are the three ways in which medicines operate upon the nutritive
functions and the blood.

Thus alteratives may be specifics, in so far as they are particularly
useful in certain disorders, and the combination which has been made in
Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery, excels all others with which we
are acquainted, for scrofulous diseases, particularly in fulfilling the
foregoing indications. It works out peculiar processes in the blood, not
like food, by supplying merely a natural want, but by strengthening the
nutritive functions and counteracting morbid action, after which
operations it passes out of the system by excretion.

From what has been said upon the importance of blood medicines and their
modes of action, the reader must not infer that we account for all
diseases by some fault of the humors of the body, for we do not. But
that scrofula, in its varied forms, results from imperfect nutrition and
disorders of the blood, is now universally conceded. It is for this
reason that neither time nor pains have been spared in perfecting an
alterative, tonic, nutritive, restorative, and antiseptic compound, to
which Dr. Pierce has given the name of "Golden Medical Discovery." Not
only is it an alterative and a nutritive restorative, acting upon the
secretions, but it opposes putrefaction and degenerative decay of the
fluids and solids. Hence its universal indication in all scrofulous
diseases. It will intercept those thin, watery discharges which are the
result of weakness, degeneration, and putrescent decay of the blood,
perpetuated by a low grade of scrofulous inflammation. By an adult it
can be taken in doses of from one to two teaspoonfuls three or four
times per day.

The bowels should be properly regulated. When constipation exists one or
two of Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets taken daily, will fulfill the
indication. The patient ought not to neglect to carry out all the
hygienic recommendations heretofore given. The treatment of running
sores is very simple. Cleanse them every day with Castile-soap and
water, being careful not to rub or touch the surface of the sores. Use a
clean sponge or a piece of clean muslin and saturating it with the warm
water, hold it a few inches above the affected part, and squeeze out the
fluid, allowing the cleansing stream to fall gently upon the open sore.
After thoroughly cleansing the sore, apply to it Dr. Pierce's
All-Healing Salve. 25 cents in postage stamps sent to us will s