New-York tribune., 1868-12-16
rrHE WORLD is SAID TO BE "Gov-

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Scarcely a month passes in which some new
| theory for the cure of all disorders incident to
humanity ia not broached. 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 new one
| TIL after cloying the gazetes WIN mean cant
| The age discovers 1t Is not u true one'
Strange to say, all the so-called "infallible
systems of treatment" which good-natured
public ia invited to patronize propose to do bat
| tle with disease after it has fastened upon its
victims, not to anticipate and battle its attacks
| Now, the grandest and most important mission
| of medical science Is, not to cure sickness, but
to prevent It. Remedial agents would, OF
course, never be needed if, by means of anti
| dotes taken in advance, all disorders could DO
averted. This, perhaps, is not possible, but it
ia claimed as fact established by seventeen
wears of successful experience, that Hostetters
Stomach Bitters come nearer to the standard
of perfection, as n protective medicine thah
any other preparation in use while as rene
DIV for large class of complaints and vital
izing. ngthrenewing agent IN cases oi
nbvsieal debility, whether constitutional or pro-
duced by adventitous causes, its great Vaiue
;s admitted by all liberal minded medical prac-
titioners, and avouched by the most voium-
nous array of testimony that has ever been
accumulated in favor of any tonic and Alternative
Fifty years ago, the faculty, rs rule' tooA
sides with disease against nature. VI course
such was not their design; but such was uh-
opestionably their practice. Their intentions
were good, but their pathology and method OF
treatment were atrociously wrong. Bllsterng
bleeding, salvation, violent pursation, and
stupefaction with narcotics, were then the main
resources of the profession. The lancet was
used freely in intermittent fevers o. and II
the brain was excited, off came the patients
hair, and was supplanted by canthardes
plaster. Calomel and jalap were administered
IN "heroc dosesn in bowel complaints, and
the system was saturated with mercury as a
speciic for liver disease and scrofulous dis
tempers. This sort of treatment was source
of profit TO apothecaries and undertakcrs, and
deadly to the subjects of it. 1t brought mourn
ing into countless households, and filed in
Vulnerable graves.
The era of violent and indiscriminato de-
pletion has passed away, never, it is hoped,
TO return, and the immense Importance of in
vigoration is generally recognized. But until
the introduction of Hostctters Stomach Bit
tcrs, neither the public nor the physicians
knew where to look for a puro and harmless
iuyigorant. For many years tho ordinary al
coholic stimulants had been becoming more and
more impure, until careful and conscientious
practitioners were afraid to prescribe them. and
il was a blessed day for the sick and feeble
when this innocuous and powerful Vegetable
Tonic was ushcred into existence 10 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 In
finitcly less dangerous than the acrid and
| consuming pOlSOns now Nchutu uhucI INC
same names in grocery stores and at tavern
bars On the other hand, the stimulant en-
ployed in the manufacture of the Btters is far
preferable to the finest ever distilled from the
grape or the cane. IL is, so to speak, the life
blood Of the most wholesome of all cereals,
sound rye. But this admirable stimulant is
merely the vehicle by which the rare medicinal
elements of the Bitters are difused through
the system, and the agent by which their ac-
tive power is increased. The vegetable ingredi
ents, intermiXed with the alcoholic base, COM
prise thirteen Of the most potent vegetable
tonics, correctives, and Alternatives, at present
known in medical botany and it is to their
operation, quickencd as it is by the pure ex-
hilarant with which they are combined, that
the preparation owes its wonderful efficacy as
a means Of regulating, reinforcing, and pro-
tecting from deeteriOus influences the human
physique.
Although the medical profession are alive to
the value of Hostetters Bitters as q restora-
tive, and it has been introduced extensively in
their private practice and into many public
hospitals and infirmaries, they do not seem to
form q proper estimate of its Importance as a
means of combating the predisposing causes of
disease. Far more eflicacious than any sani-