American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-08-29

Liver Complaint.
BY r. V. PIERCE, NJ. D., of the WORLDS
DIsPENsARY, Buffalo, n. Y
\ healthy liver secretcs each day ahout
two add Il half pounds of bile, which contains
n great amount of waste material taken from
the blood. When the liver becomes torpid
or congested it fails to eliminate this vast
amount of noxious substance, which, there
fore, remains to poison the blood and he
conveyed to every part of the system. What
must be the condition of the blood when it is
receiving and retaining each day two and II
half pounds of poison. Nature tries to work
off this poison through other channels and
organs-the kidneys, lungs, skin, etc.-but
these organs become overtaycd in perform
ing this labor in addition to their natural
functions, and cannot long Withstand the
pressure, but become variously diseased.
The brain, which is the great electrical cen
ter of all vitality, is unduly stimulated by the
unhealthy blood which passes to it from the
heart, and it fails to perform its Office health
fully Hence the symptoms Of bile poison
ing.
Symptoms Of 1ice,. complaint and Of some Of
the Diseases pyodttcei By Il.
sallow or yellow color of the skin, or yell
owisfl-hrown spots on the face and other
parts; dizziness and drowsinc>s, 18th frequent
headache; dizziness, bitter or bad taste in the
mouth; dryncss of the throat and internal
heat; palpitation Of the heart; in many cases
a dry, teasing cough, with sore throat: I'M
steady appetite; sour stomach, with Il raising =
of the food and choking sensation in the
throat; sickness and vomiting; distress
heavincss, a bloato.l and full feeling about
the stomach and sides, which is often attend
ed with pain and tenderness: aggravatng
pains in the sides back or breast and about
the shoulders; collie, pain and soreness
through the bowels. with heat, constipation
of the bowels alternating with frequent at
lacks of diarrhea; piles, f1atuence, nervous
ness, GOODNESS of the eNtremities; rush of
blood to the head, with symptoms of apo
plexy; numbness of the limbs, especially at
night: cold chills, alternating with hot flash
es, with dizziness, low spirits, unsociability
and gloomy forebodn=s. The blood Itself
being diseased, as it forms the sweat upon the
surface of the skin it is irritating and poi
sonous that it produces discolored brown
spots, pimplcs, blotches and other eruptious,
Sores boils, carbuncles and scrofulous tumors.
Only few of the above symptoms will be
likely to be present in any at one time.
RotiOna1 and successful treatment.
a large variety of diseased conditions are
produced by liver complaint. BY curing the
disease of the liver we remove the cause. and
thereby yudicdNp eur, not only the liver com
plant, but also the various other diseased con-
ditons produced by it.
1t is generally the custom to take strong
liver stimuants for the liver complaint, and
both the mineral and vegetable Kingdoms
have been diligently searched to procure the
most drastic and poisonous purgatives, in
order to produce Il powerful effect upon the
organ. These medicines are given freely and
in large doses, which keep the liver in cX-
cited condition while under their influence.
This system of treatment is on the same prin-
clple as that of giving weak and dcbilitltcd
man large portions of brandy to enable him to
do a certain amount of work. Every intelli-
gent person can readily or imagine the
condition the man would be in when the
work was done and the brandy withheld ;
and it is just with the liver When the
stimulant is withheld the organ rapidly re-
lapses into 4 more torpid sluggish and
weakened condition than before. What, them
is wanted :? Evidently medicines that, while
they arouse the liver to action, will do it. not
by an irritating and stimulating eff ct as is
produced by a dose of great, repulsive, sick
ening, drastic pills, calomel, blue mass,
mandrake or podophylin, but by Il
tonic invigorating and strengthening in
fiuence upon that organ. Medicines are
wanted that, while they cause the bile to
flow freely from the liver, that organ is
toned into action, will not overwork and thus
debiIit''te it, but will, when their is dis
continued leave the liver strengthened and
he"hh l. Such medicines | am happy to have
been able to discover and introduce to the af-
hicted for their relief and cure. As remedy
for all the various manifestations of disease
resulting from Liver Complaint" as il is
usually termed, and as blood purifier, DIR.
Piercc's Golden Medical Discovery is posi-
lively unequalcd. By it the liver and st,,rn-
ach are changed to an active, healthy state,
the appetite regulated and restored, the blood
and secrctions thoroughly purified and en-
richcd, and the whole system renovated and
built up anew
Its action is mild, yet p"sit,re and lasting.
1t does not simply pal late the disease and re
lieve it for the time being, but it produces
r,aiical and last ng ben,Jtt.
There are, however. some peculiar consti-
buttons on which the Discovery will not prove
sufficiently laxative to unclog the bowels, and
instead Of taking it in larger doses than two
teaspoonfuls four times day, if that quantity
does not move the bowels twice in twenty
four hours, take from one to three of DR..
Pierccs Pleasant Purgative Pellets each day,
or just sufficient to produce the desired relax
alton, which should fall short of IL cathartic
effect. IN fact, the combined use of the Pei
lets and the Discovery from, the first i'll the
mild doses which / recommend will be found
most effective in arousing the secretion of the
liver and subduin% congestion or intlamml-
ton of that organ. Do not use any other lax
ative or cathartic with the Discovery, none
other is so well calcula ed to work in h.tr-
mony with and assist the Discovery in its con
qucntly countcract and interfere with, or
neutraliZc the power and good effects of, the
Discovery; they should not therefore be used.
These little Purgative Pellets, or Sugar
Coated Root and Herbel Juice, Anti-Bilious
Granules, on the other hand, are so com
pounded lis to harmonic with and assist the
Discovery.
Discovery and Pellets are sold by druggists
the world over
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