The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-06-29


Cannot Account for Them.
The following letter, published In
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. s..
II have very interesting patient IN
the person of young girl who was
suppressed Inenses. Her father is o
wealthy farmer living few miles from
this place. took charge of the dRugh-
ter in 1878, believing that her troubles
would readily yield to the usual treat
ment Finding them 80 obstinate as
to yield to none of the ordinary Teme-
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-
spect improved. AT this time she was
almost blind. When she attempted to
concentrate her sight on any object II
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 at time
She suffered all the pains and aches
imaginable. Az times waveTing Of
her mind was indicated and I feared
her intellect was about to be unseated.
Without my knowledge, her father
commenced giving her 'McElree's
Wine of Cardui,' which had been
highly recommended TO him by some
one. She had been taking L. only a
week when saw her, and was rejoiced
to 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 l advised the
continuance Of the regular doses daily.
I am greatly opposed to the use Of
Patent Medicine8,' but when three
weeks later I 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 q return Of men
strual flow, I became convinced that
McElree's Wine Of Cardup was an as
tonishing remedy, whatever it might
| contain. l write this hoping that your
! formula for making the medicine, so
| that may know III what cases to pre-
| scribe it."
The question suggested to ply
sicians and scientific men by this
case, and thousands Of 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 2
To the thousands of inquiries OF
this kind the Chattanooga Medicine
Company could return bat one
reply
I'VE 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
| hSsion recommend vaccination as a
| rZeYentive of smallpox. Is there one
81 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 ano
treated every case Of menstrual de-
| Of charge In case we were unsuccessful
IN accomplishing 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 were cured.
The reports received from these cases
Indicated that the wine was an aston
lShing tonic, as well as az emmenar
Eogue. White its action Yves magical
/ Id g. & . ~
menstrual organs, tt caused tnVatids to
gain strength aud vitality, purified the
Blood, increased their flesh, sometimes
twenty hounds IN 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 hO1O the wine ac-
Complishes Its work. Not single per
son has reported any deleterious effect
feOm its use. 1t 'pOwerless for harm,
Tut giant for good"
Whether the astonishing cures 81
| menstrual arrangements come from It's
power to strengthen the functions oil
the body, or whether its action is direct
on the menstrual organs we do not
venture an OHlIllOu. ne cures are
established facts, and 1t will be only
the foolish invalid or physician who
will refuse to use the sure relief we
| offer, because we ore unable to tell how
we accomplish the result.
| The course adopted by some ply.
sicians who use the Wine Of 0ardui
in their practice is to write a pre-
scription couched In Latin, which
instrHcts the druggist to put the
Wine in plain bottle, labelled
with written directions. For this
prescription the doctor gets fee OF
| s1.OO or $500, as the case may be,
and the druggist fifty cents.
The patient gets for $3.50 or S2.5O
about one-fourth as much Of the
! Wine as could be bought from the
same druggist for one dollar, if he
went to him and asked for bottle
Of McElree's Wine Of Cardui, with
out the prescription. 1t 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 astonish-
ing new remedy.