Year: 1868

THE SHAPES OF THE CLOUDS AND
The trees do not differ more widely than the
forms of nervous disease. Sometimes bo,b
the mind and body are affected, sometimes
the body only, and often the complaint
is confined to a single member. In one
class of cases the motive nerves alone are
disordered, as in St. Nitus' Dance in an
other class the nerves of sensation only are
attacked, as in neuralgia, tic douloureux.
toothache, earache, &c. Pain is, in fact.
the immediate consequence of disturbed
condition of the nervous system for only
through the delicate fbers Of which IL is
composed can pain be experienced. Ire.
mors hysteria, and most Of the unpleasant
feelings usually included under the head of
nervousness, arise from the weakness of
these sensitive threads which pervade every
part of the animal structure and have their
source in the fountain head of all sensation
the brain. The tonic action of HOSTEL.
TER'S BITTFRS is of vast service in cases
of this kind. Nervous headache, ordinary
faceache, neuralgia pains and every variety
of spasmodic torture, are quickly alleviated
by the use Of the preparation which at once
braces and tranquilizes the nerves. Persons
of Emphatic temperament and feeble or
ganization are especially subject to these
nj iufS and ebnulA 20 ota fha Rittarc Hai1U
as an invigorant. Ladies will derive great
benefit from them 10 all the peculiar physical
and mental disturbances to which, as q sex,
they are subject. AsafGtida, valerain, and
the other nervines usually prescribed for
these affections, at best merely alleviate
them for the time being but the Bitters are
permanent invigorant, and their value as
remedy for every phase of nervousness is
beyond oil estimate.


CONSTITUTIONAL WEAKNESS.


1t is great thing to have a sound and
vigorous constitution. There is nothing that
money can buy comparable in value to thi
best gift of nature. The difference between
the individual who has it and the unfortunate
who has it not, is just the difference between
the man who goes into battle clothed in de-
fensive armor and one who has nothing to
oppose to sword and bullet but his naked
breast. The pestilence that walketh in
darkness, the sickness that destroyeth at
MONDAY" while it lays low the man of fee.
BILE stamina, is often conquered by the native
strength of what is called an "iron constitu.
tiun."


Heaven, however, has not endowed even a
moiety of mankind with this inestimable
blessing, and therefore it behooves those who
have it not, to resort to those most efficient
means Of constitutional invigoration which
science can supply. There is good warrant
for asserting that IIOSTETTER'S BITTERS
are admirably adapted to promote this end.
Other tonics have their drawbacks. The
concentrated extract of poisonous vegetable
substances. which within the last few years
have been introduced into tho practice of
medicine as invigorants, are all extremely
dangerous. Prussic acid and strychnine
though often given as strengthening medi.
eines, are not safe even in the diminutive
doses and quinine disastrously affects the
neves and tho bones. But in H0STETTER'S S
BITTERS there is positively nothing that
is not healthful and wholesome. They con-
tain no ingredient which by any process
could be converted into an active poison, and
yet rs q constitutional stimulant are infinite
ly preferable to any of the sulphates aud
aoetates which have been recently added to
the materia medica.


The GOVERNMENT CoUNTERsIGN.-The coun.
terfeiting of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters is
now u somewhat more serious as we'll as diff.
cult business than it was few years ago,
each bottle of the genuine article being au-
thenticated by the official Endorsement of the
United States Revenue Department. in the
form of a stamp engraved on steel, to coun.
terfeit which is felony. See, therefore,
that this Government Countersign, as we'll as
the engraved label and note of hand Of the
proprietors, is attached to the bottle. The
label is embellished with superb represent
alton of st. George on horseback, in the act
of spearing the Dragon, and underneath is a
shield or escutcheon, bearing a warning in
scription, which counterfeiters are advised to
read before they encounter the penalty which
it sets forth. Below this again is Hostetter
i Smiths note of hand, the signature to
which it would be rather a serious business
to forge. If the public will look to these
veri6cations of the genuineness of the article
oefore they purchase, they cannot be de.
ceiyed. The proprietary label and Govern.
ment stamp are both executed on steel in the
most elaborate style of bank.note engraving
and are probably the most expensive speci.
men of graphic art ever attached to any med
ical preparation.