The Winchester home journal. [volume] (Winchester, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1858-02-06
HEALTH of AMERICAN WOMAN

To LEWIS A. SAYRE, NJ. d..
AS physician and surgeon of the highest reputation,
call npon you to consider few facts of the most vita
Importance to every woman in the country.
The highest Professional authority admit that more wo'
die from uterine diseases than from any other cause,
and that they are unable to cure the diseases or to arrest
this lrishtful mortality
will ask your attention 70 the reasons for this, and
then to remedy which has been eminently successful for
many years. and which has the sanction of the most en-
lightencd physicians in the country.
The medicines in general use among the proies Tor
the treatment Of Falling in the Womb Whites neraneed
Mcnstruaon and local diseases of the uterine organs TO-
gether with the constitutional symptoms attending them
are Iron Strychnne Opium, CanthaIldes Conlun, lah'
nbs lnica, SeCae COrnutum and mechanical means such
as Pessaries When administering them, the patient Isl
informed that she is taking nothing that will hurt her.
Let us sees lRoN, the most harmless and the besto
then when given for these Complaints, produces neat,
thirst difficulty OF breathing and intoeraHe hcaGaches'
SRcALH produces nausea, vomiting, sddness, defum
stupor and weight in the head. SrRycHNINE Is poison
violent that the most minute doses sometimes al
and yet 1t is given by rule from the book, and without uue
knowledge Of all the little indications which may prevent
it aOm causing DEATH The effect Of Opium is to relieve
pain relaxing the muscles, but this very reaxatlcnS
again the cause OF some of the most Orturng complaints
CONIrM and CANTHARIDEs both cause COMMISSIONS neat,
tremblings, fantness, ard general debility pEssAiEs
indicate, and they also rrtate and ulcers p
trd discharges and sometimes incurabe diseases VI e
bladder. .r..
In small doses these medicines will not always produce
Immediately fatal effects, but continued as they are IN me
treatment OF these diseases, they will inevitably nurehe
system, and cause lingering and painful symptoms ana
''N"o'-
on the way without the aid Of these violent pOsons
convince you, sir, that the administration Of these
redcnes cured Of uterine disease; but on
the contrary that future suffering and often aneary death
almost invariably follow their The insiduous poison
is gradually absorbed by the system until the patient only
pcrceives her i'm time to find there is no hope
ask you as man and as physician, why WIN you
give your cOuntenance practice which persists IN al.
mnisering posons and in driving women to the IT very
graves?
Fortunately turn from this side OF the picture 70
brilliant one There is remedy for these CONF
plants II not composed of poisons but of medical SIM
pies OF great efficacy II has nor never can nue
the system. II Is certain to effect cure and us ingreus
ents at the service Of yourself any physician.
series of letters published in the leading papers and u
dressed to eminent physicians have argued the genea
value of the medicines Marshaps Uterine Calhoicon an"
have given proof Of its efficacy.
My object now Is to call your attention to comparso
of its efficacy with the failure Of your remedies 70
contrast its mild and certain action with the harsh and 20
tai effects OF the poisons administered by the profession
generally and torge upon you. you value your repG
ton to use Marshals Uterine Cath0icOn, or run the M
of being cassed with those peysicans who pursuing s
old beaten track excite pity for their OF o
eyecration for their knayery J. +. BRIDGE,
Secretary Graefenberg Conn any.
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