Facts in relation to important cures effected by the use of Sands' sarsaparilla.

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[1843]
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    From Uie Norwich Courier, Nov. 18, 1*12. Sands's Sarsaparilla.—The rapid sale of this article in this community is a pretty significant comment upon its virtues as a medicine. The agent tor this city is constantly receiving testimonials of the almost incredible cures it is daily effecting in cases where every other medicine has utterly tailed. The case of Airs. A. M. Phillips, mentioned in another column, is well known to many of our citizens, and wherever known is justly regarded as one of a most surprising character. A boy or young man at Jewett City, also, who has been for a long time afflicted with a loathsome excrescence upon bis face, and has been under treatment at the hospital of celebrated physicians in Boston, without finding any relief, is now rapidly improving under the use of this powerful article. Many other cases might be added, but it is unnecessary. The medicine has been tested, and is rec- ommended by several physicians in this vicinity, who use it in their practice. From the Nortoich Aurora, Dec. 7, 1841. Sands's Sarsaparilla.—We are daily receiving testimonials of the wonderful effects of this powerful vegetable composition in almost every town in this vicinity. Cases have occurred of long standing complaints, which have resisted all the popular medicines of the day, yielding immediately to its curative powers. We have heard ofc a case in Col- chester, of a young man who has been confined to his house for a year with ulcers, &c, upon his limbs; a lady in Canterbury in a decline ; and also the remarkable case of Mrs. A. M. Phillips at the Falls, which is known to many of our citizens. These are sufficient, saying nothing of hundreds of others in this vicinity, to establish its wonderful effects. The following certificate is from a gentleman who lost nearly the whole of his nose from a severe Scrofulous affection. [The subjoined cut represents the deformity as nearly as can be portrayed.] Brooklyn, JVov. 25, 1842. Messrs. Sands: Gent.—Although I am dis- figured and deformed for lite, I have not lost my recollection ; and never, while 1 exist, shall I cease to feel grateful for benefits conferred through the use of your invaluable Sarsapa- rilla. I was attacked in the year 1838 with a scrofulous affection on the end of my the left nostril was first destroyed, and contin- uing upwards, it crossed the bridge, and seiz- ed upon the right cartilage, bone, and sur- rounding parte, until finally th< passages for conveying tears from the eyes to the nose Wi re obli rated, which caused a continual flow of tears. 'J I I upon the upper lip, i ctending to tie- right cheek, and my feelings and Bufferings were such as r imagined than described. I am a native of Nottingham, in England, and my well know n there. The tir.-t phyi i- i >!j>-d for me, but with little benefit At one time I was direi ;- ed to take sixty-three drops of the tincture of iodine three times a day, which 1 continued for six months in succession. At another time I applied oil of vitriol to the parts. After this, I used a prescription of Sir Astley Coop- er's, but all proved in vain. I continued to ^row worse, and as a drowning man will catch at a straw, I used every remedy I could hear oti that u; my case, until I became disgusted with the treatment, and relinquished all hope <J ting v Many pronounced the disease a cancer, but Dr. , under whose treatment I was, considered it Scrofulous Lupus, and this is the name given it by medical men. At a last resort I was recommended to try a change of air and an Atlantic voyage, and in April last I sailed for America, and arrived here in the month of May. The disease con-