The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-07-24
The leaves scere for the healing Of the nation
Av Valuable Medicinal Herb.


Smart Weed, sometimes called Water Pepper
but known to botanists P0lygonunp Pune
tctsfns is well known, very common and
modest little plant found growing in bitches,
low grounds, among rubbish and about brooks
and water courses, Towering in August and
September. In many sections of this country
it is q deservedly highly esteemed family rem
edy. 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 properties, and usually
made tea from the dried herb, that had been
kept on hand for a 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 a cold process, until ],
having become convinced of the wonderful
medi al virtues of this little weed, investiga-
| ted its properties and made an extract from
| the fresh herb, Dy a cold process-using no
heat at all, but bringing out its juices, oils
| and volatile properties complete and unimpair-
| ed. If this remedy had heretofore been valu-
able, when prepared in the most crude man
ner, from the long dried herb and by the ap-
| plication of heat, that destroys so much of it's
virtues, reasoned that it must, when proper
| " prepared, by a cold process and from the
freshly dried herb, prove wonderfully efica-
cious and potent remedy for human suffering.
| And can assure the people, upoH my honor,
| as professional man, that in its use, since
| thus preparing it, my most sanguine expecta-
| tons have been more than realized. / have
| found it to contain medicinal properties which
| stepping in water could not bring out at ALL as
| they are resinous principles. With my Ex-
| tract containing all these medical properties
| unimpaired, have been enabled to produce
j most astonishing remedial effects. By much
| study, large experience in prescribing this
| and other medicines, and very close observa-
ton, have been enabled to compound and
| combine with the simple Extract of Smart
| Weed extracts of other medicinal herbs and
| roots, that greatly improve its power and use
| fulness, both as an internal and external rem
| edy-besides they SO flavor and modify it as
| to remove its pungent, smarty taste, and rem
| der it pleasant remedy for both adults and
| children. The greatest difficulty that expe-
| rience in the way of introducing this most
| valuable remedy to The public is that Smart
| Weed is such a common and unpretending
| looking little herb that people apt to think
| that it cannot possess any great or valuable
| medical properties. Had / prepared my Ex-
| tract of Smart-Weed, put it up and labelled it
| with some great name, and told the people
that the herbs of which it was composed were
collected 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, have no doubt that
some would have been thereby inspired with
| greater confidence ia it. But prefer to deal
| honestly with the people and tell them that
| the chief ingredient of my Compound Extract
is the modest little plant seen growing by the
road side, in all parts of North America, and
| known as Smart Weed. I believe that God
has caused to grow in each climate and region
those medicinal plants best calculated for tbs
cure of the diseases that prevail in the section
| of the country where those plants are found
that 1.-The leaves were for he healing of the
nations" and that the fewer far-fetched RENE
dies we employ the better, if we would thor
| oughly investigate and understand those we
| have at home. So far as Smart-Weed has
| been employed by the medical profession it
has won golden opinions, tstanding the
fact that heretofore they have had only a very
| imperfect preparation of 1t to use, owing to
| heat being always employed in extracting its
| properties. celebrated medical author says ::
"a friend of ours had only child danger
| ously i'll With summer complaint. He had en-
| ployed great variety of the usual means for
relief but all appeared unavailing. The child
was finally given Smart-Weed and it was en-
tirely successful. 1t arrested the vomiting
and purglng In short time AMI without the
aid of other medicine entirely restored the lit
tie patient" As q remedy for dysentery Cor
bloody f1ux) have never seen my Extract of
Smart Weed equaled, yet have used all the
most modern and approved medicines usually
employed in that disease. The Smart Weed
is rendered still more efficacious in all bowel
complaints, cramps and pains in the stomach,
by reason of the Jamaica ginger, which, with
other valuable ingredients is compounded
with the Smart Weed in making my Extract
hence the name Compound Extract of SIN 1T
Weed. The ginger and other ingredients not
only add greatly to the value of the Smart
Weed as remedy for internal administration
and render it more pleasant to take by impart-
ing an agreeable flavor to it, but also enhance
its value as external application In all
cases of tdiarTh9a, whether acute or chronic,
in young or old, as well as in cholera and
cholera infantum, the symptoms of which are
severe vomiting and purging, feeble pulse,
with cold or clammy skin, my Extract of Smart
Weed will give almost immediate relief and
speedily effect cure. All authors writing
upon Smart Weed speak particularly about q
dose of it producing a warmth aud peculiar
tinglng sensation throughout the system
This is especially The case whnn my Extract ie
| given and indicates perfect arousIng or the
Whole system, as If from inaction aud sleep.
