The Winchester home journal. [volume] (Winchester, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1858-02-20
HEALTH Of AMERICAN WOMAN.

To LEWIS a. SAYRE M. D..
As physician and surgeon Of the highest regulations
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 unable to cure the diseases or to arrest
this frightful mortality:
will ask Your attention to the reasons for this anu
then to remedy which has been emlnenty successful lot
many years. and which has the sanction OF the most en-
lghtened physicians in the country.
The medicines in general use among the profession 10,
the treatment Of Falling in the Womb, Whites Derangd
Menstruaon and local diseases OF the uterine organs 10
gether with the constitutional symptoms attending hem
are Iron. Strychnne, Opium, CanthaIdes Conlum lar
nabs ndica. secae Cornutum and mechanical means sua
as Pessaries When administering them, the patient"
informed that she is taking nothing that will hurt her.
Let us sees lRoN, the most harmless and the peslo
them when given for these complaints produces near,
thirst, difficulty Of breathing, and intoleIabc heaaans
SEcALE produces nausea, vomiting, sddlness uena
stupOr and weight In the head STRyCHNINE IS poison
violent THAT the most minute doses sometimes hia
and yet 1t is given by rule from the book and without d
knowledge Of all the little Indications which may psie
il aom causing aeath. The effect Of Opium 10 renew
pain relaxing the muscles, but this very reaxhGnn
again the cause OF some Of the most torturng compn
CoN1uM and CANTHARIDEs both cause convuislons, nr
tremblings, fantness, and general debility. Us
are indicate, and they also rrtate and cause ulcers
td discharges and sometimes incurabe diseases Of n0
bladder. -,.,.
In small doses these medicines will not always produce
Immediately fatal effects but continued as they are III W.
treatment OF these diseases, they will inevitably e S
system, and cause lingering and painful anons
hurry to the grave woman who was already ast on0'e
on the way without tho aid Of these violent polsons
can convince you, sir, that the administrator o. .
Iedcines never cured Of uterine diseasei ou az
the contrary. that future suffering and often an carry aesn
almost invariably follow their The insiduous posy
Is gradually absorbed by the system until the patient oh'
perceves her error in time to find there no o,
ask you, as man and physician, why VIII "a "a
give your countenance to practice which persists ~ w
mnisering poisons and In driving women 10 the '''
graves? ., ,.r.,o
Fortunately we can turn from this side Of the pcure
more brilliant one. There is remedy ior these I'm
plants tbs not composed Of posons but OF ;;rs
pies OF great efficacy. It has nor never Gan s
the SYSTEM II is certain TO effect cure and us
ents are at the service Of yourself or any physician a.
series of letters published in the leading papers anu
dressed to eminent physicians, have argued the 5
value Of the medicines Carshals Uterine Calhoneon""
have given proof OF its efficacy. ;,o,
nv object now Is to call your attention to compso
OF It's efficacy with the failure OF your own remeu a.
contrast its mild and certain action with the harsh
tai effects OF the posons administered BY the nn,
generally and tourse upon you you value your M rt
ton to use Marshas Uterine Cathocon, or Iun ". The
OF being classed with those physicians, who our
old beaten track, excite pity for their gnoIncg
Secretary Craefenberg ComrsnH
rVi oa1e" o., Nashville.
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