The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-09-05
Liver Complaint.


A healthy liver secretes each day about two
and a half pounds of bile, which contains
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 be con-
veYed to every part of the system. what
must be the condition of the blood when it is
receiving and retaining each day two ana
half pounds of poison Nature tries to work
off this poison through other channels anu
organs-the kidneys, lungs, skin, etc., put
these organs become overtaxed In performing
this labor in addition to their natural func-
tions, and cannot long Withstand the pres
sure, 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 1t from the
heart and it fails to perform its office health
| fully. Hence the symptoms OF bile poison
| ing.
Symptoms of liver complaint and of
some of the diseases produced by 1t.
A sallow or yellow color of the skin. or
yelloWish.broWn spots on the face and other
parts; dizziness and drowsiness, with ire
quent headaches, dizziness, bitter or bad
taste in the mouth, dryness of the throat, and
| internal heat; palpitation of the heart, IN
many cases dry, teasing cough, with sore
| throat; unsteady appetite, sour stomach,
| with raising of the food, and choking sem
| sation in the throat, sickness and vomiting,
distress, heaviness, or bloated and full feel
| ing about the stomach and sides, which Is
| often attended with pain and tenderness; ag-
| gravatirg pains in the sides, back or breast;
| and about the shoulders; collie, pain, and
soreness through the bowels, alternating
| with hot flashes, with dizziness, low spirits,
unsociability, and gloomy forebodings. The
| blood itself being diseased, as it forms the
sweat upon the surface of the skin, It is so r.
ritating and poisonous that it produces dis
| colored brown spots, pimples, blotches, and
ether erupions, sores, bois, carbuncles and
scrofulous tumors. Only few of the above
symptoms will be likely to be present in any
| case at one time.
Rational 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 radically cure, not only the liver
complaint, but also the various other diseased
conditions produced by it.
1t is generally the custom to take strong
| liver stimulants 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 powerful effect upon the
liver, and rouse the tagging and enfeebled or
gan. These medicines are given freely and
in large doses, which keep the liver in an ex-
cited condition while under their influence.
| This system of treatment is on the same
principle as that of giving weak and deblll-
tated man large portions of brandy to enable
him to do certain amount OF work. Every
intelligent person can readily see, or imagine,
the condition the man would be in when the
work was done and the brandy withheld;
| and it is Just so with the liver. When the
stimulant is withheld, the organ rapidly re-
lapses into a more torpid or sluggish and
weakened condition than before. What then,
is wanted? Evidently medicines, that, while
they arouse the liver to action, will do 1t, not
by an irritating and stimulating effect, as is
produced by dose of great, repulslve, sick
ening, drastic pills, calomel, blue mass, man.
| drake or podophyllin, but by tonic invig-
Grating and strengthening influence upon that
organ. Medicines are wanted that, while
they cause the bile to flow freely from the
liver, as that organ is toned into action, will
not overwork and thus debilitate it, but will,
when their use is discontinued, leave the
| liver STRENGTHENED and healthy. Such medi-
cines am happy to have been able to discoV-
| er and introduce to the afflicted for their re-
lief and cure. AS a remedy for all the vari-
GUS manifestations of disease resulting from
90 Liver Complaint" as it is usually termed,
and as a blood purifier, DR.. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery is positively unequaled.
By it the liver and kidneys are changed to an
active, healthy state. the appetite regulated
and restored, the blood and secretions thor
oughly purified and enriched, and the whole
system renovated and built up anew.
It's action is mild, yet pOsttire and lasting.
It does not simply pdlliate the disease and
relieve it for the time being, but it produces
radical and lasting benefit.
There are, however, some peculiar consti-
buttons on which the Discovery will not
prove sufficiently laxative to unclog the bow
els, and instead Of taking it in larger doses
than two teaspoonfuls four times a day, if
that quantity does not move the bowels twice
in twentv-four hours, take from one to three
of DIR. Pierce's Pleasant Purgative Pellets
each day, or just sufficient to produce the de-
sired relaxation, which should fall short of a
cathartic effect. In fact, the combined use of
the Pellets and the Discovery from the first
in the mild doses which / recommend, will
be found most effective in arousiDg the seere-
ton of the liver, and subduing congestion or
Inflammation of that organ. Do not use any
other laxative or cathartic with the Dissolve
| ry, as none other is so well calculated to work
in harmony with and assist the Discovery in
its congenial operation. Other cathartics
| will frequently counterfeit and interfere with,
or neutralize the power and good effects of
the Discovery; they should not therefore be
used. These little PurgatiVe Pellets, or Su-
gar-Coated, Root and Herbal Juice, Anti
bilious Granules, on the other hand, are so
| compounded as TO harmonic with and assist
the Discovery.
Discovery and Pellets are sold by druggists
the world over.
Il CURE OF LIVER DISEASE.
RUsK, Tex, May 10, 1878.