New-York tribune., 1868-06-03
MEDICAL PROPERTIES of HosrETTER's
ul STOMACH RfTTPRs

ter q passion for stimulants, and which belong
to all the distilled and femented liquors of com
merce It's alcoholic element is derived from
sound rye, grain which, according to the tes-
tmony of the most distinguished analytical
chemists, yields q more wholesome spirit than
any other known substance. But tie QUINTEs-
sENcE OF RYE employed in the manufacture of
the Bitters must not be cOnfOunded with the
rye-spint sold in the market as Bourbon and
! MOnOngahela whisky. The very best brands Of
those liquors procured for hospital use and
preferred by the medical stats of the army and
navy to any other liquor, are not to be COM
pared in excellence with the article used in the
cOncOctiOn of the GREAT STOMACHIC. 1t is
subjected in the first instance to process,
which depnves 1t Of the pungent and acrid
element proved by chemical tests to exist in
even what are deemed the finest imported and
domestic spirits, and after being thus purified,
is kept on hand long enough to give it mellow
ness before being medicated The chief virtue
of the preparation is not, however, in its spirit
uOus basis, but in the juices of the tonic, aperi-
ent, corrective, and anti-bilious vegetable pro-
ducts so largely intermixed with it.
Perhaps it may be urged that if they impart
to the alcoholic fluid its preventive and reme-
dial qualities, water impregnated with the same
ingredients would answer the purpose as wel
Nothing but profound ignorance of the laws of
physiology and pathology can excuse such an
error. Only by a diffusibe stimulant can the
medicinal constituents that are to fortify the
system against disease, or counteract diseased
action, be conveyed directly to their destina-
ton. The stimulant rapidly peryades the ami
nal structure, carrying with it to the points
where it is needed the required antidote
| Water will not do this. 1t has, comparatively
speaking, no propelling or diffusiye power. Nor
| is this all Nothing but alcohol will preserve
the medicinal property of vegetable extracts in
a fluid state. Mix them with water and the
| compound will ferment, turn sour, and become
worse than valueless.
| 1t is claimed that HosTETTERs BITTERs COM
mend themselves to the especial favor OF the
| TEMPERANCE PHYSICIAN as the only diffusiye
stimulant which he can prescribe without dan
ger of unduly exciting the brain of his patient,
and of creating that morbid thirst for alcohol
which doses of unmedicated spirits are so apt
to engender
To argue with the dOgmatics who assert
stimulants are always unnecessary and pernl-
cious, would be a waste of time The most
eminent lights of Medical Science have settled
that question, and it is not worth while to have
| controversy with the rushlights. The leading
champions of Temperance in the United States,
Horace Greeley among the number have an
nounced that they are not in favor OF pro-
| hibiting the employment of spirituous liquors as
medicines.
So much for the moral claims of the article
under the temperance code. The ground being
thus cleared and. it is hoped, to the satistac-
| ton of every rational champion of sobriety,
the specific application of the Bitters to the
prevention and cure of the " ills that flesh Is
heir to- comes next in order.
! Persons whose livers are peculiarly sensitive
are said to be Of q bilious habit The morbid
| iunuou.os which offoot othorS ia a snnnral ray
seem in their cases to operate directly and mainly
upon the hillary organ. Many who are thus pre-
! disposed to IN overflow of bile are subject TO
periodical attacks of biliousness, accompanied by
pain in the right side, langor, pain between the
| shoulders, gloomy feelings, and that peculiar
! tinge of the complexion which indicates that a
portion of the bile which should have passed of
through the bowels has been misdirected to the
venous system, and is present in the superficial
blood vessels. To avert these symptoms, and the
general disorder of the internal organs which
they involve, it is advisable for individuals of a
bilious habit to take at least two doses of Hos
letters Bitters daily at such times as they have
reason to apprehend an attack. Indeed, all who
have n constitutional and temperamental tend
ency to liver complaints would do well to take
one dose of this admirable Anti Bilious Stom-
aehic every day When the great secretive
gland is seriously disordered, the medicine
usually res0rted to is mercury, which, unless
administered with very great caution, is in
! fnitely more dangerous than the disease 1t Is
| intended to subdue. In a large majority of
! the cases treated with calOmel OF blue pill, the
anti-bilious and Alternative properties OF the
Bitters would produce the desired effect. And
| let it be borne in mind that whereas mercury
in every shape is an insidious poison, the medi-
| cinal ingredients of this preparation consist
exclusively of wholesome vegetable extracts,
which are diffused through the system by
means of the purest and mildest of all known
stimulants.
A WARNING TO COUNTERFEITERs AND A
| CAUTION TO PURcHAsERs.-No expense will be
| spared, no legal means of Furnishing fraud will
be neglected, in the effort to prevent the coun-
! terfeiting of HosTETTER's SToMAeH BrTTERs.
But scoundrelism, when its cunning ard ac-
tivity are stimulated by the hope of gain, is
very ingenious and industrious. The men,,
whose despicable business is to simulate valu-
able proprietary medicines, and who substitute
therefor dangerous or worthless preparations,
are proverbially difficult TO catch. Most of them
have many aliases, and they fit from State to
State with surprising agility, in the hope of
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