New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-09-02
NEW MEDICAL PHILOSOPHY.


be true. 1t is simply this, that the vital prin-
ciple, in its struggles with disease and the
causes of disease, requires to be fostered and
sustained.
Opinions may differ as to the best means Of
carrying out this idea, but all enlightened
physicians agree that it is sound and logical.
The surest way to kill an invalid is to make
persistent war upon his strength and stamina.
Whoever questions the propriety of a precisely
opposite course is half century behind the
age.
Many of us can recollect the time when it
purgatives during the prevalence of epidemcs,
as a safeguard against infection. 1t is now
known. however that to depete the system
severely, under such circumstances is to invite
an attack, and to increase the probabilities of
a fatal issue.
Within the recollection of persons much
Younger than The oldest inhabitant," patients
suffering from intermittent, remitteDt, and
other malarious fevers, were sometimes freely
bled with the lancet. And, as matter Of
| course. most of those who were thus treated
died. Even yet active purgatiOn is sometimes
recommended as the best preparation Tor
! change from healthy to an unhealthy climate
Such stupidity, however, is fortunately are'
tonic treatment being the approved formula
under such circumstances. 1t is admitted that
upwbolesome air is eminently depressing and
devitalizing, and therefore any medicine Ope--
rating in the same way must be considered an
ally of malaria, not protection against lie
pernicOus influence.
But when it is conceded that genial tonic'
and not fierce cathartic, is the medicine lndl-
Gated by reason and experience as the best
means of preparing the system to resist extra
ordinary causes of disease, the question occurs
what tonicf Raw spirit even If 1t could DO
nnre. which ia impossible will not answer 1t
is AN excitant, and nothing more, andi it's acton
isinfammatory, not invjgorating. In fact 1t 10
80. tor,s o. oil ~
What is Il that the wise and thoughtful prac-
ttiouer desires to prescribe as an antldote 10
infection, when infection is in the arr SIM
ply the best possible combination Of vegetable
tonics infused into pure stimulant-the stimuli
liant being chiefly useful as vehicle for diff
fusing their effects rapidly through the system.
The same tonic juices, incorporated with water,
would be comparatively powerless. The Alec
holic principle prepares the stomach to absorb
them, accompanies them in their progress through
the system and predspOses every organ WHICH,
they reach to assimiate them
Here, then, we have the philosophy OF the
preventive and remedial operation OF proper
vegetable invigorantS when in conjunction with
fine alcoholic stmulant
The next question is, does such an invalu-
able compound exist3 We claim that it does,
in the form of Hostetter's Stomach Btters. In
making this assertion we merely place on
record for the consideration of thinking men,
the opinions of thousands who have had exc
perimental proof of the fact in their own per-
sons. 1t is not necessary to enlarge upon this
point here. For twenty years the public have
been reading testimony on the subject from
distinguished citizens in every walk of life, and
they are, therefore, as familiar with it as the
proprietors of the medicine themselves The
efficacy of the bittcrs is matter that has long
since passed beyond the pale of argument, and
become fixed and established truth.
The chief purpose of this article is to impress
upon all, and especially upon the cOnstitutionally
feeble. who livein localities subject to the WIS.,
itations of epidemic and endemic diseases, the
necessity of invigoration. The public, with the
knowledge it has before it, may safely be Left
to select the means for the accomplishment OK
that end.
Perhaps there is no amcnt common to all
climates and countries, in which a wholesome
stomachic and general invigorant is so essen'
TALLY requisite as in Dyspepsia. Without such
medicine, the complaint cannot be cured
Regular exercise may do much, dieting may do
much. pure air may do much but we have
never vet seen a case of Chronic Dyspepsia
cured by these alone. They are accessories,
not specifics. There must be direct action upon