Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-02-26
IN NATURES LABORATORY.

Buried deep in our American
forests, many years ago, DIR. Pierce
found a beautiful, blooming plant.
the root of which possesses won
derfully eficacious 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 salu-
taIy, 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 to
possess medicinal principles 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 i'll
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 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 DR.. Pierce'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 a half pound.
DR.. PIERCE's FAITH.
DR.. Pierce believes that in our ma
tive forests are to be found an
abundance of most valuable me-
dicinal 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 vegetable king
dom is the one to resort to Tor The
most harmless remedial agents
They act most kindly upon the ilu-
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. III
other words, while they are potent
to cure, being purely vegetable in
composition and containing no al
cohol, 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 considera-
Bile periods 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 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 a
most efficient anti-ferment.
THEY STAND ALONE.
The fact that neither DR.. Pierce S
Golden Medical Discovery, the
great stomach tonic, liver invigora-
tor, heart regulator and blood puri-
fer, nor his "Favorite Prescription"
for weak, nervous, overworked ard