The Florida agriculturist., 1906-07-25
IN NATURES LABORATORY.

Buried deep in our American forests,
many years ago, DIR. Pierce found. a
beautiful, blooming plant the root of
which possesses wonderfully 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 a most salutary,
soothing and healing influence.
This sturdy little plant is known to
botanists as Hydrastis Canadensis, but
has several local English names, being
generally known as Golden Seal. DIR.
Pierce found the root of this common
forest plant to possess medicinal prln-
ciples of great potency, especially when
combined, in just the right proportions,
with Queens root, Black Cherrybark,
Stone root, Mandrake root and Blood
root, the properties of each being ex-
tracted and preserved in chemically
pure glycerine of proper strength.
This compound DR.. Pierce named
his vGolden 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 a pound. The
use of many tons of this root every
year in DIR. Pierce's two leading medi-
cines-for it enters into both vGolden
Medical Discovery" and also into DR..
Pierce's Favorite Prescription as one of
their most important ingredients
caused the price of the root to advance
until to-day it commands upwards of
q dollar and a half a pound.
DIR. PIERCE's FAITH.
DR.. Pierce believes that in our native
forests are to be found an abundance of
most valuable medicinal plants for the
cure of many distressing 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 veg
etable kingdom is the one to resort to
for the most harmless remedial agents.
They act most kindly upon the hu-
man system and are eliminated or car
ried out of the body by the natural
functions without injury, even in cases
where it is necessary to make protracted
use of them in order to experience per-
manent cures. DIR. Pierce's medicines
being purely vegetable, are perfectly
harmless. In other words, while they
are potent to cure, being purely vege-
table in composition and containing no
alcohol, they leave no bad effects be-
hind. This is not generally true when
mineral medicines and those containing
large percentages of alcohol are taken
into the system and their use protracted
over considerable periods of time.
Many years ago, DR.. Pierce discov-
cred that chemically pure glycerine, of
proper strength, is better solvent and
preservative of the medicinal principles
residing in our Indigenous, or native,
medicinal plants than is alcohol; and,
furthermore, that it possesses intrinsic
medicinal properties of it's own, being
demulcent, nutritive, antiseptic and a
most efficient anti-ferment.
THEY STAND ALONE.
The fact that neither DIR. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery, the great
stomach tonic, liver invigorator, heart
regulator and blood purifier, nor his
"Favorite Pre<cri iption" fer weak, nerv-