bitters,
neither the public nor physicians knew where
TO look for n pure and harmless invigorant.
! For many years tho ordinary alcoholic stimu-
lauts had been becoming more and more i'm
pure, until the careful and conscientious prac-
was blessed day for the sick and feeble when
this innocuous and powerful Vegetable Tonic
was usheIed into existence to supply their
place. Its advent was the great sanitary event
Of the Nineteenth Century. The spirituous
liquors of seventeen years ago We're much
adulterated, but they were infinitely less
! dangerous than the acid and con
Stunning pOisons now vcnded under the
same name in grocery stores and tavern
bars. On the other hand, the stimulant en-
ployed in the manufacture of the Bitters is far
preferable TO the finest ever distilled from the
grape or the cane. 1t is, so TO speak, the life
| blood Of the most Wholesome of cereals, sound
rye. But this admirable simulant is merely the
vehicle by which their active power is increased
The vegetable ingredients intermixed with the
alcoholic base, comprise thirteen of the most po-
tent vegetable toncs coucctives, Alternatives, at
present known III 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 regulating, reinforcing, and protecting
from deleterious influence the human physique.
Although the medical profession are alive to
the value of Hostetter's Bitters as a restora-
tive, and it has been introduced extensively in
their private practice, and into many public
hospitals and .infirmares they do not seem to
form proper estimate of its Importance rs
means of combating the predsposing causes of
disease. Far more eficacious than any sanitary
Gordon that could be established round an in
fected district, would be the use of this anti
dote by such of the inhabitants as had not yet
been affected by the epidemic virus It's effect
is to endow the system with resistant power |
It's properties are in direct antagonism to the
evil tendencies of an imprisoned atmosphere,