Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-25
I'm NATURES LABORATORY.

Buried deep in our American
forests, many years ago, DIR. Pierce
found beautiful, blooming plant,
the root OF which possesses wonder
fully efficacious properties as a
stomach and general tonic, also as
an Alternative or blood purifier and
liver invigorator, having an especial
affinity for all mucous surfaces, upon
which it exerts most salutirv,
soothing and healing influence.
This sturdy little plant is known 10
botanists as Hydrastis Canadensis,
but has several local English names,
being generally known as Golden
Seal. DR.. Pierce found the root #
this common forest plant to possess
medicinal principles of great po-
tency, especially when combined, III
Just the right proportions, with
Queens root, Black Cherrybark,
Stone root, Mandrake root and
Blood root, the properties OF each
being extracted and preserved in
chemically pure glycerine of proper
strength.
This compound DR.. Pierce named
his Golden Medical Discovery, in
honor of the sturdy little Golden
Seal plant. SO little used was Tie
root of this plant by the medical pro-
fession at that time that it could ';e
purchased i'll the open markets tor
from fifteen cents to twenty cents a
pound. The use OF many tons OF
this root every year in DR.. Pierce S
two leading medicines-fOr it enters
into both Golden Medical Discov-
cry" and also into DR.. Pierces Fa-
vorite Prescription as one OF Their
most important ingredients-haS
caused the price OF the root to AL
vance until today it commands up
wards of dollar and half pound.
DR. PIERCE's FAITH.
DIR. Pierce believes that in our ma
tive forests are to be found an
abundance OF most valuable medic
inal plants for the cure OF many dis
tressing and most fatal maladies, if
we would only seek them out, test
them and learn how and for what
diseases to use them. Furthermore,
he believes that the vegetable king
dom is the one to resort to Tor the
most harmless remedial agents
They act most kindly upon the hui
man system and are eliminated or
carried out of the body by the nat
ural functions without injury, even
i'll cases where it is necessary to
make protracted use of them in Or
der TO experience permanent cures.
DR.. Pierce's medicines, being purely
vegetable, are perfectly harmless. In
other words, while they are potent
to cure, being purely vegetable in
composition and containing no alco-
hol, they leave no bad effects be
hind. This is not generally true when
mineral medicines and those con-
tanning large percentages of alcohol
are taken into the system and their
Se.protTaCted over considerable pc
RODS OF time.
Many years ago DR.. Pierce dis
covered that chemically pure glycer-
inc, OF proper strength, is better
solvent and preservative of the me-
dicinal principles residing i'll our n
digenous, or native, medicinal plants
than is alcohol: and. furthermore.
that it possesses intrinsic medicinal
properties of its own. being dem,ll-
cent. nutritive, antiseptic and most
efficient anti-ferment.
THEY STAND ALONE.
The fact that neither DR.. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery, the great
stomach tonic, liver invigorator,
heart regulator and blood purifier,
nor his "Favorite Prescription" for