Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1893 — Pain Self-Inflicted. [ARTICLE]

Pain Self-Inflicted.

This is supposed to be an age of enlightenment. Yet the half-oivilized persistence with which hosts of people keep dosing themselves on small ocoaslon argues a blind credulity characteristic of the dark ages. Constipation has a myriad of alleged curatives, which In a nauseous dose merely evacuate the bowels—this operation being preceded by pain and followed by weakness—the latter an effeot of their oxcessive, violent aotion. Podypbyllln, aloes, gamboge embodied in the form of pills, bluemass, calomel—these are among the violent medioaments for which sty>uld be substituted Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters, the finest, most genial laxative extant, never griping, and resembling in its aotion an effort of nature in her happiest mood. This benign and thorough medicine Is also an antidote to malaria and rheumatism, gives strength to the system, renders digestion perfect, and regulates the kidneys and bladder.