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diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6833f05 --- /dev/null +++ b/.gitattributes @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +* text=auto +*.txt text +*.md text diff --git a/29612-8.txt b/29612-8.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c0064ac --- /dev/null +++ b/29612-8.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5294 @@ +Project Gutenberg's Treatise on the Diseases of Women, by Lydia E. Pinkham + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Treatise on the Diseases of Women + +Author: Lydia E. Pinkham + +Release Date: August 5, 2009 [EBook #29612] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TREATISE ON THE DISEASES OF WOMEN *** + + + + +Produced by Bryan Ness, Stephanie Eason, and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net. + + + + + + + + + + This Treatise on the Diseases of Women + Is Dedicated to the Women of the World. + + Yours for Health + Lydia E. Pinkham + + +This entire book copyrighted in 1901 and 1904 by the Lydia E. Pinkham +Medicine Co., of Lynn, Mass., U. S. A. All rights reserved and will be +protected by law. + + +List of Lydia E. Pinkham's Remedies. + ++Illustration of Products+ + + LYDIA E. PINKHAM'S VEGETABLE COMPOUND. + Put up in three forms: Liquid, Lozenge, and Pills Price, $1.00 + LYDIA E. PINKHAM'S LIVER PILLS, per Box " .25 + LYDIA E. PINKHAM'S BLOOD PURIFIER " 1.00 + LYDIA E. PINKHAM'S SANATIVE WASH, per Packet " .25 + +ALL THE ABOVE, EXCEPTING THE LIQUIDS, CAN BE SENT BY MAIL ON RECEIPT OF +PRICE. ALL DRUGGISTS SELL MRS. PINKHAM'S REMEDIES. + + + + +CHAPTER I. + + +A WOMAN BEST UNDERSTANDS A WOMAN. + +=Experience a Perfect Teacher.=--Do you know what it is to suffer pain? +Have you had your body racked and torn with intense suffering? Have you +ever experienced that indescribable agony which comes from overworked +nerves? + +Have you ever felt the sharp, stinging pain, the dull, heavy pain, the +throbbing, jumping pain, the cramping, tearing pain, the sickening, +nauseating pain? Then you know all about them. Nobody can tell you +anything more. Experience is a perfect teacher. + +=Book-Learning Alone Not Sufficient.=--Suppose you had never experienced +pain, but had just read about it in a book, do you think you would have +any kind of an idea of what genuine suffering was? Most certainly not. + +Book knowledge is valuable. It teaches the location of countries, the +use of figures, and the history of nations; but there are some things +books cannot do, and the greatest of these is, they cannot describe +physical and mental suffering. These are things that must be +experienced. + +=Personal Experience Necessary.=--After you have once suffered, how ready +you are to sympathize with those who are going through the same severe +trials. If a member of your own home or a friend is passing through the +trying ordeal of motherhood, and you have suffered the same, how you can +advise, suggest, comfort, guide! If you have had a personal experience +of intense agony once every month, do you not think you are in a far +better position to talk with one who is suffering in the same way than +you would be if you had never gone through all this? + +=You Best Understand Yourself.=--But let us go a little farther in this +study. When you listen to an eminent orator, you have but little idea +whether he is nervous or not, but little idea whether he is undergoing a +severe strain or not; for you have never been in his place, cannot +understand just that condition. + +Men become greatly interested in political matters; perhaps it often +seems to you that they become too much disturbed; and yet how can you +judge, for you have never been in their place? And so we might go on, +giving illustration after illustration as additional proof to this one +great fact. + + +IT TAKES A WOMAN TO UNDERSTAND A WOMAN. + +=Man Cannot Know Woman's Suffering.=--What does a man know about the +thousand and one aches and pains peculiar to a woman? He may have seen +manifestations of suffering, he may have read something about these +things in books, but that is all. Even though he might be exceedingly +learned in the medical profession, yet what more can he know aside from +that which the books teach? Did a man ever have a backache like the +dragging, pulling, tearing ache of a woman? No. It is impossible. + +=Even Medical Men Cannot Understand These Things.=--To a man, all pain +must be of his kind; it must be a man-pain, not a woman-pain. Take, for +instance, the long list of diseases and discomforts which come directly +from some derangement of the female generative organs; as, for instance, +the bearing-down pains, excessive flowing, uterine cramps, and +leucorrhoea. Do you think it possible for a man to understand these +things? Granting that he may be the most learned man in the medical +profession, how can he know anything about them only in a general way? +You know, we know, everybody knows that he cannot. + + +A WOMAN CAN BEST PRESCRIBE FOR A WOMAN. + +=Relief First Offered in 1873.=--Away back in '73 these thoughts came to +Lydia E. Pinkham. She saw the most intense suffering about her on every +hand, and yet no one seemed able to give relief. Her thorough education +enabled her to understand that nearly all the suffering of womankind was +due to diseases and affections peculiar to her sex. + +The whole question resolved itself into just this: If a remedy could be +made that would relieve all inflammations and congestions of the +ovaries, Fallopian tubes, uterus, and other female organs, the days of +suffering for women would be largely over. + +=First Made on a Kitchen Stove.=--Could this be done? Mrs. Pinkham +believed with all her heart that it was possible. So on a kitchen stove +she began the great work which has made her name a household word +wherever civilization exists. Without money, but with a hopeful heart, +she made up little batches of this remedy to give to neighbors and +friends whom she felt could be relieved by it. + +The story soon spread from house to house, from village to village, from +city to city. Now it looked as if a business might be established upon a +permanent basis, a basis resting upon the wonderful curative properties +of the medicine itself. + +="We Can Trust Her."=--By judicious advertising the merits of this +remarkable remedy were set forth; and before she was hardly aware of it, +she found herself at the head of one of the largest enterprises ever +established in this country. + +That face so full of character and sympathy, soon after it was first +published, years ago, began to attract marked attention wherever it was +seen. Women said, "Here is one to whom we can tell our misery, one who +will listen to our story of pain, one whom we can fully trust." And so +the letters began to arrive from every quarter. Now hundreds of these +letters are received every day. More than a hundred thousand were +written in a single year. Everyone is opened by a woman, read by a +woman, sacredly regarded as written strictly in confidence by one woman +to another. Men do not see these letters. + +=Men Never See Your Letters.=--Do you want a strange man to hear all about +your particular disease? Would you feel like sitting down by the side of +a stranger and telling him all those sacred things which should be known +only by women? It isn't natural for a woman to do this; it isn't like +her, isn't in keeping with her finer sense of refinement. + +=No Boys Around.=--And then, how would it be when some boy opens the +letters, steals time to read a few before they are handed to some other +boy clerk to distribute (and probably read) around the office to the +various departments? It makes one almost indignant to think how light +and trivial these serious matters are so often regarded. + +=You Write to a Woman.=--But when you know your letter is going to be seen +only by a woman, one who sympathizes with you, feels sorry for you, +knows all about you, how different all this seems. + +=Confidence Never Violated.=--Although there are preserved in the secret +files of Lydia E. Pinkham's laboratory many hundreds of thousands of +letters from women from all parts of the world, yet in not a single +instance has the writer accused Mrs. Pinkham of violating her +confidence. + +=The Largest Experience in the World.=--The one thing that qualifies a +person to give advice on any subject is experience--experience creates +knowledge. No person can speak from a greater experience with female +ills nor a greater record of success than Mrs. Pinkham. Thousands of +cases come each month, some personally, others by mail; and this has +been going on thirty years, day after day, and day after day, thirty +years of constant success--think of the knowledge thus gained. Surely +women are wise in seeking advice from a woman with such an +experience--especially when it is free. If you are ill get a bottle of +Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound at once--then write Mrs. Pinkham, +Lynn, Mass. + +What medical man has ever lived who has prescribed for so many women? +What whole corps of physicians in any hospital or medical college has +answered so many letters, or treated in any way so many patients? + +=She Helps Everyone.=--No woman ever writes to her for advice without +getting help. No matter how rare you think your case may be, she is +almost certain to find letters on file asking advice for other cases of +the same kind. By special permission of the writers I print a few of the +letters showing what cures have been effected. But if the reader could +go through these secret files which are never shown, she might hour +after hour, day after day, week after week, spend her whole time reading +letters, each one telling some special story of rescue from serious +illness, intense suffering, or impending death. + +=The Largest Record of Cures.=--The writers of these letters are found in +every clime and there is hardly a country in the world without its +multitude of grateful women cured by Lydia E. Pinkham's medicines. They +have the largest record of absolute cures from female ills known to have +been effected by any physician or his medicines. + + + + +CHAPTER II. + + +WHAT SHALL THE FUTURE GENERATION BE? + +=Important to the Nation.=--It is impossible to fully comprehend how +important to us as a nation is the health of the young women of to-day. +We fail to realize that these women are to be the mothers of the next +generation, and that in their hands will lie, in large measure, the +power to form the characters and direct the destinies of the boys and +girls of the future. + +=Woman Must Be Strong.=--We may educate our young men all we wish, yet we +cannot have national power through their strength alone. The women of +the country must have this physical education if we are to have a people +that is strong and hearty. + +Upon the sound health and vigor of the young women of to-day will +depend, to a large extent, the health and capacity of the future +generations. + +=What are Girls Worth?=--It is estimated that there are about twelve +million young women in the United States between fourteen and +twenty-eight years of age. What are these young women worth to the home, +to the State, to the nation, to the human race? This is largely a +question of physical health. + +It is the stern duty of the mother to make this clear to her daughter, +and it is the solemn duty of every young woman to thoroughly study the +subject herself. + +=Not Prepared for Motherhood.=--But largely through ignorance, often +through indifference, these young girls become mothers when little +prepared to do so, and they find not only their own health shattered +thereby, but also that they are the mothers of weak, delicate, and +perhaps deformed children. + +=Women Desire Children.=--We read a great deal in the newspapers about how +American women are doing everything they possibly can to prevent having +children. This is not in accord with our experience. It is a slander on +American womanhood,--it is an outrageous falsehood. + +In not one letter in a thousand which we receive do wives ask how +childbearing may be prevented, while every day brings us many, many +letters asking if something cannot be done in order that there may be a +baby in the house. + +=A Healthy Mother and Child.=--If you desire a child, you wish a healthy +child; and you certainly desire to be a strong mother, one capable of +caring for her infant in every way, and able to direct it all through +its young life. Then let us give you some advice. + +=Why Some Women Do Not Have Children.=--The reason why some wives do not +have children may be entirely the fault of the husband; but if this is +not the case, then in all probability there is some inflammation of the +generative organs. This may be of recent or of old standing. It must be +thoroughly removed before the impregnated egg from the ovary can become +attached. + +=The Cure for this Condition.=--That these changes can be brought about in +a vast number of cases I have the most positive testimony. I have +advised such wives to continually use Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable +Compound; and, with this treatment alone, such a healthy condition of +the generative organs has been brought about that pregnancy has very +soon followed. This is precisely according to nature's laws, as I have +indicated before. + +Therefore, I say to every wife who desires a child, "Give Lydia E. +Pinkham's Vegetable Compound a thorough trial. If the fault is yours, +the Compound will surely remove it, and the longing of your heart will +be satisfied." + + + + +CHAPTER III. + + +REPRODUCTION. + +=The Reproductive Instinct Strong.=--The reproductive instinct is very +strong in the human race, as is indicated by the large amount of energy +the woman expends in the bearing of children, and by both sexes in the +care and education of their young. As we know, it is only by the +production of new individuals that the continuance of the race is +assured. + +=Problems of Reproduction.=--The problems of reproduction are extremely +broad, involving not only the immediate questions of individual +reproduction, but also those broader and deeper ones which relate to +heredity. + +=A New Life, By Chance.=--It is a most astonishing fact that nearly all +persons born into the world are given life as the result of chance +rather than by careful design. "If my parents had only known!" is the +frightful wail of many a wretched life. + +=To Create is Divine.=--At no time does man come so near being omnipotent +as when, by the tremendous powers given him, a new life is called into +existence. And yet, whether strong or weak, refreshed or exhausted, +healthy or diseased, sober or intoxicated, sweet or ill-tempered, +yielding or resisting, a new life is begun which may be either of two +extremes. How great are such questions! The human mind seems appalled +when asked to consider them. + +=Education on These Subjects Necessary.=--It is not the purpose of this +book to moralize upon these themes, or to say what should and should not +be done; but knowing something of the wretchedness of womankind, and the +fearful slavery she often has to endure, I can only hope, with all my +heart, that the coming generation may be better educated on these most +important topics. It is with a thought or two of this kind in mind that +I append the following brief outline of this subject:-- + +=Two Sexes Necessary.=--In the higher animals two sexes are necessary for +the reproduction of the race, the male and the female. Each contributes +some particular element toward the beginning of a new life; this is +known as the germ-cell. + +=The Germ-Cells.=--The germ-cells of the male are called spermatozoa, and +those of the female, ova. The reproductive process is simply a fusion, +or union of these male and female germ-cells. + +=The Male Elements.=--The spermatozoa are exceedingly delicate and minute; +they constitute the greatest part of the semen, or sperm. They are +peculiar shaped bodies, having a head, body, and tail, as illustrated in +the accompanying figure, and they can only be seen by powerful +magnifying glasses. (Fig. 1.) + +~FIG. 1. At the left are six spermatozoa, or male-elements, male +germ-cells. At the right is an ovum, egg, female germ-cell. All +highly magnified.~ + +They have the remarkable property of moving about with considerable +activity, and their number is almost beyond computation. + +=Only One Male Element Necessary.=--Although this number is so vast, yet +only a single one is required to endow the female cell, or egg, with +life. It is another illustration of how nature does everything possible +to increase the chances of perpetuating the race, for without such +immense numbers, the chances of the female egg being fertilized would be +much less. + +=May Live for Days.=--Although these male elements can live but a few +hours outside of the body, even when especial precautions are taken to +make every thing favorable to their existence, yet they have been known +to maintain their full life in the vaginal canal for more than eight +days after their discharge; another remarkable provision of nature, for +the prolonged existence of these cells increases the probability of the +fertilization of an egg, and thus increases the chances of producing a +new life. + +=The Female Element.=--As I have already said, the female germ-cell is +also known as the ovum, or egg. A single ovum is shown in Fig. 1. + +If not fertilized by the male elements, the egg passes off into the +outside world; if fertilized, it stops in the cavity of the uterus, +where it forms an attachment. Here it remains until perfectly developed, +when, at the end of nine months, it is brought forth to the outside +world as a perfect infant. + +=One Female Element; Many Male Elements.=--The human ovum is often said to +be a miniature of the egg of the common fowl, although there are some +quite marked differences between the two. It is a very interesting fact +to note that there is only one egg given off at a time; while there are +many thousands of the male elements. This is in harmony with the larger +size of the egg, and the fact that while this egg awaits fertilization +it is most carefully protected within the body of the mother. + +=Where is Life First Made?=--Where the wonderful union of the male and +female elements takes place is not definitely known, although it is +generally believed that it is upon the surface of the ovary, itself. + +If this be true, then it is necessary for the male element to traverse +the whole length of the uterine cavity, out along the course of the +Fallopian tube, and there be deposited on the surface of the ovary. + +=The Fertilized Egg.=--When a fertilized or impregnated egg is set free +from the surface of the ovary, it follows the same course that the +unimpregnated egg does until it reaches the uterus. Here some most +remarkable changes immediately take place whereby the egg is held firmly +to the inner wall of the uterine cavity; while the unimpregnated egg, as +I have said, passes down the uterine cavity into the vagina, and thus +out of the body. In other words, the fertilized egg is retained within +the body, while the unfertilized one is cast off. + +=One Egg Discharged Each Month.=--An ovum, or egg, is discharged during +each menstrual period. It cannot be seen because of its minute size, a +magnifying glass being necessary to detect it, even under favorable +conditions. At just what time during this period the ovum is cast from +the body is not definitely known, but it is generally thought to be +toward the latter part. + +=Time When Fertilization is Most Probable.=--From this it is seen that but +one egg fully develops and ripens ready to be fertilized each month. As +it is the ripened egg which is thrown off at each menstrual period, +therefore it follows that the fertilization of this egg would be most +probable at about the time of menstruation. + +=Times When Ova Do Not Ripen.=--As a rule, these ova do not ripen, or +develop, either during pregnancy, or during the nursing of the child, +although there are certain exceptions to this rule; for menstruation +occasionally takes place during lactation and pregnancy, and pregnancy +itself may occur while the mother is nursing her child. + + + + +CHAPTER IV. + + +THE REMEDY THAT CURES. + +=A Vegetable Compound.=--I hardly think it necessary to mention in detail +the separate ingredients of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. We +wish to call your attention, however, to that word "Vegetable." + +I do not believe in mercury, arsenic, and the host of mineral poisons +which are found in so many remedies. When taken into the system they +disturb every function, interfere with the most vital processes, and +produce the most disastrous consequences. + +=The Purest and Best.=--Knowing these things, Mrs. Pinkham was exceedingly +careful to put only the purest and choicest of products of the vegetable +kingdom into her Compound. Each of the roots and herbs is selected with +the most extreme care, and all are prepared under the personal +supervision of the most thoroughly trained specialists. + +=One Secret.=--One great secret of the success of Lydia E. Pinkham's +Vegetable Compound is that each vegetable is so treated that all useful +elements are retained, and all useless discarded. + +=Highly Concentrated.=--For instance, it is possible for the expert +workmen in our laboratory to condense all the medicinal power that +exists in a pound of the coarse root into a mass no larger than could be +held on the point of a knife. In this way it is possible for a +teaspoonful of the Vegetable Compound to represent all the curative +properties usually found in eight or ten times that quantity; in other +words, it is highly concentrated. + +=Acts Upon Female Organs.=--Mrs. Pinkham knew from the very first that she +was on the right track. She knew that her Vegetable Compound contained +medicines which act directly and naturally upon the female organs. + +She knew that one ingredient produced certain effects on the uterus, +while other ingredients tended to relieve pain in the ovaries. She knew +that one remedy would heal an inflamed uterine cavity, while another +ingredient would cause better circulation in the blood-vessels of this +part of the body. Having the theory all worked out most carefully, she +awaited the practical test, feeling confident as to the result. + +=Success Was Immediate.=--But she did not have to wait long. Immediately +the cures began, and her neighbors and friends told each other what had +been done for them. Soon letters came by the hundreds from all parts of +the world. Thousands upon thousands have written to Mrs. Pinkham telling +her their story, and giving to her, also, full permission to use their +testimonials. + +=It Bridges the Gulf.=--I am sure you would be delighted, as well as +surprised, if you could see the immense difference between the first and +last letters received from women. The first is the story of suffering, +of extreme agony with prolonged misery and abandoned hope. The last is a +song of gratitude, of great love, of joy and peace. The first tells of +disease, the last of health. But what an immense gulf between these +two!--a gulf, however, I am glad to say, that can be bridged with Lydia +E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. + +=You Cannot Possibly Doubt.=--I do not believe you can possibly doubt for +one moment the power of this marvelous remedy to cure the diseases of +women. How can you doubt it? For a quarter of a century it has gone into +every city, village, and hamlet in our land, and into almost every +country home. + +Across the water it is finding its way among the rich and the poor. No +remedy was ever known that was so generally used. Wherever there are +women, there are suffering women; and wherever there are suffering women +you are sure to find Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. + +=The Testimonials Are True.=--Do you think there are hundreds of thousands +of your own sex who would wilfully falsify? Do you think that any could +be found who would deliberately do this, and without hope of gain or +reward? Yet I could point you to hundreds of thousands of letters +received from women who write from the fulness of the heart to thank us +for what we have done for them. + +=We Speak Strongly.=--Then am I not justified in speaking strongly to you? +Don't you think we feel sure of our position? I certainly know what we +have done for others, and that makes us feel sure we can do the same for +you. + +=We Can Cure You.=--I believe our Vegetable Compound will cure you. I +believe it will cure every case where a cure is among the possibilities. +You need not be particular whether the soreness in the lower part of +your body is in the right side or the left side; whether the pain is +sharp, or dull and heavy; whether you suffer terrible agony each month +with local pain, or whether it is mental depression; whether the flow is +too scant or too profuse. + +=It Corrects the Wrong.=--You need not be particular about these things, +for they all show that something is wrong, and Lydia E. Pinkham's +Vegetable Compound corrects this wrong. That is what it was made for; +that is precisely the work it does. + +=Have Faith in Us.=--Don't purchase a bottle thinking you will "see what +it will do," having made up your mind that you will "try the +experiment." Don't come in this spirit, for there is no need of it. Come +with the feeling that has inspired so many thousands of your +sisters,--come believing that you have at last found a remedy that will +relieve you from this terrible slavery to suffering. + +I am anxious to have you enjoy all the robust health that is your right. +I am anxious to make you happy, hopeful, healthy. Put your confidence in +Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. You will never be disappointed. + + + + +CHAPTER V. + + +THE FEMALE PELVIS AND ITS CONTENTS. + +=The Pelvis.=--The pelvis is the bony framework which forms the lower part +of the body. On each side it forms a union with the hip bone to make the +hip joint. + +The female pelvis contains the reproductive organs (uterus, vagina, and +ovaries), and also the bladder and lower bowel. + +Fig. 2 gives a very good idea of the shape and general structure of this +bony framework; while a careful study of Fig. 3 will enable one to form +a very correct idea of the relative size and position of the various +parts contained in this framework. + +~FIG. 2. The female pelvis. The flanging sides form the hips. The union +of the bones in front forms the pubic arch which is felt at the front of +the lower part of the body. The lower end of the spinal column, or +backbone, is seen at the back of the figure.~ + +=The Vagina.=--The vagina is a membranous canal extending from the surface +of the body to the uterus, or womb. Its posterior wall is about 3-1/2 +inches long, and its anterior about 3 inches. A careful study should be +made of our illustration, in order that the relation of the vagina and +uterus to the rectum behind and the bladder in front may be thoroughly +understood; also the angle which is formed by the vagina and the uterus. + +Notice should be taken, also, of the opening of the uterus into the +upper part of the vagina; as inflammation of the uterus often causes a +discharge which passes into the upper part of the vagina and finally out +of the body. This gives rise to the belief that the only trouble is in +the vagina itself, whereas the real seat of the disease may be high up +in the uterus. + +~FIG. 3. A lateral view of the contents of the female pelvis. 1. the +vagina; 2. uterus; 3. bladder; 4. lower bowel; 5. bone forming the pubic +arch; 6. the spinal cord, with bone in front and back of it.~ + +=The Uterus.=--The uterus, or womb, is a hollow organ formed of muscular +tissue, and lined with a delicate mucous membrane. The bladder is in +front, the rectum behind, and the vagina below. + +=Three Parts.=--Physicians divide this important organ into three +parts,--the fundus, body, and neck. The fundus is all the upper rounded +portion; the body all that portion between the fundus and the neck; and +the neck all the rounded lower part. + +=The Cavity of the Uterus.=--This is divided into the cavity of the body +and the cavity of the neck. By consulting our illustration it is seen +that these cavities differ greatly in shape; that of the body being +triangular, while that of the neck is barrel-shaped. + +By referring again to Fig. 4 it will be seen that the cavity of the body +has three openings, one on either side at the top going to the Fallopian +tubes, and an opening at the bottom passing into the cavity of the neck. +A constriction exists between these two cavities; but after childbirth +this is largely done away with, and there is not that marked difference +which existed formerly. + +=Glands in Uterus.=--In the mucous membrane lining the uterus are vast +numbers of minute glands which secrete mucus. It has been asserted that +in the cavity of the neck alone there are from ten to twelve thousand +of these glands. It is in this mucous membrane that such remarkable +changes occur each month during menstruation, and still more wonderful +changes during pregnancy. + +=The Ligaments of the Uterus.=--By referring to Fig. 5 it will be seen +that there are on each side of the uterus flat bands of tissue known as +"broad ligaments." These ligaments are attached to the sides of the +pelvic cavity, and aid greatly in holding the uterus firmly in place. +There are also other ligaments concerned in this same work, although the +broad ligaments are most important. The illustration also shows the +walls of the vagina cut open, in order that the position of the mouth of +the uterus may be easily seen. + +~FIG. 4. This illustration shows the cavities in a uterus which has been +pregnant. 1, the vagina; 2, cavity of the neck of the uterus; 3, cavity +of the body, above which is the fundus of the uterus; 4, Fallopian +tubes, extending to the ovaries.~ + +~FIG. 5. The female generative organs. 1, the vagina; 2, uterus; 3, +broad ligament of left side; 4, a smaller ligament; 5, Fallopian tube; +6, ovary; 7, fringed end of Fallopian tube.~ + +=Blood-Vessels Surrounding Uterus.=--The uterus is well supplied with +blood-vessels, as Fig. 6 shows. Indeed, there is all over the walls of +the uterus and through its tissue a vast network of these vessels. +Whenever, for any reason, the circulation of the blood through the +pelvis is disturbed, these blood-vessels are likely to become engorged, +over-filled, producing congestion and inflammation. + +~FIG. 6. The blood-vessels of the right side of the uterus. 1, blood +vessels; 2, end of the Fallopian tube; 3, ovary; 4, right edge of +uterus.~ + +=All Parts Closely Related.=--The close relation of these blood-vessels to +the blood-supply of the bowels, liver, etc., makes it possible for most +serious disturbances to take place even from slight causes. + +=Study the Illustrations.=--By studying these illustrations it can be +readily seen how an over-distended rectum may produce such an impediment +to the circulation that there will be congestion of all the neighboring +parts. Or, the intestines themselves may become over-distended with +fæcal matter, or gas, from dyspepsia, and the pressure induced thereby +may be sufficient to interfere with the free circulation of these parts, +and thus uterine congestion produced. + +It is also seen how improper dress may compress the organs about these +parts, and thus interfere with the circulation. Again, it is easily +understood, simply from studying the illustrations alone, how any of +these causes might produce dislocation of the uterus itself. + +=Object of Uterus.=--The uterus is the source of the menstrual discharge, +a place for the foetus during its development, and the source of the +nutritive supply of this foetus. It is the uterus which contracts at +full term and expels the child. + +=Uterus Not Rigidly Fixed.=--In a perfectly normal condition there is +considerable mobility to the uterus; in other words, it is not fixed +firmly by the ligaments already mentioned. It is rather simply +suspended, or hung in the pelvic cavity, by these broad flat bands of +tissue. + +A full bladder will push it backward, while a distended rectum will move +it forward; as the body changes its posture, so will the uterus change +its position by force of gravity. + +=Cannot Be Bent Upon Itself.=--The uterus cannot be bent upon itself +without producing injury; neither can it be pushed too far forward or +backward, nor crowded down too far without causing great distress and +actual disease. + +=Fallopian Tube.=--Figs. 4 and 5 show that there is given off from each +side of the upper part of the uterus a tube. This is called the +Fallopian tube. + +Each tube is about four inches long. Near the uterus its cavity will +just admit an ordinary bristle; but near its free end, at the ovary, it +is as large as a goose-quill. + +It is a peculiar tube in that it terminates in a number of fringe-like +processes, one of which is always attached to the ovary itself. + +~FIG. 7. Part of an ovary, showing a ripe ovum, or egg, about to be cast +off, as occurs at each menstrual period. It is here this egg may be +fertilized or impregnated by the male elements.~ + +=Object of This Tube.=--The Fallopian tube conveys the sperm of the male +from the uterus to the ovary, and also takes the germ-cell (or ovule, or +egg) from the ovary to the uterus. + +When a ripe egg is about to be discharged from the ovary, one of these +fringe-like processes of the Fallopian tube grasps it and receives it +into the mouth of the tube, whence it is conveyed directly into the +uterine canal. + +=Ovary.=--On each side of the uterus and in each side of the pelvic cavity +is an ovary. It is about one and a half inches in length, three-fourths +of an inch in width, and one-third of an inch in thickness. It weighs +from one to two drachms, and is an elongated, oval-shaped body. + +~FIG. 8. This figure illustrates the course followed by an ovum. The +ripened egg leaves the ovary (1), passes down the Fallopian tube (2), +and thence into the uterine cavity (3).~ + +~FIG. 9. An exceedingly minute piece of an ovary, highly magnified. It +shows eight ova or eggs.~ + +=Object of Ovaries.=--The ovaries are the essential organs of generation +in the female. In each ovary are large numbers of cells, ovules, or +eggs, one of which, at least, is supposed to pass into the uterine +cavity with each menstruation. Anatomists tell us that each human ovary +contains as many as 30,000 of these ovules, or eggs. + + +LOCAL TREATMENT.--FAST PASSING AWAY. + +=It Makes One Indignant.=--When I recall the terrible and almost horrible +treatment which women have had to undergo in the past, I cannot help but +become deeply indignant. It seems as if all medical study had gone for +naught, as if the teachings of nature had been forgotten, and most of +all, as if no such thing as delicacy and modesty existed. + +=This Makes Confirmed Invalids.=--It is only necessary for a woman to +complain of discomfort in the back, a bearing-down pain, or some +unnatural discharge, when some physician says that local treatment, and +local treatment only, must be taken. + +Women so thoroughly understand what their physician is going to say that +they do not consult him, but go on suffering more and more until they +become almost confirmed invalids. Others, after they are told what must +be done, return home and become gloomy and melancholy over the outlook. + +=Specialists Are Crazy for Work.=--The specialists are so crazy for this +kind of work that it seems as though they would gladly scrape and burn +the inside of the stomach for dyspepsia, if they could do so! Or, they +would take a long probe and go down into the interior of the lungs and +apply strong caustics, if such a thing were possible! + +=The Patient Is Deceived.=--If the ache, or the pain, or the discharge was +on the back of the hand where it could be seen, and where these +"treatments" could be watched, the specialists would have a hard showing +indeed, for the patient herself would then see that little good came +from these local applications. + +But being situated within the body, so that only the physician himself +can examine the parts, the patient has to rest content, not knowing +whether a little pure water is applied (and the fee collected), or +whether the strongest acids which burn deep into the tissues are used +(and the fee collected). + +=Local Treatment Unnecessary.=--Now all of this is almost invariably +unnecessary. It is not showing ordinary common-sense, not in accord with +nature, and not in keeping with the best medical science of to-day. + +Yet thousands upon thousands of women are undergoing the worst kind of +mental and physical torture in taking these local treatments, while all +the savings of the household have to go toward paying the enormous bills +of the specialist. + +=The True Doctor Not Blamed.=--_Do not misunderstand me, please. I am not +talking against doctors, not against the real, true, genuine, noble +physicians and surgeons._ + +There is no nobler profession than that of the physician, none practiced +more faithfully than the good old family physician of this country +practice theirs. The best of them are glad to help their patients in any +way they can, and in spite of professional prejudice, many have tried +Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound upon their patients and have been +delighted at the wonderful success of the trial. + +=Nature the Best Teacher.=--The trouble with so many of these physicians +who call themselves "Specialists on Diseases of Women" is that they get +it into their head that they know more than nature. They map out a +course of their own, and pay no attention whatever to the laws of +health. Just as if a dog barking at the moon would make it shine less +brightly! + +Now any one who has given any thought to the preservation of the health +can readily understand how impossible it would be to cure an +inflammation of the uterus or ovaries, or check an unnatural discharge +from the vagina, by applying strong acids, nitrate of silver, pure +carbolic acid, strong tincture of iodine, or other destroying, caustic, +irritating, and dangerous drugs. + +All of these must be injurious, must postpone recovery, and if their use +be continued for any great length of time must make a cure quite +impossible. + +=A Good Medicine Needed.=--Of course what is needed in these cases is +something that will restore the natural circulation of the blood through +the tissues of the uterus, something that will relieve congestion and +cure inflammation. When the swelling and irritation have subsided, then +the nerves are no longer irritated, and all pain disappears. + +=What This Will Do.=--Then all these parts become better nourished, the +weakened and diseased tissues take on new strength, and all unnatural +discharges cease. + +When the relaxed ligaments are properly fed and toned up, then they hold +the uterus in its natural position, and all bearing-down pains and other +symptoms of displacement quickly disappear. Of course this +constitutional treatment with Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is +hastened by keeping the parts perfectly clean, which can be easily done +with Lydia E. Pinkham's Sanative Wash. + +=A Hearty Welcome to the Perfect Cure.=--A hearty welcome to the most +scientific treatment; a hearty welcome to the most natural, the most +easy, and the most perfect method of cure; a hearty welcome to Lydia E. +Pinkham's Vegetable Compound; a hearty welcome to the remedy that never +fails to restore the uterus to perfect health and natural position. + + + + +CHAPTER VI. + +MENSTRUATION. + + +=Occurs Monthly.=--Once every twenty-eight days very remarkable changes +occur in the uterus, giving rise to that peculiar monthly periodicity +called menstruation, monthly sickness, monthlies, or being unwell. +Although this usually occurs once in about four weeks, yet it may be a +week less or a week longer; or, indeed, the variation may be even +greater than this. + +=Symptoms of its Approach.=--As a perfectly natural menstrual period +approaches, there is a certain degree of discomfort and lassitude, a +sense of weight in the lower part of the body, and more or less +disinclination to enter society. These symptoms may be slightly +pronounced or very prominent, for it is quite unusual to find a person +who does not have at least some general discomfort at this time. + +=Its Appearance.=--First there is a slight discharge of mucus which soon +becomes of a rusty brown or yellow color from the mixture of a small +quantity of blood. By the second or third day the discharge has the +appearance of pure blood. The unpleasant sensations which were so marked +at first now gradually subside, and the discharge, after continuing for +a certain number of days, grows more and more scanty. The color changes +from a pure red to a rusty tinge, and finally disappears altogether. +Then the ordinary duties are resumed. + +=The Age of Puberty.=--Menstruation begins at about fourteen or fifteen +years of age, this period being known as "the age of puberty." It is +preceded and attended by peculiar signs. The whole figure becomes more +plump and round, the hips increase in breadth, and the breasts rapidly +develop. The more striking changes, however, occur in the inclinations +and emotional susceptibilities. + +=Age Modified.=--A great many circumstances modify the age at which the +first menstruation takes place. In hot climates this takes place +earlier, the difference between hot and cold countries being as great as +three years; yet heredity has more to do with this than anything else. +"As was the mother so is the child" is a common saying among women. + +=Continues About Thirty Years.=--The menstrual function continues active +from this age until about the forty-fifth year, although this may be +extended even ten years later. During all these years the woman is +capable of bearing children, because at each month there has been a +fully developed ovum, or egg, ready to be fertilized. + +=The Change of Life.=--When the menstrual function ceases, then the period +of childbearing is over. The time of its disappearance is known as "the +change of life, or menopause." + +=Amount of Monthly Loss.=--The amount of blood lost during menstruation +varies greatly with different individuals, and it would be quite +impossible to give anything like an accurate rule. It varies, normally, +from one to eight ounces, the average being probably about five ounces. + +=Duration of Period.=--The duration of the period is from one to eight +days, the average being five days. Hence it will be seen that the +average loss of fluid per day would be about one ounce. + +=Loss Should Be Small.=--It should be stated here that, as a rule, those +enjoy the best health who lose but a small quantity of blood at this +time. Some persons seem to think that a very free discharge is +necessary, and that they feel better at such times; but there is no +possible reason why this should be the case. + +=The First Menstruation.=--The appearance of the first menstruation is a +most critical time in the life of every young girl, and the mother +should be prepared to give her daughter the best of advice. Some slight +inattention, some undue exposure, some thoughtlessness due entirely to +ignorance on these great subjects, may change the whole future from a +life of comfort and good health to prolonged days of misery and intense +suffering. + +=Menstruation and Childbearing.=--It is the belief at the present time, +among all who have studied this subject, that menstruation is closely +connected with the function of childbearing. The changes which take +place each month within the uterine cavity are of precisely the proper +character to prepare this tissue for the reception of the fertilized +egg. + +=Rules to be Observed.=--A few rules should be carefully followed during +each menstruation, in order that future trouble may be prevented. First +of all, it is necessary to avoid taking cold; yet a person should not +stay in the house by the side of a fire, or in a warm room all the time, +for this would increase the susceptibility to cold. + +Care should be taken to avoid undue exposure, for nothing will disturb +the menstrual process quicker than the sudden chilling of the body, +especially when moist with perspiration. + +Intense mental excitement should be avoided, also. If the young girl is +at school, she should be told to study more lightly at this time; while +any great excitement of any kind, as giving way to anger, or extreme +merriment, should be avoided. + +The feeling of debility and depression which usually accompanies this +time is a gentle warning by nature that the body should remain quiet and +at rest. + +It is natural for many persons to be especially depressed at this time; +an effort should be made by those who understand the situation to make +everything as agreeable and pleasant as possible to the sufferer. + +=Danger to School Girls.=--Without the slightest doubt, many women are +suffering intensely to-day who might be enjoying the best of health had +they not been obliged to study so intensely while in school. A moderate +amount of study does no harm at this time, but the dread of +examinations, with our modern system of cramming at certain times of the +school year, has, without doubt, so worked upon the nervous system that +many a life has been made miserable as a result. + +=Danger to Office Girls.=--It is astonishing, when one fully understands +the processes of menstruation, how so many girls and young women can +remain all day behind the counter in the store, or at the work-table, +during these few trying days, and even escape without serious illness. +Employers never think of the subject, and there is a natural delicacy on +the part of those most concerned to mention the subject. + +There should be in all such establishments some woman to whom these +girls could confide their condition. This woman, or overseer, could +easily be made responsible for the apparent neglect of duties by these +girls at such times. + +=Criminal Carelessness.=--How often is it true that young ladies attend +balls, skate, and otherwise recklessly expose themselves at this most +critical time. One is almost inclined to call such exposures really +criminal, because of the terrible consequences so sure to follow. + +A simple wetting of the feet, or resting quietly in a draught after +exercise, during menstruation may impose upon the person a life-long +injury. How carefully, then, should mothers watch their daughters at +these periods, and how strongly should they impress upon them the +necessity of special care. + +=Condition of Bowels Important.=--The condition of the bowels should also +be carefully looked after at these times. Indeed, this is so important +that it should never be neglected. There should be at least one good +movement of the bowels each day. Nothing can more certainly derange the +menstrual function than persistent constipation. + +=Regularity Important.=--Every mother should make careful inquiry into the +exact frequency of the menstrual period with her young daughter, at +least during the first two years of the menstrual function. + +If there is pain at this time, then something is certainly wrong, and +treatment should be taken at once. If there is irregularity, this also +requires most prompt attention, as it will surely develop into something +serious sooner or later. If the flow is too free, or not free enough, or +if there is any deviation from the standard of health, the mother should +be acquainted with it, and should proceed at once to correct the +difficulty. + +=First Two Years Very Important.=--If a girl can get through the first two +years of her menstrual life without serious disease, she stands a very +good chance of enjoying good health during the rest of her life; while a +slight mistake at this time may produce the most serious disease in +later life. If you do not understand your ailments write to Mrs. +Pinkham, Lynn, Mass. Her advice is free and always helpful. + + + + +CHAPTER VII. + + +DISORDERS OF MENSTRUATION. + +=Amenorrhoea.=--This is a condition in which the monthly flow is +suspended. It can hardly be called a disease, as it is rather a symptom +of some disorder of the uterus, or of some constitutional defect. This +may occur at the time when menstruation should normally appear, namely, +from fourteen to fifteen years of age. + +=Danger of a Decline.=--If the young girl does not menstruate at sixteen, +seventeen, or eighteen, something is certainly wrong, and treatment +should be taken at once in order to correct the difficulty before the +girl goes into a decline. It is not wise to trust too much to nature in +these cases. + +Such girls are generally thin and pale, with a peculiar sallow, or +yellowish-green color to the skin which has given rise to the term +"green-sickness," or "Chlorosis." They fall easy victims to scrofula, +consumption, nervous prostration, insomnia, and other diseases. + +=Treatment.=--When the time for menstruation arrives, and the flow does +not appear, the mother should give her daughter regular doses of Lydia +E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. This remedy acts strictly according to +the laws of nature, and simply brings about natural conditions. + +For some reason nature may not succeed in beginning this important +change in the girl's life, but with the help that comes from the +Vegetable Compound, this is sure to come to pass. + +=How Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Acts.=--A better circulation is +established, the condition of the blood is improved, the nervous system +is greatly invigorated, and, as a result, the menstrual flow is +established. + +This should set at rest a great deal of worry on the part of the mother, +and it means a great deal to the daughter, as well. Now, the mother can +be assured that one great danger is passed, and, with proper care and +attention, there need be no more trouble. + +Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, however, should be taken for some +weeks or months until the habit is well established and menstruation +appears regularly every twenty-eight days. + +=Delicate Girls.=--If the young girl menstruates, and yet is not in good +health, then she should certainly take the Vegetable Compound for a week +before the time when menstruation is expected; the great object being to +establish regularity in the menstrual function. + +=Keep the Bowels Regular.=--In all these cases attention should be given +to the condition of the bowels, which are usually constipated. To +correct this, the girl should take laxative doses of Lydia E. Pinkham's +Liver Pills, just enough each night so that there may be one good, +natural movement the day following. + +=Look Well to the Diet.=--A great deal can be done, also, in the way of +diet. Girls, especially at this time, have a most perverted appetite, +preferring pickles, olives, rich pies and cakes, and other indigestible +foods. These are all bad, of course, as they disturb the digestion and +keep the blood thin. + +Let the diet consist principally of rich milk, eggs, lamb chops, +beefsteak, chicken, and good bread and butter. If the milk rests heavy +on the stomach, then add a tablespoonful of lime water to each glass of +milk. + +Daily exercise in the open air is also of value, and the sleeping-room +should be well ventilated, especially at night. + +=Menstruation Suspended During Pregnancy.=--During pregnancy menstruation +is usually suspended, although the regular monthly flow may continue for +two or three months. Of course, suspension at this time is natural, and +nothing should be done to bring on the flow. + +If menstruation appears when there is a strong probability that +pregnancy exists, then the person should remain quietly in bed and eat +only light food, and every precaution should be taken lest a miscarriage +be brought on. + +=Should a Mother Nurse Her Child While Menstruating?=--Menstruation is +also usually suspended during nursing, although not infrequently this +function is resumed again three or four months after childbirth. The +question here arises whether the mother should continue to nurse her +child while menstruating. + +If the child remains healthy, keeps steadily gaining in weight, and +seems to be well nourished, and if the mother is not losing ground in +any way, then there is no reason why the mother should not keep on +nursing her child. If, however, the mother's health fails, or if there +is evidence that the child is not prospering, then weaning should take +place. + +As a rule, a menstruating mother does not have good milk for her child; +it is usually thin and watery; although, as I have said, under certain +conditions nursing may continue. + +=Sudden Suppression.=--Sudden suppression of menstruation is most +generally due to a cold, mental shock, or undue exposure of some kind. +It is always accompanied with pain in the back, headache, more or less +fever, and other unpleasant symptoms. It should generally be considered +as a dangerous condition, and every effort should be made to restore the +menstrual function. Sometimes when menstruation is suddenly suppressed +in this way, a so-called "vicarious" menstruation occurs, and there is +hemorrhage from the lungs, the nose, the gums, the bowels, or from some +other source. + +=Treatment of Suppression.=--The treatment of sudden suppression consists +of a hot foot-bath, or sitting in a tub of hot water. At the same time +the person should drink a bowl of hot ginger tea, or hot lemonade, be +covered well with blankets, and every effort be made to bring about a +profuse sweating. Then have the person go to bed, and apply hot cloths +across the lower part of the bowels. Place at the feet bottles of hot +water, or hot bricks, and keep up the perspiration in this way for an +hour or two. This is all that need be done in the great majority of +cases. + +=Only One Medicine to be Taken.=--As the shock to the system tends to +disturb the menstrual function for some time to come, the person should +begin at once with Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and should +continue it through the coming month, in order to insure that the next +menstruation may be normal in every way. + +=Scanty Menstruation.=--Often menstruation appears with perfect regularity +and yet is greatly deficient in amount. As we have stated elsewhere, +there is no rule about this, and yet when the menstrual function is +scanty, it is almost invariably a symptom of anæmia, or poverty of the +blood. + +=Anæmic Girls.=--Such girls are listless, easily tired, nervous, with +little appetite, poor digestion, and with no resistive power. + +By taking Lydia E. Pinkham's Blood Purifier regularly a most remarkable +change is brought about; and by the use of an easily digested and very +nourishing diet, as just given in this chapter, together with plenty of +outdoor exercise, this condition can be corrected before serious trouble +ensues. + +=Dysmenorrhoea.=--This is better known as "painful menstruation." It is +due to a large number of causes, and yet can almost invariably be +relieved by proper treatment. + +=Two Great Causes.=--In the great majority of cases the cause is two-fold: +Weakness of the nerves and congestion of the uterus. These are so +closely allied that it is often quite impossible to tell which is the +ruling factor; indeed, one seems to be largely dependent upon the other. + +It is certainly true that congestion of the uterus almost invariably +produces neuralgia of different parts of the body; while nervous +exhaustion, nervous prostration, neuralgia, and general nervousness +often show themselves by this increased pain at the menstrual period. + +=Symptoms of Dysmenorrhoea.=--Usually the most marked pain is before the +flow is well established. The person has a heavy pain in the lower part +of the bowels, with sharp, darting pains extending down the back of the +limbs. Then the pain becomes more concentrated in the uterus itself, or +sometimes in an ovary at the side. + +The pain may begin as a dull, heavy ache, which gradually changes into a +sharp, darting pain, and which culminates at last in distinct and +positive attacks of uterine colic, or cramps. + +The person suffers such intense pain that a chill may be produced which +is followed by a high fever. Often the pains are of a bearing-down +character, and are not unlike those in the last stages of ordinary +labor. + +=Often Make a Complete Wreck.=--These attacks of uterine cramps tell +severely on the general health of the person, and if they are allowed to +continue without treatment, they almost invariably make a complete wreck +of the constitution. + +=Can Be Cured.=--This most distressing and most agonizing complaint may be +quickly and entirely cured by a thorough course of treatment with Lydia +E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. This remedy should be taken +continuously; not a day should pass without the regular dose. + +=Old Cases Cured.=--If the disease has existed for some time, it must not +be expected that it can be cured in a month, but by perseverance the +cure will certainly come and will be perfectly satisfactory. + +=A Valuable Aid.=--In the meantime, the person who suffers from painful +menstruation, a day or two before menstruation is expected, should take +Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, being careful to keep the bowels +in good condition. + +=Additional Treatment.=--If possible, the person had better remain in bed, +or recline upon a sofa, for at least a day before the expected +menstruation, certainly as soon as the first uncomfortable symptoms +appear. Then have her take a hot foot-bath, get into bed and cover with +warm blankets, with bags or bottles of hot water, or hot bricks at the +feet and back, and with warm cloths over the lower part of the abdomen. + +=Temporary Relief.=--If the pain is exceedingly severe, and is not +relieved by these simple measures, then wring out flannel cloths from as +hot water as can be borne and place these over the lower part of the +bowels, directly over the uterus, covering them with dry flannels. As +soon as these become cool, change for hot cloths again, using care, of +course, that the cloths be not hot enough to burn. It is often +surprising what instant relief from pain this simple procedure will +produce. + +=Do Not Take Opium.=--No one should think for a moment of taking opium in +any form at these times, as the opium habit is very easily contracted +and is almost impossible to break up. This is also true of other anodyne +remedies. By carrying out the suggestions given above, it will be found +that their use will not be necessary. + +=Thousands of Grateful Letters.=--If the readers of this book could only +see the thousands of letters from grateful women the world over telling +how this Vegetable Compound relieved them from the fearful torture which +they had been enduring for years once a month, they would use every +endeavor possible to spread the good news to every suffering friend that +at last there is a perfect and absolute cure for this most distressing +and most frightful complaint. + +=Reasons for these Startling Cures.=--The reason why Lydia E. Pinkham's +Vegetable Compound works so admirably in these cases is easily +understood when we call to mind the fact that some of its ingredients +are the strongest of nerve tonics, building up, strengthening, and +giving tone to the whole nervous system; while other ingredients have +the remarkable property of relieving congestion of all the female +generative organs. + +=To Illustrate "Congestion."=--If a string be tied around the base of the +finger snugly, but not too tightly, the finger soon becomes darkened +from the obstructed circulation. We say the finger is "congested." All +that has to be done, in this case, is to cut the string and the +congestion is promptly relieved. + +=Cures Congestion.=--In cases of congestion of the uterus, Lydia E. +Pinkham's Vegetable Compound removes obstruction to the circulation as +effectually as cutting the string relieves the congestion of the finger. +When the circulation is perfectly natural through these parts, then the +congestion and inflammation must disappear and the uterus itself must +again resume its natural position. + +=Menorrhagia.=--This is better known as "profuse menstruation." Just what +constitutes an unnatural loss of blood cannot be stated, as each woman +is a rule to herself. From experience she knows just about what is the +normal amount she should lose each month and retain her health and +strength. + +When this amount is more than natural, especially when sufficient to +produce weakness and prostration, then it becomes "profuse." + +=Occurs in the Full-Blooded.=--Profuse menstruation may occur in those who +are very full-blooded, or in those who are extremely weak and pale. When +occurring in the former, the person usually complains of a dull, heavy, +throbbing headache, pain in the back, and other symptoms of fever. Such +persons recover from an excessive flow of blood quite promptly, and do +not suffer severely from it. + +=Occurs in the Pale.=--On the other hand, when this condition occurs in +those who are very weak, pale, and thin, there is usually great +prostration, which may even become most alarming. + +=Treatment for the Former.=--When profuse menstruation occurs in those who +are full-blooded, the diet should be quite simple and plain. Indeed, it +would be better if the person should take but two meals a day and should +eat but little or no meat. Immediately upon the appearance of +menstruation she should go to bed and remain there as quiet as possible, +for in this way the pain and fever will be less and the amount of the +flow greatly diminished. + +=Treatment When Pale and Debilitated.=--It is a much more serious matter +when this excessive loss occurs in those who are pale and debilitated. +Often the most energetic measures are necessary even to preserve life +itself. The following rule should be observed when possible:--Just as +soon as menstruation appears, the person should go to bed and remain +there quietly until the flow is nearly over. + +Of course it is an easy matter to give these directions, and exceedingly +hard, often quite impossible, for them to be carried out. Many women +have work that must be done, or children who must be cared for during +these days just as well as any other time, and it is almost out of the +question for them to remain quiet. + +Yet the question seems to be whether they will remain in bed two or +three days at this time, and then have far better health for the rest of +the month, or whether they will drag along through all the month. We +would certainly urge that this suggestion be carried out as often as +possible, and that for one or two days the person keep as quietly in bed +as possible. + +=When Very Excessive.=--If the flow is very free, then the foot of the bed +may be raised three or four inches by placing blocks of wood under each +lower corner. This will tend to check the flow. + +=Wonderful Cures Possible.=--Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has +made some most startling and almost miraculous cures in just these +conditions. An immense number of letters are on file from women who have +despaired of relief, given up all hope, and who were confirmed invalids +until after taking this famous remedy. Its continued use heals the +inflammation in the cavity of the uterus, causes a better circulation +through that organ, makes the blood richer, strengthens the digestion, +and thus greatly improves the general health. + +=Relief is Prompt.=--The very next month after beginning its use the flow +is diminished, the next month it is still less, and so on, until soon +there is only a regular, natural menstruation. + +=A Happy Change.=--And what a change this means to suffering women! It +means new life, new hope, new ambition, new courage. It means work +better done, children better cared for, and all social and domestic +duties better performed. I am indeed most happy in being able to tell +suffering women what prompt relief Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound +is sure to bring them. + +In these cases I always recommend the use of the Vegetable Compound in +the form of Lozenges, or Pills. + +=Metrorrhagia.=--When there is great loss of blood at other times than +during the menstrual period, it is given the technical name of +metrorrhagia. It means "uterine hemorrhage." + +Keep the person quietly in bed, and have the foot of the bed raised as +suggested above. If the hemorrhage is at all severe, a physician should +be summoned in order that a careful examination may be made and the +cause of this unusual occurrence thoroughly understood. =If you do not +understand your ailments write to Mrs. Pinkham, Lynn, Mass. Her advice +is free and always helpful.= All such letters are strictly confidential; +only women assist her in answering them. + + + + +CHAPTER VIII. + + +DISEASES OF THE UTERUS AND OVARIES. + +=Inflammation of the Uterus.=--Inflammation of the uterus may be either +acute or chronic. When acute, as following an abortion, taking cold +during menstruation, etc., there is considerable fever, pain in the +lower part of the bowels, nausea, and sometimes vomiting, tenderness on +pressure over the uterus, pain when passing the urine and general +discomfort. + +=Treatment of the Acute Form.=--The treatment consists in having the +person remain quietly in bed, applying bottles of hot water to the feet, +if they are cold, and keeping cool cloths over the head if hot from the +fever. In this way the circulation may be better balanced, and the +tendency to congestion relieved. + +Then take a flannel cloth about six inches square, dip it in hot water, +and wring as dry as possible with the hands; now sprinkle ordinary +spirits of turpentine freely over one side, and place this side directly +over the centre of the lower part of the bowels, that is, just over the +uterus. Cover this flannel with another warm, dry flannel, and allow it +to remain on until the smarting is quite pronounced, or the skin red. +Then remove this, and apply hot cloths wrung from hot water. Use the +turpentine cloth again in four or six hours, if the tenderness and pain +still persist. + +=Only One Medicine Needed.=--Begin at once with Lydia E. Pinkham's +Vegetable Compound, in order that the attack may be cut short. This the +Compound will certainly do if taken faithfully according to directions. + +After the acute attack is over, if there is any constipation, this +should be relieved by Lydia E. Pinkham's Liver Pills; and if there is +any discharge from the uterus, Lydia E. Pinkham's Sanative Wash should +be used once or twice each day, in order to hasten recovery all that is +possible. + +=Chronic Inflammation.=--It is not exaggerating in the least to say that +probably 75 out of every 100 women in the world have more or less +chronic inflammation of the uterus. + +=Causes.=--The causes of this are many, as improper dress, which +constricts the waist, and presses down upon the delicate organs in the +pelvis; improper attention to the health at each menstruation; +over-work; anxiety; miscarriages; unskillful treatment at childbirth, +etc. + +=Lives of Suffering and Sorrow.=--What miserable lives women have to +endure who go about from day to day with a chronic inflammation of the +uterus. Each hour there is that dragging, pulling, bearing-down pain; +that heavy weight; that terrible depression; and that feeling of +abandoned hope. Yet hundreds of thousands, I might say millions of women +have had all this suffering and sadness turned to joy and comfort, +simply by taking Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. + +=Stories Almost Beyond Belief.=--The stories received from our friends +seem almost beyond belief. The most striking of them cannot be printed +because I fear my readers would think such cures were quite impossible. +The letters tell as terrible stories, as frightful conditions as could +possibly exist, and yet all this has quickly and promptly changed to +robust health by the use of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. So +often has this been reported that there is not the least room for doubt. + +=I Speak Positively.=--I am not guessing in this matter; it is altogether +too serious; there is too much at stake. So I urge upon you to give +Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound a thorough trial, feeling +positive, without the slightest question of a doubt, that you will be +quickly and permanently cured. + +=Leucorrhoea.=--This is also known as "the whites, or the female +weakness." It is a symptom of inflammation of the uterus; and that this +disease is so prevalent is again proved by this almost universal ailment +among women. + +It is characterized by a white discharge from the vagina which often +becomes very irritating, and is especially bad just before or after +menstruation. It is a symptom that should not be allowed to go +untreated, for it shows that there is serious trouble which may bring +about an incurable condition. Yet when properly treated, it may be +quickly remedied, and all danger removed. + +=Treatment.=--First of all, it is necessary to remove the inflammation +that exists in the uterus itself. This is done by the persistent use of +Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. As I have described elsewhere, +this will remove all congestion, heal the inflammation, and bring about +a healthy circulation. For this I strongly recommend that Lydia E. +Pinkham's Sanative Wash be also used with a syringe for local +treatment.[1] + +This should be used each night as a vaginal injection, according to +directions, thus thoroughly cleansing the parts, and entirely relieving +all irritation which these acrid secretions are sure to set up. + +If this discharge has been irritating enough to cause any chafing, +eruption, itching, or uncomfortable sensation of any kind about the +external parts, then the Sanative Wash should be used for bathing the +parts; the relief will be immediate, and the cure very prompt. + +=May Be Quickly Cured.=--I speak with great positiveness here, because of +vast experience and because of the universal success of this treatment. +I do not believe there is a case of leucorrhoea which cannot be +relieved and soon permanently cured by this treatment. There is no +delay; relief comes at once. A great improvement in all the symptoms is +very marked, even after the second or third day of treatment. + +=Neglect Causes Ulceration.=--I would add a word of caution here to women +who are afflicted in this way, as the retention of these discharges is +likely to produce an irritation about the mouth of the uterus which will +result in serious ulceration, and even be the means of producing the +most serious and most incurable diseases. + +=Ulcers on the Uterus.=--Because of the low condition of the system, thin +blood, and the local inflammation in the uterus itself, ulcers may form +about the mouth of the uterus. These are accompanied by more or less +pain, a sense of heaviness and weight in the lower part of the bowels, +and a whitish discharge similar to that of leucorrhoea only frequently +streaked, or tinted, with blood. The discharge continues about the same +all through the month between the days of menstruation. This condition +should have the same treatment as that mentioned above for +leucorrhoea, and the recovery will be equally prompt. + +=Early Treatment Necessary.=--If women only understood better how easy a +matter it is for these ulcerations to widen and deepen until some +incurable and terrible disease results, they would be more prompt in +taking treatment, especially when this is sure to be followed by a +perfect cure. + +When the blood is thin and poor, and when the weight is reduced, Lydia +E. Pinkham's Blood Purifier should be used regularly. + +The Blood Purifier, the Vegetable Compound, and the Sanative Wash, have +done as great work in preventing serious disease as in curing it. + +=Displacement of the Uterus Forward.=--The uterus may be displaced either +forward, backward, or downward. By referring to the illustration in the +first part of this book, it will be noticed that the uterus naturally +tips slightly forward, so that when it is displaced forward, the +condition is simply an exaggeration of its natural state. + +=Causes Bladder Trouble.=--By referring to this illustration again, it is +at once apparent that this tipping forward must bring about some +difficulty with the bladder, and such is the case. The most marked +symptom is painful and frequent passing of the urine, with a dull and +heavy pain across the lower part of the bowels. Often this weight is so +increased by walking that the person can be upon the feet only a short +time without causing discomfort and pain. + +This condition may be brought about by some unusual effort at lifting, +jumping, or straining, or especially by wearing too tight clothing about +the waist, tight lacing being probably the most frequent cause of all. + +=The Cure.=--The general treatment here consists in taking a thorough +course of treatment with Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, in order +to strengthen the ligaments of the uterus which hold this organ in +place. When the condition of the system is improved, the nerves +strengthened, and the blood made more rich by the use of this Compound, +then these ligaments partake of this general improvement, and by +becoming more tense, bring the uterus back into position. + +=Displacement Backwards.=--The uterus may be tipped backward, in which +case it will rest against the lower bowel. The principal symptom here is +pain in the lower part of the back, as if a movement of the bowels were +necessary. There is great discomfort in walking, because of this sense +of pressure. The pain is always increased when the bowels move, and is +associated with a sense of obstruction, and painful menstruation is very +common. + +=The Treatment.=--Here the same treatment should be followed as mentioned +for the opposite condition above. In the first place, the bowels should +be kept in good condition by the use of Lydia E. Pinkham's Liver Pills, +taking these in just sufficient amount to cause a free movement of the +bowels daily. Then thorough and prolonged treatment with Mrs. Pinkham's +Vegetable Compound will give such strength and tone to the ligaments +about the uterus that they will again bring back this organ to its +proper position. + +=Falling of the Womb.=--The most distressing of all these displacements is +that known as "prolapsus, or falling of the womb." + +The most frequent cause of this condition is complete relaxation of the +ligaments which naturally support this organ. When the ligaments become +weak, they easily stretch, and thus allow the uterus to fall down into +the vaginal canal, even nearly to the surface of the body. + +=Symptoms.=--This displacement causes irritation of the bladder and lower +bowel, discomfort in walking, painful menstruation, leucorrhoea, a +dragging pain in the back, and most marked bearing-down pain in the +lower part of the body. + +=The Cure Is Certain.=--The treatment of this most distressing affection +is usually followed by prompt and permanent results. Lydia E. Pinkham's +Vegetable Compound should always be taken, because of its great power to +relieve all inflammation and give strength and tone to the ligaments +which hold up the uterus. Lydia E. Pinkham's Sanative Wash should be +used, also, for its cleansing and strengthening properties, on the local +parts. If a sitz bath-tub is in the house it may be used to great +advantage in these cases. A single pail of water will be sufficient, and +should be as hot as can be comfortably borne. If a tub of this kind is +not at hand, then an ordinary bath-tub may be used, having in it +sufficient water to come well over the hips when the person sits in it. + +=The One Permanent Cure.=--By taking Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable +Compound, these relaxed ligaments are given strength and tone so that +they assume their former power. As they gain strength they contract, +pulling the uterus up into its natural position, and holding it there +permanently. + +I can most positively assure every woman who is suffering from all the +discomfort and terrible distress which always accompany falling of the +womb, that she may be promptly and most perfectly cured if she will only +follow my advice. + +=An Abundance of Proof.=--So many letters have come from women who have +suffered and have been cured that it is not possible for a reasonable +person to doubt what they say. I can only urge all affected with these +complaints to give Lydia F. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound a good trial, +feeling perfectly assured that they will be abundantly satisfied in +every way. If you do not understand your ailments write to Mrs. Pinkham, +Lynn, Mass. Her advice is free and always helpful. Such letters are +strictly confidential communications from one woman to another who will +never betray the confidence. + + +Footnote: [1] Every woman suffering from uterine or vaginal troubles +should own and use a syringe. I would recommend the use of Ruth Paxton's +Improved Fountain Syringe. I believe it is the only one that will convey +the solution to every part of the vaginal cavity. The ordinary syringe +is inadequate. It can be obtained by sending to The R. Paxton Company, +221 Columbus Ave., Boston, Mass. Price $1.75, postpaid--registered +letter or postal note. It will repay you a thousand times to take the +trouble to send for it, as the recoveries from disease are quicker when +it is used. Anyway, send two-cent stamp for her little book of +information. You will see by the letters it contains how the syringe is +regarded by those who are using it. + + + + +CHAPTER IX. + +DISEASES OF UTERUS AND OVARIES (Continued). + + +=Ovaries, Congestion of.=--This disease usually comes from taking cold +during menstruation, from some injury, extra strain during lifting, or +from some slow inflammatory process. + +The symptoms are pain and tenderness in one or both sides of the lower +part of the body. There is more or less continuous pain, which is always +worse in standing or walking. The tenderness in the sides is increased +during menstruation, especially if pressure be made over the part. +Sometimes the pain is quite severe when the bowels move. There is always +a feeling of distress, frequently associated with nausea, and often more +or less fever. + +=Treatment.=--For treatment the person should have as good surroundings as +possible, and should take complete rest during menstruation. + +In order to relieve the congestion in these parts and thoroughly control +the pain, Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound should be taken at once. + +=Removal of Ovaries.=--This condition of the ovaries gave rise to the +practice of removing these organs. Just as soon as a woman consulted a +physician and complained of tenderness over the ovaries, he was sure to +advise her to have these organs removed. + +=Less Operating Than Formerly.=--But this practice is rapidly passing +away, and the very surgeons who were so anxious to operate a few years +ago are now found advising against it. This is because of the serious +results which follow this operation. While the pain and tenderness in +these parts would be relieved, yet the profound and overwhelming +impression made upon the nervous system, by producing such a remarkable +change in the life of the woman, was even worse than the disease itself. + +=Results of Removal of Ovaries.=--Women who have had their ovaries removed +are frequently the victims of hysteria, melancholia, extreme nervous +prostration, insomnia, and other distressing and dangerous complaints. + +=Surgical Operations Unnecessary.=--Then, again, it is becoming well known +over the whole country that Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound can +relieve congestion and pain so thoroughly that the surgeon's knife is +unnecessary. I am so confident in this belief that it hardly seems +possible that any woman would continue to suffer in this way, when it is +so useless. I know we can make every woman perfectly comfortable and at +rest, no matter how long she may have suffered, if she will only follow +our simple directions. + +=The One Certain Cure.=--All she has to do is to keep her bowels in good +condition by taking Lydia E. Pinkham's Liver Pills, and at the same time +take a thorough course of treatment with the Vegetable Compound. If you +have any friends or neighbors who are suffering from this disease, and +who fear that it will lead to ovarian tumors, which must ultimately +necessitate a dangerous surgical operation, I urge upon you to tell them +the story of this Vegetable Compound. + +=Always Brings Good Cheer.=--It has brought happiness to so many homes, +has relieved so much suffering, and has cheered and comforted so many +thousands of women, that I am sure you will be doing a great deed of +charity if you will only aid in spreading this glad news. + +=Tumors of the Uterus.=--The uterus is subject to tumors, or growths, the +symptoms of which are much like those of chronic inflammation. As a +rule, the person suffering from these tumors knows nothing whatever of +their existence until some competent physician has told her such is the +case. + +=Fibroid Tumors.=--The most common tumors are known as fibroids. They are +often small, and yet sometimes attain a considerable size. + +Until within a few years surgeons were always anxious to operate upon +these tumors; but this is now largely done away with, for they are not +fatal in themselves, and only become serious when they attain an +exceedingly large size, or, what is more frequently the case, cause +excessive flowing during or between the menstrual periods. + +=Tumors Cured Without the Knife.=--In these cases Lydia E. Pinkham's +Vegetable Compound shows its remarkable power to great advantage. By +establishing a better circulation through the uterus, and relieving the +congestion in the surrounding parts, and by giving strength and tone to +the smaller blood-vessels, the hemorrhage is controlled and the +inflammation is reduced. The tumors cease to grow, diminish in size, and +disappear altogether under its influence. + +=Vagina, Inflammation of.=--Occasionally there is an acute and most +intense inflammation of the vagina caused by exposure to cold, +irritating discharges from the womb, the use of pessaries, supporters, +or some contagious disease. + +Many women suffer from this complaint towards the close of menstruation, +when the discharges are acrid and most irritating. + +=Promptly Cured.=--This inflammation can be promptly cured by the frequent +use of Lydia E. Pinkham's Sanative Wash. Prepare this strictly according +to the directions on each package, and use it as a vaginal injection two +or three times a day. The cure will be hastened by employing a sitz-bath +(sitting in a tub of hot water, or in a bath-tub). + +=To Prevent Extension of Disease.=--In order to prevent the inflammation +from extending into the uterus, it is always wise to take Lydia E. +Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for a few days after an attack of this +kind. + +=Pruritus, Itching.=--Pruritus, or itching of the external parts, is a +most annoying affection, which often renders life itself almost +unendurable. Its most frequent cause is due to irritating discharges +from the uterus or vagina. Quite a large per cent of the women who are +passing through the "change of life" are troubled in this way. + +It is also a marked symptom of diabetes, or "sugar in the urine;" and if +the itching is associated with an unusually large flow of urine, +together with dryness of the mouth and extreme thirst, there is a +probability that the person is suffering from diabetes. In such a case a +specimen of the urine should be taken to a competent physician, and he +should be asked to make a thorough examination of it in order to +definitely determine this point. + +=Treatment.=--The treatment of pruritus consists in keeping the parts +thoroughly cleansed by frequent vaginal injections of Lydia E. Pinkham's +Sanative Wash, even three or four injections daily; and also bathing the +external parts with the same solution. + +=Can Be Promptly Controlled.