Transcribed by Susan Bergeron. Geo. The Whitehaven Herald, Tuesday, April 23, 1833 Congreve's Medicines The following Compound has realized a degree of celebrity and patronage amongst the Nobility and Gentry of this Country, hitherto unexampled, and only exceeded by the development of its astonishing properties over the various diseases, proceeding from Impurity of the Blood disordered Stomach, &c., which afflict, agitate, and impair the vital frame. No family should be without so valuable a Remedy. ..... CONGREVE'S Petroleum Pills. These Pills, now lustily celebrated as a specific remedy in all Nervous Complaints, Chronic Indigestion, and the Indigestion of Elderly People; Spasms of the Stomach and Bowels; General Relaxation, producing Consumption, Loss of Appetite, and Tone of the Viscera; Langour; Tremor; Palpitation; Palsies; Despondency; What of Energy; Head-Ache; Costiveness; Worms, especially those which trouble Children; (for Children one Pill may be taken in Treacle or Honey every morning with incredible advantage, and without trouble;) Hysteric Diseases; Female Complaints, connected with debility, and dropsical swelling of the Legs; Rheumatism, Gout, &c., and most Disorders affecting the human frame. No known Medicine has equalled this fine Stomachic and strengthening Remedy, which has produced the happiest effect on the weakly of both sexes. It operates with mildness as an Aperient, and permanent as a Tonic; enriches the circulating fluid; imparts vigour and comfort to the nerves; and restores the lost tone of the Stomach to the due performance of its functions. ..... CONGREVE'S Saline Aperient Powders. This valuable cooling purgative operates so mildly and efficaciously, that they are of intrinsic value, and should be taken with the Pills, once or twice a week, by those of a feverish habit, in Bilious Affections, in all inflammatory Disorders, Rheumatism, Gout, &c. The Pills and Powders have been so eminently useful in all disorders, as to supersede the use of every other remedy. .....