Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-03-28
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Every poison has it's antidote--Every
 disease has it's cure.
 It is A known fact that the powerful miner al medicines so often administered in eopious doses in Intermittent and Bilious Remittent Fevers are as perilous to the constitution as the levers themselves, while their operation is generally slow and upcertain, and their ef- fects eyanecsent. Remedies of this class, hazardous under any circumstances, cannot be used with any approach to safety except under the directions of a phy sician; and in the regions whcre Fever and Ague, Bilious Fever. Chill and Fever, Dumb Ague and their kindred complaints chiefly prevail, medical men are sometimes few and far between, and medical advice almost unobtaineble. It is obvious therefore that q medicine like the Texas Tonic Syrup, prompt ond cer- tain in it's action as a curative, and equally to be relied on as preventive, of these dan gerous maladies--a preparation as harmless to the constitution water--must be of price less value in the valley of the Mississippi, or wherever etse they may exist.
 The common cause of all remittent and intermittent levers is the mephitic vapor or miasma evaporated by heat from the sell or from the surfase of stagnant water and it is usually when the torrid warmth of summer has prostrated the system and rendered it incapable of contending energetically with inc disease that the attack comes on. July, August, September and 0cteher 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. neys Upon each and all ofthese organs. the Texas Tonic Syrup acts specifically, regula- ting and controlling the flow of bile, preyen- ting or relieving 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 It's name indicates, it gives a healthy tone to the Viscere, which perform the secretion, circula- tion. and excretion. Instead of inticting a shock uponthe internal. as mineral medicines necessarily do, it invigorates and assists nature and seconds with wonderful efforts which she makes to throw off the disease It is not mere palliative that checks or modi- fes tLe symptoms for brief period but radical remedy that reaches and removes the cause of the disorder.
 Of these facts the inventors of the Texas Tonic Syrup have had innumerable proofs and they are prepared to establish them by the highest testimony Medical men of 
 private practice, and it is rapidly superceding all other preparations of it's class throughout the west Southwest and South. No family residing ip any section subject to the vista- 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 eoneonsiiapt dangers, agonies and expenses.
 It is not alone for its curative properties that the Tonic Syrup is to be prized. As a preventive il 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 feeble; ness of the unconscious victim As soon as these or any other fo-eshadowings of sickness are observed, such as pains in the small of the back, in the Jeff side, or between the shoulders, the Tonic Syfup should be given :. and it is guaranteed that course of this remedy will, in all cases, remove every germ of bilious 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 recommended to the unacclimatcd settler, as a sure safe guard against Ague and Fever.