The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-04-25
HELmBOLD.

Females, owing to the peculiar and mportsn, re.
ations which they sustain their peculiar organlza.
ton, and the Offices they perform, subject to
many suferings. Freedom from these contribute in
small degree to their happiness and welfare, for none
be happy who are i'll. Not only So but no one of
these various female complaints can long be suffered
to run on without involving the general health OF
the individual, aan ere long producing permanent
sickness and premature decline, Nor is IL pleasant
to consult physician for the relief of those various
delicate affections, and only upon the most urgent
necessity will true woman far sacrifice her great.
est charms to do this. The sex will then thank us
for placing in their hands simple specifics which will
be found efoacious in relieving and curing almost
every one of those troublesome complaints peculia
to the Sc
HELMBoLD's EXTRACT OF BUcHU--IIundreds
suffer on in silence. and hundreds OF others apply
vainly to druggists and doctors, who either merely
tantalize them with the hope of cure or apply
remedies which make them worse. would not wish
to assert anything that would do injustice to the
afflicted, but am obliged to say that although II
may be produced from excessive exhaustion of the
powers Of life, by laborious employment, unwhole-
some air and food, profuse menstruation the use OF
tea and coffee and frequent childbirth, It Is far
tener caused by direct irritation, applied to the
membrane Of the vagina ITSELF
When reviewing the causes of these distressing
complaints, 1t is most painful to costemplate the at
tendant evils consequent upon them. II is but sim
pie justice to the subject TO enumerate few of the
many additional causes which largely affect tn.
Iife health, and happiness of woman in all classes
society, and which, consequently, affect less
directly, the welfare of the entire human family
The mania that exists for precocious education and
marriage causes the years that nature designed for
oorporeal developement to be wasted and perverted
in the restraints Of Dress the early confinement OF
school, and especially in the unhealthy excitement Of
he ballroom. Thus, with the body hsifclothed
and the mind unduly excited by pleasure, porvert
ing in midnight revel the hours designed by nature
for sleep and rest the work Of destruction is hall
accomplished. al
In consequence Of this early strain upon her sys-
tenn. unnecessary effort is required by the delicats
votary to retain her situation in school to later
day, thus aggravating the evil. When excite
ment is over, another In prospective keeps the mind
morbidly sensitive to impression while the now
slant restraint Of fashionable Dress absolutely for
bidding the exercise Indispensable to tho attainmen
and retention Of organic health and strength the
exposure to night air; the sudden change of tempe
rature the complete prostration produced by exces
sive dancing must of necessity, produce their egiti
mate effect At last an early marriage caps the oil
max Of misery, and the unfortunate one, hitherto
so utterly regardless of the plain dictates and
strances Of her delicate nature becomes au unwill
ing subject of medical treatment. This is but
truthful picture of the experience of thousands o
our Young women.
Long before the ability to exercise the functions of
the generative organs, they require education of