Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1878 — A Debatable Question. [ARTICLE]

A Debatable Question.

While much has been written concerning the use of “ put up” medicines, the question Is still an open one, and demands of the people a careful consideration. The salient points may be briefly stated, and answered as follows: Ist—Are the gick capable of determining their real condition, the nature of their malady, and selecting the proper remedy or means of cure? 3d—Can a physician, no matter how skillful, prepare a universal remedy, adapted to the peculiar ailments of a large class of people, residing In different latitudes, and subject to various climatic Influences? In answer to the first proposition, we would say, diseases are named and known by certain “ signs” or symptoms, and. as the mother does not need a physician to tell her that her child has the whooping-couch, or indicate a remedy, so people when afflicted with many of the symptoms concomitant to “ impure blood,” “torpid liver,” and “ bad digestion,” require no other knowledge of their condition, or the remedy indicated, than they already possess. Second proposition—Many physicians argue that diseases are sectional!)’ Peculiar, and that ttieir treatment must therefore vary, and yet quinine, morphine, podophyllin, ana hundreds of other remedies are prescribed in nit countries to overcome certain condition*. Is it not, therefore, self-evident that a physician whose large experience has made him' familiar with tne manv phases incident to ail impurities of the blood, general and nervous debility, iiivr complaint, dyx) epsia, consumption, anil catarrh, can prepare a series of remedies exactly adapted to meet the conditions manifest, wherever, and by whatever means. It may have been engendered? The family medicines prepared by R. V. Pierce, M. D., of Buffalo, N. Y., fulfill the above requirements. Many physicians prescribe them in their practice. His Golden Medical Discovery has no equal as a blood-pu-rifier and general tonic, while his Favorite Prescription cures those weaknesses peculiar to womeu, after physicians have failed. His Pleasant Purgative Pellets, which are sugarcoated and little larger than mustard seeds, are a safe and certain cure for “ torpid” liver and constipation. If you wish to save money by avoiding doctors and keep or regain your health, buy The People’s Common Bense Medical Adviser, an illustrated work of over 900 pages. It contains Instruction concerning anatomv, physiology, hygiene, and thb treatment of disease. Over one hundred thousand copies already sold. Price (post-paid), $1.50. Address the author, K. V. Pierce, M. D., Buffalo. N. Y. _______