The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-08-29
ON The FARM.
HOW NATURE PROVIDES FOR US.

The most Independent man on earth is
the farmer, for he makes the earth yield
him almost everything needed for life.
lie knows that as he sows so will he
reap He usually keeps strong and
healthy from constant strife with Nature
in sunshine and in pure air. AT night
when work is done, he finds most refresh
ing sleep, such as only a tired man
knows. In the same way that the earth
yields food for man. so does II provide
remedies for human ills. Thousands OF
households throughout the farming dis
trcts of the United States know the
value of DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis
covcry It is Natures most valuable and
health-giving agent-made without the
use Of alcohol. II contains native medi-
cinal roots and is the concentration Of
Natures vitality as found in the Ameri-
can forests. This remedy has a history
which speaks well for IL because IL was
given to the public by DR.. r, V. Pierce,
founder Of the lnvalids' Hotel and Surg
ical Institute, at Buffalo, N. Y, nearly
forty years ago, and has since been sold
by druggists in ever increasing guam
titles.
DR.. Pierce found that the bark OF
the Black Cherry tree, the root Of the
Mandrake, Stone root, Queens root,
Bloodroot and Golden Seal root, made
into scientific, non-alcoholic extract by
the use OF glycerine, made the best altera-
tive and tonic. The refreshing influence
OF this extract is at once apparant in the
recovered strength Of the pationt--the
vital fires Of the body burn brighter and
their increased activity consumes the
tissue rubbish which otherwise may
poison the system. This Alternative and
tonic extract has been found to stand
alone as a safe, invigorating tonic, az II
does not depend on alcohol for false
stimulation, but is Natures otCn method
OF strengthening and cleansing the sys-
TEN. 1t tones up the stomach and purifies
the blood In Natures own wpy. 1t Is well
known all over the world as DR.. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery. The name
was given to this vegetable compound
because one Of the important ingredients
authority as DIR. Roberts Bartholow, Of
Jefferson Medical College, says of Golden
Seal root, every useful as stomachic
tonic. Cures catarrh OF the stomach and
headaches accompanying the same" DR..
Grover Coe, in his book Organic Medi-
cines, speaking OF Golden Seal root, says
that "as q liver inviGorator It has fe,o
Equals" Further he says, "in chronic in
hammation OF the bladder we deem II one
OF the most reliable agents OF cure. As
tonic in the convalescing stages Of fevers,
pneumonia, dysentery and other acute
diseases HydrastIs Golden Seal root) Is
peculiarly appropriate"
DIR. Coe continues: "We would here
add that our experience has demon
started the Hydrastis or Golden Seal root
TO be valuable remedy in bronchitis,
laryngitis, and other affections OF the
respiratory organs"
Prof Hobart A. Hare, M. D., University
OF Pennsylvania, says Of Golden Seal:
"Of service in chronic catarrh OF the
stomach and bowels following abuse of
alcohol, a tonic after maarial fever.
Has a distinct, anti -malarial influence.
Good In all catarrhal conditions, as
uterine catarrh, leucorrhea, etc. Is q
curative agent in chronic dyspepsia
Prof. John NJ. Scudder in Specific Med
tcation says Of Golden Seal: ut stlmu-
lates the digestive processes, and increases
the assimilation Of food. BY these means
the blood Is enriched, and this blood feeds
Ino MUSCULAR system. montlOn the
muscular system because l believe II
first feels the increased power impaired
by the stimulation Of Increased nutri-
ton. The consequent Improvement on
the nervous and glandular systems are
natural results.
"In relation to its general effects on
the system, there Is no medicine IN use
about ,Dhtch there Is such general alna,l-
unity Of opinion. 1t is universally re-
garded as the tonic useful In all de-
states"
DR.. Pierce's Favorite Prescription spe-
cially put up for woman's ills-for those
istressing-dragging down ailments
peculiar to women-is also temperance
remedy that is best known by its cures.
With DIR. Pierce's medicines, their in
gradients are mattess Of public knowledge,
being printed on each separate bottle
wrapper. Thus invalid sufferers are
taken into DR.. Pierce's full confidence.
DIR. Perce's great thousand page illus
trated Common Sense Medical Adviser
will be sent free, paper-bound, for 81 one
cent stamps, or cloth-bound for 81 stamps.
Address DR.. R.V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y.