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          ENERAL  TREATISE
                  ON THE
 NATURE  AND  CAUSE OF DISEASE
          IN THE HUMAN BODY;
               TOGETHER WITH
     PROOFS  OF THE EFFICAC
            VAUGHN'S

VEGETABLE   HTHONTRIPTIO
              MIXTURE,
   AS A GENERAL RESTORER OF THE SYSTEM, AND PURIFIER
               OF THE BLOOD.
        WITH NUMEROUS TESTIMONIALS
     OF  THE MOST  REMARKABLE CURES,
   In Cases of Dropsy, Gravel, Liver Complaint, Scrofnla, Scurvy
     Leprosy, Bleeding1 at the Lungs, Fluor Albns, Piles,
      Putrid Sore Throat, Erysipelas, Consumption, &c.
            BUFFALO:
PUBLISHED AT THE PRINCIPAL AGENCY OFFICE,
          No. 183 Main Street.
       JEWETT, THOMAS & CO.—Printers.
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GENERAL   TREATISE,
          TO ALL AFFLICTED.
  Vaughn's Vegetable  Lithontriptic  Mixture
will completely cure the diseases, a list of which
follow  the remarks here set forth, and the Pro-
prietor most earnestly desires a careful and sober
perusal of the following pages  which  treat on
the complaints.
  A long course of experiments upon the many
and various  diseases which mankind are afflicted
with, has satisfied and  perfectly convinced the
inventor  of  this  singular medicine, that, though
presenting so  many different features, all these
complaints are but the offspring  of  the same
great cause,  and that to strike at the head of this
numerous and complicated  connexion  of  ills,
would  be to eradicate the whole family from the
face of existence.  .
  Fifteen years study of the Vegetable Kingdom,
and the same length of time  devoted to practical
experiments, has at last produced a compound of
strictly vegetable  production, which combines
the Great  Remedy  for all the ills which exist
under so many complexions, to prostrate body
and mind.   There is but one great Disease,
and the whole catalogue of complaints we read
of,  the various characters they appear in, all pro-
ceed from this fountain head.  Vaughn's Vegeta-
ble Lithontriptic strikes at the body  of the  tree,
and the  branches  wither and die; and thus it is
that the Proprietor has the confidence to offer to
cure any complaint which exists.
   Vaughn's Vegetable Lithontriptic Mixture is a
careful compound  of  twenty-two different arti-
cles, and as  it is represented strictly vegetable-
A pleasant,  yet most searching remedy ; and the
first trial will prove  its power; its reputation
having increased in the few years since its intro
duction to a degree hitherto unknown in all med-
ical discoveries; the cures  it has accomplished
astonishing the community.
   With the firm conviction that no other remedy,
so  called, of the present age, is equal to this ; and
 that the theory of " one  Great Disease only"  is
too firmly established to  be overthrown by the
bleeding, blistering, aaiputating,calomel-admin-
 istering, Faculty, who have so long with grave
 looks, Latin prescriptions, and gold headed canes,
 blinded and mystified the world.   The Proprietor
 solicits a trial of his Mixture, willing to stand or
 fall upon its own merits;  well satisfied that  it
 will sustain the reputation it has already acquired.
   Take the mixture for the following complaints,
 and for any  other disease which you may be  affec-
 ted with':—
   Dropsy,  Gravel, Suppression  of the Urine,
 Strictures  of the  Urethra or Rectum, Inflamma-
 tion of  the Bladder and  Kidneys, Inflammation
 cf the Liver and Liver Complaint, Inflammation
 of the Lungs,  Inflammation of  the  Bronchia.
 Inflammatory Rheumatism, Spinal   Complaint.
 Female  Diseases,  Suppressions,  Fluor Albas,
 Scrol'iLi  or King's Evil,  St.  Anthony's  Fire.
Erysipelas, Ulcers, Scurvy,  Leprosy, "Herpes or
Tetter,  Ring Worm,  Barber's  Itch, Itch, Salt
Rheum, Scald Head, Cancer, Fever Sores, Inter-
nal and  External  Tumors,  Venereal  Syphilis,
Rash, Fistula in  Anus, Fisure in  Anus, Influ-
enza, Heartburn, Canker, Cholera Morbus, Indi-
gestion, Neuralgia, Fever and  Ague, or  Chills
and Fever, and all other Fevers, Inflammation of
the Spleen, Catarrh, St. Vitus' Dance, Lumbago.
Worms, Sick Headache, Palpitation and enlarge-
ment of the Heart, Quinsy, Marasmus or wasting
away of the System, Croup, Cough, Consump-
tion, Piles, Jaundice, Gout, Rheumatism, Dispep-
sia, all Mercurial  diseases and  Salivation, Leth-
argy, Hysterics, Painter's Colic, &c.
   For  any other known diseases this article will
be found an  active remedy,  and should be in the
family  of  every  one.  The  Proprietor will not
undertake to say one or twenty  bottles will effect
a cure; he does say, however,  that if  a  trial  is
made,  the first bottle will always manifest itself,
and the sufferings of the patient will find relief;
this is  always the case, and  no  better evidence is
to be offered of its virtues.  In all cases, when
taken and a cure resulting,  do  not immediately
dispense with the use  of the article; the  cost is
nothing, and a bottle or two after the patient is
restored apparently, will only  make " assurance
doubly sure."                    ,
   Read carefully the Pamphlet, preserve it,  or
give it to your friends,  and by so doing you may
be so fortunate as to cause many an eye to glisten
with joy, which  but for your kindness, might
 have been dimmed with the tear of sorrow and
 of mourning.
   Each of the above  diseases  are touched upon
 through the Pamphlet, and every certificate in
 these pages may be relied upon ; the parties  anx-
 ious, personally to spread and  magnify  the vir-
 tues and  healing properties of the Great Ameri-
 can Remedy through  the Land.
        DROPSY  CAN BE CURED.
  For nearly a century past it has been a com-
mon and well received opinion that this terrible
disease, when o#tce  fairly  seated, was  entirely
beyond the reach  of Medicine  and of medical
skill.  Indeed, the numerous cases which appear
in the weekly bills of mortality in  most of our
great cities, would go far to strengthen the opin-
ion.  Of  the  numerous cases  of Dropsy which
have come under the ordinary course of medical
treatment, there is scarcely an instance of a radi-
cal Cure being accomplished after " tapping'' has
had to be resorted to ; so well is this fact authen-
ticated that this painful operation has come to be
resorted to by medical men only as a palliative,
or temporary /ct\f, and not with any hopes of
radically  curing the patient.
   A new era, ha3 however commenced ;—a rem- 
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GENERAL
TREATISE
edy has been discovered, and the Dropsy, hith-
erto ranked among the incurables, can now be
treated  with perfect  confidence  of a  sure  and
favorable result.   The intelligent and  reflecting
person, may  perhaps, smile  at  this  confident
assertion,  and rank it among the impudent asser-
tions of the  thousand charlatanries of the day;
it  may  be held  to be an absurdity to pretend to
have achieved a mastery over a disease which has
so long baffled the research of the most eminent
practitioners  of  the age—still, when the other
great changes in  the remedies, and medical prac-
tice of the day are remembered—when the great
fatality which attended the first treatment  of the
Cholera, and other epidemic  diseases,  and  the
subsequent discoveries and successful treatment
of the same diseases is recollected, it is not to be
wondered that any disease,  hitherto accounted
as incurable,  as the Dropsy has invariably  been,
should  at  length yield  to patient research and
careful investigation.
   It is not, however, on  mere scientific research
and physiological demonstration, that the propri-
etor of the present remedy has depended—it is to
actual  experiment,  carefully  observed during a
long course  of years, that he is  enabled with
confidence to offer  it to the public, with a full
confidence, that  in no case,  however  desperate,
will it fail of affording relief, and  in  most cases
a  permanent  cure may  with  certainty be  relied
upon.   He is aware  of the  prejudices which
sometimes exist against  what are termed Patent
remedies—and this is  heightened by  the fact,
that many of the nostrums of the day acquire a
temporary reputation from a few cures performed
by their aid, which are  industriously circulated
through the  country—while at the same time if
the number  of failures of the same medicine
producing the desired effect were published, pub-
lic confidence in the  all-healing  panacea  would
be most wonderfully abated.
   It is the pride and satisfaction of the inventor
of the Vegetable Lithontriptic, to be  able
to say, that  during a course  of fifteen years, he
has been  in the  habit of administering his rem-
edy, for the  Dropsy, diseases  of the bladder and
urinary organs, that in not a single instance, to
his knowledge, has it ever failed of producing a
radical cure.  Numerous cases have been  under-
taken, where the most eminent medical practi-
tioners had  exhausted their  skill—and the pa-
tients had been  given up to  hopeless  despair-
where  the relatives and friends had been called
in from a distance to pay a last and melancholy
visit—fearful that the patient might expire  pre-
vious to their arrival—and where  by  the  aid of
this potent  remedy health  and  happiness  has
been  restored, and society enriched by the addi-
tion of many years to some  of its most valuable
members. To those who have not been eye-wit-
nesses of the influence  of  this  most  effectual
cure, these relations might seem to border  on the
marvellous—it only remains to adduce testimony
of such a nature as cannot be controverted.   Still
the evidence is to be found from the lips of  any,
f- "vj t***»  wy I** »o unfortunate as to be afflic-
 ►~4 TTtt> tfai* di«*"a.
   In earns of <?r*trfi and  Stone in the bladder,
suppression of the Urine, fyc, the Lithontrip-
tic Mixture has been  eminently successful.—
Thousands of our fellow-citizens have for years
lived  on in hopeless agony—deterred,  perhaps,
from the very nature of the disease, from making
it public :—and this very diffidence has doubtless
had the effect to increase the number and malig-
nancy of cases, to an alarming degree—and these
cases, which in their early stages,  might with
but little trouble have been radically cured,  are
only subdued by long and patient treatment.
  Persons suffering from diseases of the  Urinary
organs, whether the result of misfortune,  or from
early  imprudence,  cannot be  too cautious in at
once applying an effectual remedy.  In  cases of
Suppression of the Urine, where the patient  has
been known to have laid night after night nearly
deprived of his senses from the excruciating pain,
a single dose of the  Lithontriptic has been
known to afford almost instantaneous relief—and
the use of one or two bottles has effected a com-
plete and radical cure.
  Persons afflicted with Gravel must not be dis-
heartened should the effects of the medicine be
apparently not so rapid as in other diseases of  the
kidneys and bladder; although the patient may
expect immediate relief from the  healing  and
beneficial  effect cf  the  medicine,  still,  a long
course of it, and  a  careful   observance of  the
Directions given, will be necessary, in  all  old
standing cases of gravel or stone.
  Strictures in the  Urethra—Diseases of  the
Kidneys—Inflammation of the Bladder—have
also been most successfully treated by the use of
this medicine—in  fact in no cases of this kind
where the Lithontriptic has been used, has it
ever failed of giving solid and  permanent relief.
  To Females, particularly, the Lithontriptic
is an invaluable medicine, and may be used with
perfect safety—in all cases of irregularity of the
Aloises, Fluor Jllbus, or the Wliites—and most
other diseases  of this class—the effects of  the
Lithontriptic have been truly wonderful! and
in many  cases  has  been  the means of firmly
cementing the  happiness of married couples, by
removing all diseases of this nature, and restor-
ing the female  to that fruitfulness,  the  Creator
so beneficently ordained should fall to her lot.
  As  a general purifier of the  system, the Lith-
ontriptic  stands  unrivalled—its effects as a
spring or fall medicine are of the most beneficial
character, expelling all  foul  and acrid  humors,
and leaving  the body in a pure and healthy state.
                  DROPSY.
  In the  whole  class of di-vises coming under
the head of Dropsy, there is a preternatural or
morbid collection, consisting of a serous fluid in
the cellular membrane in the organs, and the cir-
cumscribed cavities of  the  body, impeding or
preventing the functions of life.  This collection
receives different  names, according to  the partic-
ular parts of the body in which it is lodged.
  Hydrocephalus, is a collection of water in
the brain; Hydrothorax, when it is deposited
in the chest;  Hyerocele, when in the scrotum ;
Ascites, when in the abdomen or belly ;  Ascites
ovarii, when in the  ovarium; Hydromethj, 
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5
when in the uterus ;  and Anasarca, when dif-
fused through the cellular membrane.
  In all  the  various stages  of this fearful com-
plaint  as set forth under their different denomi-
nations,  Vaughn's Vegetable Lithontriptic is a
most certain  and infallible  remedy, acting as it
does upon the whole system, leaving not a chance
for  the disease to locate itself in any form ; but
totally eradicating the entire array of symptoms
which in so many characters present themselves
to the  poor patient.  This great restorer  of the
whole physical organization of the human body
is truly magical in its effects, and in every case
of Dropsy a complete trial will be marked by the
most complete success.
             CAUSES OF DROPSY.
  General dropsy arises from a variety of causes,
which concur in producing a debilitated state of
the whole body.  Anasarca succeeds severe haem-
orrhages, (natural or artificial,) fevers, and fluxes ;
and it frequently occurs in the latter stages of
diabetes, pulmonary  consumption, or  obstructed
menses.  Under such circumstances the dropsi-
cal symptoms commence slowly, and,  as it were,
imperceptibly.
  Exposure to cold and damp has frequently been
followed by dropsical swellings.
  General  anasarca arises, in  the next place,
from excess in the use of spirituous liquors.
  Another cause of anasarca is disturbance in
the uterine functions.
  The only other circumstance  requiring atten-
tion in anasarca is, its connection with some of
the febrile eruptions.   It has long been known
that dro]-sv, particularly in the form of anasarca,
occasionally  follows  scarlet fever.  The  same
phenomenon is  sometimes  observed as a sequel
of  measles, small-pox, and erysipelas.
   Anasarca is  closely  connected with  that of
iiydrothorax.  (n  many cases  these  forms  of
dropsical effusion coexist,  and the remedies are
the same for both.
   When this is the case it is retained or reabsor-
bed, and taken into  the circulating  mass.   The
exhalents  then  pour it out in greater quantities
than  the absorbents can take up; consequently
herons or watery effusion and a collection follow,
which we term  dropsy.
   All know that a dimunition  of urine is  the
characteristic symptom of  dropsy, and  that diu-
retics or  medicines  which stimulate the kidneys
to  a  healthy action, or cause them to secrete or
separate the urine from the blood, immediately
relieve or cure the disease.
        DIFFERENT FORMS OF DROPSY.
  Anasarca, or cellular dropsy,  is one of the
most common forms of this disease.  It usually
commences  in  the lower extremities, and  first
shows  itself with a  swelling of  the  feet and
ankles towards evening, which by degrees ascends
and successively occupies the thighs and  trunk of
the body.   The  swelling  is soft  and  inelastic,
retaining for a  time the pressure  of the finger;
the color of the skin is paler than usual,'and, in
the more advanced stages of the  disorder,  now
and then exhibits more or less of a livid hue.—
When the effusion has become very general, the
cellular membrane of the rungs  partakes of the
affection, the breathing becomes difficult, and is
accompanied by frequent coughing and the expec-
toration of a watery fluid.  The urine is scanty m
quantity, very high colored, and generally depos-
ites a reddish or pink-Hke sediment, although in
a few instances  it  is of a pale whey color.  These
symptoms are accompanied by insatiable thirst,
dryness of the skin,  and costiveness ; the coun-
tenance becomes sallow ; and there is a sluggish-
ness and inactivity, together with.a slow fever.—
When  the  cellular membrane of the legs and
ankles is greatly distended, the water is apt to
ooze through the pores of the skin, or raise it up
in small blisters.   The pulse is usually small and
feeble.
   In administering Vaughn's  Vegetable Lithon-
triptic  for  Anasarca  or Dropsy  of the Skin,  a
change in the character of the complaint will be
manifested immediately—the first bottle will give
relief.  The  patient  will find  every symptom of
a speedy cure;  the difficulty  of  breathing, the
loss of sleep, the  dryness of the skin, will disap-
pear, and the morbid  action  of  the system will
give way under the influence of this great Amer-
ican Remedy, and a healthy tone will follow.
   Hydrothorax, or  Dropsy of the  Chest,  is
another form of the disease frequently met with ;
the  causes  which give  rise  to  this disease are
much  the  same  as  those  which produce other
species of Dropsy.  Dropsy of the Chest often
comes  on with a sense of uneasiness at the low-
er end of the sternum  or breast-bone,  accompa-
nied by a difficulty of breathing,  which is much
increased by exertion or motion, and  is  always
most considerable during night, when the body is
in, a horizontal posture.  With  these symptoms
there is a cough that is at first  dry, but  which
after a time is attended with an expectoration of
thin mucus.  There \s likewise a paleness of the
complexion, and  an anasarcous swelling  of the
 feet and legs,  together with a considerable de-
gree of thirst and a diminished flow  of urine;
 occasionally the face swells and pits upon pres-
 sure, especially in the  morning; and these signs
 of the disease  are accompanied  by  debility and
 loss of flesh.   Under these appearances we have
 just ground  to suspect that  there is a collection
 of water  in the chest.  The symptoms which
 have been described gradually increase, but their
 progress is slow, and  a considerable time elapses
 before the disorder is fully formed.
   The difficulty  of breathing  at  length becomes
 excessive ; the patient  can  seldom remain in a
 recumbent posture for any length  of time, and
 the head and upper part of the trunk must be sup-
 ported almost erect.   The  sleep  is  frequently
 interrupted  on a sudden by alarming dreams, out
 of which  the patient quickly  starts  up in bed,
 with a sense of impending suffocation.  Convul-
 sive efforts of  the muscles subservient to respira-
 tion, resembling an  attack of spasmodic asthma,
 with violent palpitations  of  the heart, generally
 accompany the paroxysms, which are also fre-
 quently excited  by  the most trifling  voluntary
 motion, or by  a fit of coughing.
   When afflicted with these distressing symptoms 
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GENERAL TREATISE.
(he patient is trader the necessity  of continuing
erect, with his mouth open, and he betrays the
utmost anxiety for  fresh air.  His face and ex-
tremities are cold ; the pulse, with little excep-
tion,  is  feeble,  irregular,  and intermits  in  n
dagree seldom  experienced in  other disorders:
and a pain  or sensation of numbness frequently
extends itself from the heart toward the inser-
tion of the deltoid muscle of one or both arms.—
Excepting a livid hue of the lips and cheeks, the
countenance is pale, and indicates a peculiar anx-
iety and ghastliness of appearance,  and, together
with the upper parts of the body, is usually cov-
ered with a profuse clammy sweat.  Drowsiness,
coma, or delirium, occasioned by the difficult
transmission of the blood through  the lungs, and
want of sleep, frequently attend the latter periods
of hydrothorax,  and from  the  same cause the
expectoration  is  sometimes  bloody.  Now and
then a sensation of water  floating  about  can  be
distinctly perceived by the  patient  on any sudden
change of posture.  The urine is generally scanty
and very high colored,  like brandy  or  beer.—
There is a sense of tightness or stricture across
the chest.
   Palpitation of the heart,  irregularity and  inter-
mission of the pulse, may be regarded  as among
the most frequent attendants on hydrothorax.—
But these symptoms are much varied in different
cases ; and we know that in some instances they
are not present.
   The patient sometimes observes that he has a
sensation as if water were contained in the  chest,
passing from one side to the other in turning, or
as if the heart were moving in a fluid.
   The natural  functions are variously disordered
in the progress of hydrothorax ; the appetite and
digestion are sometimes  impaired ; the tongue
foul and furred; and the bowels are various,  but
generally bound.  The pressure of the water on
the oesophagus has sometimes  occasioned  a dis-
tressing difficulty of swallowing.
   Vaughn's Vegetable  Lithontriptic for Dropsy
of the chest, will be found  as effectual as in other
stages of this distressing  malady.   A  particular
attention to the directions on the bottle, the bow-
els always to be kept free, and a  strict attention
given to the administration of the Remedy, will
restore the victim of this complaint to a state of
 health.
   Ascites, or  Dropsy of the belly,  is another
 common form  of the disease.   This  variety of
 Dropsy, is often preceded by loss of appetite,
 sluggishness, dryness  of the skin, oppression at
 the chest, cough, diminution of the natural  dis-
 charge of  urine, and  costiveness.  Shortly after
 the appearance  of these symptoms an  enlarge-
 ment in the abdomen is perceived, which extends
 gradually, and  keeps  on  increasing  unt'l  the
 whole belly  becomes at length uniformly swelled
 and  tense.   The distention  varies according to
 the posture of the body,  the weight  being  felt
 the most on that side on  which the patient lies;
 while at the same time  the distention  becomes
 somewhat less on the opposite side.  As the col-
 lection of water increases, the difficulty of breath-
 ing  is much increased ; the countenance  exhib-
 its a pale and  bloated appearance; immoderate
thirst; the skin  is  dry and  parched; and th«
urine is  very scanty, thick, high  colored, and
deposites a sediment.  With respect to the pulse,
it  is variable,  being  sometimes  considerably
quickened, and at other  times slower  than  natu-
ral.  The principal difficulty which  prevails  in
ascites is, the being able to distinguish with cer-
tainty when the water  is  in  the cavity of the
abdomen, or  when it is in the different states  of
encysted  dropsy, or when the water is contained
in small  bags or cysfs.   When  the water  is  in
separate cysts, the bowels  feel heavier, and it  is
very difficult  to carry it off by promoting a dis-
charge of urine.
  The other  forms of Dropsy are known by the
particular locations of the body  in which they
occur, and are of rare occurrence, except Hydro-
cephalus,  or dropsy  in  the head,  which  is
chiefly confined to children.
  In Ascites, or Dropsy of the belly, this truly
great Remedy has had most marked success. No
medicine ever invented  has worked so  many
cures as  this article,  and  although  seemed  so
peculiarly adapted to all stages of Dropsy, it  is
nevertheless as wonderful  in its curative proper-
ties  for the other complaints set  forth in this lit-
tle work.  Let no one  despair of a cure tor any
stage of Dropsy, for  Vaughn's Vegetable Lithon-
triptic will, if resorted to  and followed up by a
perfect trial,  give health and  vigor to  the human
frame.                 ■*'
          GRAVEL  AND  STONE.
  Gravel.—By the term Gravel we understand
a collection of sand or small particles  of  stone
collected in  some  part of the body, in the kid-
neys, ureters, or the bladder.
  There is no  doubt  contained in our food and
drink the agents  which form  the gravel and
stone.   There is a sufficient  quantity  of  sand,
either in its  native state, or combined with other
substances, to  produce or form calculous  affec-
tions.   When the  system is healthy these ingre-
dients are carried  off by the proper secretions ol
the system: but,  when there is debility of any
organ, especially the'kidneys, they become inca-
pable of expelling such  sandy concretions, and
consequently, they lodge in the kidneys, uterus,
or bladder.   In general, these  minute portions of
gravel pass off'without occasioning much disturb-
ance or disease : but, if there be an excess of uric
or any other acid,  a chemical  union takes  place,
and  these particles of stone are  united or  com-
bined together, and there is a constant opposi-
tion, until they become considerably enlarged, or
a stone  is formed.   This stone (or stones) may be
deposited in  the kidneys or  uterus, and give rise
to inflammation of these organs;  or it may pass
down into the bladder,  and,  if not discharged,
constitute all the symptoms of stone.
   There is usually a frequent and  almost irresist-
 able desire of voiding the urine.   There is often
 a sense of weight or  dull pain in the back, and
! an occasional  irritation  about the neck of  the
 bladder, which now and then extends along  the
 urethra.
   A fit of the gravel is attended with a fixed pain
 in the  loins, numbness of  the thigh  on the side 
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affected,  nausea and  vomiting,  and not unfre-
quently with a slight suppression of urine.  As
the irritating matter removes from the kidney
down  into  the  ureter,  it  sometimes  produces
such acute pain as to occasion faintings and con-
vulsive fits.   The symptoms often resemble those
of inflammation of the kidneys; but the disposi-
tion of reddish brown sand, or very fine powder
of the  same color, in the urine, on becoming old,
will demonstrate the difference.
   The singular properties contained in Vaughn'3
Vegetable Lithontriptic have  manifested  them-
selves  in the cure of the Gravel, Inflammation in
the Bladder, &c, but so complicated is this class
of diseases that though one bottle may give relief
in many  cases, it is to be hoped  if the  suffering
victim is disappointed in one trial, he  will still
continue to use the medicine, as a  relief is cer-
tainly  to be gained.  The various cases which
the proprietor has  attended to,  and the result
which has followed, has satisfied him of its vir-
tues in these complaints.
  Stone.—The  symptoms  of a  stone  in the
bladder are, a sort of  itching  along  the  penis,
particularly at the extremity of the glands ; and
hence the patient often acquires the habit of pull-
ing the prepuce, which becomes very much elon-
gated; frequent  propensities to make water and
go to stool; great pain in voiding  the urine, and
difficulty of retaining it, and often of keeping the
feces from being discharged at the same time:
the stream of urine is liable  to  stop suddenly
while  flowing in  a  full current,  although the
bladder is' not empty, so  that the fluid  is ex-
pelled, as  it  were, by  fits: the pain is greatest
toward the end of, and just after, the evacuation ;
there is a dull pain about the neck  of the bladder,
together with a sense  of  weight  or pressure  at
the lower  part of the pelvis; and a large quan-
tity of mucus is mixed with the urine; some-
times the latter  is tinged  with blood, especially
after exercise.
   The Great  American Remedy acts as a dissol-
vent of the Stone in the Bladder, and by its pow-
erful  action upon  the  Kidneys restores the dor-
mant functions  to a healthy tone, and by a suffi-
cient trial  and carefully following directions upon
the bottle, relief follows.
SUPPRESSION AND RETENTION OF URINE.
  Suppression  and Rf.tention of Urine.—
From different causes the  Urine is liable to be
suppressed,  either  partially or  wholly,  causing
great distress.  It may proceed from gravel, inflam-
mation of the bladder, prostrate gland, urethra,
cold, &c.   There is swelling, pain, and Inflam-
mation of the bladder,  with great difficulty of
voiding urine, or a complete suppression.
  In suppression of the urine this  Remedy  will
be found a  singular and powerful medicine;  the
inflammation which is an accompaniment of all
diseases of this nature will be removed and relief
will follow.  Always attend to the directions and
let  the bowels be kept open in this and all other
diseases set forth, for which this Lithontriptic is
a remedy.
     STRICTURES IN THE URETHRA.
  Strictures in the Urethra.—From vari-
ous causes  the urethra, or  canal that leads  the
water from  the bladder, becomes inflamed, which
partially or wholly obstructs the flow of the water.
The water  may likewise be obstructed by a spas-
modic action of the canal.   It is generally caused
by the venereal disease, and cold.

