Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-05-09
MANSFIELD & HIGBgE' s,
Tonic Syrup! !


 Fever & Ague, or ChilIs & Fever.
 Every poison has it's antidote--Every
 . disease has its cure.
 It is a known fact that the powerful miner al medicines SO often administered in copious doses in Intermittent and Bilious Remittent Fevers are ks perilous to the constitution as the levers themselves, while their operation is generally slow and upccrtain, and their ef- fects evanecsent. Remedies of this class, hazardous under any circumstances, cannot be used with any approach to safety except under the directions of physician and in the regions where Fever and Ague, Bilious Fever, Chill and Fever, Dumb Ague and their kindred complaints chiefly prevail medical men arc sometimes few and far between, and medical advice almost unobtainable. It is obvious, therefore that a medfeife like the Texas TOAlc Syrup, prompt ond cer- tain in it's action as . curative, and equally to be relied on as preventive, of these dan gerous maladies-a preparation as harmless to the constitution as water-must be of price less value in the valley of the Mississippi, or wherever else they may exist.
 The common cause of all remittent and intermittent fevers is the mephitic vapor or miasma evapornted by heat from the sell, or from the surface of stagnant water and it is usually when the torrid warmth of summer has prostrsted the system and rendered it incapable of conrending energetically with the disease that the attack comes on. July, August, September .and October are the months during with all bilious complaints are most common, and most violent. The organs immediately affected by Fever and Ague, and Intermittents and Remittents, are the Liver, the Spleen, the Stomach and Kid nays. Upon each and all ofthese organs, the Texks ronfe Syrup acts specifically, regula- ting and controlling the flow of bile, rreven- ting orrelievfhg that enlargement of the Spleen known as the Ague Cake. strengthening the digestive powers and removing those severe pains of the back which arise from the tor pidity or inflammation of the Kidneys As its name indicates, it gives healthy tone to the Viscere, which perform the secretion, circula- tion, and excretion. Instead of inflicting shock upon the internal, as mineral medicines necessarily do, it invigorates and assists nature and seconds with wonderful efforts which she makes to throw of the disease It is not Q mere palliative that checks or modi- fes tie symptoms for a brief period but a radical remedy that reaches and removes the cause of the disorder.
 Of those facts the inventors of the Texas Tonic Syrup have had innumerable proofs anu they are pTcpdTeu tO eSiuDlsu tuen ny the highest testimony; Medical men of acknowledged eminence prescribe it in their private practice, and it is rapidly superceding all other preparations of it's class throughout the west Southwest and South. No family residing in any section subject to the visita tions of Ague and Fever, or any bilious com plaint, should be without it, if they desire to escape the penalties of protracted sickness and it's concomitant dangers, agonies and expenses.
 It is not alone for its curative properties that the Tonic Syrap is to be prized. As n preventive it is invaluable. The virus of disease often lies hidden in the system for months, and even years, weakening the vital forces, and slowly, yet surely sapping the foundations of health and life.
 The symptoms of this process appear in sallow skin, the dull eye, the growing feebless ness of the unconscious victim As soon as thesc or any ether fo-eshado~ings of sickness are observed, such as pains in the small Of the back, in the left side, or between the shoulders, the Tonic Syrup should be given and it is guarantecd that course of this remedy wilt, tn a.l cases remove esery germ of billions disease from the system, restore the natural color to the complexion, remove all local pain, and renew the bodily vigor of the individual It is especially recosameaded eo the unacclimatcd settler, as sure safe guard against Aguc and Fever.