The Winchester home journal. [volume] (Winchester, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1858-03-11
Of AMERICAN WOMAN
To LEWIS A. SAyRg, M, D.:

TO LEWIS A. SAYRg, NJ. D.;
As physician and surgeon of the highest reputation
can hpoh you TO consider few fucts of the most via
| Importance to every woman In the country,
The highest Professional authority admit that more wo
men die from uterine diseases than from any other cans,
this hightiu mortality
will ask Your attention to the reasons for this and
then TO remedy which has been emneny successful for
many years. ard which has the sanction of the most en-
liehtened Physicians in the country.
Inc medicines In general use among the profession 10,
the treatment of Falling in the Womb, hes, Derapeed
MeslIualon and local diseases of the uterine organs TO-
eeher WIN the constitutional symptoms attending them
are Iron strychnine, Opium, Canhaides, Conium Con
nas ndlca, Secac Cornuum, and mechanical such
as pessarles When administering them, the .sien
informed that she is taking nothing that will hurt her
Let US see: lnoN, the most harmless ard the hes.o
henl, when given for these complaints, produces heat,
hllst difficulty OF breathing, and ntolerablc headaches
HEcALE produces nausea, vomiting giddiness deiium
stupor and weight in the head STEIcHNINE is poison
50 violent that the most minute doses are sometimes a,
ana yet given by rule from the book, and without d
knowledge of all the little indications which may prevent
1t aom causing DEATH The effect Of Opium is to relieve
pain relaxing the muscles, but this very elaxationb
again the cause of some of the most ortuing complaints
CoNICM and CAN1HAEIDEs both cause Convusont heat
tremblings ainncss, and general debility PEssArIn
are indecate and they also rratc and ulcers p
rd discharges, and sometimes incurable diseases Of The
bladder.
in small doses these medicines will not always pcdu,
Immediately fatal effects, but continued they III,
treatment OF these Diseases they will inevitably nueths
system, ana cause lingering and painful symptoms, ard
hurry To the grave woman who was already fast enough
on the way without the aid of these violent poisons
can convince you, sir that the administration these
redclnes never cured case of uterine diseases but
the contrary, that future suffering and often early death
almost invariably follow their The nsluous poison
gradually absorbed by the system until the patient only
percclves her error in time to trd there is no hOIe
ask you, as man and as Physician why will you
slve your counfenance 10 practice which PERSISTS in ad
minlstering poisons and in driving to their very
graves?
Fortunately we can turn from this side OF the pctuc.o
more brilliant There is remedy for these
plants. tits not composed of posons but of medical sim
pies OF great efficacy 1t has irUTs
the system 1t is certain to effect cure. and its insred
ens are at the service OF yourself any physician In
series of letters published in the leading papers and A
dressed to eminent Physicians, have argued the gsnes
value OF the medicines (Marshalls Uterine CahOi,an and
have given proof Of its efficacy.
MY object now is to call your attention 10 comparison
oil Its efficacy with the aiure Of your owa remedies to
contrast Its mild and certain action with The harsh and
tai effects of the posons administered by The profession
generally and urge upon yo as Yoa value your repua
llon TO use Marshas Uterine Catholicism or ran risk
OF being cassed with those physicians Who pursuing The
ou beaten track excite Our pity for tacir gnosnce
execration Tor their knavery J. F. BRIDGE,
Secretary Graeenberg Contrary.
for saie oy MACKENZIE l. WILTON,
NoV2l Iy Nashville