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PARLIAMENTARY PATENT MEDICINE.

Dr. John Russell, Registered M.P., P.C., and Graduate of the University of Edinburgh, original co-patentee of that celebrated Remedy, Grey and Co.’s Specific, begs to introduce and recommend to the patronage of the British Parliament and Public, his wonderful, universal, and infallible Medicine, the new

PURIFYING REFORM PILL.

the discovery and composition of which have been the fruit of more than forty years’ experience. The virtues of this excellent preparation are tonic, stimulant, deobstruent, and slightly emunctory, constitutiong, in their totality,

A MILD CONSTITUTIONAL ALTERATIVE

calculated to repair and invigorate, whilst it exonerates, without depressing, the system. The ingredients of this invaluable panacea have been carefully selected from the safest, most certain, and oldest established articles of the Materia Medica, exclusive of all fanciful new-fangled introductions of the Modern School. Its remedial operation is gentle and insensible; unattended by those violent convulsions, and dreadful shocks of the constitution which would be the inevitable effect of the extreme and desperate measures recommended by some imprudent or inexperienced Practitioners. Effectual as agreeable in its action, this Pill must not be considered inert, at it has been untruly represented to be by ignorant or interested Parties. The freedom of its agency from the least possible inconvenience, results from the innocuous nature of its components; in consequence of which its use involves no confinement, or change of diet and regimen. Dr. Russell earnestly cautions all who value their health, not to allow themselves to be deluded by the artifices of those Unprincipled Quacks and Pretenders over the way, who insert their puffing advertisements and paragraphs in certain papers subservient to their base designs, and whose Nostrums, if the Public could be duped into taking those pernicious compounds, would undermine and destroy that Constitution of which they are imprudently and insidiously represented as Conservative; and epithet which is exclusively applicable to the New Purifying Reform Pill, discovered and composed by Dr. John Russell.

Observe the Label marked Palmerston, Russell and Co., and also the Government Stamp, to counterfeit which is foolery. Drs. P.R.&Co. May be consulted as heretofore, and Downing Street, on the usual Terms.

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