The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-05-25

ever among US, filling hundreds of little gra7es
these few year. past, often sweeping away with.
in few days time whole family of little
children besides adults. No one was ever at
tackled with diphtherla while wearing one of
these Pads. For the trifing sum that one of
them costs We may save ourselves time, money
and weariscme nights and days; and, more than
all the rest we may save suffering, yes, life
itself, to those whose every ache or sorrow hurts
US more than any bodily pain of our own,-the
little children to whom our hearts cling SO
closely, and whose sickness or death rends us
with unspeaKaole anguish. speak feelingly,
because such thoughts as these have been in
my own mind so many times. The idea of pre-
venting disease may not be familiar to you; you
may doubt It's being practicable. Let US look,
then, to the causes of disease, which is itself
unnatural, perfect health being the normal con-
dition OF tne body, except in cases of inherited
disease, and we shall find that to prevent is
much more simple and proper than to cure.
Food nave already spoken of; eat always a
proper KIND at proper times, and reasonable
quantity, II you would enjoy good health.
knowledge OF how properly to clothe the
body is Of Ssea5 use in keeping it in perfect
about equally distributed over all parts of the
same, not havlng an extra quantity over the
shoulders ana CHEST aud about the waist, and
leaving the lower parts more lightly clad or
exposed, disregard of this fact is fruitful
source OF dlsease, especially in children. To
see little, plump, bare knees, Notwithstanding
they are in themselves beautiful, was always
painful to me, and [ am glad that fashion, the
destroying tyrant, has Of late years decreed
that children,s hose shall cover this part of the
body: NO part OF the clothing should fit too
fine the body, but should leave all the organs
and muscles Tree to move and act as they have
need, as Nature intended that they should.
Permanent compression of the organs, as is the
case with the chest and vital organs of those
ladies VINO wear corsets tightly laced, is Of ser-
Gus injury 10 them; this is productive of much
harm TO them as no words Of mine are ADEQUATE
to fifty express, and causes untold misery and
suffering. Nor is the result in any degree
what it is intended to achieve. We are told
that God made man in his own image, we were
his last and most perfect creation, and we are
well made, except in extreme cases. Each part
Of the body is suited to every other, and you
cannot improve upon the economy of Nature,
neither can you get rid of what you falsely
consider an undue amount of matter. Com
press yourself in one place and the extra
material causes expansion Immediately beyond
that compression, and destroys at once the per-
1fect symmetry of the whole, and it this were
all, you are uncomfortable and fail to attain
your object, but this is not ALL yod have done
an injury to the vital organs of the body, which
does not amount to the total destruction of the
same, but which is properly termed disease, and
we'll, diseases complicated in their nature and
painful and wearisome to endure, and what
then will you have gained in looks, for perfect
health is the best beautifier. I have seen the
injury of tight lacing in the case of one of my
own sisters. She being of a rounder larger
build than she considered perfect though 1
being then very slim would willingly have
exchanged styles with her, unable to persuade
any of us to pull her corset lacings tight
enough to suit, would put them over the post of
the head-board of the cottage bedstead then in
use and by pulling away from it could tighten
them to even her own satisfaction. If years of
suffering be any atonement, then has she
reaped thousand-fold the fruits of her folly.
The use and abuse OF medicines, and es-
pecially as we have already seen of poisons, is
one great primary cause of disease. To COM
mence in perfect health regular dosing with
stipation, followed by all the evils of dyspepsia.
A continued use of laxatives would in time
derange the stomach and bowels to such an
extent that food would pass off undigested and
the system would cease to be nourished. Medi-
cines therefore or medicated food and drinks in
a healthy state are certainly improper and the
exact amount Chat is just enough to cure and
none left to injure) that is required in a dis
eased state, it is not easy to determine
When the irritating causes of disease have
INSTRUCTED the circulation and excited the heart
and arteries to an undue effort to remove that
obstruction, this arrangement of the circula-
ton is called fever.
One person, upon exposure escapes a conta-
giOus disease which Immediately fastens itself
upon another. 1t all depends upon the state of
the system. Diseases like scarlet fever, diph-
liberia, measles, plague. cholera, &C., have spe-
cifc causes, like the unhealthfulness of the To-
cality where they occur, the state Of the atmos-
phere at the times and seasons when they are
prevalent and many unknown causes, but
these causes do not always though present pro-
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system is very frequently sufficient to remove
them 1t is only when their power is sufficient
to overcome or impede the vital functions, and
to render the organs inactive, or to otherwise
injure them that the disease is produced.
And it is in just this way that the Pad acts
as a preventive, it first cleanses the system
by absorbing from it the diseases and impuri
ties already in possession, and then strengthens
it by throwing into the circulation an active
vegetable tonic, and in its extensive use by all
classes of persons from old age to infancy, not
a single case of injury has occurred Unlike
the poisonous drugs in use at the present day,
it can do you no harm if it does you no percep-
tible good; but if you have disease it will not
fail to remove it. In such thickly settled COM
munities as are all around us, the prevention of
all kinds OF fevers, biliousness, dyspepsia, neu-
ralgia, rheumatism, summer complaints, all
that long list of diseases which have already
told you the Pad will prevent,as well as cure
the. prevention | say of all these is certainly
no doubtful good to the masses of our people.
If you will give the pad and Holman's plas-
tiers, that are sometimes used with it when
needed. one quarter the patience aud fairness
you give any other treatment you will drop
everything else and rely entirely on them
They will bring you the blessing of such health
as has seldom been yours to enjoy. After you
are once cured, if you will procure a second
pad and in the spring time, when all nature is
undergoing change, will wear it two weeks,
also at any time for few days when you feel
any uncomfortable symptoms, you will find
one pad keeping you in health whole year.
1t is the cheapest, pleasantest, most convenient
and most satisfactory preventive and curative
and the most thorough system regulator in the
world.
Time will allow me row but to add that
thank you very much for your close attention
and entire sympathy, and trust you will not
consider that this hour has been in any degree
wasted.