The result of his labors was r. glorious success for himself and suffering humanity, ,
for the celebrated PLANTATION BITTERS was thus made known to tho world. PLAN
TATION BITTERS being an article of real merit, founded upon new principles, and
relying wholly upon tho vegetable world for its medicinal effects, worked a rapid revolu
tion in the history of medicine, and became as a household word all over tho civilized >
world. The cabalistic S. T. —1860 —Z. was a talisman of health, and the demand for
the PLANTATION BITTEBS soon far exceeded the abilities cf the proprietors to supply, j
Notwithstanding tho large importation of St. Croix Bum, made expressly for tho com
pounding of these Bitters, tho quantity was inadequate. It therefore became necessary
, that arrangements upon an extensive scale abroad should at once be made, and an agent
; was dispatched to St. Thomas for that purpose. lie was fortunate in securing and
; leasing several plantations on some of the largest and most productive estates on the I
■ island. Houses, stills and presses were erected as if by magic, which utterly u aston
ished the natives.” The services of experienced mon and natives of the island were pro- |
cured, and very soon the proprietors of the PLANTATION BITTEBS were in e position
to supply their laboratory with all the perfectly pure St. Croix Bum needed in manufac
turing the GBEAT DYSPEPTIC TONIC AND INVIGOBATOB. The above cut represents
tho natives crushing tho sugar-cane and otherwise preparing it for the stills and presses.
