The union Democrat., 1869-02-27
HoSTETTER'S BTTTERS.
From the N. Y. Independent. Nov. 7th. 1867

From the n Y. Independent, Nov. 7th, 1867.
Read, think, and decide, The simple the
| rapeutics o. the Patriarchical era, when herbs
given "for healing the nations were the on
ly medicine in use, fnd little favor with the
medical profession of the day. Yet at 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-
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-
sively practiced when the world was ycung,
has been in a great measure abandoned by
the medical profession. This is a singular
coincidence, and it suggests the possibility of
direct connection between the physical de-
terioration of the species and the wholesale ad-
ministration of deadly mineral and other
drugs. l. may well be doubted whethe the
mineral salts and oXyds, and the no less dam
gerous alkaloids, which chemistry has added
to 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 dlspensary known to mankind
The truth isand sensible people are be-
coming more alive to it every day-that the
world is overdoctored. The principles of med
ication are simple; but they have been SO be-
logged by technica!ites, So mystifed by pro-
tessIoual verbiage. that one half the commu-
nifty fancy they can neither be interpreted nor
applied except by persons who have been
taught 10 elothe the living truths of science in
dead languages. 1t is not to the interest Of
"the Faculty" that the theory and practice
of medicine should be sinplfed 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 a suthciency of this resiS-
tant principle, there can be no reasonable
hope of escaping prevailing epidemics, or of
enjoying even 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 haiiing from all
parts of the world, we reply that liostetter's
Stomach Bitters 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 a system
strengthened and fortified by the use of this
invigorant, no one who possesses common
prudence need fear the effects of malaria. 1t
is the best safeguard against infection at pres
ent known. ltprOduces appetite, it promotes
digestion it prevents constipation it regu-
lates the flow of bile it strengthens the
nerves it puriies the animal fluids it clears
the brai1 and, the vehicle of its medical
properties being pure, dif1usible stimuant,
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 pcrvade the whole organization more
certainly and swiftly than anything else that
can be given. They are quick taken up by
the absorbents, 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 TO all the or
gans and members of a feeble or disordered
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 bv 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. "s 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 a remedy for stomach complaints of every
class. from simple fatulency up to the most
obstinate chronic torpidity of that most i'm
portant organ. Its anti-bilious 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 chGlogog 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 malarous districts during the fall of the
year, It has proved equally eficacious, ard il
may be truly said. that it combines in al equal
degree the qualities of a restorative, and pre-
ventative.
1t is not alleged that Hostetter's Bitters are
an iniall,ble paDacea for oil bodily ills.
There never was such wonder, and there
never will be. But that the preparation is
the most efhcacious 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 gen
uine remedy for dyspepsia, biliousness, and
indigestion in oil their forms; and that its
popularity (as attested hy it's sales and the
testimonials in its favor from all parts of the
Western Hemispharel exceed that of any
other proprietary medicine on this side of the
Atlantic, and palpablc, facts, which canno,
be ignored.