Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 October 1869 — A Defensive Medicine. [ARTICLE]

A Defensive Medicine.

“ In time of peace prepare for war,” la a sound military maxim. ” Let not the sickly season find yon unprepared,” is an equally good rule in medical jurisprudence. The man must he made es iron who finds himself at the close of summer as strong as at its commencement. Such a phenomenon is rare, even among the most rphnst of the human family. Muscular aud constitutional vigor oozes out of ns in tho b sidling wen liter of July and August, and few of us, at the opening of the Fall, are In the best possible condition to defy the nnhealtby influences of the season Fever and ague aud billons remittent fevers, together with a variety of complaints that affect the digestive organs, the liver and the bowels, form a portion of the Autumn programme. Bear in mind that exhaustion invites these disorders, and that stnwjnal vjgorehables the system to. repel them. “ To he weak is to he miserable,” says Satan to his defeated legions, in “ Paradise Lost,” and the axiom is correct, though it comes from an evil source. Ito I then, ye weak and feeble, fortify yourselves against tho-invisibhi tuemytlutt pertadps,. thq Autumoal air. The best defence ngninst miasma is a course of HOSTETTER’S STOMACH BITTERS. This rare vegetable tonic will improve yonr appetite, stimulate your digestion, give firmness to yonr nerves, invigorate yonr muscular fibre, regulate your scenetjoret, .cfipaif tour spir|f«, and pntyour entire.pn/sJcfue iB-riertect working order.- Iris easily done. The standard tonic and alterative which will will reenperate and bnild yon up, is not “ bad to tako,” hut, on the contrary, a pleasant medidne. " ; ; : —- • See, however 1 , -that yon have the genuine article. There are imitations and counterfeits in the market, and they are all worthless or deleterious. Bear in mind that HOSTETTER’S STOMACH BITTERS is sold onjxip-llasa (never by the galtop or cask) and that eathytottle-bears a fabcl-snrßiomitVd hy vignette of St. George and the Dragon, and o revenue stamp over the cork.

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