New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-01-08
AN ACTIVE REMEDY IN SICKNESS, and

| ACTIVE REMEDY IN SICKNESS, and
prompt restorative in weakness and debil-
ity.-The world is said to be governed too
muchn That it is physicked too much is appar-
ent to every thoughtful observer Scarcely
month passes in which some new theory for the
cure of all the disorders incident to humanity
is not preached. Each has its little day, its
proselytes-many or few, as the case may be-
and then drops into oblivion. To use the words
of Byron
| Every month and year brings forth a new one,
| Till, after cloying the gazettes with cant,
The age discovers it is not the true one."
Strange to say, all the so-called "infallible'
systems of treatment" which good-natured
public is invited to patronize, propose to do
battle with disease after it has fastened upor
its victims, not to anticipate and battle its at
tacks. Now, the grandest and most important
mission of medical science is not to cure slcs'
ness but to PREVENT it. Remedial agep"
would. of course. never be needed if, by mean,
of antidotes taken in advance, all dlsordeH
could be averted This perhaps, is not possl-
BILE; but it is claimed as fact established by
seventeen years of successful experience, thai
HosTETTER's STOMACH BITTERs come nearer to
the standard of perfection, as PROTECTIVE
MEDICINE than any other preparation In usej
while as remedy for large class OF COM
plants, and a vitalizing, streDgth-renewine
agent in cases of Physical debility, whether
constitutional or produced by adventtions
causes its great value is admitted by all Gberal-
minded medical practitioners, and avouched by
the most voluminous array of testimony that
has ever been accumulated in favor of any tonic
and Alternative.
Fifty years ago, the faculty, as rule, took
sides with disease against nature. Of course,
such was not their design; but such was I'm.
questiOnably their practice. Their intentions
were good, but their pathology and method OF.
treatment were atrociously wrong. Blistering,
bleeding, salvation, violent purgatiOn, and stu
pefacton with narcotics, were then the main
resources of the profession. The lancet was.
used freely in intermittent fevers o. and if
the brain was excited, off came the patients
hair and was supplanted by a cantharides plas-
ter. Calomel and jalap were administered in.
"herOic doses" in bowel complaints, and tho
system was saturated with mercury as spe-
cific for liver disease and scrofulous distempers.
This sort of treatment was source of profit to
apothecaries and undertakers but deadly to the
subjects of it. 1t brought mourning into count
less households, and filed innumerable graves.
The era of violent and indiscriminate deple-
ton has passed away, never, it is hoped, to
return, and the immense Importance of INvIG-
GRAFTON is generally recognized. But until the
introduction of HosTETTER's STOMACH BITTERs
neither the public nor the physicians knew
where to look for pure and harmless inuigor-
ant For many years the ordinary alcoholic
stimulants had been becoming more and more
impure, until careful and conscientious practi-
TONERS were afraid to prescribe them, and it
was a blessed day for the sick and feeble when
this INNOcUoUs AND POWERFUL VEGETABLE
Tonic was ushered into existence to supply
their place Its advent was the great sanitary
event of the eighteenth century. The spiritu-
Gus liquors Of seventeen years ago were much
adulterated but they were infinitely less dan, r
gerous than the ACRID AND CONSUMING POJ1ogs
now vended under the same'names in grocery
stores aud at tavern bars. On the other hand,
the stimulant employed in the manufacture OF
the Btters is far preferable to the finest ever
distilled from the grape or the cane. 1t is, so
to speak, the LIKELIHOOD OF THE MOST WHOLE
SOME OF ALL CEREALS, sound rye. But this
admirable stimulant is merely the vehicle by
which the rare medicinal elements OF the Bit
tiers are diffused through the system, and the
agent by which their active power is increased.
The vegetable ingredients intermixed with the
alcoholic base, comprise thirteen of the most
potent vegetable tonics, correctives and alter
atives at present known in medical botany;
and it is to their operation, quickened as it is
by the pure exhilarant with which they are
combined that the preparation owes its WON
derful efficacy as means of regulating, reen-
forcing, and protecting from deleterious inhu-
ences the human physique.
Although the medical profession are alive TO
the value of HosTETTERs BITTERs as a restor-
ative and it has been introduced extensively
in their private practice and into many public
hospitals and infrmaries, they do not seem to