Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1868-09-08

ACIltE REXEUl IL CIthAESS
AND
4 PROMPT RESTORATIVE .r WEAKNESS
AND DEBILITY.
The world is said (, bs"goyer ned too much"
That i, is phrsicLed too much is appcren. to
every thoughtful observer. Scarcely a month
passes in which some new theory for the cure Of
oil the disorders incident 10 humaaitv Is ret
broachcd, Each hes it, little day, its prose-
lytes-many or few, A. the case KAY be--aud
then drops into oblivian. To use the words Of
Byron:
Every month and year brings forth new one
Till, after clcyipg the gazette with cant.
The age discovers it is not q true one"
Strange to say, all the 90 called ''infallible
systems oftreAsment" which = rood uatured
public is invited TO palroaizs, propose TO do bat
tie with disease after i, has fastened upon, its
victims, 10. 10 anticipate aud baI- its attack
Now, the grandest and mos. importsn. missions
Of medical science is not 10 cure sicknes, bat .
prevent IL. Remedial scents would. or conret,
never be needed BY III cans Of antidoies taken IN
advance sll disorders could be averted. This
perhaps, is not possible but it 10 claimed as
fact, sstabiiahed bv seventeen years of success.
sul experience. that HosrErrER5 STOMACH
elTTFRS come nesrcrto the standard of per.
fsct,on ~ protective medicine than any prep
aration in use; while - Tor remedy for alsrge
class Of complaints. and . vital,ing, strength
renewing agent in sasss Of phync debility,
whether constitutional or produced adve nti.icus
causes its great value 10 admitted liberal min.
dcd medical practitioners, and avouche BY vol
luminous array OF testimony tha. has ever been
accumulated in favor CT any tonic aud alter.
alive.
Fifty years ago the faculty. ~ . rule, took
sides With iseass against nature. or course,
such was not their practice. Their intentions
we're good, but their pash oloyy and method of
treatment were atrseiouslv wrong. Blistsring.
bleeding, lsaliva,ien, violent purgstion, and
stupsfsetion with narcotics were then in the
main resources Of the profession. The lacet
was used freely 10 determination fevers Cl and
hthe BRAIN was excited Cd cane the PATIENTS
HeH, aio :" a su!'sichie1 bv cauthatiCes pias-
ter. Calcn.el and ia.ap wre administered
Sin heroic doses" in bowel complaints. aud the
system was saturated with mercury as spe-
cihc fer liver disease ana . 3fulous distc..-
ders. This course of treatment was a source Of
profit - the subjects lit. II Trough, mourn
ing into countless houses. and nllod inuumbsr-
able graves.
The era Of violent and indiscrimsnste deple-
ton has passedaway, never, IT il hoped, TO re-
turn, and the immense Importance of ,nyieora.
tion 10 generally recognized. But until the in
PRODUCTION Of HOsTETTERs STOMACH BIT
TERS neither the public nor physicians knew
where to lock for pure and harmloss invivsr
snt. For many year, the ordinary alchoholic
impure, until the careful and conscientious
practitioners were afraid to prescribe them. and
itwasa blessed day for the sick and feeble when
this innocnous and powerful Vegetable Tonic
was ushered into existence to supply their place
Its advent was the great sanitary event Of the
nineteenth century. The spurious liquors. Of
seventeen gears ago were much adul.eYeted. but
they were infinitely less dangerous than tho
acid and consuming poisons now verded under
the same names in grocery ,slores and tavern
bars. On the other hand, the stimulant en-
Ployed In the manufacture Of the BlTTERS is
far preferable to the fineet ever distilled from
the grape or the cane. II is, the lie blood of
the most wholesome Of esreals-sonnd rye. But
this admirable stimulant il merely The vehic
by which their sctivs power 10 increased. The
vegetable Ingredients internixsd with the al.
tent vegetable ,onics. eo.rectives. alternatives,
q present known in medical botany and 1t 10 "a
their operation. quickensd A. il is BY; the pure
exhilersnt with which they are combined, that
the preparation owes it, wonderful efficacy q
. means Of regulating. re-snforcing, and pro.
tsetipg from delstericus influence the human
physique.
Although the medical profession are alive "a
the value Of nOSTRTT1R'S BITTERs - re-
sterstive. and IL hes been intaoduced extensive
y in theil privsts practice, and into many pub