The union Democrat., 1869-02-06
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
H0STETTER'S BlTTERS.

/ From the n. 7. Independent, Nov. til. 1867.
| Read, think, ard decide The simple the
rapeutics os the Patriarchical era, when herbs.
| given "for healing the nations were the on
| ~ medicine in use, and little favor with the
medical profession of the day. Yet ut the
early period Of the worlds history the ordina-
ry term Of human life was at least eight times
longer than it is now. 1t is therefore mani
| fest that the stamina of man has seriously de-
chned in the lapse Of ages
| 1t is a scientific fact that, durin. this mo-
cess of human degeneration and decay an i'm
mense number of powerful poisons have been
! introduced into the medical repertoire, while
| the mild vegetable system of treatment exclu-
sively practced when the world was ycuns,.
has been in a great measure abandoned by
the medical profession. This is singular
coincidence, and il suggests the possibility of
direct connection between the physical de-
teroration of the species and the wholesale ad-
ministration of deadly mineral and other
drugs |. may well he doubted whether the
mineral salts and oxyds, and the no less dan
gerous alkaloids which chemistry has added
to pharmacope,a, have not destroyed moro
lives than oil the diseases they have been pre-
scribed to cure. One thing, at least, is GER
tain--viz: that the average term OF human
existence has been shortened since the days
when the vegetable kingdom was the only
medical dispensary known to mankind.
The truth is-and sensible people are be-
coming more alive to it every day-that the
world is overloctored. The principles of med
icaton are simple; hut they have been so be-
fogged by technicalites, So mystihed by pro-
fessonal verbiage, that one half the commu~
nifty fancy they can neither be Interpreted nor
applied except hv persons who have been,
L. Il Al .l,,o oc
dead languages. 1t is not to tho interest Of
"the Faculty" that the theory and practice
of medicine should be simpli6ed and popular
lied 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.
1t is better to protect than to cure, and much
easier. Vital power is the natural antago--
mist of all 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 contact, or in our
selves. Without suthciency Of this resiS-
tant principle, there can be no reasonable
hope of escaping prevailing epidemics. or of
ENJOYING even under the mast favorable exter-
nal circumstances. an immunity from sick
ness and pain. This fact being established.
the next question is. how shall a deficiency in
physical ard constitutional vigor be supplied?
Instructed by the experience of twenty years,
and sustained by the testimony of thousands
of individuals Of both sexes haiiing from alF
parts of the world, we reply that Hostetter's
Stomach Btters is the only medicine that can
be fully relied on as protective and preven-
tative tonic and Alternative in all climates
and under all contingencies. With system
strengthened asd fortified ty the use of this
invigorant. one who possesses common
prudence need fear the effects of malaria. II
is the best safeguard against infection Mt pres
ent known. 1t produces appetite, it promotes
digestion it prevents constipation it regu-
lates the flow Of bile; it strengthens tha
nerves it purifies the animal fluids ; it clears
the braia ard, the vehicle of it's medical
properties being a pure, diAusible stimulantr
their influence is extended to every norton Of
the system. Mere alcoholic stimulants,
though administered largely in medical prac-
tier, are not in themselves medicines but
they peSvade the whole organization more
certainly and swiftly than anything else that
can he given. They are quick taken up by
the ahsorhents. and there is no. fiber Of tho
body, between the crown of the head, and he
sole Of the foot, which is exempted from their
nfi1encc. Hence spirituons stimulant is
the best medium for conveying TO all the or
ganS ana me nDeTS Ht n tPenie or ulSOr0ereQ
system the means whereby that system is to-
be recruited and regulated. 1t is for this
purpose that the alcoholic elements il used in
the preparation of IIostetter's Stomach Bit
ters 1t is simply the instrument by which.
the medicinal virtues of the preparation, are
carried to their objective points, and rendered
active.
1t is almost unnecessary to call the atten-
tiun of dyspeptcs, to medicine which is"
everywhere recognized. ss the standard speci-
hc for Indigestion. In every town in the
United States which contains drug store, or
n store in which drugs are sold. it Ia known
as n remedy for stomach complaints of every
class. from simple fatulency up to the most
obstinate chronic tnrpidity of that most i'm.
portant organ. Its anti-bilous properties are
also universally understood and appreciated
and in the West and Southwest the old
"Ague cures" have been generally abandon
ed, and this real chclogog-which actually
breaks up intermittent fever within a week
after the first dose is taken-adopted in their
stead In the intermittent fever so common
in malarious districts during the fall of the
year, it has proved equally ef6cacious, ard it
may be truly said, that it combines in an equal
degree the qualities of restorative, anda pre-.
| ventative.
1t is not alleged that HostetteF's Bitters are.
an iafaliible panacea for all bodily Ills.
There never was such a wonder, and there
never will be. But that the preparation is.,
the most efhcacous and the purest tonic in
use !; that it is the best existing safeguard
against the miasma that generates epidemic
fevers and bowel complaints; that it is.a gen.
une remedy for dyspepsia, biliousness, and,
indigestion in all their forms; and that its,
popularity las attested by its sales and thba-
testimonials in Its favor from all parts of the,
Western Hemisphere exceed that of any
other proprietary medicine on this side of tho
Atlantic, and palpablc, facts, which cannot
be ignored.
HOSTETTER, SMITH & CO.