Introductory remarks of the American hygiest, William Sears.

  • Sears, William.
Date:
1835
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    more thnn thirty years. He has through life maintained a fair reputation. His character for truth and general integrity stands high, indeed I have never heard it im- peached. Ballston Spa, N. Y. Oct. 6, 1834. JOHN W. TAYLOR. I have known Mr. William Sears for more than thirty years, having resided most of that time in the same town with him; and during that period he has sustained a moral character without reproach. Oct. 8th, 1834. S.YOUNG. And in addition to these I would refer to Mr. John Sat- terlee, Esq., Cashier of Greenwich Bank, Mr. V. R. Sat- terlee, Esrp, Messrs. Burr, Wakeman, Samuel Satterlee, John Disturnell, Czar Dunning, Rueben Westcot, Egbert Barnum, and Stephen Wakeman, Merchants, and Samuel Hinman, Esq. of this city. Extract of a Certificate from Mr. James Comstock, Editor of the Ballston Spa Gazelle. For several years past, Mrs. Comstock has been affect- ed with an unusually obstinate dyspepsia, attended with a great degree of acidity of the stomach, and redundancy of bile, which rendered it necessary for her to have re- course, frequently, to calomel and severe external applica- tions. She has followed the directions of several good Phy- sicians— she has taken calomel after calomel, and been tor- tured with blisters, and used various prescriptions of me- dicine, including the British Hygiene Pills, without receiv- ing any permanent benefit. About four months since she commenced taking Sears's A. H. V. Renovating Pills, and has used no other medicine. Her health has improved more by the us-e of them, than by all the means she has ever employed. Their effect has been to correct the acidity of the stomach—to carry off the bilious matter, and give tone and strength to the stomach and bowels. They have not produced those nauseating and debilitating effects which have attended the use of former medicine