Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1887 — Useful and Hurtful Medicines. [ARTICLE]

Useful and Hurtful Medicines.

There is a certain class of remedies for constipation absolutely useless. These are boluses and potions made in great part of podophyllin, aloes, rhubarb, gamboge, and other worthless ingredients. The damage they do to the stomachs of those who use them is incalculable. They evacuate the bowels, it is true, but always do so violently and profusely, and besides, gripe the bowels. Their effect is to weaken both them and the stomach. Better far to use the agreeable and salutary aperient, Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters, the laxative effect of which is never preceded by pain, or accompanied by a convulsive, violent action of the bowels On the contrary, it invigorates those organs, the stomach and the entire system. As a means of curing and preventing malarial fevers, no medicine can compare with it, and it remedies nervous debility, rneumatism, kidney and bladder inactivity, and other inorganic ailments. The grum ler who occasionally finds himself at a loss for something to kick about is advised to purchase a foot-ball.