The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-08-21
Liver Complaint.

By r. Y. Pierce, NJ. D., of the Worlds Dis
pensary, Buffalo, n. Y.
A healthy liver secretes each day about two
and half pounds of bile, which contains a
great amount of waste material taken from the
blood. When the liver becomes torpid or con-
gested, it fails to eliminate this vast amount
of noxious substance, which, therefore, re-
mains to poison the blood, and be 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 a half pounds of
poison? Nature tries to work off this poison
through other channels and organs-the kid
neys, lungs, skin, etc, but these organs be-
come oYertaXed IN performing this labor in
addition to their natural functions. and cannot
long Withstand the pressure, but become yari-
ously diseased.
The brain, which is the great electrical CEN
tire of all vitality, is unduly stimulated by the
unhealthy blood, which passes to it from the
heart aud 1t fails to perferm its Office health
fully Hence the symptoms of bile poisoning.
SYMPTOMS OF LIVER COMPLAINT AND SOME OF
THE DISEASES PRODUCED BY IT.
A sallow or yellow color of the skin, or yell
!oWlsh-brown spots on the face and other parts;
dizziness and drOwsiness, with frequent head
ache, 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 I'M
steady appetite, sour stomach, with raising
OF the food, and a choking sensation in the
throat. sickness and vomiting distress. heavi-
ness, OF a DlOab6O ana IulI feeling about the
stomach and sides. which Is often attended
with pain AMI tenderness; aggravating 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 attacks of
diarrhea piles, hatulence, nervousness. cold
ness OF the eXtremitles; rush of blood to the
head, with symptoms of apoplexy; numbness
of the limbs, especially at night; cold ehills
alternating with hot flashes with duIlness low
sniTIts- tUnGnPlablliTV and o1OOr1vy
The blood itself being diseased, as it forms
the sweat upon the surface of the skin it is
so irritating and poisonous that it produces
dlscolored brown spots, pimples, blotches, and
other eruptions, sores, boils, carbuncIes and
scrOfu ons tumors. Only a few of the above
symptoms viii 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 COM
plant but also the various other diseased con-
ditions produced by it.
It is generally the custom to take strong
liver stimuiants 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 organ. These
medicines are given freely and in large doses
which keep the liver in an excited condition
treatment is on the same principle as that Of
giving weak and dsbilItated man large Dor
tons 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 relapses into more torpid
or sluggish and weakened condition than be-
fore. What, then, is wanted Evidently
medicines, that while they arouse the liver to
action VIII do it, not by an irritating and
stimulating effect, ss is produced by dose of
great, repulsiEe, sickening, drastic pills. Gallo
mel blue mass, mandrake, or pOdOphyIlin, bat
by e.tonlc nyigOrating and strengthening infiu-
ence upon the organ. Medicines are wanted
that, while they cause the bile to flow freely
from the liver, as that organ is toned into ac-
ton, VIII not overWoIk and thus debilitate it.
but viii, when their use Is discontinued leave
the liver strengthened and healthy SUcil rIedi-
cines 1 aIp happy TO have been able to discover
and introduce 90 the afflicted for their relief
and cure. AS a remedy for al the various
manifestations of disease resulting from
90 Liver Complaint as it Is usually termed.
and blood purifier Dr.. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery is positively unequaled
BY It the liver and stomach 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.