Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1886 — A Foolish and Stubborn Belief [ARTICLE]

A Foolish and Stubborn Belief

In the efficacy of certain remedies of vi-lent action, li the besetting foible of the ignorant)' and prejudiced. The indisoriminata use of purgatives is a very common pl aio of the I»tuity of such people. Aloes, podyphillln, disguised in sugar coating, castor oil. mercury, and other oid-faihlonud drugs, st 11 hold their own among this class; and although the success of Hostetter's t-tOmach Bitt.ra sufficiently disproves the necessity for violence in medication, the adherents of an exploded fallacy*tti!l persist in giving and talcing inordinate purgative sloses. Dyspepsia, constipation, liver complaint are os orrtatnly and.thoroughly subdued ; bjr the Bitters as they are invariably aggravated by an ibdiscrimifiats use of medicines, officinal or proprietary, belonging to the class which wo havs condemned. Fever and ague, nervuu-no.ts, rheumatism and inactivity of the kidneys yield to the Bitters. ■——; ■ a fc