Diarrhoea Dropsy Debility Fever and Ague Female Complaints Headaches Indigestion Influenza Inflammation Inward Weakness Liver Complaints Lowness of Spirits Piles Stone and Gravel Secondary Symptoms

with particular stress upon their value as a “great female medicine.”  Besides the major advertisement of the pills, consisting of an eight-inch column to be printed in each issue of the paper, smaller announcements were provided, to be inserted according to a specified monthly schedule among the editorial matter on the inside pages.  Sample monthly announcements from the Judson Mountain Herb Pills contract used in 1860 were: 

     JANUARY

     THE GREAT FEMALE MEDICINE

The functional irregularities peculiar to the weaker sex, are invariably corrected without pain or inconvenience by the use of Judson’s Mountain Herb Pills.  They are the safest and surest medicine for all the diseases incidental to females of all ages, and more especially so in this climate.

Ladies who wish to enjoy health should always have these Pills.  No one who ever uses them once will ever allow herself to be without them.  They remove all obstructions, purify the blood and give to the skin that beautiful, clear and healthful look so greatly admired in a beautiful and healthy woman.  At certain periods these Pills are an indispensable companion.  From one to four should be taken each day, until relief is obtained.  A few doses occasionally, will keep the system healthy, and the blood so pure, that diseases cannot enter the body.

     MARCH

     DISEASES OF THE CHEST AND LUNGS

These diseases are too well known to require any description.  How many thousands are every year carried to the silent grave by that dread scourge Consumption, which always commences with a slight cough.  Keep the blood pure and healthy by taking a few doses of JUDSON’S MOUNTAIN HERB PILLS each week, and disease of any kind is impossible.  Consumption and lung difficulties always arise from particles of corrupt matter deposited in the air cells by bad blood.  Purify that stream of life and it will soon carry off and destroy the poisonous matter; and like a crystal river flowing through a desert, will bring with it and leave throughout the body the elements of health and strength.  As the river leaving the elements of fertility in its course, causes the before barren waste to bloom with flowers and fruit, so pure blood causes the frame to rejoice in strength and health, and bloom with unfading beauty.

[Illustration:  FIGURE 19.—­Card used in advertising Judson’s Mountain Herb Pills.]

Any person who read the notices for both medicines carefully might have noticed with some surprise that the Mountain Herb Pills and the Indian Root Pills were somehow often recommended for many of the same diseases.  In fact, the Mountain Herb Pills and the Indian Root Pills used identical text in explaining their effect upon several disagreeable conditions.  Always prominent in this advertising were reminders of our fragile mortality and warnings, if proper medication were neglected, of an untimely consignment to the silent grave.