From the National Laeitigencsr.

THE LIvERWORT.
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Gentlemen You have frequently ser we'd the cause of suffering humanity, by gi- wing circulation to the most important dis coveries made in the healing art. l beg your indulgence to state, for the good of the public that since the winter of 1824-5, have had three violent attacks of an in- fiamation of the liver, each subsequent att tack worse than the former: that have thrice undergone salvation, to- the smani- fest injury of my constitution that soon after the effect of the salvation was wear ing of, had an addition to my afflictions, of the most painful kind, viz. bleeding at the lungs: to check the progress of which the first remedy resorled to, was the or recommended by the immortal Dr. Rush. -I swallowed as much fine salt as my sil- nation would admit of. This generally checked the bleeding for season. also had recourse to blood letting from the arm, to the application of leeches on my breast, and to cupping; all of which I know from experience to be servicable for a time. have also resorted to blistering which afforded me some relief. In short, from the first attack, till recently, I was under the full impression that the breast or lung consumption had taken fast hold upon me, notwithstanding my family physician, Dr. Jones, assured me to the contrary, re- pearedly 70 whose opinion1 now gladly as- sent.

 As soon as saw Dr. Hereford's publi- cation of the beneficial effects produced by the drinking of Liverwort tea, determin- ed to give the Liverwort fair trial in my case, and accordingly procured supply of the herb, which have used near three months, as my only drink, nourisbing li- quids excepted. Since ! commenced drinking the Liverwort tea, have had no return of splitting blood, and my strength has rapidly improved. When l call to mind my former situation,as before descri- bed, under the operation of salvation, ,blis- tering, the use of the lancet and all the ac- companying attendants on facilitated constitution, not the least of which was ibe danger of strangling, from the great quan- tity of blood issuing from the lungs--to re- lieve me from which, thirty leeches have been applied to my breast at one time, and thirty y-nine incisions made on my breast for the use of the cupping instruments-hav- ing experienced all this distress, and more than l can describe, during the past spring and summer, (as often as once month, the distress arising from bleeding at the luHgs) and now to free myself from this alarming visitor, from oil the evils brought into iis