The Winchester home journal. [volume] (Winchester, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1858-03-18
Of AMERICAN WOMAN,
To LEWIS A. SAYRE, M, d.;

To LEWIS A. SAYnG, M D.;
AS physician and surgeon OF the highest reputa,ion
call np0n you to consider few facts of the most vita
Importance to every woman In the country.
The highest Professional authority admit that more wo
men die from uterine diseases than from any other cause
! this lrishtul mortality
will ask your attention TO the reasons for this and
then TO remedy which has been emineny successful for
many years, and which has the sanction of the most en-
ligMened physicians in the country.
me medicines IN general use among the profession loy
me treatment of Falling in the Womb Whites Deranrd
Menstruaton and local diseases of the uterine ~
gethcr with the constitutional symptoms attending Them
are Iron Strychnine, Opium Canthaides, Coniun,, Can
na6s lndica seGaie Cornuum and mechanical means such
as ressarles When administering them, the patient is
informed that she is taking nothing that will hurt her,
Let us see: Iron, the most harmless and the hest
them when given for these complaints, produces heat
rsl' uhculty OF breathing, and intoerabe headaches
SEcALE produces nausea, vomiting, giddiness delifum
stupor and weight in the head. SrRYcHN1NE is poison
30 Vioet that the most minute doses are sometimes fatal
ana yet It is given by rule from the book and without due
knowledge Of all the little indications which may prevent
II aom causing death. Tho effect of Opium is 10 relieve
pain relaxing the MUSCLES but this very relaxation is
again the cause of some of the most torturing complaints
CoNlCM and CANTHARIDEs both cause convusion., heat
tembngs, iaintness, and general debility. PEssAEIs
are lndeicate and they also rritae and cause ulcers Pill
bladder,
In small doses these medicines will not always produce
Immediately fatal effects, but continued they are in
treatment of these diseases, they will inevitably nurehe
SysitiI cause lingering palnlul
hurry to e grave woman who Was already fast enough
on tho way without the aid Of these violent pOsOns
can convince yO, sir, that the administration OF these
'edicnes never cured case Of uterine disease but
the contrary that future suffering and often an early death
almost invariably follow their The insuOus poison
is gradually absorbed by the system until the patient only
perceives her error in time to find there is hope.
ask you, as man and as physician, why will you
give your countenanh to practice which persists ad
poisons and in driving women TO the very
graves?
Fortunately we can turn from this side of the pctureto
more brilliant one. There is remedy for these COM
paints tits not composed Of poisons but of medical SIM
pies of great efficacy. 1t has nure
the system. II is certain to effect and its ngred
ents are at the service OF yourself any physician Ina
series of letters published in the leading papers and ad
dressed to eminent physicians have argued the general
value OF the medicines (Marshas Uterine Cahocon ard
have given proof of its efficacy
My object now is to call your attention to comparison
Of Its efficacy with the iai ure OF your own remedies
contrast Its mild and certain action with the harsh and a.
tai effects OF the poisons administered by the profession
generally and tourge upon you you value your repua
lion, to use Marshals Uterine CafhocOn, the sk
of being classed with those PHYSICIANS wbo pursuing tho
old beaten track, excite pity for their snoTancee Or our
,Yecraton for their knavery J. F. BRIDGE,
Secretary Graefenberg Comrany.
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