INFLAMMATION OF THE KIDNEYS  AND
                 BLADDER.
   Inflammation  of the Kidneys.—Inflam-
mation of the kidneys is known by fever, pain in
the region  of the kidneys, and shooting along the
course  of  the ureter;  drawing up of the testi-
cles, numbness  of  the thigh, vomiting, urine
high colored and frequently discharged, costive-
ness, and colic pains.   It is symptomatic of  cal-
culus, gout, &c.
   The causes which  produce this complaint are
external  contusions,  strains of the back, acids
conveyed to the  kidneys in  the course of the cir-
culation, violent and severe exercise  either in
riding or walking,  calculous concretions lodged
in the kidneys or ureters, and exposure to cold.
In some habits there is an evident predisposition
to this complaint, particularly the gouty, and in
these there are often translations of the matter to
the kidneys.
   The disorder is characterized by an  acute,
pungent,  or  more frequently an  obtuse  or  dull
pain in the region of the kidneys shooting along
the course of the ureters, or ducts which convey
the urine from thence into the bladder ;  pain also
 in the small of the  back, together with a fever,
and frequent discharge of  urine, which is small
 in quantity,  red, and high colored,  yet,  in the
 highest degree of the disease, watery and limpid ;
 the thigh  feels benumbed,  and there is a pain in
 the groin  and testicles of the same side, together
 with a retraction.  There are, moreover, contin-
 ual eructations, with bilious vomitings, debility,
 Sec.
   This  disease sometimes  assumes  a chronic
 form, known by heat, pain, etc. over the loins.
    The healing  properties of Vaughn'3 Vegetable
 Lithontriptic is most manifest in all diseases of
 Kidneys and Bladder; as a searcher of the whole
 system, a  purifier of the blood, a restorer of the
 wasted  vitality of nature, not a medicine in the
 world  is  its superior,  and for  the complicated
 diseases of the  kind  here treated upon, there is
 nothing like it  known.
  Inflammation  of  the  Bladder.—This
disease is characterized by pain in the region  of
the bladder, attended  with fever and hard pulse,
frequent painful discharges of urine, with sup-
pression and general tenesmus.
  It is occasioned by an  improper use  of acid
medicines, inflammation extending along the uri-
nary channel, permanent or spasmodic stricture,
local irritation  from  the  lodgment  of a stone,
hardened fceces, or a diseased  state of the pros-
trate gland, and mechanical injury, as well as by
all the usual causes of inflammation.
  Where  this  disease exists,  an acute burning
pain and some degree  of tension at the bottom of 
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GENERAL TREATISE.
the belly, with a constant desire to make water,
a difficulty in voiding it, or total stoppage, a fre-
quent inclination to go to stool, much uneasiness
and heat, a general febrile disposition, a frequent
and hard pulse, sickness and  vomiting, not unfre-
quently attend.
  It sometimes becomes  chronic,  and is  very
afflicting. There is a  frequent desire to urinate,
and a discharge of mucus or  blood.
  By  administering  the Great American Remedy
in all cases where fever is one of  the attending
symptoms, its virtues is most apparent.  It will
break the worst cases  of fever in  24  hours, and
when the patient has  suffered  from thirst  for
weeks, which no fluid  would  seem to allay, or
medicine reach, so  great was the  inflammation,
this Remedy would give ease, and quiet the worst
symptoms in a few hours.  In Inflammation of
the Bladder, Vaughn's Vegetable Lithontriptic
is a truly wonderful medicine.
RETENTION AND SUPPRESSION OF THE
                  MENSES.
  Retention of  the Menses.—The  remote
cause of this complaint is most frequently sup-
pressed perspiration; and it may arise, in part,
from an inactive  and  sedentary life, and such
habits  as  are  peculier to the higher classes of
society, particularly in cities and towns.  The
proximate cause of it seems to be a want of pow-
er in the system, arising from inability to  propel
the blood into the uterine vessels with sufficient
force to open their  extremities and allow a dis-
charge of blood from them.
  Heaviness, listlessness to motion, fatigue on the
least exercise, palpitations at the heart, pains in
the back, loins and hips, flatulence, acidities in
the stomach and bowels, costiveness, a preter-
natural appetite for chalk, lime, and various other
absorbents, together with many dispeptic symp-
toms.  As it  advances in its progress the  face
becomes pale, and afterward assumes a yellowish
hue, even  verging upon green,  whence  it has
been  called green sickness;  the lips lose their
rosy color:  the eyes are encircled with  a livid
;:reola : the whole body has an unhealthy appear-
ance, with every indication of a want of  power
and energy in the constitution ; the feet are affec-
ted with swellings; the  breathing is much hur-
ried by any great exertion of the body ; the pulse
is quick, but small ; and the person is liable to  a
cough, and to many of  the symptoms of hysteria.
Sometimes a great quantity of pale urine  is dis-
charged  in the  morning, and not unfrequently
hectic fever attends.  In cases of a more chronic
character, there is a continued,  though variable,
state of sallowness, yellowness, darkness,  or  a
wan, squalid, or sordid  paleness of complexion,
or a ring of darkness surrounding the eyes, and
extending perhaps a little towards the temples
and cheeks.
   This precursor  of so  many fatal diseases, the
Suppression of the Menses,  is a  truly  terrific
complaint—that great  agent of Death, Consump-
tion, is sure to mark one half  of the females who
suffer from it; and Dropsy in  its various forms
 sweeps off the  other  half.   Vaughn's Vegetable
 Lithontriptic is a cure for this complaint, do not
neglect  for a moment  to  procure it,  and save
yourself from a train of maladies which fasten
upon the victim of Suppression of the Menses.
  Suppression  of the Menses.—In this dis-
ease there is a partial  or total obstruction  of the
menses in women from  other causes than  preg-
nancy and old age.  The menses should be regu-
lar as to the quantity and quality; that  this dis-
charge should observe  the  monthly  period,  is
essential to health.  When it is obstructed, na^
ture makes her efforts to obtain  for it some  other
outlet; if these  efforts of  nature fail, the conse-
quence may be,  fever, pulmonic diseases,  spas-
modic affections, hysteria, epilepsy, mania, apo-
plexy, green sickness, according to the general
habit  and disposition of the patient.  Any inter-
ruption  occurring after the menses have  once
been established in their regular course, except
when occasioned by conception, is always to be
considered as a case of suppression.   A constric-
tion of the  extreme vessels, arising from  acci-
dental events, such as cold, anxiety of mind, fear,
inactivity of body, the frequent  uses of acids and
other  sedatives, &c, is the cause which evidently
produces a suppression of the menses.  In  some
few cases it appears as a symptom of other disea^
ses, and  particularly  of general debility in the
system showing a want of due action of the ves-
sels.  When the menses  have  been suppressed
for any considerable length of time, it not unfre-
quently  happens that the  blood which should
have passed off by the uterus, being determined
more  copiously and forcibly to other parts,  gives
rise to haemorrhages;  hence it is frequently pour-
ed out from  the nose,  stomach,  lungs, and  other
parts, in such cases.  At  first,  however, febrile
or inflammatory symptoms appear, the pulse is
hard and frequent, the  skin hot, and there is a
severe pain in the head, back and loins.  Besides
the patient  is likewise  much troubled with cos-
tiveness, colic pains, and dyspeptic  and hysteric
symptoms.
  Vaughn's Vegetable Lithontriptic in all female
complaints should be strictly administered and
the bowels kept open, the medicine followed up
with proper attention will, never fail to  effect a
cure
       WHITES,  OR FLUOR ALBUS.
  Whites, or  Fluor Albus.—Debility is one
cause of this complaint, injury done the parts by
difficult and tedious labors, frequent miscarriages,
immoderate flowing of  the  menses,  excessive
evacuations, and a sedentary  life.   Delicate wo-
men are very subject to this disease-
  The disease shows itself from an irregular dis-
charge of a fluid  from  the  uterus and  vagina
which, in different women, varies much in color,
being of a white, green, yellow, or brown hue.—
In the beginning it is,  however,  most  usually
white and  pellucid, and in the progress of the
complaint acquires the various discolorations, and
different degrees of acrimony; whence proceeds
a slight smarting in making water.  Besides the
discharge,  the patient is  frequently afflicted with
severe and- constant pains in the back and loins,
loss of strength, failure of appetite, pain in the 
GENERAL TREATISE.
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 stomach i dejection of spirits, paleness of the
 countenance, chilliness and languor.   The  sleep
 is disturbed by  fearful dreams,  and affords but
 little refreshment.  The  woman becomes pale
 and emaciated, her eyes are dull, and a flashing
•of the face is alternated by a ghastly paleness.—
 In process of time the feet and ankles swell, pal-
 pitations and a difficulty of respiration are expe-
 rienced ;  the mind is dejected, apprehensive, and
 occasionally affected with melancholy.  Very fre-
 quently the functions  of  generation are greatly
 injured, and barrenness is often the consequence.
 Hysterics also,  in  a greater  or  less degree,  are
 generally attendant on this complaint; the  urine
 is turbid, and the menstrual discharge sometimes
 ■scanty, and even suppressed ; at other times it is
 too copious, irregular, or attended with much pain.
   Vaughn's Vegetable  Lithontriptic must  be
 resorted  to by all debilitated females ; its charac-
 ter is  such  that it cannot fail to bring relief; its
 vegetable properties act as  an alterative to  the
 whole system, purifying the blood, giving strength
 and tone 'to the  digestive organs,  bringing  the
 stomach to its natural healthy state ; the bowels
 always-to'be freely acted upon in the mean time.
    In conclusion, we would say to  all  who  are
 •suffering under any of the complaints set. forth in
 .these pages, that if you resort at once to  Vaughn's
 Vegetable  Lithontriptic, you will act with wis-
 rdom.  It is offered to purify the blood,  and then
 ithe whole  human form  will  glow  with health
 and the  mind with happiness.   Do  not fail then
 to try this  Remedy, take it as  the directions  tell
 you, and use the remedy for the bowels that they
 may be tree, and all will be well.
    INFLAMMATION OF THE LUNGS.
  A dull pain is felt internally along the breast
■eone,  between the  shoulders,  augmented on
breathing, loss of  sleep, and want of appetite;
a yellowish  scurf  overspreads  the tongue, the
veins in the neck are also dilated ; the face infla-
ted, while  a  dark red discoloration prevails
about the eyes and cheeks.
  This complaint should be attended to in sea-
son, and the great success which Vaughn's Vege-
table Lithontriptic has had in its complete  cure,
induces the Proprietor to, offer it with unbounded
confidence.   It is truly  a great medicine, and it
acts with the same result on diseases which are
of  an opposite character, yet its efficacy is not to
be  doubted ; it has been tried too often.  Never
be  without  a bottle  of Lithontriptic in  your
family.             ______

