Year: 1868




and that it is entirely free from the attributes
which create and foster passion for stimu.
lants, and which belong to all the distilled
and termented liquors of commerce. Its al
coholic element is derived from sound rye, a
grain which, according 20 the testimony of
the most distinguished analytical chemists,
yields more wholesome spirit than any
other known substance. But the QUINT-
ESSENCE OF RYE employed in the
manufacture of the Bitters, must not
be confounded with the rye-spirit sold
in the market as Bourbon and Monun-
gahela whiskey. The very best brands of
those liquors procured for hospital use, and
preferred by the medical stats of the army
and navy to any other liquor, are not to be
compared in excellence with the article used
in the concoction of the GREAT STOM-
ACHIC. 1t is subjected in the first instance
to process which deprives it of the pungent
and acrid elements proved by chemical test
to exist in even what are deemed the finest
imported and domestic spirits, and after be-
ing thus purified, is kept on hand long
enough to give it mellowness before being
medicated. The chief virtue of the prepara-
tions is not, however, in its spir;tuous basis,
but in the juices of the tonic, aperient, cor
rective, and anti-bilious vegetable produce SO
largely intermixed with it.


1t is claimed that HOSTETTERS' BIT
TERS' commend themselves to the special
favor of the Temperance Physician as the
only cifusive stimulant which he can pre-
scribe without danger of unduly exciting the
brain of his patient, and of creating the NOR
bid thirst for alcohol which doses of unmed-
icated spirits are so apt to engender.


To argue with the dogmatists who assert
that stimulants ere always unnecessary and
pernicious, would be waste of time. The
most eminent lights of Medical Science have
settled that question, and i: IS not worth
while to have controversy with the rush
light. The leading champions of tempe
rance III the United States, Horace Greeley
among the number, have announced that
they are not in favor of prohibiting the
employment of spirituous liquors as aedi-
cines


So much for the moral claims of the arti-
Gle under the temperance code. The ground
being thus cleared, and it is hoped, to the
of every rational champion of
sobriety, the specific application of the Bit
ters to the prevention and cure of the &" ills
that flesh is heir to" comes next in order.


Persons whose lives are peculiarly senti-
tive are said to be of "bilious habit"
The morbid influences which affect others in
a general way, seem in their cases to operate
directly and mainly upon the hillary or
gan. Many who are thus predisposed to an
overflow of bile are subject to periodical
attacks of biliousness, accompanied by pain
in the right side, langor, pain between the
shoulders, gloomy feelings, and that pecu-
liar tinge of the complexion which indicates
that portion of the bile which should
have passed off throw the bowels has been
misdirected to the venous system, and is
present in the superficial blood-vessels. To
avert these symptoms, and the general dis
order of the internal organs which they
involve, it is advisable for individuals of a
bilious habit to take at least two doses of
HOSTETTER'S BITTERS daily at such
times as they have reason to apprehend an
attack. Indeed, all who have a constitu-
tlonal and temperamental tendency to liver
complaints would do we'll to take a dose of
this admirable ANTI-BILIOUS STOMACH
IL every day. When the great secretiye
gland is seriously disordered, the medicine
usually rescrted to is mercury. which unless
administered with every great caution is
infinitely more dangerous than the disease it
Is intended to subdue. In large majority
OF the cases treated with calomel or blue
pill, the anti-bilious and alternative properties
OF the Bitters would produce the desired ef
feet. And let it be borne in mine that
whereas mercury in every shape is an insidi-
Gus poison, the medicinal ingredients of this
preparation consist exclusively of wholesome
Vegetable extracts, which are diffused through
the system by means of the purest and mild
est of all known stinulants.


Warning to Counterfeite-s and n


Caution 10 Purch asers


No expense win be spared, no legal means
OF Furnishing fraud will be neglected. in the
effort to prevent the counterfeiting of HOS
LETTERS STOMACH BITTERS.


CAUTION.


Not to purchase any article purportinr to
be HOSTETTER'S STOMACH BITTERS
which Is not authenticated by the handsome
government stamp, specially engraved for
the proprietors, and also by their superb
new label with beautiful vignette repre-
sentlng the conflict between Saint George
ana the Dragon at the top, and miniature
note OF hand signed Hostetter & Smith, at
the foot.


n: B.-The Genuine Bitters are sold in
Bottles only. All persons who pretend to
sell the article by the gallon or barrel are
imposters, and the stuff they offer is q
worthless and probably poisonous counter


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