Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-05-07

Buried deep in our American for
ests, many years ago, DR.. Pierce
found beautiful, blooming plant,
the root of which possesses Won
derfully efficacious properties as
stomach and general tonic, also as
an Alternative or blood purifier ard
liver invigorator, having an especial
affinity for all mucous surfaces upon
which it exerts most salutary,
soothing and healing influence.
/, This sturdy little plant is known
to botanists as Hydrastis Canaden-
sis, but has several local English
names, being generally known as
Golden Seal. DR.. Pierce found the
root of this common forest plant 10
possess medicinal principles of great
potency, especially when combined,
i'll just the right proportions, with
Queens root, Black Cherrybark,
Stone root, Mandrake root and
Bloodroot, the properties of each
being extracted and preserved in
chemically pure glycerine of proper
strength.
This compound DIR. Pierce named
his Golden Medical Discovery" in
honor of the sturdy little Golden
Seal plant. So little used was the
root of this plant by the medical
profession at that time that it could
be purchased in the open markets
for from fifteen cents to twenty
cents pound. The use of many
tons of this root every year in DIR.
Pierce's two leading medicines-for
it enters into both Golden Medical
Discovery" and also into DIR. Piercc's
Favorite Prescription as one of their
most important ingredients-has
caused the price of the root to adj
vance until today it commands up
ward of dollar and half a pound
DR.. PIERcE's FAITH
DR.. Pierce believes that in our
native forests are to be found an
abundance of most valuable me-
dicinal plants for the cure of many
distressing and most fatal maladics
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 for 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
in 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
containing large percentages of al
cohol are taken into the system and
their use protracted over consid-
cradle periods of time
Many years ago DR.. Pierce dis
covered that chemically pure glycer-
inc of proper strength is a better
solvent and preservative of the me-
dicinal principles residing in our in
digenous, or native, medicinal plants
than is alcohol: and. furthermore.
that it possesses intrinsic medicinal
properties of its own, being demul-
cent, nutritive, antiseptic and most
efficient anti-ferment.
THEY STAND ALONE.
The fact that neither DR.. Piercc's
Golden Medical Discovery, the great
stomach tonic, liver invigorator,
heart regulator and blood purifier,
nor his "Favorite Prescription" for
weak, nervous, overworked and