 PATENT MEDICINES.
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MUM VITA.-As there are many Medicines of a useless and injurious nature already before the pub lic it is difficult the prejudice existing in the minds of intelligent and enlightened individuals against any article introduced through the means of advertisement matter how great it's merits may be. or high the founder may stand m sdical man. Nothing but the interpretation of ogidenee save

 the lives of those per who day after day tamper with the poisonous and deadly compoul ds blazoned forth to the world through the public by ignor. ant who have abandoned some other ealing and assumed the title of doctor without having | ceived the least medical instruction. I know the l difficulty have in persuading the public that ad. vertsing doctor is be regular Physician, but as address my self Ily 10 the respeca ble and ini-

 gent portion of the community, the following tesu monals of my medical attachments will be deeE.ed sufficient to convince the most skeptcal

 1 received the degree of Doctor ofmediclne 1d Su geon in the College of Phyisians and Surgeons | New York-am member of the New York State l Medical Society-Felluw ut the Massachusetts M ed

 ca So,it v, and Lncentlate of the medical Board of the State of Louisnna and for the last eighteen years general practitioner of Medicine.

 1 My compound Extract of Sarsapariila Lverwort, Pleurisy Root and Lisnum Vita is the result of this l long experience and not the medicine of m hours consideration merely gotup for humbug or deception Upon the responsibility of my medical testimonials

 my great medical practitioner and the sal uary and beneficial effects ot my medicine, stand or fall l seek not to deceive the public with an ar ficle of whose component parts they are ignorant- 1 What do the public know of the poisonous and de- struetiye in the various pills and panaeeas advertised throughout the Union The pro prieors of such medicines known too well if the pub. lie were aware, thai out of every pills they have | swallowed, eight ofthem laercmg their trade was at end. have analysed most of the pills and other medicines advertised trou qhOu the I7unn and found them contain, either corrosire s,bli,ot. or Cdiomel. The reason is then obvious why ,he se base impostors will tell the component nars nj their medicines. They pretend that they have dis. covered the philosophers stone, and that vou n,,v live countless medicine. Ipractice no such deception My nedi. cine has stood the test of years--it is recommended by of tlse ruetllcul rcul " ani what is of more impo tance than all Icandidy aud honestly confess that my medicine combination of Sorsa1 | arilla, Liverwort, Pleurisy Root Lirnum Vim and one or two other ingredients The only originality l claim is in my peculiar mode of preparation Ii is true, it has often been the wonder and amaz, nen of my medical brethren the astonishing cures performed in cases that considered not within tbe mower ofmedical aid. The whole mystery consisted in my using this medicine, and this alone to the exclusion of all others, and oi the correct principles upon which diseases ought to be treated It will not however he matter of surprise that such wonder. ful success should follow the use ofthis medicine | when state the principles upon which acted

 The human body cossts of solids and Huids-

 The former or long structure is about one.ffih- The latter soft part five sixtbs. Man is linked to-

 gether by number of organs beautifully arrang. ed as to form perfect chain in the animal economy One link of which when outof order is sufficient to destroy inc harmony of the whole. These orqnns are furnished with innmer rabe blood vessels called arteries and veins, which have a common centre- 1 The heart for propeing through them the blood or nutrve fluid to all parts of the system-be- ing furnished with valves which all m one di- recton, the bloc only flow in a corresponding Thus it is forced by the heart into the arte. res, and after moistenng the minute fbres il is received by the veins and brought again to the heart and performs again the round ofthe body and so on in succession The use of the blood is to receive from the annentary canal the skin, lungs, such mat ters as is necessary for the nourshment of man. and to convey to every part ofhe body for the purpose | of repairing its waste, and increasing it's growth.