=--Although medical writers so generally claim +that this disease is almost impossible to relieve, and although they +recommend the application of severe caustics, yet I have never found any +difficulty in promptly controlling and curing this affection by the +faithful and persistent use of Lydia E. Pinkham's Sanative Wash as a +local application and the Vegetable Compound for its constitutional +effects. + +=Constitutional Treatment Necessary.=--Although this disease shows itself +in only one place, yet the difficulty is in the whole system, and can +only be thoroughly removed by the internal use of Lydia E. Pinkham's +Vegetable Compound. Thousands of letters from women tell that their life +of agony, distress, and sleeplessness was changed to one of perfect +comfort almost immediately upon the use of these remedies. + +=Bladder, Inflammation of.=--Sometimes the inflammation of the vagina and +uterus is so severe that it involves the bladder; or an irritable +condition of the bladder may be produced by a pregnant uterus pressing +forward against it; or the uterus may be tipped forward a trifle more +than natural, and thus press against the bladder sufficient to cause +irritation. + +=Symptoms.=--The principal symptom of congestion or inflammation of the +bladder is a frequent desire to pass the urine. This act is almost +always painful, and is sometimes accompanied with spasmodic contractions +of the walls of the bladder, causing severe straining. + +=May Become Chronic.=--If treatment be neglected, this condition easily +becomes chronic, when it is very difficult to cure. Prompt treatment in +these cases is strongly urged because it can be cured in every instance, +and thus an immense amount of suffering avoided. + +=Treatment.=--If possible, the person should remain in bed or recline on a +couch. The diet should consist largely of liquids, nothing being better +than good milk. Meats, rich soups, and all pastries should be avoided. + +Mrs. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound should be taken at once, because of +its most happy effect in relieving congestion and inflammation of all +the pelvic organs. Indeed, here is one instance where the Vegetable +Compound is alike useful to both sexes. The most flattering testimonials +have come from men who have tried this remedy "because it was in the +house," and who were most happily surprised to find that the relief was +prompt and the cure speedy. For all irritable conditions of the bladder, +whether of recent or old standing, I do not believe there is a remedy in +the world that holds out such great promises of complete relief equal to +Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. + +=The Menopause, or "Change of Life."=--This is a cessation of +menstruation. It usually occurs between the ages of forty and fifty +years, although frequently before and even after this time. + +=Symptoms.=--The person first notices that although menstruation had +previously been regular, yet now it has become irregular, not appearing +more frequently than once every six weeks or two months; or possibly +passing over a month, and then appearing regularly again for the +following two or three months; or the flow may be less and less month +after month, until gradually it disappears altogether; or, not +infrequently, menstruation ceases abruptly, without any warning +whatever. + +=A Natural Condition.=--The change of life should be a perfectly natural +condition, not associated with any unpleasant symptom whatever. Yet this +is rarely the case, while often the suffering at this time is most +intense in every way. + +=Affects Nervous System.=--The most severe effects are frequently produced +on the nervous system. These are known as "heat flashes." It is a marked +symptom with a great many women, and is described as a sensation of +waves of heat passing over the body. Sometimes these are very severe, +causing the face to become very red, producing dizziness and intense +headache. + +Often there is melancholia, great depression, and not infrequently +complete prostration of the nervous system. The digestion may be +disturbed, producing constipation, diarrhoea, dyspepsia, loss of +appetite, offensive breath, biliousness, etc. Most marked changes are +certainly taking place in the whole system, and it is but natural that +every part of the body should be profoundly impressed. + +=Not Expensive Treatment.=--I cannot urge too strongly upon my readers the +necessity of their taking Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound all +through these remarkable changes. It is not a great expense to take +this Vegetable Compound in moderate doses four times a day for weeks, or +even months, during these changes. + +=A Critical Time.=--If this period of life be passed over in safety, then +there may be years and years of robust health remaining; while if it be +not attended to properly, the remainder of the life may be one prolonged +day of agony. Even when persons have suffered during all their menstrual +life, they can now have perhaps a score or more of years of complete +relief if they properly care for themselves during this change. + +=Keep Under Its Influence.=--Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is a +great tonic in itself, bracing up the whole nervous system, aiding +digestion, and causing all the forces of the body to act more in accord +with nature. + +Then it has a special influence over the uterus and ovaries; indeed, so +marked is its power to correct disease that all the trying days of the +"change of life" may be passed over in perfect safety, if only the +system be continuously kept under its influence. + +=May Be Made Easy and Natural.=--Women who have been dreading this change, +and who have been made to look upon it as something horrible to pass +through, may now lay all such anxiety aside, for Mrs. Pinkham long ago +solved the problem of making this time of life as healthy and natural as +any other. + +It is not claiming too much to say that if women everywhere will only +take Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound through this trying time, +they will come out of it feeling better in every way than they have felt +for many years. =If you do not understand your ailments, write to Mrs. +Pinkham, Lynn, Mass. Her advice is free and always helpful. Such letters +are strictly confidential and answered with the help of women only.= + + + + +CHAPTER X. + +PREGNANCY, ITS SYMPTOMS, DISEASES, ETC. + + +=Sometimes Difficult to Tell.=--Even the most skilled physicians sometimes +make mistakes in stating that pregnancy exists when it does not. + +=The First Sign.=--The most valuable and striking sign of pregnancy is the +cessation of the monthly periods; yet even this is not always reliable. +Sometimes menstruation continues for three or four months, especially +during the first pregnancy, although this is exceedingly rare. As a +rule, to which there is hardly an exception, if menstruation ceases in a +married woman who has previously been regular, she is, in all +probability, pregnant. + +=Other Signs.=--Another important sign is the enlargement of the abdomen, +although this cannot be detected much before the fourth month. A +valuable sign, also, is the enlargement of the breasts, with a widening +and browning of the pink ring around the nipples. Enlargement of the +breasts often begins as early as the second month, and is quite marked +by the fourth or fifth month. + +=Morning Sickness.=--Morning sickness is a symptom present in the majority +of cases. It usually consists of a marked nausea upon rising, and +perhaps vomiting. This may last only a few hours in the early morning, +or continue through the greater part of the day. It generally appears in +the second month and lasts only through the third month, although, in +bad cases, it may continue through the whole period, and very seriously +affect the health. + +=Treatment.=--There are any number of remedies recommended for the +treatment of this morning sickness. What will cure one case seems to be +perfectly useless in another. + +It has been my experience that the best way to manage these cases is as +follows: Have the person take a slice of toasted bread, or a toasted +cracker, with a little coffee if desired, while in bed, remaining there +at least half an hour after eating. Or, the person may take a glass of +milk to which two tablespoonfuls of lime water have been added. Then, by +rising slowly and moving about carefully, it is often possible to go +through the day without any sickness whatever. I have known many cases +to be entirely relieved by eating a little ordinary pop-corn. + +=The Morning Meal.=--The morning meal may consist of milk to which a +little lime water has been added; or a poached or soft-boiled egg. +Sometimes scarped beef, lean and rare, salted and spread on very thin +bread, quiets the stomach at once, while it is highly nourishing. + +=Only One Medicine Needed.=--It is surprising what happy changes Lydia E. +Pinkham's Vegetable Compound brings about in this condition. The +irritability subsides, the digestion is greatly improved, the nervous +system is strengthened, and all these uncomfortable and disagreeable +symptoms pass away. The Compound should be taken in small doses three +times a day, after meals. + +=A Bandage May Relieve Nausea.=--An abdominal bandage will sometimes +relieve the morning sickness, if placed snugly, but not too tightly, +about the body. It need be worn only a week or two, for a trial, and +should always be taken off at night. If the nausea persists during the +day, then let the food be light and taken in small amounts, at frequent +intervals. + +="Quickening."=--This is another sign of pregnancy. The word refers to the +detection by the mother of the movements of the child. Although, without +doubt, the child moves within the mother at a much earlier period, yet +these movements are too feeble to be noticed until pregnancy has +advanced four or four and a half months. + +=Other Symptoms of Pregnancy.=--Other symptoms are morbid longings for +unusual articles of food, as sour apples, vinegar, charcoal, clay, slate +pencils, etc. These longings, however, should not be satisfied, as they +do not represent the demand of nature for these substances. They belong +to the same class of changes which are shown by a marked difference in +the disposition of a person whereby the lively and cheerful woman +becomes melancholy, gloomy, and irritable. + +=Diet During Pregnancy.=--The diet during the whole of pregnancy should be +generous, yet easily digestible. A great many women do not change their +diet at all, and if the person is in good health and does not suffer in +any way, there is no reason whatever why the diet should be changed, +unless the evening meal be made somewhat lighter. + +=Eat Sparingly of Meat.=--It is always wise not to eat meat more than once +a day. This is because a meat diet throws more work upon the kidneys, +and any failure of the kidneys increases the probability of serious +trouble at childbirth. + +So far as is known, there is no foundation for the belief that any +special article of diet has any particular effect upon the development +of the child. + +=Care of the Breasts.=--The care of the breasts during pregnancy must be +commenced early. All pressure of the clothing should be removed, in +order to give them full opportunity to develop. They should be kept +warm, however, and well supported, if the size renders them +uncomfortable. + +=Mothers Should Nurse Their Children.=--Statistics show that the summer +diarrhoeas and dysenteries, which carry off such immense numbers of +children each year, are almost unknown among babies that nurse. It is +the artificially fed child which suffers from wasting diseases and +disturbances of the digestion which are so fatal to life. Therefore, +every prospective mother should do everything in her power to prepare +for the proper nursing of her child. + +=Care of the Nipples.=--If the nipples are flat, they can be pulled out +gently each day with the fingers, and thus the difficulty entirely +remedied. At the beginning of the last month of pregnancy, the nipples +should be hardened in order that nursing may be painless, and that all +fissures, or cracks, may be avoided. + +Every morning and night apply the following solution to the nipples with +a piece of absorbent cotton:-- + + Glycerite of Tannin, 1 fluid ounce. + Water, 1 fluid ounce. + +Allow this to remain on the nipple. This cannot be used after +confinement, for the bitter taste would be objectionable to the child. + +=Can Sex Be Foretold?=--Mothers often wish to know if it is possible to +determine the sex of the child before it is born. Although a great deal +has been written on this subject, and a number of so-called rules have +been made, yet it is absolutely impossible to tell whether the child +will be a boy or a girl; and it is also equally impossible to do +anything that could in any way exert an influence in producing a child +of the desired sex. + +=To Tell Time of Confinement.=--For two hundred and eighty days, or forty +weeks, the prospective mother has been conducting herself in the best +way she thought possible, that all good might be exerted upon the new +life. The question now comes, When may the day of confinement be +expected? I give here a table for calculating this day, which I am sure +will be found very convenient. + +OBSTETRICAL TABLE. + + --------+---------------------------------------------- + January | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 + Oct'r | 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 + --------+---------------------------------------------- + Feb'y | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 + Nov'r | 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 + --------+---------------------------------------------- + March | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 + Dec'r | 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 + --------+---------------------------------------------- + April | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 + Jan'y | 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 + --------+---------------------------------------------- + May | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 + Feb'y | 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 + --------+---------------------------------------------- + June | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 + March | 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 + --------+---------------------------------------------- + July | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 + April | 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 + --------+---------------------------------------------- + August | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 + May | 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 + --------+---------------------------------------------- + Sept'r | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 + June | 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 + --------+---------------------------------------------- + October | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 + July | 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 + --------+---------------------------------------------- + Nov'r | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 + Aug | 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 + --------+---------------------------------------------- + Dec'r | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 + Sept'r | 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 + --------+---------------------------------------------- + + ---------------------------------------------+------ + 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 | + 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 |Nov. + ---------------------------------------------+------ + 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 | + 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 1 2 3 4 5 |Dec. + ---------------------------------------------+------ + 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 | + 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1 2 3 4 5 |Jan. + ---------------------------------------------+------ + 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 20 27 28 29 30 | + 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 20 30 31 1 2 3 4 |Feb. + ---------------------------------------------+------ + 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 | + 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 |Mar. + ---------------------------------------------+------ + 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 | + 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1 2 3 4 5 6 |April. + ---------------------------------------------+------ + 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 | + 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 |May. + ---------------------------------------------+------ + 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 | + 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 |June. + ---------------------------------------------+------ + 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 | + 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 |July. + ---------------------------------------------+------ + 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 | + 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 |Aug. + ---------------------------------------------+------ + 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 | + 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1 2 3 4 5 6 |Sept. + ---------------------------------------------+------ + 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 | + 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 |Oct. + ---------------------------------------------+------ + + As labor occurs in the larger proportion of cases between 270 and + 290 days from the first day of the last menstruation, 280 days is + the average. The table presents at a glance the beginning and end + of 280 days for every day in the year. Find the date of + menstruation in the upper line of the horizontal column, and the + figure below, with the corresponding month, will indicate 280 days. + + +=To Avoid Miscarriage.=--The pregnant woman must be very careful as the +usual time for menstruation approaches. It is then that any undue +effort, unusual lifting, excessive grief, or shock to the system, may +bring on a miscarriage. This is especially true if such a misfortune has +previously occurred. + +=A Great Preventive.=--The most abundant testimony shows that Lydia E. +Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is an almost certain preventive to +miscarriage or abortion. It gives strength to the uterine walls, quiets +the first approach of pain, controls any spasmodic contractions, and +brings about such a healthy condition that all danger is averted. I +cannot speak too strongly of this Vegetable Compound for these cases. So +many mothers have written us that they are now happy in the possession +of a child, when, for time and time again, they would have a miscarriage +at the third or fourth month. + +=Keep it in the House.=--Every pregnant woman should always keep in the +house a bottle of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She does not +know the day when she will need it, and when that day comes she will +require it promptly. + +At any time when there is soreness, tenderness, unusual pain, any +unnatural discharge, or any symptom whatever that shows pregnancy is not +pursuing a perfectly natural course, she should begin to use the +Vegetable Compound at once. It should be taken in small doses two or +three times a day, just enough to produce its strengthening, quieting, +and healing effects. + +If she finds she has been overdoing, has strained herself in any way, or +fears that some unfortunate result will follow an extra hard day's +labor, let her take a few doses of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound +as a certain preventive to future trouble. + +=The One Universal Cure.=--In other words, I repeat what I have already +said so many times, that whenever there is trouble of any kind with any +part of the female generative organs, whenever these do not act in a +perfectly natural manner, then the Lydia E. Pinkham Vegetable Compound +is indicated; for it is the one great, universal and never-failing cure +for all the affections which fall to the lot of womankind. + +=Makes Mother and Child Strong.=--Many thousands of wives owe the fact +that they are mothers to-day to this grand remedy, and thousands upon +thousands of children are happy, strong and robust because their +mothers were wise enough to use it. Keep it in the house. Do not be a +day without it. Have it where you can reach it at any time. Put your +confidence in it. 'Twill prove a never-failing friend to you in time of +need. + +=Mothers' Marks.=--There is a wide belief among women that any strong +impression made at a certain time during pregnancy will exert a powerful +influence in producing some defect or deformity in the child. The +opposite is also held, to the effect that beautiful objects, delightful +music, and everything elevating and ennobling will have a favorable +effect upon the body or mind of the child. + +An immense amount of testimony can be produced on both sides of this +question. The weight of evidence, however, is rather in favor of these +so-called "maternal impressions." In other words, it seems possible that +under very unusual conditions the mother may affect her unborn child +because of some powerful impression made upon the system. + +Yet hundreds of thousands of mothers become frightened and undergo the +most terrible experiences without having the slightest unfavorable +effect upon the child; while other mothers give birth to deformed +children when they have been surrounded with every comfort and have not +been disturbed in any way. No one understands this subject, and but +little can truly be said about it. + +=Hereditary Influences Are Strong.=--On the other hand, we all know how +strong is heredity. Therefore it is only acting the part of ordinary +wisdom for every pregnant woman to avoid all disagreeable things +possible and cultivate everything that is good and true. + +=Early Training Necessary.=--When we come to study the theory of heredity, +we see that it is impossible for any mother to completely change her +course of life simply during pregnancy and have a corresponding effect +upon her child. To produce the best results on the offspring it is +necessary that the mother should have cultivated her own mind and body +through many years of training. + +=Were Cured Early in Life.=--Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has +done untold good to the present generation. There are hundreds of +thousands of children living to-day who are healthy and happy because +years before they were born their mothers, when young girls, took this +grand household medicine. They were restored to health, a great load was +lifted, and things again looked cheerful and bright, and in this +condition a happy baby was born into the world. =If you do not understand +your ailments write to Mrs. Pinkham, Lynn, Mass. Her advice is free and +always helpful. Such letters are strictly confidential and answered with +the help of women only.= + + + + +CHAPTER XI. + +PROBLEMS IN NURSING. + + +=Diet During Nursing.=--Many mothers believe that it is necessary to eat +only certain articles of diet while nursing their baby, for fear the +child may be given the colic. While this may be true in certain cases, +yet it is the exception. As a rule, mothers may eat nearly everything +digestible without fear of affecting the baby. + +=Exceptions.=--Sometimes raw fruits or acid substances may change the milk +in some way so that it will disagree with the baby, but as I have said, +this is not the rule. Occasionally, however, when such articles of diet +as onions, cauliflower, and cabbage have been eaten, these will impart +such an odor and taste to the milk that the child will refuse to nurse. + +=Must Be Guided By Experience.=--The only precaution the mother need take +is that if she finds some article of diet disagrees with her, or if she +knows a certain article always causes pain or discomfort in the child, +then these should be avoided. + +It is true that certain medicines, especially purgatives, may be taken +by the mother which will affect the child very quickly. Here the same +rule should be the guide as should always govern one, namely, no article +of diet should be used which is known to disturb the digestion. + +=Insufficient Supply of Milk.=--When a mother knows that the chances of +her child's life are greatly increased if it has its natural food, she +will certainly make unusual efforts to supply all the food necessary. + +Mothers are too likely to think that an increase in the quantity of the +milk answers every purpose; but this is of no use unless the quality is +increased as well. The free use of soups and some malt extracts may +increase the quantity, but this does the child no good. It too much +resembles the example of the milk-man who uses the well-pump to increase +his supply of milk. + +=How Increased.=--However, the supply of milk can easily be increased in +quantity and correspondingly improved in quality if the mother will +drink freely of cow's milk, and use other substantial foods at the same +time. If the milk is constipating, or rests heavy on the stomach, then a +little lime water may be added to it in the proportion of one or two +tablespoonfuls to a glass of milk. Regular exercise in the open air is +also necessary in order that the general health may be kept in the best +possible condition. + +=Anger May Poison Milk.=--It is a fact that if the child nurses after the +mother has had a severe fright, or has become violently angry, the milk +will sometimes act as an intense poison. In such cases the mother had +better empty the breasts with a breast-pump, and not nurse the child for +ten or twelve hours afterward, substituting some artificially prepared +food. + +=Extra Supply of Milk.=--Sometimes the secretion of milk is so great that +even a strong child cannot take it all. This produces a distention of +the breasts, causing what is known as "caked breasts," or "milk cake." +This should be promptly attended to, as there is great danger of an +abscess forming. + +=To Prevent Caked Breasts.=--The way to relieve this condition is to +gently but firmly rub the breasts with warm sweet-oil, continuing this +for fifteen or twenty minutes at a time. An occasional use of the +breast-pump is necessary also. + +=How to Diminish Supply.=--When weaning-time comes, the question arises +how the secretion of milk may be diminished. This is best done by having +the mother take as little liquid as possible, whether of water, tea, +milk, soup, or anything of this kind. She should also take a gentle +laxative each day, as a little Hunyadi Water, or laxative mineral water +of any kind. + +Then support the breasts by passing a broad band beneath them, and +carrying it over the shoulders, compressing the breasts slightly, but +not too greatly. + +The breast-pump should be used as soon as any distention becomes +painful, and the breasts should be diligently rubbed with warm +sweet-oil. =If you do not understand your ailments write to Mrs. Pinkham, +Lynn, Mass. Her advice is free and always helpful. Such letters are +strictly confidential and answered with the help of women only.= + + + + +CHAPTER XII. + +TO PREVENT CONVULSIONS AT CHILDBIRTH. + + +=Work of the Kidneys Most Important.=--The kidneys are constantly engaged +in removing from the body certain poisonous substances which are held in +solution in the urine. If they should fail to do this work, or if no +urine should be secreted for even a few hours, most serious consequences +would follow. + +=Cause of Convulsions.=--When these poisons are retained in the system to +a sufficient degree they cause convulsions and unconsciousness, and are +frequently fatal. The convulsions which some women have at childbirth +are caused by this imperfect action of the kidneys. + +=To Tell If Danger Is Present.=--An examination of the urine at any time +will tell whether the kidneys are acting well or not, and thus it is +possible to determine whether there is danger of having these +convulsions during confinement. Therefore I urge upon all pregnant women +the necessity of having their urine examined once or twice during the +course of pregnancy, and certainly during the eighth or ninth month. + +=Albumen in the Urine.=--Imperfect action of the kidneys is shown by the +appearance of albumen in the urine. Any competent physician can easily +determine whether this albumen is in the urine or not, and if present he +can take such prompt measures as to remedy the evil before any serious +danger occurs. Of course I know that hundreds of thousands of women pass +safely through childbirth and have no unfavorable symptom at all; yet I +also know that now and then a most valuable life is lost when it might +just as well have been spared as not, if these simple suggestions had +been carried out. + +It is the teaching of all the best medical authorities in the world that +this precaution should be taken by every expectant mother. + +=Symptoms of Kidney Trouble.=--When the kidneys are not performing their +work properly, the mother may know it, herself. If she finds her feet +and ankles swelling at night, if she has a puffy look under the eyes, +and especially if the amount of urine passed in twenty-four hours is not +so great as formerly, then there is probably albumen in the urine. In +this case she should stop eating meat of all kinds, and live largely +upon milk, keeping the bowels in laxative condition by using Lydia E. +Pinkham's Liver Pills, and bathing the skin well once or twice a day. +She should also begin at once the use of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable +Compound, resting assured that this will remove the congestion in the +kidneys, and will cause a more free secretion of the urine. + +=Self-abuse (Masturbation).=--This is a cause of many of the diseases of +women, also men. Small girls learn the practice from larger ones, and +through ignorance continue it often to maturity without knowing that it +is bringing upon them a physical and moral injury. + +_If mothers instructed their daughters on this subject there would be +fewer broken lives._ + +SYMPTOMS.--The main symptoms are wakefulness, restless nights, headache, +indolence, melancholy, indisposition to study, forgetfulness, +despondency, weakness in the back and private organs, no confidence in +one's own abilities, a desire for seclusion from society; whites, +hysterics, and inability to look any one in the face. Sometimes the +muscles are relaxed, limbs tremble, the skin is sallow and dry, with +pain in the womb. + +=REMARKS. Write to Mrs. Pinkham in perfect confidence, and she will tell +you exactly what to do. Delay is dangerous in this matter.= + + + + +CHAPTER XIII. + +DYSPEPSIA, CONSTIPATION, GENERAL DEBILITY, SLEEPLESSNESS. + + +=Dyspepsia, Acute.=--Acute dyspepsia is usually caused by some improper +diet, as the eating of an unusual article of food or of a larger amount +than necessary. Such articles of diet as cucumbers, unripe or overripe +fruit, an excessive amount of sweets, rich salads, heavy puddings, etc., +may so irritate the stomach that an acute attack of dyspepsia follows. + +=Nature Often Cures.=--Nature often makes a prompt cure in these cases by +causing a sharp attack of vomiting or diarrhoea. If a cure is not made +in this way, then we can imitate nature by giving an emetic, or by +taking a laxative, in order to rid the body of the indigestible material +as soon as possible. + +=Treatment.=--If there is much pain in the stomach, a mustard plaster +should be placed directly over the pit of the stomach, or cloths wrung +out in hot water. For the next day following the attack the diet should +be restricted to milk, or poached eggs on toast, or something of this +kind. + +=Chronic Dyspepsia.=--It is chronic dyspepsia, however, which is so +annoying because of its persistence. It has been called "The American +Disease" because so many people are troubled with it. + +=Symptoms.=--Persons suffering from chronic dyspepsia complain of a bad +taste in the mouth, dry throat, nausea, and a feeling of great weight in +the stomach for an hour or two after each meal. + +Frequently there is no appetite whatever, or it may be even more +ravenous than natural because of the irritation and inflammation in the +stomach. When the latter is the case, food does not satisfy, and it +becomes necessary to eat every two or three hours in order to quiet the +gnawing and empty feeling in the stomach. The chronic dyspeptic suffers +greatly from nervousness and depression of spirits; indeed, it seems +almost impossible to maintain the usual cheerfulness. + +=Thought to be the Heart.=--Many persons go to their family physician +thinking they have a serious form of heart disease, when the whole +trouble is with the stomach, the violent beating of the heart being +simply a nervous manifestation caused by the irritable condition of the +stomach. + +=Two Diseases Closely Associated.=--Chronic dyspepsia is almost invariably +associated with the diseases of women. Indeed, the two seem almost +inseparable, for whenever you find a woman complaining of soreness +across the lower part of the bowels, irregular menstruation, ovarian +irritation, inflammation of the bladder, leucorrhoea, etc., you will +find a confirmed dyspeptic. The blood is thin and watery, the bowels are +constipated, and the whole nervous system seems to be upset. + +=Which Disease Is the Cause?=--The question comes whether the disease in +the pelvis causes the difficulty with the stomach, or whether the +stomach produces the inflammation in the uterus and surrounding parts. +Probably one is true at one time and another at another time. The fact +is that both conditions need correcting, and there is one remedy which +answers perfectly in each case. + +=Both Must Be Cured.=--The digestion certainly cannot be perfect while +there is this inflammation in the pelvic organs; while the latter can +hardly maintain a healthy condition if the stomach fails to do its work. + +=Both May Be Cured.=--By paying attention to a few rules of diet, and by +taking Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for a short time, I believe +every case will promptly yield to treatment. + +=Cures Dyspepsia of Men.=--Indeed, strange as it may seem, a great many +men who have taken Lydia E. Pinkham's Compound because they have seen +its good action on the stomach in cases of other members of the family +have written reporting good results. It certainly has a most soothing +and strengthening power on this organ, while its gently stimulating +effect on the whole alimentary canal brings about the most desirable +changes. + +=Regular Action of the Bowels.=--I would recommend that Lydia E. Pinkham's +Liver Pills be taken each night in just sufficient doses to cause a +regular action of the bowels each day. Then if Lydia E. Pinkham's +Vegetable Compound be taken, it will not only allay all inflammation in +the stomach and impart great strength, but it will at the same time +remove the soreness and pain in the pelvic organs. + +=A Simple but Valuable Aid.=--All such persons will obtain relief by +drinking a cupful of hot water at least half an hour before breakfast +each morning; and if the case is very bad, then the hot water may be +repeated before each meal. The water should be as hot as can be +comfortably taken. + +=Useful Hints.=--I would strongly urge the necessity of thoroughly chewing +the food and eating slowly. If this rule alone were observed there would +be far less dyspeptics in the country. Drink should be used sparingly at +meal-time, also, for while the body requires a great deal of liquid +during the day, yet this should be taken between meals rather than +during meals. + +The stomach should certainly have time to rest from its work of +digesting the food, hence nothing should be eaten between meals. The +habit so many girls have of eating before retiring is very injurious to +the health, and should be corrected at once. Meals should be taken at +regular intervals and not at any time when most convenient. + +=Diet for Dyspeptics.=--The chronic dyspeptic should use soups sparingly, +for, as a rule, they are quite difficult of digestion, while they do not +contain much nourishment. Plain mutton and beef soup without much fat +are the least harmful. Such fish as pickerel, trout, shad, and white +fish may be used moderately; while oysters, especially when raw, are +easily digested. The best kinds of meat are roasted or broiled beef, +lamb chops, and some fowl, as chicken. + +Eggs are easily digested, and are exceedingly valuable as an article of +diet for the dyspeptic. They may be cooked in almost any form except +hard-boiled. They are highly nourishing, can be prepared in many +delicate ways, and are, as I have said, as valuable an article of diet +as the dyspeptic can have. + +Persons with chronic dyspepsia do not digest vegetables well, as a rule, +although such green vegetables as lettuce, green peas, asparagus, +celery, and spinach may be used. Potatoes often ferment in the stomach, +producing gases, and should be used sparingly. + +Toast is always well borne, but should never be buttered while hot. +Bread should not be used until it is at least a day old. Rolled oats, +cracked wheat, etc., may be taken, although with many they cause +fermentation. Nearly all cooked fruits are well borne by the stomach, +and so are nearly all ripe fruits. Puddings made from rice and custard +are easily digested. + +Milk is valuable at all times, and if the chronic dyspeptic bears it +well, this diet alone will frequently make a marked cure. If it rests +heavy on the stomach, a little lime water may be added to it in the +proportion of a tablespoonful of lime water to a cupful of milk. + +=Forbidden Diet.=--There are certain articles of diet which the dyspeptic +should not use under any circumstances. Among such are fried foods of +all kinds, pork, liver, veal, rich soups, turkey, goose, duck, mackerel, +lobster, cucumbers, cabbage, turnips, parsnips, string beans, pies and +cakes, cheese and nuts. + +=Constipation.=--As we have already stated, constipation is productive of +the most serious evils. When the lower bowel is distended, pressure is +made upon the surrounding blood-vessels, and thus the circulation +seriously interfered with. + +=Causes Inflammation of Uterus.=--As a result, there is congestion in the +blood-vessels of the ovaries and uterus, and inflammation of these +organs is likely to follow with its long train of ailments. + +Constipation also seriously interferes with the general health, +producing nausea, indigestion, headache, backache, nervousness, general +debility, etc. + +=Daily Movements Necessary.=--Nature intended that the alimentary canal +should be relieved of its contents at least once every twenty-four +hours, and if this is not done, then certain poisons are absorbed into +the blood which produce the most undesirable effects. + +=To Cure Constipation.=--For constipation I strongly recommend Lydia E. +Pinkham's Liver Pills. I know they give the most prompt and satisfactory +relief. I have received letters from hundreds of women who have been +cured of the most distressing ailments of the uterus and bladder simply +by using these Liver Pills, and all because constipation was cured and +in this way the cause of the suffering removed. + +=Diarrhoea.=--Diarrhoea, as a rule, is an effort of nature to get rid +of some offensive material. While this may be the first reason for its +existence, yet if it is allowed to go on, it produces such an irritation +in the bowels that serious results may easily follow. + +=Treatment.=--If the person is conscious of having eaten something +indigestible, as unripe or overripe fruit, then it is best to aid nature +by taking some gentle laxative, as a laxative dose of Lydia E. Pinkham's +Liver Pills, thus hastening the removal of the indigestible substance. +If, however, there have been a number of movements of the bowels, until +the offending material is probably all removed, then the following plan +is all that will be necessary to make a cure: + +Let the person rest at full length upon a couch or bed, remaining as +quiet as possible. For the diet nothing should be taken but hot milk. A +glass of hot milk can be slowly sipped once every three hours, and +nothing else whatever should be taken into the stomach for a day, at +least, or until the diarrhoea is checked. + +If the pain is quite severe in the stomach or bowels, then a mustard +plaster may be placed over the most painful part, or cloths wrung from +hot water; or a poultice of linseed meal or slippery elm may be applied. +I have seen the good results of this treatment of "rest and hot milk" in +so many cases, and it is so exceedingly simple, that I earnestly +recommend its trial. + +=General Debility, Exhaustion, Anæmia.=--Many women go about suffering +from great debility, being hardly able to drag themselves through the +day. When night comes they are too tired to sleep, and when morning +comes it seems they are more tired than they were at night. All parts of +the body partake of this general weakness. + +There are great discomfort and suffering through the lower part of the +body, difficulty in passing the urine, constipation of the bowels, +leucorrhoea, and all other affections which naturally come from an +impoverished condition of the blood. + +=May Be Promptly Cured.=--To all women who are suffering from this general +debility, exhaustion, and nervous prostration I earnestly recommend +Lydia E. Pinkham's Blood Purifier. If the inflammation in the uterus and +surrounding organs is quite marked at the same time, then the Blood +Purifier may be taken before meals and the Vegetable Compound after. If +the female generative organs are not much involved, then the Blood +Purifier may be used alone. + +=A Grand Medicine.=--This grand medicine has done great good, and I am +confident it will build up the system, purify the blood, and greatly +improve the general health. + +Persons suffering from general debility of this kind do not prosper well +on a milk diet alone. They need more hearty food, such as rare +beefsteak, rare roast beef, lamb chops, and eggs. + +=Sleeplessness.=--Sleeplessness is frequently the result of a too liberal +use of tea or coffee. Many persons cannot take a cup of coffee at any +time during the evening without lying awake many hours to pay for it. +It is a strong stimulant to those who have a sensitive nervous system, +and should be used only sparingly at all times and never after the +midday meal. + +Strong tea acts in this way upon a great many, and if any of my readers +are troubled with sleeplessness, and yet at the same time use tea and +coffee freely, I would suggest that they try, first of all, to do +without these drinks and note the effect. + +=Treatment.=--A warm (not hot) foot-bath taken just before retiring will +often cause a good night's rest, as it draws the blood from the head, +makes the circulation more evenly distributed, and in this way induces +sleep. Frequently a baby or young child may be made to sleep all through +the night if a warm bath be given just before retiring. + +When the sleeplessness is due to nerve exhaustion, as is frequently the +case, the very best results will follow the use of Lydia E. Pinkham's +Vegetable Compound, because of its great nerve tonic properties. + +=A Hard Cold.=--Whenever any one has taken a hard cold, it can often be +speedily and completely broken up in the following manner: Take a hot +foot-bath for at least half an hour. While the feet are still in the hot +water throw a blanket completely about the limbs and body, in order to +retain all the heat possible. At the same time drink one or two cupfuls +of hot lemonade, or hot ginger tea. Then retire to bed, having the bed +previously well warmed, if during the wintertime. Put on plenty of +covering, keeping a hot flat-iron or a hot water-bottle at the feet, and +in every way try to induce free perspiration. + +After an hour or two, gradually remove the extra clothing. Be careful +about going out the next morning, for the body will be especially +susceptible to the cold. In this way it is possible to break up a hard +cold at once. If there is any tendency to cough, or any tightness or +soreness in the chest, place a mustard plaster directly over the chest, +and allow it to remain on until the skin is quite red. + +=Sore Throat.=--An old-fashioned remedy for sore throat, and a very good +one, too, is to bind on each side of the throat a piece of salt pork. +The surface of the pork may be slightly covered with black pepper, in +order to increase its drawing power. This is allowed to remain on all +night, but should be taken off in the morning. During the day a flannel +is worn about the neck. + +A gargle for sore throat may be made by dissolving half a teaspoonful of +chlorate of potash in a cupful of warm water. Gargle the throat with +this every hour or two during the day, but do not swallow the mixture. +After this has been used for a day or two, then a solution may be made +by adding a teaspoonful of pulverized alum to a cupful of warm water; +this is applied to the inflamed sides of the throat by means of a swab. +Gargling the throat with a solution of ordinary extract of witch hazel, +one part, and water two parts, also very useful. + +=Croup.=--As a rule, croup may be quickly cured by the use of either hot +or cold water. Immediately the child begins to breathe hard and cough +with a dry, hollow, barking cough, wring out a towel from cold water and +apply around the throat, covering this with a dry towel. The wet towel +should be changed in a few minutes, just as soon as it becomes a little +warm. Often before the second cloth is removed the spasm will be broken, +and the danger passed. _Cool_ water will not answer; it must be _cold_. +If the spasm does not break, and the breathing does not become easy +within fifteen or twenty minutes, then change to hot water. Wring out +the cloth from water as hot as can be borne and apply about the neck, +changing in a few moments, and so on. + +=How to Lose Flesh.=--I have often been asked whether it were possible to +have the flesh reduced without in any way affecting the general health. +If the person be only slightly heavier than usual, and is in the best of +health, it certainly seems wrong to experiment in any way to reduce the +weight, especially when this is done only to better follow the dictates +of fashion. + +If, however, the excess of flesh is becoming so great as to be +uncomfortable, to interfere with the regular work, or to cause weak +action of the heart, etc., then something should be done. There are a +few rules which a person may follow to advantage in such cases, although +the change should be made gradually. + +So long as a person continues to gain in flesh, it is positive evidence +that more food is being taken than necessary. Therefore the first rule +is that the quantity of food should be gradually diminished. + +The second rule is that exercise should be taken regularly. This will +keep up the general health, while it will cause the fat to be more +evenly distributed over the body. Another rule is to keep the bowels +well open, so that there may be at least two movements daily. For this +special purpose the mineral laxative waters are best. + +=Diet for Reducing the Flesh.=--Fatty foods should be avoided, and so +should all drinks in excess. Foods containing sugar or starch should be +taken sparingly, as oatmeal, potatoes, rice, cakes, sweetened tea and +coffee. Milk is very fattening to many, hence should not be used. The +eminent Dr. Mitchell, of Philadelphia, instituted a course of treatment +for reducing the weight, which is quite rigid, but nevertheless +effective. The regular diet should be changed gradually until it meets +Dr. Mitchell's demands. + +He prescribes outdoor exercise, and a diet of one cupful of milk and one +egg every three hours when awake. No other food or drink is allowed for +twenty days, when the list of foods is gradually extended. There are a +number of anti-fat remedies upon the market, but many of them depend for +a cure upon their power to disturb digestion, and thus interfere with +the general health. + +=How to Gain Flesh.=--When it is natural for persons to be thin, it is +quite impossible for them to gain in weight under any kind of diet or +treatment. Many persons, however, are thin simply because some of the +digestive organs do not perform their work properly; or because the diet +is not the right kind. + +Thin persons need good meats and some vegetables. If the digestion is +all right, then such meats as mutton, chicken, broiled bacon, broiled +ham, etc., may be used; also rare broiled steak, rare roast beef, etc. +Eggs may be used in any way except hard-boiled. Good bread, oatmeal, +cracked wheat, hominy, etc., are good. + +Such indigestible foods as pork and veal, thin soups, cabbage, turnips, +pickles, pies, and pastries of all kinds should not be used. + +Often a good preparation of cod-liver oil will increase the weight; and +this is also true of many of the extracts of malt. It is useless, +however, to try to increase the weight by using a generous diet, unless +the digestion is in good order. When the digestion is weak, the person +should take Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound because of its power +to strengthen the digestion and enable the system to obtain all the good +possible from the food. + +=Pimples, Rashes, Eruptions.=--Many persons, especially young girls, are +afflicted with pimples on the face, rashes, blackheads, etc. To cure +this condition it is necessary that the bowels be made to act regularly +each day, which is easily done by the use of Lydia E. Pinkham's Liver +Pills. + +Then a good course of treatment should be taken with Lydia E. Pinkham's +Blood Purifier in order to make the blood perfectly pure in every way. +Attention should also be paid to the diet, and such indigestible +articles as pork, pickles, rich pies and cakes, and rich sauces, +sweetmeats and nuts should be avoided. + +For local treatment, the face should be washed each day in warm, soapy +water, using the best Castile soap. Then with a sponge or wash cloth +wash off this water with as hot water as can be borne. It is best to +keep up this sponging with the hot water for at least five minutes in +order that the face may become thoroughly steamed. + +The face should then be wiped dry and rubbed briskly for a few minutes. + +=Burns.=--Burns are likely to occur at any time in the household, and one +should always know what to do promptly. The best treatment is to add a +teaspoonful of ordinary baking-soda to a cupful of water. Saturate some +cloths in this solution and lay them over or loosely bind them about the +burned part. This will take out the pain and sting at once. As the +cloths become dry, more of the solution should be poured over them, and +they should not be removed from the burned parts. After a few hours, +these wet cloths may be replaced by cloths well covered with vaseline. +=If you do not understand your ailments write to Mrs Pinkham. Her advice +is free and always helpful. Such letters are strictly confidential; they +are never shown without the writer's express permission; women only +assist in answering them.= + + + + +Free Medical Advice to Women + +ALL CORRESPONDENCE STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL + + ++Lady with Raised Hand+ + +In addressing Mrs. Pinkham you are confiding your private ills to a +woman--a woman who speaks from a greater experience in treating women's +diseases than can any living physician--male or female. + +You can talk freely to a woman when it is revolting to relate your +private troubles to a man--besides, a man does not understand--simply +because he is a man. + +Many women suffer in silence and drift along from bad to worse, knowing +full well that they ought to have immediate assistance, but a natural +modesty impels them to shrink from exposing themselves to the questions +and probably examinations of even their family physician. It is +unnecessary. Without money or price you can consult a woman, who can +speak from a greater actual experience than can any local physician in +the world. + +Every one will agree that there are the strongest of all reasons why, if +we are ill, we should appeal to the person who knows the most about the +kind of illness with which we are afflicted--one who has had the +greatest experience in treating just such cases and meeting just the +symptoms that are manifest in our particular case. + +What confidence does one gain by consulting one who has occasionally met +a case just like ours, but has had no great experience? None whatever. +All treatment under such a person must of necessity be experimental. But +in writing Mrs. Pinkham you consult one who has, actually filed in her +office for ready reference, an immense correspondence with patients +suffering from female ills which has been constantly going on for more +than twenty-five years; and it is safe to say there is not a case or +complication of female derangements with which she is not familiar. It +is a positive fact, easily verified, that within the last few months +she, with her corps of trained women assistants, has advised in over one +hundred thousand cases, and that a vast number of the women of this +country owe the restoration of their health to her advice and Lydia E. +Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. + +Now, if a woman is ill and miserable, it seems to us only simple justice +to herself that she should avail herself of the help of a woman of such +enormous experience. + + +MRS. PINKHAM'S STANDING INVITATION. + +Women suffering from any form of female weakness are invited to promptly +communicate with Mrs. Pinkham, at Lynn, Mass. She asks nothing in +return, except their good will, and her advice has relieved thousands. +Surely any woman, rich or poor, is very foolish if she does not take +advantage of this generous offer of assistance. + +=Address simply Mrs. Pinkham, Lynn, Mass., U. S. A.= + + + + +El Compuesto Vegetal de Lydia E. Pinkham es un remedio seguro para + todas las enfermedades de las mujeres, incluyendo la caída del + útero, leucorrea, menstruaciones irregulares y dolorosas, + inflamaciones y ulceraciones de la matriz y del ovario, para toda + clase de afecciones de los órganos de la generación, así como + también para las enfermedades de los riñones de ambos sexos. Este + remedio está compuesto de las raíces y yerbas mas puras y + escogidas, que se encuentran en la naturaleza para las enfermedades + de las mujeres. + +=Menstruación.=--Las menstruaciones tempranas no son deseables, aunque +muchas menstruaciones aparecen de los trece á los quince años; sin +embargo mucho depende de la constitución de la muchacha. Si habiendo +llegado á esta edad no ha menstruado todavía, la madre deberá prestar +singular cuidado á la hija; esta probablemente crecerá delgada y pálida +con una complexión lívida, que hará de ella una víctima fácil y segura +de la tisis y de la nevrastenia. Nada hay comparable para estos casos al +Compuesto Vegetal de Lydia E. Pinkham. Ayuda y promueve los cambios +importantes que han de verificarse en la vida de la muchacha en esa edad +previniendo largos años de padecimientos los cuales son resaltados +seguros de la negligencia. El Compuesto deberá tomarse siguiendo +estrictamente las direcciones hasta que la menstruación ocurra +regularmente cada veinte y ocho días. Si hay propensión á estreñimiento, +las Píldoras de Hígado de Lydia E. Pinkham deberán tomarse juntamente +con el Compuesto Vegetal. Estas píldoras han sido hechas especialmente +para mujeres y obran in perfecta harmonía con el Compuesto Vegetal. + +=Supresión de las Reglas= es la suspensión de la menstruación. + +Si la supresión de las reglas ocurriese, excepto en los casos de preñez +ó de amamantamiento, el Compuesto Vegetal de Lydia E. Pinkham deberá +tomarse hasta que la menstruación vuelva á producirse regularmente. +Curará todas las irregularidades. + +=Menstruaciones dolorosas.=--Muchas mujeres sufren dolores terribles +durante la menstruación. El Compuesto Vegetal de Lydia E. Pinkham curará +esos martirizantes dolores. Nada importa que el caso sea reciente ó que +haya existido durante muchos meses, si el Compuesto Vegetal se toma +regularmente y siguiendo las instrucciones, la cura será un hecho +cierto. + +=Menstruaciones abundantes= ocurren á menudo en las personas sanguíneas y +en las pálidas y linfáticas. El Compuesto Vegetal de Lydia Pinkham ha +hecho algunas de las curas más asombrosas precisamente en esas +condiciones. Para las menstruaciones abundantes avisamos que se tome el +Compuesto Vegetal de Lydia E. Pinkham en forma seca, es decir en +píldoras ó pastillas. + +=La inflamación y la ulceración del útero= es la causa de casi todas las +enfermedades de las mujeres. El Compuesto Vegetal de Lydia E. Pinkham ha +curado más de un millón de casos de enfermedades uterinas. El número de +relaciones recibidos de mujeres que han estado enfermas á punto de morir +y han sido curadas por este remedio es casi increíble. Una mujer puede +conocer perfectamente si padece de alguna enfermedad del útero, porque +estas enfermedades vienen acompañadas de terribles dolores en el +abdomen, espalda etc., desmayos, pesadez en las extremidades, y de toda +clase de otros dolores. Una cura segura se encuentra en el Compuesto +Vegetal de Lydia E. Pinkham. + +=Leucorrea (ó Flores Blancos).=--Uno de los primeros síntomas de la +inflamacíon del útero es la leucorrea, familiarmente conocida bajo el +nombre de Flores Blancos, la cual consiste en una secreción blancusca de +la vagina la cual debilita muchísimo el sistema y produce una irritación +de la membrana mucosa que reviste el canal vaginal. El uso regular del +Compuesto Vegetal, por sus efectos en la constitución, y la Loción +Sanativa de Lydia E. Pinkham usada en inyecciones curará positivamente +los casos más graves de leucorrea. La negligencia de esta dolorosa +enfermedad originará úlceras, flujos excesivos, estableciendo los +cimientos para la más terrible de todas las enfermedades--el Cancer. + +=Caída del Utero.=--Existen muchos desplazamientos del útero, pero el más +principal es él conocido generalmente con el nombre de la Caída del +Utero. Esto es debido muchas veces á la flojedad de los ligamentos que +soportan este órgano. El Compuesto Vegetal de Lydia E. Pinkham fortalece +lás ligamentos, alivia todas las inflamaciones y gradualmente restaura +los órganos á su propia condición. El Compuesto Vegetal de Lydia E. +Pinkham removerá los tumores del útero en su temprano desenvolvimiento +tan seguro como el sol brilla. + +=La Inflamación de los ovarios= es una de las enfermedades más +desesperantes que atacan á las mujeres de 20 á 40 años. Esta enfermedad +va siempre acompañada de algunos dolores de la región de los ovarios y +de una sensación de pesadez especialmente durante la menstruación. A +menudo el dolor extiéndese por el costado y la espalda, especialmente en +el lado izquierdo produciendo continuos deseos de orinar. A menos que +esta enfermedad se ataque prontamente nada curará á la paciente que no +sea la cuchilla del cirujano. El Compuesto Vegetal de Lydia E. Pinkham a +curado miles de mujeres que sufrían enfermedades del ovario, salvándolas +de los riesgos de una seria operación. + +=La Esterilidad= es á menudo debida á la extrema debilidad e inflamación +crónica del útero; frecuentemente el uso regular del compuesto Vegetal +de Lydia E. Pinkham ha restaurado los órganos reproductivos de la mujer +á sus condiciones normales quitándolas la idea de que su esterilidad era +imposible de curarse. + +=Cambio de Vida= es el período peligroso por el cual pasan todas las +mujeres que han cumplido 45 años; durante este período las mujeres +sufren toda clase de dolores y enfermedades, pero si el Compuesto +Vegetal de Lydia E. Pinkham se toma regularmente este cambio importante +puede ser pasado sin peligro de enfermedades ó muerte. + +=Las Enfermedades de los Riñones y de la Vejiga= son comunes en ambos +sexos, generalmente de difícil curación, pero pueden curarse si se +atienden á tiempo; nada sin embargo es tan fatal como el no atenderlos +debidamente á su tiempo, siendo la muerte el resultado inevitable. El +Compuesto Vegetal de Lydia E. Pinkham no reconoce rival entre los +remedios que para estas enfermedades han sido descubiertos. Es digno de +absoluta confianza tanto por hombre como por mujer. + +=Los Dolores de la Espalda= no son una enfermedad pero son uno de los +principales síntomas; cuando existe una enfermedad de los órganos de la +generación, ésta es telegrafiada, como si dijeramos, al gran nervio +simpático que tiene uno de sus principales centros en la parte mas baja +de la espalda. El Compuesto Vegetal de Lydia E. Pinkham curando las +enfermedades del útero y de los riñones hará desaparecer los dolores de +la espalda. + +=Dispepsia é Indigestión.=--Nada en el mundo será descubierto que pueda +compararse al Compuesto Vegetal de Lydia E. Pinkham, para las +enfermadedes del estómago. + +=Preñez.=--Muchos dolores y sufrimientos que ocurren al dar á luz á un +niño podrían evitarse enteramente, si la madre fortificase su sistema +durante dos meses antes del nacimiento con el Compuesto Vegetal de Lydia +E. Pinkham. + + +DIRECCIONES GENERALES. + +Una cucharada del Compuesto Vegetal de Lydia E. Pinkham deberá tomarse +cada 4 horas al día para cualquiera de las enfermedades arriba +mencionadas. + + * * * * * + +Empápese un cuarto del paquete le la Loción Sanativa de Lydia E. Pinkham +en cantidad suficiente de agua para hacer una pinta después de haberse +filtrado; cuando los flujos son profusos, úsese la mitad de esta +cantidad, añadiendo una pinta de agua caliente. + + * * * * * + +Para estreñimiento, dolores de cabeza, biliosidades tómense tres +Píldoras de Hígado de Lydia E. Pinkham la primera noche, dos la segunda +y una la tercera, y á menos que se obtenga una saludable flojedad de los +intestinos deberá seguirse tomando una cada noche, hasta concluir la +caja. + + * * * * * + +Cuando la sangre es pobre y el paciente se sienta débil y cansado, y +desganado, nada en el mundo es tan bueno como el "Purificador de la +Sangre" de Lydia E. Pinkham. Una cucharada tres veces al día curará el +reumatismo, scrófula, erupciones de la piel, etc. etc. + + * * * * * + +De venta por todos los farmaceúticos y droguistas. + +Preparado por The Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Company, + +Lynn, Mass., E. U. de A. + + + + +LYDIA E. PINKHAM'S ÖRT-MEDICIN + +ar ett säkert botemedel för alla qvinnosjukdomar, såsom lifmoderns +nedfallande, hvitsot, oregelbunden och smärtsam rening, inflammation och +sårnad på lifmodern och äggstockarne, samt alla andra svagheter uti de +qvinliga skaporganen, äfvensom njurlidande hos båda könen. Det är +sammansatt af utvalda och renaste slag af rötter och örter, såsom +naturen sjelf fråmställt dem för botandet af qvinnans lidanden. + +=Rening.=--För tidig rening är icke önskvärd, ehuru densamma vanligen +börjar vid omkring tretton intill femton års ålder; emellertid beror +dervid mycket på flickans kroppsbyggnad. Om hon nått denna ålder och +ännu icke haft rening, bör modren fästa särskild uppmärksamhet dervid; +hennes dotter blir antagligen mager och blek, med en egendomlig gulblek +hy och hon blir ett säkert och lätt offer för lungsot och nervös +nedslagenhet. Ingenting i verlden när upp till Lydia E. Pinkhams +Vegetable Compound i dylika fall. + +Det bidragar att åstadkomma den vigtiga förändring uti en flickas lif, +som bör ega rum vid omkring denna ålder och förebygger sålunda åratal af +elände, som är en säker följd af uraktlåtenhet. Medicinen måste tagas +bestämdt enligt föreskrift, intill reningen inträffar regelbundet hvarje +tjuguåttonde dag. Om inelfvorna äro benägna att hoptränga sig, borde +Lefver-Piller (Lydia E. Pinkhams Liver-Pills) begagnas, hvilka blifvit +särskildt sammansatta för qvinnans bruk och verka i fullkomlig harmoni +med Vegetable Compound. + +=Förhindrande af Flytningen= är ett uppharonde sedan reningen +vederbörligen börjat. Om ett upphörande eger rum, så framt det icke är +en följd af hafvandeskap eller gifvande af di, är det ett allvarligt +fall och Lydia E. Pinkhams Vegetable Compound bör tagas tills reningen +åter blir regelbunden. Den förbättrar säkert alla oregelbundenheter. + +=Smärtsam Rening.=--Många qvinnor lida marterande smärta under reningen. +Lydia E. Pinkhams Vegetable Compound botar säkert denna smärtande +känsla. Det inverkar ej om detta förhållande nyligen inträdt eller om +det egt rum under många månader; om Lydia E. Pinkhams Vegetable Compound +tages regelbundet och enligt föreskrift är ett botande säkert. + +=För Ymnig Rening= förekommer ofta hos dem, som äro blodfulla, liksom hos +dem som äro bleka och svaga. Lydia E. Pinkhams Vegetable Compound har +åtstadkommit åtskilliga af de mest förvånansvärda botaden i just dylika +fall. För för ymnig rening eller flytning rekommendera vi alltid Lydia +E. Pinkhams Vegetable Compound i torr form, antingen som piller eller +kakor. + +=Inflammation och Sårnad på Lifmodern= är orsaken till nästan alla +qvinnosjukdomar. Lydia E. Pinkhams Vegetable Compound har botat mera än +en million fall af Lifmoderfel. De skildringer, som erhållits från +qvinnor, hvilka varit dödsjuka och som botats genom Lydia E. Pinkhams +Vegetable Compound äro nästan otroliga. En qvinna vet säkerligen om hon +har något slags lifmoderfel, enär dylikt nästan alltid åtföljes af en +nedtyngande känsla uti underlifvet, ryggvärk, svimmingsanfall, styfhet i +lederna och all annan tänkbar värk och smärta. Ett aldrig svikande +botemedel är Lydia E. Pinkhams Vegetable Compound. + +=Leucorrhea eller Hvitflytning.=--En af de första symptomerna af +lifmoderns inflammation är leucorrhea, vanligen kallad "hvitt," hvilken +består af en hvit flytning från moderslidan och som är mycket +kraftnedsättande för systemet och retande för moderslidans känsliga +slemhinna. + +Ett regelbundet begagnande af Lydia E. Pinkhams Vegetable Compound på +grund af dess inverkanpå kroppsbeskaffenheten och Lydia E. Pinkhams +Läkande Medel för insprutning uti moderslidan, botar säkert de +allvarligaste fall af hvitflytning. Försummande af denna ledsamma +sjukdom förorsakar sårnader, öfverdrifven flytning och lägger grunde för +den forskräckligaste af alla sjukdomar nemligen Kräfta. + +=Lifmoderns Nedfallande.=--Det finnes många olika rubbningar hos +lifmodern, den vanligaste känd under namn af lifmoderns nedfallande. +Detta beror hufvudsakligast på förslappning af de band som uppbara detta +organ eller hålla det på sin plats. Lydia E. Pinkhams Vegetable Compound +starker dessa band, lindrar inflammation och återställer så småningen +delarne uti deras behöriga läge. Lydia E. Pinkhams Vegetable Compound +borttager svullnad uti lifmodern i dess tidigare stadium lika säkert som +solen skiner. + +=Inflammation uti Äggstockarne= är en särdeles allvarlig sjukdom, som +angriper qvinnan mellan 20 och 40 års ålder. Den åtföljes alltid af +ömhet och hårda smärtor i trakten af äggstockarne och en känsla af +uppfyllnad isynnerhet under reningen. Ofta utstracka sig smartorna till +sidan och ryggen, isynnerhet till venstra sidan, med ett ständigt begår +att urinera. Sä framt icke denna sjukdom genast häfvas, kan ingenting +rädda patienter från operationsknifven. Lydia E. Pinkhams Vegetable +Compound har emellertid botat tusentals qvinnor för sjukdomar uti +äggstockarne och räddat mångfaldiga från hospitalet och en allvarlig +operation. + +=Ofruktbarhet= har often sin orsak uti ytterlig svaghet och kroniskt +inflammeradt tillstånd af lifmodern. Regelbundet begagnande af Lydia E. +Pinkhams medicin har ofta återställt lifmoderns fruktbara organer till +deras normala tillstånd och lindrat från den bekymrande tanken att +ofruktbarheten var obotlig. + +=Förändring I Lifvet= ar en farlig period för alla qvinnor, som hunnit +till 45 års ålder. Under denna tid har qvinnan all slags sjukdom och +smärta, men om Lydia E. Pinkhams Vegetable Compound tages regelbundet, +kan denna vigtiga förändring i en qvinnas lif passeras utan fara för +sjugdom eller död. + +=Njurlidande och Blåskatarr= hos båda könen aro vanliga och svåra +sjukdomar, men de kunna botas om de tagas itu med i rätt tid. Ingenting +ar emellertid så olycksbringande som symptomerna till dessa sjukdomar om +de ej gifvas akt på i tid och döden är oundviklig. Lydia E. Pinkhams +Vegetable Compound öfverträffas ej af något annat botemedel, som +någonsin uppståckts för botande af alla sjugdomar i njurarne och blåsan. +Det är fullt tillförlitligt både för män och qvinnor. + +=Ryggvark= är icke en sjukdom utan en tydlig symptom da sjukdom förefinnes +uti skaporganen och ger sig tillkänna som om det vore uti den stora +sympatiska nerv, som har ett af sina förnämsta lägen i lägre delen af +ryggen. Lydia E. Pinkhams Vegetable Compound, som häfver lifmoders-, +äggstocks-, och njurlidanden, botar tryckande ryggvärk. + +=Magsyra och Dålig Matsmåltning.=--Ingenting verlden har någonsin +uppstäckts, som uppnår Lydia E. Pinkhams Vegetable Compound for +magsjukdomar. + +=Hafvande Tillstand.=--Vid barnsbörd intraffer mycken smärta och lidande, +som kunde helt och hållet undvikas om den blifvande modern stärkte sitt +system genom regelbunden behandling med Lydia E. Pinkhams Vegetable +Compound under en period af två månader före barnsbörden. + + +ALLMÄN ORDINATION. + +En matsked af Lydia E. Pinkhams Vegetable Compound hvarje fjerde timma +under dagens lopp för hvilken som helst af förutnmände sjukdomar. + +Lägg ett fjerdedels paket af Lydia E. Pinkhams Läkande Medel i +tillräckligt med vatten för att utgöra en pint sedan det silats. Då +flytningen är för riklig, tag hälften deraf och tillsätt en pint varmt +vatten. Begagna dagligen för insprutning i moderslidan. + +För föstoppning, hufvudvärk och gallsjukdom tages tre Lydia E. Pinkhams +Lefverpiller första natten, två den andra och en den tredje och såvida +ej en regelbunden och helsosåm förändring inträdt uti underlifvet, +fortsätt att taga ett hvarje afton så länge de räcka. + +När blodet är fattigt och patienten är svag samt alltid känner sig +trött, är mager och ej har appetit, så är intet i verlden så välgörande +som Lydia E. Pinkhams Blodrenare. En matsked tre gånger dagligen botar +rheumatism, skrofler, hudsjukdomar m. m. + +Säljes hos Apotekare, prepareradt af Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Company, + +Lynn, Mass., Förenta Staterna. + + + + +LE REMÈDE VÉGÉTAL DE LYDIA E. PINKHAM. + +=Le Remède Végétal de Lydia E. Pinkham= est un remède absolument sûr pour +toutes les maladies de femme telles que le prolapsus de la matrice, la +leucorrhée, les menstrues irregulières et douloureuses, l'inflammation +et l'ulcération de la matrice et des ovaires, ainsi que pour toutes les +autres affections des organes génitaux de la femme, et les maladies des +reins et du foie des deux sexes. + +Il se compose des herbes et racines les plus pures, telles que les +pourvoit la nature elle même. + +=Menstrues.=--Il n'est pas à désirer que les règles aient lieu a un âge +trop jeune, quoiqu'en général les menstrues commencent entre la 13e et +la 15e année, la constitution de la jeune fille y jouant un certain +rôle. Si la fille a atteint cet âge et qu'elle n'ait pas encore ses +règles, la mère ne saurait être trop soigneuse; il est probable que la +fille est pâle et maigre, et que son teint montre cette couleur livide +qui nous fait craindre qu'elle ne devienne sous peu la victime de la +phthisie et qu'elle ne devienne fortement neurasthénique. Pour empêcher +un tel malheur rien n'égale "Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound." Il +produit d'une manière salutaire et prompte le changement qui devrait +alors avoir lieu, en prévenant ainsi de longues années de souffrances, +résultat inévitable de tout manque de précaution. Lydia E. Pinkham's +Vegetable Compound doit être pris strictement selon les instructions, +jusqu'à ce que les règles aient lieu tous les 28 jours. Si, de plus, il +y a de la constipation, on se servira des Pilules de Foie de Lydia E. +Pinkham, faites exprès pour l'usage des femmes et opérant entièrement +d'accord avec le remède. + +=L'Absence des Règles= après qu'elles ont commencé une fois, à moins +qu'elle ne soit due à la grossesse ou à l'allaitement, est une affaire +de la plus grande importance et personne ne devrait manquer de se servir +de Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound jusqu'à ce que de nouveau les +menstrues se montrent regulièrement. + +=Règles Douloureuses.=--Il y a bien des femmes qui, pendant le temps de +leurs règles, souffrent des douleurs tout à fait terribles. Notre remède +guérira d'une maniere sûre cette affection n'importe si c'est un cas +récent ou vieux de plusieurs mois. On peut s'attendre à une guérison +sûre et efficace pourvu que le remède soit pris regulièrement et suivant +les instructions. + +=Les Règles Excessives= se montrent d'abord chez des personnes sanguines +et chez les personnes affaiblies et pales. Notre remède, Lydia E. +Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, a obtenu des résultats tout à fait +merveilleux dans ces cas. Pour guérir l'excès ou l'hémorrhagie des +règles nous conseillons l'emploi du remède dans sa forme sèche, c'est à +dire en pilules ou en pastilles. + +=L'Inflammation ainsi que L'Ulcération de la Matrice= peuvent être +regardées comme cause de presque toutes les maladies de la femme. +Cependant Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound a guéri plus d'un +million de maladies de la matrice. Les rapports que nous recevons des +femmes qui ont failli en mourir et qui ensuite ont été gueries, sont +presque incroyables. La femme peut s'assurer assez facilement, si elle +est atteinte ou non d'une affection de la matrice, vu le fait +qu'ordinairement elle est sujette à des tiraillements d'estomac, à des +peines dans les reins, à des évanouissements, à l'engourdissement des +membres et à une foule d'autres douleurs. Le seul remède infaillible +pour guérir toutes ces affections est Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable +Compound. + +=La Leucorrhée= que nous connaissons plus familièrement sous le nom de +"Fleurs Blanches," représente un des premiers symptômes de +l'inflammation de la matrice. Le mal se montre sous la forme d'une +secrétion blanchâtre du vagin, enfaiblissant le système et exerçant un +irritation très sérieuse sur la muqueuse du vagin. L'emploi régulier de +Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, grâce à son effet sur le système, +ainsi que de la Lotion Sanitaire de Lydia E. Pinkham (Lydia E. Pinkham's +Sanative Wash) appliquée sous forme d'injections dans le vagin, ne +tardera guère de guérir les cas les plus obstinés de leucorrhée. En +négligeant cette maladie désastreuse on est sûr de donner lieu à des +secrétions excessives, à des ulcères ainsi qu'a la plus dangereuse de +toutes les maladies--le Cancer. + +=Prolapsus de la Matrice.=--Il y a un grand nombre de déplacements dont le +plus important est appelé "le prolapsus de la matrice." Celui-ci est +produit d'abord par une relaxation des ligaments qui, dans leur état +normal, maintiennent cet organe à sa place. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable +Compound fortifiera ces ligaments, l'inflammation disparaîtra et peu à +peu l'organe sera remis dans sa condition normale. Notre remède aura de +plus un succès indiscutable pour guérir toutes les tumeurs de la +matrice pourvu qu'on commence à s'en servir dès leurs première phases. + +=L'Inflammation des Ovaires= est une des maladies les plus désastreuses +atteignant les femmes entre la vingtième et la quarantième année. Les +personnes qui en souffrent s'aperçevront vite d'une sensibilité +extraordinaire dans la région des ovaires, de plus des sensations +d'enflements désagréables, surtout dans la période des règles. Souvent +la douleur s'étend aux flancs et au dos, surtout au flanc gauche, et il +se fait sentir un désir incessant d'uriner. A moins que cette affection +ne soit arrêtée promptement rien ne pourra sauver la malade d'une +opération. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, cependant, a guéri les +maladies d'ovaires de milliers de femmes et bien de femmes ont été assez +heureuses, par conséquent, pour échapper à un long traitement à +l'hôpital ainsi qu'à une opération des plus sérieuses. + +=La Stérilité= est très souvent une conséquence directe d'une inflammation +chronique de la matrice et d'une faiblesse extrême. L'emploi régulier de +Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound a souvent rétabli les fonctions +normales de l'organe générateur, et a ainsi détruit cette idée fatale +que la stérilité etait incurable. + +=La Période Climatérique ou Changement de Vie= est une période très +importante et assez dangereuse pour toute femme qui a passé l'âge de 45 +ans. Pendant cette période les femmes sont atteintes de toute espèce de +maladies et de peines; l'emploi régulier de Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable +Compound cependant va leur garantir une immunité parfaite contre tout +accident dangereux qui pourrait leur survenir dans cette période. + +=Les Maladies des Reins et de la Vessie=, chez les deux sexes, sont très +frequentes et très obstinées. Aussi peuvent-elles devenir très +dangereuses et même fatales, si l'on manque de s'en occuper dès +l'apparence des premiers symptômes. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable +Compound, que nous conseillons d'employer le plus tôt possible, est la +=médicine par excellence= qui dans tous les cas de maladies du foie et de +la vessie produira un résultat simplement merveilleux chez l'homme et +chez la femme, et qui ne manquera guère de sauver une vie trop souvent +menacée fatalement. + +=Le Mal de Dos=, quelque fréquent qu'il soit, n'est guère une maladie +proprement dite, mais plutôt un symptôme de la plus haute importance, +comme il indique par le centre dorsal du grand nerf sympathique, qu'il y +a une affection des organes générateurs qu'on fera bien de ne point +négliger. Aussitôt que ces affections ou utérines, ou ovariennes ou +rénales sont guéries par l'emploi de Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, +ce mal de dos tourmentant va cesser tout seul. + +=Dyspepsie et Indigestion.=--Rien au monde n'égale la force guérissante de +notre remède pour toutes les maladies de l'estomac. + +=Grossesse.=--Une grande partie des douleurs et des souffrances qu'en +général les femmes doivent endurer en accouchant pourraient être +evitées, si elles se préparaient convenablement en fortifiant leur +système par l'emploi de Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, à peu +près deux mois avant l'accouchement. + + +MODE D'EMPLOI. + +Prenez une cuillerée de Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound toutes les +4 heures pendant la journée pour guérir chacune des maladies décrites +ci-dessus. + +Trempez le quart d'un paquet de Lydia E. Pinkham's Sanative Wash (Lotion +Sanitaire) dans assez d'eau pour obtenir une pinte après la filtration; +la secrétion étant très forte on doit employer la moitié de cette +quantité à laquelle on ajoutera une pinte d'eau chaude. Employez la +lotion chaque jour en l'injectant dans le vagin. + +Pour guérir la constipation, la migraine, les attaques bilieuses, prenez +trois pilules la première nuit, deux la suivante et une la troisième et +continuez jusqu'à ce que la boîte soit vide, à moins qu'il n'y ait pas +une évacuation regulière plus tôt. + +Quand le sang est appauvri et que le malade est toujours fatigué, bien +amaigri et sans appétit, rien au monde ne lui fera autant de bien que le +remède purificateur Lydia E. Pinkham's Blood Purifier. Une cuillerée +trois fois par jour guérira les rhumatismes, la scrofule et toutes +sortes d'éruptions de la peau. + +Vendu chez tous les pharmaciens. + +Préparé par Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Company, + +Lynn, Mass., E. U. + + + + +Lydia E. Pinkham's Kräutermittel, unter dem Namen "Vegetable Compound" +auf den Markt gebracht, ist ein absolut zuverlässiges Heilmittel für +sämmtliche Frauenkrankheiten, einschließlich Vorfall der Gebärmutter, +Leukorrhoe, unregelmäßige und schmerzhafte Menstruation, Entzündung und +Geschwürbildung in der Gebärmutter und den Eierstöcken, ferner für alle +sonstigen Schwächezustände in den weiblichen Geschlechtsorganen und für +Nierenkrankheiten bei beiden Geschlechtern. Das Mittel ist aus den +reinsten und erlesensten Wurzeln und Kräutern, wie sie Mutter Natur zur +Heilung aller Frauenleiden selbst geschaffen hat, zusammengestellt. + +=Menstruation.= Eine übermäßig frühe Menstruation ist keineswegs +wünschenswerth; obwohl die Monatsregel oder Menstruation im Allgemeinen +in der Zeit vom dreizehnten bis zum fünfzehnten Jahre aufzutreten +pflegt, wobei jedoch viel von der Constitution des betreffenden Mädchens +abhängt. Hat sie jedoch dieses Alter erreicht, und sollte sich die +Menstruation noch nicht eingestellt haben, so muß die Mutter sich um die +Sache bekümmern. Wahrscheinlich ist das junge Mädchen mager und blaß, +wobei der Teint ein besonders, gelbliches Aussehen hat, so daß es nur zu +leicht ein Opfer der Auszehrung und allgemeiner Nervenschwäche wird. Für +solche Fälle ist Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound geradezu +unvergleichlich. Es trägt vor allem dazu bei, daß der Wechsel im +Mädchenleben, der um diese Zeit eintreten sollte, auch richtig +stattfindet, und es verhindert somit jahrelanges Leiden, das in der +Regel eine sichere Folge einer Vernachlässigung in diesem Sinne bildet. +Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound sollte genau nach Vorschrift +eingenommen werden, bis die Regeln regelmäßig sich alle 28 Tage +einstellen. Zeigt sich Anlage zu Verstopfung, so muß man auch Lydia E. +Pinkham's Leberpillen brauchen, die speciell für den Gebrauch von Frauen +zusammengestellt worden sind und in jeder Beziehung harmonisch mit dem +"Compound" zusammenwirken. + +=Ausbleiben der Regeln.= Mit diesem Ausdruck bezeichnet man das +Nichterscheinen der Menstruation, nachdem dieselbe einmal zu erscheinen +angefangen hat. Ein derartiges Ausbleiben, sofern es nicht der +Schwangerschaft oder dem Stillen zuzuschreiben ist, ist eine ernsthafte +Angelegenheit, und Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound muß eingenommen +werden, bis die Menstruation wieder regelmäßig eintritt. Durch den +Gebrauch dieses Mittels kann man zuverlässig alle Unregelmäßigkeiten +beseitigen. + +=Schmerzhafter Monatsfluß.= Bei vielen Frauen verursacht der Monatsfluß +überaus große Schmerzen, und alle, die daran leiden, sollten ja nicht +verfehlen, sich durch den Gebrauch von Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable +Compound von dieser wahrhaften Geißel zu retten. Dabei ist es +gleichgültig, ob der Fall ein akuter ist oder ob er schon viele Monate +gedauert hat. Vorausgesetzt, daß das Vegetable Compound regelmäßig und +genau nach Vorschrift genommen wird, darf man zuverlässig eine Heilung +erwarten. + +=Zu starker Monatsfluß.= Sowohl vollblütige als auch besonders +bleichsüchtige und schwächliche Personen leiden häufig unter zu starker +Menstruation. Gerade mit Bezug auf derartige Zustände vermag Lydia E. +Pinkham's Vegetable Compound außerordentlich günstige Resultate +aufzuweisen. Doch empfehlen wir bei zu reichlich auftretender Blutung +Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound in seiner trockenen Form, d. h. in +der Form von Pillen oder Pastillen einzunehmen. + +Beinahe alle Frauenkrankheiten haben ihren Ursprung in =Entzündung und +Geschwürbildung in der Gebärmutter=, und es ist daher nicht genug +hervorzuheben, daß Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound schon mehr als +eine Million Fälle von Gebärmutteraffektionen glücklich geheilt hat. +Fast unglaublich klingen die Berichte vieler Frauen, die todtkrank +waren, und die dem Vegetable Compound ihre Rettung verdanken. Es ist +nicht schwer für eine Frau zu erkennen, ob sie an einer Affektion der +Gebärmutter leidet, da eine derartige Erkrankung fast stets von +ziehenden, äußerst empfindlichen Schmerzen im Unterleib, +Rückenschmerzen, Ohnmachtsanfällen, Erstarrung »Einschlafen« der +Gliedmaßen, sowie von einer Reihe anderer Schmerzen begleitet ist. Lydia +E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound ist ein unfehlbares Mittel gegen alle +derartigen Erkrankungen. + +=Die Leukorrhoe oder der weiße Fluß.