Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1854-01-12
MOST STARTLING CONSIDERATIONS
Reflections for the Thoughtful.


Strange that countless human beings exist and
drag through life US do the beasts OF the field,
the insects Of the earth eVincing no more thought
or reflection than though the noble faculties of mind
were not vouchsafed to them.
Many such husbands and fathers, upon whom
arc dependent the health, the well-being, and the
happiness of q confding and aHectionate wife, with
perhaps family of children.
HOW OFTEN HAPPENS THAT THE
WIFE LINGERs FROM YEAR TO YEAR
In that pitiabe condition as not even for one day to
feel the happy and exhilerating influence incident
to the enjoyment of health.
She may not be an invalid confined to her bed,
or even to her room; rs her pride, ambition and
energy induce and her to take personal
charge of her household, when her health will
not admit of it but she Is nevertheless perceptbly
sinking from day to day, and always ailng.
Thus, day after day, and month after month tran
spire Her health daily Sinks till finally even the
hope of recovery no longer remains. And thus
THE BLOOMING BRIDE,
But 4 few years ago in the flush Of health and
youth, and 6uoynncy of spirits, rapidly, and aPPa
rently inexplicably, becomes feeble, sickly, de-
bilitated wife, with frame emaciated, nerves I'M
strung, spirits depressed, countenance bearing the
impress Of suffering, and utter physical and
mental prostration.
Sometimes this deplorable change may and does
arise from organic or constitutional causes But
oFtener, by far oftener, to gross and inexcuSablo
Ignorance of the simp lest and plainest rules OF
health as connected with the marriage state the
misery, not only to tho wife, but often
Hereditary Complaints upon the Children
UNTO THE THIRD AND FOURTH GENERATION"
Transmitting CONSUMPTION, SCROFULA,
HYPOCHONDRIA, INSANITY, GOUT1
KINGS EVIL, and other diseases,
DREADFUL INHERiTANCE
from the Parents.
And must this continue 7 Shall be wise in
all that the cattle of our fields, our horses
sheep, our cows, our oxen, the nature and
character Of the soil we possess, the texture and
quality Of our goods and merchandise but in all that
concerns ourselves as human beings, with human
functions and passions, subject to great derange-
mont, involving our future peace and happiness
in ali that concerns the health and welfare of tho
wife of affections, and the mother OF our chill;
dran in all that concerns the mental and physical
we'll being of those children, should be inn
rnsrsed In the darkest and most
RENI0HTED IGNORANCE,
As cu1pAB1E AS 1NExcUsABLE!
How long shall this ignorance prevail so Produc-
tive of its bitter fruits How long shall the wife
and mother be ignorant of the nature, character and
causes of the various womb and sexual complaints,
embittering her days by suffering-sufering often
prolonged to years, oventuating in complication Of
diseases utterly and hopeleSsly incurable4 Shall
logical science by which may arrive at an
understanding of ourselves as men and women,
subject to serious lifelong enduring diseases, and
pSrpetuAting them to our children
No husband or rife need b. ignorant of rchGt
concerns them most to krotC secure their health
and happiness. That knotrIeage is contained !" q
littLe york entitled
THE MARRIED WoMAN's
PRIVATE MEDICAL COMPANION.
BY DIR. A. NJ MAURICEAU,
PROFESSOR OF DISEASES WOMEN.
One HundredM Edition IsmO, pp $50 Price so Cent?.
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