the
"Discovery" alone.

It has been customary to resort to powerful drastic cathartics, followed
by bitters prepared in dilute alcohol. The habit is unscientific, for it
is well known that alcohol deranges the functions of the digestive
organs and depraves the blood, besides creating a morbid appetite. It
has been repeatedly demonstrated that the use of such bitters has led to
a life of drunkenness, with all the woe and untold misery which attend
it.

Medicines to be strictly remedial, should exert a tonic influence upon
all the vital processes. Those organs which are contiguous to the liver,
or connected by sympathy with it, should be assisted in the performance
of their functions. Persons who are habitually subject to "bilious"
attacks are pleased to find that the use of the "Discovery" and
"Pellets" furnishes immunity from such onsets, and prevents their usual
recurrence. Thus these remedies are _preventive_ as well as _curative_.

What we have thus far recommended for the treatment of this chronic
affection is within the reach of every family. Patients laboring under
this disease, when complicated with other affections, require special
consideration and treatment, and all such are counseled to employ only
those physicians whose experience and success entitle them to
confidence. Health is one of the greatest of blessings, and how to
restore it when lost, is a question of vital importance.

Having successfully treated thousands of invalids who have suffered from
this chronic affection, we possess abundant evidence of the curability
of the disease, but we have only space to publish a few letters from
persons who have been under our care, or who have used our medicines,
purchased from druggists.

CONSTIPATION. (COSTIVENESS.)

Health depends very largely upon the regularity of the bowels. There
should be proper alvine evacuations every day. There are few persons who
have not suffered at some period of their lives from constipation of the
bowels. Inattentive to the calls of nature, or a neglect to regularly
attend to this important duty, sooner or later, produces disastrous
results. Furthermore, it is essential to the comfort of every
individual, for, when this function is not performed, there is
derangement of the mental as well as of the bodily organs.

Constipation, or _costiveness_, as it is sometimes termed, is a
functional derangement of the large intestine. This intestine is about
five feet in length,