= Eines der allerersten Symptome, die +eine Entzündung der Gebärmutter anzeigen, ist die Leukorrhoe, oder wie +man sich gewöhnlich ausdrückt: Der weiße Fluß. Derselbe zeigt sich als +eine weißliche Absonderung aus der Vagina oder Mutterscheide, die den +Körper auffallend angreift und schwächt und besonders die empfindliche +Schleimhaut des Scheidekanals irritiert. Aber selbst die hartnäckigsten +Fälle von weißem Fluß lassen sich positiv kurieren durch den Gebrauch +von Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound in Verbindung mit Lydia E. +Pinkham's "Sanative Wash" oder »hygienischem Waschwasser.« Das erstere +stärkt das System und das zweite heilt die lokalen Erscheinungen, da es +direct in die Scheide eingespritzt wird. Man hüte sich ja, diese Art von +Krankheit zu vernachlässigen, da sich sonst leicht Geschwüre und +übermäßige Absonderung einstellen können, die oftmals den ersten Grund +zu der schrecklichsten aller Krankheiten -- dem Krebs legen. + +=Gebärmuttervorfall.= Es giebt eine Reihe von Fällen, wo die Gebärmutter +eine Veränderung ihrer normalen Lage erleidet; von diesen ist der +wichtigste der sogenannte Gebärmuttervorfall. Derselbe kommt +hauptsächlich von einer Erschlaffung der Bänder her, die dieses Organ +stützen und in seiner richtigen Lage erhalten sollen. Lydia E. Pinkham's +Vegetable Compound stärkt diese Bänder, vermindert die Entzündung und +verleiht nach und nach den erkrankten Theilen ihren früheren, normalen +Zustand wieder. + +Die =Entzündung der Eierstöcke= ist eine äußerst schwere Erkrankung, die +Frauen im Alter von 20 bis 40 Jahren befällt. Sie ist stets von großer +Empfindlichkeit und scharfen Schmerzen in der Gegend der Eierstöcke +begleitet, wozu sich ein Gefühl der Völle, besonders zur Zeit der +Menstruation, gesellt. Die Schmerzen erstrecken sich auch häufig auf die +Seite und den Rücken, mit Vorliebe aber auf die linke Seite, in +Verbindung mit fortwährendem Verlangen das Wasser abzuschlagen. Wird +nicht prompt gegen diese Erkrankung eingeschritten, so vermag nichts den +Kranken vom Messer des Chirurgen zu retten. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable +Compound hat aber tausende von Fällen von Eierstockerkrankungen geheilt +und hat viele Frauen der Nothwendigkeit enthoben, sich im Hospital einer +gefährlichen Operation auszusetzen. + +=Unfruchtbarkeit= ist oft weiter nichts als der Folgezustand ausnehmender +Schwäche, sowie einer chronischen Entzündung der Gebärmutter. + +Der regelmäßige Gebrauch von Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound hat +schon in vielen Fällen die weiblichen Zeugungsorgane wiederum ihrer +normalen Thätigkeit zurückgegeben und eine anscheinend gänzliche +Unfruchtbarkeit glücklich gehoben. + +Die sogenannten =Wechseljahre= oder die =Menopause= sind eine Zeit +wirklicher Gefahr für alle diejenigen Frauen, die das 45. Jahr +überschritten haben. Während dieser Zeit sind die Frauen allen möglichen +Beschwerden und Erkrankungen ausgesetzt, die sich aber alle vermeiden +lassen, ohne ernstliche Krankheit oder sogar den Tod fürchten zu müssen, +wenn man während dieser sehr wichtigen Periode des Frauenlebens +regelmäßig Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound einnimmt. + +=Nieren- und Blasenbeschwerden= sind häufige und hartnäckige Leiden beider +Geschlechter. Sie sind alle heilbar, vorausgesetzt, daß man sich bei +Zeiten um sie kümmert; werden sie aber vernachlässigt, so können sie +leicht verhängnisvoll werden und sogar den Tod nach sich ziehen. Sicher +ist aber, daß Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound als ausgezeichnetes +Mittel zur Heilung aller Nieren- und Blasenkrankheiten von keinem +anderen bisher erfundenen Mittel übertroffen wird. Männer und Frauen +können volles Vertrauen in dasselbe setzen. + +=Rückenschmerzen= sind nicht eine Krankheit, sondern sind vielmehr nur +ein, gewisse Krankheiten anzeigendes, Symptom. Bei Krankheiten der +Geschlechtsorgane wird der große sympathische Nerv, dessen Hauptcentrum +im unteren Theil des Rückens liegt, in Mitleidenschaft gezogen und +verkündet sozusagen das Vorhandensein einer derartigen Krankheit. +Dadurch, daß Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound alle Affektionen der +Gebärmutter, der Eierstöcke und der Nieren heilt, heilt es auch das so +sehr peinigende Rückenweh. + +=Verdauungsbeschwerden.= Es giebt in der ganzen Welt kein besseres Mittel +gegen alle Störungen der Magenthätigkeit als gerade Lydia E. Pinkham's +Vegetable Compound. + +=Schwangerschaft.= Oftmals ist die Geburt eines Kindes mit vielen +Schmerzen und Beschwerden für die Mutter verbunden, und doch könnten +alle diese zum großen Theil vermieden werden, wollte nur die Mutter +ungefähr zwei Monate vor der Entbindung anfangen, ihren Körper durch den +regelmäßigen Gebrauch von Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound zu +kräftigen. + + +Gebrauchsanweisung. + +Für sämmtliche oben erwähnte Beschwerden nehme man alle vier Stunden +während des Tages je einen Eßlöffel voll von Lydia E. Pinkham's +Vegetable Compound ein. + + * * * * * + +Man weiche ein Viertel Packet von Lydia E. Pinkham's Sanative Wash in +genügend Wasser, um nach dem Durchseihen ein Pint zu haben. Ist die +Absonderung sehr bedeutend, so brauche man die Hälfte der so erhaltenen +Flüssigkeit, füge noch ein Pint warmen Wassers dazu und benütze diese +Flüssigkeit, um täglich Einspritzungen in die Scheide zu machen. + + * * * * * + +Gegen Verstopfung, Migräne, sowie Gallendrang nehme man drei von Lydia +E. Pinkham's Leberpillen die erste Nacht, zwei die zweite Nacht und eine +die dritte Nacht; tritt auch dann noch kein regelmäßiger Stuhlgang ein, +so nehme man eine Pille jede Nacht soweit der Vorrath reicht. + + * * * * * + +Befindet sich das Blut in schlechtem Zustande und ist der Patient immer +müde, abgemagert und angegriffen, und leidet er dazu noch an +Appetitmangel, so benütze er Lydia E. Pinkham's Blood Purifier +(Blut-Reiniger), das beste Mittel auf der Welt für diesen Zweck. Dreimal +im Tage ein Eßlöffel voll heilt zuverlässig alle Fälle von Rheumatismus, +Skropheln, Hautausschläge, &c. &c. + +In allen Apotheken zu haben. + + +Hergestellt von der + +LYDIA E. PINKHAM MEDICINE COMPANY, + +=Lynn, Mass., V. S. von A.= + + + + +Read the following + +TESTIMONIALS. + + +Dear Mrs. Pinkham: + +I wish all women suffering from female troubles might know what you have +done for me. A year ago last June I was very sick, and on examination my +physician said I had Polypus of the womb and that I would not stop +flowing until I had an operation. I always had a horror of operations +and could not bear the thoughts of having one, as I am a nervous person. +I wrote to you and followed all your directions faithfully, and all the +while I prayed that I might not have to have one. At that time I could +hardly walk across the floor and I was pale and thin. Now I weigh one +hundred and thirty-five pounds, do all my work, and my husband and +children say that I am growing young. I am still taking your medicine +and will do so until after the turn of life. + + MRS. NELSON BAVIER, + West Hartford, Conn. + + +Dear Mrs. Pinkham: + +I suffered for over three years with female weakness brought on by +falling on an icy pavement. I had frequent backache and fearful +headaches, blinding me with pain. I also had intense pains at the +menstrual period. My family physician prescribed several remedies, but +although he was considered an excellent physician, he was unable to +relieve me. A cousin who visited me had a bottle of Lydia E. Pinkham's +Vegetable Compound with her and spoke so highly of its efficacy that I +took a few doses of it. I was pleased and surprised to find that it +seemed to relieve my pains in twenty-four hours. I took it regularly, +and within twenty-four hours more I felt like a different woman, and two +weeks continued use of it restored me to health and strength such as I +had not known in years. I consider Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound +the only medicine on the market which is reliable for the ills of the +sex. + + MISS MAUD BELL, + 408 Lanwee West, Lansing, Mich. + + Grand Recorder, Daughters of + American Independence. + + +September 22, 1902. + +I would like to have your advice as I am a married woman and would be +pleased to have children. I cannot tell what is the trouble, but I lose +them and I am as careful as I can be. It happens just when I am on the +fourth month. I have just had my third miscarriage and been flowing over +two weeks and have much pain in back and womb. My menstruation is very +painful and some months I have it twice. My stomach bothers me. I suffer +with indigestion and dyspepsia. + + MRS. FRANK WILCOX. + + +August 25, 1903. + +I will let you know that I have a son, and if it had not been for Lydia +E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound I would not have my baby. Your medicine +kept me well until the last minute. I did not know what an ache was. I +used fourteen bottles of the Compound and three boxes of your Liver +Pills. I cannot thank your medicine too much as it has done me more good +than the doctors. + + MRS. FRANK WILCOX. + 43 Orange St., Bloomfield, N. J. + + +June 26, 1903. + +I have been a sufferer for seven years with womb trouble, ever since my +child was born. My doctor says my ovaries are affected also and will +have to be taken out. I suffer with pains in my back and left side and +at times cannot rest day or night. I have leucorrhoea and menstruation +is very irregular and very free with a good deal of pain. I was told to +write you for advice. + + MRS. J. D. CURTIS. + + +September 25, 1903. + +I am still taking Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and have +improved wonderfully, have gained ten pounds and feel like a new woman. +I will recommend your medicine to all women suffering from female +trouble for it has done me more good than the doctors have for three +years. You are perfectly welcome to use my name and statement for the +good of others for everyone ought to know of your wonderful medicine. + + MRS. J. D. CURTIS, + Box 262, Monaca, Pa. + + +January 15, 1901. + +I was reading to-day in a paper of the recovery of a lady after writing +to you and as her case seemed to be very much the same as mine, I was +impressed with the desire to write to you to see if I could not get +relief. I am the mother of two children and have never had any weakness +of any kind until the past year. I am pregnant at present, my back pains +me nearly all the time and left side of abdomen. My back pains so +sometimes I cannot stand on my feet or straighten up. My appetite is +poor and my friends tell me I look badly. I hope that you will be able +to give me some advice. + + MRS. D. D. EDDY. + + +June 27, 1903. + +About one year and a half ago, I wrote you in regard to my taking your +medicine. I was pregnant at the time and in perfect misery. I suffered +everything. You very kindly wrote to me advising your Lydia E. Pinkham's +Vegetable Compound which I began to take at once and when my baby was +born, I was sick only half an hour and the sixth day I was upon my feet +and felt as well and strong as I ever felt in my life. My baby is a +strong healthy boy. + +I wish to thank you from the bottom of my heart for your kind letter to +me. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is the grandest medicine in +the world for women. I shall recommend it as long as I live. + + MRS. D. D. EDDY, + 243 East Ave., Saratoga Springs, N.Y. + + +Dear Mrs. Pinkham: + +I am very grateful for the good Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound did +for me. I began using it when I thought there was no help for me and +that I would be an invalid for life. The doctor said that I would not +get well unless I underwent an operation for ovarian and female +difficulties. I was afraid that my health would not stand the strain and +so when a friend who was similarly afflicted told me of the good Lydia +Pinkham's Vegetable Compound did her, I immediately began to use it and +I am glad that I did so, for in less than four months I could report as +she did a perfect cure. Words fail to express my thankfulness. + + Very truly yours, + MARGRITE RYAN, + Hotel English, Indianapolis, Ind. + + Treasurer + St. Andrews Society. + + +Dear Mrs. Pinkham: + +Last Spring my health seemed gradually to decline, until I finally felt +so weak I thought I would have to give up entirely. I lost my appetite, +had headaches, and bearing down pains with cramps so that I was in +perfect misery. I became wakeful and extremely nervous. + +Reading of the value of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound in our +paper here, I decided to try it, and am pleased to state that I derived +immediate benefit, and soon enjoyed permanent relief. Within eight weeks +I was restored to normal health, and felt refreshed and strengthened as +though I had enjoyed a lengthy vacation. Since that time I have +recommended your Compound to a number of my lady friends suffering with +female irregularities, and those who have used it report great benefit +from its use. + + MRS. E. E. VAN DINTER, + 965 College Ave., Appleton, Wis. + + Vice-President + Social Economic Club. + + ++Lady on sofa with head obscured by pillows; child sitting on floor crying+ + +~Don't~ + + Don't wait until your suffering have driven you to despair, with + your nerves all shattered and your courage gone. + + +Help and happiness surely await you if you accept Mrs. Pinkham's advice. +Disease makes women nervous, irritable, and easily annoyed by children +and household duties; such women need the counsel and help of a woman +who understands the peculiar troubles of her sex; that woman is Mrs. +Pinkham, who with that famous medicine, =Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable +Compound=, has restored thousands upon thousands of sick and discouraged +women to health and happiness. Her address is Lynn, Mass., and her +advice is free. Write to-day, do not wait. + +=Will not the volumes of letters from women who have been made strong by +Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound convince others of the virtues of +this great medicine?= + +=When a medicine has been successful in more than a million cases, is it +justice to yourself to say, without trying it, "I do not believe it +would help me?"= + +=Surely you cannot wish to remain weak and sick and discouraged, +exhausted with each day's work. If you have some derangement of the +feminine organism try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. It will +surely help you.= + +I am firmly persuaded after eight years experience with Lydia E. +Pinkham's Vegetable Compound that it is the safest and best medicine for +any suffering woman to use. + +Immediately after my marriage I found that my health began to fail me. I +became weak and pale with severe bearing down pains, fearful headaches +and frequent dizzy spells. The doctors prescribed for me and yet I did +not improve. I would at times bloat after eating and have frequent +vomiting. I had acrid discharge and pains down through my limbs so I +could hardly walk. It was as bad a case of female trouble as I have ever +known. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound cured me within four months +and since that time I have had occasion to recommend it to a number of +patients suffering with all forms of female difficulties and I found +that while it is considered unprofessional to recommend patent +medicines, I could honestly recommend your Vegetable Compound for I have +found it cures where other medicines fail. My mother and two sisters +have used it also and their health has been restored and their strength +renewed. It is a grand medicine for sick women. + + MRS. MARTHA POHLMAN, + 55 Chester Ave., Newark, N. J. + +Graduate nurse from Blockley Training School at Philadelphia and for +6-1/2 years the chief clinic nurse at the Philadelphia Hospital. + + +March 31, 1902. + +Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has done me a great deal of good. +When I first had my monthly period I suffered very much. I would have +such headaches, also pain in abdomen and side. Was not able to go to +school. + +After taking several bottles of your medicine I was relieved of my +trouble and I am now well and enjoying good health. + + MISS MARY E. ROGERS, + Kipton, Ohio. + + +October 8, 1901. + +It gives me great pleasure to tell what your Vegetable Compound has done +for me for the benefit of other suffering women. I would have been a +total wreck and probably not living to-day had I not taken your +medicine. My legs were so stiff and my back so sore that I could not be +on my feet and at times I would have the sick headache so bad that I did +not know what I was doing. I also had leucorrhoea all the time which +caused me to feel very weak. I lost in flesh until I weighed only +ninety-eight pounds. + +I was unable to carry babe to maturity. My first child being born in +seven months. Since taking your medicine I have had two little girls +which are pictures of health and which I owe to Lydia E. Pinkham's +Vegetable Compound. I have taken twelve bottles of the Vegetable +Compound, used one box of Liver Pills which I found excellent to +regulate the bowels. I am now in good health and weigh one hundred and +twenty-five pounds. + +I cannot praise your medicine enough for the benefit I have derived from +its use. What a blessing it is that women can consult with a lady and if +every woman feels as I do, they would all consult you far and near. + + MRS. NELSON F. SPANGLER, + Center Oak, Pa. + + +April 18, 1901 + +I will now write you a letter of gratitude for what your medicine has +done for me. I suffered with very painful menstruation and could not +become pregnant which was my great desire. I began the use of your +medicine and after taking sixteen bottles I found myself pregnant. I +continued the use of your Vegetable Compound and felt well all the time. +Last October my baby was born, it was a girl and weighed eleven and +one-half pounds. It is my belief that I would never have had my baby if +I had not used your medicine. + +I recommend Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound to all, believing +there is no better medicine for women. + + MRS. CHAS. ROHDE, + 621 Vine Street, Peoria, Ill. + + +I have intended for some time to write to you and tell you what Lydia E. +Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has done for me. I had been feeling weak +and nervous, very easily tired and had much backache. + +I took two bottles of your Compound and felt so much better that I +enjoyed, instead of dreading my household duties. + +I can and do gladly recommend your medicines to anyone suffering from +female troubles. + + MRS. M. E. SHEPLER, + 17 Amesbury Place, Cleveland, Ohio. + + + +Household Cares + ++Top right: Lady sitting in chair with large broom in the backgroud; +Bottom left: Lady standing with forefinger on cheek+ + +A Sick Woman's Devotion to Duty is a Heroism which a Well Person Cannot +Understand. + +How distressing to see a woman struggling with her daily round of +household duties, when her back and head are aching, and every movement +brings out a new pain. + +One day the poor woman is wretched and utterly miserable; in a day or +two she is better, and laughs at her fears, thinking there is nothing +much the matter after all; but before night the deadly backache +reappears, the limbs tremble, the lips twitch--it seems as though all +the imps of Satan were clutching her vitals; she "goes to pieces" and is +flat on her back. + +No woman ought to arrive at this terrible state of misery, because these +symptoms are a sure forerunner of womb troubles. She must remember that +=Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound= is almost an infallible cure for +all female ills, such as irregularity of periods, which cause weak +stomach, sick headache, etc., displacements and inflammation of the +womb, or any of the multitude of illnesses which beset the female +organism. Read how Mrs. Frake wrote to Mrs. Pinkham when she was in +great trouble. Her letter tells the result, and how a cure was effected +by the use of + +Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. + + +_READ THESE LETTERS FROM MRS. FRAKE._ + +"DEAR MRS. PINKHAM:--I have read of your medicine making so many cures, +and have been advised to write to you, but I feel that it is of no use. +The doctor says that I have womb trouble, but he does not seem to help +me a great deal. I have such a weakness across me most of the time--have +backache, am very nervous, and am troubled with leucorrhoea. I am very +weak, cannot walk any distance or stand long unless I ache all over. I +would like to know it you think your medicine would do me any +good."--MRS. SAMUEL FRAKE, Prospect Plains, N.J. + +"DEAR MRS. PINKHAM:--I cannot thank you enough for what =Lydia E. +Pinkham's Vegetable Compound= has done for me. When I first wrote to you +I had suffered for years. The doctor said I had congestion of the womb, +was troubled with my kidneys and bladder, my back ached dreadfully all +the time, and I suffered with bearing-down feeling, could scarcely walk +about to do my own housework. I stopped doctoring with the physician and +took your medicine, and am now able to do my own work, have no more +backache or weakness across me, and can do all my own work. I cannot +praise your medicine enough, and would advise all suffering women to try +it."--MRS. SAMUEL FRAKE, Prospect Plains, N.J. + +The Medicine that has Restored a Million Women to Health is Lydia E. +Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. + + + +June 10, 1901. + +My daughter sixteen years old, has been in very poor health ever since +the change to womanhood a year ago. She had the best of doctors but they +did her little good. She complained of feeling tired all the time, did +not care for anything, pain in her back, very nervous, poor in flesh and +so pale. It made her tired to ride or walk any distance, could not go to +school. Some thought she could not live long. Through the use of Lydia +E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound she is now in the best of health. I feel +that your medicine saved her life. + + MRS. ANNA HUGHES, + Altmar, N. Y. + + +December 12, 1902. + +About a month ago I took a very bad cold and it was at time of +menstruation and it stopped my menses. I began to have pains in my +ovaries and at last I had inflammation of the ovaries and pain in my +kidneys and bladder. I got over that but did not flow hardly any. The +last time I came around I began to have that pain in my right ovary and +it lasted a week and I have been flowing for a week. I would like some +advice as I do not know what to think of my case. + + MISS RUBY MUSHRUSH. + + +July 22, 1903. + +About three months ago the doctor turned the X-ray on me to see what was +the matter and found that I had an abscess near my ovary and in a place +that if it had broken would have killed me right away. + +The doctor's medicine did me no good, so Mama went to the store and got +me a bottle of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. I am now so well +that I can work, thanks to your medicine. It has saved me from an +operation. + + MISS RUBY MUSHRUSH, + East Chicago, Ind. + + +February 10, 1902. + +As I have heard and read so much about your medicine, I have decided to +write you and tell you my trouble and ask your advice. I am completely +run down, am a widow, twenty-five years old, and have one boy five years +old. I have never been strong since the birth of my child. Menstruation +is irregular and scanty and am always in such distress, pain in lower +abdomen and limbs, pain and dizziness in head, cold hands and feet, poor +appetite, sick headache, nervous, have leucorrhoea badly, bearing down +pains in small of back, pain in both sides, also have catarrh of head +and throat. I have had different doctors but they do not help me and I +am discouraged. I will be glad to hear from you. Would like to feel well +once more. + + MRS. ANNIE M. WAHL. + + +June 1, 1902. + +I think it is my duty to let everyone know what Lydia E. Pinkham's +Vegetable Compound has done for me. It has made me well and happy. Five +months ago I could hardly walk across the room, I was so full of pain. I +could scarcely step. I now feel like a new woman. I sleep well and have +a good appetite. I used to get such awful sick headache spells, but now +I have them no more. Also would be troubled with awful bearing down pain +at time of menstruation but have also been relieved of this. I cannot +praise your medicine enough. I think it is the best thing made for +women. I advise, everyone who suffers with female trouble to try Lydia +E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. + + MRS. ANNIE M. WAHL, + Bellwood, Blair Co., Pa. + + +October 10, 1901. + +I think it is my duty to let you know the good that Lydia E. Pinkham's +Vegetable Compound has done for me. I think it is the best medicine in +the world. I was well until I weaned my baby and then I began to bloat +and had bearing down pains. I took to filling up with water in my +abdomen. I had the doctor and he said it was abdominal dropsy and that +not having menstruation was the cause of it. He said I would have to be +tapped. He tapped me once and took eleven quarts of water from me and in +a week I began to fill up again and he was waiting to tap me again. I +wrote to Mrs. Pinkham and began to take the Vegetable Compound and the +water began to leave me. When I had taken two bottles it had all left me +and menses appeared. I now feel as well as I ever did and am able to do +all my work. I feel very thankful to you. + + MRS. HATTIE RILEY, + Waterford, Ohio. + + +Backache + +~MISS PEARL ACKERS.~ + +The ordinary every-day life of most of our women is a ceaseless +treadmill of work. How much harder the daily tasks become when some +derangement of the female organs makes every movement painful and keeps +the nervous system all unstrung. One day she is wretched and utterly +miserable; in a day or two she is better and laughs at her fears, +thinking there is nothing much the matter after all; but before night +the deadly backache reappears, the limbs tremble, the lips twitch--it +seems as though all the imps of Satan were clutching her vitals, she +"goes to pieces" and is flat on her back. + +No woman ought to arrive at this terrible state of misery, because these +symptoms are a sure indication of womb diseases, and backache is merely +a symptom of more serious trouble. Women should remember that an almost +infallible cure for all female ills, such as irregularity of periods, +which cause weak stomach, sick headache, etc., displacements and +inflammation of the womb, or any of the multitudes of illnesses which +beset the female organism may be found in + +Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound + + +=When a medicine has been successful in more than a million cases, why +should you say, "I do not believe it will help me?" If you have some +derangement of the feminine organism try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable +Compound. It will surely help you. If there is anything in your case +about which you would like special advice, write freely to Mrs. Pinkham, +Lynn, Mass.; her advice is given free and will greatly help you.= + +"DEAR MRS. PINKHAM:--About two years ago I consulted a physician about +my health, which had become so wretched that I was no longer able to be +about. I had severe backache, bearing-down pains, pains across the +abdomen, was very nervous and irritable, and this trouble grew worse +each month. + +"The physician prescribed for me, but I soon discovered he was unable to +help me, and I then decided to try =Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable +Compound=, and soon found that it was doing me good. My appetite was +returning, the pains disappearing, and the general benefits were well +marked. + +"You cannot realize how pleased I was, and after taking the medicine for +only three months, I found I was completely cured of my trouble, and +have been well and hearty ever since and no more fear of the monthly +period, as it now passes without pain to me. Yours very truly, MISS +PEARL ACKERS, 327 North Summer St., Nashville, Tenn." + + +March 10, 1902. + +I now write to tell you what your medicine has done for me. After my +first child was born, my womb came down so far that the doctor had to +replace it and it was always weak and would never stay in place. + +A friend told me about Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. I got one +bottle of it without any faith at all for I was so bad, I did not think +it would do as much good as she said. Well, I took seven bottles and now +I am entirely well. + +I have used the Vegetable Compound right along when pregnant and found +it a great help, child-birth being almost painless. I have had four +children and have always been able to do my work even the washing until +the child was born. It certainly is a wonderful medicine for pregnant +women and I would not be without it at that time. + + MRS. GEORGE GOODCHILD, + Port Kennedy, Pa. + + +June 9, 1901. + +I had falling of the womb and such an aching across my pelvis bone could +hardly walk as the least jar hurt so. I was better before I had finished +the second bottle and after taking six bottles was entirely cured. + +I can recommend Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound to any one. + + MRS. ROSA G. BURTON, + 1006 Brandywine St., Phila., Pa. + + +August 19, 1902. + +I take great pleasure in writing to thank you for what Lydia E. +Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has done for me. + +I suffered for years with painful menstruation, pains in the back, +leucorrhoea, dizziness and nervous prostration. + +Since taking your medicine, I feel like a new woman. I never will be +without your Vegetable Compound and will recommend it as long as I live. + +Hoping my testimonial may be of benefit to others, I remain, Yours +truly, + + MRS. MARY BRADY, + 1929 Dumaine St., nr. Prieur, + New Orleans, La. + + +July 16, 1901 + +I have been taking Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for the past +eight months and it has done me a great deal of good. + +Before taking it, I suffered with my head and pains in my back and when +I had my changes I suffered agony, could hardly stand on my feet. I have +taken twelve bottles of the Compound and to-day I am a well woman. I +weighed one hundred and twenty pounds before taking it and now I weigh +one hundred and forty-five. I keep a laundry and recommend your medicine +to my customers. + + AUGUSTA BLISS, + 530 E. 84th St., New York, N. Y. + + +April 29, 1902. + +I write this letter so that all suffering women may know what your +wonderful medicine has done for me. + +Before I began taking your medicine I was very weak and not able to do +anything. I had had a miscarriage and a bad flooding spell and my +husband had given up all hopes of my ever getting strong again. + +Some of my friends told me to try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. +I was in bed at the time. After taking a few doses I began to feel +better. I have taken now three bottles and am telling my friends what it +has done for me. + +My husband would not have me do without the medicine. + + MRS. GEORGE PERRY, + Box 52, Fort Gibson, Ind. Ter. + + +June 14, 1901. + +When I wrote to you for advice a year and a half ago, I was confined to +my bed and had just about given up hopes of ever being well again. I had +heard so much about Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound I told my +husband I would like to try it. He got me a bottle and after taking two +bottles I was able to get up and walk a little. + +My trouble was enlargement of the womb, also had ovarian trouble. I had +spells of flooding nearly losing my life at monthly periods. Altogether +I was sick and discouraged. The pains and aches I suffered I cannot +explain. I took seventeen bottles of your Vegetable Compound and was +cured. In due time I gave birth to a nice baby girl. My baby is now six +months old and so fat and healthy and I am so well, no more female +trouble or pain in back. + + MRS. MAY M. MORGAREIDGE, + Mayoworth, Wyo. + + + +Fibroid Tumors Cured. + +A distressing case of Fibroid Tumor, which baffled the skill of Boston +doctors. Mrs. Hayes, of Boston, Mass., in the following letter tells how +she was cured, after everything else failed, by =Lydia E. Pinkham's +Vegetable Compound=. + +=Mrs. Hayes' First Letter Appealing to Mrs. Pinkham for Help:= + + "DEAR MRS. PINKHAM--I have been under Boston doctors' treatment + for a long time without any relief. They tell me I have a fibroid + tumor. I cannot sit down without great pain, and the soreness + extends up my spine. I have bearing-down pains both back and front. + My abdomen is swollen, and I have had flowing spells for three + years. My appetite is not good. I cannot walk or be on my feet for + any length of time. + + "The symptoms of Fibroid Tumor given in your little book accurately + describe my case, so I write to you for advice."--(Signed) MRS. E. + F. HAYES, 22 Ruggles St., (Roxbury) Boston, Mass. + + +=Note the result of Mrs. Pinkham's advice--although she advised Mrs. +Hayes, of Boston, to take her medicine--which she knew would help +her--her letter contained a mass of additional instructions as to +treatment, all of which helped to bring about the happy result.= + + "DEAR MRS. PINKHAM--Sometime ago I wrote to you describing my + symptoms and asked your advice. You replied, and I followed all + your directions carefully, and to-day I am a well woman. + + "The use of =Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound= entirely expelled + the tumor and strengthened my whole system. I can walk miles now. + + "=Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound= is worth five dollars a + drop. I advise all women who are afflicted with tumors or female + trouble of any kind to give it a faithful trial."--(Signed) MRS. E. + F. HAYES, 99 Ziegler St., (Roxbury) Boston, Mass. + + +=Mountains of gold could not purchase such testimony--or take the place +of the health and happiness which Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound +brought to Mrs. Hayes.= + + +Woman's Kidney Troubles. + +Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is Especially Successful in Curing +this Fatal Woman's Disease. + +Of all the diseases known with which the female organism is afflicted, +kidney disease is the most fatal. In fact, unless early and correct +treatment is applied, the weary patient seldom survives. + +Being fully aware of this, Mrs. Pinkham, early in her career, gave +exhaustive study to the subject, and in producing her great remedy for +woman's ills--Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound--was careful to see +that it contained the correct combination of herbs which was sure to +control that fatal disease, woman's kidney troubles. The Vegetable +Compound acts in harmony with the laws that govern the entire female +system, and while there are many so-called remedies for kidney troubles, +Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is the only one especially +prepared for women. + +The following letters will show how marvellously successful it is. + + +Oct. 17, 1901. + +I have noticed your advertisement in the papers of your wonderful +medicine, and I wish to consult you in regard to my sickness. + +I have been a sufferer of female weakness for the past six months; have +doctored a great deal, but it has done me no good. I have _kidney_ and +_bladder_ trouble, backache, constipation, headache, terrible pains in +my left side, have leucorrhoea, painful menstruation, which compels me +to take my bed for two and three days; also have falling of the womb. +Blood is very thin. I hope to hear from you soon. + + MRS. W. N. MATTHEWS, + 548 W. Jefferson St., Springfield, Ill. + + +April 15, 1902. + +I am almost ashamed to acknowledge the receipt of your letter received +last Fall. After I had doctored for a year without receiving any relief, +I then wrote you for advice in regard to my sickness and began the use +of your medicine. + +I am happy to say that I never felt better in my life than I do now. I +can eat hearty, sleep well, and feel like a new woman. + +Many thanks for your kind and highly appreciated letter. I wish every +suffering woman would try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. + + MRS. W. N. MATTHEWS, + 548 W. Jefferson St., Springfield, Ill. + + +June 15, 1901. + +It affords me great pleasure to give you my testimony in regard to the +value of Lydia E. Pinkham's valuable remedies. I suffered for some time +with internal trouble, being at times unable to walk across the floor. I +had weakness of the bladder and was very nervous. + +After taking one bottle Vegetable Compound I felt better. I continued +its use, and after taking five bottles could walk two miles without +difficulty. My health is now good and I am sixty years old. + +I think your Vegetable Compound the best medicine I have ever taken. + + MRS. HENRY GITTELMAN, + 1004 N. 6th St., Reading, Pa. + + +June 26, 1901. + +I will write and let you know how much good Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable +Compound has done me. + +I cannot express the terrible suffering I have had to endure. I was +taken last May with nervous prostration; also had female trouble, liver, +stomach, _kidney_ and _bladder_ trouble. I was in a terrible condition. +The doctor attended me for a year, but I kept getting worse. I got so I +was not able to do any work. Was confined to my bed most of the time, +and thought I would never be able to do anything. People thought I would +not live. + +I decided to try your medicine. I have taken twelve bottles Vegetable +Compound and cannot praise it too highly, for I know it will do all and +even more than it is recommended to do. I tell every suffering woman +about your medicine and urge them to try it. + + MRS. EMMA SAWYER, + Conyers, Ga. + + + +~Change of Life~ + +A Danger Period Through Which Every Woman Must Pass. + +Owing to modern methods of living, not one woman in a thousand +approaches this perfectly natural change without experiencing a train of +very annoying and sometimes painful symptoms. At this period a woman +indicates a tendency towards obesity or tumorous growths. + +Those dreadful hot flashes, sending the blood surging to the heart until +it seems ready to burst, and the faint feeling that follows, sometimes +with chills, as if the heart were going to stop forever, are only a few +of the symptoms of a dangerous nervous trouble. The nerves are crying +out for assistance. The cry should be heeded in time. =Lydia E. Pinkham's +Vegetable Compound= was prepared to meet the needs of woman's system at +this trying period of her life, and all women who use it pass through +this trying period with comfort and safety. + + +August 6, 1902. + +My trouble was Change of Life and cramping. No human tongue can describe +what I suffered with the cramp. I dreaded from one time to another so +much that I almost wanted to die. + +Our family physician did everything he could for me, but I got no +relief. He said if I lived to get through with the other trouble it +would wear away after a time, but I had it six years, and could not walk +or exercise in any way without bringing on an attack of the cramp, and I +would suffer untold misery until I would be perfectly exhausted and +helpless. + +I read in one of your little books about Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable +Compound being good for female trouble and Change of Life, and thought +there was no harm in trying it. So I did, and it helped me, and I was +able to take walks and work some. + +I am very thankful for the relief your medicine has been to me. + + MRS. V. M. BLAKE, + Deep Water, W. Va. + + +Dear Mrs. Pinkham: + +I began to dread the approach of Change of Life some years ago, as so +many of my friends had been miserable for five or six years during that +period and as I was not very strong and being subject to headaches and +weakness, I felt that I did not have the strength to carry me through +this dangerous period and had it not been for Lydia E. Pinkham's +Vegetable Compound, I feel that I would not have been alive to-day. + +I began to take it about three years ago when I felt the change coming +on and continued taking it for three months, then I did not take any for +a couple of months, and began to feel so badly that I started to use it +again, and then continued to take it for about six months out of every +year for three years and am pleased to state that it has kept me free +from sickness. + + Very truly yours, + MRS. GEORGE SHEPHERD, + Berlin, Wis. + + Vice-President Mothers' Club. + + +June 28, 1902. + +I thought I would write and state my condition to you and ask if you +think you can do me any good. I am fifty-five years old, never had any +children. I came here from Brooklyn for my husband's health, he having +consumption. I have always had good health, never any trouble with my +menses, always regular until two or three months before my husband died, +which was March 25, 1901. As soon as he died, I commenced and flowed +constantly ever since. I know it must be the Change of Life. I did not +worry about it for four or five months, then I had a doctor but he did +me no good. I had another with the same result. Last May I had to go to +New York and traveling I think was too much for me as I have been worse. +I saw a doctor there and he wanted me to go to the hospital and have my +womb curetted, but I did not feel like having that done. I never have +any pain only once in a while a little backache. Please let me know if +you think you can do me any good. + + MRS. J. J. REARDON. + + +January 18, 1903. + +I feel that I must write and thank you for the good you have done me. I +wrote to you my case last summer. I flowed constantly for sixteen months +so badly that I dared not go any where and the doctors all said an +operation. Nothing did me any good. As a last resort I appealed to you. +I had no faith in your medicine, but thought I would try it and if it +did me no good I would go to the hospital. I took two boxes of the Lydia +E. Pinkham's Compound Pills and started on the third and now I am all +right. I was run down, nervous, could not sleep, no appetite, but Lydia +E. Pinkham's Compound has cured me entirely. I am very grateful to you +and wish that everyone afflicted as I was would try it. + + MRS. J. J. REARDON, + Milford, Pa. + + +November 20, 1901. + +Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound did wonders for me during the +_Change of Life_. + +I was troubled with backache and headache, hot flashes and cold chills, +pains in my hips, and at times would have such pains under my shoulder +blades that I could hardly move for a while. I hope that other suffering +women will take your medicine. + +Many thanks for what you have done for me. + + MRS. SARAH DERFER, + Dundee, Ohio. + + + ++Ladies in Profile+ + +TIRED MOTHERS + +=A nervous, irritable mother, often on the verge of hysterics, is unfit +to care for children; it ruins a child's disposition and reacts upon +herself. The trouble between children and= their mothers too often is due +to the fact that the mother has some female weakness, and she is +entirely unfit to bear the strain upon her nerves that governing a child +involves; it is impossible for her to do anything calmly. She cannot +help it, as her condition is due to suffering and shattered nerves +caused by some derangement of the uterine system with backache, +headache, and all kinds of pain, and she is on the verge of nervous +prostration. When a mother finds that she cannot be calm and quiet with +her children, she may be sure that her condition needs attention, and +she cannot do better than to take + +Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound + +It builds up her system, strengthens her nerves, and enables her to +calmly handle a disobedient child without a scene. The children will +soon realize the difference, and seeing their mother quiet, will +themselves become quiet. + +_=Read what the Vice-Pres. of the Mothers' Club, at Hot Springs, Ark., +says:=_ + + "DEAR MRS. PINKHAM--=Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound= will + make every mother well, strong, healthy and happy. I dragged + through nine years of miserable existence, worn out with pain and + weariness. I then noticed a statement of a woman troubled as I was, + and the wonderful results she had obtained from your Compound, and + decided to try what it would do for me, and used it for three + months. At the end of that time I was a different woman, and the + neighbors remarked it, and my husband fell in love with me all over + again. It seemed like a new existence. I had been suffering with + inflammation and falling of the womb, but your medicine cured that, + and built up my entire system, till I was indeed like a new + woman."--Sincerely yours, MRS. CHAS. F. BROWN, Vice-Pres. Mothers' + Club, Hot Springs, Ark. + + +FREE MEDICAL ADVICE TO WOMEN. + +=From a vast experience in treating female ills, extending over 20 years, +Mrs. Pinkham has gained a knowledge which is of untold value.= + +=If there is anything in your case about which you would like special +advice, write freely to Mrs. Pinkham. Address is Lynn, Mass. Her advice +is free, always confidential and helpful.= + + +LYDIA E. PINKHAM'S VEGETABLE COMPOUND + + ++Lady Gazing Upwards+ + +=Has Cured More Women Than Any Other Medicine in the World.= + +Its annual sales are greater than those of any other medicine +exclusively for women. It holds the record for the greatest number of +actual cures of woman's ills. This fact is attested by hundreds of +thousands of letters from grateful women which are on file in the +Pinkham laboratory, and which are constantly being published. Merit +alone can produce such results. Good advertising serves to call +attention for a time, but merit alone can stand the test of time. + +The ablest specialists now agree that Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable +Compound is the most universally successful remedy for woman's ills +known to medicine. + +All sick women should note these facts, and placing all possible +prejudices aside, should realize the truthfulness of these statements, +and that a cure for their troubles actually exists. + +Wise is the woman who has faith in Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable +Compound, for health and happiness is sure to follow its use. + +=YOU CAN GET HELPFUL ADVICE FREE.--If there is anything about your +illness you do not understand, Mrs. Pinkham, at Lynn, Mass., will be +glad to receive a letter from you telling her all the details. She will +send you promptly a reply which may save you years of suffering and +pain. She has helped thousands of women. For all this she will not +charge you a cent; besides, she will keep your letter strictly +confidential. Write her to-day.= + + +October 14, 1902. + +I suffer something terrible with flooding every month and pass large +clots of blood. The pains are excruciating. I can hardly stand them. The +doctor says my ovaries are decayed and my womb needs to be scraped. I do +not wish to go under the operation if I can possibly avoid it. I hope +you can relieve me. + + MRS. MARY DIMMICK. + + +September 16, 1903. + +After giving Lydia E. Pinkham's wonderful remedies a thorough trial, I +am very anxious to send in my testimonial that others may learn of their +great value. I have been a great sufferer for the last eight years, the +trouble first originating from painful menstruation, and I also had +inflammation and ulceration of the womb. The doctor told me I must have +an operation or I could not live. I then wrote you telling all my +ailments. I followed your advice very carefully and am now entirely +well. I can walk miles without an ache or pain and can safely say I owe +my life and health to Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. I cannot +speak too highly of its merits. My friends all look at me in +astonishment, for my case was very serious and it seems almost a miracle +that I am cured. I wish suffering women could read this testimonial and +realize the value of your remedy. I shall take much pleasure in +recommending it to all. + + MRS. MARY DIMMICK, + 59th and E. Capitol St., Benning P. O., + Washington, D. C. + + +July 14, 1901. + +Words cannot express the gratitude I feel towards you for what Lydia E. +Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has done for me. + +My trouble was misplacement of the womb, also womb was lacerated, and +had inflammation of the ovaries. I went away for treatment to a +specialist on female diseases and passed through twelve operations. Was +gone from home eight weeks and gradually grew worse and returned home to +die, having given up all hope of ever getting well. My heart would stop +beating at times and I became very weak, could not sit up in bed. + +A friend of mine brought me a bottle of the Vegetable Compound and I +began its use and by the time I had taken half a bottle I could see that +I had improved. I used in all twelve bottles of the Compound and am now +able to do all my house work and enjoy better health than I have in six +years. I owe my life to you, for I believe I would have been in my grave +to-day had it not been for the Vegetable Compound. Your medicine is a +God-send to suffering women. + + MRS. J. A. JORDAN, + Canoe Station, Ga. + + +March 3, 1901. + +Dear Mrs. Pinkham: + +I would like some advice from you as I have such very bad pains in +ovaries, falling of the womb, and every time I have my monthlys I have +the cramps very bad, and seem to be getting worse. I always have it a +week and I am so very nervous. I don't want an operation. + +Every time I become pregnant I carry the child only seven months, and +then it is born and lives only a week or two. I have lost four children +this way and hope you will tell me what to take as I know you have +helped others. + + MRS. FRED SEYDEL. + + +August 26, 1902. + +Dear Mrs. Pinkham: + +Over a year ago I wrote you a letter asking for advice how to carry my +babes to full time as I had lost four children between five and seven +months. + +I took Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and did as you instructed +me, and now I have a beautiful baby girl about six months old and we are +both healthy. + +I advise all suffering women to call on you for help and I tell every +one of the good you have done me. + + MRS. FRED SEYDEL, + 412 N. 54th St., West Phila., Pa. + + +June 13, 1901. + +Last summer I had terrible pains in my back and head. I went to the +doctor and he told me I had a touch of Bright's disease and gave me some +medicine but it did me no good. My mother advised me to take some of +your medicine, and after taking eight bottles of Lydia E. Pinkham's +Vegetable Compound I can say that I am feeling well. + + MRS. ANNIE DAMBACK. + 263 Grand Street, Rahway, N. J. + + + ++Ladies with Children+ + +DYSPEPSIA OF WOMEN + +=Requires Treatment which acts in Harmony with the Female System.= + +A great many women suffer with a form of indigestion or dyspepsia which +does not seem to yield to ordinary medical treatment. While the symptoms +seem to be similar to those of ordinary indigestion, yet the medicines +universally prescribed do not seem to restore the patient's normal +condition. =Mrs. Pinkham= claims that there is a kind of dyspepsia that is +caused by derangement of the female organism, and which while it causes +disturbance similar to ordinary indigestion cannot be relieved without a +medicine which not only acts as a stomach tonic, but has peculiar +utero-tonic effects as well; in other words, a derangement of the female +organs may have such a disturbing effect upon a woman's whole system as +to cause serious indigestion and dyspepsia, and it cannot be relieved +without curing the original cause of the trouble, which seems to find +its source in the pelvic organs. As proof of this theory, we call +attention to the letter from Mrs. Maggie Wright, who was completely +cured by the use of + +Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. + +"MY DEAR MRS. PINKHAM--For two years I suffered more or less with +dyspepsia, which so degenerated my entire system that I was unfit to +properly attend to my daily duties. I felt weak and nervous, and nothing +I ate tasted good or felt comfortable in my stomach. I tried several +dyspeptic cures, but nothing seemed to help me permanently. I decided to +give =Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound= a trial, and was happily +surprised to find that it acted like a fine tonic, and in a few days I +began to enjoy and properly digest my food. My recovery was rapid, and +in five weeks I was a different woman. Seven bottles completely cured +me, and a dozen or more of my friends have used it since."--MRS. MAGGIE +WRIGHT, 12 Van Voorhis St., Brooklyn, New York. + +=Many women were utterly discouraged, and life lacked all joy to them +when they wrote Mrs. Pinkham, Lynn, Mass. They received advice which +made them strong women again.= + + ++Lady sitting in chair with elbow on table and hand propped on chin+ + +THE BLUES + +=Don't Wait Until Your Sufferings Have Driven You To Despair, With Your +Nerves All Shattered and Your Courage Gone.= + +When a cheerful, brave, light-hearted woman is suddenly plunged into +that perfection of misery, the BLUES, it is a sad picture. It is usually +this way: + +She has been feeling "out of sorts" for some time; head has ached, and +back also; has slept poorly, been quite nervous, and nearly fainted once +or twice; head dizzy, and heart beats very fast; then that bearing-down +feeling. Her doctor says: "Cheer up; you have dyspepsia; you will be all +right soon." But she does not get "all right." She grows worse day by +day, till all at once she realizes that a distressing female complaint +is established. Her doctor has made a mistake. She has lost faith in +him; hope vanishes; then comes the brooding, morbid, melancholy, +everlasting BLUES. =Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound= instantly +asserts its curative powers in all those peculiar ailments of women, and +the story recited above is the true experience of hundreds of American +women, whose letters of gratitude we constantly publish. + +=Surely you cannot wish to remain weak, and sick and discouraged, +exhausted with each day's work. If you have some derangement of the +female organism try the remedy that has restored a million women to +health=, + +Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. + +"DEAR MRS. PINKHAM--I cheerfully recommended =Lydia E. Pinkham's +Vegetable Compound= to my suffering sisters as a perfect medicine for +all female derangements. I was troubled with displacement of the womb +and other female weakness. Had headache, backache, and such bearing-down +pains I could hardly walk across the floor, and was very nervous. A +friend advised me to try your medicine, which I did, and after using the +first bottle I began to improve. I took in all twelve bottles of +Vegetable Compound, one box of Liver Pills, also used the Sanative Wash +and was cured, and have no return of my troubles. I am as well now as I +ever was. I am more thankful every day for my cure. I know that your +medicine will do everything that it is recommended to do for suffering +women."--MRS. DORA ANDERSON, North Muskegon, Mich. + +"DEAR MRS. PINKHAM--I want to tell you what your remedies have done for +me. Before taking them I used to have a continuous headache, would be +very dizzy, would have spells when everything seemed strange, and I +would not know where I was. I went to our local doctor. He gave me some +medicine, but it did not seem to do me any good, but after taking =Lydia +E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound=, I began to improve at once. I can +honestly recommend your remedies to all suffering women and advise all +to give it a trial."--MRS. HENRY SELL, Van Wyck, Wash. + + +FREE MEDICAL ADVICE TO WOMEN. + +=If there is anything in your case about which you would like special +advice, write freely to Mrs Pinkham. She will hold your letter in strict +confidence.= + +IN THE TREATMENT OF + +FEMALE TROUBLES + +Such as Leucorrhoea, and all Inflammation of the Vaginal Passage by +local application, experience has proven that nothing excels + +LYDIA E. PINKHAM'S + +SANATIVE WASH + +FOR VAGINAL INJECTIONS. + +Every woman will find this a most valuable assistant whenever a =Vaginal +Injection= is desirable. It is soothing, cleansing and healing. In +connection with the VEGETABLE COMPOUND it hastens the cure. + +We are permitted to publish on this page several testimonials which +demonstrate the virtue of the SANATIVE WASH, and should convince every +woman that she should place complete reliance on any statement made by +Mrs. Pinkham in regard to the virtue and reliability of any of these +medicines. + +DIRECTIONS FOR USING THE SANATIVE WASH. + +Steep one-fourth of the package in sufficent water to make one pint +after it is strained. When the discharge is very profuse, use one-half +of this, adding to it one pint of warm water, daily, as a VAGINAL +INJECTION. + +=25 Cents per Package. Sold by Druggists Everywhere.= + + +Sanative Wash. + +I feel that I neglect a duty in not writing you that others may know +what your Vegetable Compound has done for me. + +Before taking it I was almost an invalid, could not walk any distance +and suffered pain all the time. After taking nine bottles I was very +much better, and can now do my house work and ride a wheel. It would +take too much space to tell you all of its merits but I must not forget +to speak of the Sanative Wash for it simply acts like magic. + +Trusting that this may help some other sufferer, I remain. + + Yours truly, + MRS. A. C. SAXTON, + Port Jefferson, N. Y. + + +Sanative Wash. + +It affords me great pleasure to tell you of the benefit I have derived +from taking your Vegetable Compound and Sanative Wash. I can hardly find +words to express my gratitude to you for the boon which you have offered +suffering women in your excellent remedies. Before taking your Compound +I was thin, sallow and nervous. I was troubled with leucorrhoea, and +my menstrual periods were very irregular. I tried three physicians and +gradually grew worse. About a year ago I was advised by a friend to try +your Sanative Wash and Vegetable Compound, which I did. After using your +Vegetable Compound and Sanative Wash I am now enjoying better health +than I ever did, and attribute the same to your wonderful remedies. I +cannot find words to express What a godsend your remedies have been to +me. Whenever I begin to feel nervous and ill, I know I have a never +failing physician at hand. It would afford me pleasure to know that my +words have directed my suffering sisters to the road to health and +strength through your most excellent remedies. I thank you again for +what your remedies have done for me. + + MISS MARY SACHNER, + 205 E. Town St., Columbus, Ohio. + + +Sanative Wash. + +I am glad to state that through the use of your Vegetable Compound and +Sanative Wash, etc., I am cured from the worst form of female weakness. +I was troubled very much with leucorrhoea, bearingdown pains and +backache. It seemed that I had no strength at all. I was in pain all +over. I began to feel better after taking the first dose of Vegetable +Compound, and am now like a new woman. I know if other suffering women +would only try it, it would help them. + + MRS. GEORGE. W. SHEPARD, + Box 127, Boonville, N. Y. + + +LYDIA E. PINKHAM'S + +BLOOD PURIFIER + +Is far superior to any other known Remedy for the Cure of all Diseases +arising from Impurities of the Blood, such as + +Scrofula, Cancerous Humor, Erysipelas, Rheumatism, Canker, Salt Rheum +and Skin Diseases. + + +IMPURE BLOOD CAN BE MADE RICH AND PURE. + +There is no condition of the human system so uncertain or so deceptive +as the condition of the blood. Other disease makes itself known by aches +or appearance, but the blood courses on with no sign of vitiation, +carrying its poison to every nerve and fibre of the body. Suddenly comes +the awakening; pains that were never thought of before, ulcers or +eruptions where never a pimple existed, make you ask in wonder, if not +in agony, the cause. This effect may come in various ways, but the cause +is always impure blood. This impurity or blood poisoning produces +_Rheumatism_, _Debility_, _Neuralgia_, _Scrofula_, _Mercurial or +Syphilitic Ulcers_, _Fistula_, _Eruptions_, _Consumption_, _Scurvy_, +_&c._ + + +INDIGESTION AND BILIOUSNESS. + +These two complaints are closely akin and generally exist together. +_Dyspepsia, or Chronic Indigestion_, is more prevalent in this country +than anywhere else on the face of the earth, the chief reason being that +we eat with intemperate haste, and consequently do not, as a rule, +properly masticate our food. The work that should be done by the dental +mill we remit to the stomach; and, as it cannot accomplish the task, the +_food-grist_ is not properly ground up and applied, and the whole +body--aye, every fibre and tissue of it--suffers. We need not here +describe the pains and penalties of _Dyspepsia_. They are within the +personal experience of two-thirds of the adult population of the United +States. _Biliousness_ is a somewhat indefinite term, but it means, in +its common acceptation, an _unnatural determination of bile to the +channels of circulation_. The yellow tinge of the skin and of the white +of the eyes in bilious cases is caused by the undue presence of bile in +the superficial blood-vessels. + +A proper course of Lydia E. Pinkham's Blood Purifier, together with her +celebrated Liver Pills, will purify the blood and drive off the bile, +making you happy and pleasant, instead of grouty and disagreeable. + + +LYDIA E. PINKHAM'S BLOOD PURIFIER + +Is as great a success as her celebrated Vegetable Compound, and may be +used with great benefit in all diseases caused by impurities of the +blood. Do not class it with bitters of any kind. It is not a drink or an +appetizer, but a _strictly medicinal preparation_. It is a powerful +alterative, but a purely vegetable preparation, and may be taken without +fear by any invalid. The dose is small and with good nutritious diet of +any kind, avoiding highly seasoned or greasy food, you will be free from +the tortures of rheumatism, clear of scrofulous sores or ulcers, and +eradicate every taint, whether inherited or contracted. You will have a +beautiful complexion and a soft, smooth skin, and rejoice in a healthy +body and pure blood. + + +=For Sale by your Druggist, $1.00 per bottle.= + + +Sept. 15, 1902. + +I feel it my duty to send you a testimonial and tell you how much good +Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Blood Purifier has done my +daughter. She feels like a different person. Her menstruation was +irregular; did not come around for two months. She took some medicine +from the doctor which did not help her, and he thought she would have to +take treatments. She took some of your Vegetable Compound and now her +menses are regular again and she rests well nights, which she had not +been able to do for about a year. Her friends all wonder at her improved +looks as well as health. + +I never fail to recommend your medicine when I know of any woman who has +female troubles. + + MRS. MAGDALENA SCHICK, + Washington, Ill. + + +Jan. 21, 1902. + +I will tell you what your remedy has done for me. I was in a very bad +condition with scrofula swellings around my neck. It started with a +bunch on the side of my neck, and it kept growing until the whole side +of my face was swollen. + +I had tried everything in the shape of patent medicines for five years. +I had gone under an operation in one of the hospitals in Boston and had +them cut out. I had thirty little tubular glands taken from back of my +ear down my shoulder. They looked like a bunch of grapes, and about the +same size. After the cuts healed over they started to come again worse +than before. + +After suffering so much I thought I would try Lydia E. Pinkham's Blood +Purifier, and before I had taken two bottles there was a great change in +the swellings. I continued its use and to-day I am a well woman. Every +word of this is true. + +I cannot speak too highly in praise of your Blood Purifier. + + MRS. W. H. HAYNES, + 38 Adams Ave., Everett, Mass. + + +Lydia E. Pinkham's Liver Pills + +Are especially adapted to the needs of the stomach and liver, the +derangement of which they prevent and cure. They are purely vegetable +and perfectly harmless. They do not purge, gripe or weaken, but are a +gentle effective laxative which stimulates the natural action of the +bowels. They are excellent in conjunction with the Vegetable Compound; +especially in those cases when the complaints that are peculiar to women +are attended with constipation and sluggishness of the liver. In such +cases these Pills enable the Vegetable Compound to do its work more +speedily and effectively. The enormous sale of Lydia E. Pinkham's Liver +Pills has been attained purely on their merit. During the last 25 years, +we have found nothing to excel them. One box contains more than three +times the number of pills ordinarily sold for 25 cents and we therefor +justly claim superiority both in quantity and quality. + + +January 12, 1901. + +I write you these few lines to see if you can suggest some means to cure +me. A little more than a year ago, I was sick with menstruation for the +first time and since then I am sick all the time in some way or other. I +have painful and irregular menstruation. I went to summer resorts for my +health and was doctored all summer, but to no effect. I have not flowed +for two months and thought I would see if you could do me any good. + + MARION BARBER. + + +May 25, 1903. + +About two years ago I wrote to you for advice, being troubled with +irregular menstruation and womb disease. I began taking Lydia E. +Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Liver Pills and using the Sanative Wash +and I am glad to say I am completely cured and have not had any sickness +since. + +I wish to thank you for your kind advice and shall recommend your +medicine to my lady friends. + + MARION BARBER, + 101 Bracewell Ave., North Adams, Mass. + + +I am passing through the Change of Life, am suffering from extreme +nervousness and depression of spirits, am very constipated and blood +impoverished. I have heard so much about Lydia E. Pinkham's Medicine I +wish to give it a trial. Please advise me. + + MRS. ALICE PICKERING, + 14 George Street, Providence, R. I. + + +June 29, 1900. + +Six months ago I wrote to you stating my case. You advised me to take +Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, Blood Purifier and Liver Pills. I +followed your instructions. + +I never used anything in my life that benefited me so much. They are +wonderful medicines. I cannot say enough in their praise. I know I +should have been insane if I had not taken them. + + MRS. ALICE PICKERING, + 14 George Street, Providence, R. I. + + +IMPORTANT + +When writing to Mrs. Pinkham for advice and counsel, it is highly +important that you should answer the following questions: + +=Is your menstruation regular?= + +=Is your menstruation profuse?= + +=Is your menstruation scanty?= + +=Is your menstruation painful?= + +=Are you married or single?= + +=If married, have you borne children?= + +=Have you any discharge from the vagina other than the courses?= + +=Have you a free movement of the bowels daily?= + +=Are you constipated?= + +=Is your blood in good condition?= + +Write out plainly all symptoms you do not understand. + +Be sure of the strictest confidence. Mrs. Pinkham never betrays a trust. +You can rely on her help implicitly. Address your letters to "Mrs. +Pinkham, Lynn, Mass." + + +A Word of Warning. + +No other medicine in the world has received such widespread and +unqualified endorsement as has Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. + +No other medicine has such a record of cures of female troubles or such +hosts of grateful friends. + +Do not be persuaded that any other medicine is just as good. Any dealer +who asks you to buy something else when you go into his store purposely +to buy Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, has no interest in your +case. He is merely trying to sell you something on which he can make a +larger profit. He does not care whether you get well or not, so long as +he can make a little more money out of your sickness. If he wished you +well he would, without hesitation, hand you the medicine you ask for, +and which he knows is the best woman's medicine in the world. + +Follow the record of this medicine, and remember that these thousands of +cures of women whose letters are constantly printed in this paper were +not brought about by "something else," but by + +=Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, The Great Woman's Remedy for +Woman's Ills=. + +Those women who refuse to accept anything else are rewarded a hundred +thousand times, for they get what they want--a cure. Moral--Stick to the +medicine that you =know= is Best. + +=When a medicine has been successful in restoring to health more than a +million women, you cannot well say without trying it, "I do not believe +it will help me." If you are ill, do not hesitate to get a bottle of +Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound at once, and write Mrs. Pinkham, +Lynn, Mass, U. S. A., for special advice. It is free and helpful, and +will cost you nothing.= + + +This entire book copyrighted in 1901 and 1904 by the Lydia E. Pinkham +Medicine Co., of Lynn, Mass., U. S. A. All rights reserved and will be +protected by law. + + + ~THE HOME OF LYDIA E. PINKHAM'S REMEDIES + LYNN, MASS., U. S. 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Pinkham + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Treatise on the Diseases of Women + +Author: Lydia E. Pinkham + +Release Date: August 5, 2009 [EBook #29612] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TREATISE ON THE DISEASES OF WOMEN *** + + + + +Produced by Bryan Ness, Stephanie Eason, and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net. + + + + + + +</pre> + + + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_1" id="Page_1">[Pg 1]</a></span></p> +<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/p001.jpg" alt="Treatise on the Diseases of Women" /></div> + +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<h2>Tabe of Contents</h2> +<table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" summary="Table of Contents"> +<tr><td><a href="#CHAPTER_I">Chapter I.</a></td><td>A WOMAN BEST UNDERSTANDS A WOMAN.</td></tr> +<tr><td><a href="#CHAPTER_II">Chapter II.</a></td><td>WHAT SHALL THE FUTURE GENERATION BE?</td></tr> +<tr><td><a href="#CHAPTER_III">Chapter III.</a></td><td>REPRODUCTION.</td></tr> +<tr><td><a href="#CHAPTER_IV">Chapter IV.</a></td><td>THE REMEDY THAT CURES.</td></tr> +<tr><td><a href="#CHAPTER_V">Chapter V.</a></td><td>THE FEMALE PELVIS AND ITS CONTENTS.</td></tr> +<tr><td><a href="#CHAPTER_VI">Chapter VI.</a></td><td>MENSTRUATION.</td></tr> +<tr><td><a href="#CHAPTER_VII">Chapter VII.</a></td><td>DISORDERS OF MENSTRUATION.</td></tr> +<tr><td><a href="#CHAPTER_VIII">Chapter VIII.</a></td><td>DISEASES OF THE UTERUS AND OVARIES.</td></tr> +<tr><td><a href="#CHAPTER_IX">Chapter IX.</a></td><td>DISEASES OF UTERUS AND OVARIES (Continued).</td></tr> +<tr><td><a href="#CHAPTER_X">Chapter X.</a></td><td>PREGNANCY, ITS SYMPTOMS, DISEASES, ETC.</td></tr> +<tr><td><a href="#CHAPTER_XI">Chapter XI.</a></td><td>PROBLEMS IN NURSING.</td></tr> +<tr><td><a href="#CHAPTER_XII">Chapter XII.</a></td><td>TO PREVENT CONVULSIONS AT CHILDBIRTH.</td></tr> +<tr><td><a href="#CHAPTER_XIII">Chapter XIII.</a></td><td>DYSPEPSIA, CONSTIPATION, GENERAL DEBILITY, SLEEPLESSNESS.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td><td><a href="#translations">Foreign Languages</a></td><td></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td><td><a href="#testimonials">Testimonials</a></td></tr></table> + +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_2" id="Page_2">[Pg 2]</a></span></p> +<div class="center"><strong>This entire book copyrighted in 1901 and 1904 by the Lydia E. Pinkham +Medicine Co., of Lynn, Mass., U. S. A. All rights reserved and will be protected by law.</strong></div> +<p> </p><p> </p> +<h3>List of Lydia E. Pinkham's Remedies.</h3> + +<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/p002.jpg" alt="Mrs. Pinkham's Products" /></div> +<p> </p> +<table border="0" cellpadding="8" cellspacing="0" summary="Price List"> +<tr><td>LYDIA E. PINKHAM'S VEGETABLE COMPOUND.</td></tr> +<tr><td><span style="margin-left: 4em;">Put up in three forms: Liquid, Lozenge, and Pills</span></td><td>Price,</td><td align="right">$1.00</td></tr> +<tr><td>LYDIA E. PINKHAM'S LIVER PILLS, per Box</td><td align="center">"</td><td align="right">.25</td></tr> +<tr><td>LYDIA E. PINKHAM'S BLOOD PURIFIER</td><td align="center">"</td><td align="right">1.00</td></tr> +<tr><td>LYDIA E. PINKHAM'S SANATIVE WASH, per Packet</td><td align="center">"</td><td align="right">.25</td></tr></table> + +<hr style="width: 25%;" /> +<h5>ALL THE ABOVE, EXCEPTING THE LIQUIDS, CAN BE SENT BY MAIL ON RECEIPT OF +PRICE. ALL DRUGGISTS SELL MRS. PINKHAM'S REMEDIES.</h5> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_3" id="Page_3">[Pg 3]</a></span></p> +<h3><a name="CHAPTER_I" id="CHAPTER_I"></a>CHAPTER I.</h3> + +<h4>A WOMAN BEST UNDERSTANDS A WOMAN.</h4> + +<p><strong>Experience a Perfect Teacher.</strong>—Do you know what it is to suffer pain? +Have you had your body racked and torn with intense suffering? Have you +ever experienced that indescribable agony which comes from overworked +nerves?</p> + +<p>Have you ever felt the sharp, stinging pain, the dull, heavy pain, the +throbbing, jumping pain, the cramping, tearing pain, the sickening, +nauseating pain? Then you know all about them. Nobody can tell you +anything more. Experience is a perfect teacher.</p> + +<p><strong>Book-Learning Alone Not Sufficient.</strong>—Suppose you had never experienced +pain, but had just read about it in a book, do you think you would have +any kind of an idea of what genuine suffering was? Most certainly not.</p> + +<p>Book knowledge is valuable. It teaches the location of countries, the +use of figures, and the history of nations; but there are some things +books cannot do, and the greatest of these is, they cannot describe +physical and mental suffering. These are things that must be +experienced.</p> + +<p><strong>Personal Experience Necessary.</strong>—After you have once suffered, how ready +you are to sympathize with those who are going through the same severe +trials. If a member of your own home or a friend is passing through the +trying ordeal of motherhood, and you have suffered the same, how you can +advise, suggest, comfort, guide! If you have had a personal experience +of intense agony once every month, do you not think you are in a far +better position to talk with one who is suffering in the same way than +you would be if you had never gone through all this?</p> + +<p><strong>You Best Understand Yourself.</strong>—But let us go a little farther in this +study. When you listen to an eminent orator, you have but little idea +whether he is nervous or not, but little idea whether he is undergoing a +severe strain or not; for you have never been in his place, cannot +understand just that condition.</p> + +<p>Men become greatly interested in political matters; perhaps it often +seems to you that they become too much disturbed; and yet how can you +judge, for you have never been in their place? And so we might go on, +giving illustration after illustration as additional proof to this one +great fact.</p> + + +<h4>IT TAKES A WOMAN TO UNDERSTAND A WOMAN.</h4> + +<p><strong>Man Cannot Know Woman's Suffering.</strong>—What does a man know about the +thousand and one aches and pains peculiar to a woman? He may have seen +manifestations of suffering, he may have read something about these +things in books, but that is all. Even though he might be exceedingly +learned in the medical profession, yet what more can he know aside from +that which the books teach? Did a man ever have a backache like the +dragging, pulling, tearing ache of a woman? No. It is impossible.</p> + +<p><strong>Even Medical Men Cannot Understand These Things.</strong>—To a man, all pain +must be of his kind; it must be a man-pain, not a woman-pain. Take, for +instance, the long list of diseases and discomforts which come directly +from some derangement of the female generative organs; as, for instance, +the bearing-down pains, excessive flowing, uterine cramps, and +leucorrhœa. Do you think it possible for a man to understand these +things? Granting that he may be the most learned man in the medical +profession, how can he know anything about them only in a general way? +You know, we know, everybody knows that he cannot.</p> + + +<h4>A WOMAN CAN BEST PRESCRIBE FOR A WOMAN.</h4> + +<p><strong>Relief First Offered in 1873.</strong>—Away back in '73 these thoughts came to +Lydia E. Pinkham. She saw the most intense suffering about her on every +hand, and yet no one seemed able to give relief. Her thorough education +enabled her to understand that nearly all the suffering of womankind was +due to diseases and affections peculiar to her sex.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_4" id="Page_4">[Pg 4]</a></span>The whole question resolved itself into just this: If a remedy could be +made that would relieve all inflammations and congestions of the +ovaries, Fallopian tubes, uterus, and other female organs, the days of +suffering for women would be largely over.</p> + +<p><strong>First Made on a Kitchen Stove.</strong>—Could this be done? Mrs. Pinkham +believed with all her heart that it was possible. So on a kitchen stove +she began the great work which has made her name a household word +wherever civilization exists. Without money, but with a hopeful heart, +she made up little batches of this remedy to give to neighbors and +friends whom she felt could be relieved by it.</p> + +<p>The story soon spread from house to house, from village to village, from +city to city. Now it looked as if a business might be established upon a +permanent basis, a basis resting upon the wonderful curative properties +of the medicine itself.</p> + +<p><strong>"We Can Trust Her."</strong>—By judicious advertising the merits of this +remarkable remedy were set forth; and before she was hardly aware of it, +she found herself at the head of one of the largest enterprises ever +established in this country.</p> + +<p>That face so full of character and sympathy, soon after it was first +published, years ago, began to attract marked attention wherever it was +seen. Women said, "Here is one to whom we can tell our misery, one who +will listen to our story of pain, one whom we can fully trust." And so +the letters began to arrive from every quarter. Now hundreds of these +letters are received every day. More than a hundred thousand were +written in a single year. Everyone is opened by a woman, read by a +woman, sacredly regarded as written strictly in confidence by one woman +to another. Men do not see these letters.</p> + +<p><strong>Men Never See Your Letters.</strong>—Do you want a strange man to hear all about +your particular disease? Would you feel like sitting down by the side of +a stranger and telling him all those sacred things which should be known +only by women? It isn't natural for a woman to do this; it isn't like +her, isn't in keeping with her finer sense of refinement.</p> + +<p><strong>No Boys Around.</strong>—And then, how would it be when some boy opens the +letters, steals time to read a few before they are handed to some other +boy clerk to distribute (and probably read) around the office to the +various departments? It makes one almost indignant to think how light +and trivial these serious matters are so often regarded.</p> + +<p><strong>You Write to a Woman.</strong>—But when you know your letter is going to be seen +only by a woman, one who sympathizes with you, feels sorry for you, +knows all about you, how different all this seems.</p> + +<p><strong>Confidence Never Violated.</strong>—Although there are preserved in the secret +files of Lydia E. Pinkham's laboratory many hundreds of thousands of +letters from women from all parts of the world, yet in not a single +instance has the writer accused Mrs. Pinkham of violating her +confidence.</p> + +<p><strong>The Largest Experience in the World.</strong>—The one thing that qualifies a +person to give advice on any subject is experience—experience creates +knowledge. No person can speak from a greater experience with female +ills nor a greater record of success than Mrs. Pinkham. Thousands of +cases come each month, some personally, others by mail; and this has +been going on thirty years, day after day, and day after day, thirty +years of constant success—think of the knowledge thus gained. Surely +women are wise in seeking advice from a woman with such an +experience—especially when it is free. If you are ill get a bottle of +Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound at once—then write Mrs. Pinkham, +Lynn, Mass.</p> + +<p>What medical man has ever lived who has prescribed for so many women? +What whole corps of physicians in any hospital or medical college has +answered so many letters, or treated in any way so many patients?</p> + +<p><strong>She Helps Everyone.</strong>—No woman ever writes to her for advice without +getting help. No matter how rare you think your case may be, she is +almost certain to find letters on file asking advice for other cases of +the same kind. By special permission of the writers I print a few of the +letters showing what cures have been effected. But if the reader could +go through these secret files which are never shown, she might hour +after hour, day after day, week after week, spend her whole time reading +letters, each one telling some special story of rescue from serious +illness, intense suffering, or impending death.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5">[Pg 5]</a></span><strong>The Largest Record of Cures.</strong>—The writers of these letters are found in +every clime and there is hardly a country in the world without its +multitude of grateful women cured by Lydia E. Pinkham's medicines. They +have the largest record of absolute cures from female ills known to have +been effected by any physician or his medicines.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h3><a name="CHAPTER_II" id="CHAPTER_II"></a>CHAPTER II.</h3> + +<h4>WHAT SHALL THE FUTURE GENERATION BE?</h4> + +<p><strong>Important to the Nation.</strong>—It is impossible to fully comprehend how +important to us as a nation is the health of the young women of to-day. +We fail to realize that these women are to be the mothers of the next +generation, and that in their hands will lie, in large measure, the +power to form the characters and direct the destinies of the boys and +girls of the future.</p> + +<p><strong>Woman Must Be Strong.</strong>—We may educate our young men all we wish, yet we +cannot have national power through their strength alone. The women of +the country must have this physical education if we are to have a people +that is strong and hearty.</p> + +<p>Upon the sound health and vigor of the young women of to-day will +depend, to a large extent, the health and capacity of the future +generations.</p> + +<p><strong>What are Girls Worth?</strong>—It is estimated that there are about twelve +million young women in the United States between fourteen and +twenty-eight years of age. What are these young women worth to the home, +to the State, to the nation, to the human race? This is largely a +question of physical health.</p> + +<p>It is the stern duty of the mother to make this clear to her daughter, +and it is the solemn duty of every young woman to thoroughly study the +subject herself.</p> + +<p><strong>Not Prepared for Motherhood.