  Inflammation  of  the  Liver.—A  slight
chill, pain in the right side, which  rises to the
shoulder; on pressing the ribs  on the right side
you will feel the pain more severe; pain about
the collar-bone, uneasy sensations on lying on the
left side, difficult respiration on breathing; dry
hacking cough;  costiveness, urine scanty, skin
hot and dry.   Chronic Affection of the Liver is
very common in the  United States:  imprudent
use of Spirituous Liquors, and Intermittent Fevers,
are also a cause.
  The Lithontriptic Mixture is a sure remedy-
taken according to the directions on the bottle.
Do  not value  a dollar more than your health.—
Keep the article in the house.

  Inflammation of the Bronchia, or Bron-
chitis—is characterised by a troublesome cough
attended with  a copious expectoration of a viscid,.
purulent, or a whitish frothy matter ; uneasv and
somewhat oppressed respiration, accompanied at
times with wheezing, more or  less; weight and
uneasiness at the  pit of  the Stomach ; loss of
appetite, a slightly furred tongue;  irregular ac-
tion of the bowels, quick pulse, &c. &c.
  This disease often arises from  neglected ca-
tarrh, and also from hooping-cough.
  Take of the Lithontriptic Mixture, the usual
quantity—the  directions  will give you the infor-
mation, and a  cure will result.
  Fevers of all kinds can be broken by the mix-
ture, in a very few  days,  and the  blood  will
undergo a most healthy  change in a very short
time.   Its purifying properties are manifested in
a day or two after commencing its use.
  Influenza—A  species  of  Catarrh—To
which this term has been applied1—this disease
is  not dangerous  when  attended  to  at  an
early  period, but  when connected with highly
inflammatory symptoms, and these are not coun-
teracted at the commencement oy the use of the-
Lithontriptic Mixture, unfavorable consequences
may result.  A tendency to Consumption is often
the result of this complaint—it therefore should
be carefully watched at its commencement.
  Rheumatism—Chronic,  Acute  and  In-
flammatory.—The causes  of this disease are
an obstructed perspiration ; use of strong liquors ;
sudden  changes of  weather; transitions  from
heat to  cold.  The  pain wanders  from one part
to another, fixing itself by turns in  the  head,
shoulders, knees, wrists, fingers, hips, loins, &c.
Some are never entirely free from pain.
  The Lithontriptic Mixture in all these varied
cases of Rheumatism, has  been taken with  sin-
gular success.  A restoration of the blood to a
healthy state seems  to be the only help for this
painful malady.
  Mercurial Rheumatism.—This  disease is
somewhat similar to the Chronic, but more pain-
ful and difficult to remove.  It proceeds from the
use of the universal  panacea now given, called
Mercury.  At every change of the weather, the
person feels most intolerable pains; his system
is a complete thermometer by which he is always
able to designate the  variations of the weather.
The treatment of  this disease is  similar to the
Chronic Rheumatism,  and the Lithontriptic  must
at once be resorted to, and continued until every
vestige of the poisonous Mercury is driven from
the System.   How many constitutions are  com-
pletely destroyed by  the use of  this miserlble
substitute for a  remedy.   Hereditary  diseases
engendered—children born to be puny, miserable
objects while living—and sure to come to an early 
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GENERAL TREATISE.
grave ! all by the short sightedness and ignorance
of a class under  the name of the  Medical Fac-
ulty, who persist  in  the administration of so
poisonous, a medicine, when they well know, in
the vegetable  world are remedies without num-
ber, which possess all the properties necessary; to
take the place of this article as a curative agent,
without a particle of its deadly poisonous quali-
ties.    Vaughn's  Vegetable Lithontriptic  will
drive the  whole  disease and  Mercurial effects
away.______

  Fever  and Ague.—This  disease makes its
visits in  the "Fall  season of the year, and those
who live on  the rivers or low lands,  are more
than  others,  subject to its  ravages.  There are
three stages of this disease, which are in sub-
stance the same thing.
  The first is that which comes on every twenty-
four hours; the  second, that  which  comes  on
every forty hours;  and  the  third comes on every
forty-eight hours.   A further description of this
fever,  so well known where it exists, is  not ne-
cessary in this work.  The Lithontriptic Mixture
is now the best remedy in the'world, and is taken
in large quantities by the Western residents.
  Inflammation  of Spleen.—This disease
much resembles Inflammation of  the Liver, but
the pain is on  the left side.  It is characterised
by fever, heat,  tumors, and pain in the left side,
increased by  pressure.  The  disease comes  on
with  a  remarkable shivering,  succeeded  by  a
most intense heat and  very great thirst.   It often
follows the Ague and is called the " Ague cake"
though this term is often, applied  to a  scirrhous
tumor of the Liver, succeeding intermittents.
  To subdue the inflammation, the Lithontriptic
is to be given in doses of the usual quantity, as
the directions indicate, and the result will be a
cure in a week  or ten days.
  The  Asthma.—A  disease  of  the  Lungs,
which seldom admits of a cure.   Persons in the
decline of life are most liable to it.  It is distin-
guished with the moist and dry, or humeral and
nervous.   The former is attended with expecto-
ration, or spitting, but in  the  latter  the patient
seldom spits, unless sometimes  a  little tough
phlegm by the  mere force of coughing.   This
disease proceeds often the striking  in  of  erup-
tions, obstructions of the Menses, neglect of the
customary evacuations,  &c. &c.
  The first symptoms of Asthma should be atten-
ded to.  The disease is removed by the Lithon-
triptic Mixture.    ______

  Catarrh, or Colds—so common in all coun-
tries that much need not be said respecting them,
further than to remark that  early attention will
frequently  prevent  their  laying the foundation
for other complains, whicn may  in the end bring
on that fell destroyer Consumption.
  Tho' the latter disease can be readied through
 I he  blood,  the purifying of which will destroy
tH$  tubercles  which form upon the Lungs, yet
it were well to check all momentary symptoms
such as Catarrh, &c, by an early attention to the
Lithontriptic  Mixture,   A  week  or  two  will
remove the worst case oi cold,  &c.  by the mild
daily duse-s of this Medicine.
  Strictures  of the Rectum.—This painfiL
complaint is  often caused by Piles, and is often%
complicated with  Ulcers, from which there is a
discharge of pus or matter.   A few days trial of
the Lithontriptic will relieve the patient, and by
a continuance fcf  the  Medicine, a perfect cure
will result.   Impure blood is the  cause of this
complaint.          ______