and resembles a shock of electricity only that
it is more lasting in effect. The whole system
and its various functions are aroused to per
form their normal functions by its electrical
effect upon the nervous system. Hence, too,
| Its great and mastery control over rheumatic
and neuralgia affections, for which it is paTtic-
ularly advised by medical authors and in which
it has performed remarkable cures. 1t should
be used in these cases both externally and in
ternally. Being great diaphoretic or sweat
ing medicine, aids greatly in relieving pain,
but, independently of that, it possesses great
anodyne or soothing properties, that render it
far ahead of any Pain Killer" ESQ called,
instant Relief" Golden Relief" or any
to the public. Besides, it is perfectly harm
less, which is not the case with many of the
preparations patented and put up for sale by
Quacks, Indian doctors" and those knowing
nothing of the delicate and intricate structure
of the human system, nor the action of medi-
cine upon it. My Extract of Smart Weed is
not a secret patent medicine, no patent having
been asked or obtained upon it, and its ingre-
dents no secret-aH that claim is that,
as an educated and skilled analytical and prac-
teal chemist, 1 have devised a superior pro-
cess for bringing out and obtaining the most
valuable properties of the plants from which
my Compound Extract is made This l have
done only after great expense in erecting ma
chinery for grinding, pressing AMI percolating.
1 wish particu arly to call public attention to
my Extract of Smart Weed as a remedy for
all colds, febrile and inflammatory attacks.
Nor can too highly extol it as a remedy for
Inflammation of the kidneys and bladder,
gravel, and to break up the cold stage of fever
and ague or chills and fever.
AS an external application, it is a perfect
Panacea, if there ever was one. No family
can afford to be one day without it in the
house. Besides it is equally as good for the
horse as for man. It subdues Inflammation of
all kinds. Used as a gargle and applied free
ly externally to the throat, it is a sovereign
remedy in diphtheria and quinsy or infiamn a.
ton of the tonsil glands. To all wounds,
bruises, sprains, burns, bee stiugs, insect and
snake bites, frost bi es, chilbains, caked
breast swollen glands, rheumatism, and in
short, to any and all ailments, whether att1Ict-
ing man or beast, requiring a direct external
application. either to allay Inflammation or
soothe pain, or BOTH Extract of Smart Weed
cannot be excelled. l do not extol this medi-
cine as a cure-all, nor is it necessary to men
ton all the diseases wherein it will be found
to effect cures, as have said enough to indi-
cate it's properties and the intelligent will at
once see wherein its use may properly be ex-
tended. Recolect it is sold under a positive
guarantee. If, after using two-thirds of the
contents of the bottle, you are not satisfied
with it, return the bottle to me and your
money will be promptly refunded. Allow me
to say. in conclusion, that~my Compound Ex-
tt act of Smart Weed, is safe remedy in all
cases, which cannot be said of many medicines
put up for sale to the people. So harmless is
it, that it may be given in small doses of five
tozten drops in milk to infants for collie, and
will be far more effective and much safer than
any Soothing Syrup or Cordial " eNer put mp,
audwill not injure the chill 4 as they do. My
| Extract of Smart Weed is now sold by most
druggists, both in this and many foreign
| countries.
The "Scalpers' and their Trade
A new and thrifty trade seems to have
lately sprung up in various parts of the
country in the shape of selling railroad
tickets at secondhand. 1t Is said that
there are now some forty offices in this
country where tickets over any road,
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