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A Valuable Medicinal Herb. 4.

A Valuable Medlelnal HerDs
ByR. PIERCE, M. D., of the WORLDS
DIsPENsARY, Buffalo, N. 7.
Smart-Weed, sometimes called Water Pep
per, but known by Botanists as Potyg0nttnl
Punctataaa is wellknown, very common
and modest little plant found growing in
bitches, low grounds, among rubbish and
about brooks and water-courses, Towering III
August and September. In many sections of
this country it is deservedly highly esteem
ed family remedy. The Indians also make
great use of this plant for the cure of various
diseases. But neither the Indians nor the,
whites learned one-tenth of the value of this
modest little weed, as they had no method Of
extracting its virtues without the application
of heat, which destroys most of its proper
ties, and usually made a tea from the dried
herb, that had been Kept on hand for long
time until it had lost most of its medical
properties. No educated Chemist had ever
tried to make an analysis of the plant and
produce an extract from it upon scientific
PRINCIPLES, by cold process, until /, having
become convinced of the wonderful medical
virtues of this little weed, Investigated its
properties and made an extract from the
fresh herb, by q cold proeess-uslng no neat I
at all, but bringing out its juices, oils and
volatile properties complete and unimpaired.
If this remedy had heretofore been valuable,
when prepared in the most crude manner,
from the long dried herb and by the appllca-
ton of heat, that destroyed so much OF It's
virtues, reasoned that it must, when prop
erlv prepared. by coldprocess and from the
freshly dried herb, prove wonderfully etfica-
cious and potentremeayfof human suffering.
And can assure the people, upon my honor,
as professional man, that in It's use, since
thus preparing it, my most sanguine eXpecta-
lions have been more than realized. l have
found 1t to contain medicinal properties
efa
at all, as they are resinous principles. With
nv Extract, containing all these medical
properties unimpaired, have been enabled
to produce most astonishing remedial effects.
By much study, large experience IN pre-
scribing this and other medicines, and very
close observation, : L have been enabled to
compound and combine with the simple Ex-
tract of Smart-Weed extracts of other medl-
cinal herbs and roots, that greatly improve
its power and usefulness, both as an internal
and external remedy,-besides they so flavor
and modify it as to remove Its pungent,
| smarty taste, and render it q pleasant rene
du for both adults and children. The great
est difficulty that / experience in the way of
introducing this most valuable remedy to the
public is the fact that Smart-Weed is such a
common and unpretending looking little herb
that people are apt to think that it cannot
possess any great or valuable medical prop
critics. Had prepared my Extractof Smart
Us
great name, and told the people that the
| herbs of which it was composed were collect
| ed in Africa by the Arabs, carried across the
| Sahara Desert on the backs of camels, and
brought across the Atlantic Ocean for my
special use, and that its ingredients were
| therefore very expensive, l have no doubt
/ that some would have been thereby inspired
with greater confidence In it. But prefer
to deal honestly with the people and tell
| them that the chief ingredient of my Com
pound Extract is the modest little plant seen
growing by the roadside, in all parts of North
| America, and known as SmartWeed. be-
| lieve that God has caused to grow, in each
climate and region, those medicinal plants
best calculated for the cure of the diseases
that prevail in the section of country where
/ those plants are found-that $, the leaves
| were for the healing of the nations," and
that the fewer far-fetched remedies we en-
ploy the better, if we would thoroughly in
yestigate and understand those we have al
home. So far as Smart-Weed has been EN-
ployed by the medical profession it has won
golden opinions, notwithstanding the fact
| that heretofore they have had only very
| imperfect preparation of it to use, owing to
heat being always employed in extracting
| its properties. A celebrated medical author
saws +" A friend of ours had an only child
dangerously i'll with Summer Complaint. He
had employed great variety of the usua
means for relief but all appeared unavailing
| The child was finally given Smart W eed anC
| it was entirely successful. 1t arrested the
vomiting and purging in short time ano
| without the aid of other medicine entirely re
stored the little patient" As remedy fol
| Dysentery (or Bloody Flux) / have never
| seen my Extract of Smart eed equaled, YET
| / have used all the most modern and ap
proved medicines usually employed IN thai
disease. The Smart Weed is rendered still
more efficaeious in all Bowel Complaints
Cramps and Pains in the Stomach, by reaser
of the Jamaica Ginger, which, with othel
VALUABLE ingredients, is compounded with thu
Smart Weed in making my Extract-henc'
| the name Compound Extract of Smart
| Weed. The Ginger and other Ingredient
not only add greatly to the value OF thu
4 Smart-W Weed as remedy for internal admin
istration and render it more pleasant to TAX
by imparting an agreeable flavor to it, bu
also enhance its value as an external appllca
| ton. In all cases of Diarrh9a, whethe
4 acute or chronic, in young or old, rs well
in Cholera and Cholera Infantum, the symp
toms of which are severe vomiting and purg
ing, feeblepulse, with cold or clamIny skin
my Extract of Smart Weed will give almos
immediate relief and speedily effect cure
All authors writing upon Smart Weed speal
particularly about dose of it producing
, warmth and peculiar tingling sensation
; throughout the system. This is especiail
| the case when my Extract is given and ind
Gates perfect arouslng OF the Whole system
! | as if from inaction and sleep. and resemble
, shock of electricity only that it is more last
, ing in effect. The whole system and its VAR
Gus functions are aroused to perform thei
normal functions by its electrical effect upol
the nervous system. Hence, too, its grea
and mastery control over Rheumatic an
Neuralgia Affections, for which it is particu
larly advised by medical authors and in whic
/ it has performed remarkable cures. Itshoui
: be used in these cases both externally and in
: ternally. Being great Diaphofetic, o
9 Seoeating Medicine, aids greatly in relievin
pain, but, independently Of that, it possesse
: great anodyne or soothing properties, tha
! , render it far ahead of any Pain Killer" Is
!! bcalled), 'sInstant Relief,n g Golden Relief,
!, OF. any other pain remedy that has ever bee
q offered to the public. Besides, it is perfectl
T harmless, which is not the case with many {
] the preparations patented and put up for sal
/. by Quacks, Indian Doctors" and thos
i knowing nothing of the. delicate and intricai
: structure of the human system, nor the a.
: ton of medicines upon it. My Extract