 But Ii any effect poisonous foreign matter is car red into the blood several organs provided as the liver, kidneys skin and lungs through whchthis poi son IS discharged from the blood in the form of bile eperspiratonand pufnonaryexhalatiou. Fromthis briel sketch uman siormation the tegentreadercan easily understand, how fever and inflammation is pro- duced by suppression of perspiration for fperspira- tion be rested in consequence of cold the perspra- ble matter will mix with the blood and give rise to inflammation In like manner, ifthe discharge ofbie be arrested in it's flow from the liver il is taken into the circulation and gives rise aundce, yellow fe- yer, &c. All diseases therefore have common origin, not impury of blood for that is only an eff lect) but in the obstruction of one other of those three great outlets common sewers oflhe body the bowels, skin and kidneB

 Reader, did you but kpow how fearfuly and won derfuy you constructed-how beautifullythe Gre tor of the universe has provided for your preserya- ton and existence, independent of your will then n- decd would your admiration of the perfection of his mighty hand work never cease. During sleep when your mental faculties nactive and your soul ap- pears to be in state of repose, then is the wise pro-

 n and fe-s L.o--odee ofthe unthur re niade maifest. The heart continues to pour its vital stream every part of the body-he lungs pc rfor,n their ofhce-respiration is continued and the blood | decarbonized-the skin pours ont from its myriads | of pores the poisonous matter of the blood-diges- ton continues, and the nutrtive particles of our food carried into the blood for the renovation of man. Were all the the hodv tbar .l, control of the will, when we slept the heart would cease to pulsate, death would necessary conse- quence follow-the lungs would cease to perform

 their ofce-suffocation and death be the conseauence precipitation digestion be interrupted, the effects | of which would be perpetual disease.

 l Reader you now know perhaps better than you ever knew before. the vast importance of keeping these organs so necessary to life in healthy state You will also place less reliance on the pretensions l of ignorant and uneducated men, especially when they attempt medde with diseases they know noth- ing of You will likewise appreciate the services of the skilful medical practitioner who has labored for Is years in the study of science through all its mi nutie and who now offers for your benefit the result of his long and arduous abors. ask if you possessed

 watch sf five dollars value and it was out of repair would you take t tinker have it set in order2 No; you would surely carry it to good watchmaler How much difficult then is the putting in order the human body when out of repair. watch may stop, it be going again-if mans machinery once stops, it stops forever. No human power can ever again set Il in motlon

 You may always expect fever and ill-heallh to fol- low the stoppage of any of the tons. live ex cept, says Van Swieon those who perish by violent depth, and such extnguished by old age, al the die of Inflammation caused by suppression O. one o,her of the secreons. Pny describes the te TOT the Romans had this disease, and of their supplca tions in the Temple of Fanum for the removal of all obstrucons to the natural outlets of the body. Sick ness therefore unless or other fthose outlets obstruced, except il be disease depend upon specific contagion such small pox nea sles venerial, &c and these diseases are only cured by increasing tho natural secretions When you labor under disease, matter of what nature, whether ma lignant otherwise, and you take Calomel from a Physician, does he not always ask you your bow els frees precipitation freeis the secretion of urine abundant--or, if you have pain what ask you, are those inquiries, but barely to ascertain the tions are duly performed. Ifthey wellperformed then your doctor is puzzled as to he nature of your disease. Ifthey duly performed, he then e. moveyany obstruction. This is the great ofour profession and thus define reputation when we only assist in restoring the natural secretons The great difficulty in he practice of medicine the proper application of combination of medicaa ar tcles calculated to Instructions, and the same time npon all the secretions. There are many valuable articles In the natera medica that will upon the liver administer ed aone but when combn- ed with others upon the kidneys, they become neutralized. The concentrated extract of Sarsaparil la, Liverwor Pleursy Root and Lignum Vita as pre- pared by me is the only combination yet dis covered that possesses this snesmable quality, which has been testified to by of the medical men in England For fullaccount of the properties of these plants must refer the reader my Prize Essay of 40 pages published in the New England Medical and Surgical Recorder. will enumerate few only of the diseases in which this medicine showed its mrac ulous powers-Consumpion arising from cold, or where hereditary disposition existed, liver com. plant, yellow fever, jaundice, il digestion, torpid or inactive of the bowels palpiiaon of the heart pleursy, scrcfula, mercuria eruptions cutaneous disease arising from any cause secondary or constitu tional effects, arising from the venerial disease such blotches the skin, throat, ulcerated nose .l.-l. .f.l.x. 1