Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1881 — DR. PHILLIP C. BALLOU, OF VERMONT. [ARTICLE]

DR. PHILLIP C. BALLOU, OF VERMONT.

A Letter from this Well-Known Oentleinan, Who is a “ Befular” •( the Old School. [From the Boston Deity Journal, June 7.] We published several letters lately, which have evoked considerable oomment, both from being read in our columns and in our contemporaries who have oopied them. We refer to letters from Burlington, Providence, Springfield and Hartford, on the subject of the wonderful curative powers of a remedy called Kid-ney-Wort, which has been so thoroughly tried as to seem to be ffte long-looked-for medicine. Great good is done bya really first-class article, as tbi« seems to be, and when it is recognized by regular physicians in all parts of the country it is naturally received by the people at large with faith. We append a letter on this subject received by us from a well-known « regular ” physioian from Northern Vermont. It is worth a careful reading : Moskton, Vt, June 1, 1881. Editors Boston Journal: I have always been opposed to the use of patent medicines, as I aid Of the opinion that more harm than good is done by their indiscriminate Use. Seeing that several correspondents have been ringing .the praises of Kid-ney-Wort, and knowing of some remarkable cures performed by it, I feel it but just that the public should know of them, I Was induced to use it In my practice by positive evidence of its virtues, and have done so to a considerable extent for the past two years. One of the first cures was that of Mrs. A , who had suffered for years from an obstinate kidney trouble, complicated with constipation and Uterine difficulty. There was ad inflammatory Condition of the organs which CaUsed much pain and often severe suffering. I had prescribed previously all the remedies Usually emploved in such cases, but without benefit I procured Kiflney-Wort for her, and directed it to lie prepared and taken according to directions. It relieved the pain and suffering almost immediately, and gave a favorable turn to all the symptoms. Her recovery progressed rapidly, and in a comparatively short time I was enabled to pronounce her cured. She has ever sinco been much stronger and healthier than for years before. I could detail a score or more of other cases in which I have used it with the samo marked results, if I had time and space. In the various kidney (roubles it has been a very efficient remedy, far more decided in its effects than Buchu, Uva, Urie, Spirits Nitr6 and the other agents usually employed. Its diuretic properties show themselves in two to four hours; while as a laxative and cathartic it produces the happiest results, relieving the bowels speedily and without disagreeable effects. Its action is prompt and the effect lasting. Being curative and tonic, it restores a condition of health and regular action which other cathartics usually fail to do. This spring I found that through a close attention to my professional duties I had become worn, and was in need of a diuretic and cathar tic myself. I at once took a few doses of Kidney-Wort, and found it operate equally well in my own case. Very sincerely vonrs,

PHILLIP C. BALLOU, M. D.