New-York tribune., 1868-06-10
A CTIvE Remedy in sickness, and prompt

The world Is said TO be governed too
much" That it Is physicked too much
is apparent to every thoughtful observer.
Scarcely month passes in which some
new theory for the cure Of all the disorders
incident to humanity is not broached. Each
has its little day, its proselytes-many or few,
as the case may be-and then drops into OBJ
livion. To use the words of Byrons
every month and year brings forth new one,
Till, after cloying the gazettes with cant,
The age discovers IT Is not a true one."
Strange to say. all the so-called oinfallible
public is invited to patronize, propose to do
battle with disease after ii has fastened upon
it's victims, not to anticipate and battle its at
tacks. Now, the grandest and most important
missions of medical science is not to cure sick
ness but to prevent it. Remedial agents would
Of course never be needed il by means Of anti
dotes taken in advance, all disorders Gould be
averted. This, perhaps, is not possible; bnt it
is claimed as q 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 o remedy for
large class of complaints, and vitalizlng,
strength-renewing agent in cases of physical
debility, whether constitutional or produced by
adventitious causes, its great value is admitted
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avouched by voluminous array of testimony
that has ever been accumulated in favor of any
tonic and Alternative.
Fifty years ago the faculty, as a rule, took
sides with disease against nature. Of course,
such was not their design; but such was un-
questionably their practice. Their intentions
were good, but their pathology and method of
treatment were atrociously wrong. Blistering,
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 was supplanted by cantharides plaster.
Calomel and jalap were administered "in he
roic dOsesr in bowel complaints, and the sys
tenn was saturated with mercury as specific
for liver disease and scrofulous distempers.
This course of treatment was a source of profit
to apothecares and undertakers, but deadly to
the subjects Of it. 1t brought mourning into
countless houses, and filed innumerable graves
The era of violent and indiscriminate 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 in
PRODUCTION of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters,
neither the public nor physicians knew where
to look for pure and harmless invigorant.
For many years the ordinary alcoholic stimu-
ants had been becoming more and more I'M
pure until the careful and conscientious prac-
titiOners were afraid to prescribe them, and it
was a blessed day for the sick and feeble when
this inuocuous and powerful Vegetable Tonic
was ushered into existence to supply their
place. It's advent was the great sanitary event
of the nineteenth century. The spirituous
liquors of seventeen years ago were much
adulterated, but they were infinitely less dan
gerous than the acid and consuming poisons
now vended under the same names in gro
Gerry stores and tavern bars. On the other
hand, the stimulant employed in the manufac-
ture of the Bitters is far preferable to the
finest ever distilled from the grape or the cane.
T.. = Al,o o. nf fhn n1ncf
wholesome of cereals sound rye. But this ad-
mirahe stimulant is merely the vehicle by
which their active power is increased. The
vegetable ingredients htermixed with the alcO-
holic base comprise thirteen of the most potent
vegetable tonies, correctves, alternatives, at
present known in medical botany and it is to
exhilerant with which they are combined, that
the preparation owes its wonderful efficacy as
a means Of regulating, reinforcing, and pro-
tecting from deleterious influence the human
physique.
Although the medical profession are alive to
the value of Hostetters Bitters as restorative,
and it has been introduced extensively in their
private practice, and into many public hospitals
and infrmaries, they do not seem to perform
q proper estimate Of it's importance as means
of combating the predisposing causes of dis
ease. Far more eflicacious than any sanitary
Gordon that could be established round an in
fected district would be the use of this anti