Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1868-09-12

OF melical science is no. 10 sickLes, but 10
proven, it. Remedial agents would. OF courst,
never be needed by means Of aniido.es taken In
advance all disorders could b aye,ted. This
perhaps. is not possible but it 10 claimed as a
fact, established by seventeen years Of success
ful experience. that HOSTETTER'5 STOMACH
BlTTFRS come nearerto the standard Of per-
fsctlon as . protective medicine than any prep
araticn in use; while ss for a remedy for alsrge
class Of complaints. and q vitalizing, strength
renewing agent in sises of physic debility,
whether constitutional or produced adve ntitious
causes, its great value is admitted liberal min
ded medical practitioners, and avouchc by vol.
luminous array Of testimony that has ever BEEN
accumulated in favor Of any tonic and alter,
alive.
Fifty years ago the faculty. as . rule, took
sides with iiseese against nature. or course,
sucawas not their practice. Their intentions
were & God, but their pathology AMI method OF
treatment were atrceiouslv wrong. Blis.sring,
bleeding, ssal:va,iou. violent purgaiiop, aud
stupefaction with mar cotcs were then in the
main resources OF the profession. The lacet
was used freely il in,srfninat n fcvcrs ri and
ifthe BRAN was excited ,nc. ne III, tsienttsa
hais, and was suppsn;el by i cauthaflaes plss-
ter caomel and a jslap were administered
I'm herosc doses in bowel complaints, aud the
| system was saturated with mercury as a spe
clio for liver disease and scrofrlou. disie.i-
ders This course OF treatment was a source Of
profit = the subjects Of il. II brought mourn
ing into countless houses. and filed inuumbcr-
able era-es
The era Of violent aud indiscrimenate d.ple-
tion has psssedaway, never. tits hoped. to re
turn. AMI the immense importance of ,uvieora.
tion is generally recognized. But until the in.
PRODUCTION of EOSTETTER'S STOMACH glr.
TERS neither the public nor physicans knew
| where TO lock for pure and hsrml1ss invigor-
ant. For many years the ordinary alchoholic
stimu.snts had been becoming more and more
impure, until the careful and conscientious
practitioners were airaia TO prescribe them. and
twas G blessed day for the sick and feeble when
this innocuous and powerful Vegetable Tonic
was ushered into existence to supply their place
Its advent vas the great sanitary event of the
nineteenth century. Ths spurious liquors of
seventeen years ago were much aduterated. bu
they were Infinitely less dangerous than the
acid and consuming poisons now vended under
the same names in grocery lstores and tavern
bars. On the other hand, the stimulsnt en-
ployed In the manufacture Of the BITTERS is
far preferable to the fnes I ever distilled from
the grape or the cane it,s, the life blood Of
the most wholesome of esrsals-sonud rye. But
this admirable stimuiant is merely the vehcl
by which their active power il increased. The
eoholic base comprise thirteen or the most po-
tent Vegetable onics. correctives. Alternatives,
At present known in medical botany and i. is to
their operation. quichsnsd As i. is by the pure
e1hilerant with which they are combined, that
the preparation owes its wonderful efficacy ~
. means of regulating, rs-snforcing, and pro.
seeting from deletsrious influence the human
physique.
Although the medical profession are alive to
the value Of HOSTETTERS BITrERS a. are
storativc. and il he's been ntaoduced extensive
y in thcil private practice, ana into many pub.
lie hospitals and infrmaries, they do not seem
} toperform proper estimate Of ito importance
- means Of COMPLETING The predisposing caus.
es of disease. Far more eflicacious tn any
sanitary Gordon that could be established round
an infected district would be the use Of this an
tidote By such Of the inhabitants a had not vet
been affected by the epidemic hirus. Its effect
is to spdow the system with resistant power.
} Its proprieties are in direct antagonism to the
evil tendencies Of an empoisoned atmosphere.
) and to oil the depression and morbid influences
which predispose the body 10 the reception Of
diseases: For these rssons it il specially and
earnestly recommended 70 oil whose ereum-
} stances and surroundings are unfavorabls /
the preservation Of health 70 tho iphabisssss q
swanpy localities, new cleer,pgs ana alluvial
soils /; to travellers who may have to encounter
many varieties Of temperature and drink many
kinds Of water on their journeys; to residents
and scjournsrs in tropical clines 70 person,
whose occupations are pursued in crowded
rooms we're the ventilation Is imperfect: "a
those whs arc debasYed from due exercise in
the open sir; to individuals engaged in severe
mental labor TO lsiies debilitated and depres
ssd BY causes peculiar to their to the sex and
large class Of The eommuuity Whose mental %.
ersies are evefsaxed y the cares and perplexi-
ties Of business.
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