The Winchester home journal. [volume] (Winchester, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1858-05-20
HEALTH Of AMERICAN WOMAN.

To LEWIS A. SAyRE, M. 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
men die from uterine diseases than from any other cause
and that they unable to cure the diseases or to arrest
this hightul mortality.
will ask your attention to the reasons for this, and
then to remedy which has been eminently successful for
many years, and which has the sanction Of the most
| llghtened physicians in the country.
The medicines in general use among the profession Tor
the treatment Of Falling in the Womb Whites, DeIaDd
Menstruaton and local diseases of the uterine organs
gether with the constitutional symptoms attending them,
are Iron Strychnine, Opium, ahthaiides, COnum, Can
nabls lnca Secale Cornutum and mechanical means such
informed that she is taking nothing that will hurt her,
Let us see: lion, the most harmless ard the beso
them, when given for these complaints produces heat,
thirst difficulty of breathing. and ntOleable headaches
SEcALE produces nausea, vomiting, edlnesS, deum,
stupOr and weight in the head STRyCHNINE is poison
so violent that the most minute doses are sometimes fatal
and yet is given by rule from the book and without due
knowledge of all The little indications which may prevent
il aom causing death. The effect of Opium is TO relieve
pain relaxing the muscles, but this very elaSaiionis
again the cause OF some OF the most OTtuing complaints
CoNluM ard CANTHAEIDEs both cause COnyus0n heat,
remblinss, faintness and general debility PEssAEB
are indicate, and they also rTitae and cause ulcers m
id discharges, and sometimes incurable diseases Of tile
bladder.
small doses these medicines will not always produce
Immediately fatal effects, but continued as they are in The
treatment Of these Diseases they will inevitably nure tho
SySttlll, CduSt lingering pdiInui
hurry to The grave woman who was already last enough
on the way without the aid OF these violent poisons
can convince you, sir that the administration OF these
rediCines cured Of uterine disease; but on
the contrary, that future suffering and often nearly DEAN
almost invariably follow hei The nsduogs POISON
gradually absorbed by The system until the patient only
perCeves her error in time lind there is no hole:
ask you as mai aud as physician why VIII you
live your countenanCe practice which persists IN aa
miniserng poisons phd ia driving women 10 the very
graves?
Fortunately we can turn from This side Of the pictureo
more brillian one. There is remedy Tor these COM
plants. Il composed o. pOisOns oui OF medealsim'
pies OF great efficacy. II mas nor never can hhe
the system. Ii is certain to effect cue and us nsleoi
enis Tic service of yourself or any physician ina
series OF letters published in She leading papers and aa
dressed 10 eminent physicians have argued ne genera
value OF e medicines (Marshall's Uterine CahocoD anu
have given proof OF its efficacy. -,.,.
My oicr nov is TO call your attention to comparison
OF its efficacy With the failure OF your own remealesi
contrast rs mild and certain action with The nash anu
tai effects Of The poisons administered by The proesa
generally, and urge upon you, as you value your
ton, use Marshalps Uterine CathOcon, OF fun 9e i
of being classed with those physicians, who, pursuing @
old beaten rack, excite pity for their lsonsmee '''
eYecratol for thei knavery J. +. Bhlpun,
Secretary Graefenberg Conn any.
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Novof " Nashville.