Smyrna times., 1877-09-12
Vampire Women,

1t Is DIR. oliver Wendell Holmes. q ma,
with keener insight into women. nerhone
than any other English-spoaking author
who gave this name the other dav to
large minority of our wives and daughters
g" A hysterical woman" he declares &c
vampire who sucks the blood of tb,
healthy people about her" Nervousness
IN American women, in fact, has reached
such an extent that it is, next to drunken
ness IN men, the national domestic evil
ana very certain practical one, for it is ,
suuJect OF public interest. There is not 3
reader OF the Tribune who does not know nj
least one OF these vampire women-thf
lean, bloodIess, miserable girl or wife. fabbv
ana unable in flesh and mind. whose
dlsease takes, in the family, the yaoue
name OF debility, or nervous exhaustion. q,
| spihal dlSorder-names which may mean
aallythlhS or nothing. Years ago She was
forced to give up her proper work in the
iIouSe' ana is now dead weight on its liv.
ing members. Sometimes this victim i
seilSh ana domlneering but as a rule she
Is sanity martyr. The more of n martvr
She IS, the deader the weight: the moro
beloved, the greater the drain unon tho
sympathies Of the people about her, Tho
olsease increases with each generation. II
was almost unknown to our hard. .worL -,
grandmothers; very few living old women
have 1t but look around the tables of or,
OF the watering places to-day, and how
many plump, ruddy, cheerful matrons are
there among the lean, sallow creatures of
mlodIc age, each of whom is nursing her
own case OF neuralgia or anmmic exbaus.
tloh, as II the world was only made to hold
it' As Tor the young girls, the majority of
tnem are born tired. 1t is not afiectation
Whlcn makes them thin of blood and
morbid IN brain at the age when the chr.
rent OF lie should run fullest and reddest
III almost every family this Summer. we
venture TO say one member is going through
'he regimen OF iron, exercise, change ofair.
etc.' ETC., which may quicken the pulse in
the patents veins for the time. but neither
reddens her blood nor rounds her cheol,
NOW TINS domestic grievance, though il
uoes not ind It's way often into the news.
papers, Is SO sore and heavy a burden off
our social life that we are not SURPRISED to
hhd that American physicians have set to
work 10 discover cure which shall under.
lie the cause of the evil, and not merely
palter with It's symptoms. Our best ubvsi.
c!ans, too, have lately adopted a habit of
giving their new theories and modes of
cure IN pamphlets intended for the nublic
with a wise simplicity of diction. abiuring
the mystery and technical verbage i6
which doctors Of the Old School concooIoJ
Their knowledge or the lack of it. The
system OF cure for these useless or worn.out
women appeals directly to the common
sense OF any ordinary reader. It was rc.
Gently explained in detail in a treatise ON
iat ana blood by DR.. Weir Mitchell. who
mas used 1t with singular success in the
hospital Tor Nervous Diseases, in PhiladeI. |
phia. The moral atmosphere about the
patient Is suddenly changed by her entire
ana prompt removal from anxious indul |
gent friends, and seclusion, with no com.
but her physician and a skilful |
nurse Absolute rest is insured; she is |
ol"eIeo 10 bed Tor six weeks or two |
llontns, not permitted to read, sew, or do |
my Ihihg there but to manufacture adipose |
,Issue ana fed blood. For this purpose she |
. put upon a milk diet, which is supple.
y lreliIeu IN a snort time by steady course
ol overlooking, while the lack of exercise is
'uPPlied by treatment known as ,nasssa1e.
or kheadlng every muscle and square inch
of flesh in the body. and by eIectricitv
IN word, the morbid, delicate creaturo
who in probility was nauseated bv food and
iesplsed her body as too moor vessel 70
lold her soul, is suddenly reduced to the
of an animal, with no other end
n lie than to grow fat. Under this treat.
nent she invaribly grows fat, and her blood
eddens. Women who enter on this season
u retreat totally helpless from weakness,
ma skeletons, come out strong, plump and
uddy. When the proper amount of
'lumpness is gained, and the blood is red.
dyspepsia, Mysteries, and anmmia disappear'
cordially recommend nervous woman
look into this matter. They are. to be
rank with them, as heavy weight on the
ody polite as any rioters or communists.
NJ !. Tribune.