The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-03-23

While much has been written concerning
the use of "put up" medicines, the question
is still an open one, and demands of the peo-
Pile careful consideration. The salient
points may be briefly stated, and answered
as follows: 1st-Are the sick capable of de-
termining their real condition, the nature of
their malady, and selecting the proper
remedy or means of cure? 2d-Can physi-
elan, no matter how skill full, prepare an uni
versal remedy, adapted to the peculiar all
meuts of large class of people, residing
in different attitudes, and subject to various
climatic influences? In answer to the first
proposition, we would say, diseases are
named and known by certain signs" or
symptoms, and, as the mother does not need
a physician to tell her that her child has the
whooping-c cough. Or indicate remedy so
people when afflicted with many of the
symptoms concomitant to "impure blood"
"torpid liver" and "bad Digestion" re-
quire no other knowledge of their condition.
or the remedy indicated, than they already
possess. Second proposition-Many pbysi
clans argue that diseases are sectionally pc
culiar, and that their treatment must there
fore vary, and yet qunine, morphine, podo-
phyllin, and hundreds of other remedies
are prescribed IN al countries to overcome
certain conditions. is it not, therefore, self
evident that physician whose large expert
ence has made him familiar with the many
phases incident to all impurities of the blood,
general and nervous debility, Hper complaint
dyspepsia, consumption and cdtdrrh, can pre-
pare series of remedies exactly adapted to
meet the conditions manifest whenever,
and by whatever means, it NAV have
been 'engendered? The family medicines
prepared by R.V. Pierce, NJ. D., of Buffalo,
N. Y, fulfill the above requirements Many
| physicians prescribe them in their practice
His Golden Medical Discovery has no equal
as blood-purifying and general tonic, while
his Favorte Prescription cures those weak
| nesses peculiar to women, after physicians
have failed. His Pleasant Purgative Pellets,
which are sugar-coated and little larger than
mustard seeds, are safe and certain cure
for "torpid" liver and constipation. If
you wish to save money by avoiding doctors
and keep or regain your health, buy The
Peoples Common Sense Adviser, an illus
trated work of over 900 pages. 1t contains
instruction concerning anatomy, physio-
logy, hygiene, and the treatment of disease.
Over one hundred thousand copies already
sold. Price (post-paid), $3.50. Address
the author, R.V. Pierce, M. d., Buffalo, N. Y.
"RADIX," in one of his recent New York
letters, makes good point apropos of life
insurance Investigations and troubles gener-
ally, by cal ing attention to the fallacy of
Judging of the reliability of companies ac.
cording to their bulk. Many such insttu.
tions seek to dazzle the public eye by print,
ing their large gross assets in the heaviest
type, and by laying great stress upon the
nominal millions under their control to win
confidence and prevent any close analysis OF
the whole statement. He points out the plain
but often forgotten fact, that even concedine
the equally good quality of the assets OF
two companies, it is not necessarily the one
with the most millions which is safest for
the policy holder, but the one whose net
surplus bears the largest ratio to its whole
property. Radix +" finds the Etna Life
Insurance Company, of Hartford, to be one
of the strongest, if not the very strongest
institution of the kind in the country.
With little over twenty-four millions OF
assets, it has about four and a quarter
millions of clear surplus. The special com.
mission appointed by the Legislature of
Connecticut year ago, to investigate all
the life insurance companies of that State
say of the Ktna that tits mot only solvent
but financially sound, and under the man.
agement of officers and directors of large
experience, sound judgment, and un.
blemished character, and entitled to the en-.
tire confidence of policy holders and the
public" Taking the above facts and this
official Endorsement together, it is evident
that this writer's estimate of the Etna is
one that can be everywhere safely Endorsed.