  Scrofula, or King's Evil—as  it  is called,
from the custom  of submitting patients to the
Royal  touch.   From a Register kept in the
Royal Chapel, we find  Charles :2nd touched in a
certain uumber of  years, 92,107 persons.
  This disease-is pronounced by all Medical men
incurable.  Cullen, a celebrated Medical writer,
says, " we have not yet learned any practice that
is certainly or even generally successful."-
  There are four  kinds of Scrofula—Inflamma-
tion or swelling, with more or less pain ;  Abscess,
or Ulcer, when the swelling breaks;  Tumor, or
Scirrhus, hard, indolent and inert, appearing in
the glands of the  neck, often continuing a long-
time stationary, at other times slowly increasing,
sometimes  painful,  and  sometimes  not;  and
Constitutional Affection, known by a pale, hag-
gard countenance,  small tumors appearing in the
glands, in various  parts of  the bedy,  attended
with debility and  derangements of the digestive
organs.  The Lithontriptic has always cured this
most  distressing  disease, and  although  culhd
incurable.  The Proprietor will warrant the first
bottle to relieve the most obstinate case, and if
one bottle will do  this, he is satisfied no one
could do less if afflicted, than to pay for if, and
purchase more, that a cure may result, as it most
certainly will-      ______

   St. Anthony's Fire, or Erysipelas.—A
shining redness and swelling of the parts affected,
with considerable irritation, stinging< itching,
smarting  and  burning sensation.   Ulceration
sometimes takes place, red,  deep-seated, forming
on the  leg.  It appears in  various parts of the
body; the ears, eyes,  face and extremities, and
attacks  persons of gross habits.
   Give  the  Lithontriptic  in doses of one half
table spoonful, four times per day, and increase
gradually as directed  on the  bottle ;  it  yields
immediately under this treatment.
  Ulcers.—An Ulcer is an injury done to the
flesh, from various causes, and from which issues
matter, with more or less pain and inflammation.
It may arise from Scrofula,  the  venereal disease,
retention of acrid humors,  cold,  injuries, &c.—
As in Scrofula  and  other diseases of the  kind,
this impurity of the blood is to  be treated by the
One Great Remedy, and all ulceration, &c, will
heal up; the system being restored to health, no
outlet for.  the  corrupt humors  is necessary.—
Attend to the direction on the bottle.
Scurvy,  or  Scurvy  Leprosy.—Sedentary 
GENERAL TREATISE.
11
people of a dull melancholy disposition, are most
subject to it; it  is often fatal to Satilors on long
voyages.   The  Land Scurvy differs  somewhat
from the other.  Weariness,  heaviness, difficulty
of breathing, ulcers of the gums, bleeding at the
nose, crackling of the joints, scaly eruptions all
over the body, falling away of the legs, on which
are yellow,  livid,  or violet colored spots, face
pale; at  last a fever  comes on and the miserable
patient dies of Dropsy, Dysentery, or Mortifica-
tion of the Bowels.
   Vaughn's Vegetable Lithontriptic cured with
only 6 bottles, a case  of this kind after sixteen of
the best medical men of the State of New York
had failed even to relieve it.   All the well known
Sarsaparillas of the  day  had been taken by the
gross—and  the  different medical  sprigs of the
country had been  resorted  to with no effect—
after suffering for the long  space  of 22 years—
instant relief was found, and a perfect cure made,
in 60 days,  by this famous Remedy.
   $CJ= See certificate, case of Baker.
atically.  When this is the case, by pressing the
thumb'hard on the sides of,  and between,  the
prominences of the spine, a  tenderness or pain
will be felt.   Direct 'the attention to the Liver _,
Stomach and Bowels.   By a few weeks trial of
the Lithontriptic Mixture, you will find a com-
plete restoration in progress,  and which  will
result  in a cure.  Bathing  in salt and  water
should be attended to daily.
  Herpes,  or  Tetter—Ring  Worm—Bar-
ber's Itch—Salt Rheum.—These are trouble-
some, inveterate eruptions which appear on dif-
ferent parts of the body, usually the handst caus-
ing great itching;—afterwards scabs lbrm upon
the part affected, which though they may be rub-
bed off or dry away, will reappear.
  The 'patient is often obliged to scratch contin-
ually, to obtain relief.
  This  is a  disease caused by the  retention of
morbid  humors  which are thrown to the surface.
A course of  this  medicine will drive the whole
complaint from the system, and by  its alterative
nature,  will  completely eradicate all symptoms
of these troublesome, diseases.
  Rickets.—This disease is common to children
—and  is  caused by  debility.  The bowels  are
enlarged,, the  face swells, the-spine  is bent  in
form of the letter  S,  the  flesh flabby, the body
wastes, the forehead  prominent, the neck small,
teeth drop  out, ribs flattened, breast  bone rises,
joint bones enlarged, &c. &c.
  An  alterative is necessary, which is found in
the Lithontriptic Mixture, and in no case will it
fail  in restoring to  a state of health any com-
plaint  of  this kind; but it must  be  continued
until a sound state of body is apparent.  In this
complaint  the medicine has done wonders.

  Scald Head.—A chronic inflammation of the
skin of the head,  productive of  a secretion  of
matter peculiar in  its nature and capable of prop-
agating the complaint.    >
  Children are principally affected  with  it.^-
Soap and water used freely, and the lightest dose
of the Lithontriptic, which has in its properties
the Maxdral.c.root,  will cure in a short time,
this complaint.      _____

  Disease of tkf. Spine.—Some diseases origi-
nate in the spinal  column, and affect it primarily,
and as the nerves lead from" it to every organ and
part of the system, it follows, that in almost eve-
ry complaint it is  more or less diseased symplcm-
  Cancer.—An  ulcer of the very worst kin''
with an uneaven surface and ragged painful edges,
which spread in  a rapid manner, discharges a
thin, acrimonious matter, whicli has a very fetid
smell.
  The disease is confined to the glands and partic-
ularly the breasts—now and then to be met with
in the face, tongue, &c.
  Cancer is most  generally met with in persons
advanced in life—particularly women.
  The knife  is the  usual treatment,  and  it  is
astonishing that surgeons will continue to operate
for'Cancers when they must positively know that
instead of removing, it exasperates  the disease
and  accelerates its growth.   Sir A. Cooper, and
other distinguished men, consider Cancer as a
complaint connected with the Constitution, the
blood, or the mass of fluids being of course con-
taminated.
   Cancer should be taken hold of before it ulcer-
ates,  in  order to  attempt  a cure with  any degree
of certainty—and though  it may be arrested  in
its subsequent stages, it should'hot be allowed to
proceed  too far.
   A  long and careful course of treatment can
only save the victim of this disease.   Strict tem-
perance, abstaining from  all intoxicating or stim-
ulating fluids—and a course of this medicine, will
be the only  safety for the  patient.   The great
purifying properties  of  this  Lithontriptic will
drive the poison from the system, but it must be
followed carefully and strictly.
  Fever Sores, Tumors, &c, White Swkl- ■
lings, Diseases of the Joints,'&c,  all pro-
ceed from impure blood, and show that there is a
scrofulous or morbid taint of the  system—and
therefore it is  of primary importance  that we
commence  at the cause of all this derangement
of the system.
  Let the  Lithontriptic  which  contains  great
alterative properties—as  well as great cleansing,
be taken four times per  day, according  to direc-
tions, and when the blood is changed,  the disease
will leave the body.

  The Liver Complaint.—The state and qua'.
ity of the bile must be attended to, in  order  to
preserve health.
   The bile,  in a vitiated state, or when not duly
scented,  is  sometimes obstructed  in the liver
arid gall bladder, and becomes a source of dys-
pepsia, constipation, and nervous  complaints,
Jaundice, &c. &c. &c.  Beach, the  great medical
writer, says, one or two  anti-bilious pills may  be
taken daily.  The   Lithontriptic  being strictly
vegetable, and containing great anti-bilious prop-
erties, and great alterative properties also, will 
in
GENERAL  TREATISE.
being the one great cause of this complaint, thd
only safe and certain method 13 to commence by
purifying the system—cleansing  it from all the
corrupt fluids which are the cause of all this kind
of disease.   When the blood is good, nature will
cause no outlet  to be made.  Biles, fever sores,
&.c, and this complaint  also, will leave the sys-
tem under a course of the Lithontriptic Mixture.
  A trial will convince any one of its purifying
effects.
act like a most magical  medicine in  this com-
plaint.  I have just at this time saved  the life of
a  gentleman connected with  one of the most
influential newspapers in the  State, who would
have died without doubt, had he not found relief
from this article.  Thousands  have found relief
—and thousands will yet turn to this article after
exausting their purses and patience, in search of
health, through the means adopted by the Calo-
mel giving Faculty

   Venereal Syphilis.—This  is a  most  dis-
tressing affection,  and extends to every part of
the system, and is*occasioned by a specific poison
which is capable of acting both locally and con-
stitutionally.
   Dr. Steward supposes this complaint to have
originated in the  camp of Israel—as  may be
inferred by reading the fifth chapter of Numbers.
This poison is usually driven from the system by
Calomel.  The Lithontriptic is just as sure in its
effects, and leaves no disease in the system—as is
the case  with  Calomel.  See  directions  on  the
bottle.
  Mercurial  Diseases  and  Salivation.—
The symptoms of this disease are too well known
to need  description.  In  another  part  of  this
pamphlet it has been alluded to ; I  may remark
however, that there is a soreness of the gums and
mouth, loosness of the teeth, swelling, and some-
times protrusion and inflammation of the tongue,
constant and profuse discharge of saliva or spittle,
wasting,  &c. &,c.
  If those who give this poison to cure the disease
are not " woful quacks," then I do not understand
the meaning of the term " quackery."
  A strict attention to the directions which are
on  the Lithontriptic bottle, will purify the body
from  all poison of the Mercurial, or any other
kind; and all diseases of the blood of any nature
will be  driven  from the system, by this famous
Vegetable remedy.  I am constantly making cures
of  Fever  Sores—obstinate  eruptions,  &c.  &c,
which for years have  baffled all medical men,
and all medical sprigs in the country.   Theie is
no purifier of the system in the world equal to
this Vegetable Lithontriptic Mixture.
   Fistula in Ano.—A most serious, loathsome,
 and troublesome disease, which is located in the
 vicinity of the  anus  and  rectum,  and  appears in
 the form of abscess  and  sinous Ulcers, emitting
 a fetid discharge, with callous edges.   The cau-
' ses of Fistula are numerous, such as costiveness,
 and relaxation of the bowels, derangement of the
 liver and alimentary canal, sedentary habits, high
 living, piles, &c.
   Henry the Eighth of England, died of this
 disease.
  Fissure of  the  Anus.—A  fissure  in  the
anus or  rectum which, is exceedingly sore, and
troublesome—it proves obstinate and painful.
  The common mode of treatment in these com-
plaints  is the  knife.  Another  and sometimes
successful method  is the external application of
different remedies—but the impurity of the blood
  Lethargy—is generally a  symptomatic dis-
ease arising from apoplectic symptoms, or a mor-
bid state of the stomach, or some other complaint.
  The blood now shows its  impurity  by this
symptom—drowsiness  is  a  sure  sign   of  the
derangement of the  system.   Take the  Lithon-
triptic Mixture immediately,  and  check at  the
onset some  disease  of  a more fatal character
which, unless  the remedy is resorted to, is sura
to follow.
  Enlargement and Palpitation of the
Heart.—This complaint is known by the fol-
lowing symptoms: shortness of breath, particu-
larly from  exertion;  pain,  and a  sensation of
tightness or stricture of the chest; pain over the
region  of  the heart; difficulty of  lying  in  a
recumbent  position;  sudden startings up.  A
little fatigued as walking  fast or going up stairs,
will occasion distress; the  feet begin to swell,
the Strength fails, the pulse sometimes intermits,
countenance  particularly  around   the   mouth,
assumes  a  pale  haggard  appearance, and some-
times paroxysms of pain, which are very distress-
ing ; in one of these, the subject of the disease is
liable to be suddenly snatched away.
   The only medicine peculiarly  adapted  to this
disease, is the Lithontriptic Mixture.
   Over 50 cures in this  complaint  alone, have
been effected in two years.
   This disease is often the symptom of Dropsy or
Indigestion.

   Heart  burn.—An uneasy  sensation  about
the pit of the stomach, attended with great anx-
iety, difficulty of breathing, want  of strength,
inquietude, vomiting, coldness and trembling of
the extremities.  A gentle  purge by the use of
the  Lithontriptic is  all  that is  necessary  to
remove this complaint.

   Canker,  Thrush or Sore Mouth.—Chil-
dren are subject to this complaint.
   It appears in  white ulcers  upon the  tongue,
gums, and around the mouth and palate.   When
the disease is mild it is  confined to these parts,
but when violent and of long standing, it may
 extend through the whole course of the  alimen-
 tary canal, from the  mouth to the anus,  and
 excite severe purgings, flatulencies, &c.
   Purgatives, of the Lithontriptic, will generally
 remove  the  worst symptoms of this disease in a
 few days,  and a cure will  be made by following
 it up.              ______

   Cholera Morbus.—A disease of the  stomach
 and alimentary  canal, vomiting and  purging, 
GENERAL TREATISE.                               1*
severe griping, pain, cramp in the stomach, abdo-
men, and extremities.  It is  prevalent in this
climate particularly in hot weather.
  The  cause of the Cholera Morbus is the action
and stimulus of an acid secreted in the liver, or
formed in  the stomach  and  alimentary canal,
which  produces an irritation of the mucous mem-
brane of  these parts, the same as many kinds of
poison, which cause the phenomena of the com-
plaint.
  The  Lithontriptic Mixture, used  freely,  has
been very effectual in this  complaint.
  A gentle cathartic  is what I have ever found
to be  produced by this  medicine,  and in  this
complaint the Mixture has been truly beneficial.
  Neuralgia—Nervous   Diseases.—Of  all
diseases incident to mankind, those of a nervous
kind are the most  complicated and  difficult to
cure.   A volume would not be sufficient to point
out their various symptoms.
  They imitate almost every disease, and are sel-
dom alike  in  two different persons—or ever in
the same person at different times.
  Tic  Douloureux.—This  is a  Neuralgiaic
complaint, effecting the nerves of the face, it
attacks suddenly and  very  peculiar.   The  pain
darts along the course of the affected nerves, and
occurs  in paroxysms  of  the  most excruciating
agony—succeeded by  intervals or intermissions.
It proceeds from debility of the whole nervous
system.
  The best remedy you can obtain  is a course of
this Lithontriptic.  It contains alterative prop-
erties,  and also, the celebrated mandrake root, so
well known as a remedy for Neuralgia.
  St. Vitus' Dance.—This singular disease is
characterized  by  a  twitching  and convulsive
action of certain muscles, usually confined to one
side of the system, and it affects principally the
arm and leg.
  It  is chiefly incident to young  persons ot  both
sexes, but particularly  those of a weak constitu-
tion,  or  whose  health and vigor have  been
impaired by confinement, or by the use of scanty
and improper nourishment; and makes its attacks
between the ages of ten and fifteen, occurring but
seldom after.  1st—we must remove the exciting
causes.   2nd—remove  the  constipated  state of
the bowels, and regulate their functions.   And
3d—strengthen the system.
  The Lithontriptic Mixture possesses the  rem-
edy in a  most perfect form, for this complaint-
It combines the properties which  act as a  cura-
tive agent for the different  symptoms of the dis-
ease, and as a whole will completely eradicate it.
It needs only a trial to prove itself.

