The union Democrat., 1869-04-03

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Strange say all the called 'infaIble systems of
treatment which good natnred public is invited pat.
ronize, proposes to d. battle with disease after il has
fastened its victims not to anticipate and bae its
attacks. Now. the Grandest and important mission
of medical science sickness but to prevent
it, Remedial agents would of course be needed if
by of antidotes taken in advance, all disorders
could averted This perhaps not possble but is
claimed fact established by seventeen years of
cessu experience that Hosteters Stomach Bters
nearer to the standard OF perfection protective medi
cine, than medicine in while for remedy for
large class Of complaints and vitazing and strength
renewing agent in of physical debility whether
suonal produced by aventitious its great
value is admitted by medical practitioners.
and avouched by the vonminous of testimony
that has been accumulated in favor of any tonic and
alternative.
Fifty years ago the faculty rule, took sides with
disease against nature OF such not their de-
sign but such unquestionaby their practice. Tt cir
intentions good but their pathology and method of
treatment atrociousy Blistering bleeding,
savaing, violent purgation, and upeacton with
cotcs. then the main of the profession
he Lancet used freely ip intermittent fever and
if the brain was excited off came the patients hair and
it supplanted by canthardcs aster Caomel and
jaap administered in ''heroic doses in bowel
naints and the stem was saturated with mercury a
specific for liver disease and scroulous distempers This
of treatment of profit TO apothecares
underakers, but deadly the subjects of it, 1t
brought mourning into countless houses and filled nnu
merahle graves.
The violent and ndiscrimnate depletion has
ed away-never, it is hoped reurn and the immense
Importance of invignration recognized But, until the
introduction Of Hosteters Stomach Bters, neither the
public the physicians knew where to look pure ard
harmless nvigorant For many the ordinary alco
holic stmuants had been becoming more and more i'm
pure until the careful and practitioners
2raid to prescribe them and it blessed day tor
sick and feeble when this nnocuous and powerful Vege
table tonic ushered into existence to supply their
place. Its advent the great sanitary event of the
nineteenth century The spri liquors of seventeen
years were much adulterated; but they were nfn
tcy less dangerous than the acid and consuming posons
now vended under the name in grocery stores and
bars On the other hand the stmulant employed
in the of the Bters is far preferable to the
finest distilled from the grape the cane. 1t is
to speak, the bood of the wholesome of cereals
sound But this admirable stimulant merely the
vehicle by which their active is increased
eta@s ingredients. intermixed with the alcoholic base
cerrectves alternatives at present known in medical bo
and il is to their OPERATION quickened il by the
pure exhilarant with which they combined. that the
preparation its wonderful efficacy of reg
uatng, reinforcing protecting from deeterous ni-
| ence tn the human phi ysique.
Although thc medical profession alive to the value
of Hosetters Bters restorative and il has been in
toduced extensively in their private practice
many public hospitals and nhrmares they do
TO form proper estimate OF It's Importance as means OF
combating the predispos causes of disease Far
ehcacious than sanitary Gordon that could be estab
shed round infected district would be the of this
antdoe by such OF the had not yet been a
tected by the epidemic virus. Its effect is to cndow
system with resistant power. Its properties direct
anagonsm to the evil tendencies imprisoned
phere and all the depressons and morbid influences
which predisposed the body the reception disease
For these it is specially and silly
ed to all whose circumstances and surroundings unfa
vor4be to the preservation Of health the inhabitants
of swampy localities clearings and alluvia soils;
travellers who many have to varieties of
temperature and drink kinds of their
whose occupations pursued in crowded rooms
where the ventilation is npercct to those who de-
barred from due exercise in the air. to individuals
engaged in mental labor; ladies debated and
depressed by peculiar their and
class OF the community whose mental energies
taxed by the cares and perpexlties Of business.