Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1886 — A Foolish and Stubborn Belief [ARTICLE]

A Foolish and Stubborn Belief

In the efficacy of certain remedies of violent action, is the besetting foible of the ignorant and prejudiced. The indiscriminate use of purgatives is a very common pb ajo of the fatuity of such people. Aloes, podyphillin, disguised in sugar coating, castor oil, mercury, and other old-fashioned drugs, still hold their own among this class; and although the success of Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters sufficiently disproves the necessity for violence in medication, the adherents of an exploded fallacy still persist in giving and taking inordinate purgative doses. Dyspepsia, constipation, liver complaint are as certainly and thoroughly subdued by tho Bitters as they are invariably aggravated by an indiscriminate use of medicines, officinal or proprietary, belonging to the class which we have condemned. Fever and ague, nervou ness, rheumatism and inactivity of the kidneys yield to the Bitters.