New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-01-22
MALARIOUS FEVERS.
-OsE EXPOSED TO THEM.

where the sickness prevails, OF waited thither
which are known to be produced by special
local causes are called endemics; while those
which cannot thus be accounted for, and the
seeds of which are supposed to be conveyed from
afar, are usually spoken of as epidemics. The
periodical Fevers are divided into two classes,
Intermittent and Rcmittent; and the difference
between them is this: Intermittent Fevers are
characterized by intervals in which there Is an
absolute cessation Of the distressing symptoms
of the complaint, while in Remittent Fevers
the violence Of the disorder abates at inter-
walls, but the painful symptoms do not entirely
subsde. AS each Of these twol distinct species
of malarous fever is sometimes mistaken for
the other it is as well that the distinction be-
tween them should be clearly understood.
Persons residing in districts where either of
these scourges prevail can escape them by
precautionary medication.
Hostetters Bitters are procurable everywhere;
and, fortified by regular use of this agreeable
vegetable antdote, the system is as impervious
to the miasmatic virus which produces Fever
and Ague and Bilious Remittent Fever as
asbestus or other non-combustible tothe assaults
of fire. The Importance Of preparatory
course of the Bitters to individuals about to
visit or travel in sections of country infested
with febrile diseases cannot be Overstated
Woe to him who encounters the malaria OF
tropical seaboard, or the miasma of Western
swamp. with stomach untoned and Embraced
For some time before starting to an unhealthy
region, on the journey or voyage thither, and
while there, Hostetter's Bitters should be taken,
in small doses once or twice day, as
protective medicine. This advice is founded
on experience, is easily followed and cannot
be neglected by those whom it concerns with
ont more or less danger
The effect of the Btters in breaking up
intermittents is really phenomenon in medi-
cine. A few doses given during the first cold
fit and subsequent sweating stage often prevent
n second paroxysm. No tonic ever admins
tered in chills and fever has performed such
rapid cures or been so uniformly successful.
1t is regarded in the fever-and-ague districts
of the West and South West as infallible-and
with good reason.
In bilious remittent fevers, when the circula-
ton is not too much excited, and especially
during the convalescent stage, the Bitters are
exceedingly useful. They act benefcially on
the liver and bowels; for the preparation is
not merely tonic, but also in high degree
anti-bilous, and moderately aperient. Owing
to its stimulating properties being thus quail
fed it does not produce the same effect upon
the pulse as the astringent combinations OF
bitter rnots with adultuTated alcohol called
tonic tinctures and extracts.
ARE You BmIoUs7 Multtudes of both sexes
will answer this question in the Affirmative;
for. next to disorders of the stomach, liver
complaints are perhaps the most prevalent of
all internal diseases. Unfortunately, the two
classes of maladies are generally found in COM
pany for the liver and stomach sympathize
with each other so strongly that when one is
ailng the other is seldom or never in perfect
order. Before replying to the query, Are you
bious7" the reader imay perhaps ask, What
are the distinctive symptoms of the complaint
OF course, when the skin is almost as yellow
as n buttercup, and there is acute and constant
pain in the right side, it is plain enough that
the sufferer is something more than merely
bious-that his liver is violently congested;
in short, that he has the jauntice. What is
usually termed biliousness is milder vista
ton than this, yet sufficiently distressing. Its
usual symptoms are yellowish tinge in the
whites of the eyes, especially near the inner
corners, an uneasy or slightly painful sensation
in the right side, pain between the shoulder
blades sick headache, lassitude, imental dullness
lack of appetite, and irregularity of the bowels.
Whoever recognizes this diagnosis, as applying
to his own condition, may be quite certain that
more bile exists in his blood and less passes
through his bowels than is expedent for his
health, and that his liver requires tonng and
regulating. One of the special uses of Hostetter's
Bitters is to meet just such exigencies as this.
Its tonic principle rouses the liver from its
torpor, and its aperent element gently relieves
the intestinal canal of the accretions conse
quent upon an insufficient supply of Natures
cathartic, the bile
From the time when the mineral system of
Paracelsus superseded that of the old herb
DOCTOR" Galen, mercury has been the oilicinal
medicine for liver disease. This terrible sail
want has been at least as fatal as the sword to
the human race, and at last after more than n
thousand years of mercurial massacre, the
faculty are beginning to give it the cold
shoulder as an anti-bilious agent, and to adopt
n root which was used by the Greeks before
mercury was known, in its stead.
Hostetter's Bitters contain the essential prin-