Magnetism : its internal application for the alleviation and cure of disease.

  • Darlow and Fairfax (Firm)
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    o 0 of nervous disorder may follow, and the overwrought patient speedily sinks, or else finds himself in comparatively early life the victim of a chronic disease, self-induced and destined to render the decline of life not a season of ease and honour, but of irascibility and Suffering. For this class of symptoms we should recommend the Magnetic Tonic Pill. Where the strenuous exertions demanded by commercial or professional life have induced derangement of the digestive system, we also find a series of symptoms entirely distinct, but not less distressing. We have deficient appetite with no relish for food, or a depraved appetite craving for unnatural and indigestible food, nausea, constipation, eructations, flatulence, foul taste, furred tongue, loss of mental power, with nervous complications, toothache, ulcerations of the mouth and other mucous surfaces, offensive breath, bilious headache, vomiting, diarrhoea, colic, liver complaints, and other advanced forms of stomachic derangements. In many of these either the “ Mag¬ netic Tonic Pill,” or the “ Magnetic Antibilious Pill,” would be found specific. Among the constituents of the “ Magnetic Tonic Pill,” we place the precipitated Magnetic Oxide of Iron with an admixture of the best and mildest vegetable tonics. The pre¬ paration is divided into four-grain pills, made in the usual way, and finally magnetized by subjection to the influence of a helix of copper wire, along which an electric current is passing. This pill contains remedies whose value in cases requiring invigo- rators and strengthening tonics is quite famous. The object has been to combine the advantages of every Tonic Pill hitherto sold with one special and signal advantage—the magnetic state. We use Terri Oxidum Nigrum, or Black Oxide of Iron, the peculiar tonic properties of which require no eulogium. Its estimation by medical men, of every school and class of opinion, bespeaks its intrinsic worth. It forms the tonic principle of the cele¬ brated chalybeate springs of Tunbridge Wells and Bath. Either