  Lumbago.—A species of Rheumatism, that is
more particularly  concentrated  in  the small of
the back or the lower part of the spine.  It cau-
ses great weakness  or pain, with difficulty of
stooping,  and  often of walking.  The treatment
of Lumbago, is the same as that  recommended
for common Rheumatism.  A gentle course of
the Lithontriptic Mixture, which, while it  acbi
as a mild cathartic, will strengthen the system,
and drive the cause of  the complaint from the
body.    All   kinds  of  Rheumatism  has  been
relieved by this medicine.
  Worms.—There are many kinds of  Worms
found in the human  body, but they proceed in a
great measure, from similar causes—have nearly
the same symptoms, and require the same method
of treatment.
  They are seldom found, except  in weak and
relaxed stomachs, when digestion is bad.  Seden-
tary persons are more  liable  to them than the
active or laborious.  Calomel has been the ingre-
dient, and is now, of  all the famous nostrums for
Worms—such as Worm  Lozenges,  Vermifuges,
&c.  But you have only to excite a healthy action
of the digestive organs, to remove them.
   This Mixture will  always remove them, and so-
pleasant is  it, that if  children do not cry  after it,
as Peters says they do when taking his Lozenges,.
they will certainly not cry while taking it.
  Headache—usually proceeding from  a Dad
state of the stomach,  Indigestion, &c. &c.  All
stages of this disease,  and  that also, called sick
headache, is removed by a gentle cathartic, which
you will obtain by the smallest dose of this Mix-
ture, say one table spoon full  three times every
twenty-four hours.  Bathe the feet in  warm  ley
water every night while suffering from it.  This
treatment and  the medicine will give relief.
  Cough.—In all coughs,  which to describe the
symptoms of, would  be superfluous, the Lithon-
triptic Mixture is a well known remedy.  Cough
is often the precursor of Consumption,  and should
be attended  to;  the  first  symptoms  should be
checked, and not the  least difficulty will occur in
the complete cure of this complaint.
  Marasmus.—Emaciation, wasting of the body,
&c.  This is a disease which affects the young of
both  sexes.  Sluggishness,  lassitude  on slight
exertions, depravity and loss of appetite, wasting
of the flesh, fullness of the features, paleness of
the countenance,  swelling  of the abdomen, an
irregular and  generally a  costive  state  of  the
bowels, swelling of the upper lip, itching of  the
nose, &c. &c.
  The Lithontriptic  Mixture in mild doses, is
one of the  best medicines in the world, for this
disease.  Worms  are  often the  cause of it,  and
they will be expelled from the system  by the use
of this remedy.     ______

  Quinsy.—This disease proceeds from the same
causes as  other inflammatory diseases, viz: an
obstructed  perspiration,  or whatever  heats  or
inflames the blood; it may also proceed from the
neglect of evacuation.  The complaint is some-
times epidemic and infectious.
  The  bowels' should be  kept open,  and  the
inflammatory symptoms of the throat  will disap-
pear  with a few  days use of the Lithontriptic
Mixture. 
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GENERAL TREATISE.
  Croup.—Children are often seized with a great
difficulty of  breathing, which  if not  removed
quickly, proves mortal.
  Children of a gross and lax habit are most liable
to it.   I have sometimes known it hereditary.
  Frequent pulse, quick and laborious breathing,
with a peculiar kind of crpaking noise, mark its
appearance, face flushed.
  After the  remedies  which should  always be
applied, viz :  hot water bath and bleeding—a full
dose of the Lithontriptic  should be given.   The
inflammation and fever which attends this disease
will give way,  and the  blood  will  be  purified
from all  bad  humor—to carry off. which, in this
disease, a drain is often kept open by means of
an  issue.   The  Lithontriptic  Mixture  will,  if
given,  obviate the use of-all issues.
  Dyspepsia, or Indigestion.—This complaint
like the gout is no respecter of persons, from the
prince to  the beggar you  see misery inflicted by
this demon of human suffering, Indigestion.
  This  disease is often found associated with a
diseased state of the Liver, costiveness, great use
of tobacco,  spirits, a  sedentary life, &c.   The
disease  is marked by great irregularity of appe-
tite, belching of wind,  rising of sour and bitter
acid into  the throat,  weakness of the stomach,
sleep disturbed, bowels  irregular, head confused.
If the Liver is connected with this complaint, a
dead pain will be felt on the right side, the urine
will have a  brick-dust colored sediment, pain in
the shoulders, feet and hands get asleep, &c.  To.
restore the whole system to its healthy tone, take
the Lithontriptic Mixture, as the directions indi-
cate, and after restoration, a due regard to tem-
perate habits in eating and drinking will preserve
the system.   The Lithontriptic in all  Liver com-
plaints,  is  singularly  efficacious.   At the first
symptom of Dyspepsia, resort at once to it.
  Consumption.—This is a truly fearful mal-
ady.  Thousands are falling in the spring time of
life by the untimely stroke of this  most fatal of
diseases. One of the first medical writers of this or
any other country, thus speaks of it, " I have no
doubt  the  period^ will  arrive when this  formi-
dable enemy of the human  species will be subdued
by some common  and simple  plant belonging to
the Vegetable kingdom, for I  have always been
impressed with  a  decided belief that  our wise
and beneficent  Creator has  placed within the
reach  of his feeble  creature  man, herbs and
plants for the cure of  all diseases but old age,
and I wish to be distinctly understood tint  i
mean this disease of Consumption entirely  uncon-
nected with any other complaint, will eventually
be cured by roots and herbs."  .
  Then we have an opinion advanced by a medi-
cal man some years since, and  the proof  is now
before us.   This medicine has in a great number
of cases of Consumption, made complete cures,
and the Proprietor has  no hesitation to warrant
in this as in all diseases of the blood, fcc, &c,
a relief at the first trial.  The  article  has never
failed  to effect a cure out of a hundred of  instan-
ces  of trial.
  Symptoms of this disease  need hardly  to  be
written.   We all know the hacking, hard cough,
tightness across the chest, spitting of white frothy
muCous-1—often  blood, &.c, are  seen; unfailing
signs  that the  victim is doomed, unless  some
remedy is  at hand.   Arid  what  shall we seize
upon.  Ten thousand nostrums are for  sale  to
sport with the case of the poor Consumptive; and
he tries  one to throw it  aside for another;  no
relief having been found, he gives himself  up to
die.  He  need  not  die  if  Vaughn's Vegetable
Lithontriptic is given to him, unless old age car-
ries him off.  Too many proofs have been receiv-
ed by the  Proprietor  to make him for a moment
hesitate in  making  this  astounding announce-
ment.  Yet facts  are not  to be  controverted.
Proofs  strong as holy writ  can not be laughed
down,  or frowned down.   This  medicine will
cure all Consumptive cases, aud  a3 long as  the
breath  of life  is in the patient, there is hope.—
Do not then for a moment  value one dollar, but
go to the Agents and make the trial; you -will be
satisfied that this article, at least, is no miserable
trash to trifle with the hopes and fears of the poor
Consumptive.   Certificates we could publish if
ncossary,  but in this disease, so many forms does
it  appear in, that it would be no satisfaction to
read,  and the article, if tried, will be the only
proof of its efficacy—it is pleasant—ran infant will
ta"ke it—and'though active in its largest dose—in
its smaller it is quite mild.  No stomach is so
weak that it cannot be taken.
  Bleeding and Blind Piles.—There are two
kind of Piles,  one is called  Bleeding and the
other Blind Piles.  The Piles are small swelled
tumors, of rather  a  dark appearance,  usually
situated on the edge  of the  fundament.   AVhen
there is a discharge of blood from these tumors
when you go to stool, the disease is called  Bleed-
ing Piles; but  when  there is only a. swelling on
the edge of the fundament, at some little distance
up  the gut, and no bleeding when you evacuate
the bowels,  the disease is called the Blind Piles.
  A mild dose of the Lithontriptic Mixture will
in a few days remove this disagreeable complaint-
It heals, and destroys the burning fever which is
often felt.   Let it  be taken daily, in small doses,
for a week or two, and  vou  will be  rid of the
Piles.
   Jaundice.—This disease turns the white of
 the eye, as well as the skin, yellow.
   The urine is saffron colored, and  will stain  a
 white cloth.   Symptoms—excessive  weariness—
 dry skin—itching pain oyer the body-s-breathing
 difficult—heat in the nostras—bitter taste in the
1 mouth—sickness at the stomach and vomiting.
   The tone of the system is completely restored
 by  the use of the" Lithontriptic IVlixtUre,  the
 directions to be strictly followed.
    Gout.—Too Atonic—the Retrocedenf, and'the
-  Misplaced.— Tl: > iirst, or Jltaniz, is marked by a
,  bad digestion; the patient is troubled with fiatu-
•  lency, loss of appetif;:, eructations, violent pains
•  of a spasmodic'natnre, nausea, dejection of spirits,
  and hypochondriacal symptoms. 
GENERAL TREATISE-
15
  The  second species  is the Retrocedent.   In
this, the inflammation having occupied a joint,
ceases suddenly, and is translated to some inter-
nal part, such as the head, lungs, heart, or stom-
ach.  The Misplaced,  is when Gout, instead of
producing the inflammatory affection of  the joint
at all, seizes some  internal  parts,  producing
inflammation there,  and  giving  rise  to  some
symptoms which attend  inflammation  of those
parts from other causes.
   Without discussing the  cause  of this painful
complaint, or giving symptoms  of the different
species, I will state, that the  best  remedy, no
doubt,  is an  extreme low diet, strict temperance,
and  good exercise.
   Doctors Chalmers, Musgrave and Grant, all
agree however, in Emetics and Cathartics.   The
Lithontriptic  Mixture as a  powerful  operator
upon the blood, will reduce  all inflammation of
the joints, &c, act as a mild  Cathartic, and has
in almost every instance, relieved at once this
complaint.          ______

   Hysterics.—The extremities  cold—the sur-
face pale—attended with chills.   Physicians gen-
erally  are in the habit of bleeding—a  bad prac-
tice however, and always aggravates the disease.
Put the feet, and body if possible, in  a  ley bath,
weak  however—and  take of the Lithontriptic
 Mixture.
Painter's Colic—The cause of this Colic
is the inhalation of vapours arising from a decom-
position of lead, or frequently handling some of
its chemical  preparations; hence  Painters  and
Glaziers are often attacked by it.
  The symptoms are pain in the pit of the stom-
ach—slight sickness—thirst—costiveness—quick
pulse.
  After a short time  the  whole region of the
belly is  highly painful to the touch ; the intes-
tines exhibit  symptoms of violent spasms, &c,
and  at last terminates in Gangrene, which  des-
troys the patient.  By administering the Lithon-
triptic Mixture, the irritating and acrid agents
which are in the intestines, are dislodged and
driven from  the  body.  The warm bath is of
great service. Keep the bowels free by the use
of the Lithontriptic, and take it as the directions
on the bottle indicate.
  Cessation of the Mj:\ses—(Commonly call-
ed Tune of Life).—That period of life at which
the Menses cease to flow is a very critical one.—
The stoppage of any customary evacuation, how-
ever small,  is sufficient to disorder the whole
frame, and often to destroy  life itself.  Hence it
is that so many women  fall into chronic disor-
ders, or die about this time.
  Few nredicines are  to be taken in this state
of the system.  Your bowels must be moved by
mild doses of this medicine, which will cool the
system and allay dangerous irritations.   A table
spoon full of the Mixture three times per day.
one will  contradict ; and  that the derangement
of the blood—the more or less  impurity  of  it,
will effect the- whole system,  we well know, and
thus we state that the great cause of  the various
derangements of the system, though presented in
so many different features, known by characters
at complete variance  with  each other, yet we
fully believe that diseased Blood will produce  all
these symptoms, and that  by producing a healthy
action of the blood, we can drive the  whole mul-
titude from  the human body, and restore man's
frame to health.  No one  will  for  a moment
question  the assertion that all inflammatory dis-
eases  can be acted  upon through the blood, and
this character of disease will embrace a large pro-
portion  of the  entire catalogue.  All Eruptive
diseases,  those of the skin, &c,  are only reached
through  the blood  ; external  applications  are
only temporary in their relief, if they  relieve at
all.  Fevers are  checked by the  proper  action
THE  ONE  GREAT  DISEASE-
  The one Great Disease—is no new theory : l
from the earliest times down to the present day,
it has found its advocates.  The doctrine of the
one grand cause of  all the various diseases which
have ever afflicted men  being seated in the Blood,
and only there, is  not  easily controverted.  We
know that the principle of life is the blood,  as
we take from the body this fluid, so we diminish
our strength, which as new blood again forms we
regain.   We know that by the slightest puncture
of a needle  into a small vein,  we  introduce a
virus  or poison which innoculates  our  whole
system, the blood  alone carrying it  into every
part of our frame.
  Mineral and  Vegetable poisons act upon the
blood only—it becomes coagulated, or watery,
and life  ceases.  That  life  alone,  depends  upon
the blood, and not the more solid portion of man's
frame, no one will dispute.  That health alone
depends  upon the  blood, we can not believe anv 
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GENERAL TREATISE.
upon the blood.   Nervous complaints are remo-
ved  by alteratives which act thus;  and indeed
the  prevailing  opinion  of  the  Medical  men
tnroughout the world, we believe, to  be that, the
entire array of this army of afflictions can be dis-
persed if we  can only find  out the  Universal
Remedy.   Common sense teaches  us that  some
remedy must exist, and we naturally ask, where
are we to look for it ?   Not among minerals, for
reason at once abhors the idea of receiving M our
stomachs a mineral, and we at once with firm
faith turn  to the Vegetable world, satisfied that
it must exist there.  The dumb beast, taught  by
instinct which never  misleads, at once goes to
•the  vegetable for a panacea.  The  uncivilized
son of  nature, the wild Indian, has his vegetable
Temedy, and we believe that there  Providence
has placed an antidote for every ill.
  The laws of nature being immutable, no acts
of ours could change them, therefore, no primary
disease can exist now, which had no existence
in the beginning.  In  the beginning, Providence
placed in the earth the Great Remedy for the
one  disease, that of the blood, and no new  order
of Vegetables  have been created to keep  pace*
with the multitude of diseases which man  by a
course of direct opposition to  the law of  health,
has  produced for his  own  affliction, therefore,
we  have only to resort to this great  Panacea, to
give health to the principle of life which is the
blood, and the renewed and vigorous  system will
show the Theory to be as solid as the rock  of
Ages   *
  As a proof that all the misery which is known
under the various medical terms can be alleviated,
and  removed by the treatment we now advocate,
we point you to Consumption, a complaint which
Physicians pronounce incurable, and no doubt it
Js, under the system they pursue; but post mor-
tem examinations have  shown that  this disease
pf the lungs,  which,  it  has  been  said medicine
cannot reach, has been  arrested and cured, even
after one third of these organs of respiration had
been eaten away ; the lungs have been found per-
fectly healed, and the subject probably had lived
 on in health  for years,  and  died  of some  other
 complaint New we  do declare that this cure
was  made by some Vegetable Agent through the
blood, which  flows  into the lungs.  We know
that medicine will  not reach the lungs  as food
does the stomach, yet the blood  will  take it up,
and carry it there, we firmly believe, and it would
be unnatural and impossible for us to think other-
wise.  If then, Consumption has been cured, the
stumbling block in the path of this  doctrine is
removed, and  we go  on boldly to assert that by
commencing at the blood we can drive every ves-
tige of disease of any kind from the system.  The
list of complaints which you will find in the first
pages of this  pamphlet, are to  be cured by this
treatment, and  any other  disease,  we care  not
what, can be cured if the medicine we offer you
is taken with a full determination to test its abil-
ity.  We ask you to keep it  in your house, it will
never come amiss.   What  is the value  of one
dollar or two—or  fifty, even, to  be compared
with ill health  Disease robs riches of all their
worth.  It  is indeed an aggravation to have the
means of purchasing  happiness, and  not  the
ability to enjoy it.   Health  without money is  a
far greater source of comfort than money without
health.
  The Vegetable Lithontriptic Mixture has now
been introduced over an immense section of coun-
try, during  the past two years, and the Proprietor
can say with confidence and pride, that it  has
been his good  fortune to relieve many hitherto,
incurable diseases—to return  happiness  to thou-
sands—and though making no  pretensions  as
regards his  invention, he believes that he has had
the honor to place  before the world one of the
Greatest Panaceas of any Age.   For  himself,
he  asks a fair remuneration,  which he  fully
believes he shall  receive.   For  his Mixture, he
asks only a fair trial from those who know not its
virtues—satisfied, that when once known, it will   •
never be doubted.   The certificates he begs leave
to say are genuine—and the parties will reply  to
any letter which may be forwarded to them, post
paid, gladly lending their agency in every way to
forward and increase the reputation of this justly
family  article,  and  gladly inducing the poor
sufferers to rely as they did upon its virtues—and
satisfied that they also, will find relief. 
GENERAL TREATISE.
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TESTIMONIALS.
IN  FAVOR  OF   THE   EFFICACY  OF  VAUGHN'S
VEGETABLE   LITHONTRIPTIC.
  With these pages the proprietor thinks is pre-
sented the most incontrovertable mass of testimo-
ny ever offered in evidence of the curative pow-
ers of any Medicine.  These are no trumped up
certificates from out-of-the-way places—no abor-
tive attempts to  palm off' mere  alleviation  for
actual cures.  But here is the genuine grateful
testimony of his  own fellow citizens, in favor of
the all-powerful  medicine:   They  are residing
among us and can be consulted at any time, and
the Proprietor earnestly solicits all who may be
afflicted to call upon any of the persons mention-
ed here, and satisfy themselves by actual observa-
tion of the potency of his preparation.
 CASE  OF SCROFULA—TERMINA-
    TING IN GENERAL DROPSY.

