Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-08-03
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From the Davenport DemOenat

Medical men, and people general
", are rapidly returning to first prin-
eiples, and recognizing the fact, that
all diseases must look for remedies
in the Vegetable Kingdom. In old
en- times the still-room and the her.
barium were the resources for spe-
cities, and those obscure diseases
which have arisen from the use of
minerals in medicine, were happily
unknown We have the authority
of Scriptures for this position, which
says: ''He hath given meat for food
and all the herbs of the fields for the
healing of the nations" The huge
folios known to our forefathers as
HeFbals, are again in request, and
recipes of incalcuble value are being
drawn from the recesses of obsolete
volumes, to bring the afflicted health
and vigor. Medical Botany has been
neglected too long, and while the
human from has been racked with
violent mineral applications, sap
ping the health, vitiating the fluids
and perforating the very bones, we
have been trampling under foot
those simple heal-alls, which bene-
fieient.C reatOrihas.b ountiflyu spread
over the luxurious carpet of the
earth for our benefit. Too frequent
Iy have pretenders foisted upon an
nnsespecting public, liquid nostrums
declared to contain essessences of
various herbs, but which from their
failure as remedial agents, and
merely acting as temporary stimuli,
prove themselves to be receptions
and frauds. The real curative prin-
ciple resides in herbs, and is merely
secured and retained by the drying
process, which home made decoc-
ton will reproduce in all its natural
force. The advantage of this quail
ty, in preventing imposition, guard
ing against fraud, and placing in the
hands of the patient the actual vege-
| table production which is to perfect
a cure, has been taken in DIR. Sim
mons VeVetable Liver Regulator.
This is no nostrum compounded in
a trade labratory, and poured out to
the community by the gallon, but it
is the herbs themselves, selected
with perfect knowledge of their
virtues, gathered when the juices
are at their zenith, and the Mailing
qualities in perfection, carefully
dried, pulveFiZed, and then mingled
in proper proportion so as to perme-
ate the system, arouse the torpidity
of the liver, increase its secrctioBs,
and thus by a natural action, carry
! off all morbific influences, and assist
nature, the great restOrer, in her eff
forts to inVigorate and cure. Every
physician will acknowledge that
nine-tenths of all diseases arises from
some defect in the hillary secretions,
and that by correcting these, the dis
ease, however remote it may be,
however far removed from the ordi-
nary SYMPTOMS attending bile, will
be at once and permanently removed
In DR.. Simmons Vegetable Regula-
tor we are put in possession of the
dried herbs themselves, and with
hot water we make the decoetion as
truly and as perfect as though our
nights had been spent in studying
the qualities of the herbs, and our
days in gathering the samples. This
New Departure is return to
the wisdom of our forefathers, and
this method of using dessieated med
ical herbs is a movement in the
right direction, which meets with
general favor, and which Is bound
to revolutionize the modern prac-
ficP of IDediciDe