Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 February 1878 — Myths Are Bat Symbols of Truth. [ARTICLE]

Myths Are Bat Symbols of Truth.

As the scholar sees in the vain but beautiful mythologies of the ancients the embodied expressions of the hungry human soul, blindly groping after the infinite, so the physician sees in that popular myth of the sixteenth century —the fountain of perpetual health and youth — an expression of the longings of suffering humanity for a remedy that should forever prevent the incursion of disease. The wilds of Europe were ransacked for this wonderful fountain, and Ponce de Leon sought for it in the cypress-swamps and tangled everglades of our sunny Florida. Men have searched for it everywhere and anywhere, but it really is—in the human body itself. The blood is the real fountain of perpetual health and youth. When this source is corrupted, the painful and sor-row-producing effects are visible in many shapes. The multifarious forms in which it manifests itself would form subjects upon which I might write volumes. But as all the varied forms of disease which depend upon bad blood are cured, or best treated, by such medicines as take up from this fluid and excrete from the system the noxious elements, it is not of practical importance that I should describe each. For instance, medical authors describe about fifty varieties of skin disease, but, as they all require for their cure very similar treatment, it is of no practical utility to know lust what name to apply to a certain form of skin disease, so you know how best to cure it. Then again, I might go on and describe various kinds of scrofulous sores, fever sores, white swellings, enlarged glands, and ulcers of varying appearance ; might describe how virulent poison may show itself in various forms of eruptions, ulcers, sore throat, bony tumors, etc.; but, as all these various-appearing manifestations of bad blood are cured by a uniform means, I deem such a course unnecessary. Thoroughly cleanse the blood, which is the great fountain of life, and good digestion, a fair skin, buoyant spirits, vital strength, and soundness of constitution, will all return to us. For this purpose Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery and Purgative Pellets are pre-emi-nently the articles needed. They are warranted to cure tetter, salt rheum, scald head, St? Anthony’s fire, rose rash or erysipelas, ringworms, pimples, blotches, spots, eruptions, pustules, boils', carbuncles, sore eyes, rough skin, scurf, scrofulous sores and swellings, affections of the skin, throat and bones, ana ulcers of the liver, stomach, kidneys and lungs.