         An entire and radical cure.
  Mrs. EMORY TAUNT, of Buffalo, from early
age was afflicted with Scrofula, which was pre-
scribed for by various Physicians with but little
success :  About ten years since her disease assu-
med the form of General Dropsy, or Anasarca,—
her limbs at times  so swollen as scarcely to be
able to  move about—her abdomen,  and indeed
every part of  the body so swollen as to present a
most frightful spectacle ; rest at night was almost
denied her, from the difficulty of lying in a hori-
zontal  position.  The best  Physicians  both in
this city and at  the East, were applied to, and
attended her  for years,  but  without  any radical
effect.  The symptoms continued to become more
aggravated and human patience seemed  entirely
exhausted—palliatives were  resorted to only with
the hope of smoothing a passage  to the  grave
which- seemed  inevitable and speedy.   In the
month of July last, she was induced to try the
effects of Vaughn's Vegetable Lithontrip-
tic—about one bottle and a  half of the large size
was taken before she appeared to receive any
relief—at  that  time the   swellings  began to
decrease, her appetite to return, and her generBl
health  rapidly to improve.   She has continued
the use of the medicine  until she has used seven
of the large sized bottles, and «he is now in the
                    3
enjoyment of excellent health, better indeed than
she has enjoyed for any time previous.
  I certify that the above statement of my wife's
cure is true in every respect—myself, and in fact
most of her friends and relatives had considered
her case hopeless.   I  had employed  the best
Physicians both here and at the East, and had
been told by some that her case was beyond the
reach  of ordinary  medicines.  And  from  the
length of time she had been  afflicted, together
with the alarming nature of her symptoms, I was
induced to believe the statement correct.  To the
use of Dr. Vaughn's Vegetable Lithontriptic r as-
cribe her cure, which I believe has been complete,
and I sincerely advise all who are affected to try
its powers.               EMORY TAUNT.
  Buffalo, Nov.  5, 1845.
  Mr. and Mrs.  Taunt, both cheerfully invite
all who may be afflicted, to call at their dwelling
on Niagara street, where-they will be happy to
testify further in relation to the wonderful pow-
ers of this medicine prepared by Dr. Vaughn.
   CASE  OF BLEEDING OF  THE
                 LUNGS.
  I, SILAS WOOD, of Buffalo, have for upwards
of nine years been afflicted with Bleeding at the
Lungs, which  has continued with greater or less
violence during the  whole time:  At  times I
have been so completely prostrated from loss of
blood and general  debility, as to be obliged to
keep my bed for weeks.  I have employed the
best Medical Practitioners and resorted to various
specific medicines without  experiencing  any
relief.  About  four months since, I was advised
to try Vaughn's Vegetable Lithontriptic—
at the  time I  was confined to my bed—and had
just previous, had so severe an attack of Bleeding
at the  Lungs,  (while on  a visit at  a Friend's
house)  as to cause me to faint from utter exhaus-
tion—and so completely was I prostrated that I
had to be conveyed home in a carriage.  I took
the Lithontriptic, and on the third day  after, I
was  enabled to rise from my bed and walk up-
wards of a mile.  Since that time I have not been
troubled with  any return  of the Bleeding at the
Lungs, and my general health  is helter  than I
have enjoyed for years.  I consider Dr. Vaughn's
Lithontriptic as a most invaluable medicine, andt 
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GENERAL TREATISE.
designed to be productive of immense good to the
human family.               SILAS WOOD.
  Buffalo, Oct. 21, 1845'.
  CASE OF  LIVER  COMPLAINT.
Certificate from C. A. Wilson, Esq.,/w many
  years Commercial Reporter  of the  Buffalo
  Com. Advertiser.
    Dr. G. C. Vaughn:
  Dear Sir :—Frequent interrogatories are put
to me by my friends, as to  what cause they may
attribute my improved appearance and near res-
toration to health.  To them and to you, thus
publicly, 1 have  no hesitancy whatever in answer-
ing.   A severe attack of liver complaint, constant
pain in the side, and  consequent  prostration of
the whole system, reduced  me very much,  and by
many I was supposed to be  in the incipient stages
of a Consumption; but if so, the  efficacious and
healing qualities of your medicine  has eradicated
the disease, and given me promise  of a full resto-
ration to health. I  think it possesses rare medi-
cinal qualities, and if this slight testimonial of re-
gard of its worth, is of the least importance, you
are at liberty to use  it.
               Respectfully Yours,
                           C. A. WILSON.
   No. 375 Michigan St., Buffalo.
disease continued  to increase upon her until she
was obliged to keep  within doors, and at times
was confined to her bed; her limbs were at times
so much swollen  as to require bandageing.   She
was attended by her family Physician here, who
did not hesitate to pronounce it a confirmed case
of Dropsy.  Various  prescriptions  were  recom-
mended by him  without  producing any  good
effect;—the symptoms  only continued  to grow
more alarming. Some time since she commenced
the use of Vaughn'3 Vegetable Lithontriptic; irt
a very short time her appetite returned, and after
taking the second  or  third of the large size bot-
tles, the swellings began to decrease, and she was
enabled to take exercise,  indulged in  frequenl
walks,  and was enabled to  attend to the ordinary
household affairs with perfect ease ; she has con-
tinued  the use of  the medicine and has received
most important benefit  from its use, and  is of
opinion that it is one of  the best  medical agents
known in the treatment and cure of Dropsy.
   I certify that the above statement of my wife's
case is correct, and I am firm in my opinion that
without the aid of the Lithontripic she would not
have been  living at this  time.  She had  tried
every remedy  known without  any success, and
Dr. Vaughn's  Medicine is  the only one which
has even reached  her case.
                        DANIEL KENNY.
   Buffalo, Nov. 12, 1845.
    CASE  OF BLEEDING  PILES.
  I, LEVI H. WILLIAMS, Police officer of the
town  of Black Rock and  for many years a resi-
dent of Buffalo, have for a great number of  years
been afflicted with  the Bleeding Piles, which at
times was so severe as to totally incapacitate me
from  following  business of  any sort.   About a
year since I  was attacked with  Scarlet Fever and
upon  my recovery from that I was attacked with
a Scrofulous eruption upon the crown of my head,
and soreness of both the eyes, which  increased to
such  an extent as to nearly deprive me of sight;
indeed, at times I could not  read at all—the Piles
at this time troubled me  severely, and my situa-
tion was most wretched.  After having tried most
of the Pile medicines, together with  many of the
Purifying specifics  advertised, without  relief of
any kind, I  was advised to  try Vaughn's Vegeta-
ble Lithontriptic.   I did so, and after using two
of  the large sized  bottles in about four weeks, I
find myself a new man :  the scrofulous eruption
on my head has entirely disappeared, and my eye
sight is  returned,  the Bleeding Piles are cured,
and I am now enjoying better health than I have
 for any  time  during  the past ten  years.   The
 operation of the Lithontriptic appears like magic;
 it  is pleasant to the taste, and its beneficial effects
 still  more pleasant.  I sincerely hope  all who
 may be similarly affected as I  have been, will not
 hesitate to use  this all-healing balsam.
 November  18, 1845.   LEVI H.  WILLIAMS.
       CASE  OF  ERYSIPELAS
 OF TWELVE  YEARS  STANDING.
  I, WILLIAM HOLMES, Police Constable of
the City of Buffalo, have been for upwards of ten
years subject to  attacks of Erysipelas.   At times
it was so violent as to confine me entirely to the
house, my body  presenting almost one entire sore
from head to feet.  I have taken various medi-
cines, and had the assistance of some of our best
Physicians, but the best effect obtained was mere-
ly a temporary relief'for  but a short time, when
the disease appeared to break out with redoubled
violence.  About six months since I commenced
taking Vaughn's Vegetable Lithontriptic.   The
effect of  the medicine at first was not as rapid as
 I had been led to believe would be the case.  I
 persevered however in the use of the medicine,
 and at this time believe myself to be nearly cured
 of this terrible disease.   My skin has become en-
 tirely smooth,  and  presents a  healthy, natural
 color, very  different from  its  appearance  after
 having  been temporarily patched  up in  former
 times.  The effect of the medicine has been to
 purify my system general 1 v.
                     WILLIAM- HOLMES.
   Buffalo, Nov. 19,1845.
   CASE  OF GENERAL DROPSY.
  Mrs.  CATHARINE  KENNY, wife of Mr
DANIEL  KENNY, tailor of this city, has been
afflicted for a long time with general Dropsy ; the
    CASE OF  INFLAMMATORY
            RHEUMATISM.
  Mrs. LOCKMAN, a German  Lady, residing at
No. 284  Pearl street, has been  for some time
afflicted with inflammatory Rheumatism.   About
three weeks since, she was attacked with a vio-
lent fever, which, in  conjunction with the rheu-
matism, had nearly reduced her to the verge of 
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death.  At this time the Lithontriptic was admin-
istered to her in doses of a table-sp:>on full every
four hours.   She  experienced relief within  a
chert time after commencing its use, and  within
two weeks she was entirely cured, and is now'in
the enjovment of good health.
                 ELIZABETH  LOCKMAN.
  Buffalo, Nov. 18,  1845.


CASE OF PUTRID SORE THROAT!
  HIRAM A. VAUGHN, of the city of Buffalo,
was attacked  at, Detroit, in the month of July,
IS 15, with  a Scrofulous  sore throat;  attended
with  swelling of the neck to an immense size.
\ Ie was attended by several of the best Physicians
'here, but obtained no relief; the symptoms con-
tinued to grow worse, his expectoration  was diffi-
cult, and masses ti thick fleshy matter were void-
ed  in  the r.ct of spitting.  Upon his  return to
Buffalo he procured a bottle of Vaughn's Vegeta-
ble Lithontriptic, which afforded  him relief im-
mediately,  lie  lias  taken about three bottles of
the large size, and is now in  the enjoyment of
good health.   The swellings have entirely disap-
peared.
                     HIRAM A. VAUGHN.
   Buffalo, Nov. 12, 1845.


