Year: 1879

reason, until tne stomach Il nnally unlOadeu
Of all its contents, including not only the
whisky, but base, fermented and decomposed
food and dead, foul matter it had previously
accumulated.


This, and This only, was the cause of all the
mischief that produced the above described |
symptoms; and not until the unloading is |
completed and the dormant stomach and tor |
pid liver begin their work of secretions can
he be free Of this, his periodical, mental and |
physical disease. Here again the liver and |
stomach play most important part in life. |
A healthy stomach only will save the periodi-
cal drunkard. 1t is high time this question
was better understood. Further on will tell
you sure preventive. My friends and suffer-
ing humanity, this is vital point for you to
understand, and remember that the cause Of
NEARLY ALL YOUR ILLS
begins at the first stomach. First, obviate
the primary cause by avoiding indiscretions.
Reduce yourself to a systematic mode Of liv-
ing. Do not eat too much, and never hurried
| ly. Never swallow your food until it is thor
oughly masticated. II you are a clergyman,
never eat within an ho n before speaking or
within an hour afte-ward. Digestion ceases
while the brain is very active. And to my
young female friends, let me implore of you,
give your vtals full scope. Avoid tight lac
ing. Throw your corsets, unnatural instru-
ments, to the four winds, or, what is better,
let the women throughout the land join hands
I in cremating them all. Continuous tight lac
! ing is certain suicide. Millions have already
paid the penalty of this crime. Millions more
are continuing to suffer the keenest tortures
of mind and body in consequence of their
use, and vast number are hopelessly beyond
restoration. Stop before it is too late. Send
good blood, healthy huiss, into the system,
and you will soon find your liver works well
enough; also the heart, kidneys, lungs and
the entire system. Again repeat it, the liver
is seldom wrong when the stomach is right
and would add, by way of preface, that no
human being ever had fever who had a
sound, healthy stomach and liver.


These last two diseases come from decom-
posed vegetable matter that vaporizes and
pervades the atmosphere with its poison, and
is taken into the system, but never lodges
there while the various organs perform their
proper functions. So with any other fevers.
So long as there are no distractions, that
disease is impossible. But if, on the contrary.
we find ourselves complaining more or less, we
rush headlong for a remedy-some poison as
an antidote to kill poison. The disease may
be in the form Of biliousness, which is a mild
type of malaria, manufactured in the stomach,
or, if it is fever and age, more violent type
of malaria. We persevere day in and day
out, and, as ! have seen for thirty or forty
years, using some of the so-called drugs here
tofore neutrality-suspicious.. The result is, we


find ourselves saddled with a complexion as
yellow as a saffron bag, and a disease that al
ternates between constipation, diarrhea and
all other troubles before mentioned. In cold
weather we long for the fire in warm weather
a feeling of lassitude. The reasons are, you
have neglected the original cause, the stomach,
and substituted a medicine, poison or a viii
lainous cathartic, to treat all these ills speci-
hcally. So both poisons are fastened in the
system, never to leave you, perhaps, until you
feel the welcome messenger Death, unless you
seize the opportunity offered you in the prin-
ciple am the happy instrument Of presenting
you, which has proven that it will accomplish
what nothing else on earth can. The state
ments and charges have made against the
PRESENT SYSTEM OF ANTIDoTEs


come from one who has felt and known what
it is to be loving father, and have his pets
looking beseechingly and piteously for help,
when there was no help under that system.
i refer to two of my Children daughter and
a son. The daughter had been constant in
valid for over four years with bilious and ma
larial poison in the system; settled into some
FIVE diseases-we were moved to call them
and consequences growing out of long and
continuous suffering and sickness. My son
had the old fashioned vomiting fever and
ague, with the worst case of enlargement of
the spleen ever saw. All the well known
remedies had been applied for each Of them,
especially in my daughters case. Instead of
a cure, she was drifting rapidly away, until all
hope had disappeared of her ever being
well woman again, when, through the kind
ness of DR.. Fairchild, my brother, living in
New Haven, and an uncle, who had each Of
them seen some remarkable cures effected in
their section, she came into possession of
"Holman's Fever and Ague Liver Pad"-
something she or l had never seen or heard
Of before. So soon as found out its claims
threw it down, declared it the greatest hum
bug of the age, and said l would not honor
the inventor enough to put it on. Something
over week from that time she says: "Father,
l have been using the pad, and there is no use
denying the fact, the pad is eficacious. All
these ugly symptoms / have carried for the
last four years have left me-" / said: "Non-
sense Wait a little. Those are conditions,
most likely, which would have occurred at
any hour .....,.


My good wife, who seemed possessed of
better faith and fairness than /, then insisted
that should get Pad for Charlie. After
wearing it one week thought him having a
worse time than ever. He, however, had put
it on, believing most thoroughly it would cure
him. But faith didn't help nor cure the chills.
AT last my wife says, ''Charlie, where are you
wearing itl" He says: "Here," pointing to
his side. Then she adjusted it, so that the top
of the pad touched the bottom Of the breast
bone, pit of the stomach, and that was the
last; for over a year never heard whisper
of complaint from either Of these children.
A neighbor Of mine, who had been an invalid
with ague and biliousness for over fourteen
years, was then induced to try it. After