The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-19
In Natures Laboratory.

Buried deep in our American forests,
many years ago. DR.. Pierce found
beautiful, blooming plant which possesses
wonderful efficacous properties as
stomach and general tonic, also as an
Alternative. having an especial affinity for
all mucous surfaces upon which It exerts
a most salutary influence.
This sturdy little plant is known to
botanists as Hydrastis Canadensis, but
has several local English names, being
generally known as Golden Seal. Dr.
Pierce found the root of this common
forest plant TO possess medicinal princi-
ples of great potency, especially when
combined in 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 DR.. 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
II could be purchased in the open market
for from 10 cents to ID cents a pound
The use of many tons of this root every
year in Dr. Pierces two leading medi-
cines-for It enters into both Golden
Medical Discovery and also into Dr.
Pierce's Favorite Prescription as one Of
their most important ingredients-has
caused the price of the root to advance
in price until today it commands upwards
of $3.50. pound.
Physicians generally, and of all schools,
now employ Golden Seal root to such an
extent as to contribute largely to its
great advance in price.
A Hint to Farmers.
Some of our enterprising farmers are
now in a fair way to make fortunes out
of the cultivation of Golden Seal root
since Its price has scared to such high
figure, and the plant takes kindly to do
nestle cultivation.
DR.. Pierce is one to believe that our
native forests abound in an abundance
of most valuable medicinal plants for the
cure of our many distressing and most
fatal plalades, II we would only seek
them out and test them. Furthermore
he believes that the vegetable kingdom
is the one to resort to for the most harm
less remedial agents. They act most kind
1y upon the human system and are elm
mated or carried out of the body by. the
natural functions without injury, even in
cases where 1t is necessary to make pro-
traeted use of them in order to expert
ence permanent cures. DR.. Pierce's med
icines being purely vegetable. are perfect
" harmless In other words, while they
are potent to cure, being purely vegetable
In composition and containing no alcohol,
they leave no bad effects behind This
Is not generally true when mineral med
lcines and those containing large percent
ages of alcohol are taken into the system
and their use protracted over consider
able periods of time.
Many years ago DIR. Pierce discovered
that chemically pure glycerine, of proper
strength, is a better solvent and preserva-
tive of the medicinal principles residing
in our Indigenous, or native, medicinal
plants than is alcohol: and, Furthermore,
that ii possesses intrinsic medicinal prop
critics of its own, being demulcent, nutri-
tive and most efficient anti-ferment.
They Stand Alone.
The fact that neither DR.. Pierces
Golden Medical Discovery, the great stom
ach tonic liver invigorator, heart regula-
tor and blood purifier. nor his "Favorite
Prescription" for weak women, contains
any alcohol entities them to a place all
by themselves. They are neither patent
medicines nor secret ones either. for
every bottle of DIR. Pierce's world-famed
medicines leaving the great laboratory at
Buffalo. N. Y, has printed upon its wrap
per all the ingredients entering into its
composition. This is why so many UNI
prejudiced physicians now prescribe them
and recommend them to- their patients.
They know what they are composed of,
and that the ingredients are those en-
dorsed by the most eminent medical au-
thorities of all schools of practice
All Rights Protected.
The exact working formula for making
DIR. Pieree's medicines without the use of
drop of alcohol and preserving them
unimpaired in any climate for any length
of time. cost DIR. Pierce and his assistant
chemists and pharmacists tedious course
of study and experiments, extending over
several wears. With the use of chemic-