Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-04
Active, Earnest, Persistent Effort
Generally Necessary to Dislodge an Enemy.

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generally necessary to overcome the
obstacles and attain great and noble
ends in life. So, too, if one is at
| flicted with a dread disease which
has fastened itself upon some of the
| organs OF the body and become
firmly seated as lingering or
chronic malady. active and persist
ent treatment is generally neccs-
sary to dislodge the enemy
Since any medical treatment, how
ever good it may be, must be long
continued in order to be effective in
| old established and therefore OBJ
stinate cases, how important that
the remedial agencies employed be
of harmless character. To be sale
and harmless, when their use is thus
protracted, they should be OF such
nature as to be easily eliminated or
carried out of the system when they
have performed their work, just as
the refuse of food is carried out of
the system. Most mineral medi-
| clneS are not thus easily gotten md
of. Take arsenic, for instance, if in
PRODUCED into the system in any con-
siderable quantity it will lodge in
the brain, liver, kidneys and other
parts and there remain as foreign
body to set up irritation and dis
ease for long period OF time if
death does not sooner intervene.
This is also true of most mineral
medicines.
With medicines OF vegetable com
position it is different. They do
their work by aiding the natural
functions OF the several organs OF
the body Tor which they have an al
finity, and like the refuse of our
food, are carried out of the system
through the natural emunctories--
the lungs, skin, kidneys and bowels.
Thus no injury is done to the sys-
tenn i'll cases where the use of such
medicines is continued for a long
period OF ting. Especially is this
true if the medicine taken is free
from alcohol 1t is we'll known,
however, that even small portions
OF alcohol taken for a considerable
period OF time will do serious in
jury to the bodily organs and func-
tons and especially to the brain.
How important, then, in choosing
medicine for treating malady of
long standing, and when medicines
must, in order to cure, be persever-
ingly taken for a considerable period
of time, that those only should be
used which are known to be free
from alcohol and of vegetable COM
position.
With most medicines put up for
family use and sold through drug
gists, their composition is kept
profound secret, known only to
those who compound and put them
out for sale. Any afflicted person
who buys and uses them does so, as
it were, in the dark, if not indeed at
his or her peril. They may and gen
orally do contain a very large per-
centage of alcohol or cheap whisky,
which thoroughly units them Tor
protracted use. But this is not the
worst fault of many of them, objec-
tional though it is. Narcotics and
mineral poisons which we have
shown to be harmful, especially
when used protractedly, are con-
tanned in many of these secret COM
pounds.
To overcome the we'll grounded
and reasonable objections of the
more intelligent to the use OF secret,
medicinal compounds, DR.. R. V.
Pierce of Buffalo, N. Y, some time
ago decided to make bold depar-
ture from the usual course pursued
by the makers OF put-up medicines
for domestic use, and so has pub
lished broadcast and openly to the
whole world full and complete list
of all the ingredients entering into
the composition Of his widely celc-
brated medicines. Thus he has taken
his numerous patrons and patients
into his full confidence. Thus, too,
he has removed his medicines from
among secret nostrums of doubtful
merits and made them Remedies of
Known Composition. By this bold
step he has shown that his formulas
are OF such excellence that he is not
afraid to subject them to the fullest
scrutiny. He has come to believe,
end is willing to coEcede, that his
patients and all who take his put-up