The Placer herald. [volume] (Auburn, Placer County, Calif.) 1855-1991, 1868-10-17

From the New York Independent, NOV. ttn, 1901
Read, think, and decide! The simple therapen-
"for healing the natons'' were the only medicine
in use, find little favor with the medical protes.
sion of the day. Yet ut the early period Of tho
worlds history the ordinary term of human life
vas at least eight times longer than it is now.
has seriously declined in the lapse of ages.
1t isa scientific fact that, during this process
of human degeneration and decay all immense
number of powerful poisOns have been introduced
Into the medical repertoire while the mild vege-
table system of treatment exclusively practiccd
when the world was young, has been in great
measure abandoned by the medical profession.
This is singular coincidence, aud ii suggests the
possibility OF direct connection between the
physical deterioration of the species and the
Wholesale administration of deadly mineral and
other drugs. 1t may well be doubted whether
the mineral salts aud oxyds, and the no less dam
gerons alkaloids, which chemistry has added to
the pharmacop9ia, have not destroyed more lives
than all the diseases they have been prescribed
to cure One thing, ut least, Is certain-vz:
that the average term Of human existence has
been shortened since the days when the vegeta-
ble kingdom was the only medical dspensary
known to mankind.
The truth s-and sensible people are becom
ing more alive to il every day-that the world is
ov erdoctored. The principles OF medication are
simple; but they have been so befogged by tech
ncalitcs 50 mystified by professional verbiage,
that one half the community fancy they can nei-
Their be interpreted nor applied except by persons
who have been taught to clolhe the living truths
OF science in dead languages. 1t is not to the
interest of 1.-The Faculty" that the theory and
practice Of medicine should be simplifed and
popularized and therefore the public conceive
but little light from that quarter
TO prevent crime is one Of the great ends OF
civil law, and to prevent disease should be one
OF the grand objects Of medical science. ~ is
better 10 protect than TO cure, and much easier.
Vital power is the natural antagonist OF oil the
influences that initiate against health-whether
they exist in the air we breathe, in the water we
drink, or the objects with which we come in con-
tact, or in ourselves. Without sutliciency OF
this resistant principle, there can DO no reason
able hope OF escaping prevailing epidemics. or
oil enjoying even under the most favorable ex
ternal circumstances, an immunity from sickness
and pain This fact being established, the next
question is, how shall deficiency in physical
and constitutional vigor be supplied! Instructed
by the experience OF twenty years, nnd sustained
by the testimony OF thousands OF individuals Of
both sexes. hailing from al parts OF the world
we reply that Hostetters Stomach Bitters is the
only medicine that Can be fully relied on as u
protective and preventative tonic and alternative
in all climates and under I'LL contingencies. With
d system srengt hened and fortified by the use OF
this nvigorant, no one who possesses common
The best safeguard against infection ut present
known. 1t produces appetite; it promotes diges-
ton; it prevents constipation; it regulates the
flow of bile; it strengthens the nerves. it purities
The animal fluids; it clears the brain; and, the
vehicle OF its medical properties being pure,
ditfusiLle stmulant, their influence is extended
to every portion OF the system. Mere alcoholic
stimulauts, though administered largely in medical
practice, are not in themselves medicines;
hut they pervade the whole organization more
certainly and swiftly than anything else that can
be given. They are quickly taken up by the abb
sorbents, and there is not fiber OF the body be-
tween the crown OF the bead and the sole OF the
foot which is exempted from their influence.
Hence spirituous stimulant is the best medium
for conveying to all the organs aud members OF
a feeble or disordered system The means whereby
that system is to be recruited and regulated. 1t
ia for this purpose that the alcoholic elements Is
used in the preparation OF Hosteter's Stomach
Bitters 1t is simply the instrument Ny which
the medicinal virtues Of the preparation are car
ried to their objective points ana rendered active.
1t is almost unnecessary to call the attention
of lyspeptics to a medicine which is everywhere
recognized as the standard specific for lndiges-
ton. In every town In the United States which
contains drug store, or u store III Whlcn drugs
are sold, it is known as remedy ior stonach
complaints oil every class, from simple latnlency
up to the most obstinate chronic torpidlty OF That
ties are also universally understood and aPprecl.
ated and in the West and Southwest the old
"Ague cures" have been generally abandoned,
and this real chologog-whch actually breaks up
intermittent fever within week after the first
dose is taken adopted in their stead. In the
intermittent fevers so common IN maarious
districts during the fall Of the year it has proved
equally etacacious, and it may be truly id that
it combines in an equal degree the qualities OF
restorative and preventative.
It is not alleged that Hostetters Bittters are
an infsllible panacca for all bodily ills. There
m.-ar .pss each n wnnhnr, ~nd there never VIII
be. But that the preparation is the most efica-
cious and the pnrcst tonic in use; that it is
the best existing safeguard against the masma
that generates epidemic fcvers and bowel COM
plants; that it is q genuine remedy for dyspep-
STA, billiousness, and indigestion in all their
forms; and that its popularity las attested by its
sales and the testimonials in its favor from all
parts Of the Western Hemisphere) exceed that Of
any any other proprietary medicine on this side Of
the Atlantic, and palpablc facts, which cannot be
HOSTETTER, SMITH Il CO.,
Agents for Pacific Coast,
Wholesale Druggists Sap Francisco
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