The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-10-09

Hundreds suffer on in silence, and hundreds of
Others apply vainly to druggists and DOCTORS who ell
Their merely tantaliss them with the hope of cure
or apply remedies which make them worse, i would
not assert anything that would do injustice to the at
ficted, but am obliged to say that although It may
produced from excessive exhaustion of the powers
of lito, by laborious employment, unwholesone air
and food, profusc mspstraation the use OF tea and
coffee, and it is far oftener saus-
Fed by direct irritation applied the mucous mem
brane Of the vagina itself S-sAsA@ 30 ~
When reviewing tie causes OF these distressing
complaints, 1t ID most painful to contemplate the at
attendant evils consequent upon them. 1t Is but sim
pie justice to the subject to snumerate few of the
many additional causes which largely affect the
lite, health, and Happiness OF woman in ali classes OF
society, and which, consequently affect more or less
directly, the welfare OF the entire human family The
fs
mania that sxiats for preeocious education and mar
riage causes the years that nature designated for
corporal Development to be wasted and perverted
in the restraints ofdrsss, the early confinement Of
school, and especially in the unhealthy excitement
of the ball room. Thus, with the body half clothed
and the mind unduly excited by pleasure, pervertng
in midnight revsi the hours designed by nature for
sleep and rest the work of destruction is hall accom-
plished. 1 l u. l..
In consequences of this early strain upon her sys-
tenn, unnecessary effort is required by the delicate
votary to retain her situation in school at later day
thus aggravat,ng spl.- -. axcitement IA
over, another in prospective keeps the mind morbid
y sensitive to impression, while the now constant
restraint OF fashionable dress, absolutely forbdding
the exercise indispensable to the attainment and re-
tenion of organic health and strengths the exposure
to night air. the sudden change of temperature; the
complete prostraton produced by excessive dancing,
must OF necessity, produce their legitimate effect At
least an early marriage caps the climax OF misery
and the unfortunate one hitherto so utterly regard
lees Of the plain dictates and remonstrances OF her
delicate nature, becomes an unwilling subject Of
medical treatment. This is but truthful picture Of
the experience OF thousands of our young women.
Long before the ability to exercise the functions
the generatve organs, they require an education Of
their peculiar nervous system com posed Of what
called the tissue, which is, in common with the fe-
male breast and lips, evidently under the control
mental emotions and associations at an early periot
of life; and as we shall subsequently see, these emo
tons, when excessive lead, long before puberty, t.
habits which sap the very life of their victims er,
nature has self-complsted their development y
For Female Weakness and Debility Whites OF Leu
corrhea, Too Profuse Menstruation, Exhaustion To-
Long Continued Periods, tor Prolapsus and Bearin,
Down, or Prolapsus Utssi, we offer the most perfec
specific known:
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