Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1894 — A Standard Bearer. [ARTICLE]

A Standard Bearer.

In the crusade inaugurated nearly half a century ago against the professional ignorance of the old school of medicine, Hostetter's Stomach Bitters was a standard bearer. Its,victories over disease, when the old-time specifics proved abject failures, proved that the pseudo-philoso-phy which sanctioned the administration of violent remedies where the ebse required none, which laid down as unalterable rules, blood-let-ting, violent purgation, the use of emetics and the employment of corrosive and cumulative poisons in simple cases of liver and malarial complaint, was m fact the worst of unphilosophy, contrary alike to the laws of true medicinal science, of hygiene and of common sense. Biliousness, constipation and chills and fever, as now treated by the Bitters, promptly yield where before they obstinately resisted oldfashioned medication. ’'So dyspepsia, rheumatism and kidney complaint—all surely conquerable by this safo and really philosophic remedy. “Did you enjoy the pink tea?” “Not a bit. It was quite insipid and colorless.”