</strong>—But largely through ignorance, often +through indifference, these young girls become mothers when little +prepared to do so, and they find not only their own health shattered +thereby, but also that they are the mothers of weak, delicate, and +perhaps deformed children.</p> + +<p><strong>Women Desire Children.</strong>—We read a great deal in the newspapers about how +American women are doing everything they possibly can to prevent having +children. This is not in accord with our experience. It is a slander on +American womanhood,—it is an outrageous falsehood.</p> + +<p>In not one letter in a thousand which we receive do wives ask how +childbearing may be prevented, while every day brings us many, many +letters asking if something cannot be done in order that there may be a +baby in the house.</p> + +<p><strong>A Healthy Mother and Child.</strong>—If you desire a child, you wish a healthy +child; and you certainly desire to be a strong mother, one capable of +caring for her infant in every way, and able to direct it all through +its young life. Then let us give you some advice.</p> + +<p><strong>Why Some Women Do Not Have Children.</strong>—The reason why some wives do not +have children may be entirely the fault of the husband; but if this is +not the case, then in all probability there is some inflammation of the +generative organs. This may be of recent or of old standing. It must be +thoroughly removed before the impregnated egg from the ovary can become +attached.</p> + +<p><strong>The Cure for this Condition.</strong>—That these changes can be brought about in +a vast number of cases I have the most positive testimony. I have +advised such wives to continually use Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable +Compound; and, with this treatment alone, such a healthy condition of +the generative organs has been brought about that pregnancy has very +soon followed. This is precisely according to nature's laws, as I have +indicated before.</p> + +<p>Therefore, I say to every wife who desires a child, "Give Lydia E. +Pinkham's Vegetable Compound a thorough trial. If the fault is yours, +the Compound will surely remove it, and the longing of your heart will +be satisfied."</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6">[Pg 6]</a></span></p> +<h3><a name="CHAPTER_III" id="CHAPTER_III"></a>CHAPTER III.</h3> + +<h4>REPRODUCTION.</h4> + +<p><strong>The Reproductive Instinct Strong.</strong>—The reproductive instinct is very +strong in the human race, as is indicated by the large amount of energy +the woman expends in the bearing of children, and by both sexes in the +care and education of their young. As we know, it is only by the +production of new individuals that the continuance of the race is +assured.</p> + +<p><strong>Problems of Reproduction.</strong>—The problems of reproduction are extremely +broad, involving not only the immediate questions of individual +reproduction, but also those broader and deeper ones which relate to +heredity.</p> + +<p><strong>A New Life, By Chance.</strong>—It is a most astonishing fact that nearly all +persons born into the world are given life as the result of chance +rather than by careful design. "If my parents had only known!" is the +frightful wail of many a wretched life.</p> + +<p><strong>To Create is Divine.</strong>—At no time does man come so near being omnipotent +as when, by the tremendous powers given him, a new life is called into +existence. And yet, whether strong or weak, refreshed or exhausted, +healthy or diseased, sober or intoxicated, sweet or ill-tempered, +yielding or resisting, a new life is begun which may be either of two +extremes. How great are such questions! The human mind seems appalled +when asked to consider them.</p> + +<p><strong>Education on These Subjects Necessary.</strong>—It is not the purpose of this +book to moralize upon these themes, or to say what should and should not +be done; but knowing something of the wretchedness of womankind, and the +fearful slavery she often has to endure, I can only hope, with all my +heart, that the coming generation may be better educated on these most +important topics. It is with a thought or two of this kind in mind that +I append the following brief outline of this subject:—</p> + +<p><strong>Two Sexes Necessary.</strong>—In the higher animals two sexes are necessary for +the reproduction of the race, the male and the female. Each contributes +some particular element toward the beginning of a new life; this is +known as the germ-cell.</p> + +<p><strong>The Germ-Cells.</strong>—The germ-cells of the male are called spermatozoa, and +those of the female, ova. The reproductive process is simply a fusion, +or union of these male and female germ-cells.</p> + +<p><strong>The Male Elements.</strong>—The spermatozoa are exceedingly delicate and minute; +they constitute the greatest part of the semen, or sperm. They are +peculiar shaped bodies, having a head, body, and tail, as illustrated in +the accompanying figure, and they can only be seen by powerful +magnifying glasses. (<a href="#fig1">Fig. 1.</a>)</p> + +<p><a name="fig1" id="fig1"></a></p> +<div class="figleft"><img src="images/f001.jpg" alt="Spermatozoa and Ovum" /> +<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Fig.</span> 1. At the left are six spermatozoa, or +male-elements,<br /> male germ-cells. At the right is an ovum, egg, female germ-cell.<br /> All highly magnified.</div></div> +<p> </p> + +<p>They have the remarkable property of moving about with considerable +activity, and their number is almost beyond computation.</p> + +<p><strong>Only One Male Element Necessary.</strong>—Although this number is so vast, yet +only a single one is required to endow the female cell, or egg, with +life. It is another illustration of how nature does everything possible +to increase the chances of perpetuating the race, for without such +immense numbers, the chances of the female egg being fertilized would be +much less.</p> + +<p><strong>May Live for Days.</strong>—Although these male elements can live but a few +hours outside of the body, even when especial precautions are taken to +make every thing favorable to their existence, yet they have been known +to maintain their full life in the vaginal canal for more than eight +days after their discharge; another remarkable provision of nature, for +the prolonged existence of these cells increases the probability of the +fertilization of an egg, and thus increases the chances of producing a +new life.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">[Pg 7]</a></span><strong>The Female Element.</strong>—As I have already said, the female germ-cell is +also known as the ovum, or egg. A single ovum is shown in <a href="#fig1">Fig. 1</a>.</p> + +<p>If not fertilized by the male elements, the egg passes off into the +outside world; if fertilized, it stops in the cavity of the uterus, +where it forms an attachment. Here it remains until perfectly developed, +when, at the end of nine months, it is brought forth to the outside +world as a perfect infant.</p> + +<p><strong>One Female Element; Many Male Elements.</strong>—The human ovum is often said to +be a miniature of the egg of the common fowl, although there are some +quite marked differences between the two. It is a very interesting fact +to note that there is only one egg given off at a time; while there are +many thousands of the male elements. This is in harmony with the larger +size of the egg, and the fact that while this egg awaits fertilization +it is most carefully protected within the body of the mother.</p> + +<p><strong>Where is Life First Made?</strong>—Where the wonderful union of the male and +female elements takes place is not definitely known, although it is +generally believed that it is upon the surface of the ovary, itself.</p> + +<p>If this be true, then it is necessary for the male element to traverse +the whole length of the uterine cavity, out along the course of the +Fallopian tube, and there be deposited on the surface of the ovary.</p> + +<p><strong>The Fertilized Egg.</strong>—When a fertilized or impregnated egg is set free +from the surface of the ovary, it follows the same course that the +unimpregnated egg does until it reaches the uterus. Here some most +remarkable changes immediately take place whereby the egg is held firmly +to the inner wall of the uterine cavity; while the unimpregnated egg, as +I have said, passes down the uterine cavity into the vagina, and thus +out of the body. In other words, the fertilized egg is retained within +the body, while the unfertilized one is cast off.</p> + +<p><strong>One Egg Discharged Each Month.</strong>—An ovum, or egg, is discharged during +each menstrual period. It cannot be seen because of its minute size, a +magnifying glass being necessary to detect it, even under favorable +conditions. At just what time during this period the ovum is cast from +the body is not definitely known, but it is generally thought to be +toward the latter part.</p> + +<p><strong>Time When Fertilization is Most Probable.</strong>—From this it is seen that but +one egg fully develops and ripens ready to be fertilized each month. As +it is the ripened egg which is thrown off at each menstrual period, +therefore it follows that the fertilization of this egg would be most +probable at about the time of menstruation.</p> + +<p><strong>Times When Ova Do Not Ripen.</strong>—As a rule, these ova do not ripen, or +develop, either during pregnancy, or during the nursing of the child, +although there are certain exceptions to this rule; for menstruation +occasionally takes place during lactation and pregnancy, and pregnancy +itself may occur while the mother is nursing her child.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h3><a name="CHAPTER_IV" id="CHAPTER_IV"></a>CHAPTER IV.</h3> + +<h4>THE REMEDY THAT CURES.</h4> + +<p><strong>A Vegetable Compound.</strong>—I hardly think it necessary to mention in detail +the separate ingredients of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. We +wish to call your attention, however, to that word "Vegetable."</p> + +<p>I do not believe in mercury, arsenic, and the host of mineral poisons +which are found in so many remedies. When taken into the system they +disturb every function, interfere with the most vital processes, and +produce the most disastrous consequences.</p> + +<p><strong>The Purest and Best.</strong>—Knowing these things, Mrs. Pinkham was exceedingly +careful to put only the purest and choicest of products of the vegetable +kingdom into her Compound. Each of the roots and herbs is selected with +the most extreme care, and all are prepared under the personal +supervision of the most thoroughly trained specialists.</p> + +<p><strong>One Secret.</strong>—One great secret of the success of Lydia E. Pinkham's +Vegetable Compound is that each vegetable is so treated that all useful +elements are retained, and all useless discarded.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">[Pg 8]</a></span><strong>Highly Concentrated.</strong>—For instance, it is possible for the expert +workmen in our laboratory to condense all the medicinal power that +exists in a pound of the coarse root into a mass no larger than could be +held on the point of a knife. In this way it is possible for a +teaspoonful of the Vegetable Compound to represent all the curative +properties usually found in eight or ten times that quantity; in other +words, it is highly concentrated.</p> + +<p><strong>Acts Upon Female Organs.</strong>—Mrs. Pinkham knew from the very first that she +was on the right track. She knew that her Vegetable Compound contained +medicines which act directly and naturally upon the female organs.</p> + +<p>She knew that one ingredient produced certain effects on the uterus, +while other ingredients tended to relieve pain in the ovaries. She knew +that one remedy would heal an inflamed uterine cavity, while another +ingredient would cause better circulation in the blood-vessels of this +part of the body. Having the theory all worked out most carefully, she +awaited the practical test, feeling confident as to the result.</p> + +<p><strong>Success Was Immediate.</strong>—But she did not have to wait long. Immediately +the cures began, and her neighbors and friends told each other what had +been done for them. Soon letters came by the hundreds from all parts of +the world. Thousands upon thousands have written to Mrs. Pinkham telling +her their story, and giving to her, also, full permission to use their +testimonials.</p> + +<p><strong>It Bridges the Gulf.</strong>—I am sure you would be delighted, as well as +surprised, if you could see the immense difference between the first and +last letters received from women. The first is the story of suffering, +of extreme agony with prolonged misery and abandoned hope. The last is a +song of gratitude, of great love, of joy and peace. The first tells of +disease, the last of health. But what an immense gulf between these +two!—a gulf, however, I am glad to say, that can be bridged with Lydia +E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.</p> + +<p><strong>You Cannot Possibly Doubt.</strong>—I do not believe you can possibly doubt for +one moment the power of this marvelous remedy to cure the diseases of +women. How can you doubt it? For a quarter of a century it has gone into +every city, village, and hamlet in our land, and into almost every +country home.</p> + +<p>Across the water it is finding its way among the rich and the poor. No +remedy was ever known that was so generally used. Wherever there are +women, there are suffering women; and wherever there are suffering women +you are sure to find Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.</p> + +<p><strong>The Testimonials Are True.</strong>—Do you think there are hundreds of thousands +of your own sex who would wilfully falsify? Do you think that any could +be found who would deliberately do this, and without hope of gain or +reward? Yet I could point you to hundreds of thousands of letters +received from women who write from the fulness of the heart to thank us +for what we have done for them.</p> + +<p><strong>We Speak Strongly.</strong>—Then am I not justified in speaking strongly to you? +Don't you think we feel sure of our position? I certainly know what we +have done for others, and that makes us feel sure we can do the same for +you.</p> + +<p><strong>We Can Cure You.</strong>—I believe our Vegetable Compound will cure you. I +believe it will cure every case where a cure is among the possibilities. +You need not be particular whether the soreness in the lower part of +your body is in the right side or the left side; whether the pain is +sharp, or dull and heavy; whether you suffer terrible agony each month +with local pain, or whether it is mental depression; whether the flow is +too scant or too profuse.</p> + +<p><strong>It Corrects the Wrong.</strong>—You need not be particular about these things, +for they all show that something is wrong, and Lydia E. Pinkham's +Vegetable Compound corrects this wrong. That is what it was made for; +that is precisely the work it does.</p> + +<p><strong>Have Faith in Us.</strong>—Don't purchase a bottle thinking you will "see what +it will do," having made up your mind that you will "try the +experiment." Don't come in this spirit, for there is no need of it. Come +with the feeling that has inspired so many thousands of your +sisters,—come believing that you have at last found a remedy that will +relieve you from this terrible slavery to suffering.</p> + +<p>I am anxious to have you enjoy all the robust health that is your right. +I am anxious to make you happy, hopeful, healthy. Put your confidence in +Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. You will never be disappointed.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[Pg 9]</a></span></p> +<h3><a name="CHAPTER_V" id="CHAPTER_V"></a>CHAPTER V.</h3> + +<h4>THE FEMALE PELVIS AND ITS CONTENTS.</h4> + +<p><strong>The Pelvis.</strong>—The pelvis is the bony framework which forms the lower part +of the body. On each side it forms a union with the hip bone to make the +hip joint.</p> + +<p>The female pelvis contains the reproductive organs (uterus, vagina, and +ovaries), and also the bladder and lower bowel.</p> + +<p><a href="#fig2">Fig. 2</a> gives a very good idea of the shape and general structure of this +bony framework; while a careful study of <a href="#fig3">Fig. 3</a> will enable one to form +a very correct idea of the relative size and position of the various +parts contained in this framework.</p> +<p><a name="fig2" id="fig2"></a></p> +<div class="figright"><img src="images/f002.jpg" alt="The Female Pelvis" /> +<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Fig.</span> 2. The female pelvis. The flanging<br /> +sides form the hips. The union of the bones<br /> in front forms the pubic arch which is felt<br /> +at the front of the lower part of the body.<br /> The lower end of the spinal +column, or<br /> backbone, is seen at the back of the figure.</div></div> +<p> </p> + +<p><strong>The Vagina.</strong>—The vagina is a membranous canal extending from the surface +of the body to the uterus, or womb. Its posterior wall is about 3½ +inches long, and its anterior about 3 inches. A careful study should be +made of our illustration, in order that the relation of the vagina and +uterus to the rectum behind and the bladder in front may be thoroughly +understood; also the angle which is formed by the vagina and the uterus.</p> + +<p>Notice should be taken, also, of the opening of the uterus into the +upper part of the vagina; as inflammation of the uterus often causes a +discharge which passes into the upper part of the vagina and finally out +of the body. This gives rise to the belief that the only trouble is in +the vagina itself, whereas the real seat of the disease may be high up +in the uterus.</p> +<p><a name="fig3" id="fig3"></a></p> +<div class="figleft"><img src="images/f003.jpg" alt="Contents of the Female Pelvis" /> +<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Fig.</span> 3. A lateral view of the contents of the female<br /> +pelvis. 1. the vagina; 2. uterus; 3. bladder; 4. lower<br /> bowel; 5. bone +forming the pubic arch; 6. the spinal<br /> cord, with bone in front and back of it.</div></div> +<p> </p> + +<p><strong>The Uterus.</strong>—The uterus, or womb, is a hollow organ formed of muscular +tissue, and lined with a delicate mucous membrane. The bladder is in +front, the rectum behind, and the vagina below.</p> + +<p><strong>Three Parts.</strong>—Physicians divide this important organ into three +parts,—the fundus, body, and neck. The fundus is all the upper rounded +portion; the body all that portion between the fundus and the neck; and +the neck all the rounded lower part.</p> + +<p><strong>The Cavity of the Uterus.</strong>—This is divided into the cavity of the body +and the cavity of the neck. By consulting our illustration it is seen +that these cavities differ greatly in shape; that of the body being +triangular, while that of the neck is barrel-shaped.</p> + +<p>By referring again to <a href="#fig4">Fig. 4</a> it will be seen that the cavity of the body +has three openings, one on either side at the top going to the Fallopian +tubes, and an opening at the bottom passing into the cavity of the neck. +A constriction exists between these two cavities; but after childbirth +this is largely done away with, and there is not that marked difference +which existed formerly.</p> + +<p><strong>Glands in Uterus.</strong>—In the mucous membrane lining the uterus are vast +numbers of minute glands which secrete mucus. It has been asserted that +in the cavity of the neck alone there<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[Pg 10]</a></span> are from ten to twelve thousand +of these glands. It is in this mucous membrane that such remarkable +changes occur each month during menstruation, and still more wonderful +changes during pregnancy.</p> + +<p><strong>The Ligaments of the Uterus.</strong>—By referring to <a href="#fig5">Fig. 5</a> it will be seen +that there are on each side of the uterus flat bands of tissue known as +"broad ligaments." These ligaments are attached to the sides of the +pelvic cavity, and aid greatly in holding the uterus firmly in place. +There are also other ligaments concerned in this same work, although the +broad ligaments are most important. The illustration also shows the +walls of the vagina cut open, in order that the position of the mouth of +the uterus may be easily seen.</p> + +<p><a name="fig4" id="fig4"></a></p><p><a name="fig5" id="fig5"></a></p> +<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary="figures"> +<tr><td align="center"><img src="images/f004.jpg" alt="The Cavaties in a Uterus" /></td><td><span class="spacer"> </span></td><td align="right"><img src="images/f005.jpg" alt="The Female Generative Organs" /></td></tr> +<tr><td align="center"><strong><span class="smcap">Fig.</span> 4. This illustration shows the cavities<br /> in a uterus +which has been pregnant.<br /> 1, the vagina; 2, cavity of the neck of the +uterus;<br /> 3, cavity of the body, above which is the fundus of the uterus; <br />4, Fallopian tubes, extending to the ovaries.</strong></td><td><span class="spacer"> </span></td> +<td align="center"><strong><span class="smcap">Fig.</span> 5. The female generative organs.<br /> 1, the vagina; 2, +uterus; <br />3, broad ligament of left side; 4, a smaller ligament;<br /> 5, +Fallopian tube; 6, ovary;<br /> 7, fringed end of Fallopian tube.</strong></td></tr></table> +<p> </p> + + +<p><strong>Blood-Vessels Surrounding Uterus.</strong>—The uterus is well supplied with +blood-vessels, as <a href="#fig6">Fig. 6</a> shows. Indeed, there is all over the walls of +the uterus and through its tissue a vast network of these vessels. +Whenever, for any reason, the circulation of the blood through the +pelvis is disturbed, these blood-vessels are likely to become engorged, +over-filled, producing congestion and inflammation.</p> +<p><a name="fig6" id="fig6"></a></p> +<div class="figleft"><img src="images/f006.jpg" alt="The Blood-Vessels of the Right Side of the Uterus" /> +<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Fig.</span> 6. The blood-vessels of the right side<br /> of the +uterus. 1, blood vessels; 2, end<br /> of the Fallopian tube; 3, ovary; 4, right<br /> edge of uterus.</div></div> +<p> </p> + +<p><strong>All Parts Closely Related.</strong>—The close relation of these blood-vessels to +the blood-supply of the bowels, liver, etc., makes it possible for most +serious disturbances to take place even from slight causes.</p> + +<p><strong>Study the Illustrations.</strong>—By studying these illustrations it can be +readily seen how an over-distended rectum may produce such an impediment +to the circulation that there will be congestion of all the neighboring +parts. Or, the intestines themselves may become over-distended with +fæcal matter, or gas, from dyspepsia, and the pressure induced thereby +may be sufficient to interfere with the free circulation of these parts, +and thus uterine congestion produced.</p> + +<p>It is also seen how improper dress may compress the organs about these +parts, and thus inter<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[Pg 11]</a></span>fere with the circulation. Again, it is easily +understood, simply from studying the illustrations alone, how any of +these causes might produce dislocation of the uterus itself.</p> + +<p><strong>Object of Uterus.</strong>—The uterus is the source of the menstrual discharge, +a place for the fœtus during its development, and the source of the +nutritive supply of this fœtus. It is the uterus which contracts at +full term and expels the child.</p> + +<p><strong>Uterus Not Rigidly Fixed.</strong>—In a perfectly normal condition there is +considerable mobility to the uterus; in other words, it is not fixed +firmly by the ligaments already mentioned. It is rather simply +suspended, or hung in the pelvic cavity, by these broad flat bands of +tissue.</p> + +<div class="figright"><img src="images/f007.jpg" alt="Part of an Ovary" /> +<div class="caption"><span class="smcap">Fig.</span> 7. Part of an ovary, showing a ripe ovum,<br /> or egg, +about to be cast off, as occurs<br /> at each menstrual period. It is here<br /> +this egg may be fertilized or impregnated<br /> by the male elements.</div></div> + +<p>A full bladder will push it backward, while a distended rectum will move +it forward; as the body changes its posture, so will the uterus change +its position by force of gravity.</p> + +<p><strong>Cannot Be Bent Upon Itself.</strong>—The uterus cannot be bent upon itself +without producing injury; neither can it be pushed too far forward or +backward, nor crowded down too far without causing great distress and +actual disease.</p> + +<p><strong>Fallopian Tube.</strong>—<a href="#fig4">Figs. 4</a> and <a href="#fig5">5</a> show that there is given off from each +side of the upper part of the uterus a tube. This is called the +Fallopian tube.</p> + +<p>Each tube is about four inches long. Near the uterus its cavity will +just admit an ordinary bristle; but near its free end, at the ovary, it +is as large as a goose-quill.</p> + +<p>It is a peculiar tube in that it terminates in a number of fringe-like +processes, one of which is always attached to the ovary itself.</p> + +<p><strong>Object of This Tube.</strong>—The Fallopian tube conveys the sperm of the male +from the uterus to the ovary, and also takes the germ-cell (or ovule, or +egg) from the ovary to the uterus.</p> + +<p>When a ripe egg is about to be discharged from the ovary, one of these +fringe-like processes of the Fallopian tube grasps it and receives it +into the mouth of the tube, whence it is conveyed directly into the +uterine canal.</p> + +<p><strong>Ovary.</strong>—On each side of the uterus and in each side of the pelvic cavity +is an ovary. It is about one and a half inches in length, three-fourths +of an inch in width, and one-third of an inch in thickness. It weighs +from one to two drachms, and is an elongated, oval-shaped body.</p> + +<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary="figures"> +<tr><td align="center"><img src="images/f008.jpg" alt="The Course of an Ovum" /></td><td><span class="spacer"> </span></td><td align="right"><img src="images/f009.jpg" alt="An Exceedingly Minute Piece of an Ovary" /></td></tr> +<tr><td align="center"><strong><span class="smcap">Fig.</span> 8. This figure illustrates the course followed by an +ovum. The ripened egg leaves the ovary (1), passes down the Fallopian +tube (2), and thence into the uterine cavity (3).</strong></td><td><span class="spacer"> </span></td> +<td align="center"><strong><span class="smcap">Fig.</span> 9. An exceedingly minute piece of an ovary, highly +magnified. It shows eight ova or eggs.</strong></td></tr></table> +<p> </p> + +<p><strong>Object of Ovaries.</strong>—The ovaries are the essential organs of generation +in the female. In each ovary are large numbers of cells, ovules, or +eggs, one of which, at least, is supposed to pass into the uterine +cavity with each menstruation. Anatomists tell us that each human ovary +contains as many as 30,000 of these ovules, or eggs.</p> + + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[Pg 12]</a></span></p> +<h4>LOCAL TREATMENT.—FAST PASSING AWAY.</h4> + +<p><strong>It Makes One Indignant.</strong>—When I recall the terrible and almost horrible +treatment which women have had to undergo in the past, I cannot help but +become deeply indignant. It seems as if all medical study had gone for +naught, as if the teachings of nature had been forgotten, and most of +all, as if no such thing as delicacy and modesty existed.</p> + +<p><strong>This Makes Confirmed Invalids.</strong>—It is only necessary for a woman to +complain of discomfort in the back, a bearing-down pain, or some +unnatural discharge, when some physician says that local treatment, and +local treatment only, must be taken.</p> + +<p>Women so thoroughly understand what their physician is going to say that +they do not consult him, but go on suffering more and more until they +become almost confirmed invalids. Others, after they are told what must +be done, return home and become gloomy and melancholy over the outlook.</p> + +<p><strong>Specialists Are Crazy for Work.</strong>—The specialists are so crazy for this +kind of work that it seems as though they would gladly scrape and burn +the inside of the stomach for dyspepsia, if they could do so! Or, they +would take a long probe and go down into the interior of the lungs and +apply strong caustics, if such a thing were possible!</p> + +<p><strong>The Patient Is Deceived.</strong>—If the ache, or the pain, or the discharge was +on the back of the hand where it could be seen, and where these +"treatments" could be watched, the specialists would have a hard showing +indeed, for the patient herself would then see that little good came +from these local applications.</p> + +<p>But being situated within the body, so that only the physician himself +can examine the parts, the patient has to rest content, not knowing +whether a little pure water is applied (and the fee collected), or +whether the strongest acids which burn deep into the tissues are used +(and the fee collected).</p> + +<p><strong>Local Treatment Unnecessary.</strong>—Now all of this is almost invariably +unnecessary. It is not showing ordinary common-sense, not in accord with +nature, and not in keeping with the best medical science of to-day.</p> + +<p>Yet thousands upon thousands of women are undergoing the worst kind of +mental and physical torture in taking these local treatments, while all +the savings of the household have to go toward paying the enormous bills +of the specialist.</p> + +<p><strong>The True Doctor Not Blamed.</strong>—<i>Do not misunderstand me, please. I am not +talking against doctors, not against the real, true, genuine, noble +physicians and surgeons.</i></p> + +<p>There is no nobler profession than that of the physician, none practiced +more faithfully than the good old family physician of this country +practice theirs. The best of them are glad to help their patients in any +way they can, and in spite of professional prejudice, many have tried +Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound upon their patients and have been +delighted at the wonderful success of the trial.</p> + +<p><strong>Nature the Best Teacher.</strong>—The trouble with so many of these physicians +who call themselves "Specialists on Diseases of Women" is that they get +it into their head that they know more than nature. They map out a +course of their own, and pay no attention whatever to the laws of +health. Just as if a dog barking at the moon would make it shine less +brightly!</p> + +<p>Now any one who has given any thought to the preservation of the health +can readily understand how impossible it would be to cure an +inflammation of the uterus or ovaries, or check an unnatural discharge +from the vagina, by applying strong acids, nitrate of silver, pure +carbolic acid, strong tincture of iodine, or other destroying, caustic, +irritating, and dangerous drugs.</p> + +<p>All of these must be injurious, must postpone recovery, and if their use +be continued for any great length of time must make a cure quite +impossible.</p> + +<p><strong>A Good Medicine Needed.</strong>—Of course what is needed in these cases is +something that will restore the natural circulation of the blood through +the tissues of the uterus, something that will relieve congestion and +cure inflammation. When the swelling and irritation have subsided, then +the nerves are no longer irritated, and all pain disappears.</p> + +<p><strong>What This Will Do.</strong>—Then all these parts become better nourished, the +weakened and diseased tissues take on new strength, and all unnatural +discharges cease.</p> + +<p>When the relaxed ligaments are properly fed and toned up, then they hold +the uterus in its natural position, and all bearing-down pains and other +symptoms of displacement quickly disap<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[Pg 13]</a></span>pear. Of course this +constitutional treatment with Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is +hastened by keeping the parts perfectly clean, which can be easily done +with Lydia E. Pinkham's Sanative Wash.</p> + +<p><strong>A Hearty Welcome to the Perfect Cure.</strong>—A hearty welcome to the most +scientific treatment; a hearty welcome to the most natural, the most +easy, and the most perfect method of cure; a hearty welcome to Lydia E. +Pinkham's Vegetable Compound; a hearty welcome to the remedy that never +fails to restore the uterus to perfect health and natural position.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h3><a name="CHAPTER_VI" id="CHAPTER_VI"></a>CHAPTER VI.</h3> + +<h4>MENSTRUATION.</h4> + +<p><strong>Occurs Monthly.</strong>—Once every twenty-eight days very remarkable changes +occur in the uterus, giving rise to that peculiar monthly periodicity +called menstruation, monthly sickness, monthlies, or being unwell. +Although this usually occurs once in about four weeks, yet it may be a +week less or a week longer; or, indeed, the variation may be even +greater than this.</p> + +<p><strong>Symptoms of its Approach.</strong>—As a perfectly natural menstrual period +approaches, there is a certain degree of discomfort and lassitude, a +sense of weight in the lower part of the body, and more or less +disinclination to enter society. These symptoms may be slightly +pronounced or very prominent, for it is quite unusual to find a person +who does not have at least some general discomfort at this time.</p> + +<p><strong>Its Appearance.</strong>—First there is a slight discharge of mucus which soon +becomes of a rusty brown or yellow color from the mixture of a small +quantity of blood. By the second or third day the discharge has the +appearance of pure blood. The unpleasant sensations which were so marked +at first now gradually subside, and the discharge, after continuing for +a certain number of days, grows more and more scanty. The color changes +from a pure red to a rusty tinge, and finally disappears altogether. +Then the ordinary duties are resumed.</p> + +<p><strong>The Age of Puberty.</strong>—Menstruation begins at about fourteen or fifteen +years of age, this period being known as "the age of puberty." It is +preceded and attended by peculiar signs. The whole figure becomes more +plump and round, the hips increase in breadth, and the breasts rapidly +develop. The more striking changes, however, occur in the inclinations +and emotional susceptibilities.</p> + +<p><strong>Age Modified.</strong>—A great many circumstances modify the age at which the +first menstruation takes place. In hot climates this takes place +earlier, the difference between hot and cold countries being as great as +three years; yet heredity has more to do with this than anything else. +"As was the mother so is the child" is a common saying among women.</p> + +<p><strong>Continues About Thirty Years.</strong>—The menstrual function continues active +from this age until about the forty-fifth year, although this may be +extended even ten years later. During all these years the woman is +capable of bearing children, because at each month there has been a +fully developed ovum, or egg, ready to be fertilized.</p> + +<p><strong>The Change of Life.</strong>—When the menstrual function ceases, then the period +of childbearing is over. The time of its disappearance is known as "the +change of life, or menopause."</p> + +<p><strong>Amount of Monthly Loss.</strong>—The amount of blood lost during menstruation +varies greatly with different individuals, and it would be quite +impossible to give anything like an accurate rule. It varies, normally, +from one to eight ounces, the average being probably about five ounces.</p> + +<p><strong>Duration of Period.</strong>—The duration of the period is from one to eight +days, the average being five days. Hence it will be seen that the +average loss of fluid per day would be about one ounce.</p> + +<p><strong>Loss Should Be Small.</strong>—It should be stated here that, as a rule, those +enjoy the best health who lose but a small quantity of blood at this +time. Some persons seem to think that a very free discharge is +necessary, and that they feel better at such times; but there is no +possible reason why this should be the case.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">[Pg 14]</a></span><strong>The First Menstruation.</strong>—The appearance of the first menstruation is a +most critical time in the life of every young girl, and the mother +should be prepared to give her daughter the best of advice. Some slight +inattention, some undue exposure, some thoughtlessness due entirely to +ignorance on these great subjects, may change the whole future from a +life of comfort and good health to prolonged days of misery and intense +suffering.</p> + +<p><strong>Menstruation and Childbearing.</strong>—It is the belief at the present time, +among all who have studied this subject, that menstruation is closely +connected with the function of childbearing. The changes which take +place each month within the uterine cavity are of precisely the proper +character to prepare this tissue for the reception of the fertilized +egg.</p> + +<p><strong>Rules to be Observed.</strong>—A few rules should be carefully followed during +each menstruation, in order that future trouble may be prevented. First +of all, it is necessary to avoid taking cold; yet a person should not +stay in the house by the side of a fire, or in a warm room all the time, +for this would increase the susceptibility to cold.</p> + +<p>Care should be taken to avoid undue exposure, for nothing will disturb +the menstrual process quicker than the sudden chilling of the body, +especially when moist with perspiration.</p> + +<p>Intense mental excitement should be avoided, also. If the young girl is +at school, she should be told to study more lightly at this time; while +any great excitement of any kind, as giving way to anger, or extreme +merriment, should be avoided.</p> + +<p>The feeling of debility and depression which usually accompanies this +time is a gentle warning by nature that the body should remain quiet and +at rest.</p> + +<p>It is natural for many persons to be especially depressed at this time; +an effort should be made by those who understand the situation to make +everything as agreeable and pleasant as possible to the sufferer.</p> + +<p><strong>Danger to School Girls.</strong>—Without the slightest doubt, many women are +suffering intensely to-day who might be enjoying the best of health had +they not been obliged to study so intensely while in school. A moderate +amount of study does no harm at this time, but the dread of +examinations, with our modern system of cramming at certain times of the +school year, has, without doubt, so worked upon the nervous system that +many a life has been made miserable as a result.</p> + +<p><strong>Danger to Office Girls.</strong>—It is astonishing, when one fully understands +the processes of menstruation, how so many girls and young women can +remain all day behind the counter in the store, or at the work-table, +during these few trying days, and even escape without serious illness. +Employers never think of the subject, and there is a natural delicacy on +the part of those most concerned to mention the subject.</p> + +<p>There should be in all such establishments some woman to whom these +girls could confide their condition. This woman, or overseer, could +easily be made responsible for the apparent neglect of duties by these +girls at such times.</p> + +<p><strong>Criminal Carelessness.</strong>—How often is it true that young ladies attend +balls, skate, and otherwise recklessly expose themselves at this most +critical time. One is almost inclined to call such exposures really +criminal, because of the terrible consequences so sure to follow.</p> + +<p>A simple wetting of the feet, or resting quietly in a draught after +exercise, during menstruation may impose upon the person a life-long +injury. How carefully, then, should mothers watch their daughters at +these periods, and how strongly should they impress upon them the +necessity of special care.</p> + +<p><strong>Condition of Bowels Important.</strong>—The condition of the bowels should also +be carefully looked after at these times. Indeed, this is so important +that it should never be neglected. There should be at least one good +movement of the bowels each day. Nothing can more certainly derange the +menstrual function than persistent constipation.</p> + +<p><strong>Regularity Important.</strong>—Every mother should make careful inquiry into the +exact frequency of the menstrual period with her young daughter, at +least during the first two years of the menstrual function.</p> + +<p>If there is pain at this time, then something is certainly wrong, and +treatment should be taken at once. If there is irregularity, this also +requires most prompt attention, as it will surely develop into something +serious sooner or later. If the flow is too free, or not free enough, or +if there is any deviation from the standard of health, the mother should +be acquainted with it, and should proceed at once to correct the +difficulty.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">[Pg 15]</a></span><strong>First Two Years Very Important.</strong>—If a girl can get through the first two +years of her menstrual life without serious disease, she stands a very +good chance of enjoying good health during the rest of her life; while a +slight mistake at this time may produce the most serious disease in +later life. If you do not understand your ailments write to Mrs. +Pinkham, Lynn, Mass. Her advice is free and always helpful.</p> + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h3><a name="CHAPTER_VII" id="CHAPTER_VII"></a>CHAPTER VII.</h3> + +<h4>DISORDERS OF MENSTRUATION.</h4> + +<p><strong>Amenorrhœa.</strong>—This is a condition in which the monthly flow is +suspended. It can hardly be called a disease, as it is rather a symptom +of some disorder of the uterus, or of some constitutional defect. This +may occur at the time when menstruation should normally appear, namely, +from fourteen to fifteen years of age.</p> + +<p><strong>Danger of a Decline.</strong>—If the young girl does not menstruate at sixteen, +seventeen, or eighteen, something is certainly wrong, and treatment +should be taken at once in order to correct the difficulty before the +girl goes into a decline. It is not wise to trust too much to nature in +these cases.</p> + +<p>Such girls are generally thin and pale, with a peculiar sallow, or +yellowish-green color to the skin which has given rise to the term +"green-sickness," or "Chlorosis." They fall easy victims to scrofula, +consumption, nervous prostration, insomnia, and other diseases.</p> + +<p><strong>Treatment.</strong>—When the time for menstruation arrives, and the flow does +not appear, the mother should give her daughter regular doses of Lydia +E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. This remedy acts strictly according to +the laws of nature, and simply brings about natural conditions.</p> + +<p>For some reason nature may not succeed in beginning this important +change in the girl's life, but with the help that comes from the +Vegetable Compound, this is sure to come to pass.</p> + +<p><strong>How Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Acts.</strong>—A better circulation is +established, the condition of the blood is improved, the nervous system +is greatly invigorated, and, as a result, the menstrual flow is +established.</p> + +<p>This should set at rest a great deal of worry on the part of the mother, +and it means a great deal to the daughter, as well. Now, the mother can +be assured that one great danger is passed, and, with proper care and +attention, there need be no more trouble.</p> + +<p>Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, however, should be taken for some +weeks or months until the habit is well established and menstruation +appears regularly every twenty-eight days.</p> + +<p><strong>Delicate Girls.</strong>—If the young girl menstruates, and yet is not in good +health, then she should certainly take the Vegetable Compound for a week +before the time when menstruation is expected; the great object being to +establish regularity in the menstrual function.</p> + +<p><strong>Keep the Bowels Regular.</strong>—In all these cases attention should be given +to the condition of the bowels, which are usually constipated. To +correct this, the girl should take laxative doses of Lydia E. Pinkham's +Liver Pills, just enough each night so that there may be one good, +natural movement the day following.</p> + +<p><strong>Look Well to the Diet.</strong>—A great deal can be done, also, in the way of +diet. Girls, especially at this time, have a most perverted appetite, +preferring pickles, olives, rich pies and cakes, and other indigestible +foods. These are all bad, of course, as they disturb the digestion and +keep the blood thin.</p> + +<p>Let the diet consist principally of rich milk, eggs, lamb chops, +beefsteak, chicken, and good bread and butter. If the milk rests heavy +on the stomach, then add a tablespoonful of lime water to each glass of +milk.</p> + +<p>Daily exercise in the open air is also of value, and the sleeping-room +should be well ventilated, especially at night.</p> + +<p><strong>Menstruation Suspended During Pregnancy.</strong>—During pregnancy menstruation +is usually suspended, although the regular monthly flow may continue for +two or three months. Of course, suspension at this time is natural, and +nothing should be done to bring on the flow.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16">[Pg 16]</a></span>If menstruation appears when there is a strong probability that +pregnancy exists, then the person should remain quietly in bed and eat +only light food, and every precaution should be taken lest a miscarriage +be brought on.</p> + +<p><strong>Should a Mother Nurse Her Child While Menstruating?</strong>—Menstruation is +also usually suspended during nursing, although not infrequently this +function is resumed again three or four months after childbirth. The +question here arises whether the mother should continue to nurse her +child while menstruating.</p> + +<p>If the child remains healthy, keeps steadily gaining in weight, and +seems to be well nourished, and if the mother is not losing ground in +any way, then there is no reason why the mother should not keep on +nursing her child. If, however, the mother's health fails, or if there +is evidence that the child is not prospering, then weaning should take +place.</p> + +<p>As a rule, a menstruating mother does not have good milk for her child; +it is usually thin and watery; although, as I have said, under certain +conditions nursing may continue.</p> + +<p><strong>Sudden Suppression.</strong>—Sudden suppression of menstruation is most +generally due to a cold, mental shock, or undue exposure of some kind. +It is always accompanied with pain in the back, headache, more or less +fever, and other unpleasant symptoms. It should generally be considered +as a dangerous condition, and every effort should be made to restore the +menstrual function. Sometimes when menstruation is suddenly suppressed +in this way, a so-called "vicarious" menstruation occurs, and there is +hemorrhage from the lungs, the nose, the gums, the bowels, or from some +other source.</p> + +<p><strong>Treatment of Suppression.</strong>—The treatment of sudden suppression consists +of a hot foot-bath, or sitting in a tub of hot water. At the same time +the person should drink a bowl of hot ginger tea, or hot lemonade, be +covered well with blankets, and every effort be made to bring about a +profuse sweating. Then have the person go to bed, and apply hot cloths +across the lower part of the bowels. Place at the feet bottles of hot +water, or hot bricks, and keep up the perspiration in this way for an +hour or two. This is all that need be done in the great majority of cases.</p> + +<p><strong>Only One Medicine to be Taken.</strong>—As the shock to the system tends to +disturb the menstrual function for some time to come, the person should +begin at once with Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and should +continue it through the coming month, in order to insure that the next +menstruation may be normal in every way.</p> + +<p><strong>Scanty Menstruation.</strong>—Often menstruation appears with perfect regularity +and yet is greatly deficient in amount. As we have stated elsewhere, +there is no rule about this, and yet when the menstrual function is +scanty, it is almost invariably a symptom of anæmia, or poverty of the +blood.</p> + +<p><strong>Anæmic Girls.</strong>—Such girls are listless, easily tired, nervous, with +little appetite, poor digestion, and with no resistive power.</p> + +<p>By taking Lydia E. Pinkham's Blood Purifier regularly a most remarkable +change is brought about; and by the use of an easily digested and very +nourishing diet, as just given in this chapter, together with plenty of +outdoor exercise, this condition can be corrected before serious trouble +ensues.</p> + +<p><strong>Dysmenorrhœa.</strong>—This is better known as "painful menstruation." It is +due to a large number of causes, and yet can almost invariably be +relieved by proper treatment.</p> + +<p><strong>Two Great Causes.</strong>—In the <ins class="correction" title="Original reads 'grea'.">great</ins> majority of cases the cause is two-fold: +Weakness of the nerves and congestion of the uterus. These are so +closely allied that it is often quite impossible to tell which is the +ruling factor; indeed, one seems to be largely dependent upon the other.</p> + +<p>It is certainly true that congestion of the uterus almost invariably +produces neuralgia of different parts of the body; while nervous +exhaustion, nervous prostration, neuralgia, and general nervousness +often show themselves by this increased pain at the menstrual period.</p> + +<p><strong>Symptoms of Dysmenorrhœa.</strong>—Usually the most marked pain is before the +flow is well established. The person has a heavy pain in the lower part +of the bowels, with sharp, darting pains extending down the back of the +limbs. Then the pain becomes more concentrated in the uterus itself, or +sometimes in an ovary at the side.</p> + +<p>The pain may begin as a dull, heavy ache, which gradually changes into a +sharp, darting pain, and which culminates at last in distinct and +positive attacks of uterine colic, or cramps.</p> + +<p>The person suffers such intense pain that a chill may be produced which +is followed by a high fever. Often the pains are of a bearing-down +character, and are not unlike those in the last stages of ordinary +labor.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">[Pg 17]</a></span><strong>Often Make a Complete Wreck.</strong>—These attacks of uterine cramps tell +severely on the general health of the person, and if they are allowed to +continue without treatment, they almost invariably make a complete wreck +of the constitution.</p> + +<p><strong>Can Be Cured.</strong>—This most distressing and most agonizing complaint may be +quickly and entirely cured by a thorough course of treatment with Lydia +E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. This remedy should be taken +continuously; not a day should pass without the regular dose.</p> + +<p><strong>Old Cases Cured.</strong>—If the disease has existed for some time, it must not +be expected that it can be cured in a month, but by perseverance the +cure will certainly come and will be perfectly satisfactory.</p> + +<p><strong>A Valuable Aid.</strong>—In the meantime, the person who suffers from painful +menstruation, a day or two before menstruation is expected, should take +Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, being careful to keep the bowels +in good condition.</p> + +<p><strong>Additional Treatment.</strong>—If possible, the person had better remain in bed, +or recline upon a sofa, for at least a day before the expected +menstruation, certainly as soon as the first uncomfortable symptoms +appear. Then have her take a hot foot-bath, get into bed and cover with +warm blankets, with bags or bottles of hot water, or hot bricks at the +feet and back, and with warm cloths over the lower part of the abdomen.</p> + +<p><strong>Temporary Relief.</strong>—If the pain is exceedingly severe, and is not +relieved by these simple measures, then wring out flannel cloths from as +hot water as can be borne and place these over the lower part of the +bowels, directly over the uterus, covering them with dry flannels. As +soon as these become cool, change for hot cloths again, using care, of +course, that the cloths be not hot enough to burn. It is often +surprising what instant relief from pain this simple procedure will +produce.</p> + +<p><strong>Do Not Take Opium.</strong>—No one should think for a moment of taking opium in +any form at these times, as the opium habit is very easily contracted +and is almost impossible to break up. This is also true of other anodyne +remedies. By carrying out the suggestions given above, it will be found +that their use will not be necessary.</p> + +<p><strong>Thousands of Grateful Letters.</strong>—If the readers of this book could only +see the thousands of letters from grateful women the world over telling +how this Vegetable Compound relieved them from the fearful torture which +they had been enduring for years once a month, they would use every +endeavor possible to spread the good news to every suffering friend that +at last there is a perfect and absolute cure for this most distressing +and most frightful complaint.</p> + +<p><strong>Reasons for these Startling Cures.</strong>—The reason why Lydia E. Pinkham's +Vegetable Compound works so admirably in these cases is easily +understood when we call to mind the fact that some of its ingredients +are the strongest of nerve tonics, building up, strengthening, and +giving tone to the whole nervous system; while other ingredients have +the remarkable property of relieving congestion of all the female +generative organs.</p> + +<p><strong>To Illustrate "Congestion."</strong>—If a string be tied around the base of the +finger snugly, but not too tightly, the finger soon becomes darkened +from the obstructed circulation. We say the finger is "congested." All +that has to be done, in this case, is to cut the string and the +congestion is promptly relieved.</p> + +<p><strong>Cures Congestion.</strong>—In cases of congestion of the uterus, Lydia E. +Pinkham's Vegetable Compound removes obstruction to the circulation as +effectually as cutting the string relieves the congestion of the finger. +When the circulation is perfectly natural through these parts, then the +congestion and inflammation must disappear and the uterus itself must +again resume its natural position.</p> + +<p><strong>Menorrhagia.</strong>—This is better known as "profuse menstruation." Just what +constitutes an unnatural loss of blood cannot be stated, as each woman +is a rule to herself. From experience she knows just about what is the +normal amount she should lose each month and retain her health and +strength.</p> + +<p>When this amount is more than natural, especially when sufficient to +produce weakness and prostration, then it becomes "profuse."</p> + +<p><strong>Occurs in the Full-Blooded.</strong>—Profuse menstruation may occur in those who +are very full-blooded, or in those who are extremely weak and pale. When +occurring in the former, the person usually complains of a dull, heavy, +throbbing headache, pain in the back, and other symp<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18">[Pg 18]</a></span>toms of fever. Such +persons recover from an excessive flow of blood quite promptly, and do +not suffer severely from it.</p> + +<p><strong>Occurs in the Pale.</strong>—On the other hand, when this condition occurs in +those who are very weak, pale, and thin, there is usually great +prostration, which may even become most alarming.</p> + +<p><strong>Treatment for the Former.</strong>—When profuse menstruation occurs in those who +are full-blooded, the diet should be quite simple and plain. Indeed, it +would be better if the person should take but two meals a day and should +eat but little or no meat. Immediately upon the appearance of +menstruation she should go to bed and remain there as quiet as possible, +for in this way the pain and fever will be less and the amount of the +flow greatly diminished.</p> + +<p><strong>Treatment When Pale and Debilitated.</strong>—It is a much more serious matter +when this excessive loss occurs in those who are pale and debilitated. +Often the most energetic measures are necessary even to preserve life +itself. The following rule should be observed when possible:—Just as +soon as menstruation appears, the person should go to bed and remain +there quietly until the flow is nearly over.</p> + +<p>Of course it is an easy matter to give these directions, and exceedingly +hard, often quite impossible, for them to be carried out. Many women +have work that must be done, or children who must be cared for during +these days just as well as any other time, and it is almost out of the +question for them to remain quiet.</p> + +<p>Yet the question seems to be whether they will remain in bed two or +three days at this time, and then have far better health for the rest of +the month, or whether they will drag along through all the month. We +would certainly urge that this suggestion be carried out as often as +possible, and that for one or two days the person keep as quietly in bed +as possible.</p> + +<p><strong>When Very Excessive.</strong>—If the flow is very free, then the foot of the bed +may be raised three or four inches by placing blocks of wood under each +lower corner. This will tend to check the flow.</p> + +<p><strong>Wonderful Cures Possible.</strong>—Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has +made some most startling and almost miraculous cures in just these +conditions. An immense number of letters are on file from women who have +despaired of relief, given up all hope, and who were confirmed invalids +until after taking this famous remedy. Its continued use heals the +inflammation in the cavity of the uterus, causes a better circulation +through that organ, makes the blood richer, strengthens the digestion, +and thus greatly improves the general health.</p> + +<p><strong>Relief is Prompt.</strong>—The very next month after beginning its use the flow +is diminished, the next month it is still less, and so on, until soon +there is only a regular, natural menstruation.</p> + +<p><strong>A Happy Change.</strong>—And what a change this means to suffering women! It +means new life, new hope, new ambition, new courage. It means work +better done, children better cared for, and all social and domestic +duties better performed. I am indeed most happy in being able to tell +suffering women what prompt relief Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound +is sure to bring them.</p> + +<p>In these cases I always recommend the use of the Vegetable Compound in +the form of Lozenges, or Pills.</p> + +<p><strong>Metrorrhagia.</strong>—When there is great loss of blood at other times than +during the menstrual period, it is given the technical name of +metrorrhagia. It means "uterine hemorrhage."</p> + +<p>Keep the person quietly in bed, and have the foot of the bed raised as +suggested above. If the hemorrhage is at all severe, a physician should +be summoned in order that a careful examination may be made and the +cause of this unusual occurrence thoroughly understood. <strong>If you do not +understand your ailments write to Mrs. Pinkham, Lynn, Mass. Her advice +is free and always helpful.</strong> All such letters are strictly confidential; +only women assist her in answering them.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h3><a name="CHAPTER_VIII" id="CHAPTER_VIII"></a>CHAPTER VIII.</h3> + +<h4>DISEASES OF THE UTERUS AND OVARIES.</h4> + +<p><strong>Inflammation of the Uterus.</strong>—Inflammation of the uterus may be either +acute or chronic. When acute, as following an abortion, taking cold +during menstruation, etc., there is considerable fever, pain in the +lower part of the bowels, nausea, and sometimes vomiting, tenderness on +pressure over the uterus, pain when passing the urine and general +discomfort.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">[Pg 19]</a></span><strong>Treatment of the Acute Form.</strong>—The treatment consists in having the +person remain quietly in bed, applying bottles of hot water to the feet, +if they are cold, and keeping cool cloths over the head if hot from the +fever. In this way the circulation may be better balanced, and the +tendency to congestion relieved.</p> + +<p>Then take a flannel cloth about six inches square, dip it in hot water, +and wring as dry as possible with the hands; now sprinkle ordinary +spirits of turpentine freely over one side, and place this side directly +over the centre of the lower part of the bowels, that is, just over the +uterus. Cover this flannel with another warm, dry flannel, and allow it +to remain on until the smarting is quite pronounced, or the skin red. +Then remove this, and apply hot cloths wrung from hot water. Use the +turpentine cloth again in four or six hours, if the tenderness and pain +still persist.</p> + +<p><strong>Only One Medicine Needed.</strong>—Begin at once with Lydia E. Pinkham's +Vegetable Compound, in order that the attack may be cut short. This the +Compound will certainly do if taken faithfully according to directions.</p> + +<p>After the acute attack is over, if there is any constipation, this +should be relieved by Lydia E. Pinkham's Liver Pills; and if there is +any discharge from the uterus, Lydia E. Pinkham's Sanative Wash should +be used once or twice each day, in order to hasten recovery all that is +possible.</p> + +<p><strong>Chronic Inflammation.</strong>—It is not exaggerating in the least to say that +probably 75 out of every 100 women in the world have more or less +chronic inflammation of the uterus.</p> + +<p><strong>Causes.</strong>—The causes of this are many, as improper dress, which +constricts the waist, and presses down upon the delicate organs in the +pelvis; improper attention to the health at each menstruation; +over-work; anxiety; miscarriages; unskillful treatment at childbirth, +etc.</p> + +<p><strong>Lives of Suffering and Sorrow.</strong>—What miserable lives women have to +endure who go about from day to day with a chronic inflammation of the +uterus. Each hour there is that dragging, pulling, bearing-down pain; +that heavy weight; that terrible depression; and that feeling of +abandoned hope. Yet hundreds of thousands, I might say millions of women +have had all this suffering and sadness turned to joy and comfort, +simply by taking Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.</p> + +<p><strong>Stories Almost Beyond Belief.</strong>—The stories received from our friends +seem almost beyond belief. The most striking of them cannot be printed +because I fear my readers would think such cures were quite impossible. +The letters tell as terrible stories, as frightful conditions as could +possibly exist, and yet all this has quickly and promptly changed to +robust health by the use of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. So +often has this been reported that there is not the least room for doubt.</p> + +<p><strong>I Speak Positively.</strong>—I am not guessing in this matter; it is altogether +too serious; there is too much at stake. So I urge upon you to give +Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound a thorough trial, feeling +positive, without the slightest question of a doubt, that you will be +quickly and permanently cured.</p> + +<p><strong>Leucorrhœa.</strong>—This is also known as "the whites, or the female +weakness." It is a symptom of inflammation of the uterus; and that this +disease is so prevalent is again proved by this almost universal ailment +among women.</p> + +<p>It is characterized by a white discharge from the vagina which often +becomes very irritating, and is especially bad just before or after +menstruation. It is a symptom that should not be allowed to go +untreated, for it shows that there is serious trouble which may bring +about an incurable condition. Yet when properly treated, it may be +quickly remedied, and all danger removed.</p> + +<p><strong>Treatment.</strong>—First of all, it is necessary to remove the inflammation +that exists in the uterus itself. This is done by the persistent use of +Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. As I have described elsewhere, +this will remove all congestion, heal the inflammation, and bring about +a healthy circulation. For this I strongly recommend that Lydia E. +Pinkham's Sanative Wash be also used with a syringe for local +treatment.<small><a name="f1.1" id="f1.1" href="#f1">[1]</a></small></p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20">[Pg 20]</a></span>This should be used each night as a vaginal injection, according to +directions, thus thoroughly cleansing the parts, and entirely relieving +all irritation which these acrid secretions are sure to set up.</p> + +<p>If this discharge has been irritating enough to cause any chafing, +eruption, itching, or uncomfortable sensation of any kind about the +external parts, then the Sanative Wash should be used for bathing the +parts; the relief will be immediate, and the cure very prompt.</p> + +<p><strong>May Be Quickly Cured.</strong>—I speak with great positiveness here, because of +vast experience and because of the universal success of this treatment. +I do not believe there is a case of leucorrhœa which cannot be +relieved and soon permanently cured by this treatment. There is no +delay; relief comes at once. A great improvement in all the symptoms is +very marked, even after the second or third day of treatment.</p> + +<p><strong>Neglect Causes Ulceration.</strong>—I would add a word of caution here to women +who are afflicted in this way, as the retention of these discharges is +likely to produce an irritation about the mouth of the uterus which will +result in serious ulceration, and even be the means of producing the +most serious and most incurable diseases.</p> + +<p><strong>Ulcers on the Uterus.</strong>—Because of the low condition of the system, thin +blood, and the local inflammation in the uterus itself, ulcers may form +about the mouth of the uterus. These are accompanied by more or less +pain, a sense of heaviness and weight in the lower part of the bowels, +and a whitish discharge similar to that of leucorrhœa only frequently +streaked, or tinted, with blood. The discharge continues about the same +all through the month between the days of menstruation. This condition +should have the same treatment as that mentioned above for +leucorrhœa, and the recovery will be equally prompt.</p> + +<p><strong>Early Treatment Necessary.</strong>—If women only understood better how easy a +matter it is for these ulcerations to widen and deepen until some +incurable and terrible disease results, they would be more prompt in +taking treatment, especially when this is sure to be followed by a +perfect cure.</p> + +<p>When the blood is thin and poor, and when the weight is reduced, Lydia +E. Pinkham's Blood Purifier should be used regularly.</p> + +<p>The Blood Purifier, the Vegetable Compound, and the Sanative Wash, have +done as great work in preventing serious disease as in curing it.</p> + +<p><strong>Displacement of the Uterus Forward.</strong>—The uterus may be displaced either +forward, backward, or downward. By referring to the illustration in the +first part of this book, it will be noticed that the uterus naturally +tips slightly forward, so that when it is displaced forward, the +condition is simply an exaggeration of its natural state.</p> + +<p><strong>Causes Bladder Trouble.</strong>—By referring to this illustration again, it is +at once apparent that this tipping forward must bring about some +difficulty with the bladder, and such is the case. The most marked +symptom is painful and frequent passing of the urine, with a dull and +heavy pain across the lower part of the bowels. Often this weight is so +increased by walking that the person can be upon the feet only a short +time without causing discomfort and pain.</p> + +<p>This condition may be brought about by some unusual effort at lifting, +jumping, or straining, or especially by wearing too tight clothing about +the waist, tight lacing being probably the most frequent cause of all.</p> + +<p><strong>The Cure.</strong>—The general treatment here consists in taking a thorough +course of treatment with Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, in order +to strengthen the ligaments of the uterus which hold this organ in +place. When the condition of the system is improved, the nerves +strengthened, and the blood made more rich by the use of this Compound, +then these ligaments partake of this general improvement, and by +becoming more tense, bring the uterus back into position.</p> + +<p><strong>Displacement Backwards.</strong>—The uterus may be tipped backward, in which +case it will rest against the lower bowel. The principal symptom here is +pain in the lower part of the back, as if a movement of the bowels were +necessary. There is great discomfort in walking, because of this sense +of pressure. The pain is always increased when the bowels move, and is +associated with a sense of obstruction, and painful menstruation is very +common.</p> + +<p><strong>The Treatment.</strong>—Here the same treatment should be followed as mentioned +for the opposite condition above. In the first place, the bowels should +be kept in good condition by the use of Lydia E. Pinkham's Liver Pills, +taking these in just sufficient amount to cause a free move<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21">[Pg 21]</a></span>ment of the +bowels daily. Then thorough and prolonged treatment with Mrs. Pinkham's +Vegetable Compound will give such strength and tone to the ligaments +about the uterus that they will again bring back this organ to its +proper position.</p> + +<p><strong>Falling of the Womb.</strong>—The most distressing of all these displacements is +that known as "prolapsus, or falling of the womb."</p> + +<p>The most frequent cause of this condition is complete relaxation of the +ligaments which naturally support this organ. When the ligaments become +weak, they easily stretch, and thus allow the uterus to fall down into +the vaginal canal, even nearly to the surface of the body.</p> + +<p><strong>Symptoms.</strong>—This displacement causes irritation of the bladder and lower +bowel, discomfort in walking, painful menstruation, leucorrhœa, a +dragging pain in the back, and most marked bearing-down pain in the +lower part of the body.</p> + +<p><strong>The Cure Is Certain.</strong>—The treatment of this most distressing affection +is usually followed by prompt and permanent results. Lydia E. Pinkham's +Vegetable Compound should always be taken, because of its great power to +relieve all inflammation and give strength and tone to the ligaments +which hold up the uterus. Lydia E. Pinkham's Sanative Wash should be +used, also, for its cleansing and strengthening properties, on the local +parts. If a sitz bath-tub is in the house it may be used to great +advantage in these cases. A single pail of water will be sufficient, and +should be as hot as can be comfortably borne. If a tub of this kind is +not at hand, then an ordinary bath-tub may be used, having in it +sufficient water to come well over the hips when the person sits in it.</p> + +<p><strong>The One Permanent Cure.</strong>—By taking Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable +Compound, these relaxed ligaments are given strength and tone so that +they assume their former power. As they gain strength they contract, +pulling the uterus up into its natural position, and holding it there +permanently.</p> + +<p>I can most positively assure every woman who is suffering from all the +discomfort and terrible distress which always accompany falling of the +womb, that she may be promptly and most perfectly cured if she will only +follow my advice.</p> + +<p><strong>An Abundance of Proof.</strong>—So many letters have come from women who have +suffered and have been cured that it is not possible for a reasonable +person to doubt what they say. I can only urge all affected with these +complaints to give Lydia F. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound a good trial, +feeling perfectly assured that they will be abundantly satisfied in +every way. If you do not understand your ailments write to Mrs. Pinkham, +Lynn, Mass. Her advice is free and always helpful. Such letters are +strictly confidential communications from one woman to another who will +never betray the confidence.</p> + +<p> </p><p> </p> +<p><a name="f1" id="f1" href="#f1.1">[1]</a> Every woman suffering from uterine or vaginal troubles +should own and use a syringe. I would recommend the use of Ruth Paxton's +Improved Fountain Syringe. I believe it is the only one that will convey +the solution to every part of the vaginal cavity. The ordinary syringe +is inadequate. It can be obtained by sending to The R. Paxton Company, +221 Columbus Ave., Boston, Mass. Price $1.75, postpaid—registered +letter or postal note. It will repay you a thousand times to take the +trouble to send for it, as the recoveries from disease are quicker when +it is used. Anyway, send two-cent stamp for her little book of +information. You will see by the letters it contains how the syringe is +regarded by those who are using it.</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h3><a name="CHAPTER_IX" id="CHAPTER_IX"></a>CHAPTER IX.</h3> + +<h4>DISEASES OF UTERUS AND OVARIES (Continued).</h4> + +<p><strong>Ovaries, Congestion of.</strong>—This disease usually comes from taking cold +during menstruation, from some injury, extra strain during lifting, or +from some slow inflammatory process.</p> + +<p>The symptoms are pain and tenderness in one or both sides of the lower +part of the body. There is more or less continuous pain, which is always +worse in standing or walking. The tenderness in the sides is increased +during menstruation, especially if pressure be made over the part. +Sometimes the pain is quite severe when the bowels move. There is always +a feeling of distress, frequently associated with nausea, and often more +or less fever.</p> + +<p><strong>Treatment.</strong>—For treatment the person should have as good surroundings as +possible, and should take complete rest during menstruation.</p> + +<p>In order to relieve the congestion in these parts and thoroughly control +the pain, Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound should be taken at once.</p> + +<p><strong>Removal of Ovaries.</strong>—This condition of the ovaries gave rise to the +practice of removing these organs. Just as soon as a woman consulted a +physician and complained of tenderness over the ovaries, he was sure to +advise her to have these organs removed.</p> + +<p><strong>Less Operating Than Formerly.</strong>—But this practice is rapidly passing +away, and the very surgeons who were so anxious to operate a few years +ago are now found advising against it. This is because of the serious +results which follow this operation. While the pain and tenderness in<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22">[Pg 22]</a></span> +these parts would be relieved, yet the profound and overwhelming +impression made upon the nervous system, by producing such a remarkable +change in the life of the woman, was even worse than the disease itself.</p> + +<p><strong>Results of Removal of Ovaries.</strong>—Women who have had their ovaries removed +are frequently the victims of hysteria, melancholia, extreme nervous +prostration, insomnia, and other distressing and dangerous complaints.</p> + +<p><strong>Surgical Operations Unnecessary.</strong>—Then, again, it is becoming well known +over the whole country that Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound can +relieve congestion and pain so thoroughly that the surgeon's knife is +unnecessary. I am so confident in this belief that it hardly seems +possible that any woman would continue to suffer in this way, when it is +so useless. I know we can make every woman perfectly comfortable and at +rest, no matter how long she may have suffered, if she will only follow +our simple directions.</p> + +<p><strong>The One Certain Cure.</strong>—All she has to do is to keep her bowels in good +condition by taking Lydia E. Pinkham's Liver Pills, and at the same time +take a thorough course of treatment with the Vegetable Compound. If you +have any friends or neighbors who are suffering from this disease, and +who fear that it will lead to ovarian tumors, which must ultimately +necessitate a dangerous surgical operation, I urge upon you to tell them +the story of this Vegetable Compound.</p> + +<p><strong>Always Brings Good Cheer.</strong>—It has brought happiness to so many homes, +has relieved so much suffering, and has cheered and comforted so many +thousands of women, that I am sure you will be doing a great deed of +charity if you will only aid in spreading this glad news.</p> + +<p><strong>Tumors of the Uterus.</strong>—The uterus is subject to tumors, or growths, the +symptoms of which are much like those of chronic inflammation. As a +rule, the person suffering from these tumors knows nothing whatever of +their existence until some competent physician has told her such is the +case.</p> + +<p><strong>Fibroid Tumors.</strong>—The most common tumors are known as fibroids. They are +often small, and yet sometimes attain a considerable size.</p> + +<p>Until within a few years surgeons were always anxious to operate upon +these tumors; but this is now largely done away with, for they are not +fatal in themselves, and only become serious when they attain an +exceedingly large size, or, what is more frequently the case, cause +excessive flowing during or between the menstrual periods.</p> + +<p><strong>Tumors Cured Without the Knife.</strong>—In these cases Lydia E. Pinkham's +Vegetable Compound shows its remarkable power to great advantage. By +establishing a better circulation through the uterus, and relieving the +congestion in the surrounding parts, and by giving strength and tone to +the smaller blood-vessels, the hemorrhage is controlled and the +inflammation is reduced. The tumors cease to grow, diminish in size, and +disappear altogether under its influence.</p> + +<p><strong>Vagina, Inflammation of.</strong>—Occasionally there is an acute and most +intense inflammation of the vagina caused by exposure to cold, +irritating discharges from the womb, the use of pessaries, supporters, +or some contagious disease.</p> + +<p>Many women suffer from this complaint towards the close of menstruation, +when the discharges are acrid and most irritating.</p> + +<p><strong>Promptly Cured.</strong>—This inflammation can be promptly cured by the frequent +use of Lydia E. Pinkham's Sanative Wash. Prepare this strictly according +to the directions on each package, and use it as a vaginal injection two +or three times a day. The cure will be hastened by employing a sitz-bath +(sitting in a tub of hot water, or in a bath-tub).</p> + +<p><strong>To Prevent Extension of Disease.</strong>—In order to prevent the inflammation +from extending into the uterus, it is always wise to take Lydia E. +Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for a few days after an attack of this +kind.</p> + +<p><strong>Pruritus, Itching.</strong>—Pruritus, or itching of the external parts, is a +most annoying affection, which often renders life itself almost +unendurable. Its most frequent cause is due to irritating discharges +from the uterus or vagina. Quite a large per cent of the women who are +passing through the "change of life" are troubled in this way.</p> + +<p>It is also a marked symptom of diabetes, or "sugar in the urine;" and if +the itching is associated with an unusually large flow of urine, +together with dryness of the mouth and extreme thirst, there is a +probability that the person is suffering from diabetes. In such a case a +specimen of the urine should be taken to a competent physician, and he +should be asked to make a thorough examination of it in order to +definitely determine this point.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23">[Pg 23]</a></span><strong>Treatment.</strong>—The treatment of pruritus consists in keeping the parts +thoroughly cleansed by frequent vaginal injections of Lydia E. Pinkham's +Sanative Wash, even three or four injections daily; and also bathing the +external parts with the same solution.</p> + +<p><strong>Can Be Promptly Controlled.</strong>—Although medical writers so generally claim +that this disease is almost impossible to relieve, and although they +recommend the application of severe caustics, yet I have never found any +difficulty in promptly controlling and curing this affection by the +faithful and persistent use of Lydia E. Pinkham's Sanative Wash as a +local application and the Vegetable Compound for its constitutional +effects.</p> + +<p><strong>Constitutional Treatment Necessary.</strong>—Although this disease shows itself +in only one place, yet the difficulty is in the whole system, and can +only be thoroughly removed by the internal use of Lydia E. Pinkham's +Vegetable Compound. Thousands of letters from women tell that their life +of agony, distress, and sleeplessness was changed to one of perfect +comfort almost immediately upon the use of these remedies.</p> + +<p><strong>Bladder, Inflammation of.</strong>—Sometimes the inflammation of the vagina and +uterus is so severe that it involves the bladder; or an irritable +condition of the bladder may be produced by a pregnant uterus pressing +forward against it; or the uterus may be tipped forward a trifle more +than natural, and thus press against the bladder sufficient to cause +irritation.</p> + +<p><strong>Symptoms.</strong>—The principal symptom of congestion or inflammation of the +bladder is a frequent desire to pass the urine. This act is almost +always painful, and is sometimes accompanied with spasmodic contractions +of the walls of the bladder, causing severe straining.</p> + +<p><strong>May Become Chronic.</strong>—If treatment be neglected, this condition easily +becomes chronic, when it is very difficult to cure. Prompt treatment in +these cases is strongly urged because it can be cured in every instance, +and thus an immense amount of suffering avoided.</p> + +<p><strong>Treatment.</strong>—If possible, the person should remain in bed or recline on a +couch. The diet should consist largely of liquids, nothing being better +than good milk. Meats, rich soups, and all pastries should be avoided.</p> + +<p>Mrs. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound should be taken at once, because of +its most happy effect in relieving congestion and inflammation of all +the pelvic organs. Indeed, here is one instance where the Vegetable +Compound is alike useful to both sexes. The most flattering testimonials +have come from men who have tried this remedy "because it was in the +house," and who were most happily surprised to find that the relief was +prompt and the cure speedy. For all irritable conditions of the bladder, +whether of recent or old standing, I do not believe there is a remedy in +the world that holds out such great promises of complete relief equal to +Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.</p> + +<p><strong>The Menopause, or "Change of Life."</strong>—This is a cessation of +menstruation. It usually occurs between the ages of forty and fifty +years, although frequently before and even after this time.</p> + +<p><strong>Symptoms.</strong>—The person first notices that although menstruation had +previously been regular, yet now it has become irregular, not appearing +more frequently than once every six weeks or two months; or possibly +passing over a month, and then appearing regularly again for the +following two or three months; or the flow may be less and less month +after month, until gradually it disappears altogether; or, not +infrequently, menstruation ceases abruptly, without any warning +whatever.