New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-08-05


curatives, when all the best and safest anti.
dotes to disease grow upon the surface IN.
inspired writers who must be supposed TO hs,.
derived their knowledge directly from sts
Fountain of all Truth, recommend none 9th.
than vegetable remedies. "The tree,n we -.
told, "was made for the healing of the nation.
When King David languished, it was the "Bal,.
of Gilead" that renewed his strength; "poal-
tice of figs" cured the sick Hezekiah; oil tsx-
pressed from the Syrian Olive) was poured INA.
the hurts of the wounded man by the way-sids,
hyssop, myrrh, and aloes were purgatiyes a
the prophetic age; and the pure ferment.s
juice of the grape (wines had not then bee,
adulterated) was taken 10 Timothy "for IA
stomach's sake" If the mine as well az Ia
tree had been made for the healing of the ma.
tons, is it likely that the virtues CD of Merca,,
would have been hidden from the patriarchst
The instincts of the brute creation teach than
how to doctor themselves and they inyariably
stick to vegetable medication. The mongocs,
when bitten by deadly serpent, eats of ce,.
tain herb, and thereby neutralizes the virus IN,
iected into its veins the sick dog eats grass,
and many other animals, guided by that faeulty
which serves them in the place of reason, end
balsams for their injuries and ailments in thu
woods and fields.
These indications that the Vegetable Kine.
dom is the true Materia Medca are corrobo,
rated by daily experience, and the time is not
far distant when this fact will be universally
admitted.
Without disparagement to other botanical
remedies, it may be fairly claimed that the com.
binatiOn of vegetable preventiyes aud restora.
tives in Hostetters Stomach Bitters entitle the
preparation to high place among the specific
of the age. Rock and valley, plain and foreA
have contributed of their hygeian stous
to produce its extraordinary properties
1t is a preservatiye medicine; in Other
words, its effect is to preserve the physical pOws
ers in their full vgOr beyond that period
when unassisted nature begins to succumb 10
the canker of decay. AS a stOmachc, it
altogether the best known. It's depuratiye ten.
dency is particularly evident in bilious cases. IN
which it seems to purge the blood of super
huous bile, and restore that clearness OF cons
plexion which can only cO-exist with a healthy
circulation. Certainly there is no ADVERTISED
tonic corrective which more completely ylndi'
Gates the efficacy of botanical treatment
APPETrzING PROPERTIES OF THE BITrERs.-A
medicine that excites appetite without promo
ting digestion is always injurious. It's effect
to impose a task on the stomach which it 10
unable to perform, and the result IS chronic
arrangement of that organ, and OF Its depend'
ents-the liver and the bowels. The operation
of Hostetter's Btters is very different from
this. The preparation develops appetite and
inyleorates and energies the digestive powers
nj the same time. Hence, when indifference 70
the enjoyments of the table, or absolute dis
gust for food, is combined with gastric weak-
ness, or any other form of dyspepsia, this far.
reaching restorative removes the entire DIM
emily. 1t is not a tonic that does its work By
halves.
Ladies in delicate health will find Hostetters
Stomach Bitters wonderfully adapted to the
relief of the difficulties to which they are sub
iected. The preparation in cases of this kind
has q double operation. 1t not only controls
the local Irregularities which occasion the dis
tress, but acting simultaneously upon the whole
nervous system, checks the tendency to hys-
terra and dependency which almost always
accompanies such disturbances.
Sickly wives and mothers are advised to give
the medicine trial. They are earnestly ~
sured that it contains no ingredient that can
possibly do any harm TO the feeblest OF their
number, while it undoubtedly contains the in.
vigorating principle which their eneryated sys-
TENS require.
Let them beware of the cordial drops and
tinctures often prescribed for invalid ladies'
All these mendicaments are mainly composed Of
common alcohol, and are, therefore, injurious,
The liquors ordinarily given as tCncs are SIN
worse, being all deteriorated with poisonous
drugs.
A WORD TO CoSvALEsCESTs.-After the IN
hammatory symptoms of acute diseases have
been subdued and the patient has been pro-
nounced "out of danger" there is still tho
prostration which always follows fever to con-
tend with. The whole art and mystery Oh
medical treatment does not consist in eradear
ing a malady Indeed, the violent operation
of the drugs administered for that purpose
sometimes reduces the sick persons so terribly
that it is found impossible to create n reaction
and they sink and die from sheer exhaustioa
In diphtheria, for example, the weakness whea
succeeds the removal of the distractions fUn
the throat often proves fatal. What the feeas
convaescent needs is medicine that will braoa
the nerves, stimulate the appetite, and tone
the stomach. Nature always makes a gallan,
effort to retrieve herself after the pressure
disease has been taken off, but it is unwise 70
leave her to fight alone in her disabled anu
dropping condition. He must rally with u0
most active and thorough of invigorants.
HosrErrER's BrrTERs.-Strychnine or prusses
acid is frequently given by the advocates u
what is called heroic" lin plain English ee'
perate) treatment. These are powerful tonis.
no doubt, so VERY powerful that nelthe,