The union Democrat., 1869-02-20
HOsTETTER's BIT1ERS.

From the n. Y. Independent, Nov. Itt, 1867.
Read. think, ard decide The simple the
rapeutics oe the Patriarchcal era, when herbs
I given 'for healing the nations were the on
/ iy medicine in use, lind little favor with the
medical profession of the day. Yet at the
early period of the worlds history the oriina-
! 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-
clined in the lapse Of ages.
| 1t is a scientific fact that, during this pro-
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-
sivcly practIced when the world was young.
has been in n great measure abandoned BY
the medical profession. This is singular
coincidence, and it suggests the possibility of
a direct connection between the physical de-
! terioration of the species and the wholesale ad-
ministratiou of deadly mineral and other
drugs. l: may well he doubted whetner the
mineral salts and oxyds, and the no less dam
gerous aikaloids, which chemistry has added
10 pharmacop9ia, have not destroyed more
lives than all 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 il every dav-that the
world is overdoctored. The principles of med
icaton are simple; hut they have been so be-
logged by technicaltes, 50 mystifed by pro-
fessional verbage. that one half the commu-
nifty fancy they can neither be interpreted nor
applied except by PERSONS who have been
taught TO clothe the living truths of science in
dead languages. 1t is not to the interest of
'ihe Faculty" that the theory and practice
of medicine should be simplitied 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.
Ii 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 suf6ciency of this resis-
hope of escaping prevailing epidemics, or of
enjoying eren under the most favorable exter-
nal circumstances. an immunity from sick
ness 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.
and sustained by the testimony of thousands
of individuals of both sexes haiing from all
parts of the world, we reply that lIostetter' s
Stomach Bitters is the only medicine that can
be fully relied on as a protective and preven-
tatlve tonic and Alternative in all climates
and under all contingencies. With a system
strengthened and fortified by the use of this
| Invlgorant, no one who possesses common
prudence need fear the effects Of malaria 1t
is the best safeguard against infection at pres
ent known. 1t produces appetite, it promotes
digestion /: it prevents constipation it regu-
lates the flow of bile it strengthens the
nerves it purifes the animal fluids f.; it clears
the hraia ; and, the vehicle of its medical
properties being pure, difusible stimulant,
their influence is extended to every portion of
the system. Mere alcoholic stimulants,
though administered largely in medical prac-
tice, are not in themselves medicines but
they pervade the whole organization more
certainly and swiftly than anything else that
can be given. They are quick taken up by
the ahsorbents and there is no. fiber of the
body, between the crown of the head, and he
sole of the foot, which is exempted from their
influence. Hence spirituous stimulant is
the best medium for conveying 10 all the Or
gans and members of a feeble or dsordered
system the means whereby that system is to
be recruited and regulated. 1t is for this
purpose that the alcoholic elements is used in
the preparation of Hostetter'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-
tion OF dyspeptics. to medicine which is
everywhere recognized. rs the standard speci-
nc for Indigestion. In every town in the
United States which contains drug store or
a store in which drugs are sold, it is known
AS remedy for stomach complaints of every
class, from simple tatulency up to the most
obstinate chronic torpidty of that most i'm
portant organ. Its auti-biiouS 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 week
after the first dose is taken-adopted in their
stead. In the intermittent fever so common
in maarious districts during the fall of the
year. it has proved equally efficacious, ard il
may be truly said. that it combines in al equa
degree the qualities of a restorative, and a pre-
ventative.
1t is not alleged that IIostet:er's Bitters are
an lntailihle panacea for all bodily ills
There never was such wonder, and there
never will be- But that the preparation is
the most ettcacious and the purest tonic il
use that 1t Is the best existing safeguard
against the miasma that generates epidemic
levers and bowel complaints; that it is gen
u'ne remedy for dyspepsia, biiousness, ana
Indigestion In all their firms. nnA that II,