Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1883-03-20
A NOman's Experience.

! to the silent grave.
A Woman's Experience.
WHAT A WOMAN OF GREAT PROM
NENCE HAS TO SAY ABOUT HER SEX.
Boston Globe.l
| On a recent trip by q representative
of this paper to the city OF Haverhill,
! Mass, q most important incident oc
cD-ted, which cannot fail to he of the
great. at benefit to alI, aud especially to
our lady .'aaders The newspaper man
met a lady rifle past uliddie age with
| luxurious white hair that contrast ed
strikingly with piercing black eyes.
She poss essed straight. full habit, Wo
manly, but commanding, combined
with manners wholly Iady-like, and
yet pronounced. Any azure judge OF
human nature could see at once that ne
was in the presence of an unusual per
sonage-one destined to accomplish
more thfn most of her sex, and to eZ-
ert an influence far reaching in its Pow
er This lady was Mrs M. w Win
gate Almost from childhood she has
| taken q special interest 10 the bodily
| troubles OF her sex aud has probably
been more successful 10 relieving suffer
| ing and saving lives than any other
woman in America. Indeed, she seems
| to have been to women what Florence
| Nightingale and Dorothy Dix were to
the suffering soldiers. The instances OF
woman who were in the greatest agOuy
and apparently beyond the reach Of hH
/ man aid that she has restored TO health
aud happiness, are almost innumerahie,
/ ana it as only natural that the scribe
should heconIe specially Interested aud
wish 30 converse win her III lie ia Ge
| .ail.
! Hog long have yca been engaged ia
lhe practice of medlciae. Mrs. Win
! gate ?'
| ; Fur more tnan % wears
"a long time certainly How did
you happen to enter the field at that
early day when women in the profes
sions we're specially frowned down
! up"n ?'
IT think I must have inherited a
taste from my father, Professor J. c
/ Wood, of Harvard coilegs He was
emint M il the profession, "a hard work
/ ar and equally earnest IN his recreati"as.
! He hunted considerably and [ remem
bar when only nine years old [ used to
dissect the birds and animals he had
| killed. | felt Infatuated with medical
science even then, and the infatuati0n
! has continued up 10 the present time -
"And did you begin sour stuuies so
early in life?'
| ~ can hardly sgy when i began. for
! I cannot remember when | did not read
! .nedic6i literai ure. You would scarcely
| believe IT, but ] was "a slender girl and
did not weigh over l20 pounds, but /
used to sit up night after night until
| o'clock in the morning porting over my
studies and never dreaming of the
| fight uf time 1t seemed aB thong b
calls for my attendance on the sick III
WAYS came unsolicited. I certainly can
! moi fix the tate when | first began prac-
! ttcing. OF course, most of my patieuts
| were women, and the natural sympa~
! thy + felt for my sex has increased dur
| ing all these years where [ have been
brought so closely in contact with them
snd have learned to anticipate their
needs and syIppathiZe with their suffer
! logs. After the opening of the Boston
| Medical College | appeared before the
faculty; passed examination aud re-
ceived diploma 1 hid praciiced for
years previous TO that time, but thought
| it desirable 60 receive another diploma
which did without any effort
Your experience wiih the many aud
serious diseases of wOH!en having been
extensive, must also [ e valuable. Can
YOU give me some facts regarding
them? 2"
II ind that woman seeEIs born to suf
| fering, aud where she avoids il, it is by
| reason of some care on her part or ow-
| ing to some special renewing pow 3r 1t
! is true that some women go through
| lif- without unusual suffering, but they
are none the less in danger, for there are
critical periods all along their pathway
when the utmost precaution is required
The innumerable complaints called fe
male weaknesses; the Irregularities Of
life and CHANGES of the system all iDdi-
cate the perils which hang over every
Woman's career, aud which, unless at
tended to, may result disastrously
but is there no way by which these
terrible troubles can be avoided?"
"That has been the problem for years.
The HABITS of life and the demands of
fashion are arly at war with the
health of WON, II. l have been, per
hans. unusually successful in my treat
nent OF sbeir troubles, but there have
b. en- many eases that seemed specially
stubborn. I recall one in particular. |
nad exhausted all the usual expedi
ents and the results we're not salts
factory. I became worried over the
csse aid really did not know e"lat Il"
do, bat finally thought | would Fy
something out of the usual line | had
heard a certain remedy recommended
very highly and so procured some and
made chemical ana ysis of it / found
it was perfectly pure, and that the III
sredients were unusually valuable. 81
[ began giving it 10 my patient, chang
ing it, however, into bottle OF my
own. To nv great Joy it seemed 10
have an almost irnmeniate effect and
cnmpiefe cure was he result. since
then have used il constantly In my
practice and have cured every form OF
female weakhees, az well as displace
ments, dropsieai tnmors. ceIlu dropsy
and all such troubles. I have also used
1t with the best of results in cases of
pregnancy and CESSATION. Indeed L
have found it of untold value and bene-
fit.
"Have you any obJec ion to givin
me the name OF this rem edy of which
you speak?'
None whatever. It's Warmers Safe
Kidney and Liver Cure"
"Why, that is proprietary medlcine!"
"Certainly, but what nf that? L have
but one end in view in the treatment of
my patients, namely-their restoration