</p> + +<p><strong>A Natural Condition.</strong>—The change of life should be a perfectly natural +condition, not associated with any unpleasant symptom whatever. Yet this +is rarely the case, while often the suffering at this time is most +intense in every way.</p> + +<p><strong>Affects Nervous System.</strong>—The most severe effects are frequently produced +on the nervous system. These are known as "heat flashes." It is a marked +symptom with a great many women, and is described as a sensation of +waves of heat passing over the body. Sometimes these are very severe, +causing the face to become very red, producing dizziness and intense +headache.</p> + +<p>Often there is melancholia, great depression, and not infrequently +complete prostration of the nervous system. The digestion may be +disturbed, producing constipation, diarrhœa, dyspepsia, loss of +appetite, offensive breath, biliousness, etc. Most marked changes are +certainly taking place in the whole system, and it is but natural that +every part of the body should be profoundly impressed.</p> + +<p><strong>Not Expensive Treatment.</strong>—I cannot urge too strongly upon my readers the +necessity of their taking Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound all +through these remarkable changes.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">[Pg 24]</a></span> It is not a great expense to take +this Vegetable Compound in moderate doses four times a day for weeks, or +even months, during these changes.</p> + +<p><strong>A Critical Time.</strong>—If this period of life be passed over in safety, then +there may be years and years of robust health remaining; while if it be +not attended to properly, the remainder of the life may be one prolonged +day of agony. Even when persons have suffered during all their menstrual +life, they can now have perhaps a score or more of years of complete +relief if they properly care for themselves during this change.</p> + +<p><strong>Keep Under Its Influence.</strong>—Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is a +great tonic in itself, bracing up the whole nervous system, aiding +digestion, and causing all the forces of the body to act more in accord +with nature.</p> + +<p>Then it has a special influence over the uterus and ovaries; indeed, so +marked is its power to correct disease that all the trying days of the +"change of life" may be passed over in perfect safety, if only the +system be continuously kept under its influence.</p> + +<p><strong>May Be Made Easy and Natural.</strong>—Women who have been dreading this change, +and who have been made to look upon it as something horrible to pass +through, may now lay all such anxiety aside, for Mrs. Pinkham long ago +solved the problem of making this time of life as healthy and natural as +any other.</p> + +<p>It is not claiming too much to say that if women everywhere will only +take Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound through this trying time, +they will come out of it feeling better in every way than they have felt +for many years. <strong>If you do not understand your ailments, write to Mrs. +Pinkham, Lynn, Mass. Her advice is free and always helpful. Such letters +are strictly confidential and answered with the help of women only.</strong></p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h3><a name="CHAPTER_X" id="CHAPTER_X"></a>CHAPTER X.</h3> + +<h4>PREGNANCY, ITS SYMPTOMS, DISEASES, ETC.</h4> + + +<p><strong>Sometimes Difficult to Tell.</strong>—Even the most skilled physicians sometimes +make mistakes in stating that pregnancy exists when it does not.</p> + +<p><strong>The First Sign.</strong>—The most valuable and striking sign of pregnancy is the +cessation of the monthly periods; yet even this is not always reliable. +Sometimes menstruation continues for three or four months, especially +during the first pregnancy, although this is exceedingly rare. As a +rule, to which there is hardly an exception, if menstruation ceases in a +married woman who has previously been regular, she is, in all +probability, pregnant.</p> + +<p><strong>Other Signs.</strong>—Another important sign is the enlargement of the abdomen, +although this cannot be detected much before the fourth month. A +valuable sign, also, is the enlargement of the breasts, with a widening +and browning of the pink ring around the nipples. Enlargement of the +breasts often begins as early as the second month, and is quite marked +by the fourth or fifth month.</p> + +<p><strong>Morning Sickness.</strong>—Morning sickness is a symptom present in the majority +of cases. It usually consists of a marked nausea upon rising, and +perhaps vomiting. This may last only a few hours in the early morning, +or continue through the greater part of the day. It generally appears in +the second month and lasts only through the third month, although, in +bad cases, it may continue through the whole period, and very seriously +affect the health.</p> + +<p><strong>Treatment.</strong>—There are any number of remedies recommended for the +treatment of this morning sickness. What will cure one case seems to be +perfectly useless in another.</p> + +<p>It has been my experience that the best way to manage these cases is as +follows: Have the person take a slice of toasted bread, or a toasted +cracker, with a little coffee if desired, while in bed, remaining there +at least half an hour after eating. Or, the person may take a glass of +milk to which two tablespoonfuls of lime water have been added. Then, by +rising slowly and moving about carefully, it is often possible to go +through the day without any sickness whatever. I have known many cases +to be entirely relieved by eating a little ordinary pop-corn.</p> + +<p><strong>The Morning Meal.</strong>—The morning meal may consist of milk to which a +little lime water has been added; or a poached or soft-boiled egg. +Sometimes scarped beef, lean and rare, salted and spread on very thin +bread, quiets the stomach at once, while it is highly nourishing.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">[Pg 25]</a></span><strong>Only One Medicine Needed.</strong>—It is surprising what happy changes Lydia E. +Pinkham's Vegetable Compound brings about in this condition. The +irritability subsides, the digestion is greatly improved, the nervous +system is strengthened, and all these uncomfortable and disagreeable +symptoms pass away. The Compound should be taken in small doses three +times a day, after meals.</p> + +<p><strong>A Bandage May Relieve Nausea.</strong>—An abdominal bandage will sometimes +relieve the morning sickness, if placed snugly, but not too tightly, +about the body. It need be worn only a week or two, for a trial, and +should always be taken off at night. If the nausea persists during the +day, then let the food be light and taken in small amounts, at frequent +intervals.</p> + +<p><strong>"Quickening."</strong>—This is another sign of pregnancy. The word refers to the +detection by the mother of the movements of the child. Although, without +doubt, the child moves within the mother at a much earlier period, yet +these movements are too feeble to be noticed until pregnancy has +advanced four or four and a half months.</p> + +<p><strong>Other Symptoms of Pregnancy.</strong>—Other symptoms are morbid longings for +unusual articles of food, as sour apples, vinegar, charcoal, clay, slate +pencils, etc. These longings, however, should not be satisfied, as they +do not represent the demand of nature for these substances. They belong +to the same class of changes which are shown by a marked difference in +the disposition of a person whereby the lively and cheerful woman +becomes melancholy, gloomy, and irritable.</p> + +<p><strong>Diet During Pregnancy.</strong>—The diet during the whole of pregnancy should be +generous, yet easily digestible. A great many women do not change their +diet at all, and if the person is in good health and does not suffer in +any way, there is no reason whatever why the diet should be changed, +unless the evening meal be made somewhat lighter.</p> + +<p><strong>Eat Sparingly of Meat.</strong>—It is always wise not to eat meat more than once +a day. This is because a meat diet throws more work upon the kidneys, +and any failure of the kidneys increases the probability of serious +trouble at childbirth.</p> + +<p>So far as is known, there is no foundation for the belief that any +special article of diet has any particular effect upon the development +of the child.</p> + +<p><strong>Care of the Breasts.</strong>—The care of the breasts during pregnancy must be +commenced early. All pressure of the clothing should be removed, in +order to give them full opportunity to develop. They should be kept +warm, however, and well supported, if the size renders them +uncomfortable.</p> + +<p><strong>Mothers Should Nurse Their Children.</strong>—Statistics show that the summer +diarrhœas and dysenteries, which carry off such immense numbers of +children each year, are almost unknown among babies that nurse. It is +the artificially fed child which suffers from wasting diseases and +disturbances of the digestion which are so fatal to life. Therefore, +every prospective mother should do everything in her power to prepare +for the proper nursing of her child.</p> + +<p><strong>Care of the Nipples.</strong>—If the nipples are flat, they can be pulled out +gently each day with the fingers, and thus the difficulty entirely +remedied. At the beginning of the last month of pregnancy, the nipples +should be hardened in order that nursing may be painless, and that all +fissures, or cracks, may be avoided.</p> + +<p>Every morning and night apply the following solution to the nipples with +a piece of absorbent cotton:—</p> + +<table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" summary="solution"> +<tr><td>Glycerite of Tannin,</td><td>1 fluid ounce.</td></tr> +<tr><td>Water,</td><td>1 fluid ounce.</td></tr></table> + +<p>Allow this to remain on the nipple. This cannot be used after +confinement, for the bitter taste would be objectionable to the child.</p> + +<p><strong>Can Sex Be Foretold?</strong>—Mothers often wish to know if it is possible to +determine the sex of the child before it is born. Although a great deal +has been written on this subject, and a number of so-called rules have +been made, yet it is absolutely impossible to tell whether the child +will be a boy or a girl; and it is also equally impossible to do +anything that could in any way exert an influence in producing a child +of the desired sex.</p> + +<p><strong>To Tell Time of Confinement.</strong>—For two hundred and eighty days, or forty +weeks, the prospective mother has been conducting herself in the best +way she thought possible, that all good might be exerted upon the new +life. The question now comes, When may the day of confinement be +expected? I give here a table for calculating this day, which I am sure +will be found very convenient.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_26" id="Page_26">[Pg 26]</a></span></p> + +<div style="text-align: center;"> +<table id="obstetrical" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" summary="Obstetrical Table"> +<caption><strong>OBSTETRICAL TABLE.</strong></caption> +<tr class="menstruation"><th>January</th><td>1</td><td>2</td><td>3</td><td>4</td><td>5</td><td>6</td><td>7</td><td>8</td><td>9</td><td>10</td><td>11</td><td>12</td><td>13</td><td>14</td><td>15</td><td>16</td><td>17</td><td>18</td><td>19</td><td>20</td><td>21</td><td>22</td><td>23</td><td>24</td><td>25</td><td>26</td><td>27</td><td>28</td><td>29</td><td>30</td><td>31</td><td class="right"> </td></tr> +<tr><th>Oct'r</th><td>8</td><td>9</td><td>10</td><td>11</td><td>12</td><td>13</td><td>14</td><td>15</td><td>16</td><td>17</td><td>18</td><td>19</td><td>20</td><td>21</td><td>22</td><td>23</td><td>24</td><td>25</td><td>26</td><td>27</td><td>28</td><td>29</td><td>30</td><td>31</td><td>1</td><td>2</td><td>3</td><td>4</td><td>5</td><td>6</td><td>7</td><th class="right">Nov.</th></tr> +<tr class="menstruation"><th>Feb'y</th><td>1</td><td>2</td><td>3</td><td>4</td><td>5</td><td>6</td><td>7</td><td>8</td><td>9</td><td>10</td><td>11</td><td>12</td><td>13</td><td>14</td><td>15</td><td>16</td><td>17</td><td>18</td><td>19</td><td>20</td><td>21</td><td>22</td><td>23</td><td>24</td><td>25</td><td>26</td><td>27</td><td>28</td><td colspan="3"> </td><td class="right"> </td></tr> +<tr><th>Nov'r</th><td>8</td><td>9</td><td>10</td><td>11</td><td>12</td><td>13</td><td>14</td><td>15</td><td>16</td><td>17</td><td>18</td><td>19</td><td>20</td><td>21</td><td>22</td><td>23</td><td>24</td><td>25</td><td>26</td><td>27</td><td>28</td><td>29</td><td>30</td><td>1</td><td>2</td><td>3</td><td>4</td><td>5</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><th class="right">Dec.</th></tr> +<tr class="menstruation"><th>March</th><td>1</td><td>2</td><td>3</td><td>4</td><td>5</td><td>6</td><td>7</td><td>8</td><td>9</td><td>10</td><td>11</td><td>12</td><td>13</td><td>14</td><td>15</td><td>16</td><td>17</td><td>18</td><td>19</td><td>20</td><td>21</td><td>22</td><td>23</td><td>24</td><td>25</td><td>26</td><td>27</td><td>28</td><td>29</td><td>30</td><td>31</td><td class="right"> </td></tr> +<tr><th>Dec'r</th><td>6</td><td>7</td><td>8</td><td>9</td><td>10</td><td>11</td><td>12</td><td>13</td><td>14</td><td>15</td><td>16</td><td>17</td><td>18</td><td>19</td><td>20</td><td>21</td><td>22</td><td>23</td><td>24</td><td>25</td><td>26</td><td>27</td><td>28</td><td>29</td><td>30</td><td>31</td><td>1</td><td>2</td><td>3</td><td>4</td><td>5</td><th class="right">Jan.</th></tr> +<tr class="menstruation"><th>April</th><td>1</td><td>2</td><td>3</td><td>4</td><td>5</td><td>6</td><td>7</td><td>8</td><td>9</td><td>10</td><td>11</td><td>12</td><td>13</td><td>14</td><td>15</td><td>16</td><td>17</td><td>18</td><td>19</td><td>20</td><td>21</td><td>22</td><td>23</td><td>24</td><td>25</td><td>26</td><td>27</td><td>28</td><td>29</td><td>30</td><td> </td><td class="right"> </td></tr> +<tr><th>Jan'y</th><td>6</td><td>7</td><td>8</td><td>9</td><td>10</td><td>11</td><td>12</td><td>13</td><td>14</td><td>15</td><td>16</td><td>17</td><td>18</td><td>19</td><td>20</td><td>21</td><td>22</td><td>23</td><td>24</td><td>25</td><td>26</td><td>27</td><td>28</td><td>29</td><td>30</td><td>31</td><td>1</td><td>2</td><td>3</td><td>4</td><td> </td><th class="right">Feb.</th></tr> +<tr class="menstruation"><th>May</th><td>1</td><td>2</td><td>3</td><td>4</td><td>5</td><td>6</td><td>7</td><td>8</td><td>9</td><td>10</td><td>11</td><td>12</td><td>13</td><td>14</td><td>15</td><td>16</td><td>17</td><td>18</td><td>19</td><td>20</td><td>21</td><td>22</td><td>23</td><td>24</td><td>25</td><td>26</td><td>27</td><td>28</td><td>29</td><td>30</td><td>31</td><td class="right"> </td></tr> +<tr><th>Feb'y</th><td>5</td><td>6</td><td>7</td><td>8</td><td>9</td><td>10</td><td>11</td><td>12</td><td>13</td><td>14</td><td>15</td><td>16</td><td>17</td><td>18</td><td>19</td><td>20</td><td>21</td><td>22</td><td>23</td><td>24</td><td>25</td><td>26</td><td>27</td><td>28</td><td>1</td><td>2</td><td>3</td><td>4</td><td>5</td><td>6</td><td>7</td><th class="right">Mar.</th></tr> +<tr class="menstruation"><th>June</th><td>1</td><td>2</td><td>3</td><td>4</td><td>5</td><td>6</td><td>7</td><td>8</td><td>9</td><td>10</td><td>11</td><td>12</td><td>13</td><td>14</td><td>15</td><td>16</td><td>17</td><td>18</td><td>19</td><td>20</td><td>21</td><td>22</td><td>23</td><td>24</td><td>25</td><td>26</td><td>27</td><td>28</td><td>29</td><td>30</td><td> </td><td class="right"> </td></tr> +<tr><th>March</th><td>8</td><td>9</td><td>10</td><td>11</td><td>12</td><td>13</td><td>14</td><td>15</td><td>16</td><td>17</td><td>18</td><td>19</td><td>20</td><td>21</td><td>22</td><td>23</td><td>24</td><td>25</td><td>26</td><td>27</td><td>28</td><td>29</td><td>30</td><td>31</td><td>1</td><td>2</td><td>3</td><td>4</td><td>5</td><td>6</td><td> </td><th class="right">April.</th></tr> +<tr class="menstruation"><th>July</th><td>1</td><td>2</td><td>3</td><td>4</td><td>5</td><td>6</td><td>7</td><td>8</td><td>9</td><td>10</td><td>11</td><td>12</td><td>13</td><td>14</td><td>15</td><td>16</td><td>17</td><td>18</td><td>19</td><td>20</td><td>21</td><td>22</td><td>23</td><td>24</td><td>25</td><td>26</td><td>27</td><td>28</td><td>29</td><td>30</td><td>31</td><td class="right"> </td></tr> +<tr><th>April</th><td>7</td><td>8</td><td>9</td><td>10</td><td>11</td><td>12</td><td>13</td><td>14</td><td>15</td><td>16</td><td>17</td><td>18</td><td>19</td><td>20</td><td>21</td><td>22</td><td>23</td><td>24</td><td>25</td><td>26</td><td>27</td><td>28</td><td>29</td><td>30</td><td>1</td><td>2</td><td>3</td><td>4</td><td>5</td><td>6</td><td>7</td><th class="right">May.</th></tr> +<tr class="menstruation"><th>August</th><td>1</td><td>2</td><td>3</td><td>4</td><td>5</td><td>6</td><td>7</td><td>8</td><td>9</td><td>10</td><td>11</td><td>12</td><td>13</td><td>14</td><td>15</td><td>16</td><td>17</td><td>18</td><td>19</td><td>20</td><td>21</td><td>22</td><td>23</td><td>24</td><td>25</td><td>26</td><td>27</td><td>28</td><td>29</td><td>30</td><td>31</td><td class="right"> </td></tr> +<tr><th>May</th><td>8</td><td>9</td><td>10</td><td>11</td><td>12</td><td>13</td><td>14</td><td>15</td><td>16</td><td>17</td><td>18</td><td>19</td><td>20</td><td>21</td><td>22</td><td>23</td><td>24</td><td>25</td><td>26</td><td>27</td><td>28</td><td>29</td><td>30</td><td>31</td><td>1</td><td>2</td><td>3</td><td>4</td><td>5</td><td>6</td><td>7</td><th class="right">June.</th></tr> +<tr class="menstruation"><th>Sept'r</th><td>1</td><td>2</td><td>3</td><td>4</td><td>5</td><td>6</td><td>7</td><td>8</td><td>9</td><td>10</td><td>11</td><td>12</td><td>13</td><td>14</td><td>15</td><td>16</td><td>17</td><td>18</td><td>19</td><td>20</td><td>21</td><td>22</td><td>23</td><td>24</td><td>25</td><td>26</td><td>27</td><td>28</td><td>29</td><td>30</td><td> </td><td class="right"> </td></tr> +<tr><th>June</th><td>8</td><td>9</td><td>10</td><td>11</td><td>12</td><td>13</td><td>14</td><td>15</td><td>16</td><td>17</td><td>18</td><td>19</td><td>20</td><td>21</td><td>22</td><td>23</td><td>24</td><td>25</td><td>26</td><td>27</td><td>28</td><td>29</td><td>30</td><td>1</td><td>2</td><td>3</td><td>4</td><td>5</td><td>6</td><td>7</td><td> </td><th class="right">July.</th></tr> +<tr class="menstruation"><th>October</th><td>1</td><td>2</td><td>3</td><td>4</td><td>5</td><td>6</td><td>7</td><td>8</td><td>9</td><td>10</td><td>11</td><td>12</td><td>13</td><td>14</td><td>15</td><td>16</td><td>17</td><td>18</td><td>19</td><td>20</td><td>21</td><td>22</td><td>23</td><td>24</td><td>25</td><td>26</td><td>27</td><td>28</td><td>29</td><td>30</td><td> </td><td class="right"> </td></tr> +<tr><th>July</th><td>8</td><td>9</td><td>10</td><td>11</td><td>12</td><td>13</td><td>14</td><td>15</td><td>16</td><td>17</td><td>18</td><td>19</td><td>20</td><td>21</td><td>22</td><td>23</td><td>24</td><td>25</td><td>26</td><td>27</td><td>28</td><td>29</td><td>30</td><td>1</td><td>2</td><td>3</td><td>4</td><td>5</td><td>6</td><td>7</td><td> </td><th class="right">Aug.</th></tr> +<tr class="menstruation"><th>Nov'r</th><td>1</td><td>2</td><td>3</td><td>4</td><td>5</td><td>6</td><td>7</td><td>8</td><td>9</td><td>10</td><td>11</td><td>12</td><td>13</td><td>14</td><td>15</td><td>16</td><td>17</td><td>18</td><td>19</td><td>20</td><td>21</td><td>22</td><td>23</td><td>24</td><td>25</td><td>26</td><td>27</td><td>28</td><td>29</td><td>30</td><td> </td><td class="right"> </td></tr> +<tr><th>Aug.</th><td>8</td><td>9</td><td>10</td><td>11</td><td>12</td><td>13</td><td>14</td><td>15</td><td>16</td><td>17</td><td>18</td><td>19</td><td>20</td><td>21</td><td>22</td><td>23</td><td>24</td><td>25</td><td>26</td><td>27</td><td>28</td><td>29</td><td>30</td><td>31</td><td>1</td><td>2</td><td>3</td><td>4</td><td>5</td><td>6</td><td> </td><th class="right">Sept.</th></tr> +<tr class="menstruation"><th>Dec'r</th><td>1</td><td>2</td><td>3</td><td>4</td><td>5</td><td>6</td><td>7</td><td>8</td><td>9</td><td>10</td><td>11</td><td>12</td><td>13</td><td>14</td><td>15</td><td>16</td><td>17</td><td>18</td><td>19</td><td>20</td><td>21</td><td>22</td><td>23</td><td>24</td><td>25</td><td>26</td><td>27</td><td>28</td><td>29</td><td>30</td><td>31</td><td class="right"> </td></tr> +<tr><th>Sept'r</th><td>7</td><td>8</td><td>9</td><td>10</td><td>11</td><td>12</td><td>13</td><td>14</td><td>15</td><td>16</td><td>17</td><td>18</td><td>19</td><td>20</td><td>21</td><td>22</td><td>23</td><td>24</td><td>25</td><td>26</td><td>27</td><td>28</td><td>29</td><td>30</td><td>1</td><td>2</td><td>3</td><td>4</td><td>5</td><td>6</td><td>7</td><th class="right">Oct.</th></tr></table></div> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>As labor occurs in the larger proportion of cases between 270 and +290 days from the first day of the last menstruation, 280 days is +the average. The table presents at a glance the beginning and end +of 280 days for every day in the year. Find the date of +menstruation in the upper line of the horizontal column, and the +figure below, with the corresponding month, will indicate 280 days.</p></div> + +<p><strong>To Avoid Miscarriage.</strong>—The pregnant woman must be very careful as the +usual time for menstruation approaches. It is then that any undue +effort, unusual lifting, excessive grief, or shock to the system, may +bring on a miscarriage. This is especially true if such a misfortune has +previously occurred.</p> + +<p><strong>A Great Preventive.</strong>—The most abundant testimony shows that Lydia E. +Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is an almost certain preventive to +miscarriage or abortion. It gives strength to the uterine walls, quiets +the first approach of pain, controls any spasmodic contractions, and +brings about such a healthy condition that all danger is averted. I +cannot speak too strongly of this Vegetable Compound for these cases. So +many mothers have written us that they are now happy in the possession +of a child, when, for time and time again, they would have a miscarriage +at the third or fourth month.</p> + +<p><strong>Keep it in the House.</strong>—Every pregnant woman should always keep in the +house a bottle of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She does not +know the day when she will need it, and when that day comes she will +require it promptly.</p> + +<p>At any time when there is soreness, tenderness, unusual pain, any +unnatural discharge, or any symptom whatever that shows pregnancy is not +pursuing a perfectly natural course, she should begin to use the +Vegetable Compound at once. It should be taken in small doses two or +three times a day, just enough to produce its strengthening, quieting, +and healing effects.</p> + +<p>If she finds she has been overdoing, has strained herself in any way, or +fears that some unfortunate result will follow an extra hard day's +labor, let her take a few doses of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound +as a certain preventive to future trouble.</p> + +<p><strong>The One Universal Cure.</strong>—In other words, I repeat what I have already +said so many times, that whenever there is trouble of any kind with any +part of the female generative organs, whenever these do not act in a +perfectly natural manner, then the Lydia E. Pinkham Vegetable Compound +is indicated; for it is the one great, universal and never-failing cure +for all the affections which fall to the lot of womankind.</p> + +<p><strong>Makes Mother and Child Strong.</strong>—Many thousands of wives owe the fact +that they are mothers to-day to this grand remedy, and thousands upon +thousands of children are happy,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">[Pg 27]</a></span> strong and robust because their +mothers were wise enough to use it. Keep it in the house. Do not be a +day without it. Have it where you can reach it at any time. Put your +confidence in it. 'Twill prove a never-failing friend to you in time of +need.</p> + +<p><strong>Mothers' Marks.</strong>—There is a wide belief among women that any strong +impression made at a certain time during pregnancy will exert a powerful +influence in producing some defect or deformity in the child. The +opposite is also held, to the effect that beautiful objects, delightful +music, and everything elevating and ennobling will have a favorable +effect upon the body or mind of the child.</p> + +<p>An immense amount of testimony can be produced on both sides of this +question. The weight of evidence, however, is rather in favor of these +so-called "maternal impressions." In other words, it seems possible that +under very unusual conditions the mother may affect her unborn child +because of some powerful impression made upon the system.</p> + +<p>Yet hundreds of thousands of mothers become frightened and undergo the +most terrible experiences without having the slightest unfavorable +effect upon the child; while other mothers give birth to deformed +children when they have been surrounded with every comfort and have not +been disturbed in any way. No one understands this subject, and but +little can truly be said about it.</p> + +<p><strong>Hereditary Influences Are Strong.</strong>—On the other hand, we all know how +strong is heredity. Therefore it is only acting the part of ordinary +wisdom for every pregnant woman to avoid all disagreeable things +possible and cultivate everything that is good and true.</p> + +<p><strong>Early Training Necessary.</strong>—When we come to study the theory of heredity, +we see that it is impossible for any mother to completely change her +course of life simply during pregnancy and have a corresponding effect +upon her child. To produce the best results on the offspring it is +necessary that the mother should have cultivated her own mind and body +through many years of training.</p> + +<p><strong>Were Cured Early in Life.</strong>—Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has +done untold good to the present generation. There are hundreds of +thousands of children living to-day who are healthy and happy because +years before they were born their mothers, when young girls, took this +grand household medicine. They were restored to health, a great load was +lifted, and things again looked cheerful and bright, and in this +condition a happy baby was born into the world. <strong>If you do not understand +your ailments write to Mrs. Pinkham, Lynn, Mass. Her advice is free and +always helpful. Such letters are strictly confidential and answered with +the help of women only.</strong></p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h3><a name="CHAPTER_XI" id="CHAPTER_XI"></a>CHAPTER XI.</h3> + +<h4>PROBLEMS IN NURSING.</h4> + +<p><strong>Diet During Nursing.</strong>—Many mothers believe that it is necessary to eat +only certain articles of diet while nursing their baby, for fear the +child may be given the colic. While this may be true in certain cases, +yet it is the exception. As a rule, mothers may eat nearly everything +digestible without fear of affecting the baby.</p> + +<p><strong>Exceptions.</strong>—Sometimes raw fruits or acid substances may change the milk +in some way so that it will disagree with the baby, but as I have said, +this is not the rule. Occasionally, however, when such articles of diet +as onions, cauliflower, and cabbage have been eaten, these will impart +such an odor and taste to the milk that the child will refuse to nurse.</p> + +<p><strong>Must Be Guided By Experience.</strong>—The only precaution the mother need take +is that if she finds some article of diet disagrees with her, or if she +knows a certain article always causes pain or discomfort in the child, +then these should be avoided.</p> + +<p>It is true that certain medicines, especially purgatives, may be taken +by the mother which will affect the child very quickly. Here the same +rule should be the guide as should always govern one, namely, no article +of diet should be used which is known to disturb the digestion.</p> + +<p><strong>Insufficient Supply of Milk.</strong>—When a mother knows that the chances of +her child's life are greatly increased if it has its natural food, she +will certainly make unusual efforts to supply all the food necessary.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28">[Pg 28]</a></span>Mothers are too likely to think that an increase in the quantity of the +milk answers every purpose; but this is of no use unless the quality is +increased as well. The free use of soups and some malt extracts may +increase the quantity, but this does the child no good. It too much +resembles the example of the milk-man who uses the well-pump to increase +his supply of milk.</p> + +<p><strong>How Increased.</strong>—However, the supply of milk can easily be increased in +quantity and correspondingly improved in quality if the mother will +drink freely of cow's milk, and use other substantial foods at the same +time. If the milk is constipating, or rests heavy on the stomach, then a +little lime water may be added to it in the proportion of one or two +tablespoonfuls to a glass of milk. Regular exercise in the open air is +also necessary in order that the general health may be kept in the best +possible condition.</p> + +<p><strong>Anger May Poison Milk.</strong>—It is a fact that if the child nurses after the +mother has had a severe fright, or has become violently angry, the milk +will sometimes act as an intense poison. In such cases the mother had +better empty the breasts with a breast-pump, and not nurse the child for +ten or twelve hours afterward, substituting some artificially prepared +food.</p> + +<p><strong>Extra Supply of Milk.</strong>—Sometimes the secretion of milk is so great that +even a strong child cannot take it all. This produces a distention of +the breasts, causing what is known as "caked breasts," or "milk cake." +This should be promptly attended to, as there is great danger of an +abscess forming.</p> + +<p><strong>To Prevent Caked Breasts.</strong>—The way to relieve this condition is to +gently but firmly rub the breasts with warm sweet-oil, continuing this +for fifteen or twenty minutes at a time. An occasional use of the +breast-pump is necessary also.</p> + +<p><strong>How to Diminish Supply.</strong>—When weaning-time comes, the question arises +how the secretion of milk may be diminished. This is best done by having +the mother take as little liquid as possible, whether of water, tea, +milk, soup, or anything of this kind. She should also take a gentle +laxative each day, as a little Hunyadi Water, or laxative mineral water +of any kind.</p> + +<p>Then support the breasts by passing a broad band beneath them, and +carrying it over the shoulders, compressing the breasts slightly, but +not too greatly.</p> + +<p>The breast-pump should be used as soon as any distention becomes +painful, and the breasts should be diligently rubbed with warm +sweet-oil. <strong>If you do not understand your ailments write to Mrs. Pinkham, +Lynn, Mass. Her advice is free and always helpful. Such letters are +strictly confidential and answered with the help of women only.</strong></p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h3><a name="CHAPTER_XII" id="CHAPTER_XII"></a>CHAPTER XII.</h3> + +<h4>TO PREVENT CONVULSIONS AT CHILDBIRTH.</h4> + +<p><strong>Work of the Kidneys Most Important.</strong>—The kidneys are constantly engaged +in removing from the body certain poisonous substances which are held in +solution in the urine. If they should fail to do this work, or if no +urine should be secreted for even a few hours, most serious consequences +would follow.</p> + +<p><strong>Cause of Convulsions.</strong>—When these poisons are retained in the system to +a sufficient degree they cause convulsions and unconsciousness, and are +frequently fatal. The convulsions which some women have at childbirth +are caused by this imperfect action of the kidneys.</p> + +<p><strong>To Tell If Danger Is Present.</strong>—An examination of the urine at any time +will tell whether the kidneys are acting well or not, and thus it is +possible to determine whether there is danger of having these +convulsions during confinement. Therefore I urge upon all pregnant women +the necessity of having their urine examined once or twice during the +course of pregnancy, and certainly during the eighth or ninth month.</p> + +<p><strong>Albumen in the Urine.</strong>—Imperfect action of the kidneys is shown by the +appearance of albumen in the urine. Any competent physician can easily +determine whether this albumen is in the urine or not, and if present he +can take such prompt measures as to remedy the evil before any serious +danger occurs. Of course I know that hundreds of thousands of women pass +safely through childbirth and have no unfavorable symptom at all; yet I +also know that now<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_29" id="Page_29">[Pg 29]</a></span> and then a most valuable life is lost when it might +just as well have been spared as not, if these simple suggestions had +been carried out.</p> + +<p>It is the teaching of all the best medical authorities in the world that +this precaution should be taken by every expectant mother.</p> + +<p><strong>Symptoms of Kidney Trouble.</strong>—When the kidneys are not performing their +work properly, the mother may know it, herself. If she finds her feet +and ankles swelling at night, if she has a puffy look under the eyes, +and especially if the amount of urine passed in twenty-four hours is not +so great as formerly, then there is probably albumen in the urine. In +this case she should stop eating meat of all kinds, and live largely +upon milk, keeping the bowels in laxative condition by using Lydia E. +Pinkham's Liver Pills, and bathing the skin well once or twice a day. +She should also begin at once the use of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable +Compound, resting assured that this will remove the congestion in the +kidneys, and will cause a more free secretion of the urine.</p> + +<p><strong>Self-abuse (Masturbation).</strong>—This is a cause of many of the diseases of +women, also men. Small girls learn the practice from larger ones, and +through ignorance continue it often to maturity without knowing that it +is bringing upon them a physical and moral injury.</p> + +<p><i>If mothers instructed their daughters on this subject there would be +fewer broken lives.</i></p> + +<p><span class="smcap">Symptoms.</span>—The main symptoms are wakefulness, restless nights, headache, +indolence, melancholy, indisposition to study, forgetfulness, +despondency, weakness in the back and private organs, no confidence in +one's own abilities, a desire for seclusion from society; whites, +hysterics, and inability to look any one in the face. Sometimes the +muscles are relaxed, limbs tremble, the skin is sallow and dry, with +pain in the womb.</p> + +<p><strong>REMARKS. Write to Mrs. Pinkham in perfect confidence, and she will tell +you exactly what to do. Delay is dangerous in this matter.</strong></p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h3><a name="CHAPTER_XIII" id="CHAPTER_XIII"></a>CHAPTER XIII.</h3> + +<h4>DYSPEPSIA, CONSTIPATION, GENERAL DEBILITY, SLEEPLESSNESS.</h4> + +<p><strong>Dyspepsia, Acute.</strong>—Acute dyspepsia is usually caused by some improper +diet, as the eating of an unusual article of food or of a larger amount +than necessary. Such articles of diet as cucumbers, unripe or overripe +fruit, an excessive amount of sweets, rich salads, heavy puddings, etc., +may so irritate the stomach that an acute attack of dyspepsia follows.</p> + +<p><strong>Nature Often Cures.</strong>—Nature often makes a prompt cure in these cases by +causing a sharp attack of vomiting or diarrhœa. If a cure is not made +in this way, then we can imitate nature by giving an emetic, or by +taking a laxative, in order to rid the body of the indigestible material +as soon as possible.</p> + +<p><strong>Treatment.</strong>—If there is much pain in the stomach, a mustard plaster +should be placed directly over the pit of the stomach, or cloths wrung +out in hot water. For the next day following the attack the diet should +be restricted to milk, or poached eggs on toast, or something of this +kind.</p> + +<p><strong>Chronic Dyspepsia.</strong>—It is chronic dyspepsia, however, which is so +annoying because of its persistence. It has been called "The American +Disease" because so many people are troubled with it.</p> + +<p><strong>Symptoms.</strong>—Persons suffering from chronic dyspepsia complain of a bad +taste in the mouth, dry throat, nausea, and a feeling of great weight in +the stomach for an hour or two after each meal.</p> + +<p>Frequently there is no appetite whatever, or it may be even more +ravenous than natural because of the irritation and inflammation in the +stomach. When the latter is the case, food does not satisfy, and it +becomes necessary to eat every two or three hours in order to quiet the +gnawing and empty feeling in the stomach. The chronic dyspeptic suffers +greatly from nervousness and depression of spirits; indeed, it seems +almost impossible to maintain the usual cheerfulness.</p> + +<p><strong>Thought to be the Heart.</strong>—Many persons go to their family physician +thinking they have a serious form of heart disease, when the whole +trouble is with the stomach, the violent beating of the heart being +simply a nervous manifestation caused by the irritable condition of the +stomach.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_30" id="Page_30">[Pg 30]</a></span><strong>Two Diseases Closely Associated.</strong>—Chronic dyspepsia is almost invariably +associated with the diseases of women. Indeed, the two seem almost +inseparable, for whenever you find a woman complaining of soreness +across the lower part of the bowels, irregular menstruation, ovarian +irritation, inflammation of the bladder, leucorrhœa, etc., you will +find a confirmed dyspeptic. The blood is thin and watery, the bowels are +constipated, and the whole nervous system seems to be upset.</p> + +<p><strong>Which Disease Is the Cause?</strong>—The question comes whether the disease in +the pelvis causes the difficulty with the stomach, or whether the +stomach produces the inflammation in the uterus and surrounding parts. +Probably one is true at one time and another at another time. The fact +is that both conditions need correcting, and there is one remedy which +answers perfectly in each case.</p> + +<p><strong>Both Must Be Cured.</strong>—The digestion certainly cannot be perfect while +there is this inflammation in the pelvic organs; while the latter can +hardly maintain a healthy condition if the stomach fails to do its work.</p> + +<p><strong>Both May Be Cured.</strong>—By paying attention to a few rules of diet, and by +taking Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for a short time, I believe +every case will promptly yield to treatment.</p> + +<p><strong>Cures Dyspepsia of Men.</strong>—Indeed, strange as it may seem, a great many +men who have taken Lydia E. Pinkham's Compound because they have seen +its good action on the stomach in cases of other members of the family +have written reporting good results. It certainly has a most soothing +and strengthening power on this organ, while its gently stimulating +effect on the whole alimentary canal brings about the most desirable +changes.</p> + +<p><strong>Regular Action of the Bowels.</strong>—I would recommend that Lydia E. Pinkham's +Liver Pills be taken each night in just sufficient doses to cause a +regular action of the bowels each day. Then if Lydia E. Pinkham's +Vegetable Compound be taken, it will not only allay all inflammation in +the stomach and impart great strength, but it will at the same time +remove the soreness and pain in the pelvic organs.</p> + +<p><strong>A Simple but Valuable Aid.</strong>—All such persons will obtain relief by +drinking a cupful of hot water at least half an hour before breakfast +each morning; and if the case is very bad, then the hot water may be +repeated before each meal. The water should be as hot as can be +comfortably taken.</p> + +<p><strong>Useful Hints.</strong>—I would strongly urge the necessity of thoroughly chewing +the food and eating slowly. If this rule alone were observed there would +be far less dyspeptics in the country. Drink should be used sparingly at +meal-time, also, for while the body requires a great deal of liquid +during the day, yet this should be taken between meals rather than +during meals.</p> + +<p>The stomach should certainly have time to rest from its work of +digesting the food, hence nothing should be eaten between meals. The +habit so many girls have of eating before retiring is very injurious to +the health, and should be corrected at once. Meals should be taken at +regular intervals and not at any time when most convenient.</p> + +<p><strong>Diet for Dyspeptics.</strong>—The chronic dyspeptic should use soups sparingly, +for, as a rule, they are quite difficult of digestion, while they do not +contain much nourishment. Plain mutton and beef soup without much fat +are the least harmful. Such fish as pickerel, trout, shad, and white +fish may be used moderately; while oysters, especially when raw, are +easily digested. The best kinds of meat are roasted or broiled beef, +lamb chops, and some fowl, as chicken.</p> + +<p>Eggs are easily digested, and are exceedingly valuable as an article of +diet for the dyspeptic. They may be cooked in almost any form except +hard-boiled. They are highly nourishing, can be prepared in many +delicate ways, and are, as I have said, as valuable an article of diet +as the dyspeptic can have.</p> + +<p>Persons with chronic dyspepsia do not digest vegetables well, as a rule, +although such green vegetables as lettuce, green peas, asparagus, +celery, and spinach may be used. Potatoes often ferment in the stomach, +producing gases, and should be used sparingly.</p> + +<p>Toast is always well borne, but should never be buttered while hot. +Bread should not be used until it is at least a day old. Rolled oats, +cracked wheat, etc., may be taken, although with many they cause +fermentation. Nearly all cooked fruits are well borne by the stomach, +and so are nearly all ripe fruits. Puddings made from rice and custard +are easily digested.</p> + +<p>Milk is valuable at all times, and if the chronic dyspeptic bears it +well, this diet alone will<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_31" id="Page_31">[Pg 31]</a></span> frequently make a marked cure. If it rests +heavy on the stomach, a little lime water may be added to it in the +proportion of a tablespoonful of lime water to a cupful of milk.</p> + +<p><strong>Forbidden Diet.</strong>—There are certain articles of diet which the dyspeptic +should not use under any circumstances. Among such are fried foods of +all kinds, pork, liver, veal, rich soups, turkey, goose, duck, mackerel, +lobster, cucumbers, cabbage, turnips, parsnips, string beans, pies and +cakes, cheese and nuts.</p> + +<p><strong>Constipation.</strong>—As we have already stated, constipation is productive of +the most serious evils. When the lower bowel is distended, pressure is +made upon the surrounding blood-vessels, and thus the circulation +seriously interfered with.</p> + +<p><strong>Causes Inflammation of Uterus.</strong>—As a result, there is congestion in the +blood-vessels of the ovaries and uterus, and inflammation of these +organs is likely to follow with its long train of ailments.</p> + +<p>Constipation also seriously interferes with the general health, +producing nausea, indigestion, headache, backache, nervousness, general +debility, etc.</p> + +<p><strong>Daily Movements Necessary.</strong>—Nature intended that the alimentary canal +should be relieved of its contents at least once every twenty-four +hours, and if this is not done, then certain poisons are absorbed into +the blood which produce the most undesirable effects.</p> + +<p><strong>To Cure Constipation.</strong>—For constipation I strongly recommend Lydia E. +Pinkham's Liver Pills. I know they give the most prompt and satisfactory +relief. I have received letters from hundreds of women who have been +cured of the most distressing ailments of the uterus and bladder simply +by using these Liver Pills, and all because constipation was cured and +in this way the cause of the suffering removed.</p> + +<p><strong>Diarrhœa.</strong>—Diarrhœa, as a rule, is an effort of nature to get rid +of some offensive material. While this may be the first reason for its +existence, yet if it is allowed to go on, it produces such an irritation +in the bowels that serious results may easily follow.</p> + +<p><strong>Treatment.</strong>—If the person is conscious of having eaten something +indigestible, as unripe or overripe fruit, then it is best to aid nature +by taking some gentle laxative, as a laxative dose of Lydia E. Pinkham's +Liver Pills, thus hastening the removal of the indigestible substance. +If, however, there have been a number of movements of the bowels, until +the offending material is probably all removed, then the following plan +is all that will be necessary to make a cure:</p> + +<p>Let the person rest at full length upon a couch or bed, remaining as +quiet as possible. For the diet nothing should be taken but hot milk. A +glass of hot milk can be slowly sipped once every three hours, and +nothing else whatever should be taken into the stomach for a day, at +least, or until the diarrhœa is checked.</p> + +<p>If the pain is quite severe in the stomach or bowels, then a mustard +plaster may be placed over the most painful part, or cloths wrung from +hot water; or a poultice of linseed meal or slippery elm may be applied. +I have seen the good results of this treatment of "rest and hot milk" in +so many cases, and it is so exceedingly simple, that I earnestly +recommend its trial.</p> + +<p><strong>General Debility, Exhaustion, Anæmia.</strong>—Many women go about suffering +from great debility, being hardly able to drag themselves through the +day. When night comes they are too tired to sleep, and when morning +comes it seems they are more tired than they were at night. All parts of +the body partake of this general weakness.</p> + +<p>There are great discomfort and suffering through the lower part of the +body, difficulty in passing the urine, constipation of the bowels, +leucorrhœa, and all other affections which naturally come from an +impoverished condition of the blood.</p> + +<p><strong>May Be Promptly Cured.</strong>—To all women who are suffering from this general +debility, exhaustion, and nervous prostration I earnestly recommend +Lydia E. Pinkham's Blood Purifier. If the inflammation in the uterus and +surrounding organs is quite marked at the same time, then the Blood +Purifier may be taken before meals and the Vegetable Compound after. If +the female generative organs are not much involved, then the Blood +Purifier may be used alone.</p> + +<p><strong>A Grand Medicine.</strong>—This grand medicine has done great good, and I am +confident it will build up the system, purify the blood, and greatly +improve the general health.</p> + +<p>Persons suffering from general debility of this kind do not prosper well +on a milk diet alone. They need more hearty food, such as rare +beefsteak, rare roast beef, lamb chops, and eggs.</p> + +<p><strong>Sleeplessness.</strong>—Sleeplessness is frequently the result of a too liberal +use of tea or coffee. Many persons cannot take a cup of coffee at any +time during the evening without lying awake<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_32" id="Page_32">[Pg 32]</a></span> many hours to pay for it. +It is a strong stimulant to those who have a sensitive nervous system, +and should be used only sparingly at all times and never after the +midday meal.</p> + +<p>Strong tea acts in this way upon a great many, and if any of my readers +are troubled with sleeplessness, and yet at the same time use tea and +coffee freely, I would suggest that they try, first of all, to do +without these drinks and note the effect.</p> + +<p><strong>Treatment.</strong>—A warm (not hot) foot-bath taken just before retiring will +often cause a good night's rest, as it draws the blood from the head, +makes the circulation more evenly distributed, and in this way induces +sleep. Frequently a baby or young child may be made to sleep all through +the night if a warm bath be given just before retiring.</p> + +<p>When the sleeplessness is due to nerve exhaustion, as is frequently the +case, the very best results will follow the use of Lydia E. Pinkham's +Vegetable Compound, because of its great nerve tonic properties.</p> + +<p><strong>A Hard Cold.</strong>—Whenever any one has taken a hard cold, it can often be +speedily and completely broken up in the following manner: Take a hot +foot-bath for at least half an hour. While the feet are still in the hot +water throw a blanket completely about the limbs and body, in order to +retain all the heat possible. At the same time drink one or two cupfuls +of hot lemonade, or hot ginger tea. Then retire to bed, having the bed +previously well warmed, if during the wintertime. Put on plenty of +covering, keeping a hot flat-iron or a hot water-bottle at the feet, and +in every way try to induce free perspiration.</p> + +<p>After an hour or two, gradually remove the extra clothing. Be careful +about going out the next morning, for the body will be especially +susceptible to the cold. In this way it is possible to break up a hard +cold at once. If there is any tendency to cough, or any tightness or +soreness in the chest, place a mustard plaster directly over the chest, +and allow it to remain on until the skin is quite red.</p> + +<p><strong>Sore Throat.</strong>—An old-fashioned remedy for sore throat, and a very good +one, too, is to bind on each side of the throat a piece of salt pork. +The surface of the pork may be slightly covered with black pepper, in +order to increase its drawing power. This is allowed to remain on all +night, but should be taken off in the morning. During the day a flannel +is worn about the neck.</p> + +<p>A gargle for sore throat may be made by dissolving half a teaspoonful of +chlorate of potash in a cupful of warm water. Gargle the throat with +this every hour or two during the day, but do not swallow the mixture. +After this has been used for a day or two, then a solution may be made +by adding a teaspoonful of pulverized alum to a cupful of warm water; +this is applied to the inflamed sides of the throat by means of a swab. +Gargling the throat with a solution of ordinary extract of witch hazel, +one part, and water two parts, also very useful.</p> + +<p><strong>Croup.</strong>—As a rule, croup may be quickly cured by the use of either hot +or cold water. Immediately the child begins to breathe hard and cough +with a dry, hollow, barking cough, wring out a towel from cold water and +apply around the throat, covering this with a dry towel. The wet towel +should be changed in a few minutes, just as soon as it becomes a little +warm. Often before the second cloth is removed the spasm will be broken, +and the danger passed. <i>Cool</i> water will not answer; it must be <i>cold</i>. +If the spasm does not break, and the breathing does not become easy +within fifteen or twenty minutes, then change to hot water. Wring out +the cloth from water as hot as can be borne and apply about the neck, +changing in a few moments, and so on.</p> + +<p><strong>How to Lose Flesh.</strong>—I have often been asked whether it were possible to +have the flesh reduced without in any way affecting the general health. +If the person be only slightly heavier than usual, and is in the best of +health, it certainly seems wrong to experiment in any way to reduce the +weight, especially when this is done only to better follow the dictates +of fashion.</p> + +<p>If, however, the excess of flesh is becoming so great as to be +uncomfortable, to interfere with the regular work, or to cause weak +action of the heart, etc., then something should be done. There are a +few rules which a person may follow to advantage in such cases, although +the change should be made gradually.</p> + +<p>So long as a person continues to gain in flesh, it is positive evidence +that more food is being taken than necessary. Therefore the first rule +is that the quantity of food should be gradually diminished.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_33" id="Page_33">[Pg 33]</a></span>The second rule is that exercise should be taken regularly. This will +keep up the general health, while it will cause the fat to be more +evenly distributed over the body. Another rule is to keep the bowels +well open, so that there may be at least two movements daily. For this +special purpose the mineral laxative waters are best.</p> + +<p><strong>Diet for Reducing the Flesh.</strong>—Fatty foods should be avoided, and so +should all drinks in excess. Foods containing sugar or starch should be +taken sparingly, as oatmeal, potatoes, rice, cakes, sweetened tea and +coffee. Milk is very fattening to many, hence should not be used. The +eminent Dr. Mitchell, of Philadelphia, instituted a course of treatment +for reducing the weight, which is quite rigid, but nevertheless +effective. The regular diet should be changed gradually until it meets +Dr. Mitchell's demands.</p> + +<p>He prescribes outdoor exercise, and a diet of one cupful of milk and one +egg every three hours when awake. No other food or drink is allowed for +twenty days, when the list of foods is gradually extended. There are a +number of anti-fat remedies upon the market, but many of them depend for +a cure upon their power to disturb digestion, and thus interfere with +the general health.</p> + +<p><strong>How to Gain Flesh.</strong>—When it is natural for persons to be thin, it is +quite impossible for them to gain in weight under any kind of diet or +treatment. Many persons, however, are thin simply because some of the +digestive organs do not perform their work properly; or because the diet +is not the right kind.</p> + +<p>Thin persons need good meats and some vegetables. If the digestion is +all right, then such meats as mutton, chicken, broiled bacon, broiled +ham, etc., may be used; also rare broiled steak, rare roast beef, etc. +Eggs may be used in any way except hard-boiled. Good bread, oatmeal, +cracked wheat, hominy, etc., are good.</p> + +<p>Such indigestible foods as pork and veal, thin soups, cabbage, turnips, +pickles, pies, and pastries of all kinds should not be used.</p> + +<p>Often a good preparation of cod-liver oil will increase the weight; and +this is also true of many of the extracts of malt. It is useless, +however, to try to increase the weight by using a generous diet, unless +the digestion is in good order. When the digestion is weak, the person +should take Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound because of its power +to strengthen the digestion and enable the system to obtain all the good +possible from the food.</p> + +<p><strong>Pimples, Rashes, Eruptions.</strong>—Many persons, especially young girls, are +afflicted with pimples on the face, rashes, blackheads, etc. To cure +this condition it is necessary that the bowels be made to act regularly +each day, which is easily done by the use of Lydia E. Pinkham's Liver +Pills.</p> + +<p>Then a good course of treatment should be taken with Lydia E. Pinkham's +Blood Purifier in order to make the blood perfectly pure in every way. +Attention should also be paid to the diet, and such indigestible +articles as pork, pickles, rich pies and cakes, and rich sauces, +sweetmeats and nuts should be avoided.</p> + +<p>For local treatment, the face should be washed each day in warm, soapy +water, using the best Castile soap. Then with a sponge or wash cloth +wash off this water with as hot water as can be borne. It is best to +keep up this sponging with the hot water for at least five minutes in +order that the face may become thoroughly steamed.</p> + +<p>The face should then be wiped dry and rubbed briskly for a few minutes.</p> + +<p><strong>Burns.</strong>—Burns are likely to occur at any time in the household, and one +should always know what to do promptly. The best treatment is to add a +teaspoonful of ordinary baking-soda to a cupful of water. Saturate some +cloths in this solution and lay them over or loosely bind them about the +burned part. This will take out the pain and sting at once. As the +cloths become dry, more of the solution should be poured over them, and +they should not be removed from the burned parts. After a few hours, +these wet cloths may be replaced by cloths well covered with vaseline. +<strong>If you do not understand your ailments write to Mrs Pinkham. Her advice +is free and always helpful. Such letters are strictly confidential; they +are never shown without the writer's express permission; women only +assist in answering them.</strong></p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_34" id="Page_34">[Pg 34]</a></span></p> +<h2>Free Medical Advice to Women</h2> +<h3>ALL CORRESPONDENCE STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL</h3> +<p> </p> +<div class="figleft"><img src="images/p034.png" alt="Lady with hand raised" /></div> + +<p>In addressing Mrs. Pinkham you are confiding your private ills to a +woman—a woman who speaks from a greater experience in treating women's +diseases than can any living physician—male or female.</p> + +<p>You can talk freely to a woman when it is revolting to relate your +private troubles to a man—besides, a man does not understand—simply +because he is a man.</p> + +<p>Many women suffer in silence and drift along from bad to worse, knowing +full well that they ought to have immediate assistance, but a natural +modesty impels them to shrink from exposing themselves to the questions +and probably examinations of even their family physician. It is +unnecessary. Without money or price you can consult a woman, who can +speak from a greater actual experience than can any local physician in +the world.</p> + +<p>Every one will agree that there are the strongest of all reasons why, if +we are ill, we should appeal to the person who knows the most about the +kind of illness with which we are afflicted—one who has had the +greatest experience in treating just such cases and meeting just the +symptoms that are manifest in our particular case.</p> + +<p>What confidence does one gain by consulting one who has occasionally met +a case just like ours, but has had no great experience? None whatever. +All treatment under such a person must of necessity be experimental. But +in writing Mrs. Pinkham you consult one who has, actually filed in her +office for ready reference, an immense correspondence with patients +suffering from female ills which has been constantly going on for more +than twenty-five years; and it is safe to say there is not a case or +complication of female derangements with which she is not familiar. It +is a positive fact, easily verified, that within the last few months +she, with her corps of trained women assistants, has advised in over one +hundred thousand cases, and that a vast number of the women of this +country owe the restoration of their health to her advice and Lydia E. +Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.</p> + +<p>Now, if a woman is ill and miserable, it seems to us only simple justice +to herself that she should avail herself of the help of a woman of such +enormous experience.</p> + +<p> </p> +<h3>MRS. PINKHAM'S STANDING INVITATION.</h3> + +<p>Women suffering from any form of female weakness are invited to promptly +communicate with Mrs. Pinkham, at Lynn, Mass. She asks nothing in +return, except their good will, and her advice has relieved thousands. +Surely any woman, rich or poor, is very foolish if she does not take +advantage of this generous offer of assistance.</p> + +<h4>Address simply Mrs. Pinkham, Lynn, Mass., U. S. A.</h4> + +<p> </p><p> </p> +<p><a name="translations" id="translations"></a><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_35" id="Page_35">[Pg 35]</a></span></p> + +<p class="hang">El Compuesto Vegetal de Lydia E. Pinkham es un remedio seguro para +todas las enfermedades de las mujeres, incluyendo la caída del +útero, leucorrea, menstruaciones irregulares y dolorosas, +inflamaciones y ulceraciones de la matriz y del ovario, para toda +clase de afecciones de los órganos de la generación, así como +también para las enfermedades de los riñones de ambos sexos. Este +remedio está compuesto de las raíces y yerbas mas puras y +escogidas, que se encuentran en la naturaleza para las enfermedades +de las mujeres.</p> + +<p><strong>Menstruación.</strong>—Las menstruaciones tempranas no son deseables, aunque +muchas menstruaciones aparecen de los trece á los quince años; sin +embargo mucho depende de la constitución de la muchacha. Si habiendo +llegado á esta edad no ha menstruado todavía, la madre deberá prestar +singular cuidado á la hija; esta probablemente crecerá delgada y pálida +con una complexión lívida, que hará de ella una víctima fácil y segura +de la tisis y de la nevrastenia. Nada hay comparable para estos casos al +Compuesto Vegetal de Lydia E. Pinkham. Ayuda y promueve los cambios +importantes que han de verificarse en la vida de la muchacha en esa edad +previniendo largos años de padecimientos los cuales son resaltados +seguros de la negligencia. El Compuesto deberá tomarse siguiendo +estrictamente las direcciones hasta que la menstruación ocurra +regularmente cada veinte y ocho días. Si hay propensión á estreñimiento, +las Píldoras de Hígado de Lydia E. Pinkham deberán tomarse juntamente +con el Compuesto Vegetal. Estas píldoras han sido hechas especialmente +para mujeres y obran in perfecta harmonía con el Compuesto Vegetal.</p> + +<p><strong>Supresión de las Reglas</strong> es la suspensión de la menstruación.</p> + +<p>Si la supresión de las reglas ocurriese, excepto en los casos de preñez +ó de amamantamiento, el Compuesto Vegetal de Lydia E. Pinkham deberá +tomarse hasta que la menstruación vuelva á producirse regularmente. +Curará todas las irregularidades.</p> + +<p><strong>Menstruaciones dolorosas.</strong>—Muchas mujeres sufren dolores terribles +durante la menstruación. El Compuesto Vegetal de Lydia E. Pinkham curará +esos martirizantes dolores. Nada importa que el caso sea reciente ó que +haya existido durante muchos meses, si el Compuesto Vegetal se toma +regularmente y siguiendo las instrucciones, la cura será un hecho +cierto.</p> + +<p><strong>Menstruaciones abundantes</strong> ocurren á menudo en las personas sanguíneas y +en las pálidas y linfáticas. El Compuesto Vegetal de Lydia Pinkham ha +hecho algunas de las curas más asombrosas precisamente en esas +condiciones. Para las menstruaciones abundantes avisamos que se tome el +Compuesto Vegetal de Lydia E. Pinkham en forma seca, es decir en +píldoras ó pastillas.</p> + +<p><strong>La inflamación y la ulceración del útero</strong> es la causa de casi todas las +enfermedades de las mujeres. El Compuesto Vegetal de Lydia E. Pinkham ha +curado más de un millón de casos de enfermedades uterinas. El número de +relaciones recibidos de mujeres que han estado enfermas á punto de morir +y han sido curadas por este remedio es casi increíble. Una mujer puede +conocer perfectamente si padece de alguna enfermedad del útero, porque +estas enfermedades vienen acompañadas de terribles dolores en el +abdomen, espalda etc., desmayos, pesadez en las extremidades, y de toda +clase de otros dolores. Una cura segura se encuentra en el Compuesto +Vegetal de Lydia E. Pinkham.</p> + +<p><strong>Leucorrea (ó Flores Blancos).</strong>—Uno de los primeros síntomas de la +inflamacíon del útero es la leucorrea, familiarmente conocida bajo el +nombre de Flores Blancos, la cual consiste en una secreción blancusca de +la vagina la cual debilita muchísimo el sistema y produce una irritación +de la membrana mucosa que reviste el canal vaginal. El uso regular del +Compuesto Vegetal, por sus efectos en la constitución, y la Loción +Sanativa de Lydia E. Pinkham usada en inyecciones curará positivamente +los casos más graves de leucorrea. La negligencia de esta dolorosa +enfermedad originará úlceras, flujos excesivos, estableciendo los +cimientos para la más terrible de todas las enfermedades—el Cancer.</p> + +<p><strong>Caída del Utero.</strong>—Existen muchos desplazamientos del útero, pero el más +principal es él conocido generalmente con el nombre de la Caída del +Utero. Esto es debido muchas veces á la flojedad de los ligamentos que +soportan este órgano. El Compuesto Vegetal de Lydia E. Pinkham fortalece +lás ligamentos, alivia todas las inflamaciones y gradualmente restaura +los órganos á su propia condición. El Compuesto Vegetal de Lydia E. +Pinkham removerá los tumores del útero en su temprano desenvolvimiento +tan seguro como el sol brilla.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_36" id="Page_36">[Pg 36]</a></span><strong>La Inflamación de los ovarios</strong> es una de las enfermedades más +desesperantes que atacan á las mujeres de 20 á 40 años. Esta enfermedad +va siempre acompañada de algunos dolores de la región de los ovarios y +de una sensación de pesadez especialmente durante la menstruación. A +menudo el dolor extiéndese por el costado y la espalda, especialmente en +el lado izquierdo produciendo continuos deseos de orinar. A menos que +esta enfermedad se ataque prontamente nada curará á la paciente que no +sea la cuchilla del cirujano. El Compuesto Vegetal de Lydia E. Pinkham a +curado miles de mujeres que sufrían enfermedades del ovario, salvándolas +de los riesgos de una seria operación.</p> + +<p><strong>La Esterilidad</strong> es á menudo debida á la extrema debilidad e inflamación +crónica del útero; frecuentemente el uso regular del compuesto Vegetal +de Lydia E. Pinkham ha restaurado los órganos reproductivos de la mujer +á sus condiciones normales quitándolas la idea de que su esterilidad era +imposible de curarse.</p> + +<p><strong>Cambio de Vida</strong> es el período peligroso por el cual pasan todas las +mujeres que han cumplido 45 años; durante este período las mujeres +sufren toda clase de dolores y enfermedades, pero si el Compuesto +Vegetal de Lydia E. Pinkham se toma regularmente este cambio importante +puede ser pasado sin peligro de enfermedades ó muerte.</p> + +<p><strong>Las Enfermedades de los Riñones y de la Vejiga</strong> son comunes en ambos +sexos, generalmente de difícil curación, pero pueden curarse si se +atienden á tiempo; nada sin embargo es tan fatal como el no atenderlos +debidamente á su tiempo, siendo la muerte el resultado inevitable. El +Compuesto Vegetal de Lydia E. Pinkham no reconoce rival entre los +remedios que para estas enfermedades han sido descubiertos. Es digno de +absoluta confianza tanto por hombre como por mujer.</p> + +<p><strong>Los Dolores de la Espalda</strong> no son una enfermedad pero son uno de los +principales síntomas; cuando existe una enfermedad de los órganos de la +generación, ésta es telegrafiada, como si dijeramos, al gran nervio +simpático que tiene uno de sus principales centros en la parte mas baja +de la espalda. El Compuesto Vegetal de Lydia E. Pinkham curando las +enfermedades del útero y de los riñones hará desaparecer los dolores de +la espalda.</p> + +<p><strong>Dispepsia é Indigestión.</strong>—Nada en el mundo será descubierto que pueda +compararse al Compuesto Vegetal de Lydia E. Pinkham, para las +enfermadedes del estómago.</p> + +<p><strong>Preñez.</strong>—Muchos dolores y sufrimientos que ocurren al dar á luz á un +niño podrían evitarse enteramente, si la madre fortificase su sistema +durante dos meses antes del nacimiento con el Compuesto Vegetal de Lydia +E. Pinkham.</p> + +<h3>DIRECCIONES GENERALES.</h3> + +<p>Una cucharada del Compuesto Vegetal de Lydia E. Pinkham deberá tomarse +cada 4 horas al día para cualquiera de las enfermedades arriba +mencionadas.</p> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<p>Empápese un cuarto del paquete le la Loción Sanativa de Lydia E. Pinkham +en cantidad suficiente de agua para hacer una pinta después de haberse +filtrado; cuando los flujos son profusos, úsese la mitad de esta +cantidad, añadiendo una pinta de agua caliente.</p> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<p>Para estreñimiento, dolores de cabeza, biliosidades tómense tres +Píldoras de Hígado de Lydia E. Pinkham la primera noche, dos la segunda +y una la tercera, y á menos que se obtenga una saludable flojedad de los +intestinos deberá seguirse tomando una cada noche, hasta concluir la +caja.</p> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<p>Cuando la sangre es pobre y el paciente se sienta débil y cansado, y +desganado, nada en el mundo es tan bueno como el "Purificador de la +Sangre" de Lydia E. Pinkham. Una cucharada tres veces al día curará el +reumatismo, scrófula, erupciones de la piel, etc. etc.</p> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<p>De venta por todos los farmaceúticos y droguistas.</p> + +<p>Preparado por The Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Company,</p> + +<div class="right">Lynn, Mass., E. U. de A.</div> + +<p> </p><p> </p> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_37" id="Page_37">[Pg 37]</a></span></p> + +<h3>LYDIA E. PINKHAM'S ÖRT-MEDICIN</h3> + +<p>ar ett säkert botemedel för alla qvinnosjukdomar, såsom lifmoderns +nedfallande, hvitsot, oregelbunden och smärtsam rening, inflammation och +sårnad på lifmodern och äggstockarne, samt alla andra svagheter uti de +qvinliga skaporganen, äfvensom njurlidande hos båda könen. Det är +sammansatt af utvalda och renaste slag af rötter och örter, såsom +naturen sjelf fråmställt dem för botandet af qvinnans lidanden.</p> + +<p><strong>Rening.</strong>—För tidig rening är icke önskvärd, ehuru densamma vanligen +börjar vid omkring tretton intill femton års ålder; emellertid beror +dervid mycket på flickans kroppsbyggnad. Om hon nått denna ålder och +ännu icke haft rening, bör modren fästa särskild uppmärksamhet dervid; +hennes dotter blir antagligen mager och blek, med en egendomlig gulblek +hy och hon blir ett säkert och lätt offer för lungsot och nervös +nedslagenhet. Ingenting i verlden när upp till Lydia E. Pinkhams +Vegetable Compound i dylika fall.</p> + +<p>Det bidragar att åstadkomma den vigtiga förändring uti en flickas lif, +som bör ega rum vid omkring denna ålder och förebygger sålunda åratal af +elände, som är en säker följd af uraktlåtenhet. Medicinen måste tagas +bestämdt enligt föreskrift, intill reningen inträffar regelbundet hvarje +tjuguåttonde dag. Om inelfvorna äro benägna att hoptränga sig, borde +Lefver-Piller (Lydia E. Pinkhams Liver-Pills) begagnas, hvilka blifvit +särskildt sammansatta för qvinnans bruk och verka i fullkomlig harmoni +med Vegetable Compound.</p> + +<p><strong>Förhindrande af Flytningen</strong> är ett uppharonde sedan reningen +vederbörligen börjat. Om ett upphörande eger rum, så framt det icke är +en följd af hafvandeskap eller gifvande af di, är det ett allvarligt +fall och Lydia E. Pinkhams Vegetable Compound bör tagas tills reningen +åter blir regelbunden. Den förbättrar säkert alla oregelbundenheter.</p> + +<p><strong>Smärtsam Rening.</strong>—Många qvinnor lida marterande smärta under reningen. +Lydia E. Pinkhams Vegetable Compound botar säkert denna smärtande +känsla. Det inverkar ej om detta förhållande nyligen inträdt eller om +det egt rum under många månader; om Lydia E. Pinkhams Vegetable Compound +tages regelbundet och enligt föreskrift är ett botande säkert.</p> + +<p><strong>För Ymnig Rening</strong> förekommer ofta hos dem, som äro blodfulla, liksom hos +dem som äro bleka och svaga. Lydia E. Pinkhams Vegetable Compound har +åtstadkommit åtskilliga af de mest förvånansvärda botaden i just dylika +fall. För för ymnig rening eller flytning rekommendera vi alltid Lydia +E. Pinkhams Vegetable Compound i torr form, antingen som piller eller +kakor.</p> + +<p><strong>Inflammation och Sårnad på Lifmodern</strong> är orsaken till nästan alla +qvinnosjukdomar. Lydia E. Pinkhams Vegetable Compound har botat mera än +en million fall af Lifmoderfel. De skildringer, som erhållits från +qvinnor, hvilka varit dödsjuka och som botats genom Lydia E. Pinkhams +Vegetable Compound äro nästan otroliga. En qvinna vet säkerligen om hon +har något slags lifmoderfel, enär dylikt nästan alltid åtföljes af en +nedtyngande känsla uti underlifvet, ryggvärk, svimmingsanfall, styfhet i +lederna och all annan tänkbar värk och smärta. Ett aldrig svikande +botemedel är Lydia E. Pinkhams Vegetable Compound.</p> + +<p><strong>Leucorrhea eller Hvitflytning.</strong>—En af de första symptomerna af +lifmoderns inflammation är leucorrhea, vanligen kallad "hvitt," hvilken +består af en hvit flytning från moderslidan och som är mycket +kraftnedsättande för systemet och retande för moderslidans känsliga +slemhinna.</p> + +<p>Ett regelbundet begagnande af Lydia E. Pinkhams Vegetable Compound på +grund af dess inverkanpå kroppsbeskaffenheten och Lydia E. Pinkhams +Läkande Medel för insprutning uti moderslidan, botar säkert de +allvarligaste fall af hvitflytning. Försummande af denna ledsamma +sjukdom förorsakar sårnader, öfverdrifven flytning och lägger grunde för +den forskräckligaste af alla sjukdomar nemligen Kräfta.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_38" id="Page_38">[Pg 38]</a></span><strong>Lifmoderns Nedfallande.</strong>—Det finnes många olika rubbningar hos +lifmodern, den vanligaste känd under namn af lifmoderns nedfallande. +Detta beror hufvudsakligast på förslappning af de band som uppbara detta +organ eller hålla det på sin plats. Lydia E. Pinkhams Vegetable Compound +starker dessa band, lindrar inflammation och återställer så småningen +delarne uti deras behöriga läge. Lydia E. Pinkhams Vegetable Compound +borttager svullnad uti lifmodern i dess tidigare stadium lika säkert som +solen skiner.</p> + +<p><strong>Inflammation uti Äggstockarne</strong> är en särdeles allvarlig sjukdom, som +angriper qvinnan mellan 20 och 40 års ålder. Den åtföljes alltid af +ömhet och hårda smärtor i trakten af äggstockarne och en känsla af +uppfyllnad isynnerhet under reningen. Ofta utstracka sig smartorna till +sidan och ryggen, isynnerhet till venstra sidan, med ett ständigt begår +att urinera. Sä framt icke denna sjukdom genast häfvas, kan ingenting +rädda patienter från operationsknifven. Lydia E. Pinkhams Vegetable +Compound har emellertid botat tusentals qvinnor för sjukdomar uti +äggstockarne och räddat mångfaldiga från hospitalet och en allvarlig +operation.</p> + +<p><strong>Ofruktbarhet</strong> har often sin orsak uti ytterlig svaghet och kroniskt +inflammeradt tillstånd af lifmodern. Regelbundet begagnande af Lydia E. +Pinkhams medicin har ofta återställt lifmoderns fruktbara organer till +deras normala tillstånd och lindrat från den bekymrande tanken att +ofruktbarheten var obotlig.</p> + +<p><strong>Förändring I Lifvet</strong> ar en farlig period för alla qvinnor, som hunnit +till 45 års ålder. Under denna tid har qvinnan all slags sjukdom och +smärta, men om Lydia E. Pinkhams Vegetable Compound tages regelbundet, +kan denna vigtiga förändring i en qvinnas lif passeras utan fara för +sjugdom eller död.</p> + +<p><strong>Njurlidande och Blåskatarr</strong> hos båda könen aro vanliga och svåra +sjukdomar, men de kunna botas om de tagas itu med i rätt tid. Ingenting +ar emellertid så olycksbringande som symptomerna till dessa sjukdomar om +de ej gifvas akt på i tid och döden är oundviklig. Lydia E. Pinkhams +Vegetable Compound öfverträffas ej af något annat botemedel, som +någonsin uppståckts för botande af alla sjugdomar i njurarne och blåsan. +Det är fullt tillförlitligt både för män och qvinnor.</p> + +<p><strong>Ryggvark</strong> är icke en sjukdom utan en tydlig symptom da sjukdom förefinnes +uti skaporganen och ger sig tillkänna som om det vore uti den stora +sympatiska nerv, som har ett af sina förnämsta lägen i lägre delen af +ryggen. Lydia E. Pinkhams Vegetable Compound, som häfver lifmoders-, +äggstocks-, och njurlidanden, botar tryckande <ins class="correction" title="Original reads 'ryggväkr'.">ryggvärk</ins>.</p> + +<p><strong>Magsyra och Dålig Matsmåltning.</strong>—Ingenting verlden har någonsin +uppstäckts, som uppnår Lydia E. Pinkhams Vegetable Compound for +magsjukdomar.</p> + +<p><strong>Hafvande Tillstand.</strong>—Vid barnsbörd intraffer mycken smärta och lidande, +som kunde helt och hållet undvikas om den blifvande modern stärkte sitt +system genom regelbunden behandling med Lydia E. Pinkhams Vegetable +Compound under en period af två månader före barnsbörden.</p> + + +<h3>ALLMÄN ORDINATION.</h3> + +<p>En matsked af Lydia E. Pinkhams Vegetable Compound hvarje fjerde timma +under dagens lopp för hvilken som helst af förutnmände sjukdomar.</p> + +<p>Lägg ett fjerdedels paket af Lydia E. Pinkhams Läkande Medel i +tillräckligt med vatten för att utgöra en pint sedan det silats. Då +flytningen är för riklig, tag hälften deraf och tillsätt en pint varmt +vatten. Begagna dagligen för insprutning i moderslidan.</p> + +<p>För föstoppning, hufvudvärk och gallsjukdom tages tre Lydia E. Pinkhams +Lefverpiller första natten, två den andra och en den tredje och såvida +ej en regelbunden och helsosåm förändring inträdt uti underlifvet, +fortsätt att taga ett hvarje afton så länge de räcka.</p> + +<p>När blodet är fattigt och patienten är svag samt alltid känner sig +trött, är mager och ej har appetit, så är intet i verlden så välgörande +som Lydia E. Pinkhams Blodrenare. En matsked tre gånger dagligen botar +rheumatism, skrofler, hudsjukdomar m. m.</p> + +<p>Säljes hos Apotekare, prepareradt af Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Company,</p> + +<div class="right">Lynn, Mass., Förenta Staterna.</div> + +<p> </p><p> </p> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_39" id="Page_39">[Pg 39]</a></span></p> + +<h3>LE REMÈDE VÉGÉTAL DE LYDIA E. PINKHAM.</h3> + +<p><strong>Le Remède Végétal de Lydia E. Pinkham</strong> est un remède absolument sûr pour +toutes les maladies de femme telles que le prolapsus de la matrice, la +leucorrhée, les menstrues irregulières et douloureuses, l'inflammation +et l'ulcération de la matrice et des ovaires, ainsi que pour toutes les +autres affections des organes génitaux de la femme, et les maladies des +reins et du foie des deux sexes.</p> + +<p>Il se compose des herbes et racines les plus pures, telles que les +pourvoit la nature elle même.</p> + +<p><strong>Menstrues.</strong>—Il n'est pas à désirer que les règles aient lieu a un âge +trop jeune, quoiqu'en général les menstrues commencent entre la 13e et +la 15e année, la constitution de la jeune fille y jouant un certain +rôle. Si la fille a atteint cet âge et qu'elle n'ait pas encore ses +règles, la mère ne saurait être trop soigneuse; il est probable que la +fille est pâle et maigre, et que son teint montre cette couleur livide +qui nous fait craindre qu'elle ne devienne sous peu la victime de la +phthisie et qu'elle ne devienne fortement neurasthénique. Pour empêcher +un tel malheur rien n'égale "Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound." Il +produit d'une manière salutaire et prompte le changement qui devrait +alors avoir lieu, en prévenant ainsi de longues années de souffrances, +résultat inévitable de tout manque de précaution. Lydia E. Pinkham's +Vegetable Compound doit être pris strictement selon les instructions, +jusqu'à ce que les règles aient lieu tous les 28 jours. Si, de plus, il +y a de la constipation, on se servira des Pilules de Foie de Lydia E. +Pinkham, faites exprès pour l'usage des femmes et opérant entièrement +d'accord avec le remède.</p> + +<p><strong>L'Absence des Règles</strong> après qu'elles ont commencé une fois, à moins +qu'elle ne soit due à la grossesse ou à l'allaitement, est une affaire +de la plus grande importance et personne ne devrait manquer de se servir +de Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound jusqu'à ce que de nouveau les +menstrues se montrent regulièrement.</p> + +<p><strong>Règles Douloureuses.</strong>—Il y a bien des femmes qui, pendant le temps de +leurs règles, souffrent des douleurs tout à fait terribles. Notre remède +guérira d'une maniere sûre cette affection n'importe si c'est un cas +récent ou vieux de plusieurs mois. On peut s'attendre à une guérison +sûre et efficace pourvu que le remède soit pris regulièrement et suivant +les instructions.</p> + +<p><strong>Les Règles Excessives</strong> se montrent d'abord chez des personnes sanguines +et chez les personnes affaiblies et pales. Notre remède, Lydia E. +Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, a obtenu des résultats tout à fait +merveilleux dans ces cas. Pour guérir l'excès ou l'hémorrhagie des +règles nous conseillons l'emploi du remède dans sa forme sèche, c'est à +dire en pilules ou en pastilles.</p> + +<p><strong>L'Inflammation ainsi que L'Ulcération de la Matrice</strong> peuvent être +regardées comme cause de presque toutes les maladies de la femme. +Cependant Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound a guéri plus d'un +million de maladies de la matrice. Les rapports que nous recevons des +femmes qui ont failli en mourir et qui ensuite ont été gueries, sont +presque incroyables. La femme peut s'assurer assez facilement, si elle +est atteinte ou non d'une affection de la matrice, vu le fait +qu'ordinairement elle est sujette à des tiraillements d'estomac, à des +peines dans les reins, à des évanouissements, à l'engourdissement des +membres et à une foule d'autres douleurs. Le seul remède infaillible +pour guérir toutes ces affections est Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable +Compound.</p> + +<p><strong>La Leucorrhée</strong> que nous connaissons plus familièrement sous le nom de +"Fleurs Blanches," représente un des premiers symptômes de +l'inflammation de la matrice. Le mal se montre sous la forme d'une +secrétion blanchâtre du vagin, enfaiblissant le système et exerçant un +irritation très sérieuse sur la muqueuse du vagin. L'emploi régulier de +Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, grâce à son effet sur le système, +ainsi que de la Lotion Sanitaire de Lydia E. Pinkham (Lydia E. Pinkham's +Sanative Wash) appliquée sous forme d'injections dans le vagin, ne +tardera guère de guérir les cas les plus obstinés de leucorrhée. En +négligeant cette maladie désastreuse on est sûr de donner lieu à des +secrétions excessives, à des ulcères ainsi qu'a la plus dangereuse de +toutes les maladies—le Cancer.</p> + +<p><strong>Prolapsus de la Matrice.</strong>—Il y a un grand nombre de déplacements dont le +plus important est appelé "le prolapsus de la matrice." Celui-ci est +produit d'abord par une relaxation des ligaments qui, dans leur état +normal, maintiennent cet organe à sa place. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable +Compound fortifiera ces ligaments, l'inflammation disparaîtra et peu à +peu l'organe sera remis dans sa condition normale. Notre remède aura de +plus un<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_40" id="Page_40">[Pg 40]</a></span> succès indiscutable pour guérir toutes les tumeurs de la +matrice pourvu qu'on commence à s'en servir dès leurs première phases.</p> + +<p><strong>L'Inflammation des Ovaires</strong> est une des maladies les plus désastreuses +atteignant les femmes entre la vingtième et la quarantième année. Les +personnes qui en souffrent s'aperçevront vite d'une sensibilité +extraordinaire dans la région des ovaires, de plus des sensations +d'enflements désagréables, surtout dans la période des règles. Souvent +la douleur s'étend aux flancs et au dos, surtout au flanc gauche, et il +se fait sentir un désir incessant d'uriner. A moins que cette affection +ne soit arrêtée promptement rien ne pourra sauver la malade d'une +opération. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, cependant, a guéri les +maladies d'ovaires de milliers de femmes et bien de femmes ont été assez +heureuses, par conséquent, pour échapper à un long traitement à +l'hôpital ainsi qu'à une opération des plus sérieuses.</p> + +<p><strong>La Stérilité</strong> est très souvent une conséquence directe d'une inflammation +chronique de la matrice et d'une faiblesse extrême. L'emploi régulier de +Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound a souvent rétabli les fonctions +normales de l'organe générateur, et a ainsi détruit cette idée fatale +que la stérilité etait incurable.</p> + +<p><strong>La Période Climatérique ou Changement de Vie</strong> est une période très +importante et assez dangereuse pour toute femme qui a passé l'âge de 45 +ans. Pendant cette période les femmes sont atteintes de toute espèce de +maladies et de peines; l'emploi régulier de Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable +Compound cependant va leur garantir une immunité parfaite contre tout +accident dangereux qui pourrait leur survenir dans cette période.</p> + +<p><strong>Les Maladies des Reins et de la Vessie</strong>, chez les deux sexes, sont très +frequentes et très obstinées. Aussi peuvent-elles devenir très +dangereuses et même fatales, si l'on manque de s'en occuper dès +l'apparence des premiers symptômes. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable +Compound, que nous conseillons d'employer le plus tôt possible, est la +<strong>médicine par excellence</strong> qui dans tous les cas de maladies du foie et de +la vessie produira un résultat simplement merveilleux chez l'homme et +chez la femme, et qui ne manquera guère de sauver une vie trop souvent +menacée fatalement.</p> + +<p><strong>Le Mal de Dos</strong>, quelque fréquent qu'il soit, n'est guère une maladie +proprement dite, mais plutôt un symptôme de la plus haute importance, +comme il indique par le centre dorsal du grand nerf sympathique, qu'il y +a une affection des organes générateurs qu'on fera bien de ne point +négliger. Aussitôt que ces affections ou utérines, ou ovariennes ou +rénales sont guéries par l'emploi de Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, +ce mal de dos tourmentant va cesser tout seul.</p> + +<p><strong>Dyspepsie et Indigestion.</strong>—Rien au monde n'égale la force guérissante de +notre remède pour toutes les maladies de l'estomac.</p> + +<p><strong>Grossesse.</strong>—Une grande partie des douleurs et des souffrances qu'en +général les femmes doivent endurer en accouchant pourraient être +evitées, si elles se préparaient convenablement en fortifiant leur +système par l'emploi de Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, à peu +près deux mois avant l'accouchement.</p> + +<h3>MODE D'EMPLOI.</h3> + +<p>Prenez une cuillerée de Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound toutes les +4 heures pendant la journée pour guérir chacune des maladies décrites +ci-dessus.</p> + +<p>Trempez le quart d'un paquet de Lydia E. Pinkham's Sanative Wash (Lotion +Sanitaire) dans assez d'eau pour obtenir une pinte après la filtration; +la secrétion étant très forte on doit employer la moitié de cette +quantité à laquelle on ajoutera une pinte d'eau chaude. Employez la +lotion chaque jour en l'injectant dans le vagin.</p> + +<p>Pour guérir la constipation, la migraine, les attaques bilieuses, prenez +trois pilules la première nuit, deux la suivante et une la troisième et +continuez jusqu'à ce que la boîte soit vide, à moins qu'il n'y ait pas +une évacuation regulière plus tôt.</p> + +<p>Quand le sang est appauvri et que le malade est toujours fatigué, bien +amaigri et sans appétit, rien au monde ne lui fera autant de bien que le +remède purificateur Lydia E. Pinkham's Blood Purifier. Une cuillerée +trois fois par jour guérira les rhumatismes, la scrofule et toutes +sortes d'éruptions de la peau.</p> + +<p>Vendu chez tous les pharmaciens.</p> + +<p>Préparé par Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Company,</p> + +<div class="right">Lynn, Mass., E. U.</div> + +<p> </p><p> </p> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_41" id="Page_41">[Pg 41]</a></span></p> + +<p>Lydia E. Pinkham's Kräutermittel, unter dem Namen "Vegetable Compound" +auf den Markt gebracht, ist ein absolut zuverlässiges Heilmittel für +sämmtliche Frauenkrankheiten, einschließlich Vorfall der Gebärmutter, +Leukorrhoe, unregelmäßige und schmerzhafte Menstruation, Entzündung und +Geschwürbildung in der Gebärmutter und den Eierstöcken, ferner für alle +sonstigen Schwächezustände in den weiblichen Geschlechtsorganen und für +Nierenkrankheiten bei beiden Geschlechtern. Das Mittel ist aus den +reinsten und erlesensten Wurzeln und Kräutern, wie sie Mutter Natur zur +Heilung aller Frauenleiden selbst geschaffen hat, zusammengestellt.</p> + +<p><strong>Menstruation.</strong> Eine übermäßig frühe Menstruation ist keineswegs +wünschenswerth; obwohl die Monatsregel oder Menstruation im Allgemeinen +in der Zeit vom dreizehnten bis zum fünfzehnten Jahre aufzutreten +pflegt, wobei jedoch viel von der Constitution des betreffenden Mädchens +abhängt. Hat sie jedoch dieses Alter erreicht, und sollte sich die +Menstruation noch nicht eingestellt haben, so muß die Mutter sich um die +Sache bekümmern. Wahrscheinlich ist das junge Mädchen mager und blaß, +wobei der Teint ein besonders, gelbliches Aussehen hat, so daß es nur zu +leicht ein Opfer der Auszehrung und allgemeiner Nervenschwäche wird. Für +solche Fälle ist Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound geradezu +unvergleichlich. Es trägt vor allem dazu bei, daß der Wechsel im +Mädchenleben, der um diese Zeit eintreten sollte, auch richtig +stattfindet, und es verhindert somit jahrelanges Leiden, das in der +Regel eine sichere Folge einer Vernachlässigung in diesem Sinne bildet. +Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound sollte genau nach Vorschrift +eingenommen werden, bis die Regeln regelmäßig sich alle 28 Tage +einstellen. Zeigt sich Anlage zu Verstopfung, so muß man auch Lydia E. +Pinkham's Leberpillen brauchen, die speciell für den Gebrauch von Frauen +zusammengestellt worden sind und in jeder Beziehung harmonisch mit dem +"Compound" zusammenwirken.</p> + +<p><strong>Ausbleiben der Regeln.</strong> Mit diesem Ausdruck bezeichnet man das +Nichterscheinen der Menstruation, nachdem dieselbe einmal zu erscheinen +angefangen hat. Ein derartiges Ausbleiben, sofern es nicht der +Schwangerschaft oder dem Stillen zuzuschreiben ist, ist eine ernsthafte +Angelegenheit, und Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound muß eingenommen +werden, bis die Menstruation wieder regelmäßig eintritt. Durch den +Gebrauch dieses Mittels kann man zuverlässig alle Unregelmäßigkeiten +beseitigen.</p> + +<p><strong>Schmerzhafter Monatsfluß.</strong> Bei vielen Frauen verursacht der Monatsfluß +überaus große Schmerzen, und alle, die daran leiden, sollten ja nicht +verfehlen, sich durch den Gebrauch von Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable +Compound von dieser wahrhaften Geißel zu retten. Dabei ist es +gleichgültig, ob der Fall ein akuter ist oder ob er schon viele Monate +gedauert hat. Vorausgesetzt, daß das Vegetable Compound regelmäßig und +genau nach Vorschrift genommen wird, darf man zuverlässig eine Heilung +erwarten.</p> + +<p><strong>Zu starker Monatsfluß.</strong> Sowohl vollblütige als auch besonders +bleichsüchtige und schwächliche Personen leiden häufig unter zu starker +Menstruation. Gerade mit Bezug auf derartige Zustände vermag Lydia E. +Pinkham's Vegetable Compound außerordentlich günstige Resultate +aufzuweisen. Doch empfehlen wir bei zu reichlich auftretender Blutung +Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound in seiner trockenen Form, d. h. in +der Form von Pillen oder Pastillen einzunehmen.</p> + +<p>Beinahe alle Frauenkrankheiten haben ihren Ursprung in <strong>Entzündung und +Geschwürbildung in der Gebärmutter</strong>, und es ist daher nicht genug +hervorzuheben, daß Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound schon mehr als +eine Million Fälle von Gebärmutteraffektionen glücklich geheilt hat. +Fast unglaublich klingen die Berichte vieler Frauen, die todtkrank +waren, und die dem Vegetable Compound ihre Rettung verdanken. Es ist +nicht schwer für eine Frau zu erkennen, ob sie an einer Affektion der +Gebärmutter leidet, da eine derartige Erkrankung fast stets von +ziehenden, äußerst empfindlichen Schmerzen im Unterleib, +Rückenschmerzen, Ohnmachtsanfällen, Erstarrung »Einschlafen« der +Gliedmaßen, sowie von einer Reihe anderer Schmerzen begleitet ist. Lydia +E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound ist ein unfehlbares Mittel gegen alle +derartigen Erkrankungen.</p> + +<p><strong>Die Leukorrhoe oder der weiße Fluß.</strong> Eines der allerersten Symptome, die +eine Entzündung der Gebärmutter anzeigen, ist die Leukorrhoe, oder wie +man sich gewöhnlich ausdrückt: Der weiße Fluß. Derselbe zeigt sich als +eine weißliche Absonderung aus der Vagina oder Mutterscheide, die den +Körper auffallend angreift und schwächt und besonders die empfindliche +Schleimhaut des Scheidekanals irritiert. Aber selbst die hartnäckigsten +Fälle von weißem Fluß lassen sich positiv kurieren durch den Gebrauch +von Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound in Verbindung mit Lydia E. +Pinkham's "Sanative Wash" oder »hygienischem Waschwasser.« Das erstere +stärkt das System und das zweite heilt die lokalen Erscheinungen, da es +direct in die Scheide eingespritzt wird. Man hüte sich ja, diese Art von +Krankheit zu vernachlässigen, da sich sonst leicht Geschwüre und +übermäßige Absonderung einstellen können, die oftmals den ersten Grund +zu der schrecklichsten aller Krankheiten — dem Krebs legen.</p> + +<p><strong>Gebärmuttervorfall.</strong> Es giebt eine Reihe von Fällen, wo die Gebärmutter +eine Veränderung ihrer normalen Lage erleidet; von diesen ist der +wichtigste der sogenannte Gebärmuttervorfall. Derselbe kommt +hauptsächlich von einer Erschlaffung der Bänder her, die dieses Organ +stützen und in seiner richtigen Lage erhalten sollen. Lydia E. Pinkham's +Vegetable Compound stärkt diese Bänder, vermindert die Entzündung und +verleiht nach und nach den erkrankten Theilen ihren früheren, normalen +Zustand wieder.</p> + +<p>Die <strong>Entzündung der Eierstöcke</strong> ist eine äußerst schwere Erkrankung, die +Frauen im Alter von 20 bis 40 Jahren befällt. Sie ist stets von großer +Empfindlichkeit und scharfen Schmerzen in der Gegend der Eierstöcke +begleitet, wozu sich ein Gefühl der Völle, besonders zur Zeit der +Menstruation, gesellt. Die Schmerzen erstrecken sich auch häufig auf die +Seite und den Rücken, mit Vorliebe aber auf die linke Seite,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_42" id="Page_42">[Pg 42]</a></span> in +Verbindung mit fortwährendem Verlangen das Wasser abzuschlagen. Wird +nicht prompt gegen diese Erkrankung eingeschritten, so vermag nichts den +Kranken vom Messer des Chirurgen zu retten. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable +Compound hat aber tausende von Fällen von Eierstockerkrankungen geheilt +und hat viele Frauen der Nothwendigkeit enthoben, sich im Hospital einer +gefährlichen Operation auszusetzen.</p> + +<p><strong>Unfruchtbarkeit</strong> ist oft weiter nichts als der Folgezustand ausnehmender +Schwäche, sowie einer chronischen Entzündung der Gebärmutter.</p> + +<p>Der regelmäßige Gebrauch von Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound hat +schon in vielen Fällen die weiblichen Zeugungsorgane wiederum ihrer +normalen Thätigkeit zurückgegeben und eine anscheinend gänzliche +Unfruchtbarkeit glücklich gehoben.</p> + +<p>Die sogenannten <strong>Wechseljahre</strong> oder die <strong>Menopause</strong> sind eine Zeit +wirklicher Gefahr für alle diejenigen Frauen, die das 45. Jahr +überschritten haben. Während dieser Zeit sind die Frauen allen möglichen +Beschwerden und Erkrankungen ausgesetzt, die sich aber alle vermeiden +lassen, ohne ernstliche Krankheit oder sogar den Tod fürchten zu müssen, +wenn man während dieser sehr wichtigen Periode des Frauenlebens +regelmäßig Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound einnimmt.</p> + +<p><strong>Nieren- und Blasenbeschwerden</strong> sind häufige und hartnäckige Leiden beider +Geschlechter. Sie sind alle heilbar, vorausgesetzt, daß man sich bei +Zeiten um sie kümmert; werden sie aber vernachlässigt, so können sie +leicht verhängnisvoll werden und sogar den Tod nach sich ziehen. Sicher +ist aber, daß Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound als ausgezeichnetes +Mittel zur Heilung aller Nieren- und Blasenkrankheiten von keinem +anderen bisher erfundenen Mittel übertroffen wird. Männer und Frauen +können volles Vertrauen in dasselbe setzen.</p> + +<p><strong>Rückenschmerzen</strong> sind nicht eine Krankheit, sondern sind vielmehr nur +ein, gewisse Krankheiten anzeigendes, Symptom. Bei Krankheiten der +Geschlechtsorgane wird der große sympathische Nerv, dessen Hauptcentrum +im unteren Theil des Rückens liegt, in Mitleidenschaft gezogen und +verkündet sozusagen das Vorhandensein einer derartigen Krankheit. +Dadurch, daß Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound alle Affektionen der +Gebärmutter, der Eierstöcke und der Nieren heilt, heilt es auch das so +sehr peinigende Rückenweh.</p> + +<p><strong>Verdauungsbeschwerden.</strong> Es giebt in der ganzen Welt kein besseres Mittel +gegen alle Störungen der Magenthätigkeit als gerade Lydia E. Pinkham's +Vegetable Compound.</p> + +<p><strong>Schwangerschaft.</strong> Oftmals ist die Geburt eines Kindes mit vielen +Schmerzen und Beschwerden für die Mutter verbunden, und doch könnten +alle diese zum großen Theil vermieden werden, wollte nur die Mutter +ungefähr zwei Monate vor der Entbindung anfangen, ihren Körper durch den +regelmäßigen Gebrauch von Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound zu +kräftigen.</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> +<h3>Gebrauchsanweisung.</h3> + +<p>Für sämmtliche oben erwähnte Beschwerden nehme man alle vier Stunden +während des Tages je einen Eßlöffel voll von Lydia E. Pinkham's +Vegetable Compound ein.</p> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<p>Man weiche ein Viertel Packet von Lydia E. Pinkham's Sanative Wash in +genügend Wasser, um nach dem Durchseihen ein Pint zu haben. Ist die +Absonderung sehr bedeutend, so brauche man die Hälfte der so erhaltenen +Flüssigkeit, füge noch ein Pint warmen Wassers dazu und benütze diese +Flüssigkeit, um täglich Einspritzungen in die Scheide zu machen.</p> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<p>Gegen Verstopfung, Migräne, sowie Gallendrang nehme man drei von Lydia +E. Pinkham's Leberpillen die erste Nacht, zwei die zweite Nacht und eine +die dritte Nacht; tritt auch dann noch kein regelmäßiger Stuhlgang ein, +so nehme man eine Pille jede Nacht soweit der Vorrath reicht.</p> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<p>Befindet sich das Blut in schlechtem Zustande und ist der Patient immer +müde, abgemagert und angegriffen, und leidet er dazu noch an +Appetitmangel, so benütze er Lydia E. Pinkham's Blood Purifier +(Blut-Reiniger), das beste Mittel auf der Welt für diesen Zweck. Dreimal +im Tage ein Eßlöffel voll heilt zuverlässig alle Fälle von Rheumatismus, +Skropheln, Hautausschläge, &c. &c.</p> + +<p>In allen Apotheken zu haben.</p> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> +<h3>Hergestellt von der</h3> + +<h2>LYDIA E. PINKHAM MEDICINE COMPANY,</h2> + +<h3>Lynn, Mass., V. S. von A.</h3> + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_43" id="Page_43">[Pg 43]</a></span></p> +<h3><a name="testimonials" id="testimonials"></a>Read the following</h3> + +<h2>TESTIMONIALS.</h2> + +<div class="test"> +<p>Dear Mrs. Pinkham:</p> + +<p>I wish all women suffering from female troubles might know what you have +done for me. A year ago last June I was very sick, and on examination my +physician said I had Polypus of the womb and that I would not stop +flowing until I had an operation. I always had a horror of operations +and could not bear the thoughts of having one, as I am a nervous person. +I wrote to you and followed all your directions faithfully, and all the +while I prayed that I might not have to have one. At that time I could +hardly walk across the floor and I was pale and thin. Now I weigh one +hundred and thirty-five pounds, do all my work, and my husband and +children say that I am growing young. I am still taking your medicine +and will do so until after the turn of life.</p> + +<p><span style="margin-left: 2em;">MRS. NELSON BAVIER,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 4em;">West Hartford, Conn.</span></p> + +<hr style='width: 15%;' /> + +<p>Dear Mrs. Pinkham:</p> + +<p>I suffered for over three years with female weakness brought on by +falling on an icy pavement. I had frequent backache and fearful +headaches, blinding me with pain. I also had intense pains at the +menstrual period. My family physician prescribed several remedies, but +although he was considered an excellent physician, he was unable to +relieve me. A cousin who visited me had a bottle of Lydia E. Pinkham's +Vegetable Compound with her and spoke so highly of its efficacy that I +took a few doses of it. I was pleased and surprised to find that it +seemed to relieve my pains in twenty-four hours. I took it regularly, +and within twenty-four hours more I felt like a different woman, and two +weeks continued use of it restored me to health and strength such as I +had not known in years. I consider Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound +the only medicine on the market which is reliable for the ills of the +sex.</p> + +<p><span style="margin-left: 2em;">MISS MAUD BELL,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 4em;">408 Lanwee West, Lansing, Mich.</span><br /> +<br /> +Grand Recorder, Daughters of<br /> +American Independence.</p> + +<hr style='width: 15%;' /> + +<div class="right">September 22, 1902.</div> + +<p>I would like to have your advice as I am a married woman and would be +pleased to have children. I cannot tell what is the trouble, but I lose +them and I am as careful as I can be. It happens just when I am on the +fourth month. I have just had my third miscarriage and been flowing over +two weeks and have much pain in back and womb. My menstruation is very +painful and some months I have it twice. My stomach bothers me. I suffer +with indigestion and dyspepsia.</p> + +<p><span style="margin-left: 2em;">MRS. FRANK WILCOX.</span></p> + +<p> </p> + +<div class="right">August 25, 1903.</div> + +<p>I will let you know that I have a son, and if it had not been for Lydia +E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound I would not have my baby. Your medicine +kept me well until the last minute. I did not know what an ache was. I +used fourteen bottles of the Compound and three boxes of your Liver +Pills. I cannot thank your medicine too much as it has done me more good +than the doctors.</p> + +<p><span style="margin-left: 2em;">MRS. FRANK WILCOX.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 4em;">43 Orange St., Bloomfield, N. J.</span></p></div> +<hr style='width: 15%;' /> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_44" id="Page_44">[Pg 44]</a></span></p> + +<div class="test"> +<div class="right">June 26, 1903.</div> + +<p>I have been a sufferer for seven years with womb trouble, ever since my +child was born. My doctor says my ovaries are affected also and will +have to be taken out. I suffer with pains in my back and left side and +at times cannot rest day or night. I have leucorrhoea and menstruation +is very irregular and very free with a good deal of pain. I was told to +write you for advice.</p> + +<p><span style="margin-left: 2em;">MRS. J. D. CURTIS.</span></p> + +<p> </p> + +<div class="right">September 25, 1903.</div> + +<p>I am still taking Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and have +improved wonderfully, have gained ten pounds and feel like a new woman. +I will recommend your medicine to all women suffering from female +trouble for it has done me more good than the doctors have for three +years. You are perfectly welcome to use my name and statement for the +good of others for everyone ought to know of your wonderful medicine.</p> + +<p><span style="margin-left: 2em;">MRS. J. D. CURTIS,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 4em;">Box 262, Monaca, Pa.</span></p> + +<hr style='width: 15%;' /> + +<div class="right">January 15, 1901.</div> + +<p>I was reading to-day in a paper of the recovery of a lady after writing +to you and as her case seemed to be very much the same as mine, I was +impressed with the desire to write to you to see if I could not get +relief. I am the mother of two children and have never had any weakness +of any kind until the past year. I am pregnant at present, my back pains +me nearly all the time and left side of abdomen. My back pains so +sometimes I cannot stand on my feet or straighten up. My appetite is +poor and my friends tell me I look badly. I hope that you will be able +to give me some advice.</p> + +<p><span style="margin-left: 2em;">MRS. D. D. EDDY.</span></p> + +<p> </p> + +<div class="right">June 27, 1903.</div> + +<p>About one year and a half ago, I wrote you in regard to my taking your +medicine. I was pregnant at the time and in perfect misery. I suffered +everything. You very kindly wrote to me advising your Lydia E. Pinkham's +Vegetable Compound which I began to take at once and when my baby was +born, I was sick only half an hour and the sixth day I was upon my feet +and felt as well and strong as I ever felt in my life. My baby is a +strong healthy boy.</p> + +<p>I wish to thank you from the bottom of my heart for your kind letter to +me. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is the grandest medicine in +the world for women. I shall recommend it as long as I live.</p> + +<p><span style="margin-left: 2em;">MRS. D. D. EDDY,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 4em;">243 East Ave., Saratoga Springs, N.Y.</span></p> + +<hr style='width: 15%;' /> + +<p>Dear Mrs. Pinkham:</p> + +<p>I am very grateful for the good Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound did +for me. I began using it when I thought there was no help for me and +that I would be an invalid for life. The doctor said that I would not +get well unless I underwent an operation for ovarian and female +difficulties. I was afraid that my health would not stand the strain and +so when a friend who was similarly afflicted told me of the good Lydia +Pinkham's Vegetable Compound did her, I immediately began to use it and +I am glad that I did so, for in less than four months I could report as +she did a perfect cure. Words fail to express my thankfulness.</p> + +<p><span style="margin-left: 2em;">Very truly yours,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 4em;">MARGRITE RYAN,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Hotel English, Indianapolis, Ind.</span><br /> +<br /> +Treasurer<br /> +St. Andrews Society.</p> + +<hr style='width: 15%;' /> + +<p>Dear Mrs. Pinkham:</p> + +<p>Last Spring my health seemed gradually to decline, until I finally felt +so weak I thought I would have to give up entirely. I lost my appetite, +had headaches, and bearing down pains with cramps so that I was in +perfect misery. I became wakeful and extremely nervous.</p> + +<p>Reading of the value of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound in our +paper here, I decided to try it, and am pleased to state that I derived +immediate benefit, and soon enjoyed permanent relief. Within eight weeks +I was restored to normal health, and felt refreshed and strengthened as +though I had enjoyed a lengthy vacation. Since that time I have +recommended your Compound to a number of my lady friends suffering with +female irregularities, and those who have used it report great benefit +from its use.</p> + +<p><span style="margin-left: 2em;">MRS. E. E. VAN DINTER,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 4em;">965 College Ave., Appleton, Wis.</span><br /> +<br /> +Vice-President<br /> +Social Economic Club.</p></div> + +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_45" id="Page_45">[Pg 45]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/p045.jpg" alt="Lady and Child" /></div> + +<h3>Don't wait until your suffering have driven you to despair, with +your nerves all shattered and your courage gone.</h3> + +<p>Help and happiness surely await you if you accept Mrs. Pinkham's advice. +Disease makes women nervous, irritable, and easily annoyed by children +and household duties; such women need the counsel and help of a woman +who understands the peculiar troubles of her sex; that woman is Mrs. +Pinkham, who with that famous medicine, <strong>Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable +Compound</strong>, has restored thousands upon thousands of sick and discouraged +women to health and happiness. Her address is Lynn, Mass., and her +advice is free. Write to-day, do not wait.</p> + +<p><strong>Will not the volumes of letters from women who have been made strong by +Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound convince others of the virtues of +this great medicine?</strong></p> + +<p><strong>When a medicine has been successful in more than a million cases, is it +justice to yourself to say, without trying it, "I do not believe it +would help me?"</strong></p> + +<p><strong>Surely you cannot wish to remain weak and sick and discouraged, +exhausted with each day's work. If you have some derangement of the +feminine organism try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. It will +surely help you.</strong></p> + +<p> </p><p> </p> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_46" id="Page_46">[Pg 46]</a></span></p> + +<div class="test"> +<p>I am firmly persuaded after eight years experience with Lydia E. +Pinkham's Vegetable Compound that it is the safest and best medicine for +any suffering woman to use.</p> + +<p>Immediately after my marriage I found that my health began to fail me. I +became weak and pale with severe bearing down pains, fearful headaches +and frequent dizzy spells. The doctors prescribed for me and yet I did +not improve. I would at times bloat after eating and have frequent +vomiting. I had acrid discharge and pains down through my limbs so I +could hardly walk. It was as bad a case of female trouble as I have ever +known. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound cured me within four months +and since that time I have had occasion to recommend it to a number of +patients suffering with all forms of female difficulties and I found +that while it is considered unprofessional to recommend patent +medicines, I could honestly recommend your Vegetable Compound for I have +found it cures where other medicines fail. My mother and two sisters +have used it also and their health has been restored and their strength +renewed. It is a grand medicine for sick women.</p> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">MRS. MARTHA POHLMAN,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 4em;">55 Chester Ave., Newark, N. J.</span><br /> +</p> + +<p>Graduate nurse from Blockley Training School at Philadelphia and for +6½ years the chief clinic nurse at the Philadelphia Hospital.</p> + +<hr style='width: 15%;' /> +<div class="right">March 31, 1902.</div> + +<p>Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has done me a great deal of good. +When I first had my monthly period I suffered very much. I would have +such headaches, also pain in abdomen and side. Was not able to go to +school.</p> + +<p>After taking several bottles of your medicine I was relieved of my +trouble and I am now well and enjoying good health.</p> + +<p><span style="margin-left: 2em;">MISS MARY E. ROGERS,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 4em;">Kipton, Ohio.</span></p> + + +<hr style='width: 15%;' /> + +<div class="right">October 8, 1901.</div> + +<p>It gives me great pleasure to tell what your Vegetable Compound has done +for me for the benefit of other suffering women. I would have been a +total wreck and probably not living to-day had I not taken your +medicine. My legs were so stiff and my back so sore that I could not be +on my feet and at times I would have the sick headache so bad that I did +not know what I was doing. I also had leucorrhoea all the time which +caused me to feel very weak. I lost in flesh until I weighed only +ninety-eight pounds.</p> + +<p>I was unable to carry babe to maturity. My first child being born in +seven months. Since taking your medicine I have had two little girls +which are pictures of health and which I owe to Lydia E. Pinkham's +Vegetable Compound. I have taken twelve bottles of the Vegetable +Compound, used one box of Liver Pills which I found excellent to +regulate the bowels. I am now in good health and weigh one hundred and +twenty-five pounds.</p> + +<p>I cannot praise your medicine enough for the benefit I have derived from +its use. What a blessing it is that women can consult with a lady and if +every woman feels as I do, they would all consult you far and near.</p> + +<p><span style="margin-left: 2em;">MRS. NELSON F. SPANGLER,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 4em;">Center Oak, Pa.</span></p> + +<hr style='width: 15%;' /> + +<div class="right">April 18, 1901.</div> + +<p>I will now write you a letter of gratitude for what your medicine has +done for me. I suffered with very painful menstruation and could not +become pregnant which was my great desire. I began the use of your +medicine and after taking sixteen bottles I found myself pregnant. I +continued the use of your Vegetable Compound and felt well all the time. +Last October my baby was born, it was a girl and weighed eleven and +one-half pounds. It is my belief that I would never have had my baby if +I had not used your medicine.</p> + +<p>I recommend Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound to all, believing +there is no better medicine for women.</p> + +<p><span style="margin-left: 2em;">MRS. CHAS. ROHDE,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 4em;">621 Vine Street, Peoria, Ill.</span></p> + + +<hr style='width: 15%;' /> +<p>I have intended for some time to write to you and tell you what Lydia E. +Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has done for me. I had been feeling weak +and nervous, very easily tired and had much backache.</p> + +<p>I took two bottles of your Compound and felt so much better that I +enjoyed, instead of dreading my household duties.</p> + +<p>I can and do gladly recommend your medicines to anyone suffering from +female troubles.</p> + +<p><span style="margin-left: 2em;">MRS. M. E. SHEPLER,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 4em;">17 Amesbury Place, Cleveland, Ohio.</span></p></div> + +<p> </p><p> </p> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_47" id="Page_47">[Pg 47]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/p047.jpg" alt="Household Cares" /></div> + +<p> </p> +<h2>Household Cares</h2> + +<h4>A Sick Woman's Devotion to Duty is a Heroism which a Well Person Cannot Understand.</h4> + +<p>How distressing to see a woman struggling with her daily round of +household duties, when her back and head are aching, and every movement +brings out a new pain.</p> + +<p>One day the poor woman is wretched and utterly miserable; in a day or +two she is better, and laughs at her fears, thinking there is nothing +much the matter after all; but before night the deadly backache +reappears, the limbs tremble, the lips twitch—it seems as though all +the imps of Satan were clutching her vitals; she "goes to pieces" and is +flat on her back.</p> + +<p>No woman ought to arrive at this terrible state of misery, because these +symptoms are a sure forerunner of womb troubles. She must remember that +<strong>Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound</strong> is almost an infallible cure for +all female ills, such as irregularity of periods, which cause weak +stomach, sick headache, etc., displacements and inflammation of the +womb, or any of the multitude of illnesses which beset the female +organism. Read how Mrs. Frake wrote to Mrs. Pinkham when she was in +great trouble. Her letter tells the result, and how a cure was effected +by the use of</p> + +<h3>Lydia E.<br /> Pinkham's<br /> Vegetable<br /> Compound.</h3> + +<h4><i>READ THESE LETTERS FROM MRS. FRAKE.</i></h4> + +<div class="test"> +<p>"<span class="smcap">Dear Mrs. Pinkham:</span>—I have read of your medicine making so many cures, +and have been advised to write to you, but I feel that it is of no use. +The doctor says that I have womb trouble, but he does not seem to help +me a great deal. I have such a weakness across me most of the time—have +backache, am very nervous, and am troubled with leucorrhœa. I am very +weak, cannot walk any distance or stand long unless I ache all over. I +would like to know it you think your medicine would do me any +good."—<span class="smcap">Mrs. Samuel Frake</span>, Prospect Plains, N.J.</p> +<p> </p> +<p>"<span class="smcap">Dear Mrs. Pinkham:</span>—I cannot thank you enough for what <strong>Lydia E. +Pinkham's Vegetable Compound</strong> has done for me. When I first wrote to you +I had suffered for years. The doctor said I had congestion of the womb, +was troubled with my kidneys and bladder, my back ached dreadfully all +the time, and I suffered with bearing-down feeling, could scarcely walk +about to do my own housework. I stopped doctoring with the physician and +took your medicine, and am now able to do my own work, have no more +backache or weakness across me, and can do all my own work. I cannot +praise your medicine enough, and would advise all suffering women to try +it."—<span class="smcap">Mrs. Samuel Frake</span>, Prospect Plains, N.J.</p></div> + +<p> </p> +<table style=" border: 1px black solid" summary="ad"> +<tr><td>The Medicine that has Restored a Million Women to Health is</td></tr> +<tr><td align="center"><big><strong>Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.</strong></big></td></tr></table> + +<p> </p><p> </p> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_48" id="Page_48">[Pg 48]</a></span></p> + +<div class="test"> +<div class="right">June 10, 1901.</div> + +<p>My daughter sixteen years old, has been in very poor health ever since +the change to womanhood a year ago. She had the best of doctors but they +did her little good. She complained of feeling tired all the time, did +not care for anything, pain in her back, very nervous, poor in flesh and +so pale. It made her tired to ride or walk any distance, could not go to +school. Some thought she could not live long. Through the use of Lydia +E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound she is now in the best of health. I feel +that your medicine saved her life.</p> + +<p><span style="margin-left: 2em;">MRS. ANNA HUGHES,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 4em;">Altmar, N. Y.</span></p> + +<hr style='width: 15%;' /> + +<div class="right">December 12, 1902.</div> + +<p>About a month ago I took a very bad cold and it was at time of +menstruation and it stopped my menses. I began to have pains in my +ovaries and at last I had inflammation of the ovaries and pain in my +kidneys and bladder. I got over that but did not flow hardly any. The +last time I came around I began to have that pain in my right ovary and +it lasted a week and I have been flowing for a week. I would like some +advice as I do not know what to think of my case.</p> + +<p><span style="margin-left: 2em;">MISS RUBY MUSHRUSH.</span></p> + +<p> </p> +<div class="right">July 22, 1903.</div> + +<p>About three months ago the doctor turned the X-ray on me to see what was +the matter and found that I had an abscess near my ovary and in a place +that if it had broken would have killed me right away.</p> + +<p>The doctor's medicine did me no good, so Mama went to the store and got +me a bottle of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. I am now so well +that I can work, thanks to your medicine. It has saved me from an +operation.</p> + +<p><span style="margin-left: 2em;">MISS RUBY MUSHRUSH,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 4em;">East Chicago, Ind.</span></p> + +<hr style='width: 15%;' /> + +<div class="right">February 10, 1902.</div> + +<p>As I have heard and read so much about your medicine, I have decided to +write you and tell you my trouble and ask your advice. I am completely +run down, am a widow, twenty-five years old, and have one boy five years +old. I have never been strong since the birth of my child. Menstruation +is irregular and scanty and am always in such distress, pain in lower +abdomen and limbs, pain and dizziness in head, cold hands and feet, poor +appetite, sick headache, nervous, have leucorrhoea badly, bearing down +pains in small of back, pain in both sides, also have catarrh of head +and throat. I have had different doctors but they do not help me and I +am discouraged. I will be glad to hear from you. Would like to feel well +once more.</p> + +<p><span style="margin-left: 2em;">MRS. ANNIE M. WAHL.</span></p> + +<p> </p> +<div class="right">June 1, 1902.</div> + +<p>I think it is my duty to let everyone know what Lydia E. Pinkham's +Vegetable Compound has done for me. It has made me well and happy. Five +months ago I could hardly walk across the room, I was so full of pain. I +could scarcely step. I now feel like a new woman. I sleep well and have +a good appetite. I used to get such awful sick headache spells, but now +I have them no more. Also would be troubled with awful bearing down pain +at time of menstruation but have also been relieved of this. I cannot +praise your medicine enough. I think it is the best thing made for +women. I advise, everyone who suffers with female trouble to try Lydia +E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.</p> + +<p><span style="margin-left: 2em;">MRS. ANNIE M. WAHL,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 4em;">Bellwood, Blair Co., Pa.</span></p> + +<hr style='width: 15%;' /> + +<div class="right">October 10, 1901.</div> + +<p>I think it is my duty to let you know the good that Lydia E. Pinkham's +Vegetable Compound has done for me. I think it is the best medicine in +the world. I was well until I weaned my baby and then I began to bloat +and had bearing down pains. I took to filling up with water in my +abdomen. I had the doctor and he said it was abdominal dropsy and that +not having menstruation was the cause of it. He said I would have to be +tapped. He tapped me once and took eleven quarts of water from me and in +a week I began to fill up again and he was waiting to tap me again. I +wrote to Mrs. Pinkham and began to take the Vegetable Compound and the +water began to leave me. When I had taken two bottles it had all left me +and menses appeared. I now feel as well as I ever did and am able to do +all my work. I feel very thankful to you.</p> + +<p><span style="margin-left: 2em;">MRS. HATTIE RILEY,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 4em;">Waterford, Ohio.</span></p></div> + +<p> </p><p> </p> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_49" id="Page_49">[Pg 49]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/p049.jpg" alt="Backache" /></div> + +<h1>Backache</h1> + +<p>The ordinary every-day life of most of our women is a ceaseless +treadmill of work. How much harder the daily tasks become when some +derangement of the female organs makes every movement painful and keeps +the nervous system all unstrung. One day she is wretched and utterly +miserable; in a day or two she is better and laughs at her fears, +thinking there is nothing much the matter after all; but before night +the deadly backache reappears, the limbs tremble, the lips twitch—it +seems as though all the imps of Satan were clutching her vitals, she +"goes to pieces" and is flat on her back.</p> + +<p>No woman ought to arrive at this terrible state of misery, because these +symptoms are a sure indication of womb diseases, and backache is merely +a symptom of more serious trouble. Women should remember that an almost +infallible cure for all female ills, such as irregularity of periods, +which cause weak stomach, sick headache, etc., displacements and +inflammation of the womb, or any of the multitudes of illnesses which +beset the female organism may be found in</p> + +<h3>Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound</h3> + +<p><strong>When a medicine has been successful in more than a million cases, why +should you say, "I do not believe it will help me?" If you have some +derangement of the feminine organism try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable +Compound. It will surely help you. If there is anything in your case +about which you would like special advice, write freely to Mrs. Pinkham, +Lynn, Mass.; her advice is given free and will greatly help you.</strong></p> + +<p> </p> +<div class="test"> +<p>"<span class="smcap">Dear Mrs. Pinkham:</span>—About two years ago I consulted a physician about +my health, which had become so wretched that I was no longer able to be +about. I had severe backache, bearing-down pains, pains across the +abdomen, was very nervous and irritable, and this trouble grew worse +each month.</p> + +<p>The physician prescribed for me, but I soon discovered he was unable to +help me, and I then decided to try <strong>Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable +Compound</strong>, and soon found that it was doing me good. My appetite was +returning, the pains disappearing, and the general benefits were well +marked.</p> + +<p>You cannot realize how pleased I was, and after taking the medicine for +only three months, I found I was completely cured of my trouble, and +have been well and hearty ever since and no more fear of the monthly +period, as it now passes without pain to me. Yours very truly, <span class="smcap">Miss +Pearl Ackers</span>, 327 North Summer St., Nashville, Tenn."</p></div> + +<p> </p><p> </p> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_50" id="Page_50">[Pg 50]</a></span></p> + +<div class="test"> + +<div class="right">March 10, 1902.</div> + +<p>I now write to tell you what your medicine has done for me. After my +first child was born, my womb came down so far that the doctor had to +replace it and it was always weak and would never stay in place.</p> + +<p>A friend told me about Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. I got one +bottle of it without any faith at all for I was so bad, I did not think +it would do as much good as she said. Well, I took seven bottles and now +I am entirely well.</p> + +<p>I have used the Vegetable Compound right along when pregnant and found +it a great help, child-birth being almost painless. I have had four +children and have always been able to do my work even the washing until +the child was born. It certainly is a wonderful medicine for pregnant +women and I would not be without it at that time.</p> + +<p><span style="margin-left: 2em;">MRS. GEORGE GOODCHILD,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 4em;">Port Kennedy, Pa.</span></p> + +<hr style='width: 15%;' /> + +<div class="right">June 9, 1901.</div> + +<p>I had falling of the womb and such an aching across my pelvis bone could +hardly walk as the least jar hurt so. I was better before I had finished +the second bottle and after taking six bottles was entirely cured.</p> + +<p>I can recommend Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound to any one.</p> + +<p><span style="margin-left: 2em;">MRS. ROSA G. BURTON,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 4em;">1006 Brandywine St., Phila., Pa.</span></p> + +<hr style='width: 15%;' /> + +<div class="right">August 19, 1902.</div> + +<p>I take great pleasure in writing to thank you for what Lydia E. +Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has done for me.</p> + +<p>I suffered for years with painful menstruation, pains in the back, +leucorrhoea, dizziness and nervous prostration.</p> + +<p>Since taking your medicine, I feel like a new woman. I never will be +without your Vegetable Compound and will recommend it as long as I live.</p> + +<p>Hoping my testimonial may be of benefit to others, I remain, Yours truly,</p> + +<p><span style="margin-left: 2em;">MRS. MARY BRADY,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 4em;">1929 Dumaine St., nr. Prieur,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 6em;">New Orleans, La.</span></p> + +<hr style='width: 15%;' /> + +<div class="right">July 16, 1901.</div> + +<p>I have been taking Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for the past +eight months and it has done me a great deal of good.</p> + +<p>Before taking it, I suffered with my head and pains in my back and when +I had my changes I suffered agony, could hardly stand on my feet. I have +taken twelve bottles of the Compound and to-day I am a well woman. I +weighed one hundred and twenty pounds before taking it and now I weigh +one hundred and forty-five. I keep a laundry and recommend your medicine +to my customers.</p> + +<p><span style="margin-left: 2em;">AUGUSTA BLISS,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 4em;">530 E. 84th St., New York, N. Y.</span></p> + +<hr style='width: 15%;' /> + +<div class="right">April 29, 1902.</div> + +<p>I write this letter so that all suffering women may know what your +wonderful medicine has done for me.</p> + +<p>Before I began taking your medicine I was very weak and not able to do +anything. I had had a miscarriage and a bad flooding spell and my +husband had given up all hopes of my ever getting strong again.</p> + +<p>Some of my friends told me to try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. +I was in bed at the time. After taking a few doses I began to feel +better. I have taken now three bottles and am telling my friends what it +has done for me.</p> + +<p>My husband would not have me do without the medicine.</p> + +<p><span style="margin-left: 2em;">MRS. GEORGE PERRY,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 4em;">Box 52, Fort Gibson, Ind. Ter.</span></p> + +<hr style='width: 15%;' /> + +<div class="right">June 14, 1901.</div> + +<p>When I wrote to you for advice a year and a half ago, I was confined to +my bed and had just about given up hopes of ever being well again. I had +heard so much about Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound I told my +husband I would like to try it. He got me a bottle and after taking two +bottles I was able to get up and walk a little.</p> + +<p>My trouble was enlargement of the womb, also had ovarian trouble. I had +spells of flooding nearly losing my life at monthly periods. Altogether +I was sick and discouraged. The pains and aches I suffered I cannot +explain. I took seventeen bottles of your Vegetable Compound and was +cured. In due time I gave birth to a nice baby girl. My baby is now six +months old and so fat and healthy and I am so well, no more female +trouble or pain in back.</p> + +<p><span style="margin-left: 2em;">MRS. MAY M. MORGAREIDGE,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 4em;">Mayoworth, Wyo.</span></p></div> + +<p> </p><p> </p> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_51" id="Page_51">[Pg 51]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/p051.jpg" alt="Fibroid Tumors Cured" /></div> + + +<p>A distressing case of Fibroid Tumor, which baffled the skill of Boston +doctors. Mrs. Hayes, of Boston, Mass., in the following letter tells how +she was cured, after everything else failed, by <strong><big>Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound</big></strong>.</p> + +<p><strong>Mrs. Hayes' First Letter Appealing to Mrs. Pinkham for Help:</strong></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"<span class="smcap">Dear Mrs. Pinkham:</span>—I have been under Boston doctors' treatment +for a long time without any relief. They tell me I have a fibroid +tumor. I cannot sit down without great pain, and the soreness +extends up my spine. I have bearing-down pains both back and front. +My abdomen is swollen, and I have had flowing spells for three +years. My appetite is not good. I cannot walk or be on my feet for +any length of time.</p> + +<p>"The symptoms of Fibroid Tumor given in your little book accurately +describe my case, so I write to you for advice."—(Signed) <span class="smcap">Mrs. E. +F. Hayes</span>, 22 Ruggles St., (Roxbury) Boston, Mass.</p></div> + +<p><strong>Note the result of Mrs. Pinkham's advice—although she advised Mrs. +Hayes, of Boston, to take her medicine—which she knew would help +her—her letter contained a mass of additional instructions as to +treatment, all of which helped to bring about the happy result.</strong></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"<span class="smcap">Dear Mrs. Pinkham:</span>—Sometime ago I wrote to you describing my +symptoms and asked your advice. You replied, and I followed all +your directions carefully, and to-day I am a well woman.</p> + +<p>"The use of <strong>Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound</strong> entirely expelled +the tumor and strengthened my whole system. I can walk miles now.</p> + +<p>"<strong>Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound</strong> is worth five dollars a +drop. I advise all women who are afflicted with tumors or female +trouble of any kind to give it a faithful trial."—(Signed) <span class="smcap">Mrs. E. +F. Hayes</span>, 99 Ziegler St., (Roxbury) Boston, Mass.</p></div> + +<p><strong>Mountains of gold could not purchase such testimony—or take the place +of the health and happiness which Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound +brought to Mrs. Hayes.</strong></p> + +<p> </p><p> </p> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_52" id="Page_52">[Pg 52]</a></span></p> + +<h1>Woman's Kidney Troubles.</h1> +<hr style='width: 10%;' /> +<h3>Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is Especially Successful in Curing this Fatal Woman's Disease.</h3> +<hr style='width: 10%;' /> +<p>Of all the diseases known with which the female organism is afflicted, +kidney disease is the most fatal. In fact, unless early and correct +treatment is applied, the weary patient seldom survives.</p> + +<p>Being fully aware of this, Mrs. Pinkham, early in her career, gave +exhaustive study to the subject, and in producing her great remedy for +woman's ills—Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound—was careful to see +that it contained the correct combination of herbs which was sure to +control that fatal disease, woman's kidney troubles. The Vegetable +Compound acts in harmony with the laws that govern the entire female +system, and while there are many so-called remedies for kidney troubles, +Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is the only one especially +prepared for women.</p> + +<p>The following letters will show how marvellously successful it is.</p> + +<div class="test"> +<div class="right">Oct. 17, 1901.</div> + +<p>I have noticed your advertisement in the papers of your wonderful +medicine, and I wish to consult you in regard to my sickness.</p> + +<p>I have been a sufferer of female weakness for the past six months; have +doctored a great deal, but it has done me no good. I have <i>kidney</i> and +<i>bladder</i> trouble, backache, constipation, headache, terrible pains in +my left side, have leucorrhoea, painful menstruation, which compels me +to take my bed for two and three days; also have falling of the womb. +Blood is very thin. I hope to hear from you soon.</p> + +<p><span style="margin-left: 2em;">MRS. W. N. MATTHEWS,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 4em;">548 W. Jefferson St., Springfield, Ill.</span></p> + + +<div class="right">April 15, 1902.</div> + +<p>I am almost ashamed to acknowledge the receipt of your letter received +last Fall. After I had doctored for a year without receiving any relief, +I then wrote you for advice in regard to my sickness and began the use +of your medicine.</p> + +<p>I am happy to say that I never felt better in my life than I do now. I +can eat hearty, sleep well, and feel like a new woman.</p> + +<p>Many thanks for your kind and highly appreciated letter. I wish every +suffering woman would try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.</p> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">MRS. W. N. MATTHEWS,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 4em;">548 W. Jefferson St., Springfield, Ill.</span></p> + +<hr style='width: 15%;' /> + +<div class="right">June 15, 1901.</div> + +<p>It affords me great pleasure to give you my testimony in regard to the +value of Lydia E. Pinkham's valuable remedies. I suffered for some time +with internal trouble, being at times unable to walk across the floor. I +had weakness of the bladder and was very nervous.</p> + +<p>After taking one bottle Vegetable Compound I felt better. I continued +its use, and after taking five bottles could walk two miles without +difficulty. My health is now good and I am sixty years old.</p> + +<p>I think your Vegetable Compound the best medicine I have ever taken.</p> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">MRS. HENRY GITTELMAN,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 4em;">1004 N. 6th St., Reading, Pa.</span></p> + +<hr style='width: 15%;' /> + +<div class="right">June 26, 1901.</div> + +<p>I will write and let you know how much good Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable +Compound has done me.</p> + +<p>I cannot express the terrible suffering I have had to endure. I was +taken last May with nervous prostration; also had female trouble, liver, +stomach, <i>kidney</i> and <i>bladder</i> trouble. I was in a terrible condition. +The doctor attended me for a year, but I kept getting worse. I got so I +was not able to do any work. Was confined to my bed most of the time, +and thought I would never be able to do anything. People thought I would +not live.</p> + +<p>I decided to try your medicine. I have taken twelve bottles Vegetable +Compound and cannot praise it too highly, for I know it will do all and +even more than it is recommended to do. I tell every suffering woman +about your medicine and urge them to try it.</p> + +<p><span style="margin-left: 2em;">MRS. EMMA SAWYER,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 4em;">Conyers, Ga.</span></p></div> + +<p> </p><p> </p> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_53" id="Page_53">[Pg 53]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/p053.jpg" alt="Change of Life" /></div> + +<h3>A Danger Period Through Which Every Woman Must Pass.</h3> + +<p>Owing to modern methods of living, not one woman in a thousand +approaches this perfectly natural change without experiencing a train of +very annoying and sometimes painful symptoms. At this period a woman +indicates a tendency towards obesity or tumorous growths.</p> + +<p>Those dreadful hot flashes, sending the blood surging to the heart until +it seems ready to burst, and the faint feeling that follows, sometimes +with chills, as if the heart were going to stop forever, are only a few +of the symptoms of a dangerous nervous trouble. The nerves are crying +out for assistance. The cry should be heeded in time. <strong>Lydia E. Pinkham's +Vegetable Compound</strong> was prepared to meet the needs of woman's system at +this trying period of her life, and all women who use it pass through +this trying period with comfort and safety.</p> + +<p> </p><p> </p><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_54" id="Page_54">[Pg 54]</a></span></p> + +<div class="test"> +<div class="right">August 6, 1902.</div> + +<p>My trouble was Change of Life and cramping. No human tongue can describe +what I suffered with the cramp. I dreaded from one time to another so +much that I almost wanted to die.</p> + +<p>Our family physician did everything he could for me, but I got no +relief. He said if I lived to get through with the other trouble it +would wear away after a time, but I had it six years, and could not walk +or exercise in any way without bringing on an attack of the cramp, and I +would suffer untold misery until I would be perfectly exhausted and +helpless.</p> + +<p>I read in one of your little books about Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable +Compound being good for female trouble and Change of Life, and thought +there was no harm in trying it. So I did, and it helped me, and I was +able to take walks and work some.</p> + +<p>I am very thankful for the relief your medicine has been to me.</p> + +<p><span style="margin-left: 2em;">MRS. V. M. BLAKE,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 4em;">Deep Water, W. Va.</span></p> + +<hr style='width: 15%;' /> + +<p>Dear Mrs. Pinkham:</p> + +<p>I began to dread the approach of Change of Life some years ago, as so +many of my friends had been miserable for five or six years during that +period and as I was not very strong and being subject to headaches and +weakness, I felt that I did not have the strength to carry me through +this dangerous period and had it not been for Lydia E. Pinkham's +Vegetable Compound, I feel that I would not have been alive to-day.</p> + +<p>I began to take it about three years ago when I felt the change coming +on and continued taking it for three months, then I did not take any for +a couple of months, and began to feel so badly that I started to use it +again, and then continued to take it for about six months out of every +year for three years and am pleased to state that it has kept me free +from sickness.</p> + +<p><span style="margin-left: 2em;">Very truly yours,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 4em;">MRS. GEORGE SHEPHERD,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Berlin, Wis.</span><br /> +<br /> +Vice-President Mothers' Club.</p> + +<hr style='width: 15%;' /> +<div class="right">June 28, 1902.</div> + +<p>I thought I would write and state my condition to you and ask if you +think you can do me any good. I am fifty-five years old, never had any +children. I came here from Brooklyn for my husband's health, he having +consumption. I have always had good health, never any trouble with my +menses, always regular until two or three months before my husband died, +which was March 25, 1901. As soon as he died, I commenced and flowed +constantly ever since. I know it must be the Change of Life. I did not +worry about it for four or five months, then I had a doctor but he did +me no good. I had another with the same result. Last May I had to go to +New York and traveling I think was too much for me as I have been worse. +I saw a doctor there and he wanted me to go to the hospital and have my +womb curetted, but I did not feel like having that done. I never have +any pain only once in a while a little backache. Please let me know if +you think you can do me any good.</p> + +<p><span style="margin-left: 2em;">MRS. J. J. REARDON.</span></p> + + +<div class="right">January 18, 1903.</div> + +<p>I feel that I must write and thank you for the good you have done me. I +wrote to you my case last summer. I flowed constantly for sixteen months +so badly that I dared not go any where and the doctors all said an +operation. Nothing did me any good. As a last resort I appealed to you. +I had no faith in your medicine, but thought I would try it and if it +did me no good I would go to the hospital. I took two boxes of the Lydia +E. Pinkham's Compound Pills and started on the third and now I am all +right. I was run down, nervous, could not sleep, no appetite, but Lydia +E. Pinkham's Compound has cured me entirely. I am very grateful to you +and wish that everyone afflicted as I was would try it.</p> + +<p><span style="margin-left: 2em;">MRS. J. J. REARDON,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 4em;">Milford, Pa.</span></p> + +<hr style='width: 15%;' /> + +<div class="right">November 20, 1901.</div> + +<p>Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound did wonders for me during the +<i>Change of Life</i>.</p> + +<p>I was troubled with backache and headache, hot flashes and cold chills, +pains in my hips, and at times would have such pains under my shoulder +blades that I could hardly move for a while. I hope that other suffering +women will take your medicine.</p> + +<p>Many thanks for what you have done for me.</p> + +<p><span style="margin-left: 2em;">MRS. SARAH DERFER,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 4em;">Dundee, Ohio.</span></p></div> + +<p> </p><p> </p> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_55" id="Page_55">[Pg 55]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/p055.jpg" alt="Tired Mothers" /></div> + +<h1>TIRED MOTHERS</h1> + +<p><strong>A nervous, irritable mother, often on the verge of hysterics, is unfit +to care for children; it ruins a child's disposition and reacts upon +herself. The trouble between children and</strong> their mothers too often is due +to the fact that the mother has some female weakness, and she is +entirely unfit to bear the strain upon her nerves that governing a child +involves; it is impossible for her to do anything calmly. She cannot +help it, as her condition is due to suffering and shattered nerves +caused by some derangement of the uterine system with backache, +headache, and all kinds of pain, and she is on the verge of nervous +prostration. When a mother finds that she cannot be calm and quiet with +her children, she may be sure that her condition needs attention, and +she cannot do better than to take</p> + +<table style=" border: 1px black solid" summary="ad"> +<tr><td align="center"><big><strong>Lydia E. Pinkham's</strong></big></td></tr> +<tr><td align="center"><big><strong>Vegetable Compound.</strong></big></td></tr></table> + +<p>It builds up her system, strengthens her nerves, and enables her to +calmly handle a disobedient child without a scene. The children will +soon realize the difference, and seeing their mother quiet, will +themselves become quiet.</p> + +<p><i><strong>Read what the Vice-Pres. of the Mothers' Club, at Hot Springs, Ark., +says:</strong></i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"<span class="smcap">Dear Mrs. Pinkham:</span>—<strong>Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound</strong> will +make every mother well, strong, healthy and happy. I dragged +through nine years of miserable existence, worn out with pain and +weariness. I then noticed a statement of a woman troubled as I was, +and the wonderful results she had obtained from your Compound, and +decided to try what it would do for me, and used it for three +months. At the end of that time I was a different woman, and the +neighbors remarked it, and my husband fell in love with me all over +again. It seemed like a new existence. I had been suffering with +inflammation and falling of the womb, but your medicine cured that, +and built up my entire system, till I was indeed like a new +woman."—Sincerely yours, <span class="smcap">Mrs. Chas. F. Brown</span>, Vice-Pres. Mothers' +Club, Hot Springs, Ark.</p></div> + +<h3>FREE MEDICAL ADVICE TO WOMEN.</h3> + +<p><strong>From a vast experience in treating female ills, extending over 20 years, +Mrs. Pinkham has gained a knowledge which is of untold value.</strong></p> + +<p><strong>If there is anything in your case about which you would like special +advice, write freely to Mrs. Pinkham. Address is Lynn, Mass. Her advice +is free, always confidential and helpful.</strong></p> + +<p> </p><p> </p> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_56" id="Page_56">[Pg 56]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/p056.jpg" alt="LYDIA E. PINKHAM'S VEGETABLE COMPOUND Has Cured More Women Than Any Other Medicine in the World." /></div> + +<h2>LYDIA E. PINKHAM'S<br /> VEGETABLE COMPOUND</h2> + +<h3>Has Cured More Women Than Any Other Medicine in the World.</h3> + +<p>Its annual sales are greater than those of any other medicine +exclusively for women. It holds the record for the greatest number of +actual cures of woman's ills. This fact is attested by hundreds of +thousands of letters from grateful women which are on file in the +Pinkham laboratory, and which are constantly being published. Merit +alone can produce such results. Good advertising serves to call +attention for a time, but merit alone can stand the test of time.</p> + +<p>The ablest specialists now agree that Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable +Compound is the most universally successful remedy for woman's ills +known to medicine.</p> + +<p>All sick women should note these facts, and placing all possible +prejudices aside, should realize the truthfulness of these statements, +and that a cure for their troubles actually exists.</p> + +<p>Wise is the woman who has faith in Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable +Compound, for health and happiness is sure to follow its use.</p> + +<p><strong>YOU CAN GET HELPFUL ADVICE FREE.—If there is anything about your +illness you do not understand, Mrs. Pinkham, at Lynn, Mass., will be +glad to receive a letter from you telling her all the details. She will +send you promptly a reply which may save you years of suffering and +pain. She has helped thousands of women. For all this she will not +charge you a cent; besides, she will keep your letter strictly +confidential. Write her to-day.</strong></p> + +<p> </p><p> </p> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_57" id="Page_57">[Pg 57]</a></span></p> + +<div class="test"> +<div class="right">October 14, 1902.</div> + +<p>I suffer something terrible with flooding every month and pass large +clots of blood. The pains are excruciating. I can hardly stand them. The +doctor says my ovaries are decayed and my womb needs to be scraped. I do +not wish to go under the operation if I can possibly avoid it. I hope +you can relieve me.</p> + +<p><span style="margin-left: 2em;">MRS. MARY DIMMICK.</span></p> + + +<div class="right">September 16, 1903.</div> + +<p>After giving Lydia E. Pinkham's wonderful remedies a thorough trial, I +am very anxious to send in my testimonial that others may learn of their +great value. I have been a great sufferer for the last eight years, the +trouble first originating from painful menstruation, and I also had +inflammation and ulceration of the womb. The doctor told me I must have +an operation or I could not live. I then wrote you telling all my +ailments. I followed your advice very carefully and am now entirely +well. I can walk miles without an ache or pain and can safely say I owe +my life and health to Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. I cannot +speak too highly of its merits. My friends all look at me in +astonishment, for my case was very serious and it seems almost a miracle +that I am cured. I wish suffering women could read this testimonial and +realize the value of your remedy. I shall take much pleasure in +recommending it to all.</p> + +<p><span style="margin-left: 2em;">MRS. MARY DIMMICK,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 4em;">59th and E. Capitol St., Benning P. O.,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Washington, D. C.</span></p> + +<hr style='width: 15%;' /> + +<div class="right">July 14, 1901.</div> + +<p>Words cannot express the gratitude I feel towards you for what Lydia E. +Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has done for me.</p> + +<p>My trouble was misplacement of the womb, also womb was lacerated, and +had inflammation of the ovaries. I went away for treatment to a +specialist on female diseases and passed through twelve operations. Was +gone from home eight weeks and gradually grew worse and returned home to +die, having given up all hope of ever getting well. My heart would stop +beating at times and I became very weak, could not sit up in bed.</p> + +<p>A friend of mine brought me a bottle of the Vegetable Compound and I +began its use and by the time I had taken half a bottle I could see that +I had improved. I used in all twelve bottles of the Compound and am now +able to do all my house work and enjoy better health than I have in six +years. I owe my life to you, for I believe I would have been in my grave +to-day had it not been for the Vegetable Compound. Your medicine is a +God-send to suffering women.</p> + +<p><span style="margin-left: 2em;">MRS. J. A. JORDAN,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 4em;">Canoe Station, Ga.</span></p> + +<hr style='width: 15%;' /> + +<div class="right">March 3, 1901.</div> + +<p>Dear Mrs. Pinkham:</p> + +<p>I would like some advice from you as I have such very bad pains in +ovaries, falling of the womb, and every time I have my monthlys I have +the cramps very bad, and seem to be getting worse. I always have it a +week and I am so very nervous. I don't want an operation.</p> + +<p>Every time I become pregnant I carry the child only seven months, and +then it is born and lives only a week or two. I have lost four children +this way and hope you will tell me what to take as I know you have +helped others.</p> + +<p><span style="margin-left: 2em;">MRS. FRED SEYDEL.</span></p> + + +<div class="right">August 26, 1902.</div> + +<p>Dear Mrs. Pinkham:</p> + +<p>Over a year ago I wrote you a letter asking for advice how to carry my +babes to full time as I had lost four children between five and seven +months.</p> + +<p>I took Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and did as you instructed +me, and now I have a beautiful baby girl about six months old and we are +both healthy.</p> + +<p>I advise all suffering women to call on you for help and I tell every +one of the good you have done me.</p> + +<p><span style="margin-left: 2em;">MRS. FRED SEYDEL,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 4em;">412 N. 54th St., West Phila., Pa.</span></p> + +<hr style='width: 15%;' /> + +<div class="right">June 13, 1901.</div> + +<p>Last summer I had terrible pains in my back and head. I went to the +doctor and he told me I had a touch of Bright's disease and gave me some +medicine but it did me no good. My mother advised me to take some of +your medicine, and after taking eight bottles of Lydia E. Pinkham's +Vegetable Compound I can say that I am feeling well.</p> + +<p><span style="margin-left: 2em;">MRS. ANNIE DAMBACK.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 4em;">263 Grand Street, Rahway, N. J.</span></p></div> + +<p> </p><p> </p> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_58" id="Page_58">[Pg 58]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/p058.jpg" alt="DYSPEPSIA OF WOMEN" /></div> +<h1>DYSPEPSIA OF WOMEN</h1> + +<h3>Requires Treatment which acts in Harmony with the Female System.</h3> + +<p>A great many women suffer with a form of indigestion or dyspepsia which +does not seem to yield to ordinary medical treatment. While the symptoms +seem to be similar to those of ordinary indigestion, yet the medicines +universally prescribed do not seem to restore the patient's normal +condition. <strong>Mrs. Pinkham</strong> claims that there is a kind of dyspepsia that is +caused by derangement of the female organism, and which while it causes +disturbance similar to ordinary indigestion cannot be relieved without a +medicine which not only acts as a stomach tonic, but has peculiar +utero-tonic effects as well; in other words, a derangement of the female +organs may have such a disturbing effect upon a woman's whole system as +to cause serious indigestion and dyspepsia, and it cannot be relieved +without curing the original cause of the trouble, which seems to find +its source in the pelvic organs. As proof of this theory, we call +attention to the letter from Mrs. Maggie Wright, who was completely +cured by the use of</p> + +<h3>Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.</h3> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"<span class="smcap">My Dear Mrs. Pinkham:</span>—For two years I suffered more or less with +dyspepsia, which so degenerated my entire system that I was unfit +to properly attend to my daily duties. I felt weak and nervous, and +nothing I ate tasted good or felt comfortable in my stomach. I +tried several dyspeptic cures, but nothing seemed to help me +permanently. I decided to give <strong>Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable +Compound</strong> a trial, and was happily surprised to find that it acted +like a fine tonic, and in a few days I began to enjoy and properly +digest my food. My recovery was rapid, and in five weeks I was a +different woman. Seven bottles completely cured me, and a dozen or +more of my friends have used it since."—<span class="smcap">Mrs. Maggie Wright</span>, 12 Van +Voorhis St., Brooklyn, New York.</p></div> + +<p><strong>Many women were utterly discouraged, and life lacked all joy to them +when they wrote Mrs. Pinkham, Lynn, Mass. They received advice which +made them strong women again.</strong></p> + +<p> </p><p> </p> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_59" id="Page_59">[Pg 59]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/p059.jpg" alt="The Blues" /></div> +<h1><span class="smcap">The Blues</span></h1> + +<p><strong>Don't Wait Until Your Sufferings Have Driven You To Despair, With Your +Nerves All Shattered and Your Courage Gone.</strong></p> + +<p>When a cheerful, brave, light-hearted woman is suddenly plunged into +that perfection of misery, the BLUES, it is a sad picture. It is usually +this way:</p> + +<p>She has been feeling "out of sorts" for some time; head has ached, and +back also; has slept poorly, been quite nervous, and nearly fainted once +or twice; head dizzy, and heart beats very fast; then that bearing-down +feeling. Her doctor says: "Cheer up; you have dyspepsia; you will be all +right soon." But she does not get "all right." She grows worse day by +day, till all at once she realizes that a distressing female complaint +is established. Her doctor has made a mistake. She has lost faith in +him; hope vanishes; then comes the brooding, morbid, melancholy, +everlasting BLUES. <strong>Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound</strong> instantly +asserts its curative powers in all those peculiar ailments of women, and +the story recited above is the true experience of hundreds of American +women, whose letters of gratitude we constantly publish.</p> + +<p><strong>Surely you cannot wish to remain weak, and sick and discouraged, +exhausted with each day's work. If you have some derangement of the +female organism try the remedy that has restored a million women to +health</strong>,</p> + +<h3>Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.</h3> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"<span class="smcap">Dear Mrs. Pinkham:</span>—I cheerfully recommended <strong>Lydia E. Pinkham's +Vegetable Compound</strong> to my suffering sisters as a perfect medicine +for all female derangements. I was troubled with displacement of +the womb and other female weakness. Had headache, backache, and +such bearing-down pains I could hardly walk across the floor, and +was very nervous. A friend advised me to try your medicine, which I +did, and after using the first bottle I began to improve. I took in +all twelve bottles of Vegetable Compound, one box of Liver Pills, +also used the Sanative Wash and was cured, and have no return of my +troubles. I am as well now as I ever was. I am more thankful every +day for my cure. I know that your medicine will do everything that +it is recommended to do for suffering women."—<span class="smcap">Mrs. Dora Anderson</span>, +North Muskegon, Mich.</p> + +<p>"<span class="smcap">Dear Mrs. Pinkham:</span>—I want to tell you what your remedies have +done for me. Before taking them I used to have a continuous +headache, would be very dizzy, would have spells when everything +seemed strange, and I would not know where I was. I went to our +local doctor. He gave me some medicine, but it did not seem to do +me any good, but after taking <strong>Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable +Compound</strong>, I began to improve at once. I can honestly recommend your +remedies to all suffering women and advise all to give it a +trial."—<span class="smcap">Mrs. Henry Sell</span>, Van Wyck, Wash.</p></div> + +<h4>FREE MEDICAL ADVICE TO WOMEN.</h4> + +<p><strong>If there is anything in your case about which you would like special +advice, write freely to Mrs Pinkham. She will hold your letter in strict +confidence.</strong></p> + +<p> </p><p> </p> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_60" id="Page_60">[Pg 60]</a></span></p> + +<div class="bbox"> + +<h3>IN THE TREATMENT OF</h3> +<h1><span class="smcap">Female Troubles</span></h1> +<h4>Such as Leucorrhoea, and all Inflammation of the Vaginal Passage by +local application, experience has proven that nothing excels</h4> +<h2>LYDIA E. PINKHAM'S</h2> +<h1>SANATIVE WASH</h1> +<h3>FOR VAGINAL INJECTIONS.</h3> +<p>Every woman will find this a most valuable assistant whenever a <strong>Vaginal +Injection</strong> is desirable. It is soothing, cleansing and healing. In +connection with the <span class="smcap">Vegetable Compound</span> it hastens the cure.</p> +<p>We are permitted to publish on this page several testimonials which +demonstrate the virtue of the <span class="smcap">Sanative Wash</span>, and should convince every +woman that she should place complete reliance on any statement made by +Mrs. Pinkham in regard to the virtue and reliability of any of these +medicines.</p> +<h4>DIRECTIONS FOR USING THE SANATIVE WASH.</h4> +<p>Steep one-fourth of the package in sufficent water to make one pint +after it is strained. When the discharge is very profuse, use one-half +of this, adding to it one pint of warm water, daily, as a VAGINAL +INJECTION.</p> +<h4>25 Cents per Package. Sold by Druggists Everywhere.</h4></div> + +<p> </p> +<div class="test"> +<div class="center"><strong>Sanative Wash.</strong></div> + +<p>I feel that I neglect a duty in not writing you that others may know +what your Vegetable Compound has done for me.</p> + +<p>Before taking it I was almost an invalid, could not walk any distance +and suffered pain all the time. After taking nine bottles I was very +much better, and can now do my house work and ride a wheel. It would +take too much space to tell you all of its merits but I must not forget +to speak of the Sanative Wash for it simply acts like magic.</p> + +<p>Trusting that this may help some other sufferer, I remain.</p> + +<p><span style="margin-left: 2em;">Yours truly,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 4em;">MRS. A. C. SAXTON,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Port Jefferson, N. Y.</span></p> + +<hr style='width: 15%;' /> + +<div class="center"><strong>Sanative Wash.</strong></div> + +<p>It affords me great pleasure to tell you of the benefit I have derived +from taking your Vegetable Compound and Sanative Wash. I can hardly find +words to express my gratitude to you for the boon which you have offered +suffering women in your excellent remedies. Before taking your Compound +I was thin, sallow and nervous. I was troubled with leucorrhœa, and +my menstrual periods were very irregular. I tried three physicians and +gradually grew worse. About a year ago I was advised by a friend to try +your Sanative Wash and Vegetable Compound, which I did. After using your +Vegetable Compound and Sanative Wash I am now enjoying better health +than I ever did, and attribute the same to your wonderful remedies. I +cannot find words to express What a godsend your remedies have been to +me. Whenever I begin to feel nervous and ill, I know I have a never +failing physician at hand. It would afford me pleasure to know that my +words have directed my suffering sisters <ins class="correction" title="Not in original.">to</ins> the road to health and +strength through your most excellent remedies. I thank you again for +what your remedies have done for me.</p> + +<p><span style="margin-left: 2em;">MISS MARY SACHNER,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 4em;">205 E. Town St., Columbus, Ohio.</span></p> + +<hr style='width: 15%;' /> + +<div class="center"><strong>Sanative Wash.</strong></div> + +<p>I am glad to state that through the use of your Vegetable Compound and +Sanative Wash, etc., I am cured from the worst form of female weakness. +I was troubled very much with leucorrhœa, bearingdown pains and +backache. It seemed that I had no strength at all. I was in pain all +over. I began to feel better after taking the first dose of Vegetable +Compound, and am now like a new woman. I know if other suffering women +would only try it, it would help them.</p> + +<p><span style="margin-left: 2em;">MRS. GEORGE. W. SHEPARD,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 4em;">Box 127, Boonville, N. Y.</span></p></div> + +<p> </p><p> </p> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_61" id="Page_61">[Pg 61]</a></span></p> + +<div class="bbox"> +<h3>LYDIA E. PINKHAM'S</h3> + +<h1><span class="smcap">Blood Purifier</span></h1> + +<h4>Is far superior to any other known Remedy for the Cure of all Diseases +arising from Impurities of the Blood, such as</h4> + +<h4>Scrofula, Cancerous Humor, Erysipelas, Rheumatism, Canker, Salt Rheum +and Skin Diseases.</h4> +<hr style='width: 10%;' /> + +<h4>IMPURE BLOOD CAN BE MADE RICH AND PURE.</h4> + +<p>There is no condition of the human system so uncertain or so deceptive +as the condition of the blood. Other disease makes itself known by aches +or appearance, but the blood courses on with no sign of vitiation, +carrying its poison to every nerve and fibre of the body. Suddenly comes +the awakening; pains that were never thought of before, ulcers or +eruptions where never a pimple existed, make you ask in wonder, if not +in agony, the cause. This effect may come in various ways, but the cause +is always impure blood. This impurity or blood poisoning produces +<i>Rheumatism</i>, <i>Debility</i>, <i>Neuralgia</i>, <i>Scrofula</i>, <i>Mercurial or +Syphilitic Ulcers</i>, <i>Fistula</i>, <i>Eruptions</i>, <i>Consumption</i>, <i>Scurvy</i>, <i>&c.</i></p> + +<h4>INDIGESTION AND BILIOUSNESS.</h4> + +<p>These two complaints are closely akin and generally exist together. +<i>Dyspepsia, or Chronic Indigestion</i>, is more prevalent in this country +than anywhere else on the face of the earth, the chief reason being that +we eat with intemperate haste, and consequently do not, as a rule, +properly masticate our food. The work that should be done by the dental +mill we remit to the stomach; and, as it cannot accomplish the task, the +<i>food-grist</i> is not properly ground up and applied, and the whole +body—aye, every fibre and tissue of it—suffers. We need not here +describe the pains and penalties of <i>Dyspepsia</i>. They are within the +personal experience of two-thirds of the adult population of the United +States. <i>Biliousness</i> is a somewhat indefinite term, but it means, in +its common acceptation, an <i>unnatural determination of bile to the +channels of circulation</i>. The yellow tinge of the skin and of the white +of the eyes in bilious cases is caused by the undue presence of bile in +the superficial blood-vessels.</p> + +<p>A proper course of Lydia E. Pinkham's Blood Purifier, together with her +celebrated Liver Pills, will purify the blood and drive off the bile, +making you happy and pleasant, instead of grouty and disagreeable.</p> + + +<h4>LYDIA E. PINKHAM'S BLOOD PURIFIER</h4> + +<p>Is as great a success as her celebrated Vegetable Compound, and may be +used with great benefit in all diseases caused by impurities of the +blood. Do not class it with bitters of any kind. It is not a drink or an +appetizer, but a <i>strictly medicinal preparation</i>. It is a powerful +alterative, but a purely vegetable preparation, and may be taken without +fear by any invalid. The dose is small and with good nutritious diet of +any kind, avoiding highly seasoned or greasy food, you will be free from +the tortures of rheumatism, clear of scrofulous sores or ulcers, and +eradicate every taint, whether inherited or contracted. You will have a +beautiful complexion and a soft, smooth skin, and rejoice in a healthy +body and pure blood.</p> + +<h4>For Sale by your Druggist, $1.00 per bottle.</h4></div> + + +<p> </p> +<div class="test"> +<div class="right">Sept. 15, 1902.</div> + +<p>I feel it my duty to send you a testimonial and tell you how much good +Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Blood Purifier has done my +daughter. She feels like a different person. Her menstruation was +irregular; did not come around for two months. She took some medicine +from the doctor which did not help her, and he thought she would have to +take treatments. She took some of your Vegetable Compound and now her +menses are regular again and she rests well nights, which she had not +been able to do for about a year. Her friends all wonder at her improved +looks as well as health.</p> + +<p>I never fail to recommend your medicine when I know of any woman who has +female troubles.</p> + +<p><span style="margin-left: 2em;">MRS. MAGDALENA SCHICK,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 4em;">Washington, Ill.</span></p> + +<hr style='width: 15%;' /> + +<div class="right">Jan. 21, 1902.</div> + +<p>I will tell you what your remedy has done for me. I was in a very bad +condition with scrofula swellings around my neck. It started with a +bunch on the side of my neck, and it kept growing until the whole side +of my face was swollen.</p> + +<p>I had tried everything in the shape of patent medicines for five years. +I had gone under an operation in one of the hospitals in Boston and had +them cut out. I had thirty little tubular glands taken from back of my +ear down my shoulder. They looked like a bunch of grapes, and about the +same size. After the cuts healed over they started to come again worse +than before.</p> + +<p>After suffering so much I thought I would try Lydia E. Pinkham's Blood +Purifier, and before I had taken two bottles there was a great change in +the swellings. I continued its use and to-day I am a well woman. Every +word of this is true.</p> + +<p>I cannot speak too highly in praise of your Blood Purifier.</p> + +<p><span style="margin-left: 2em;">MRS. W. H. HAYNES,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 4em;">38 Adams Ave., Everett, Mass.</span></p></div> + +<p> </p><p> </p> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_62" id="Page_62">[Pg 62]</a></span></p> + +<h1>Lydia E. Pinkham's Liver Pills</h1> + +<p>Are especially adapted to the needs of the stomach and liver, the +derangement of which they prevent and cure. They are purely vegetable +and perfectly harmless. They do not purge, gripe or weaken, but are a +gentle effective laxative which stimulates the natural action of the +bowels. They are excellent in conjunction with the Vegetable Compound; +especially in those cases when the complaints that are peculiar to women +are attended with constipation and sluggishness of the liver. In such +cases these Pills enable the Vegetable Compound to do its work more +speedily and effectively. The enormous sale of Lydia E. Pinkham's Liver +Pills has been attained purely on their merit. During the last 25 years, +we have found nothing to excel them. One box contains more than three +times the number of pills ordinarily sold for 25 cents and we therefor +justly claim superiority both in quantity and quality.</p> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<div class="test"> +<div class="right">January 12, 1901.</div> + +<p>I write you these few lines to see if you can suggest some means to cure +me. A little more than a year ago, I was sick with menstruation for the +first time and since then I am sick all the time in some way or other. I +have painful and irregular menstruation. I went to summer resorts for my +health and was doctored all summer, but to no effect. I have not flowed +for two months and thought I would see if you could do me any good.</p> + +<p><span style="margin-left: 2em;">MARION BARBER.</span></p> + + +<div class="right">May 25, 1903.</div> + +<p>About two years ago I wrote to you for advice, being troubled with +irregular menstruation and womb disease. I began taking Lydia E. +Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Liver Pills and using the Sanative Wash +and I am glad to say I am completely cured and have not had any sickness +since.</p> + +<p>I wish to thank you for your kind advice and shall recommend your +medicine to my lady friends.</p> + +<p><span style="margin-left: 2em;">MARION BARBER,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 4em;">101 Bracewell Ave., North Adams, Mass.</span></p> + +<hr style='width: 15%;' /> + +<p>I am passing through the Change of Life, am suffering from extreme +nervousness and depression of spirits, am very constipated and blood +impoverished. I have heard so much about Lydia E. Pinkham's Medicine I +wish to give it a trial. Please advise me.</p> + +<p><span style="margin-left: 2em;">MRS. ALICE PICKERING,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 4em;">14 George Street, Providence, R. I.</span></p> + + +<div class="right">June 29, 1900.</div> + +<p>Six months ago I wrote to you stating my case. You advised me to take +Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, Blood Purifier and Liver Pills. I +followed your instructions.</p> + +<p>I never used anything in my life that benefited me so much. They are +wonderful medicines. I cannot say enough in their praise. I know I +should have been insane if I had not taken them.</p> + +<p><span style="margin-left: 2em;">MRS. ALICE PICKERING,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 4em;">14 George Street, Providence, R. I.</span></p></div> + +<p> </p> +<div class="bbox"> +<h1>IMPORTANT</h1> + +<p>When writing to Mrs. Pinkham for advice and counsel, it is highly +important that you should answer the following questions:</p> + +<p><strong>Is your menstruation regular?</strong></p> + +<p><strong>Is your menstruation profuse?</strong></p> + +<p><strong>Is your menstruation scanty?</strong></p> + +<p><strong>Is your menstruation painful?</strong></p> + +<p><strong>Are you married or single?</strong></p> + +<p><strong>If married, have you borne children?</strong></p> + +<p><strong>Have you any discharge from the vagina other than the courses?</strong></p> + +<p><strong>Have you a free movement of the bowels daily?</strong></p> + +<p><strong>Are you constipated?</strong></p> + +<p><strong>Is your blood in good condition?</strong></p> + +<p>Write out plainly all symptoms you do not understand.</p> + +<p>Be sure of the strictest confidence. Mrs. Pinkham never betrays a trust. +You can rely on her help implicitly. Address your letters to "Mrs. Pinkham, Lynn, Mass."</p></div> + +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<h1>A Word of Warning.</h1> +<hr style='width: 50%;' /> +<p>No other medicine in the world has received such widespread and +unqualified endorsement as has Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.</p> + +<p>No other medicine has such a record of cures of female troubles or such +hosts of grateful friends.</p> + +<p>Do not be persuaded that any other medicine is just as good. Any dealer +who asks you to buy something else when you go into his store purposely +to buy Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, has no interest in your +case. He is merely trying to sell you something on which he can make a +larger profit. He does not care whether you get well or not, so long as +he can make a little more money out of your sickness. If he wished you +well he would, without hesitation, hand you the medicine you ask for, +and which he knows is the best woman's medicine in the world.</p> + +<p>Follow the record of this medicine, and remember that these thousands of +cures of women whose letters are constantly printed in this paper were +not brought about by "something else," but by</p> + +<h3>Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound,</h3> +<h4>The Great Woman's Remedy for Woman's Ills.</h4> + +<p>Those women who refuse to accept anything else are rewarded a hundred +thousand times, for they get what they want—a cure. Moral—Stick to the +medicine that you <strong><big>know</big></strong> is Best.</p> + +<p><strong>When a medicine has been successful in restoring to health more than a +million women, you cannot well say without trying it, "I do not believe +it will help me." If you are ill, do not hesitate to get a bottle of +Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound at once, and write Mrs. Pinkham, +Lynn, Mass, U. S. A., for special advice. It is free and helpful, and +will cost you nothing.</strong></p> + +<p> </p><p> </p> +<h4>This entire book copyrighted in 1901 and 1904 by the Lydia E. Pinkham +Medicine Co., of Lynn, Mass., U. S. A. All rights reserved and will be protected by law.</h4> + +<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/p064.jpg" alt="The Home of Lydia E. Pinkham's Remedies" /></div> + +<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary="home"> +<tr><td><img src="images/p064b.png" alt="decoration" /></td><td align="right"><span class="smcap"><strong><big>The Home of Lydia E. Pinkham's Remedies</big></strong></span></td></tr></table> + +<p><strong><big>LYNN, MASS., U. S. A.</big></strong></p> + +<hr style='width: 50%;' /> +<p><span class="u">Transcriber's Notes:</span><br /> +<br /> +The Table of Contents was generated by the transcriber as an aid to the reader.<br /> +<br /> +Complete transcriptions of the full page advertisements (pages 47, 49, 55, 56, 58, 59) are included in the text of this document.</p> + + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Treatise on the Diseases of Women, by +Lydia E. 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Pinkham + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Treatise on the Diseases of Women + +Author: Lydia E. Pinkham + +Release Date: August 5, 2009 [EBook #29612] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TREATISE ON THE DISEASES OF WOMEN *** + + + + +Produced by Bryan Ness, Stephanie Eason, and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net. + + + + + + + + + + This Treatise on the Diseases of Women + Is Dedicated to the Women of the World. + + Yours for Health + Lydia E. Pinkham + + +This entire book copyrighted in 1901 and 1904 by the Lydia E. Pinkham +Medicine Co., of Lynn, Mass., U. S. A. All rights reserved and will be +protected by law. + + +List of Lydia E. Pinkham's Remedies. + ++Illustration of Products+ + + LYDIA E. PINKHAM'S VEGETABLE COMPOUND. + Put up in three forms: Liquid, Lozenge, and Pills Price, $1.00 + LYDIA E. PINKHAM'S LIVER PILLS, per Box " .25 + LYDIA E. PINKHAM'S BLOOD PURIFIER " 1.00 + LYDIA E. PINKHAM'S SANATIVE WASH, per Packet " .25 + +ALL THE ABOVE, EXCEPTING THE LIQUIDS, CAN BE SENT BY MAIL ON RECEIPT OF +PRICE. ALL DRUGGISTS SELL MRS. PINKHAM'S REMEDIES. + + + + +CHAPTER I. + + +A WOMAN BEST UNDERSTANDS A WOMAN. + +=Experience a Perfect Teacher.=--Do you know what it is to suffer pain? +Have you had your body racked and torn with intense suffering? Have you +ever experienced that indescribable agony which comes from overworked +nerves? + +Have you ever felt the sharp, stinging pain, the dull, heavy pain, the +throbbing, jumping pain, the cramping, tearing pain, the sickening, +nauseating pain? Then you know all about them. Nobody can tell you +anything more. Experience is a perfect teacher. + +=Book-Learning Alone Not Sufficient.=--Suppose you had never experienced +pain, but had just read about it in a book, do you think you would have +any kind of an idea of what genuine suffering was? Most certainly not. + +Book knowledge is valuable. It teaches the location of countries, the +use of figures, and the history of nations; but there are some things +books cannot do, and the greatest of these is, they cannot describe +physical and mental suffering. These are things that must be +experienced. + +=Personal Experience Necessary.=--After you have once suffered, how ready +you are to sympathize with those who are going through the same severe +trials. If a member of your own home or a friend is passing through the +trying ordeal of motherhood, and you have suffered the same, how you can +advise, suggest, comfort, guide! If you have had a personal experience +of intense agony once every month, do you not think you are in a far +better position to talk with one who is suffering in the same way than +you would be if you had never gone through all this? + +=You Best Understand Yourself.=--But let us go a little farther in this +study. When you listen to an eminent orator, you have but little idea +whether he is nervous or not, but little idea whether he is undergoing a +severe strain or not; for you have never been in his place, cannot +understand just that condition. + +Men become greatly interested in political matters; perhaps it often +seems to you that they become too much disturbed; and yet how can you +judge, for you have never been in their place? And so we might go on, +giving illustration after illustration as additional proof to this one +great fact. + + +IT TAKES A WOMAN TO UNDERSTAND A WOMAN. + +=Man Cannot Know Woman's Suffering.=--What does a man know about the +thousand and one aches and pains peculiar to a woman? He may have seen +manifestations of suffering, he may have read something about these +things in books, but that is all. Even though he might be exceedingly +learned in the medical profession, yet what more can he know aside from +that which the books teach? Did a man ever have a backache like the +dragging, pulling, tearing ache of a woman? No. It is impossible. + +=Even Medical Men Cannot Understand These Things.=--To a man, all pain +must be of his kind; it must be a man-pain, not a woman-pain. Take, for +instance, the long list of diseases and discomforts which come directly +from some derangement of the female generative organs; as, for instance, +the bearing-down pains, excessive flowing, uterine cramps, and +leucorrhoea. Do you think it possible for a man to understand these +things? Granting that he may be the most learned man in the medical +profession, how can he know anything about them only in a general way? +You know, we know, everybody knows that he cannot. + + +A WOMAN CAN BEST PRESCRIBE FOR A WOMAN. + +=Relief First Offered in 1873.=--Away back in '73 these thoughts came to +Lydia E. Pinkham. She saw the most intense suffering about her on every +hand, and yet no one seemed able to give relief. Her thorough education +enabled her to understand that nearly all the suffering of womankind was +due to diseases and affections peculiar to her sex. + +The whole question resolved itself into just this: If a remedy could be +made that would relieve all inflammations and congestions of the +ovaries, Fallopian tubes, uterus, and other female organs, the days of +suffering for women would be largely over. + +=First Made on a Kitchen Stove.=--Could this be done? Mrs. Pinkham +believed with all her heart that it was possible. So on a kitchen stove +she began the great work which has made her name a household word +wherever civilization exists. Without money, but with a hopeful heart, +she made up little batches of this remedy to give to neighbors and +friends whom she felt could be relieved by it. + +The story soon spread from house to house, from village to village, from +city to city. Now it looked as if a business might be established upon a +permanent basis, a basis resting upon the wonderful curative properties +of the medicine itself. + +="We Can Trust Her."=--By judicious advertising the merits of this +remarkable remedy were set forth; and before she was hardly aware of it, +she found herself at the head of one of the largest enterprises ever +established in this country. + +That face so full of character and sympathy, soon after it was first +published, years ago, began to attract marked attention wherever it was +seen. Women said, "Here is one to whom we can tell our misery, one who +will listen to our story of pain, one whom we can fully trust." And so +the letters began to arrive from every quarter. Now hundreds of these +letters are received every day. More than a hundred thousand were +written in a single year. Everyone is opened by a woman, read by a +woman, sacredly regarded as written strictly in confidence by one woman +to another. Men do not see these letters. + +=Men Never See Your Letters.=--Do you want a strange man to hear all about +your particular disease? Would you feel like sitting down by the side of +a stranger and telling him all those sacred things which should be known +only by women? It isn't natural for a woman to do this; it isn't like +her, isn't in keeping with her finer sense of refinement. + +=No Boys Around.=--And then, how would it be when some boy opens the +letters, steals time to read a few before they are handed to some other +boy clerk to distribute (and probably read) around the office to the +various departments? It makes one almost indignant to think how light +and trivial these serious matters are so often regarded. + +=You Write to a Woman.=--But when you know your letter is going to be seen +only by a woman, one who sympathizes with you, feels sorry for you, +knows all about you, how different all this seems. + +=Confidence Never Violated.=--Although there are preserved in the secret +files of Lydia E. Pinkham's laboratory many hundreds of thousands of +letters from women from all parts of the world, yet in not a single +instance has the writer accused Mrs. Pinkham of violating her +confidence. + +=The Largest Experience in the World.=--The one thing that qualifies a +person to give advice on any subject is experience--experience creates +knowledge. No person can speak from a greater experience with female +ills nor a greater record of success than Mrs. Pinkham. Thousands of +cases come each month, some personally, others by mail; and this has +been going on thirty years, day after day, and day after day, thirty +years of constant success--think of the knowledge thus gained. Surely +women are wise in seeking advice from a woman with such an +experience--especially when it is free. If you are ill get a bottle of +Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound at once--then write Mrs. Pinkham, +Lynn, Mass. + +What medical man has ever lived who has prescribed for so many women? +What whole corps of physicians in any hospital or medical college has +answered so many letters, or treated in any way so many patients? + +=She Helps Everyone.=--No woman ever writes to her for advice without +getting help. No matter how rare you think your case may be, she is +almost certain to find letters on file asking advice for other cases of +the same kind. By special permission of the writers I print a few of the +letters showing what cures have been effected. But if the reader could +go through these secret files which are never shown, she might hour +after hour, day after day, week after week, spend her whole time reading +letters, each one telling some special story of rescue from serious +illness, intense suffering, or impending death. + +=The Largest Record of Cures.=--The writers of these letters are found in +every clime and there is hardly a country in the world without its +multitude of grateful women cured by Lydia E. Pinkham's medicines. They +have the largest record of absolute cures from female ills known to have +been effected by any physician or his medicines. + + + + +CHAPTER II. + + +WHAT SHALL THE FUTURE GENERATION BE? + +=Important to the Nation.=--It is impossible to fully comprehend how +important to us as a nation is the health of the young women of to-day. +We fail to realize that these women are to be the mothers of the next +generation, and that in their hands will lie, in large measure, the +power to form the characters and direct the destinies of the boys and +girls of the future. + +=Woman Must Be Strong.=--We may educate our young men all we wish, yet we +cannot have national power through their strength alone. The women of +the country must have this physical education if we are to have a people +that is strong and hearty. + +Upon the sound health and vigor of the young women of to-day will +depend, to a large extent, the health and capacity of the future +generations. + +=What are Girls Worth?=--It is estimated that there are about twelve +million young women in the United States between fourteen and +twenty-eight years of age. What are these young women worth to the home, +to the State, to the nation, to the human race? This is largely a +question of physical health. + +It is the stern duty of the mother to make this clear to her daughter, +and it is the solemn duty of every young woman to thoroughly study the +subject herself. + +=Not Prepared for Motherhood.=--But largely through ignorance, often +through indifference, these young girls become mothers when little +prepared to do so, and they find not only their own health shattered +thereby, but also that they are the mothers of weak, delicate, and +perhaps deformed children. + +=Women Desire Children.=--We read a great deal in the newspapers about how +American women are doing everything they possibly can to prevent having +children. This is not in accord with our experience. It is a slander on +American womanhood,--it is an outrageous falsehood. + +In not one letter in a thousand which we receive do wives ask how +childbearing may be prevented, while every day brings us many, many +letters asking if something cannot be done in order that there may be a +baby in the house. + +=A Healthy Mother and Child.=--If you desire a child, you wish a healthy +child; and you certainly desire to be a strong mother, one capable of +caring for her infant in every way, and able to direct it all through +its young life. Then let us give you some advice. + +=Why Some Women Do Not Have Children.=--The reason why some wives do not +have children may be entirely the fault of the husband; but if this is +not the case, then in all probability there is some inflammation of the +generative organs. This may be of recent or of old standing. It must be +thoroughly removed before the impregnated egg from the ovary can become +attached. + +=The Cure for this Condition.=--That these changes can be brought about in +a vast number of cases I have the most positive testimony. I have +advised such wives to continually use Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable +Compound; and, with this treatment alone, such a healthy condition of +the generative organs has been brought about that pregnancy has very +soon followed. This is precisely according to nature's laws, as I have +indicated before. + +Therefore, I say to every wife who desires a child, "Give Lydia E. +Pinkham's Vegetable Compound a thorough trial. If the fault is yours, +the Compound will surely remove it, and the longing of your heart will +be satisfied." + + + + +CHAPTER III. + + +REPRODUCTION. + +=The Reproductive Instinct Strong.=--The reproductive instinct is very +strong in the human race, as is indicated by the large amount of energy +the woman expends in the bearing of children, and by both sexes in the +care and education of their young. As we know, it is only by the +production of new individuals that the continuance of the race is +assured. + +=Problems of Reproduction.=--The problems of reproduction are extremely +broad, involving not only the immediate questions of individual +reproduction, but also those broader and deeper ones which relate to +heredity. + +=A New Life, By Chance.=--It is a most astonishing fact that nearly all +persons born into the world are given life as the result of chance +rather than by careful design. "If my parents had only known!" is the +frightful wail of many a wretched life. + +=To Create is Divine.=--At no time does man come so near being omnipotent +as when, by the tremendous powers given him, a new life is called into +existence. And yet, whether strong or weak, refreshed or exhausted, +healthy or diseased, sober or intoxicated, sweet or ill-tempered, +yielding or resisting, a new life is begun which may be either of two +extremes. How great are such questions! The human mind seems appalled +when asked to consider them. + +=Education on These Subjects Necessary.=--It is not the purpose of this +book to moralize upon these themes, or to say what should and should not +be done; but knowing something of the wretchedness of womankind, and the +fearful slavery she often has to endure, I can only hope, with all my +heart, that the coming generation may be better educated on these most +important topics. It is with a thought or two of this kind in mind that +I append the following brief outline of this subject:-- + +=Two Sexes Necessary.=--In the higher animals two sexes are necessary for +the reproduction of the race, the male and the female. Each contributes +some particular element toward the beginning of a new life; this is +known as the germ-cell. + +=The Germ-Cells.=--The germ-cells of the male are called spermatozoa, and +those of the female, ova. The reproductive process is simply a fusion, +or union of these male and female germ-cells. + +=The Male Elements.=--The spermatozoa are exceedingly delicate and minute; +they constitute the greatest part of the semen, or sperm. They are +peculiar shaped bodies, having a head, body, and tail, as illustrated in +the accompanying figure, and they can only be seen by powerful +magnifying glasses. (Fig. 1.) + +~FIG. 1. At the left are six spermatozoa, or male-elements, male +germ-cells. At the right is an ovum, egg, female germ-cell. All +highly magnified.~ + +They have the remarkable property of moving about with considerable +activity, and their number is almost beyond computation. + +=Only One Male Element Necessary.=--Although this number is so vast, yet +only a single one is required to endow the female cell, or egg, with +life. It is another illustration of how nature does everything possible +to increase the chances of perpetuating the race, for without such +immense numbers, the chances of the female egg being fertilized would be +much less. + +=May Live for Days.=--Although these male elements can live but a few +hours outside of the body, even when especial precautions are taken to +make every thing favorable to their existence, yet they have been known +to maintain their full life in the vaginal canal for more than eight +days after their discharge; another remarkable provision of nature, for +the prolonged existence of these cells increases the probability of the +fertilization of an egg, and thus increases the chances of producing a +new life. + +=The Female Element.=--As I have already said, the female germ-cell is +also known as the ovum, or egg. A single ovum is shown in Fig. 1. + +If not fertilized by the male elements, the egg passes off into the +outside world; if fertilized, it stops in the cavity of the uterus, +where it forms an attachment. Here it remains until perfectly developed, +when, at the end of nine months, it is brought forth to the outside +world as a perfect infant. + +=One Female Element; Many Male Elements.=--The human ovum is often said to +be a miniature of the egg of the common fowl, although there are some +quite marked differences between the two. It is a very interesting fact +to note that there is only one egg given off at a time; while there are +many thousands of the male elements. This is in harmony with the larger +size of the egg, and the fact that while this egg awaits fertilization +it is most carefully protected within the body of the mother. + +=Where is Life First Made?=--Where the wonderful union of the male and +female elements takes place is not definitely known, although it is +generally believed that it is upon the surface of the ovary, itself. + +If this be true, then it is necessary for the male element to traverse +the whole length of the uterine cavity, out along the course of the +Fallopian tube, and there be deposited on the surface of the ovary. + +=The Fertilized Egg.=--When a fertilized or impregnated egg is set free +from the surface of the ovary, it follows the same course that the +unimpregnated egg does until it reaches the uterus. Here some most +remarkable changes immediately take place whereby the egg is held firmly +to the inner wall of the uterine cavity; while the unimpregnated egg, as +I have said, passes down the uterine cavity into the vagina, and thus +out of the body. In other words, the fertilized egg is retained within +the body, while the unfertilized one is cast off. + +=One Egg Discharged Each Month.=--An ovum, or egg, is discharged during +each menstrual period. It cannot be seen because of its minute size, a +magnifying glass being necessary to detect it, even under favorable +conditions. At just what time during this period the ovum is cast from +the body is not definitely known, but it is generally thought to be +toward the latter part. + +=Time When Fertilization is Most Probable.=--From this it is seen that but +one egg fully develops and ripens ready to be fertilized each month. As +it is the ripened egg which is thrown off at each menstrual period, +therefore it follows that the fertilization of this egg would be most +probable at about the time of menstruation. + +=Times When Ova Do Not Ripen.=--As a rule, these ova do not ripen, or +develop, either during pregnancy, or during the nursing of the child, +although there are certain exceptions to this rule; for menstruation +occasionally takes place during lactation and pregnancy, and pregnancy +itself may occur while the mother is nursing her child. + + + + +CHAPTER IV. + + +THE REMEDY THAT CURES. + +=A Vegetable Compound.=--I hardly think it necessary to mention in detail +the separate ingredients of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. We +wish to call your attention, however, to that word "Vegetable." + +I do not believe in mercury, arsenic, and the host of mineral poisons +which are found in so many remedies. When taken into the system they +disturb every function, interfere with the most vital processes, and +produce the most disastrous consequences. + +=The Purest and Best.=--Knowing these things, Mrs. Pinkham was exceedingly +careful to put only the purest and choicest of products of the vegetable +kingdom into her Compound. Each of the roots and herbs is selected with +the most extreme care, and all are prepared under the personal +supervision of the most thoroughly trained specialists. + +=One Secret.=--One great secret of the success of Lydia E. Pinkham's +Vegetable Compound is that each vegetable is so treated that all useful +elements are retained, and all useless discarded. + +=Highly Concentrated.=--For instance, it is possible for the expert +workmen in our laboratory to condense all the medicinal power that +exists in a pound of the coarse root into a mass no larger than could be +held on the point of a knife. In this way it is possible for a +teaspoonful of the Vegetable Compound to represent all the curative +properties usually found in eight or ten times that quantity; in other +words, it is highly concentrated. + +=Acts Upon Female Organs.=--Mrs. Pinkham knew from the very first that she +was on the right track. She knew that her Vegetable Compound contained +medicines which act directly and naturally upon the female organs. + +She knew that one ingredient produced certain effects on the uterus, +while other ingredients tended to relieve pain in the ovaries. She knew +that one remedy would heal an inflamed uterine cavity, while another +ingredient would cause better circulation in the blood-vessels of this +part of the body. Having the theory all worked out most carefully, she +awaited the practical test, feeling confident as to the result. + +=Success Was Immediate.=--But she did not have to wait long. Immediately +the cures began, and her neighbors and friends told each other what had +been done for them. Soon letters came by the hundreds from all parts of +the world. Thousands upon thousands have written to Mrs. Pinkham telling +her their story, and giving to her, also, full permission to use their +testimonials. + +=It Bridges the Gulf.=--I am sure you would be delighted, as well as +surprised, if you could see the immense difference between the first and +last letters received from women. The first is the story of suffering, +of extreme agony with prolonged misery and abandoned hope. The last is a +song of gratitude, of great love, of joy and peace. The first tells of +disease, the last of health. But what an immense gulf between these +two!--a gulf, however, I am glad to say, that can be bridged with Lydia +E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. + +=You Cannot Possibly Doubt.=--I do not believe you can possibly doubt for +one moment the power of this marvelous remedy to cure the diseases of +women. How can you doubt it? For a quarter of a century it has gone into +every city, village, and hamlet in our land, and into almost every +country home. + +Across the water it is finding its way among the rich and the poor. No +remedy was ever known that was so generally used. Wherever there are +women, there are suffering women; and wherever there are suffering women +you are sure to find Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. + +=The Testimonials Are True.=--Do you think there are hundreds of thousands +of your own sex who would wilfully falsify? Do you think that any could +be found who would deliberately do this, and without hope of gain or +reward? Yet I could point you to hundreds of thousands of letters +received from women who write from the fulness of the heart to thank us +for what we have done for them. + +=We Speak Strongly.=--Then am I not justified in speaking strongly to you? +Don't you think we feel sure of our position? I certainly know what we +have done for others, and that makes us feel sure we can do the same for +you. + +=We Can Cure You.=--I believe our Vegetable Compound will cure you. I +believe it will cure every case where a cure is among the possibilities. +You need not be particular whether the soreness in the lower part of +your body is in the right side or the left side; whether the pain is +sharp, or dull and heavy; whether you suffer terrible agony each month +with local pain, or whether it is mental depression; whether the flow is +too scant or too profuse. + +=It Corrects the Wrong.=--You need not be particular about these things, +for they all show that something is wrong, and Lydia E. Pinkham's +Vegetable Compound corrects this wrong. That is what it was made for; +that is precisely the work it does. + +=Have Faith in Us.=--Don't purchase a bottle thinking you will "see what +it will do," having made up your mind that you will "try the +experiment." Don't come in this spirit, for there is no need of it. Come +with the feeling that has inspired so many thousands of your +sisters,--come believing that you have at last found a remedy that will +relieve you from this terrible slavery to suffering. + +I am anxious to have you enjoy all the robust health that is your right. +I am anxious to make you happy, hopeful, healthy. Put your confidence in +Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. You will never be disappointed. + + + + +CHAPTER V. + + +THE FEMALE PELVIS AND ITS CONTENTS. + +=The Pelvis.=--The pelvis is the bony framework which forms the lower part +of the body. On each side it forms a union with the hip bone to make the +hip joint. + +The female pelvis contains the reproductive organs (uterus, vagina, and +ovaries), and also the bladder and lower bowel. + +Fig. 2 gives a very good idea of the shape and general structure of this +bony framework; while a careful study of Fig. 3 will enable one to form +a very correct idea of the relative size and position of the various +parts contained in this framework. + +~FIG. 2. The female pelvis. The flanging sides form the hips. The union +of the bones in front forms the pubic arch which is felt at the front of +the lower part of the body. The lower end of the spinal column, or +backbone, is seen at the back of the figure.~ + +=The Vagina.=--The vagina is a membranous canal extending from the surface +of the body to the uterus, or womb. Its posterior wall is about 3-1/2 +inches long, and its anterior about 3 inches. A careful study should be +made of our illustration, in order that the relation of the vagina and +uterus to the rectum behind and the bladder in front may be thoroughly +understood; also the angle which is formed by the vagina and the uterus. + +Notice should be taken, also, of the opening of the uterus into the +upper part of the vagina; as inflammation of the uterus often causes a +discharge which passes into the upper part of the vagina and finally out +of the body. This gives rise to the belief that the only trouble is in +the vagina itself, whereas the real seat of the disease may be high up +in the uterus. + +~FIG. 3. A lateral view of the contents of the female pelvis. 1. the +vagina; 2. uterus; 3. bladder; 4. lower bowel; 5. bone forming the pubic +arch; 6. the spinal cord, with bone in front and back of it.~ + +=The Uterus.=--The uterus, or womb, is a hollow organ formed of muscular +tissue, and lined with a delicate mucous membrane. The bladder is in +front, the rectum behind, and the vagina below. + +=Three Parts.=--Physicians divide this important organ into three +parts,--the fundus, body, and neck. The fundus is all the upper rounded +portion; the body all that portion between the fundus and the neck; and +the neck all the rounded lower part. + +=The Cavity of the Uterus.=--This is divided into the cavity of the body +and the cavity of the neck. By consulting our illustration it is seen +that these cavities differ greatly in shape; that of the body being +triangular, while that of the neck is barrel-shaped. + +By referring again to Fig. 4 it will be seen that the cavity of the body +has three openings, one on either side at the top going to the Fallopian +tubes, and an opening at the bottom passing into the cavity of the neck. +A constriction exists between these two cavities; but after childbirth +this is largely done away with, and there is not that marked difference +which existed formerly. + +=Glands in Uterus.=--In the mucous membrane lining the uterus are vast +numbers of minute glands which secrete mucus. It has been asserted that +in the cavity of the neck alone there are from ten to twelve thousand +of these glands. It is in this mucous membrane that such remarkable +changes occur each month during menstruation, and still more wonderful +changes during pregnancy. + +=The Ligaments of the Uterus.=--By referring to Fig. 5 it will be seen +that there are on each side of the uterus flat bands of tissue known as +"broad ligaments." These ligaments are attached to the sides of the +pelvic cavity, and aid greatly in holding the uterus firmly in place. +There are also other ligaments concerned in this same work, although the +broad ligaments are most important. The illustration also shows the +walls of the vagina cut open, in order that the position of the mouth of +the uterus may be easily seen. + +~FIG. 4. This illustration shows the cavities in a uterus which has been +pregnant. 1, the vagina; 2, cavity of the neck of the uterus; 3, cavity +of the body, above which is the fundus of the uterus; 4, Fallopian +tubes, extending to the ovaries.~ + +~FIG. 5. The female generative organs. 1, the vagina; 2, uterus; 3, +broad ligament of left side; 4, a smaller ligament; 5, Fallopian tube; +6, ovary; 7, fringed end of Fallopian tube.~ + +=Blood-Vessels Surrounding Uterus.=--The uterus is well supplied with +blood-vessels, as Fig. 6 shows. Indeed, there is all over the walls of +the uterus and through its tissue a vast network of these vessels. +Whenever, for any reason, the circulation of the blood through the +pelvis is disturbed, these blood-vessels are likely to become engorged, +over-filled, producing congestion and inflammation. + +~FIG. 6. The blood-vessels of the right side of the uterus. 1, blood +vessels; 2, end of the Fallopian tube; 3, ovary; 4, right edge of +uterus.~ + +=All Parts Closely Related.=--The close relation of these blood-vessels to +the blood-supply of the bowels, liver, etc., makes it possible for most +serious disturbances to take place even from slight causes. + +=Study the Illustrations.=--By studying these illustrations it can be +readily seen how an over-distended rectum may produce such an impediment +to the circulation that there will be congestion of all the neighboring +parts. Or, the intestines themselves may become over-distended with +faecal matter, or gas, from dyspepsia, and the pressure induced thereby +may be sufficient to interfere with the free circulation of these parts, +and thus uterine congestion produced. + +It is also seen how improper dress may compress the organs about these +parts, and thus interfere with the circulation. Again, it is easily +understood, simply from studying the illustrations alone, how any of +these causes might produce dislocation of the uterus itself. + +=Object of Uterus.=--The uterus is the source of the menstrual discharge, +a place for the foetus during its development, and the source of the +nutritive supply of this foetus. It is the uterus which contracts at +full term and expels the child. + +=Uterus Not Rigidly Fixed.=--In a perfectly normal condition there is +considerable mobility to the uterus; in other words, it is not fixed +firmly by the ligaments already mentioned. It is rather simply +suspended, or hung in the pelvic cavity, by these broad flat bands of +tissue. + +A full bladder will push it backward, while a distended rectum will move +it forward; as the body changes its posture, so will the uterus change +its position by force of gravity. + +=Cannot Be Bent Upon Itself.=--The uterus cannot be bent upon itself +without producing injury; neither can it be pushed too far forward or +backward, nor crowded down too far without causing great distress and +actual disease. + +=Fallopian Tube.=--Figs. 4 and 5 show that there is given off from each +side of the upper part of the uterus a tube. This is called the +Fallopian tube. + +Each tube is about four inches long. Near the uterus its cavity will +just admit an ordinary bristle; but near its free end, at the ovary, it +is as large as a goose-quill. + +It is a peculiar tube in that it terminates in a number of fringe-like +processes, one of which is always attached to the ovary itself. + +~FIG. 7. Part of an ovary, showing a ripe ovum, or egg, about to be cast +off, as occurs at each menstrual period. It is here this egg may be +fertilized or impregnated by the male elements.~ + +=Object of This Tube.=--The Fallopian tube conveys the sperm of the male +from the uterus to the ovary, and also takes the germ-cell (or ovule, or +egg) from the ovary to the uterus. + +When a ripe egg is about to be discharged from the ovary, one of these +fringe-like processes of the Fallopian tube grasps it and receives it +into the mouth of the tube, whence it is conveyed directly into the +uterine canal. + +=Ovary.=--On each side of the uterus and in each side of the pelvic cavity +is an ovary. It is about one and a half inches in length, three-fourths +of an inch in width, and one-third of an inch in thickness. It weighs +from one to two drachms, and is an elongated, oval-shaped body. + +~FIG. 8. This figure illustrates the course followed by an ovum. The +ripened egg leaves the ovary (1), passes down the Fallopian tube (2), +and thence into the uterine cavity (3).~ + +~FIG. 9. An exceedingly minute piece of an ovary, highly magnified. It +shows eight ova or eggs.~ + +=Object of Ovaries.=--The ovaries are the essential organs of generation +in the female. In each ovary are large numbers of cells, ovules, or +eggs, one of which, at least, is supposed to pass into the uterine +cavity with each menstruation. Anatomists tell us that each human ovary +contains as many as 30,000 of these ovules, or eggs. + + +LOCAL TREATMENT.--FAST PASSING AWAY. + +=It Makes One Indignant.=--When I recall the terrible and almost horrible +treatment which women have had to undergo in the past, I cannot help but +become deeply indignant. It seems as if all medical study had gone for +naught, as if the teachings of nature had been forgotten, and most of +all, as if no such thing as delicacy and modesty existed. + +=This Makes Confirmed Invalids.=--It is only necessary for a woman to +complain of discomfort in the back, a bearing-down pain, or some +unnatural discharge, when some physician says that local treatment, and +local treatment only, must be taken. + +Women so thoroughly understand what their physician is going to say that +they do not consult him, but go on suffering more and more until they +become almost confirmed invalids. Others, after they are told what must +be done, return home and become gloomy and melancholy over the outlook. + +=Specialists Are Crazy for Work.=--The specialists are so crazy for this +kind of work that it seems as though they would gladly scrape and burn +the inside of the stomach for dyspepsia, if they could do so! Or, they +would take a long probe and go down into the interior of the lungs and +apply strong caustics, if such a thing were possible! + +=The Patient Is Deceived.=--If the ache, or the pain, or the discharge was +on the back of the hand where it could be seen, and where these +"treatments" could be watched, the specialists would have a hard showing +indeed, for the patient herself would then see that little good came +from these local applications. + +But being situated within the body, so that only the physician himself +can examine the parts, the patient has to rest content, not knowing +whether a little pure water is applied (and the fee collected), or +whether the strongest acids which burn deep into the tissues are used +(and the fee collected). + +=Local Treatment Unnecessary.=--Now all of this is almost invariably +unnecessary. It is not showing ordinary common-sense, not in accord with +nature, and not in keeping with the best medical science of to-day. + +Yet thousands upon thousands of women are undergoing the worst kind of +mental and physical torture in taking these local treatments, while all +the savings of the household have to go toward paying the enormous bills +of the specialist. + +=The True Doctor Not Blamed.=--_Do not misunderstand me, please. I am not +talking against doctors, not against the real, true, genuine, noble +physicians and surgeons._ + +There is no nobler profession than that of the physician, none practiced +more faithfully than the good old family physician of this country +practice theirs. The best of them are glad to help their patients in any +way they can, and in spite of professional prejudice, many have tried +Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound upon their patients and have been +delighted at the wonderful success of the trial. + +=Nature the Best Teacher.=--The trouble with so many of these physicians +who call themselves "Specialists on Diseases of Women" is that they get +it into their head that they know more than nature. They map out a +course of their own, and pay no attention whatever to the laws of +health. Just as if a dog barking at the moon would make it shine less +brightly! + +Now any one who has given any thought to the preservation of the health +can readily understand how impossible it would be to cure an +inflammation of the uterus or ovaries, or check an unnatural discharge +from the vagina, by applying strong acids, nitrate of silver, pure +carbolic acid, strong tincture of iodine, or other destroying, caustic, +irritating, and dangerous drugs. + +All of these must be injurious, must postpone recovery, and if their use +be continued for any great length of time must make a cure quite +impossible. + +=A Good Medicine Needed.=--Of course what is needed in these cases is +something that will restore the natural circulation of the blood through +the tissues of the uterus, something that will relieve congestion and +cure inflammation. When the swelling and irritation have subsided, then +the nerves are no longer irritated, and all pain disappears. + +=What This Will Do.=--Then all these parts become better nourished, the +weakened and diseased tissues take on new strength, and all unnatural +discharges cease. + +When the relaxed ligaments are properly fed and toned up, then they hold +the uterus in its natural position, and all bearing-down pains and other +symptoms of displacement quickly disappear. Of course this +constitutional treatment with Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is +hastened by keeping the parts perfectly clean, which can be easily done +with Lydia E. Pinkham's Sanative Wash. + +=A Hearty Welcome to the Perfect Cure.=--A hearty welcome to the most +scientific treatment; a hearty welcome to the most natural, the most +easy, and the most perfect method of cure; a hearty welcome to Lydia E. +Pinkham's Vegetable Compound; a hearty welcome to the remedy that never +fails to restore the uterus to perfect health and natural position. + + + + +CHAPTER VI. + +MENSTRUATION. + + +=Occurs Monthly.=--Once every twenty-eight days very remarkable changes +occur in the uterus, giving rise to that peculiar monthly periodicity +called menstruation, monthly sickness, monthlies, or being unwell. +Although this usually occurs once in about four weeks, yet it may be a +week less or a week longer; or, indeed, the variation may be even +greater than this. + +=Symptoms of its Approach.=--As a perfectly natural menstrual period +approaches, there is a certain degree of discomfort and lassitude, a +sense of weight in the lower part of the body, and more or less +disinclination to enter society. These symptoms may be slightly +pronounced or very prominent, for it is quite unusual to find a person +who does not have at least some general discomfort at this time. + +=Its Appearance.=--First there is a slight discharge of mucus which soon +becomes of a rusty brown or yellow color from the mixture of a small +quantity of blood. By the second or third day the discharge has the +appearance of pure blood. The unpleasant sensations which were so marked +at first now gradually subside, and the discharge, after continuing for +a certain number of days, grows more and more scanty. The color changes +from a pure red to a rusty tinge, and finally disappears altogether. +Then the ordinary duties are resumed. + +=The Age of Puberty.=--Menstruation begins at about fourteen or fifteen +years of age, this period being known as "the age of puberty." It is +preceded and attended by peculiar signs. The whole figure becomes more +plump and round, the hips increase in breadth, and the breasts rapidly +develop. The more striking changes, however, occur in the inclinations +and emotional susceptibilities. + +=Age Modified.=--A great many circumstances modify the age at which the +first menstruation takes place. In hot climates this takes place +earlier, the difference between hot and cold countries being as great as +three years; yet heredity has more to do with this than anything else. +"As was the mother so is the child" is a common saying among women. + +=Continues About Thirty Years.=--The menstrual function continues active +from this age until about the forty-fifth year, although this may be +extended even ten years later. During all these years the woman is +capable of bearing children, because at each month there has been a +fully developed ovum, or egg, ready to be fertilized. + +=The Change of Life.=--When the menstrual function ceases, then the period +of childbearing is over. The time of its disappearance is known as "the +change of life, or menopause." + +=Amount of Monthly Loss.=--The amount of blood lost during menstruation +varies greatly with different individuals, and it would be quite +impossible to give anything like an accurate rule. It varies, normally, +from one to eight ounces, the average being probably about five ounces. + +=Duration of Period.=--The duration of the period is from one to eight +days, the average being five days. Hence it will be seen that the +average loss of fluid per day would be about one ounce. + +=Loss Should Be Small.=--It should be stated here that, as a rule, those +enjoy the best health who lose but a small quantity of blood at this +time. Some persons seem to think that a very free discharge is +necessary, and that they feel better at such times; but there is no +possible reason why this should be the case. + +=The First Menstruation.=--The appearance of the first menstruation is a +most critical time in the life of every young girl, and the mother +should be prepared to give her daughter the best of advice. Some slight +inattention, some undue exposure, some thoughtlessness due entirely to +ignorance on these great subjects, may change the whole future from a +life of comfort and good health to prolonged days of misery and intense +suffering. + +=Menstruation and Childbearing.=--It is the belief at the present time, +among all who have studied this subject, that menstruation is closely +connected with the function of childbearing. The changes which take +place each month within the uterine cavity are of precisely the proper +character to prepare this tissue for the reception of the fertilized +egg. + +=Rules to be Observed.=--A few rules should be carefully followed during +each menstruation, in order that future trouble may be prevented. First +of all, it is necessary to avoid taking cold; yet a person should not +stay in the house by the side of a fire, or in a warm room all the time, +for this would increase the susceptibility to cold. + +Care should be taken to avoid undue exposure, for nothing will disturb +the menstrual process quicker than the sudden chilling of the body, +especially when moist with perspiration. + +Intense mental excitement should be avoided, also. If the young girl is +at school, she should be told to study more lightly at this time; while +any great excitement of any kind, as giving way to anger, or extreme +merriment, should be avoided. + +The feeling of debility and depression which usually accompanies this +time is a gentle warning by nature that the body should remain quiet and +at rest. + +It is natural for many persons to be especially depressed at this time; +an effort should be made by those who understand the situation to make +everything as agreeable and pleasant as possible to the sufferer. + +=Danger to School Girls.=--Without the slightest doubt, many women are +suffering intensely to-day who might be enjoying the best of health had +they not been obliged to study so intensely while in school. A moderate +amount of study does no harm at this time, but the dread of +examinations, with our modern system of cramming at certain times of the +school year, has, without doubt, so worked upon the nervous system that +many a life has been made miserable as a result. + +=Danger to Office Girls.=--It is astonishing, when one fully understands +the processes of menstruation, how so many girls and young women can +remain all day behind the counter in the store, or at the work-table, +during these few trying days, and even escape without serious illness. +Employers never think of the subject, and there is a natural delicacy on +the part of those most concerned to mention the subject. + +There should be in all such establishments some woman to whom these +girls could confide their condition. This woman, or overseer, could +easily be made responsible for the apparent neglect of duties by these +girls at such times. + +=Criminal Carelessness.=--How often is it true that young ladies attend +balls, skate, and otherwise recklessly expose themselves at this most +critical time. One is almost inclined to call such exposures really +criminal, because of the terrible consequences so sure to follow. + +A simple wetting of the feet, or resting quietly in a draught after +exercise, during menstruation may impose upon the person a life-long +injury. How carefully, then, should mothers watch their daughters at +these periods, and how strongly should they impress upon them the +necessity of special care. + +=Condition of Bowels Important.=--The condition of the bowels should also +be carefully looked after at these times. Indeed, this is so important +that it should never be neglected. There should be at least one good +movement of the bowels each day. Nothing can more certainly derange the +menstrual function than persistent constipation. + +=Regularity Important.=--Every mother should make careful inquiry into the +exact frequency of the menstrual period with her young daughter, at +least during the first two years of the menstrual function. + +If there is pain at this time, then something is certainly wrong, and +treatment should be taken at once. If there is irregularity, this also +requires most prompt attention, as it will surely develop into something +serious sooner or later. If the flow is too free, or not free enough, or +if there is any deviation from the standard of health, the mother should +be acquainted with it, and should proceed at once to correct the +difficulty. + +=First Two Years Very Important.=--If a girl can get through the first two +years of her menstrual life without serious disease, she stands a very +good chance of enjoying good health during the rest of her life; while a +slight mistake at this time may produce the most serious disease in +later life. If you do not understand your ailments write to Mrs. +Pinkham, Lynn, Mass. Her advice is free and always helpful. + + + + +CHAPTER VII. + + +DISORDERS OF MENSTRUATION. + +=Amenorrhoea.=--This is a condition in which the monthly flow is +suspended. It can hardly be called a disease, as it is rather a symptom +of some disorder of the uterus, or of some constitutional defect. This +may occur at the time when menstruation should normally appear, namely, +from fourteen to fifteen years of age. + +=Danger of a Decline.=--If the young girl does not menstruate at sixteen, +seventeen, or eighteen, something is certainly wrong, and treatment +should be taken at once in order to correct the difficulty before the +girl goes into a decline. It is not wise to trust too much to nature in +these cases. + +Such girls are generally thin and pale, with a peculiar sallow, or +yellowish-green color to the skin which has given rise to the term +"green-sickness," or "Chlorosis." They fall easy victims to scrofula, +consumption, nervous prostration, insomnia, and other diseases. + +=Treatment.=--When the time for menstruation arrives, and the flow does +not appear, the mother should give her daughter regular doses of Lydia +E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. This remedy acts strictly according to +the laws of nature, and simply brings about natural conditions. + +For some reason nature may not succeed in beginning this important +change in the girl's life, but with the help that comes from the +Vegetable Compound, this is sure to come to pass. + +=How Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Acts.=--A better circulation is +established, the condition of the blood is improved, the nervous system +is greatly invigorated, and, as a result, the menstrual flow is +established. + +This should set at rest a great deal of worry on the part of the mother, +and it means a great deal to the daughter, as well. Now, the mother can +be assured that one great danger is passed, and, with proper care and +attention, there need be no more trouble. + +Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, however, should be taken for some +weeks or months until the habit is well established and menstruation +appears regularly every twenty-eight days. + +=Delicate Girls.=--If the young girl menstruates, and yet is not in good +health, then she should certainly take the Vegetable Compound for a week +before the time when menstruation is expected; the great object being to +establish regularity in the menstrual function. + +=Keep the Bowels Regular.=--In all these cases attention should be given +to the condition of the bowels, which are usually constipated. To +correct this, the girl should take laxative doses of Lydia E. Pinkham's +Liver Pills, just enough each night so that there may be one good, +natural movement the day following. + +=Look Well to the Diet.=--A great deal can be done, also, in the way of +diet. Girls, especially at this time, have a most perverted appetite, +preferring pickles, olives, rich pies and cakes, and other indigestible +foods. These are all bad, of course, as they disturb the digestion and +keep the blood thin. + +Let the diet consist principally of rich milk, eggs, lamb chops, +beefsteak, chicken, and good bread and butter. If the milk rests heavy +on the stomach, then add a tablespoonful of lime water to each glass of +milk. + +Daily exercise in the open air is also of value, and the sleeping-room +should be well ventilated, especially at night. + +=Menstruation Suspended During Pregnancy.=--During pregnancy menstruation +is usually suspended, although the regular monthly flow may continue for +two or three months. Of course, suspension at this time is natural, and +nothing should be done to bring on the flow. + +If menstruation appears when there is a strong probability that +pregnancy exists, then the person should remain quietly in bed and eat +only light food, and every precaution should be taken lest a miscarriage +be brought on. + +=Should a Mother Nurse Her Child While Menstruating?=--Menstruation is +also usually suspended during nursing, although not infrequently this +function is resumed again three or four months after childbirth. The +question here arises whether the mother should continue to nurse her +child while menstruating. + +If the child remains healthy, keeps steadily gaining in weight, and +seems to be well nourished, and if the mother is not losing ground in +any way, then there is no reason why the mother should not keep on +nursing her child. If, however, the mother's health fails, or if there +is evidence that the child is not prospering, then weaning should take +place. + +As a rule, a menstruating mother does not have good milk for her child; +it is usually thin and watery; although, as I have said, under certain +conditions nursing may continue. + +=Sudden Suppression.=--Sudden suppression of menstruation is most +generally due to a cold, mental shock, or undue exposure of some kind. +It is always accompanied with pain in the back, headache, more or less +fever, and other unpleasant symptoms. It should generally be considered +as a dangerous condition, and every effort should be made to restore the +menstrual function. Sometimes when menstruation is suddenly suppressed +in this way, a so-called "vicarious" menstruation occurs, and there is +hemorrhage from the lungs, the nose, the gums, the bowels, or from some +other source. + +=Treatment of Suppression.=--The treatment of sudden suppression consists +of a hot foot-bath, or sitting in a tub of hot water. At the same time +the person should drink a bowl of hot ginger tea, or hot lemonade, be +covered well with blankets, and every effort be made to bring about a +profuse sweating. Then have the person go to bed, and apply hot cloths +across the lower part of the bowels. Place at the feet bottles of hot +water, or hot bricks, and keep up the perspiration in this way for an +hour or two. This is all that need be done in the great majority of +cases. + +=Only One Medicine to be Taken.=--As the shock to the system tends to +disturb the menstrual function for some time to come, the person should +begin at once with Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and should +continue it through the coming month, in order to insure that the next +menstruation may be normal in every way. + +=Scanty Menstruation.=--Often menstruation appears with perfect regularity +and yet is greatly deficient in amount. As we have stated elsewhere, +there is no rule about this, and yet when the menstrual function is +scanty, it is almost invariably a symptom of anaemia, or poverty of the +blood. + +=Anaemic Girls.=--Such girls are listless, easily tired, nervous, with +little appetite, poor digestion, and with no resistive power. + +By taking Lydia E. Pinkham's Blood Purifier regularly a most remarkable +change is brought about; and by the use of an easily digested and very +nourishing diet, as just given in this chapter, together with plenty of +outdoor exercise, this condition can be corrected before serious trouble +ensues. + +=Dysmenorrhoea.=--This is better known as "painful menstruation." It is +due to a large number of causes, and yet can almost invariably be +relieved by proper treatment. + +=Two Great Causes.=--In the great majority of cases the cause is two-fold: +Weakness of the nerves and congestion of the uterus. These are so +closely allied that it is often quite impossible to tell which is the +ruling factor; indeed, one seems to be largely dependent upon the other. + +It is certainly true that congestion of the uterus almost invariably +produces neuralgia of different parts of the body; while nervous +exhaustion, nervous prostration, neuralgia, and general nervousness +often show themselves by this increased pain at the menstrual period. + +=Symptoms of Dysmenorrhoea.=--Usually the most marked pain is before the +flow is well established. The person has a heavy pain in the lower part +of the bowels, with sharp, darting pains extending down the back of the +limbs. Then the pain becomes more concentrated in the uterus itself, or +sometimes in an ovary at the side. + +The pain may begin as a dull, heavy ache, which gradually changes into a +sharp, darting pain, and which culminates at last in distinct and +positive attacks of uterine colic, or cramps. + +The person suffers such intense pain that a chill may be produced which +is followed by a high fever. Often the pains are of a bearing-down +character, and are not unlike those in the last stages of ordinary +labor. + +=Often Make a Complete Wreck.=--These attacks of uterine cramps tell +severely on the general health of the person, and if they are allowed to +continue without treatment, they almost invariably make a complete wreck +of the constitution. + +=Can Be Cured.=--This most distressing and most agonizing complaint may be +quickly and entirely cured by a thorough course of treatment with Lydia +E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. This remedy should be taken +continuously; not a day should pass without the regular dose. + +=Old Cases Cured.=--If the disease has existed for some time, it must not +be expected that it can be cured in a month, but by perseverance the +cure will certainly come and will be perfectly satisfactory. + +=A Valuable Aid.=--In the meantime, the person who suffers from painful +menstruation, a day or two before menstruation is expected, should take +Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, being careful to keep the bowels +in good condition. + +=Additional Treatment.=--If possible, the person had better remain in bed, +or recline upon a sofa, for at least a day before the expected +menstruation, certainly as soon as the first uncomfortable symptoms +appear. Then have her take a hot foot-bath, get into bed and cover with +warm blankets, with bags or bottles of hot water, or hot bricks at the +feet and back, and with warm cloths over the lower part of the abdomen. + +=Temporary Relief.=--If the pain is exceedingly severe, and is not +relieved by these simple measures, then wring out flannel cloths from as +hot water as can be borne and place these over the lower part of the +bowels, directly over the uterus, covering them with dry flannels. As +soon as these become cool, change for hot cloths again, using care, of +course, that the cloths be not hot enough to burn. It is often +surprising what instant relief from pain this simple procedure will +produce. + +=Do Not Take Opium.=--No one should think for a moment of taking opium in +any form at these times, as the opium habit is very easily contracted +and is almost impossible to break up. This is also true of other anodyne +remedies. By carrying out the suggestions given above, it will be found +that their use will not be necessary. + +=Thousands of Grateful Letters.=--If the readers of this book could only +see the thousands of letters from grateful women the world over telling +how this Vegetable Compound relieved them from the fearful torture which +they had been enduring for years once a month, they would use every +endeavor possible to spread the good news to every suffering friend that +at last there is a perfect and absolute cure for this most distressing +and most frightful complaint. + +=Reasons for these Startling Cures.=--The reason why Lydia E. Pinkham's +Vegetable Compound works so admirably in these cases is easily +understood when we call to mind the fact that some of its ingredients +are the strongest of nerve tonics, building up, strengthening, and +giving tone to the whole nervous system; while other ingredients have +the remarkable property of relieving congestion of all the female +generative organs. + +=To Illustrate "Congestion."=--If a string be tied around the base of the +finger snugly, but not too tightly, the finger soon becomes darkened +from the obstructed circulation. We say the finger is "congested." All +that has to be done, in this case, is to cut the string and the +congestion is promptly relieved. + +=Cures Congestion.=--In cases of congestion of the uterus, Lydia E. +Pinkham's Vegetable Compound removes obstruction to the circulation as +effectually as cutting the string relieves the congestion of the finger. +When the circulation is perfectly natural through these parts, then the +congestion and inflammation must disappear and the uterus itself must +again resume its natural position. + +=Menorrhagia.=--This is better known as "profuse menstruation." Just what +constitutes an unnatural loss of blood cannot be stated, as each woman +is a rule to herself. From experience she knows just about what is the +normal amount she should lose each month and retain her health and +strength. + +When this amount is more than natural, especially when sufficient to +produce weakness and prostration, then it becomes "profuse." + +=Occurs in the Full-Blooded.=--Profuse menstruation may occur in those who +are very full-blooded, or in those who are extremely weak and pale. When +occurring in the former, the person usually complains of a dull, heavy, +throbbing headache, pain in the back, and other symptoms of fever. Such +persons recover from an excessive flow of blood quite promptly, and do +not suffer severely from it. + +=Occurs in the Pale.=--On the other hand, when this condition occurs in +those who are very weak, pale, and thin, there is usually great +prostration, which may even become most alarming. + +=Treatment for the Former.=--When profuse menstruation occurs in those who +are full-blooded, the diet should be quite simple and plain. Indeed, it +would be better if the person should take but two meals a day and should +eat but little or no meat. Immediately upon the appearance of +menstruation she should go to bed and remain there as quiet as possible, +for in this way the pain and fever will be less and the amount of the +flow greatly diminished. + +=Treatment When Pale and Debilitated.=--It is a much more serious matter +when this excessive loss occurs in those who are pale and debilitated. +Often the most energetic measures are necessary even to preserve life +itself. The following rule should be observed when possible:--Just as +soon as menstruation appears, the person should go to bed and remain +there quietly until the flow is nearly over. + +Of course it is an easy matter to give these directions, and exceedingly +hard, often quite impossible, for them to be carried out. Many women +have work that must be done, or children who must be cared for during +these days just as well as any other time, and it is almost out of the +question for them to remain quiet. + +Yet the question seems to be whether they will remain in bed two or +three days at this time, and then have far better health for the rest of +the month, or whether they will drag along through all the month. We +would certainly urge that this suggestion be carried out as often as +possible, and that for one or two days the person keep as quietly in bed +as possible. + +=When Very Excessive.=--If the flow is very free, then the foot of the bed +may be raised three or four inches by placing blocks of wood under each +lower corner. This will tend to check the flow. + +=Wonderful Cures Possible.=--Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has +made some most startling and almost miraculous cures in just these +conditions. An immense number of letters are on file from women who have +despaired of relief, given up all hope, and who were confirmed invalids +until after taking this famous remedy. Its continued use heals the +inflammation in the cavity of the uterus, causes a better circulation +through that organ, makes the blood richer, strengthens the digestion, +and thus greatly improves the general health. + +=Relief is Prompt.=--The very next month after beginning its use the flow +is diminished, the next month it is still less, and so on, until soon +there is only a regular, natural menstruation. + +=A Happy Change.=--And what a change this means to suffering women! It +means new life, new hope, new ambition, new courage. It means work +better done, children better cared for, and all social and domestic +duties better performed. I am indeed most happy in being able to tell +suffering women what prompt relief Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound +is sure to bring them. + +In these cases I always recommend the use of the Vegetable Compound in +the form of Lozenges, or Pills. + +=Metrorrhagia.=--When there is great loss of blood at other times than +during the menstrual period, it is given the technical name of +metrorrhagia. It means "uterine hemorrhage." + +Keep the person quietly in bed, and have the foot of the bed raised as +suggested above. If the hemorrhage is at all severe, a physician should +be summoned in order that a careful examination may be made and the +cause of this unusual occurrence thoroughly understood. =If you do not +understand your ailments write to Mrs. Pinkham, Lynn, Mass. Her advice +is free and always helpful.= All such letters are strictly confidential; +only women assist her in answering them. + + + + +CHAPTER VIII. + + +DISEASES OF THE UTERUS AND OVARIES. + +=Inflammation of the Uterus.=--Inflammation of the uterus may be either +acute or chronic. When acute, as following an abortion, taking cold +during menstruation, etc., there is considerable fever, pain in the +lower part of the bowels, nausea, and sometimes vomiting, tenderness on +pressure over the uterus, pain when passing the urine and general +discomfort. + +=Treatment of the Acute Form.=--The treatment consists in having the +person remain quietly in bed, applying bottles of hot water to the feet, +if they are cold, and keeping cool cloths over the head if hot from the +fever. In this way the circulation may be better balanced, and the +tendency to congestion relieved. + +Then take a flannel cloth about six inches square, dip it in hot water, +and wring as dry as possible with the hands; now sprinkle ordinary +spirits of turpentine freely over one side, and place this side directly +over the centre of the lower part of the bowels, that is, just over the +uterus. Cover this flannel with another warm, dry flannel, and allow it +to remain on until the smarting is quite pronounced, or the skin red. +Then remove this, and apply hot cloths wrung from hot water. Use the +turpentine cloth again in four or six hours, if the tenderness and pain +still persist. + +=Only One Medicine Needed.=--Begin at once with Lydia E. Pinkham's +Vegetable Compound, in order that the attack may be cut short. This the +Compound will certainly do if taken faithfully according to directions. + +After the acute attack is over, if there is any constipation, this +should be relieved by Lydia E. Pinkham's Liver Pills; and if there is +any discharge from the uterus, Lydia E. Pinkham's Sanative Wash should +be used once or twice each day, in order to hasten recovery all that is +possible. + +=Chronic Inflammation.=--It is not exaggerating in the least to say that +probably 75 out of every 100 women in the world have more or less +chronic inflammation of the uterus. + +=Causes.=--The causes of this are many, as improper dress, which +constricts the waist, and presses down upon the delicate organs in the +pelvis; improper attention to the health at each menstruation; +over-work; anxiety; miscarriages; unskillful treatment at childbirth, +etc. + +=Lives of Suffering and Sorrow.=--What miserable lives women have to +endure who go about from day to day with a chronic inflammation of the +uterus. Each hour there is that dragging, pulling, bearing-down pain; +that heavy weight; that terrible depression; and that feeling of +abandoned hope. Yet hundreds of thousands, I might say millions of women +have had all this suffering and sadness turned to joy and comfort, +simply by taking Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. + +=Stories Almost Beyond Belief.=--The stories received from our friends +seem almost beyond belief. The most striking of them cannot be printed +because I fear my readers would think such cures were quite impossible. +The letters tell as terrible stories, as frightful conditions as could +possibly exist, and yet all this has quickly and promptly changed to +robust health by the use of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. So +often has this been reported that there is not the least room for doubt. + +=I Speak Positively.=--I am not guessing in this matter; it is altogether +too serious; there is too much at stake. So I urge upon you to give +Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound a thorough trial, feeling +positive, without the slightest question of a doubt, that you will be +quickly and permanently cured. + +=Leucorrhoea.=--This is also known as "the whites, or the female +weakness." It is a symptom of inflammation of the uterus; and that this +disease is so prevalent is again proved by this almost universal ailment +among women. + +It is characterized by a white discharge from the vagina which often +becomes very irritating, and is especially bad just before or after +menstruation. It is a symptom that should not be allowed to go +untreated, for it shows that there is serious trouble which may bring +about an incurable condition. Yet when properly treated, it may be +quickly remedied, and all danger removed. + +=Treatment.=--First of all, it is necessary to remove the inflammation +that exists in the uterus itself. This is done by the persistent use of +Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. As I have described elsewhere, +this will remove all congestion, heal the inflammation, and bring about +a healthy circulation. For this I strongly recommend that Lydia E. +Pinkham's Sanative Wash be also used with a syringe for local +treatment.[1] + +This should be used each night as a vaginal injection, according to +directions, thus thoroughly cleansing the parts, and entirely relieving +all irritation which these acrid secretions are sure to set up. + +If this discharge has been irritating enough to cause any chafing, +eruption, itching, or uncomfortable sensation of any kind about the +external parts, then the Sanative Wash should be used for bathing the +parts; the relief will be immediate, and the cure very prompt. + +=May Be Quickly Cured.=--I speak with great positiveness here, because of +vast experience and because of the universal success of this treatment. +I do not believe there is a case of leucorrhoea which cannot be +relieved and soon permanently cured by this treatment. There is no +delay; relief comes at once. A great improvement in all the symptoms is +very marked, even after the second or third day of treatment. + +=Neglect Causes Ulceration.=--I would add a word of caution here to women +who are afflicted in this way, as the retention of these discharges is +likely to produce an irritation about the mouth of the uterus which will +result in serious ulceration, and even be the means of producing the +most serious and most incurable diseases. + +=Ulcers on the Uterus.=--Because of the low condition of the system, thin +blood, and the local inflammation in the uterus itself, ulcers may form +about the mouth of the uterus. These are accompanied by more or less +pain, a sense of heaviness and weight in the lower part of the bowels, +and a whitish discharge similar to that of leucorrhoea only frequently +streaked, or tinted, with blood. The discharge continues about the same +all through the month between the days of menstruation. This condition +should have the same treatment as that mentioned above for +leucorrhoea, and the recovery will be equally prompt. + +=Early Treatment Necessary.=--If women only understood better how easy a +matter it is for these ulcerations to widen and deepen until some +incurable and terrible disease results, they would be more prompt in +taking treatment, especially when this is sure to be followed by a +perfect cure. + +When the blood is thin and poor, and when the weight is reduced, Lydia +E. Pinkham's Blood Purifier should be used regularly. + +The Blood Purifier, the Vegetable Compound, and the Sanative Wash, have +done as great work in preventing serious disease as in curing it. + +=Displacement of the Uterus Forward.=--The uterus may be displaced either +forward, backward, or downward. By referring to the illustration in the +first part of this book, it will be noticed that the uterus naturally +tips slightly forward, so that when it is displaced forward, the +condition is simply an exaggeration of its natural state. + +=Causes Bladder Trouble.=--By referring to this illustration again, it is +at once apparent that this tipping forward must bring about some +difficulty with the bladder, and such is the case. The most marked +symptom is painful and frequent passing of the urine, with a dull and +heavy pain across the lower part of the bowels. Often this weight is so +increased by walking that the person can be upon the feet only a short +time without causing discomfort and pain. + +This condition may be brought about by some unusual effort at lifting, +jumping, or straining, or especially by wearing too tight clothing about +the waist, tight lacing being probably the most frequent cause of all. + +=The Cure.=--The general treatment here consists in taking a thorough +course of treatment with Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, in order +to strengthen the ligaments of the uterus which hold this organ in +place. When the condition of the system is improved, the nerves +strengthened, and the blood made more rich by the use of this Compound, +then these ligaments partake of this general improvement, and by +becoming more tense, bring the uterus back into position. + +=Displacement Backwards.=--The uterus may be tipped backward, in which +case it will rest against the lower bowel. The principal symptom here is +pain in the lower part of the back, as if a movement of the bowels were +necessary. There is great discomfort in walking, because of this sense +of pressure. The pain is always increased when the bowels move, and is +associated with a sense of obstruction, and painful menstruation is very +common. + +=The Treatment.=--Here the same treatment should be followed as mentioned +for the opposite condition above. In the first place, the bowels should +be kept in good condition by the use of Lydia E. Pinkham's Liver Pills, +taking these in just sufficient amount to cause a free movement of the +bowels daily. Then thorough and prolonged treatment with Mrs. Pinkham's +Vegetable Compound will give such strength and tone to the ligaments +about the uterus that they will again bring back this organ to its +proper position. + +=Falling of the Womb.=--The most distressing of all these displacements is +that known as "prolapsus, or falling of the womb." + +The most frequent cause of this condition is complete relaxation of the +ligaments which naturally support this organ. When the ligaments become +weak, they easily stretch, and thus allow the uterus to fall down into +the vaginal canal, even nearly to the surface of the body. + +=Symptoms.=--This displacement causes irritation of the bladder and lower +bowel, discomfort in walking, painful menstruation, leucorrhoea, a +dragging pain in the back, and most marked bearing-down pain in the +lower part of the body. + +=The Cure Is Certain.=--The treatment of this most distressing affection +is usually followed by prompt and permanent results. Lydia E. Pinkham's +Vegetable Compound should always be taken, because of its great power to +relieve all inflammation and give strength and tone to the ligaments +which hold up the uterus. Lydia E. Pinkham's Sanative Wash should be +used, also, for its cleansing and strengthening properties, on the local +parts. If a sitz bath-tub is in the house it may be used to great +advantage in these cases. A single pail of water will be sufficient, and +should be as hot as can be comfortably borne. If a tub of this kind is +not at hand, then an ordinary bath-tub may be used, having in it +sufficient water to come well over the hips when the person sits in it. + +=The One Permanent Cure.