The Winchester home journal. [volume] (Winchester, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1858-08-12
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w. G. BROOKS. Prom tctor
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HEALTH Of AMERICAN WOMAN.
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10 LEWIS 4. SAypE, M, d.:
as physician and surgeon Of the highest reputation
eau Hoh you to consider few facts of the most vita
Importance TO every woman in the country.
The highest Professional authority admit that more a.
men dc from uterine diseases than from any other calsc
and that they una BILE to cure the diseases or TO
| this frighful mortality.
VIII ask your attention to the reasons for this and
,hen TO remedy which has been eminemly
many years, and which has the sanction OF the most en-
lgntchcd physicians IN the country.
Inc medicines In general use among the profession for
,ne treatment OF Falling In the Womb hites lcrand
Menstruation and local diseases of the Interim, on m
gether with the constitutional symptoms attending rm
are IRON Strychnine, Opium Canhaiides ConiLnl Car
h"ps iidlca' Secae Cornuu, and mechanical means such
as rtssalies " hen administering them, the laiich IS
informed that she is taking nothing that will hunt Lcr
, ct us see lhoN, the most harmless ard the lcsto
eln when given for these complaints, produces leai
l'st dhculty OF breathing. and ntoleroblc hralachrs
ShcALE produces naussea vomiting eiddiness deIiru
Slo"r ana weight in the head. SrEYcHN1NE is Ioi,D
% loe' .aat the most minute doses sometimes fatal
knowledge Of all the little indications which NAV pre,rl
aom causing DEATH The effect of Opium is to relieve
pasn relaxing the muscles, but this very relaxaonh
again the cause of some of the most torting COMPLAINT
CoN1rM and CANrHALIDRs both cause conytsion., heat
trcmhlngs hintness, and general debility PEssArIEs
are lndecate, aid they also irate cause ulcers ~
bladder.
In small doses these medicines will not always produce
Immediately fatal effects, but continued they in the
treatment OF these diseases they will nre
system ana cause lingering and painful symptoms, and
hurry tothc grave woman who was already fast enough
on the way without the aid of these violent poisOns
can convince you, sir, that the administration Of these
edlcnes never cured of uterine disease; but on
the contrary that future suffering and often early death
almost invariably follow their use The nsduOus 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 cOunenance to practice which persists in a
lmstering poisons and in driving TO their very
graves?
Fortunately turn from this side OF the pctuct0
a 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 can inIe
the system. II is certain to effect and its ngd
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 CahocoH aId
have given proof of its efficacy.
MY object now is to call your attention to comparison
OF It's efficacy with the failure of your own remedies
contrast Its mild and certain action with the harsh anu
tai effects OF the poisons administered by the profession
generally, and to urge upon you you value your rep
lion, to Marshals Uterine CathOcOn, run the rsS
Of being classed with those physicians, who pursun
old beaten track, excite pity for their Ignorance OF o
,xecration for their knavery j. F. BRIDGE
Secretary Graefenberg Conn any.
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