   CASE OF  SCURVY  LEPROSY,
OF EIGHTEEN YEARS STANDTNG.
   GEORGE P.  BAKER, aged 23, son of George
W. Baker, of Aurora, Erie "County, N.  Y , when
about  four .'ears of  age,  was  attacked  with the
Scurvy Levirosv, which  continued gradually  to
increase upon him until about 'J months  since
—during which  time he  had  the  advice of
some of the  best practitioners of  the  country.
At times, during the progress of the disease, he
has been in so terrible a situation as to be totally
incapacitated from labor or exertion vf any kind.
Indeed, to such a frightful extent had the disease
progressed that he presented so horrid an appear-
ance as not  to be recognised by his intimate ac-
quaintances !—the entire surface of the skin being
covered with thick  scabs or scales, which often
ram' off in pirr.es of upwards an  inch .square.1
__and to such an extent had the  sores progressed
on every part of the body, legs, arms, and the fice,
r.s even lo prevent the eyes from being closed at
night.  Two seasons were spent by him at Avon
Springs,  without  receiving any  radical  benefit.
Most \of the popular purifying medicines of the
day have been resorted to without receiving  any
benefit.
   About four months since he  applied to the pro-
prietor of Vaughn's Vrgetaui.E  Lithontrip-
tic with the hope of obtaining relief.  So dread-
ful wns the spectacle presented by him at the
time that the proprietor was even doubtful of the
prooriotv of his  taking the medicine—his face,
haii'i.t. arrl ortns  presented  one  entire  scab.'
eean-isd frisiiifollv with  large cracks or  fissures,
and the patient aooeared to  be  entirely beyond
the reach of medicine,   lie  commenced, how-
ever, t,iking the,  Lithontriptic, and by tiie  time
l.e had taken four of Ih;  largo sized bottles  the
scabs  had  entirely  disappeared, the  skin  had
assumed the natural and healthy appearance, and
lie was enabled to go about  his ordinary avoca-
tions;—all  of which he ascribes to the use of the
Vegetable Lithontriptic.
  The above statement of my case is substantially
correct and it is with the utmost gratitude and
cheerfulness I render my testimony in favor of
the wonderful effects of this remarkable medicine.
                      GEORGE P. BAKER
   October, 25, 1845.
  I certify that the above statement of my son's
case, is correct in every essential  particular:—
for upwards of  nineteen years he has not been
able to attend to any labor of moment, and my-
self and family had given up all hope of ever see-
ing him restored to permanent health.   To the
use of  Vaughn's Lithontriptic we ascribe
this wonderful change, and we merely advise all
who are afflicted to try the effects of this almost
miraculous curative.
                       G. W. BAKER,
                  of Aurora, Erie  Co., N. Y.
Erie  County, ss :
  GEORGE P. BAKER and GEORGE W. BA-
KER, the persons named in the foregoing certi-
ficates, respectively,  came  before me, this 21st
day of October, 1845,  and being duly sworn, say,
and each for himself says that  the facts stated in
the foregoing certificates sinned by them respec-
tively are true, as therein stated.
                          T. BURWELL,
                         Judge of Erie Co.
Certificate of P. M. Vosburgh, Esq.,  Surro-
        gate of Erie  Comity, N. V.
  I certify that I formerly resided in Aurora,and
have been for years acquainted with the son of
Mr. Baker, whose ease is stated  above—it  was
the general opinion of all his friends and relatives
that young Baker was entirely beyond the reach
of medicine^—such  a horrible spectacle  did he
present at times that  it was deemed advisable to
prevent him from appearing in public.   The cure
that has been effected certainly appears to be one
of the most wonderful in the annals of medicine.
I  have seen  Mr.  Baker since his  recovery—his
skin is smooth and presents as healthy an  appear-
ance as any one in the enjoyment of sound health
—and to  the use  of Vaughns Vegetable  Li-
thontriptic, may  be fairlv as°ribed  his  re-
covery.                  P. M- VOSBURGH.
 Certificate from Hon.  P. P. Stt.vens, first
           Judge of Erie County.
  I have been well acquainted  with ?.Ir. Georcra
W. Baker, the father of the young man, whosa
extraordinary cure is mentioned  above.   1 have
seen the young man frequently both  hefore and
since his recovery, and believe the statement of
his cure to be correct.
            FREDERICK P. STEVENs,
                     Fir.;t Jud-ja of  Erie Co. 
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GENERAL
TREATISE.
    Certificate of I. V. Vanderpoel, Esq.
  I have been acquainted with Mr. Baker, whose
remarkable cure by Dr. Vaughn's Vegetable  Li-
thontriptic is the  subject of  general remark in
the community.  I had  seen him just before  he
commenced  taking the Lithontriptic,  and  cer-
tainly a more deplorable object, scarcely, if ever
presented itself than  was young Baker at this
time.   I  have seen him several  times  since  his
recovery, and were the living evidence not before
me, I could not credit the existence of so remark-
able a cure.   Dr. Vaughn is well known as one
of our most respected citizens, and I am happy to
learn that the success of his medicine is commen-
surate with its merits.
                     I. V. VANDERPOEL.
  Buffalo, Nov. 18, 1845.
  CASE OF  AFFECTION  OF  THE
                 HEART.
  Mrs. JOHN  SEWARD, residing  at No. 47
Chippewa street, has been for a number of years
sorely troubled  with Palpitation of the Heart,
attended  with  difficulty  of  breathing,  general
debility, &c, with sensation of water about the
heart—presenting every  appearance  of Hydro-
thorax, or Dropsy in the chest.  The attacks of
palpitation of the heart were often so severe as
to confine her to the bed for weeks—and so much
was her general health  and strength reduced by
the disease,  that her life  was despaired of.   Her
Physicians had repeatedly declared there was no
help for her, and she herself confidently believed
that  her  time was short  on the earth.  At the
solicitation of a friend who had  witnessed the
marvellous effects of Vaughn's Vegetable Lithon-
triptic, she was  induced to try it; and after taking
about three  of the large sized  bottles,  during a
period of about three months, she finds her health
wonderfully improved ; the palpitation has entire-
ly ceased, her strength is rapidly returning, her
cheeks once  more present the glow of health, and
there is every demonstration of a rapid recovery.
  This statement of my wife's cure, taken  down
at our mutual request,  is  perfectly correct, and
we feel pleasure in contributing our mite toward
the mass of testimony accumulated in support of
the wonders  of this medicine.   We  gratefully
shall  remember Dr. Vaughn  to the latest period
of our lives, and cheerfully invite all afflicted to
try his medicine.         NANCY SEWARD.
                        JOHN SEWARD.
  Buffalo, Nov. 18, 1845.
ANOTHER CASE OF DROPSY.
 Extract  of a Letter from Rev.  John W.
   Vaughn, of Alc.ott, Niagara Co. N  Y.
  " About, your medicine, my Lydia, is so smart
that wre shall certainly  continue the use of it.
When  she first commenced  taking it, she  felt
very weak and  thought  it was doing harm, but
since that time she has rapidly improved, and  is
now anew creature; she is now in better health
than she has been for six years past.  I think her
liize. has sensibly diminished, and I have full faith
in the medicine—much more than my wife, who
had long since made up her mind that nothing
could save her.  However, for the last two weeks
she has  been enabled to do all  her  own house-
work, and yesterday did up a two weeks washing.
If you have the medicine  at  Lockport, please
write and let me know.*'
                 Yours, &c.
                     JOHN W. VAUGHN.
   CASE  OF HYDROTHORAX—OS
      DROPSY IN THE CHEST.
  Mrs. Scott, a widow Lady, living  on Carolina
street, was attacked  about a year since with
Dropsy in the Chest, accompanied with all  the
symptoms of this terrible disease, in its  worst
form—difficulty  of  breathing, #a dry hacking
cough, palpitation of the heart, and  a  general
swelling  all over the body—targe cysts or sacks
of water had accumulated  on various parts, and
when first  applied to by the Proprietor she pre-
sented as deplorable a spectacle as could well be
imagined.  For some time she had been attended
by the best Physicians in this city—she however
experienced no relief,  and her symptoms only
grew worse—for months she had not been able to
enjoy a comfortable night's rest.  She commenced
the use of the medicine about four months since
and experienced relief almost immediately after
taking it.   The swellings decreased,  her appetite
was restored, and  she was in a fair way of recov-
ery, when,  by imprudent exposure, she took cold
and experienced a relapse,- arid having neglected
to use the  Lithontriptic, her former  symptoms
returned  in  an  alarming degree, and  her life was
despaired of.  At  this time the Proprietor  again
called upon her and  recommended the use of  the
Lithontriptic, which she again commenced tak-
ing, and in less  than four weeks after, the disease
gave way under its mighty power.  The swelling
began to decrease, the water to flow freely through
the natural channels, her strength returned, and
she is now able  to be about and attend  to  her
housework.  The various Physicians, several of
the first  standing in this city, who attended her
had given her up  entirely, told her it was impos-
sible  she could live, and advised  her  to prepare
for death.   Still by the aid of this sovereign rem-
edy she is now in a fair  way to enjoy many years
of health and happiness, and she invites all  who
are incredulous as to this statement to call on her
and satisfy  themselves.
  I certify  that this statement of  my disease and
cure is correct,  and my brother, who resides with
me,  unites his  testimony to mine in evidence of
the remarkable cure effected by Vaughn's Vege-
table Lithontriptic.
                   DANIEL O'RAFFERTY.
                   ROSANNA SCOTT.
  Buffalo, Nov. 20, 1845.
  CASE OF  SPINAL  COMPLAINT-
       ATTENDED  WITH  THE
             BLIND PILES.
   Mrs. Lock, residing at 157 Franklin-street, has
I been afflicted with a spinal complaint attended 
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with violent pain in the side, for upwards of ten
years :—to such an extent had the irregularity of
the spine proceeded as to cause  her to be bent
nearly double at times, and to be totally incapa-
citated from walking, or to attend to any ordinary
house-work.  In  addition to this,  she has  been
severely afflicted with the Blind Piles.   At Utica
and Johnstown,  (at which  places she formerly
resided) she has had the most eminent Physicians
attend her but without the slightest success.  To
such an extent was she afflicted, that she was not
able to bear the weight of an infant.  About one
month since, she commenced taking the Lithon-
triptic,  and in less than two weeks she began to
experience radical relief;  the pains in  her side
subsided, and she is now enabled  to walk erect,
and take long walks about the city.  Her general
health is materially improved and the blind piles
entirely cured.   To the.use  of the Lithontriptic
she gives the whole  merit  of  the cure—as she
has been repeatedly given up by some of the best
regular Practitioners  in the State.  She invites
all who may be afflicted with similar complaints
to call on her, when she will be happy to explain
further in relation to the merits of this extraordi-
nary medicine.
                      HELEN  M.  LOCKE.
  The above statement of my wife's case is per-
fectly correct, only it  is not stated as bad as it
actually was. I  never supposed  that she would
be relieved  after having been given up by  the
various  Physicians I had employed.  I hope that
all  who  are diseased will try  the effects  of
Vaughn's Vegetable Lithontriptic.
                    NATHANIEL LOCKE.
  Buffalo, Nov. 13, 1845.
'  REMARKABLE CASE OF  DROPSY.
                         Berlin, Oct. 24, 1845
   To whom it may concern :
      I hereby certify, that my wife Nancy, has been
   troubled with  Dropsy for the last  five  years,
   during which time she has been constantly under
   the Doctor's care  until about six  weeks  since,
   and has tried every remedy,  without receiving
   any relief.   It was evident to all that  she  could
   not continue to live but a short time in the situa-
   tion she was.  " A drowning man wiU catch at
   straws" says the proverb, and having seen your
   medicine advertised, we  concluded it would do
   no harm to  try it.  In less than four days after
   she  commenced taking the medicine, a radical
   change  was  observed in  her  feelings, and  she
   began sensibly to  mend.   She is now taking the
   third bottle, and has rode between forty-five  and
   fifty miles this week—and she believes that she
   shall be entirely cured.   She has not been able to
   lie down to  sleep in a horizontal position in ten
   months until this week—and has not been able to
   ride out in five years, until after commencing
   the  use  of  this  medicine.   We  can truly  say,
   " this medicine hath done wonders" for U3.  We
   givo our testimony in  the fulness  of our hearts,
   as a small token of gratitude towards Dr. Vaughn,
the inventor  of  this truly  excellent medicine.
We have never seen him, nor had any correspon-
dence with him,  but we sincerely hope all afflic-
ted will do as we have done and find relief.
                          OLIVER MAIN.
                          NANCY MAIN.
REMARKABLE CURE OF DROPSY.
  Mrs.  Susannah Holbrook, an aged  Lady,
residing in the town of Hamburgh, Erie Co., was
attacked with dropsy about eighteen months since
—had the best medical talent in the county—
various remedies were suggested and applied with
no success, the disease continued to gain on her
until the first of September last, at which time
she was so bloated from  the chin to the soles of
her feet that it  was almost impossible for  her to
lie down—had no appetite, and could not sleep
at night  without the use of opium—experienced
great  difficulty  in  voiding  urine; a  council of
Physicians was  called, and  it was their unani-
mous  opinion that Mrs. Holbrook could not live
three  weeks—she herself heard the opinion and
coincided with  it.  At  this time Mr. Lemuel
Wasson, formerly Sheriff of  this county, hap-
pening  to read  the  advertisement of Vaughn's
Vegetable Lithontriptic, called and procured  a
bottle, which Mrs. Holbrook commenced  taking
—before she had used half a bottle, the urinary
organs returned to their  natural and healthy ope-
ration—the  dropsical  swelling decreased,  and
before she  had finished taking  one  bottle the
bloating had entirely gone down—her appetite
was good, and for the first time for nearly  a year,
she was enabled to enjoy a good night's  rest.—
She continued  to use  the Lithontriptic until she
had used up two bottles, when she wa3 perfectly
cured.  It is now over four months since she has
left off the use of the medicine, and she now
enjoys better health than she  has done for years
previous—and ascribes her recovery solely to the
use of Vaughn's Vegetable Lithontriptic
   Her son,  Mr. Marston Holbrook, of Ham-
burgh,  confirms  the  above statement  in every
essential particular.  Mr. C  F. S. Thomas, of
 Buffalo, at  the request  of the Proprietor, called
upon Mrs.  Holbrook, and  took down  from her
 own lips the above particulars.

