The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1869-01-02
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Hundreds suffer on in silence, and hundreds OF
Others apply vainy to druggists and doctors who Ell
ther merely tantalize them with the hope of a cure
or apply remedies which make them worse. would
not assert anything that would do injustice to The at
hicted, but am obliged to say that although It NAV
reproduced from excessive exhaustion of the powers
life, by laborious employment, unwholesone air
and food profuse menstruation, the use OF tea and
coffee, and frequent childbirth it is far oftener caus
ed by direct irritation, applied the mucous mem
brane of the vagina itself.
When reviewing the causes of these distressing
complaints, it is most painful to contemplate the at
attendant evils consequent upon them 1t is but sim
pie justice to the subject to enumerate few of the
many additional causes which 50 largely affect the
He health, and happiness OF woman in all classes OF
society, and which, consequently, affect more or less
directly the welfare OF the entire human family The
mania that exists for precocious education and mar
rage, causes the years that nature designated for
corporal development to be wasted and perverted
in the restraints OF Dress the early confinement Of
school, and especially in the unhealthy excitement
of the ball ROOM Thus, with the body half clothed
and the mind unduy excited by pleasure, pervertng
In midnight revsl the hours designed by nature for
sleep and rest the work of destruction is half accom-
plished. aas s..
In consequence of this early strain upon her sys-
tenn, unnecessary effort is required Iby the delicate
votary to retain her situation in school at later day
thus aggravating the evil. When one excitement is
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-
'A "a vi s"hio heaiIn anu strengtni the exposure
to night air; the sudden change of temperature; the
complete prostration 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 circumstances 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 Of
the generative organs they require an education OF
their peculiar nervous SYSTEM com posed of what is
called the tissue, which is in common with the fe
male breast and lips, evidently under the control Of
mental emotions and associations at an early perod
OF life; and as shall subsequently see these emo
tOns when excessive, lead, long before puberty to
habits which sap the very life OF their victims ere
nature has selt-completed their development
For Female Weakness and Debility, Whites or Leu
corrhea, Too Profuse Menstruaton, Exhaustion Too
Long Continued Periods, for Prolapsus and Bearing
Down, or Prolapsus Uteri, we offer the mos. perfec
specific known: