Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-10-15
Women Shown the Causes oil
Their Physical Ills.
Instructed How to Prevent
and Overcome Them.
New Courage for Suffering anc
Despairing.
4 Remarkable Presentation Of Facts To-
Women.

Df. Grcene'S remarkable Boston MUS
ic Hall private lectures to weak ant
; suffering women have produced pro
found impression. They are some
thing so different from the ordinar.
talk which women hear concerning
their ills. Every sentence which Eel
from the Doctors lips seemed fraugh
with the profoundest knowledge o
their condition and was listened Z
with an attention which showed how
thoroughly his hearers were interest
ed
DIR. Greene, who is Boston's most sue
cessful specialist in nervous and chron
ic diseases and whose office is at 3
Temple Place, Boston, Mass, showed
in his clear and lucid style. how the
conditions of modern life have operat-
ed injuriously on the physical system
OF women and also produced nerve dis
turbances which have aggravated In a
| high degree the troubles of the body.
| The weak and sick women. a prey to
nervous prostration and Its attendant
I miseries, was graphically pictured and
/ The causes of her condition so clearly
and lucidly pointed out that every
woman present felt that she under
stood not only the cause of her troubles
/ but had discovered the true method Of
| effecting their cure.
The modern woman lives under condi-
| tions greatly different from those which
| governed the life Of the woman of the
| past Domestic labor is now not the
| only occupation in which women are en-
gagged. They are now found in nearly
every field of Industrial enterprise and
in many departments of labor that
We're formerly almost wholly occupied
! by men.
Many of these occupations are cx-
| acting. requiring long hours of patient
application and in some cases involv-
| Ing a physical and nervous strain to
which the naturally delicateiTrame of
n woman is unequal. The shop girl
who stands all day behind the counter.
the seamstress plying her needle hour
after hour in the same position, the
| typewriter bending over her machine
for many weary hours. the mill opera
/ tive. the housewife and school teacher
! each Of these may be. and doubtless is
able 10 perform the duties required. II
in perfect health, but when the frame
! Is delicate serious physical evils are
likely to arise resulting in the end in
nervous prostration, and those dis
tressing complaints peculiar to women.
/ \ reasonable amount of physical ex-
ercise is beneficial. but an excess of il
| brings about disaster, But there are
4 many other causes besides those of
overwork which contribute to produce
| the ills to which women are a prey
| Amy oVertaXation of the vital energies
| is harmful.
| Domestic cares often produce worry
! and anxiety, and these operate on the
/ physical system to such an extent as
/ 10 cause serious evils. Neglect of sim
pie precautions for the preservation of
/ health, reckless exposure. over indul-
gence in social pleasures interrupt the
/ processes of nature and form the start
! ing point at which the serious troubles
! begin.
! Perhaps the first symptom of ap-
| preaching danger is painful. irregu-
| lar or suppressed menstruation for the
/ sympathy between the uterine organ
and the vital functions is very marked
/ Then follow sick headache. nausea. in
! digestion. pain and weakness in the
! back, lassitude languor and a con-
| StdItiS INCREASING NERVOUSNESS. DARK
circles begin to show under the eyes
and the eyes grow dull and lustreless
he cmplexion becomes sallow and the
lips lose their redness.
| Exertion causes short and quick
breathing and sometimes palpitation of
the heart: the bowels become irregular
constipation follows. and we have the
weak and suffering woman, the woman
in condition of nervous prostration
and female weakness.
! Life loses it's relish the prospects of
social pleasure creates no interest; the
smallest things worry and irritate and
the nervous system is constantly on
the rack Then follows the long train
of distressing symptoms of a local ma
ture which makes life utterly miser-
able. such as Inflammation, leucorr-
| hoea, falling or displacement of the
womb, and more or less constant back
! ache
| In such condition of physical or
mental distress, it would be strange if
women preserved their natural anna
bllity of character. They do not, they
cannot: their nerves have gone beyond
| their control, and they are likely in
this condition to make life very dis
agreeable to all in familiar contact
win them There cannot be any sweet
ness of disposition associated with
| srievous Ills
Moreover. there is a gradual loss of
personal beauty, which is as much a
source of irritation and worry as any
thihg else The personal charms begin
to show decay; the eye has lost its
brightness. the step its elasticity. the
form its rounded proportions and the
woman her womanly sweetness
but DIR. Greene after drawing this
uark picture did not leave his breathless
attentive listeners to despair.
lie sopke cheering words to them
and gave them hope to carry away in
their hearts
what use to point out to them the
Ills unless he could also point ont the
remedy Tor their cure? Dr. Greene mas
not only made the diseases Of women
ms study. but also the means for the;r
cure. lie has devoted his life in 6na