   STATE OF NEW YORK, ss.    >
     Erie County, City of Buffalo. $

   CALVIN F. S. THOMAS, of the City  of Buf-
 falo,  being duly sworn, deposes and says, that the
 facts set forth  in the statement in relation to the
 cure  of Mrs. Susannah Holbrook,  of Ham-
 burgh, as published in the handbills of Dr. G. C.
 Vaughn, above, are  substantially the  same,  as
 communicated by Mrs. Holbrook in person,  on
 the 11th of February last, and further says that
 at that time Mrs. Holbrook was apparently in the
 enjoyment of good health, and had not the least
 appearance of Dropsv.
                   CALVIN F. S. THOMAS.
 Sworn before me, this 25th day of March, 1845. >
      T. BURWELL, Judge Erie Co. Courts.   $ 
2.2
GENERAL TREATISE.
  CASE  OF  ANASARCA—OR CEL-
           LULAR DROPSY.
Cured after  Tapping had been  resorted  to
  EIGHT  TIMES,* and over 60 gallons of
  tauter drawn from the patient.
  The case  of  Mr.  Varian,  whose certificate is
given below, presents one of the most extraordi-
nary instances of the curative powers of Medicine,
to be found on record.   Mr. Varian's disease was
Anasarca,  or  Cellular  Dropsy—he  had been
afflicted for  a long lime, and at length was indu-
ced to resort to the useless and dangerous opera-
tion of tapping—which infliction was repeated no
less than eight  times—at intervals  of  about two
weeks—the   water  accumulating  to  a greater
amount  after each successive tapping; so great
was  the discharge of water that Mr. Varian was
induced to have a silver tube made to be inserted
in the orifice made in  his side, and thus ke'ep the
water constantly running—this, however, he was
forced to abandon after a short time,  as inflam-
mation set in—and would have probably proved
fatal.  During the eight times Mr. V. was tapped,
he estimates that upwards of SIXTY GALLONS
OF WATER was taken from him.'  After every
means had  failed, and when his physicians had
pronounced him incurable—and he himself believ-
ed there was no help for him—a friend suggested
the  trial of Vaughn's Vegetable Lithontriptic.
A sensible change was observed after the use of
only one bottle—and  continuing  to follow  the
directions strictly as given by the Proprietor, after
the  us,e of only eight bottles, he is a sound and
healthy man, able to attend to  any occupation,
and  ready and willing to testify to the virtues of
this incomparable medicine.
  " This is to certify that  in the month of March
1843, I was taken with Dropsy, which increased
to an alarming degree, so much  so that in the
space of six  or eight  months, I had  at least  a
barrel and a half of  water  taken from  me; my
complaint was, I supposed  at that time, past all
cure; the doctors having pronounced  my case
 hopeless.  About this stage of the complaint, I
 heard of Vaughn's  Vegetable Lithontriptic.  A
 friend stated to me that  I should  find  relief by
 using it.  I  took it, I must say, with but little
 hopes of a cure ; but to my astonishment, the first
 bottle acted like magic ; the watei was then accu-
 mulating to a great amount in  my system—but
 upon using the medicine, the enlargement of my
 body ceased; the water passed off by its natural
 channels, and now, after having used  some eisjht
 bottles,  I  find myself able  to attend to my busi-
 ness, and feel confident of a complete restoration
 to  health.            " HENRY VARIAN,
                    " A Men, Erie Co. N. Y."
   Buffalo, May 29, IS 11.
  CASE OF  FLUOR ALBUS, AND
IRREGULARITY OF THE MENSES.
  Miss-----,  of West BloomMd, N. Y., has
been severely afflicted with fluoralbus, or whites,
together with irregularity of the menses for up-
wards of  twenty  years.   She had  tried every
remedy of the day—after having exhausted the
skill of the most eminent Doctors in her neigh-
borhood—but without success.  To such an ex-
tent had the disease proceeded, that she was often
confined to the house for months.   Having tried
all the most popular remedies of the day without
success, she was entirely skeptical in regard to
receiving any benefit from the Lithontriptic,  and >
would not even  buy it from the agent until she-
had consulted with the Proprietor.  She then com-
menced the use  of this medicine, and before she
had used one bottle experienced such important
relief that she was induced  to send for two bot-
tles more, and expresses her  entire confidence
that  she will  be completely cured.  She is now
better than she has been for years, and is contin-
uing the use of it with unabated success.
  Further particulars of this extraordinary case
will be given on application to the Proprietor.
THE GREAT AMERICAN REMEDY,
known as  " Vaughn's  Vegetable  Lithon-
triptic Mixture," can be resorted to for any
disease which is  known  to have existence—be-
cause the  peculiar properties it  possesses  acts
upon  the blood, and  impurity of the blood is
always the cause of the derangement of any
part  of  the  system.  Upon  this principle tho
Proprietor  coines before  the public, and as long
as his article will by its action upon, and its con-
trol over such  complaints, as here enumerated,
and specified to have been cured, so long will
he continue to hold up his article a3 the " Only
Remedy" which it is safe to trust.  Other vege-
table  remedies are advertised,  and  other  men
have  offered  to cure upon the same  principle,
but " dead men's" certificates  have proved the
falsity of their statements.   Forgery and  base
corruption  have been  resorted to, and when one
single genuine name has  been affixed to some
slight cure at head quarters,  you  have seen  the1
same certificate in every newspaper from Maine
to Georgia, showing  the value of real names-
when they could be produced.   The Proprietor
has  hundreds,  which will appear from time to
time  in the advertisements.   If you, Rtaler, are
an invalid,  resort to this medicine, and  send
your  letter that it  too  may be made known to
some suflerer who  needs still more  proof to be
convinced  that Vaughn's Vegetable Lithontriptic
Mixture  is a valuable, and life-saving medicine
  Dose for an  adult,  one table spoon  full  four
times per day.   In cases of Dropsy the dose must
be increased  to that degree sufficient to move the
bowels four  times  per day, and  in all cases the
bowels should move freely once a day.  ■
   Children one \ear old, one tea spoon full three
times per day—and when older, increase at dis-
cretion—-no bad result can follow an over  dose,
but it should not be given if not necessary.  The
medicine is  pleasant, and  what is very singular,
it rarely creates nausea.
   Price, large si/.e, 12 oz. bottle.  One Dollar.—
Extra large  size, 30 oz., Two Dollars.  So you
will see  that the dollar size, though large enough
to try the article, is not the cheaper, as the two
dollar bottle is by far the least expensive, hold-
ing (3 oz. more than two of the smaller bottle9. 
GENERAL TREATISE.
23
        IMPORTANT NOTICE.
All who contemplate taking the medicine, will-
  please to read this paragraph previous to a
  commencement.

  The first effect generally discovered, is a most
singular sensation throughout the system—some-
times numbness of the limbs, often a burning, or
heating sensation about the  system internally ;
sometimes extreme nausea, faintness, an increase
of weakness—if in  case of Dropsy, the system
seems to fill up and  the  patient to grow worse
for a day or two—in diseases of the blood, such
as Scrofula, or an eruptive disease, the skin grows
worse  in appearance, and in all complaints the
patients are notified  of the active  properties of
this  most singular remedy by various and differ-
ent symptoms which  appear for the worse.  Such
however is  not  the  case, as after this crisis has
passed, and the  remedy has  grappled with  the
disease—no matter  of  what  nature—a gradual,
healthy  tone will have  commenced.  And  the
entire change which  the  body and  mind under-
goes, is a demonstration of the wonderful  com-
pound upon which  this work treats.  If you
would prove the truth of what is stated regarding
the curative powers of this medicine, do not losa
patience if it takes many bottles to give you the
state of health you seek ; the constitution differs
so materially, that where one would require but
four bottles, another would require a  dozen or
even double that number,  and if health is at last
regained, as it must be if a trial  is persisted in,
the cost of 50 bottles is of no moment.   In all
general cases, the. large sized bottle will give most
extraordinary  relief—no matter what the com-
plaint may be—in a very large number of cases
the action has been thus almost immediate,  and
very few exceptions to this has ever occurred.
  {JCJ- Be careful that you are not imposed upon.
Every bottle has the words " Vaughn's Vegetable
Lithontriptic Mixture," blown in the glass,—the
written signature of " G. C. VAUGHN,"  on the
directions, and  " G. C. Vaughn, Buffalo," stamp-
ed on the cork.   None other are genuine.  Pre-
pared by Dr. G. C. VAUGHN, and  sold at the
Principal Agency, No.  183 Main street,  and by
reputable Druggists throughout the Union.
  (jCr" Put in strong bottles, each bottle contain-
ing full directions for the use of  the Medicine.—
Price for 30 oz. bottles, $2.  12 oz. bottles, $1.
                          LIST   OF  AGENTS,

  Propriethu's Office, 183 Main street, Buffiilo, N. Y.   Dr. G. C. Vaughn—(to whom
all communications must be post paid)—manufactured  and sold Wholesale and Retail.
  Wholesale Agent for the city of New York,  Wm.  Burger,  Wholesale Druggist,  50
Courtlandt stieet.
             UTTiW I'OHS.
Avon,—Tsaac Wells.
Auburn,—Richanl Steele.
Albion,—Dr.'s Nichorson & Paine.
Amsterdam,—J. \V. Sturtevant.
Akron,—E.  M.  Adams.
Attica,—Dr. A. P. Curtis.
Alexander,—Afimli-.i &. Dirstine.
Adams' Centr•■, —Davis & Bliss.
Adams,—J.  H.  Whipple.
Aurora,—Silas Ad-niis.
Byron,—H.  Hale.
Batavia,—Win. Seaver &'Son.
Barre Center,— B M >tison.
Ballston Spa,—J as- W.  Horton.
Boonville,—Deuglas &  Owens.
Borodma,—T. '1. Sanderson.
Brockport,— I'hos. R. Roby.
Buffalo,—Hollister*& Co.
    "    Coleman & Co.
    "    L. S. Revnolds.
         C. C Bristol.
    "    Wm. Williams.
Clyde,—J. G. Hood.
Cayuga,—E. H. Waldo.
Cazenovia,—Jno. Fairchild.
Canastota,—N  Fay".
Cooperstown,—Philp Roof.
Cortland,—David Bradford.
Clinton,—Chas. Barrows.
Cherry Valley,—Jas.  B. Dunlap.
Canajoharia,—D. VV.  Erwin.
Constableville,—Miller, Duff& Co.
Clarence,—Smith & Bailey.
Churchville,—11. Hall.
Carthage,—H. Farrington &. Son.
Canandaigun,—H. 0. Hays & Co.
Dryden,— liushnell & Dwight.
Erieville,—George  R. Parmclee.
East Pembroke,—Wright & Ellicott.
Elba,—J. & D. Verplanck.
Elbridge,—Alonzo Wood.
Fayetteville,—Wm. Parker, Jr.
Fonda,—J. N. Webster.
Farmersville,—E. Chester.
Fort Plain,—J. H.  Babcock.
Frankfort,—W. R.  Stevens.
Geneva,—Luther Kelly &, Co.
Hampton,—E. P. tfrown.
Holley,—R. W. Gould &, Co. 
24
GENERAL TREATISE.
Homer,—George Cook.
Herkimer,—Williams & Hopkins.
Hamilton,—John J. Foote.
Ithaca,—0. B. Curren.
Jordan,—W. Richards.
Lyons,—Sanford & Sisson.
Lowville,—A. Davenport.
Le Roy,—J. G. Barber.
Lima,—Dr. D. D. Dayton.
Lansingburgh,—Jas. N. Lowrey.
Little Falls,—J. N. Gray.
Log City,—J. L. Ford.
Madison,—Root, Taylor & Co.
Martinsburgh,—Dr. J. N. Sturdevent & Co.
Mohawk,—L. L. Merry.
Macedon,—Henry Reed.
Marcellus,—Isaac Bradley.
Mexico,—James S. Chandler.
Mendon,—M. R. Woodbury.
Manlius,—Dr. H. Nirns.
Morrisville,—Tabor Potter.
Medina,—Smith Vibbard.
Newark,—Artemas Doane.
New Woodstock,—Philetus Lathrop.
Ovid,—G. D. McLaffertVi
Oswego,—George Dilworth.
     "    Mead & Cassington.
Oriskany,—D. C. Balis.
 Port Byron,—Chas. Hamilton.
 Penn Yann,—John H. Lapham.
Palmyra,—F- M. Smith.
 Pittsford,—Caleb Nye, Jr.
 Pulaski,—Jones & Clark.
 Pennfield,—H. C. Harvey &. Co.
 Rushville,—Leander Reddy.
 Rush,—Crosby &  Dauchy.
 Rochester,—Post & Willis.
       "    L. B. Swan.
 Richfield  Springs,—A. R. Ellwood.
 Remsen,—C. C. Ray & Co.
 Richfield,—J. D.  Vaughn.
 Rome,—Bissill & Leonard.
 Scuvler's Lake,—Harp &, North.
 Schenectady,—Dr. Andrew Truax.
 Salina,—David Brace.
 Spencerport,—C Church & Co.
 St. Johnsville,—J. k. A. L. Averill.
 Scottsviile,—Dr.  F. M. Edson.
 Springville,—Dr. H. Hubbard.
 Sodus,—A. M. Winchester.
 Sacketts Harbor,—J. & D. S. Kimball.
 Saratoga  Springs,—E. J. Huling.
  Seneca Falls,—Jas. Osborn.
  Spafford,—A. M. Roundy & Co.
Scott,—Dr. P. H. Vanshaick.
Skaneatelas,—John Snook, Jr.   *
Trumansburgh,—B. Allen. >       *
Troy,—John  L. Thompson & Co.
Utica,—j. E. Warner &, Co.
Vernon,—James Turner.
Vienna.—McGee Caldwell.
West Winfield,—G. D. Foster & Co.
Waterville,—J. W. & W.  B. Stafford.
West Troy,— Larcome &. Tucker.
Waterford,—John Higgins.
Williamson Corners,—Betsy Hoxie.
Woolcott,—B. M. Underhill.
Watertown,—J. N. Smith.
West Bloomfield,—Win. A. Pilsbury.
Weedsport,—Alonzo L. Smith.
Waterloo,—Thos. McClintock.
        P]ErVlV§Yff.VAIVIA.
T. W- Dyott & Sons, 132 North Second street,
  Philadelphia, General Agents for the Middle
  and Southern States.
             CATVA1DA.
William Lyman  & Co.,  Wholesale and Retail
  Agents for the Lower Province; St Paul street,
  Montreal.
Beamsville,—J. & J. Osborn.
Brantford,—A. Higinbotham.
Grimsby,—Lewis & Ford.
Hamilton,—John Winer.
Jordan,—Wm. Merton.
Niagara,—Jas. Harvey.
Stoney Creek,—Mathew Carroll & Co.
St. Catherines,—Jas.  Harvey.
Toronto,—S. F.  Urquhart.
             ISI>IAIVA.
Covington,—Jas. G. Hardy.
Danville,—J. W. L. Matlock & Co.

            MICHIGAN.
Detroit,—John Owen \. Co.
         G. & J. G. Hill.
Marshall,—A. 0. Hyde.
       FIASSACHrSETTS.
Thomas P. Chase,-----street, Boston, Gene-
  ral Agent for the State, to whom all letters
  must be post paid.
    DEPOT DEVOTED EXCLUSIVELY TO THE SALE OF THIS ARTICLE.
                    THOMAS   P.   CHASE,
GENERAL   AGENT  for   t}ie   State  of  Massachusetts,
       Corner ot Clinton and  Commercial Streets, Boston.
                [LT ALL LETTERS TO THE AGK.VT  MUST BE POST PAIU. JJi
                                ALSO  FOR SALE BY
                         Mrs.  E.  KIDDER,
           General Wholesale Dealer in Drugs and Medicines,
                     Wo. 100  Court-Street, Boston.