Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1873 — A Talk About Tonics. [ARTICLE]

A Talk About Tonics.

The object of a tonic is to increase the elasticity and strength of the muscular fibre, and to invigorate the general system. As a means of accomplishing these ends, it is expected to improve the appetite and the digestive power of the stomach. These are certainly important considerations ; but to cure dyspepsia, bilious affections, chronic debility, intermittent fever, and other complaints involving derangements of the liver the bowels, the nerves, and the secretive organs generally, something more than a mere tonic is required. Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters may be safely pronounced the best and most wholesome in. vigorant extapt, but the other special medical pioperties winch belong to this remarkable vegetable restorative have as much to do with the wonderful results it produces as its tonic virtues. For example.it has certain alterative qualities which Itlerally change the habit or constitution, re-establishing the healthy functions of the body without causing any undue evacuation by perspiration, vomiting or purging. Its entire effect is to put the whole machinery of life in perfect order, to purify all the fluids, including the blood and the bile, and not only to operate as an antidote to disease, where It exists, butso to strengthen, regulate and otherwise improve the condition of th e system as to render it proof against vicissitudes of temperature, change of water, infected air, and other predisposing causes of liver and' boWel disturbances and epidemic disorders. Hence it is a medicine for all seasons and climes—useful alike to the traveler and the resident in an unhealthy region, and an invaluable safeguard against the physical disturbances which accrue from cold, damp inclement weather, as well as against the mental depression whidUs. apt to overwhelm the weak and nervous at this somewhat gloomy period of the year.