The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-06-15

AlC IOllO " lil}S ACJJCAy BQb1A5t1cA IA
1882, has occasiOned much COM
ment and Investigation by physi-
clans and scientific men. 1t was
written by an old and reliable
practitioner residing IN Missouri.
The report is known as
CASE NO. 50.
Il have a very interesting patient in
the person of a young girl who was
suffering from the effects Of entirely
suppressed menses. Her father is a
wealthy farmer living a few miles from
this place. l took charge of the daugh-
ter in 1878, believing that her troubles
would readily yield to the usual treat
ment. Finding them so obstinate as
to yield to none of the ordinary RENE
dies, by my advice her father took her
to two celebrated physicians in st.
Louis; but, after treating her two
months she returned home in no re-
almost blind. When she attempted to
concentrate her sight on any object it
would be at first all darkness, then ten
thousand stars of every color would
appear, but she could distinguish
hardly anything Her nervous system
was all upset, and she was unable to
sleep more than five minutes ST a time
She suffered all the pains and aches
Imaginable. At times a WaVering of
her mind was indicated and feared
her intellect was about to be unseated
Without my knowledge, her father
commenced giving her 'McEITee's
Wine of Cardui, which had been
highly recommended to him by some
one. She had been taking it only a
week when I saw her, and was reioiced
60 find her symptoms greatly inn
proved. Her father then told me what
he was giving her. / examined the
bottle of Wine, and believing no harm
would result from its use I advised the
continuance Of the regular doses daily.
[ am greatly opposed to the use of
Patent Medicines,' bat when three
weeks later ] found this young lady
able to read ordinary print without in
convenience, able to sleep soundly ten
hours out of twenty-fOur, free from
pain, and had had a return of men
strual flow, | became convinced that
McElree's Wine of Cardui was an as
bOnishing remedy, whatever it might
contain. l write this hoping that your
rules will allow you to send me the
formula for making the medicine, so
shat l may know in what cases to pre-
scribe it."
The question suggested to ply
siCians and scientific men by this
case, and thousands If others
equally remarkable, was not as to
the wonderful value of this aston
ishing remedy, which was acknOwl-
edged by every one OF them, but
what were its remedial elements ?
To the thousands Of inquiries Of
this kind the Chattanooga Medicine
Company could return but one
reply
we DO NOT KNOW.
The following is an extract from
the circular letter that they pre-
pared and mailed in reply to the
many thousands Of inquiries that
they received:
Almost universally the medical pro-
fession recommend vaccination as a
preventive of smallpox. is there one
Of them who can tell what constituent
element Of Bovine Virus causes the
phenomena? They only know the eff
feet by repeated experiment.
We searched for twelve months and
| treated every case of menstrual de-
rangement that we could discover free
Of charge in case we were unsuccessful
in accomplishing "A cure, to satisfy our
selves as to the efficacy Of McElree's
Wine Of Cardui. Of about seven
thousand cases thus treated, over six
thousand five hundred We're cured.
The reports received from these cases
indicated that the wine was an aston
| lshing tonic, as well as an e1nmena-
gogue. White its action was magical
as regarded any arrangements of the
menstrual organs, it caused invalids to
gain strength and vitality, purified the
blood, increased their flesh, sometimes
twenty aounds in a few weeks, and
| literally caused them to "shout for
Joy" Ladies who had become con-
firmed inValids were restored to robust
| health in comparatively short time.
Observing these results which have
been made known in hundreds of let
ters from grateful inValids, we no lOn-
ger care to inquire hOU the wine ac-
conplishes its work. Not a single per
son has reported any deleterious effect
from its use. 1t is 'pOwerless for harm,
| tut a giant for good -
Whether the astonishing cures Of
menstrual arrangements come from its
power to strengthen the functions Of
l'the body, or whether its action is direct
on the menstrual organs, we do not
venture an sOpinion. The cures are
established facts, and it ,willt-be only
the foolish invalid or physician who
Will refuse TO use the sure relief we
| offer, because we are unable to tel how
we accomplish the result.
The course adopted by some ply
gicians who use the Wine Of Cardui
in their practice is to write a pre-
scription cou'ched in Latin, which
instructs the druggist TO put the
Wine in a plain bottle, labelled
with written directions For this
prescription the doctor gets. a fee Of
s1.OO or $500, as the case may be,
and the druggist fifty cents.
The patient gets for $3.50 or $3.50
about one-fourth 40 much Of the
Wine as could be bought from the
same druggist for one dollar, if he
went to him and asked for a bottle
Of McElree's Wine Of Cardui, with
out the prescription It would be-
well for ladies to procure from their
druggist, or from the Chattanooga
Medicine Company, Of Chattanooga,
Tenn, who will send it free Of
charge to any one, pamphlet on
Female Diseases, Their Causes,
symptoms and Treatment from
which they can get all requisite IN
formation regarding this aston;sb-
ing new remedy