The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1869-01-13
HELMBOLD'S
Extract

hundreds suffer on in silence, and hundreds of
Others apply vainy to druggists and doctors. who Ell
ther merely tantalizs 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
hicted but am obliged to say that although it NAV
produced from excessive exhaustion of the powers
ollie, by laborious employment, unwholesone air
and food profuse menstruation, the use of tea and
conee 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 II is most painful to contemplate the at
attendant evils consequent upon them. 1t Is but SIM
justice to the subject to enumerate few of the
many additional causes which so largely affect the
ute, 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
riage causes the years that nature designated for
corporeal development to be wasted and perverted
In the restraints otdress, 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, perverting
In midnight revsl the hours designed by nature for
sleep and rest the work of destruction is hall accom-
plished.
In consequence 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 aggravating the evil. When one excitement is
over, another in prospective keeps the mind morbid
ly sensitive to impression while the now constant
restraint of fashionable Dress absolutely forbidding
the exercise indispensable to the attainment and
tention organic health and strength 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 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, composed 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 period
OF life; and as we shall subsequently see these emo
nons' when excessive lead long before puberty, to
habits which sap the very life of their victims ere
nature has self-completed their development.
For Female Weakness and Debility, Whites or Leu
corrhea, Too Profuse Menstruation, Exhaustion Too
Long Continued Periods, for Prolapsus and Bearing
Down, or Prolapsus Uteri, we offer the most psrfec
Sp0''Ao Ano"n' -2 Q 1.dra1s't