The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-04

can't even think clearly. He loses
heart and courage and. flesh; pretty
soon he feels it in his lungs. The doc
tors call it consumption and prescribe
lung specifics. But what the man needs
is a medicine to go deep down into the
foundations of the trouble; clear the
poison out of his blood; wake up his
liver, purify. revitalize and build up
his system from the foundation-ston
He needs DR.. Pierces Golden Medical
Discovery which has cured innumerable
cases of obstinate liver complaint
which the doctors diagnosed as hope
less consumption.
The work of this masterful "DiscoV-
ery'' begins at the very cornerstone OF
life in the stomach and nutritive or
ganism. 1t gives appetite, nourish-
ment. rich blood, healthy solid flesh.
A cough is only symptom; there are
other things that make the cough;
they must be got rid of first, the cough
may be the last thing to go away Dr.
Pierce's marvellous discovery isn't
a lung specific; but it does more than
any such specific can ever do. 1t
sweeps out Of the blood all the foul
disease germs that lodge in the lungs
and originate consumption; 1t heals
and builds up the delicate tissues and
imbues the entire system with
strength and active energy.
When Dr. Pierce says a case IS cur
able. he says it in the knowledge that
those words have been New Life to
host. doomed by fear and friends and
ignorance and physicians to a consump-
tive'S grave.
Does DR.. Pierce claim to cure con-
sumption? t
That question isn't worth arguing.
Look at the record. Take case In
point. Here is man Cor Woman)
with a hacking cough, a hectic hush,
night-sweats, great ,emaciat1on or
wasting of flesh, splitting of blood
shcrtness of breath and all the other
symptoms. After every remedy and
every local physician has failed, he. as
a last resort. takes Golden Medical
Discovery and the cough vanishes,
the cheek gets back it's natural color,
sleep becomes sound and refreshing,
the splitting of blood stops, flesh and
muscles become firm, weight increases
and life goes along in quiet and COM
fort to the full limit of the three score
years and ten.
But may be it wasn't consumption
after all? May be it wasn't. You
know it was something that was at
lacking the very citadel of life, and it
was something that was cured by the
use of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis
covery And DR.. Pierce is curing such
something's" right along with a record
of over quarter of a million cases,
and not more than three per cent. of
failures.
One fact, at least, is we'll established.
That the Golden Medical Discovery"
does cure weak lungs, bleeding from
lungs, obstinate, lingering coughs,
laryngitis, bronchitis, throat disease,
and kindred affections of the air pas
sages, which. if neglected or badly
treated, lead up to consumption, can
no longer be doubted in view of the
many thousands of well. established
cures of such cases reported by the
most trustworthy citizens Many of
these cases have BEEN pronounced con-
sumption-and incurab leL-by the best
local physicians before the sufferers
commenced the use of Or. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery
Whether the doctors have erred in
their judgment in these numerous cases
or not is not for us to decide.
Suppose we put some Of these So
called 'incurables" ingthel witness box
Let us call Mr.. John Brooks, Of Boyl-
ston, Worcester Co., Mass. (Sawyers
Mills, who says: II feel it my duty
now to write to you to tell you of the
great benefit 1 haven received. About
year ago L was taken1wit bad
cold which settled on my lungs. The
doctors said I was in consumption and
| could not get we'll. 1 took Emulsion of
Cod Liver Oil and it did me no good
After taking it four months 1 heard of
your Golden Medical Discovery and
wrote to you for advice I have taken
your medicine and it saved my life. |
felt so sick when i wrote to you that L
thought 1 would not live the winter
through. In the morning | raised an
awful lot, and would spit all the time,
and had pains in my chest. Ny bowels
a week; my strength was nearly gone;
I could not do whole days work.