=--By taking Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable +Compound, these relaxed ligaments are given strength and tone so that +they assume their former power. As they gain strength they contract, +pulling the uterus up into its natural position, and holding it there +permanently. + +I can most positively assure every woman who is suffering from all the +discomfort and terrible distress which always accompany falling of the +womb, that she may be promptly and most perfectly cured if she will only +follow my advice. + +=An Abundance of Proof.=--So many letters have come from women who have +suffered and have been cured that it is not possible for a reasonable +person to doubt what they say. I can only urge all affected with these +complaints to give Lydia F. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound a good trial, +feeling perfectly assured that they will be abundantly satisfied in +every way. If you do not understand your ailments write to Mrs. Pinkham, +Lynn, Mass. Her advice is free and always helpful. Such letters are +strictly confidential communications from one woman to another who will +never betray the confidence. + + +Footnote: [1] Every woman suffering from uterine or vaginal troubles +should own and use a syringe. I would recommend the use of Ruth Paxton's +Improved Fountain Syringe. I believe it is the only one that will convey +the solution to every part of the vaginal cavity. The ordinary syringe +is inadequate. It can be obtained by sending to The R. Paxton Company, +221 Columbus Ave., Boston, Mass. Price $1.75, postpaid--registered +letter or postal note. It will repay you a thousand times to take the +trouble to send for it, as the recoveries from disease are quicker when +it is used. Anyway, send two-cent stamp for her little book of +information. You will see by the letters it contains how the syringe is +regarded by those who are using it. + + + + +CHAPTER IX. + +DISEASES OF UTERUS AND OVARIES (Continued). + + +=Ovaries, Congestion of.=--This disease usually comes from taking cold +during menstruation, from some injury, extra strain during lifting, or +from some slow inflammatory process. + +The symptoms are pain and tenderness in one or both sides of the lower +part of the body. There is more or less continuous pain, which is always +worse in standing or walking. The tenderness in the sides is increased +during menstruation, especially if pressure be made over the part. +Sometimes the pain is quite severe when the bowels move. There is always +a feeling of distress, frequently associated with nausea, and often more +or less fever. + +=Treatment.=--For treatment the person should have as good surroundings as +possible, and should take complete rest during menstruation. + +In order to relieve the congestion in these parts and thoroughly control +the pain, Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound should be taken at once. + +=Removal of Ovaries.=--This condition of the ovaries gave rise to the +practice of removing these organs. Just as soon as a woman consulted a +physician and complained of tenderness over the ovaries, he was sure to +advise her to have these organs removed. + +=Less Operating Than Formerly.=--But this practice is rapidly passing +away, and the very surgeons who were so anxious to operate a few years +ago are now found advising against it. This is because of the serious +results which follow this operation. While the pain and tenderness in +these parts would be relieved, yet the profound and overwhelming +impression made upon the nervous system, by producing such a remarkable +change in the life of the woman, was even worse than the disease itself. + +=Results of Removal of Ovaries.=--Women who have had their ovaries removed +are frequently the victims of hysteria, melancholia, extreme nervous +prostration, insomnia, and other distressing and dangerous complaints. + +=Surgical Operations Unnecessary.=--Then, again, it is becoming well known +over the whole country that Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound can +relieve congestion and pain so thoroughly that the surgeon's knife is +unnecessary. I am so confident in this belief that it hardly seems +possible that any woman would continue to suffer in this way, when it is +so useless. I know we can make every woman perfectly comfortable and at +rest, no matter how long she may have suffered, if she will only follow +our simple directions. + +=The One Certain Cure.=--All she has to do is to keep her bowels in good +condition by taking Lydia E. Pinkham's Liver Pills, and at the same time +take a thorough course of treatment with the Vegetable Compound. If you +have any friends or neighbors who are suffering from this disease, and +who fear that it will lead to ovarian tumors, which must ultimately +necessitate a dangerous surgical operation, I urge upon you to tell them +the story of this Vegetable Compound. + +=Always Brings Good Cheer.=--It has brought happiness to so many homes, +has relieved so much suffering, and has cheered and comforted so many +thousands of women, that I am sure you will be doing a great deed of +charity if you will only aid in spreading this glad news. + +=Tumors of the Uterus.=--The uterus is subject to tumors, or growths, the +symptoms of which are much like those of chronic inflammation. As a +rule, the person suffering from these tumors knows nothing whatever of +their existence until some competent physician has told her such is the +case. + +=Fibroid Tumors.=--The most common tumors are known as fibroids. They are +often small, and yet sometimes attain a considerable size. + +Until within a few years surgeons were always anxious to operate upon +these tumors; but this is now largely done away with, for they are not +fatal in themselves, and only become serious when they attain an +exceedingly large size, or, what is more frequently the case, cause +excessive flowing during or between the menstrual periods. + +=Tumors Cured Without the Knife.=--In these cases Lydia E. Pinkham's +Vegetable Compound shows its remarkable power to great advantage. By +establishing a better circulation through the uterus, and relieving the +congestion in the surrounding parts, and by giving strength and tone to +the smaller blood-vessels, the hemorrhage is controlled and the +inflammation is reduced. The tumors cease to grow, diminish in size, and +disappear altogether under its influence. + +=Vagina, Inflammation of.=--Occasionally there is an acute and most +intense inflammation of the vagina caused by exposure to cold, +irritating discharges from the womb, the use of pessaries, supporters, +or some contagious disease. + +Many women suffer from this complaint towards the close of menstruation, +when the discharges are acrid and most irritating. + +=Promptly Cured.=--This inflammation can be promptly cured by the frequent +use of Lydia E. Pinkham's Sanative Wash. Prepare this strictly according +to the directions on each package, and use it as a vaginal injection two +or three times a day. The cure will be hastened by employing a sitz-bath +(sitting in a tub of hot water, or in a bath-tub). + +=To Prevent Extension of Disease.=--In order to prevent the inflammation +from extending into the uterus, it is always wise to take Lydia E. +Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for a few days after an attack of this +kind. + +=Pruritus, Itching.=--Pruritus, or itching of the external parts, is a +most annoying affection, which often renders life itself almost +unendurable. Its most frequent cause is due to irritating discharges +from the uterus or vagina. Quite a large per cent of the women who are +passing through the "change of life" are troubled in this way. + +It is also a marked symptom of diabetes, or "sugar in the urine;" and if +the itching is associated with an unusually large flow of urine, +together with dryness of the mouth and extreme thirst, there is a +probability that the person is suffering from diabetes. In such a case a +specimen of the urine should be taken to a competent physician, and he +should be asked to make a thorough examination of it in order to +definitely determine this point. + +=Treatment.=--The treatment of pruritus consists in keeping the parts +thoroughly cleansed by frequent vaginal injections of Lydia E. Pinkham's +Sanative Wash, even three or four injections daily; and also bathing the +external parts with the same solution. + +=Can Be Promptly Controlled.=--Although medical writers so generally claim +that this disease is almost impossible to relieve, and although they +recommend the application of severe caustics, yet I have never found any +difficulty in promptly controlling and curing this affection by the +faithful and persistent use of Lydia E. Pinkham's Sanative Wash as a +local application and the Vegetable Compound for its constitutional +effects. + +=Constitutional Treatment Necessary.=--Although this disease shows itself +in only one place, yet the difficulty is in the whole system, and can +only be thoroughly removed by the internal use of Lydia E. Pinkham's +Vegetable Compound. Thousands of letters from women tell that their life +of agony, distress, and sleeplessness was changed to one of perfect +comfort almost immediately upon the use of these remedies. + +=Bladder, Inflammation of.=--Sometimes the inflammation of the vagina and +uterus is so severe that it involves the bladder; or an irritable +condition of the bladder may be produced by a pregnant uterus pressing +forward against it; or the uterus may be tipped forward a trifle more +than natural, and thus press against the bladder sufficient to cause +irritation. + +=Symptoms.=--The principal symptom of congestion or inflammation of the +bladder is a frequent desire to pass the urine. This act is almost +always painful, and is sometimes accompanied with spasmodic contractions +of the walls of the bladder, causing severe straining. + +=May Become Chronic.=--If treatment be neglected, this condition easily +becomes chronic, when it is very difficult to cure. Prompt treatment in +these cases is strongly urged because it can be cured in every instance, +and thus an immense amount of suffering avoided. + +=Treatment.=--If possible, the person should remain in bed or recline on a +couch. The diet should consist largely of liquids, nothing being better +than good milk. Meats, rich soups, and all pastries should be avoided. + +Mrs. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound should be taken at once, because of +its most happy effect in relieving congestion and inflammation of all +the pelvic organs. Indeed, here is one instance where the Vegetable +Compound is alike useful to both sexes. The most flattering testimonials +have come from men who have tried this remedy "because it was in the +house," and who were most happily surprised to find that the relief was +prompt and the cure speedy. For all irritable conditions of the bladder, +whether of recent or old standing, I do not believe there is a remedy in +the world that holds out such great promises of complete relief equal to +Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. + +=The Menopause, or "Change of Life."=--This is a cessation of +menstruation. It usually occurs between the ages of forty and fifty +years, although frequently before and even after this time. + +=Symptoms.=--The person first notices that although menstruation had +previously been regular, yet now it has become irregular, not appearing +more frequently than once every six weeks or two months; or possibly +passing over a month, and then appearing regularly again for the +following two or three months; or the flow may be less and less month +after month, until gradually it disappears altogether; or, not +infrequently, menstruation ceases abruptly, without any warning +whatever. + +=A Natural Condition.=--The change of life should be a perfectly natural +condition, not associated with any unpleasant symptom whatever. Yet this +is rarely the case, while often the suffering at this time is most +intense in every way. + +=Affects Nervous System.=--The most severe effects are frequently produced +on the nervous system. These are known as "heat flashes." It is a marked +symptom with a great many women, and is described as a sensation of +waves of heat passing over the body. Sometimes these are very severe, +causing the face to become very red, producing dizziness and intense +headache. + +Often there is melancholia, great depression, and not infrequently +complete prostration of the nervous system. The digestion may be +disturbed, producing constipation, diarrhoea, dyspepsia, loss of +appetite, offensive breath, biliousness, etc. Most marked changes are +certainly taking place in the whole system, and it is but natural that +every part of the body should be profoundly impressed. + +=Not Expensive Treatment.=--I cannot urge too strongly upon my readers the +necessity of their taking Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound all +through these remarkable changes. It is not a great expense to take +this Vegetable Compound in moderate doses four times a day for weeks, or +even months, during these changes. + +=A Critical Time.=--If this period of life be passed over in safety, then +there may be years and years of robust health remaining; while if it be +not attended to properly, the remainder of the life may be one prolonged +day of agony. Even when persons have suffered during all their menstrual +life, they can now have perhaps a score or more of years of complete +relief if they properly care for themselves during this change. + +=Keep Under Its Influence.=--Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is a +great tonic in itself, bracing up the whole nervous system, aiding +digestion, and causing all the forces of the body to act more in accord +with nature. + +Then it has a special influence over the uterus and ovaries; indeed, so +marked is its power to correct disease that all the trying days of the +"change of life" may be passed over in perfect safety, if only the +system be continuously kept under its influence. + +=May Be Made Easy and Natural.=--Women who have been dreading this change, +and who have been made to look upon it as something horrible to pass +through, may now lay all such anxiety aside, for Mrs. Pinkham long ago +solved the problem of making this time of life as healthy and natural as +any other. + +It is not claiming too much to say that if women everywhere will only +take Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound through this trying time, +they will come out of it feeling better in every way than they have felt +for many years. =If you do not understand your ailments, write to Mrs. +Pinkham, Lynn, Mass. Her advice is free and always helpful. Such letters +are strictly confidential and answered with the help of women only.= + + + + +CHAPTER X. + +PREGNANCY, ITS SYMPTOMS, DISEASES, ETC. + + +=Sometimes Difficult to Tell.=--Even the most skilled physicians sometimes +make mistakes in stating that pregnancy exists when it does not. + +=The First Sign.=--The most valuable and striking sign of pregnancy is the +cessation of the monthly periods; yet even this is not always reliable. +Sometimes menstruation continues for three or four months, especially +during the first pregnancy, although this is exceedingly rare. As a +rule, to which there is hardly an exception, if menstruation ceases in a +married woman who has previously been regular, she is, in all +probability, pregnant. + +=Other Signs.=--Another important sign is the enlargement of the abdomen, +although this cannot be detected much before the fourth month. A +valuable sign, also, is the enlargement of the breasts, with a widening +and browning of the pink ring around the nipples. Enlargement of the +breasts often begins as early as the second month, and is quite marked +by the fourth or fifth month. + +=Morning Sickness.=--Morning sickness is a symptom present in the majority +of cases. It usually consists of a marked nausea upon rising, and +perhaps vomiting. This may last only a few hours in the early morning, +or continue through the greater part of the day. It generally appears in +the second month and lasts only through the third month, although, in +bad cases, it may continue through the whole period, and very seriously +affect the health. + +=Treatment.=--There are any number of remedies recommended for the +treatment of this morning sickness. What will cure one case seems to be +perfectly useless in another. + +It has been my experience that the best way to manage these cases is as +follows: Have the person take a slice of toasted bread, or a toasted +cracker, with a little coffee if desired, while in bed, remaining there +at least half an hour after eating. Or, the person may take a glass of +milk to which two tablespoonfuls of lime water have been added. Then, by +rising slowly and moving about carefully, it is often possible to go +through the day without any sickness whatever. I have known many cases +to be entirely relieved by eating a little ordinary pop-corn. + +=The Morning Meal.=--The morning meal may consist of milk to which a +little lime water has been added; or a poached or soft-boiled egg. +Sometimes scarped beef, lean and rare, salted and spread on very thin +bread, quiets the stomach at once, while it is highly nourishing. + +=Only One Medicine Needed.=--It is surprising what happy changes Lydia E. +Pinkham's Vegetable Compound brings about in this condition. The +irritability subsides, the digestion is greatly improved, the nervous +system is strengthened, and all these uncomfortable and disagreeable +symptoms pass away. The Compound should be taken in small doses three +times a day, after meals. + +=A Bandage May Relieve Nausea.=--An abdominal bandage will sometimes +relieve the morning sickness, if placed snugly, but not too tightly, +about the body. It need be worn only a week or two, for a trial, and +should always be taken off at night. If the nausea persists during the +day, then let the food be light and taken in small amounts, at frequent +intervals. + +="Quickening."=--This is another sign of pregnancy. The word refers to the +detection by the mother of the movements of the child. Although, without +doubt, the child moves within the mother at a much earlier period, yet +these movements are too feeble to be noticed until pregnancy has +advanced four or four and a half months. + +=Other Symptoms of Pregnancy.=--Other symptoms are morbid longings for +unusual articles of food, as sour apples, vinegar, charcoal, clay, slate +pencils, etc. These longings, however, should not be satisfied, as they +do not represent the demand of nature for these substances. They belong +to the same class of changes which are shown by a marked difference in +the disposition of a person whereby the lively and cheerful woman +becomes melancholy, gloomy, and irritable. + +=Diet During Pregnancy.=--The diet during the whole of pregnancy should be +generous, yet easily digestible. A great many women do not change their +diet at all, and if the person is in good health and does not suffer in +any way, there is no reason whatever why the diet should be changed, +unless the evening meal be made somewhat lighter. + +=Eat Sparingly of Meat.=--It is always wise not to eat meat more than once +a day. This is because a meat diet throws more work upon the kidneys, +and any failure of the kidneys increases the probability of serious +trouble at childbirth. + +So far as is known, there is no foundation for the belief that any +special article of diet has any particular effect upon the development +of the child. + +=Care of the Breasts.=--The care of the breasts during pregnancy must be +commenced early. All pressure of the clothing should be removed, in +order to give them full opportunity to develop. They should be kept +warm, however, and well supported, if the size renders them +uncomfortable. + +=Mothers Should Nurse Their Children.=--Statistics show that the summer +diarrhoeas and dysenteries, which carry off such immense numbers of +children each year, are almost unknown among babies that nurse. It is +the artificially fed child which suffers from wasting diseases and +disturbances of the digestion which are so fatal to life. Therefore, +every prospective mother should do everything in her power to prepare +for the proper nursing of her child. + +=Care of the Nipples.=--If the nipples are flat, they can be pulled out +gently each day with the fingers, and thus the difficulty entirely +remedied. At the beginning of the last month of pregnancy, the nipples +should be hardened in order that nursing may be painless, and that all +fissures, or cracks, may be avoided. + +Every morning and night apply the following solution to the nipples with +a piece of absorbent cotton:-- + + Glycerite of Tannin, 1 fluid ounce. + Water, 1 fluid ounce. + +Allow this to remain on the nipple. This cannot be used after +confinement, for the bitter taste would be objectionable to the child. + +=Can Sex Be Foretold?=--Mothers often wish to know if it is possible to +determine the sex of the child before it is born. Although a great deal +has been written on this subject, and a number of so-called rules have +been made, yet it is absolutely impossible to tell whether the child +will be a boy or a girl; and it is also equally impossible to do +anything that could in any way exert an influence in producing a child +of the desired sex. + +=To Tell Time of Confinement.=--For two hundred and eighty days, or forty +weeks, the prospective mother has been conducting herself in the best +way she thought possible, that all good might be exerted upon the new +life. The question now comes, When may the day of confinement be +expected? I give here a table for calculating this day, which I am sure +will be found very convenient. + +OBSTETRICAL TABLE. + + --------+---------------------------------------------- + January | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 + Oct'r | 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 + --------+---------------------------------------------- + Feb'y | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 + Nov'r | 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 + --------+---------------------------------------------- + March | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 + Dec'r | 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 + --------+---------------------------------------------- + April | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 + Jan'y | 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 + --------+---------------------------------------------- + May | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 + Feb'y | 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 + --------+---------------------------------------------- + June | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 + March | 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 + --------+---------------------------------------------- + July | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 + April | 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 + --------+---------------------------------------------- + August | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 + May | 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 + --------+---------------------------------------------- + Sept'r | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 + June | 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 + --------+---------------------------------------------- + October | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 + July | 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 + --------+---------------------------------------------- + Nov'r | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 + Aug | 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 + --------+---------------------------------------------- + Dec'r | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 + Sept'r | 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 + --------+---------------------------------------------- + + ---------------------------------------------+------ + 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 | + 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 |Nov. + ---------------------------------------------+------ + 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 | + 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 1 2 3 4 5 |Dec. + ---------------------------------------------+------ + 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 | + 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1 2 3 4 5 |Jan. + ---------------------------------------------+------ + 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 20 27 28 29 30 | + 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 20 30 31 1 2 3 4 |Feb. + ---------------------------------------------+------ + 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 | + 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 |Mar. + ---------------------------------------------+------ + 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 | + 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1 2 3 4 5 6 |April. + ---------------------------------------------+------ + 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 | + 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 |May. + ---------------------------------------------+------ + 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 | + 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 |June. + ---------------------------------------------+------ + 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 | + 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 |July. + ---------------------------------------------+------ + 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 | + 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 |Aug. + ---------------------------------------------+------ + 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 | + 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1 2 3 4 5 6 |Sept. + ---------------------------------------------+------ + 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 | + 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 |Oct. + ---------------------------------------------+------ + + As labor occurs in the larger proportion of cases between 270 and + 290 days from the first day of the last menstruation, 280 days is + the average. The table presents at a glance the beginning and end + of 280 days for every day in the year. Find the date of + menstruation in the upper line of the horizontal column, and the + figure below, with the corresponding month, will indicate 280 days. + + +=To Avoid Miscarriage.=--The pregnant woman must be very careful as the +usual time for menstruation approaches. It is then that any undue +effort, unusual lifting, excessive grief, or shock to the system, may +bring on a miscarriage. This is especially true if such a misfortune has +previously occurred. + +=A Great Preventive.=--The most abundant testimony shows that Lydia E. +Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is an almost certain preventive to +miscarriage or abortion. It gives strength to the uterine walls, quiets +the first approach of pain, controls any spasmodic contractions, and +brings about such a healthy condition that all danger is averted. I +cannot speak too strongly of this Vegetable Compound for these cases. So +many mothers have written us that they are now happy in the possession +of a child, when, for time and time again, they would have a miscarriage +at the third or fourth month. + +=Keep it in the House.=--Every pregnant woman should always keep in the +house a bottle of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She does not +know the day when she will need it, and when that day comes she will +require it promptly. + +At any time when there is soreness, tenderness, unusual pain, any +unnatural discharge, or any symptom whatever that shows pregnancy is not +pursuing a perfectly natural course, she should begin to use the +Vegetable Compound at once. It should be taken in small doses two or +three times a day, just enough to produce its strengthening, quieting, +and healing effects. + +If she finds she has been overdoing, has strained herself in any way, or +fears that some unfortunate result will follow an extra hard day's +labor, let her take a few doses of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound +as a certain preventive to future trouble. + +=The One Universal Cure.=--In other words, I repeat what I have already +said so many times, that whenever there is trouble of any kind with any +part of the female generative organs, whenever these do not act in a +perfectly natural manner, then the Lydia E. Pinkham Vegetable Compound +is indicated; for it is the one great, universal and never-failing cure +for all the affections which fall to the lot of womankind. + +=Makes Mother and Child Strong.=--Many thousands of wives owe the fact +that they are mothers to-day to this grand remedy, and thousands upon +thousands of children are happy, strong and robust because their +mothers were wise enough to use it. Keep it in the house. Do not be a +day without it. Have it where you can reach it at any time. Put your +confidence in it. 'Twill prove a never-failing friend to you in time of +need. + +=Mothers' Marks.=--There is a wide belief among women that any strong +impression made at a certain time during pregnancy will exert a powerful +influence in producing some defect or deformity in the child. The +opposite is also held, to the effect that beautiful objects, delightful +music, and everything elevating and ennobling will have a favorable +effect upon the body or mind of the child. + +An immense amount of testimony can be produced on both sides of this +question. The weight of evidence, however, is rather in favor of these +so-called "maternal impressions." In other words, it seems possible that +under very unusual conditions the mother may affect her unborn child +because of some powerful impression made upon the system. + +Yet hundreds of thousands of mothers become frightened and undergo the +most terrible experiences without having the slightest unfavorable +effect upon the child; while other mothers give birth to deformed +children when they have been surrounded with every comfort and have not +been disturbed in any way. No one understands this subject, and but +little can truly be said about it. + +=Hereditary Influences Are Strong.=--On the other hand, we all know how +strong is heredity. Therefore it is only acting the part of ordinary +wisdom for every pregnant woman to avoid all disagreeable things +possible and cultivate everything that is good and true. + +=Early Training Necessary.=--When we come to study the theory of heredity, +we see that it is impossible for any mother to completely change her +course of life simply during pregnancy and have a corresponding effect +upon her child. To produce the best results on the offspring it is +necessary that the mother should have cultivated her own mind and body +through many years of training. + +=Were Cured Early in Life.=--Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has +done untold good to the present generation. There are hundreds of +thousands of children living to-day who are healthy and happy because +years before they were born their mothers, when young girls, took this +grand household medicine. They were restored to health, a great load was +lifted, and things again looked cheerful and bright, and in this +condition a happy baby was born into the world. =If you do not understand +your ailments write to Mrs. Pinkham, Lynn, Mass. Her advice is free and +always helpful. Such letters are strictly confidential and answered with +the help of women only.= + + + + +CHAPTER XI. + +PROBLEMS IN NURSING. + + +=Diet During Nursing.=--Many mothers believe that it is necessary to eat +only certain articles of diet while nursing their baby, for fear the +child may be given the colic. While this may be true in certain cases, +yet it is the exception. As a rule, mothers may eat nearly everything +digestible without fear of affecting the baby. + +=Exceptions.=--Sometimes raw fruits or acid substances may change the milk +in some way so that it will disagree with the baby, but as I have said, +this is not the rule. Occasionally, however, when such articles of diet +as onions, cauliflower, and cabbage have been eaten, these will impart +such an odor and taste to the milk that the child will refuse to nurse. + +=Must Be Guided By Experience.=--The only precaution the mother need take +is that if she finds some article of diet disagrees with her, or if she +knows a certain article always causes pain or discomfort in the child, +then these should be avoided. + +It is true that certain medicines, especially purgatives, may be taken +by the mother which will affect the child very quickly. Here the same +rule should be the guide as should always govern one, namely, no article +of diet should be used which is known to disturb the digestion. + +=Insufficient Supply of Milk.=--When a mother knows that the chances of +her child's life are greatly increased if it has its natural food, she +will certainly make unusual efforts to supply all the food necessary. + +Mothers are too likely to think that an increase in the quantity of the +milk answers every purpose; but this is of no use unless the quality is +increased as well. The free use of soups and some malt extracts may +increase the quantity, but this does the child no good. It too much +resembles the example of the milk-man who uses the well-pump to increase +his supply of milk. + +=How Increased.=--However, the supply of milk can easily be increased in +quantity and correspondingly improved in quality if the mother will +drink freely of cow's milk, and use other substantial foods at the same +time. If the milk is constipating, or rests heavy on the stomach, then a +little lime water may be added to it in the proportion of one or two +tablespoonfuls to a glass of milk. Regular exercise in the open air is +also necessary in order that the general health may be kept in the best +possible condition. + +=Anger May Poison Milk.=--It is a fact that if the child nurses after the +mother has had a severe fright, or has become violently angry, the milk +will sometimes act as an intense poison. In such cases the mother had +better empty the breasts with a breast-pump, and not nurse the child for +ten or twelve hours afterward, substituting some artificially prepared +food. + +=Extra Supply of Milk.=--Sometimes the secretion of milk is so great that +even a strong child cannot take it all. This produces a distention of +the breasts, causing what is known as "caked breasts," or "milk cake." +This should be promptly attended to, as there is great danger of an +abscess forming. + +=To Prevent Caked Breasts.=--The way to relieve this condition is to +gently but firmly rub the breasts with warm sweet-oil, continuing this +for fifteen or twenty minutes at a time. An occasional use of the +breast-pump is necessary also. + +=How to Diminish Supply.=--When weaning-time comes, the question arises +how the secretion of milk may be diminished. This is best done by having +the mother take as little liquid as possible, whether of water, tea, +milk, soup, or anything of this kind. She should also take a gentle +laxative each day, as a little Hunyadi Water, or laxative mineral water +of any kind. + +Then support the breasts by passing a broad band beneath them, and +carrying it over the shoulders, compressing the breasts slightly, but +not too greatly. + +The breast-pump should be used as soon as any distention becomes +painful, and the breasts should be diligently rubbed with warm +sweet-oil. =If you do not understand your ailments write to Mrs. Pinkham, +Lynn, Mass. Her advice is free and always helpful. Such letters are +strictly confidential and answered with the help of women only.= + + + + +CHAPTER XII. + +TO PREVENT CONVULSIONS AT CHILDBIRTH. + + +=Work of the Kidneys Most Important.=--The kidneys are constantly engaged +in removing from the body certain poisonous substances which are held in +solution in the urine. If they should fail to do this work, or if no +urine should be secreted for even a few hours, most serious consequences +would follow. + +=Cause of Convulsions.=--When these poisons are retained in the system to +a sufficient degree they cause convulsions and unconsciousness, and are +frequently fatal. The convulsions which some women have at childbirth +are caused by this imperfect action of the kidneys. + +=To Tell If Danger Is Present.=--An examination of the urine at any time +will tell whether the kidneys are acting well or not, and thus it is +possible to determine whether there is danger of having these +convulsions during confinement. Therefore I urge upon all pregnant women +the necessity of having their urine examined once or twice during the +course of pregnancy, and certainly during the eighth or ninth month. + +=Albumen in the Urine.=--Imperfect action of the kidneys is shown by the +appearance of albumen in the urine. Any competent physician can easily +determine whether this albumen is in the urine or not, and if present he +can take such prompt measures as to remedy the evil before any serious +danger occurs. Of course I know that hundreds of thousands of women pass +safely through childbirth and have no unfavorable symptom at all; yet I +also know that now and then a most valuable life is lost when it might +just as well have been spared as not, if these simple suggestions had +been carried out. + +It is the teaching of all the best medical authorities in the world that +this precaution should be taken by every expectant mother. + +=Symptoms of Kidney Trouble.=--When the kidneys are not performing their +work properly, the mother may know it, herself. If she finds her feet +and ankles swelling at night, if she has a puffy look under the eyes, +and especially if the amount of urine passed in twenty-four hours is not +so great as formerly, then there is probably albumen in the urine. In +this case she should stop eating meat of all kinds, and live largely +upon milk, keeping the bowels in laxative condition by using Lydia E. +Pinkham's Liver Pills, and bathing the skin well once or twice a day. +She should also begin at once the use of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable +Compound, resting assured that this will remove the congestion in the +kidneys, and will cause a more free secretion of the urine. + +=Self-abuse (Masturbation).=--This is a cause of many of the diseases of +women, also men. Small girls learn the practice from larger ones, and +through ignorance continue it often to maturity without knowing that it +is bringing upon them a physical and moral injury. + +_If mothers instructed their daughters on this subject there would be +fewer broken lives._ + +SYMPTOMS.--The main symptoms are wakefulness, restless nights, headache, +indolence, melancholy, indisposition to study, forgetfulness, +despondency, weakness in the back and private organs, no confidence in +one's own abilities, a desire for seclusion from society; whites, +hysterics, and inability to look any one in the face. Sometimes the +muscles are relaxed, limbs tremble, the skin is sallow and dry, with +pain in the womb. + +=REMARKS. Write to Mrs. Pinkham in perfect confidence, and she will tell +you exactly what to do. Delay is dangerous in this matter.= + + + + +CHAPTER XIII. + +DYSPEPSIA, CONSTIPATION, GENERAL DEBILITY, SLEEPLESSNESS. + + +=Dyspepsia, Acute.=--Acute dyspepsia is usually caused by some improper +diet, as the eating of an unusual article of food or of a larger amount +than necessary. Such articles of diet as cucumbers, unripe or overripe +fruit, an excessive amount of sweets, rich salads, heavy puddings, etc., +may so irritate the stomach that an acute attack of dyspepsia follows. + +=Nature Often Cures.=--Nature often makes a prompt cure in these cases by +causing a sharp attack of vomiting or diarrhoea. If a cure is not made +in this way, then we can imitate nature by giving an emetic, or by +taking a laxative, in order to rid the body of the indigestible material +as soon as possible. + +=Treatment.=--If there is much pain in the stomach, a mustard plaster +should be placed directly over the pit of the stomach, or cloths wrung +out in hot water. For the next day following the attack the diet should +be restricted to milk, or poached eggs on toast, or something of this +kind. + +=Chronic Dyspepsia.=--It is chronic dyspepsia, however, which is so +annoying because of its persistence. It has been called "The American +Disease" because so many people are troubled with it. + +=Symptoms.=--Persons suffering from chronic dyspepsia complain of a bad +taste in the mouth, dry throat, nausea, and a feeling of great weight in +the stomach for an hour or two after each meal. + +Frequently there is no appetite whatever, or it may be even more +ravenous than natural because of the irritation and inflammation in the +stomach. When the latter is the case, food does not satisfy, and it +becomes necessary to eat every two or three hours in order to quiet the +gnawing and empty feeling in the stomach. The chronic dyspeptic suffers +greatly from nervousness and depression of spirits; indeed, it seems +almost impossible to maintain the usual cheerfulness. + +=Thought to be the Heart.=--Many persons go to their family physician +thinking they have a serious form of heart disease, when the whole +trouble is with the stomach, the violent beating of the heart being +simply a nervous manifestation caused by the irritable condition of the +stomach. + +=Two Diseases Closely Associated.=--Chronic dyspepsia is almost invariably +associated with the diseases of women. Indeed, the two seem almost +inseparable, for whenever you find a woman complaining of soreness +across the lower part of the bowels, irregular menstruation, ovarian +irritation, inflammation of the bladder, leucorrhoea, etc., you will +find a confirmed dyspeptic. The blood is thin and watery, the bowels are +constipated, and the whole nervous system seems to be upset. + +=Which Disease Is the Cause?=--The question comes whether the disease in +the pelvis causes the difficulty with the stomach, or whether the +stomach produces the inflammation in the uterus and surrounding parts. +Probably one is true at one time and another at another time. The fact +is that both conditions need correcting, and there is one remedy which +answers perfectly in each case. + +=Both Must Be Cured.=--The digestion certainly cannot be perfect while +there is this inflammation in the pelvic organs; while the latter can +hardly maintain a healthy condition if the stomach fails to do its work. + +=Both May Be Cured.=--By paying attention to a few rules of diet, and by +taking Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for a short time, I believe +every case will promptly yield to treatment. + +=Cures Dyspepsia of Men.=--Indeed, strange as it may seem, a great many +men who have taken Lydia E. Pinkham's Compound because they have seen +its good action on the stomach in cases of other members of the family +have written reporting good results. It certainly has a most soothing +and strengthening power on this organ, while its gently stimulating +effect on the whole alimentary canal brings about the most desirable +changes. + +=Regular Action of the Bowels.=--I would recommend that Lydia E. Pinkham's +Liver Pills be taken each night in just sufficient doses to cause a +regular action of the bowels each day. Then if Lydia E. Pinkham's +Vegetable Compound be taken, it will not only allay all inflammation in +the stomach and impart great strength, but it will at the same time +remove the soreness and pain in the pelvic organs. + +=A Simple but Valuable Aid.=--All such persons will obtain relief by +drinking a cupful of hot water at least half an hour before breakfast +each morning; and if the case is very bad, then the hot water may be +repeated before each meal. The water should be as hot as can be +comfortably taken. + +=Useful Hints.=--I would strongly urge the necessity of thoroughly chewing +the food and eating slowly. If this rule alone were observed there would +be far less dyspeptics in the country. Drink should be used sparingly at +meal-time, also, for while the body requires a great deal of liquid +during the day, yet this should be taken between meals rather than +during meals. + +The stomach should certainly have time to rest from its work of +digesting the food, hence nothing should be eaten between meals. The +habit so many girls have of eating before retiring is very injurious to +the health, and should be corrected at once. Meals should be taken at +regular intervals and not at any time when most convenient. + +=Diet for Dyspeptics.=--The chronic dyspeptic should use soups sparingly, +for, as a rule, they are quite difficult of digestion, while they do not +contain much nourishment. Plain mutton and beef soup without much fat +are the least harmful. Such fish as pickerel, trout, shad, and white +fish may be used moderately; while oysters, especially when raw, are +easily digested. The best kinds of meat are roasted or broiled beef, +lamb chops, and some fowl, as chicken. + +Eggs are easily digested, and are exceedingly valuable as an article of +diet for the dyspeptic. They may be cooked in almost any form except +hard-boiled. They are highly nourishing, can be prepared in many +delicate ways, and are, as I have said, as valuable an article of diet +as the dyspeptic can have. + +Persons with chronic dyspepsia do not digest vegetables well, as a rule, +although such green vegetables as lettuce, green peas, asparagus, +celery, and spinach may be used. Potatoes often ferment in the stomach, +producing gases, and should be used sparingly. + +Toast is always well borne, but should never be buttered while hot. +Bread should not be used until it is at least a day old. Rolled oats, +cracked wheat, etc., may be taken, although with many they cause +fermentation. Nearly all cooked fruits are well borne by the stomach, +and so are nearly all ripe fruits. Puddings made from rice and custard +are easily digested. + +Milk is valuable at all times, and if the chronic dyspeptic bears it +well, this diet alone will frequently make a marked cure. If it rests +heavy on the stomach, a little lime water may be added to it in the +proportion of a tablespoonful of lime water to a cupful of milk. + +=Forbidden Diet.=--There are certain articles of diet which the dyspeptic +should not use under any circumstances. Among such are fried foods of +all kinds, pork, liver, veal, rich soups, turkey, goose, duck, mackerel, +lobster, cucumbers, cabbage, turnips, parsnips, string beans, pies and +cakes, cheese and nuts. + +=Constipation.=--As we have already stated, constipation is productive of +the most serious evils. When the lower bowel is distended, pressure is +made upon the surrounding blood-vessels, and thus the circulation +seriously interfered with. + +=Causes Inflammation of Uterus.=--As a result, there is congestion in the +blood-vessels of the ovaries and uterus, and inflammation of these +organs is likely to follow with its long train of ailments. + +Constipation also seriously interferes with the general health, +producing nausea, indigestion, headache, backache, nervousness, general +debility, etc. + +=Daily Movements Necessary.=--Nature intended that the alimentary canal +should be relieved of its contents at least once every twenty-four +hours, and if this is not done, then certain poisons are absorbed into +the blood which produce the most undesirable effects. + +=To Cure Constipation.=--For constipation I strongly recommend Lydia E. +Pinkham's Liver Pills. I know they give the most prompt and satisfactory +relief. I have received letters from hundreds of women who have been +cured of the most distressing ailments of the uterus and bladder simply +by using these Liver Pills, and all because constipation was cured and +in this way the cause of the suffering removed. + +=Diarrhoea.=--Diarrhoea, as a rule, is an effort of nature to get rid +of some offensive material. While this may be the first reason for its +existence, yet if it is allowed to go on, it produces such an irritation +in the bowels that serious results may easily follow. + +=Treatment.=--If the person is conscious of having eaten something +indigestible, as unripe or overripe fruit, then it is best to aid nature +by taking some gentle laxative, as a laxative dose of Lydia E. Pinkham's +Liver Pills, thus hastening the removal of the indigestible substance. +If, however, there have been a number of movements of the bowels, until +the offending material is probably all removed, then the following plan +is all that will be necessary to make a cure: + +Let the person rest at full length upon a couch or bed, remaining as +quiet as possible. For the diet nothing should be taken but hot milk. A +glass of hot milk can be slowly sipped once every three hours, and +nothing else whatever should be taken into the stomach for a day, at +least, or until the diarrhoea is checked. + +If the pain is quite severe in the stomach or bowels, then a mustard +plaster may be placed over the most painful part, or cloths wrung from +hot water; or a poultice of linseed meal or slippery elm may be applied. +I have seen the good results of this treatment of "rest and hot milk" in +so many cases, and it is so exceedingly simple, that I earnestly +recommend its trial. + +=General Debility, Exhaustion, Anaemia.=--Many women go about suffering +from great debility, being hardly able to drag themselves through the +day. When night comes they are too tired to sleep, and when morning +comes it seems they are more tired than they were at night. All parts of +the body partake of this general weakness. + +There are great discomfort and suffering through the lower part of the +body, difficulty in passing the urine, constipation of the bowels, +leucorrhoea, and all other affections which naturally come from an +impoverished condition of the blood. + +=May Be Promptly Cured.=--To all women who are suffering from this general +debility, exhaustion, and nervous prostration I earnestly recommend +Lydia E. Pinkham's Blood Purifier. If the inflammation in the uterus and +surrounding organs is quite marked at the same time, then the Blood +Purifier may be taken before meals and the Vegetable Compound after. If +the female generative organs are not much involved, then the Blood +Purifier may be used alone. + +=A Grand Medicine.=--This grand medicine has done great good, and I am +confident it will build up the system, purify the blood, and greatly +improve the general health. + +Persons suffering from general debility of this kind do not prosper well +on a milk diet alone. They need more hearty food, such as rare +beefsteak, rare roast beef, lamb chops, and eggs. + +=Sleeplessness.=--Sleeplessness is frequently the result of a too liberal +use of tea or coffee. Many persons cannot take a cup of coffee at any +time during the evening without lying awake many hours to pay for it. +It is a strong stimulant to those who have a sensitive nervous system, +and should be used only sparingly at all times and never after the +midday meal. + +Strong tea acts in this way upon a great many, and if any of my readers +are troubled with sleeplessness, and yet at the same time use tea and +coffee freely, I would suggest that they try, first of all, to do +without these drinks and note the effect. + +=Treatment.=--A warm (not hot) foot-bath taken just before retiring will +often cause a good night's rest, as it draws the blood from the head, +makes the circulation more evenly distributed, and in this way induces +sleep. Frequently a baby or young child may be made to sleep all through +the night if a warm bath be given just before retiring. + +When the sleeplessness is due to nerve exhaustion, as is frequently the +case, the very best results will follow the use of Lydia E. Pinkham's +Vegetable Compound, because of its great nerve tonic properties. + +=A Hard Cold.=--Whenever any one has taken a hard cold, it can often be +speedily and completely broken up in the following manner: Take a hot +foot-bath for at least half an hour. While the feet are still in the hot +water throw a blanket completely about the limbs and body, in order to +retain all the heat possible. At the same time drink one or two cupfuls +of hot lemonade, or hot ginger tea. Then retire to bed, having the bed +previously well warmed, if during the wintertime. Put on plenty of +covering, keeping a hot flat-iron or a hot water-bottle at the feet, and +in every way try to induce free perspiration. + +After an hour or two, gradually remove the extra clothing. Be careful +about going out the next morning, for the body will be especially +susceptible to the cold. In this way it is possible to break up a hard +cold at once. If there is any tendency to cough, or any tightness or +soreness in the chest, place a mustard plaster directly over the chest, +and allow it to remain on until the skin is quite red. + +=Sore Throat.=--An old-fashioned remedy for sore throat, and a very good +one, too, is to bind on each side of the throat a piece of salt pork. +The surface of the pork may be slightly covered with black pepper, in +order to increase its drawing power. This is allowed to remain on all +night, but should be taken off in the morning. During the day a flannel +is worn about the neck. + +A gargle for sore throat may be made by dissolving half a teaspoonful of +chlorate of potash in a cupful of warm water. Gargle the throat with +this every hour or two during the day, but do not swallow the mixture. +After this has been used for a day or two, then a solution may be made +by adding a teaspoonful of pulverized alum to a cupful of warm water; +this is applied to the inflamed sides of the throat by means of a swab. +Gargling the throat with a solution of ordinary extract of witch hazel, +one part, and water two parts, also very useful. + +=Croup.=--As a rule, croup may be quickly cured by the use of either hot +or cold water. Immediately the child begins to breathe hard and cough +with a dry, hollow, barking cough, wring out a towel from cold water and +apply around the throat, covering this with a dry towel. The wet towel +should be changed in a few minutes, just as soon as it becomes a little +warm. Often before the second cloth is removed the spasm will be broken, +and the danger passed. _Cool_ water will not answer; it must be _cold_. +If the spasm does not break, and the breathing does not become easy +within fifteen or twenty minutes, then change to hot water. Wring out +the cloth from water as hot as can be borne and apply about the neck, +changing in a few moments, and so on. + +=How to Lose Flesh.=--I have often been asked whether it were possible to +have the flesh reduced without in any way affecting the general health. +If the person be only slightly heavier than usual, and is in the best of +health, it certainly seems wrong to experiment in any way to reduce the +weight, especially when this is done only to better follow the dictates +of fashion. + +If, however, the excess of flesh is becoming so great as to be +uncomfortable, to interfere with the regular work, or to cause weak +action of the heart, etc., then something should be done. There are a +few rules which a person may follow to advantage in such cases, although +the change should be made gradually. + +So long as a person continues to gain in flesh, it is positive evidence +that more food is being taken than necessary. Therefore the first rule +is that the quantity of food should be gradually diminished. + +The second rule is that exercise should be taken regularly. This will +keep up the general health, while it will cause the fat to be more +evenly distributed over the body. Another rule is to keep the bowels +well open, so that there may be at least two movements daily. For this +special purpose the mineral laxative waters are best. + +=Diet for Reducing the Flesh.=--Fatty foods should be avoided, and so +should all drinks in excess. Foods containing sugar or starch should be +taken sparingly, as oatmeal, potatoes, rice, cakes, sweetened tea and +coffee. Milk is very fattening to many, hence should not be used. The +eminent Dr. Mitchell, of Philadelphia, instituted a course of treatment +for reducing the weight, which is quite rigid, but nevertheless +effective. The regular diet should be changed gradually until it meets +Dr. Mitchell's demands. + +He prescribes outdoor exercise, and a diet of one cupful of milk and one +egg every three hours when awake. No other food or drink is allowed for +twenty days, when the list of foods is gradually extended. There are a +number of anti-fat remedies upon the market, but many of them depend for +a cure upon their power to disturb digestion, and thus interfere with +the general health. + +=How to Gain Flesh.=--When it is natural for persons to be thin, it is +quite impossible for them to gain in weight under any kind of diet or +treatment. Many persons, however, are thin simply because some of the +digestive organs do not perform their work properly; or because the diet +is not the right kind. + +Thin persons need good meats and some vegetables. If the digestion is +all right, then such meats as mutton, chicken, broiled bacon, broiled +ham, etc., may be used; also rare broiled steak, rare roast beef, etc. +Eggs may be used in any way except hard-boiled. Good bread, oatmeal, +cracked wheat, hominy, etc., are good. + +Such indigestible foods as pork and veal, thin soups, cabbage, turnips, +pickles, pies, and pastries of all kinds should not be used. + +Often a good preparation of cod-liver oil will increase the weight; and +this is also true of many of the extracts of malt. It is useless, +however, to try to increase the weight by using a generous diet, unless +the digestion is in good order. When the digestion is weak, the person +should take Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound because of its power +to strengthen the digestion and enable the system to obtain all the good +possible from the food. + +=Pimples, Rashes, Eruptions.=--Many persons, especially young girls, are +afflicted with pimples on the face, rashes, blackheads, etc. To cure +this condition it is necessary that the bowels be made to act regularly +each day, which is easily done by the use of Lydia E. Pinkham's Liver +Pills. + +Then a good course of treatment should be taken with Lydia E. Pinkham's +Blood Purifier in order to make the blood perfectly pure in every way. +Attention should also be paid to the diet, and such indigestible +articles as pork, pickles, rich pies and cakes, and rich sauces, +sweetmeats and nuts should be avoided. + +For local treatment, the face should be washed each day in warm, soapy +water, using the best Castile soap. Then with a sponge or wash cloth +wash off this water with as hot water as can be borne. It is best to +keep up this sponging with the hot water for at least five minutes in +order that the face may become thoroughly steamed. + +The face should then be wiped dry and rubbed briskly for a few minutes. + +=Burns.=--Burns are likely to occur at any time in the household, and one +should always know what to do promptly. The best treatment is to add a +teaspoonful of ordinary baking-soda to a cupful of water. Saturate some +cloths in this solution and lay them over or loosely bind them about the +burned part. This will take out the pain and sting at once. As the +cloths become dry, more of the solution should be poured over them, and +they should not be removed from the burned parts. After a few hours, +these wet cloths may be replaced by cloths well covered with vaseline. +=If you do not understand your ailments write to Mrs Pinkham. Her advice +is free and always helpful. Such letters are strictly confidential; they +are never shown without the writer's express permission; women only +assist in answering them.= + + + + +Free Medical Advice to Women + +ALL CORRESPONDENCE STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL + + ++Lady with Raised Hand+ + +In addressing Mrs. Pinkham you are confiding your private ills to a +woman--a woman who speaks from a greater experience in treating women's +diseases than can any living physician--male or female. + +You can talk freely to a woman when it is revolting to relate your +private troubles to a man--besides, a man does not understand--simply +because he is a man. + +Many women suffer in silence and drift along from bad to worse, knowing +full well that they ought to have immediate assistance, but a natural +modesty impels them to shrink from exposing themselves to the questions +and probably examinations of even their family physician. It is +unnecessary. Without money or price you can consult a woman, who can +speak from a greater actual experience than can any local physician in +the world. + +Every one will agree that there are the strongest of all reasons why, if +we are ill, we should appeal to the person who knows the most about the +kind of illness with which we are afflicted--one who has had the +greatest experience in treating just such cases and meeting just the +symptoms that are manifest in our particular case. + +What confidence does one gain by consulting one who has occasionally met +a case just like ours, but has had no great experience? None whatever. +All treatment under such a person must of necessity be experimental. But +in writing Mrs. Pinkham you consult one who has, actually filed in her +office for ready reference, an immense correspondence with patients +suffering from female ills which has been constantly going on for more +than twenty-five years; and it is safe to say there is not a case or +complication of female derangements with which she is not familiar. It +is a positive fact, easily verified, that within the last few months +she, with her corps of trained women assistants, has advised in over one +hundred thousand cases, and that a vast number of the women of this +country owe the restoration of their health to her advice and Lydia E. +Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. + +Now, if a woman is ill and miserable, it seems to us only simple justice +to herself that she should avail herself of the help of a woman of such +enormous experience. + + +MRS. PINKHAM'S STANDING INVITATION. + +Women suffering from any form of female weakness are invited to promptly +communicate with Mrs. Pinkham, at Lynn, Mass. She asks nothing in +return, except their good will, and her advice has relieved thousands. +Surely any woman, rich or poor, is very foolish if she does not take +advantage of this generous offer of assistance. + +=Address simply Mrs. Pinkham, Lynn, Mass., U. S. A.= + + + + +El Compuesto Vegetal de Lydia E. Pinkham es un remedio seguro para + todas las enfermedades de las mujeres, incluyendo la caida del + utero, leucorrea, menstruaciones irregulares y dolorosas, + inflamaciones y ulceraciones de la matriz y del ovario, para toda + clase de afecciones de los organos de la generacion, asi como + tambien para las enfermedades de los rinones de ambos sexos. Este + remedio esta compuesto de las raices y yerbas mas puras y + escogidas, que se encuentran en la naturaleza para las enfermedades + de las mujeres. + +=Menstruacion.=--Las menstruaciones tempranas no son deseables, aunque +muchas menstruaciones aparecen de los trece a los quince anos; sin +embargo mucho depende de la constitucion de la muchacha. Si habiendo +llegado a esta edad no ha menstruado todavia, la madre debera prestar +singular cuidado a la hija; esta probablemente crecera delgada y palida +con una complexion livida, que hara de ella una victima facil y segura +de la tisis y de la nevrastenia. Nada hay comparable para estos casos al +Compuesto Vegetal de Lydia E. Pinkham. Ayuda y promueve los cambios +importantes que han de verificarse en la vida de la muchacha en esa edad +previniendo largos anos de padecimientos los cuales son resaltados +seguros de la negligencia. El Compuesto debera tomarse siguiendo +estrictamente las direcciones hasta que la menstruacion ocurra +regularmente cada veinte y ocho dias. Si hay propension a estrenimiento, +las Pildoras de Higado de Lydia E. Pinkham deberan tomarse juntamente +con el Compuesto Vegetal. Estas pildoras han sido hechas especialmente +para mujeres y obran in perfecta harmonia con el Compuesto Vegetal. + +=Supresion de las Reglas= es la suspension de la menstruacion. + +Si la supresion de las reglas ocurriese, excepto en los casos de prenez +o de amamantamiento, el Compuesto Vegetal de Lydia E. Pinkham debera +tomarse hasta que la menstruacion vuelva a producirse regularmente. +Curara todas las irregularidades. + +=Menstruaciones dolorosas.=--Muchas mujeres sufren dolores terribles +durante la menstruacion. El Compuesto Vegetal de Lydia E. Pinkham curara +esos martirizantes dolores. Nada importa que el caso sea reciente o que +haya existido durante muchos meses, si el Compuesto Vegetal se toma +regularmente y siguiendo las instrucciones, la cura sera un hecho +cierto. + +=Menstruaciones abundantes= ocurren a menudo en las personas sanguineas y +en las palidas y linfaticas. El Compuesto Vegetal de Lydia Pinkham ha +hecho algunas de las curas mas asombrosas precisamente en esas +condiciones. Para las menstruaciones abundantes avisamos que se tome el +Compuesto Vegetal de Lydia E. Pinkham en forma seca, es decir en +pildoras o pastillas. + +=La inflamacion y la ulceracion del utero= es la causa de casi todas las +enfermedades de las mujeres. El Compuesto Vegetal de Lydia E. Pinkham ha +curado mas de un millon de casos de enfermedades uterinas. El numero de +relaciones recibidos de mujeres que han estado enfermas a punto de morir +y han sido curadas por este remedio es casi increible. Una mujer puede +conocer perfectamente si padece de alguna enfermedad del utero, porque +estas enfermedades vienen acompanadas de terribles dolores en el +abdomen, espalda etc., desmayos, pesadez en las extremidades, y de toda +clase de otros dolores. Una cura segura se encuentra en el Compuesto +Vegetal de Lydia E. Pinkham. + +=Leucorrea (o Flores Blancos).=--Uno de los primeros sintomas de la +inflamacion del utero es la leucorrea, familiarmente conocida bajo el +nombre de Flores Blancos, la cual consiste en una secrecion blancusca de +la vagina la cual debilita muchisimo el sistema y produce una irritacion +de la membrana mucosa que reviste el canal vaginal. El uso regular del +Compuesto Vegetal, por sus efectos en la constitucion, y la Locion +Sanativa de Lydia E. Pinkham usada en inyecciones curara positivamente +los casos mas graves de leucorrea. La negligencia de esta dolorosa +enfermedad originara ulceras, flujos excesivos, estableciendo los +cimientos para la mas terrible de todas las enfermedades--el Cancer. + +=Caida del Utero.=--Existen muchos desplazamientos del utero, pero el mas +principal es el conocido generalmente con el nombre de la Caida del +Utero. Esto es debido muchas veces a la flojedad de los ligamentos que +soportan este organo. El Compuesto Vegetal de Lydia E. Pinkham fortalece +las ligamentos, alivia todas las inflamaciones y gradualmente restaura +los organos a su propia condicion. El Compuesto Vegetal de Lydia E. +Pinkham removera los tumores del utero en su temprano desenvolvimiento +tan seguro como el sol brilla. + +=La Inflamacion de los ovarios= es una de las enfermedades mas +desesperantes que atacan a las mujeres de 20 a 40 anos. Esta enfermedad +va siempre acompanada de algunos dolores de la region de los ovarios y +de una sensacion de pesadez especialmente durante la menstruacion. A +menudo el dolor extiendese por el costado y la espalda, especialmente en +el lado izquierdo produciendo continuos deseos de orinar. A menos que +esta enfermedad se ataque prontamente nada curara a la paciente que no +sea la cuchilla del cirujano. El Compuesto Vegetal de Lydia E. Pinkham a +curado miles de mujeres que sufrian enfermedades del ovario, salvandolas +de los riesgos de una seria operacion. + +=La Esterilidad= es a menudo debida a la extrema debilidad e inflamacion +cronica del utero; frecuentemente el uso regular del compuesto Vegetal +de Lydia E. Pinkham ha restaurado los organos reproductivos de la mujer +a sus condiciones normales quitandolas la idea de que su esterilidad era +imposible de curarse. + +=Cambio de Vida= es el periodo peligroso por el cual pasan todas las +mujeres que han cumplido 45 anos; durante este periodo las mujeres +sufren toda clase de dolores y enfermedades, pero si el Compuesto +Vegetal de Lydia E. Pinkham se toma regularmente este cambio importante +puede ser pasado sin peligro de enfermedades o muerte. + +=Las Enfermedades de los Rinones y de la Vejiga= son comunes en ambos +sexos, generalmente de dificil curacion, pero pueden curarse si se +atienden a tiempo; nada sin embargo es tan fatal como el no atenderlos +debidamente a su tiempo, siendo la muerte el resultado inevitable. El +Compuesto Vegetal de Lydia E. Pinkham no reconoce rival entre los +remedios que para estas enfermedades han sido descubiertos. Es digno de +absoluta confianza tanto por hombre como por mujer. + +=Los Dolores de la Espalda= no son una enfermedad pero son uno de los +principales sintomas; cuando existe una enfermedad de los organos de la +generacion, esta es telegrafiada, como si dijeramos, al gran nervio +simpatico que tiene uno de sus principales centros en la parte mas baja +de la espalda. El Compuesto Vegetal de Lydia E. Pinkham curando las +enfermedades del utero y de los rinones hara desaparecer los dolores de +la espalda. + +=Dispepsia e Indigestion.=--Nada en el mundo sera descubierto que pueda +compararse al Compuesto Vegetal de Lydia E. Pinkham, para las +enfermadedes del estomago. + +=Prenez.=--Muchos dolores y sufrimientos que ocurren al dar a luz a un +nino podrian evitarse enteramente, si la madre fortificase su sistema +durante dos meses antes del nacimiento con el Compuesto Vegetal de Lydia +E. Pinkham. + + +DIRECCIONES GENERALES. + +Una cucharada del Compuesto Vegetal de Lydia E. Pinkham debera tomarse +cada 4 horas al dia para cualquiera de las enfermedades arriba +mencionadas. + + * * * * * + +Empapese un cuarto del paquete le la Locion Sanativa de Lydia E. Pinkham +en cantidad suficiente de agua para hacer una pinta despues de haberse +filtrado; cuando los flujos son profusos, usese la mitad de esta +cantidad, anadiendo una pinta de agua caliente. + + * * * * * + +Para estrenimiento, dolores de cabeza, biliosidades tomense tres +Pildoras de Higado de Lydia E. Pinkham la primera noche, dos la segunda +y una la tercera, y a menos que se obtenga una saludable flojedad de los +intestinos debera seguirse tomando una cada noche, hasta concluir la +caja. + + * * * * * + +Cuando la sangre es pobre y el paciente se sienta debil y cansado, y +desganado, nada en el mundo es tan bueno como el "Purificador de la +Sangre" de Lydia E. Pinkham. Una cucharada tres veces al dia curara el +reumatismo, scrofula, erupciones de la piel, etc. etc. + + * * * * * + +De venta por todos los farmaceuticos y droguistas. + +Preparado por The Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Company, + +Lynn, Mass., E. U. de A. + + + + +LYDIA E. PINKHAM'S OeRT-MEDICIN + +ar ett saekert botemedel foer alla qvinnosjukdomar, sasom lifmoderns +nedfallande, hvitsot, oregelbunden och smaertsam rening, inflammation och +sarnad pa lifmodern och aeggstockarne, samt alla andra svagheter uti de +qvinliga skaporganen, aefvensom njurlidande hos bada koenen. Det aer +sammansatt af utvalda och renaste slag af roetter och oerter, sasom +naturen sjelf framstaellt dem foer botandet af qvinnans lidanden. + +=Rening.=--Foer tidig rening aer icke oenskvaerd, ehuru densamma vanligen +boerjar vid omkring tretton intill femton ars alder; emellertid beror +dervid mycket pa flickans kroppsbyggnad. Om hon natt denna alder och +aennu icke haft rening, boer modren faesta saerskild uppmaerksamhet dervid; +hennes dotter blir antagligen mager och blek, med en egendomlig gulblek +hy och hon blir ett saekert och laett offer foer lungsot och nervoes +nedslagenhet. Ingenting i verlden naer upp till Lydia E. Pinkhams +Vegetable Compound i dylika fall. + +Det bidragar att astadkomma den vigtiga foeraendring uti en flickas lif, +som boer ega rum vid omkring denna alder och foerebygger salunda aratal af +elaende, som aer en saeker foeljd af uraktlatenhet. Medicinen maste tagas +bestaemdt enligt foereskrift, intill reningen intraeffar regelbundet hvarje +tjuguattonde dag. Om inelfvorna aero benaegna att hoptraenga sig, borde +Lefver-Piller (Lydia E. Pinkhams Liver-Pills) begagnas, hvilka blifvit +saerskildt sammansatta foer qvinnans bruk och verka i fullkomlig harmoni +med Vegetable Compound. + +=Foerhindrande af Flytningen= aer ett uppharonde sedan reningen +vederboerligen boerjat. Om ett upphoerande eger rum, sa framt det icke aer +en foeljd af hafvandeskap eller gifvande af di, aer det ett allvarligt +fall och Lydia E. Pinkhams Vegetable Compound boer tagas tills reningen +ater blir regelbunden. Den foerbaettrar saekert alla oregelbundenheter. + +=Smaertsam Rening.=--Manga qvinnor lida marterande smaerta under reningen. +Lydia E. Pinkhams Vegetable Compound botar saekert denna smaertande +kaensla. Det inverkar ej om detta foerhallande nyligen intraedt eller om +det egt rum under manga manader; om Lydia E. Pinkhams Vegetable Compound +tages regelbundet och enligt foereskrift aer ett botande saekert. + +=Foer Ymnig Rening= foerekommer ofta hos dem, som aero blodfulla, liksom hos +dem som aero bleka och svaga. Lydia E. Pinkhams Vegetable Compound har +atstadkommit atskilliga af de mest foervanansvaerda botaden i just dylika +fall. Foer foer ymnig rening eller flytning rekommendera vi alltid Lydia +E. Pinkhams Vegetable Compound i torr form, antingen som piller eller +kakor. + +=Inflammation och Sarnad pa Lifmodern= aer orsaken till naestan alla +qvinnosjukdomar. Lydia E. Pinkhams Vegetable Compound har botat mera aen +en million fall af Lifmoderfel. De skildringer, som erhallits fran +qvinnor, hvilka varit doedsjuka och som botats genom Lydia E. Pinkhams +Vegetable Compound aero naestan otroliga. En qvinna vet saekerligen om hon +har nagot slags lifmoderfel, enaer dylikt naestan alltid atfoeljes af en +nedtyngande kaensla uti underlifvet, ryggvaerk, svimmingsanfall, styfhet i +lederna och all annan taenkbar vaerk och smaerta. Ett aldrig svikande +botemedel aer Lydia E. Pinkhams Vegetable Compound. + +=Leucorrhea eller Hvitflytning.=--En af de foersta symptomerna af +lifmoderns inflammation aer leucorrhea, vanligen kallad "hvitt," hvilken +bestar af en hvit flytning fran moderslidan och som aer mycket +kraftnedsaettande foer systemet och retande foer moderslidans kaensliga +slemhinna. + +Ett regelbundet begagnande af Lydia E. Pinkhams Vegetable Compound pa +grund af dess inverkanpa kroppsbeskaffenheten och Lydia E. Pinkhams +Laekande Medel foer insprutning uti moderslidan, botar saekert de +allvarligaste fall af hvitflytning. Foersummande af denna ledsamma +sjukdom foerorsakar sarnader, oefverdrifven flytning och laegger grunde foer +den forskraeckligaste af alla sjukdomar nemligen Kraefta. + +=Lifmoderns Nedfallande.=--Det finnes manga olika rubbningar hos +lifmodern, den vanligaste kaend under namn af lifmoderns nedfallande. +Detta beror hufvudsakligast pa foerslappning af de band som uppbara detta +organ eller halla det pa sin plats. Lydia E. Pinkhams Vegetable Compound +starker dessa band, lindrar inflammation och aterstaeller sa smaningen +delarne uti deras behoeriga laege. Lydia E. Pinkhams Vegetable Compound +borttager svullnad uti lifmodern i dess tidigare stadium lika saekert som +solen skiner. + +=Inflammation uti Aeggstockarne= aer en saerdeles allvarlig sjukdom, som +angriper qvinnan mellan 20 och 40 ars alder. Den atfoeljes alltid af +oemhet och harda smaertor i trakten af aeggstockarne och en kaensla af +uppfyllnad isynnerhet under reningen. Ofta utstracka sig smartorna till +sidan och ryggen, isynnerhet till venstra sidan, med ett staendigt begar +att urinera. Sae framt icke denna sjukdom genast haefvas, kan ingenting +raedda patienter fran operationsknifven. Lydia E. Pinkhams Vegetable +Compound har emellertid botat tusentals qvinnor foer sjukdomar uti +aeggstockarne och raeddat mangfaldiga fran hospitalet och en allvarlig +operation. + +=Ofruktbarhet= har often sin orsak uti ytterlig svaghet och kroniskt +inflammeradt tillstand af lifmodern. Regelbundet begagnande af Lydia E. +Pinkhams medicin har ofta aterstaellt lifmoderns fruktbara organer till +deras normala tillstand och lindrat fran den bekymrande tanken att +ofruktbarheten var obotlig. + +=Foeraendring I Lifvet= ar en farlig period foer alla qvinnor, som hunnit +till 45 ars alder. Under denna tid har qvinnan all slags sjukdom och +smaerta, men om Lydia E. Pinkhams Vegetable Compound tages regelbundet, +kan denna vigtiga foeraendring i en qvinnas lif passeras utan fara foer +sjugdom eller doed. + +=Njurlidande och Blaskatarr= hos bada koenen aro vanliga och svara +sjukdomar, men de kunna botas om de tagas itu med i raett tid. Ingenting +ar emellertid sa olycksbringande som symptomerna till dessa sjukdomar om +de ej gifvas akt pa i tid och doeden aer oundviklig. Lydia E. Pinkhams +Vegetable Compound oefvertraeffas ej af nagot annat botemedel, som +nagonsin uppstackts foer botande af alla sjugdomar i njurarne och blasan. +Det aer fullt tillfoerlitligt bade foer maen och qvinnor. + +=Ryggvark= aer icke en sjukdom utan en tydlig symptom da sjukdom foerefinnes +uti skaporganen och ger sig tillkaenna som om det vore uti den stora +sympatiska nerv, som har ett af sina foernaemsta laegen i laegre delen af +ryggen. Lydia E. Pinkhams Vegetable Compound, som haefver lifmoders-, +aeggstocks-, och njurlidanden, botar tryckande ryggvaerk. + +=Magsyra och Dalig Matsmaltning.=--Ingenting verlden har nagonsin +uppstaeckts, som uppnar Lydia E. Pinkhams Vegetable Compound for +magsjukdomar. + +=Hafvande Tillstand.=--Vid barnsboerd intraffer mycken smaerta och lidande, +som kunde helt och hallet undvikas om den blifvande modern staerkte sitt +system genom regelbunden behandling med Lydia E. Pinkhams Vegetable +Compound under en period af tva manader foere barnsboerden. + + +ALLMAeN ORDINATION. + +En matsked af Lydia E. Pinkhams Vegetable Compound hvarje fjerde timma +under dagens lopp foer hvilken som helst af foerutnmaende sjukdomar. + +Laegg ett fjerdedels paket af Lydia E. Pinkhams Laekande Medel i +tillraeckligt med vatten foer att utgoera en pint sedan det silats. Da +flytningen aer foer riklig, tag haelften deraf och tillsaett en pint varmt +vatten. Begagna dagligen foer insprutning i moderslidan. + +Foer foestoppning, hufvudvaerk och gallsjukdom tages tre Lydia E. Pinkhams +Lefverpiller foersta natten, tva den andra och en den tredje och savida +ej en regelbunden och helsosam foeraendring intraedt uti underlifvet, +fortsaett att taga ett hvarje afton sa laenge de raecka. + +Naer blodet aer fattigt och patienten aer svag samt alltid kaenner sig +troett, aer mager och ej har appetit, sa aer intet i verlden sa vaelgoerande +som Lydia E. Pinkhams Blodrenare. En matsked tre ganger dagligen botar +rheumatism, skrofler, hudsjukdomar m. m. + +Saeljes hos Apotekare, prepareradt af Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Company, + +Lynn, Mass., Foerenta Staterna. + + + + +LE REMEDE VEGETAL DE LYDIA E. PINKHAM. + +=Le Remede Vegetal de Lydia E. Pinkham= est un remede absolument sur pour +toutes les maladies de femme telles que le prolapsus de la matrice, la +leucorrhee, les menstrues irregulieres et douloureuses, l'inflammation +et l'ulceration de la matrice et des ovaires, ainsi que pour toutes les +autres affections des organes genitaux de la femme, et les maladies des +reins et du foie des deux sexes. + +Il se compose des herbes et racines les plus pures, telles que les +pourvoit la nature elle meme. + +=Menstrues.=--Il n'est pas a desirer que les regles aient lieu a un age +trop jeune, quoiqu'en general les menstrues commencent entre la 13e et +la 15e annee, la constitution de la jeune fille y jouant un certain +role. Si la fille a atteint cet age et qu'elle n'ait pas encore ses +regles, la mere ne saurait etre trop soigneuse; il est probable que la +fille est pale et maigre, et que son teint montre cette couleur livide +qui nous fait craindre qu'elle ne devienne sous peu la victime de la +phthisie et qu'elle ne devienne fortement neurasthenique. Pour empecher +un tel malheur rien n'egale "Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound." Il +produit d'une maniere salutaire et prompte le changement qui devrait +alors avoir lieu, en prevenant ainsi de longues annees de souffrances, +resultat inevitable de tout manque de precaution. Lydia E. Pinkham's +Vegetable Compound doit etre pris strictement selon les instructions, +jusqu'a ce que les regles aient lieu tous les 28 jours. Si, de plus, il +y a de la constipation, on se servira des Pilules de Foie de Lydia E. +Pinkham, faites expres pour l'usage des femmes et operant entierement +d'accord avec le remede. + +=L'Absence des Regles= apres qu'elles ont commence une fois, a moins +qu'elle ne soit due a la grossesse ou a l'allaitement, est une affaire +de la plus grande importance et personne ne devrait manquer de se servir +de Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound jusqu'a ce que de nouveau les +menstrues se montrent regulierement. + +=Regles Douloureuses.=--Il y a bien des femmes qui, pendant le temps de +leurs regles, souffrent des douleurs tout a fait terribles. Notre remede +guerira d'une maniere sure cette affection n'importe si c'est un cas +recent ou vieux de plusieurs mois. On peut s'attendre a une guerison +sure et efficace pourvu que le remede soit pris regulierement et suivant +les instructions. + +=Les Regles Excessives= se montrent d'abord chez des personnes sanguines +et chez les personnes affaiblies et pales. Notre remede, Lydia E. +Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, a obtenu des resultats tout a fait +merveilleux dans ces cas. Pour guerir l'exces ou l'hemorrhagie des +regles nous conseillons l'emploi du remede dans sa forme seche, c'est a +dire en pilules ou en pastilles. + +=L'Inflammation ainsi que L'Ulceration de la Matrice= peuvent etre +regardees comme cause de presque toutes les maladies de la femme. +Cependant Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound a gueri plus d'un +million de maladies de la matrice. Les rapports que nous recevons des +femmes qui ont failli en mourir et qui ensuite ont ete gueries, sont +presque incroyables. La femme peut s'assurer assez facilement, si elle +est atteinte ou non d'une affection de la matrice, vu le fait +qu'ordinairement elle est sujette a des tiraillements d'estomac, a des +peines dans les reins, a des evanouissements, a l'engourdissement des +membres et a une foule d'autres douleurs. Le seul remede infaillible +pour guerir toutes ces affections est Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable +Compound. + +=La Leucorrhee= que nous connaissons plus familierement sous le nom de +"Fleurs Blanches," represente un des premiers symptomes de +l'inflammation de la matrice. Le mal se montre sous la forme d'une +secretion blanchatre du vagin, enfaiblissant le systeme et exercant un +irritation tres serieuse sur la muqueuse du vagin. L'emploi regulier de +Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, grace a son effet sur le systeme, +ainsi que de la Lotion Sanitaire de Lydia E. Pinkham (Lydia E. Pinkham's +Sanative Wash) appliquee sous forme d'injections dans le vagin, ne +tardera guere de guerir les cas les plus obstines de leucorrhee. En +negligeant cette maladie desastreuse on est sur de donner lieu a des +secretions excessives, a des ulceres ainsi qu'a la plus dangereuse de +toutes les maladies--le Cancer. + +=Prolapsus de la Matrice.=--Il y a un grand nombre de deplacements dont le +plus important est appele "le prolapsus de la matrice." Celui-ci est +produit d'abord par une relaxation des ligaments qui, dans leur etat +normal, maintiennent cet organe a sa place. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable +Compound fortifiera ces ligaments, l'inflammation disparaitra et peu a +peu l'organe sera remis dans sa condition normale. Notre remede aura de +plus un succes indiscutable pour guerir toutes les tumeurs de la +matrice pourvu qu'on commence a s'en servir des leurs premiere phases. + +=L'Inflammation des Ovaires= est une des maladies les plus desastreuses +atteignant les femmes entre la vingtieme et la quarantieme annee. Les +personnes qui en souffrent s'apercevront vite d'une sensibilite +extraordinaire dans la region des ovaires, de plus des sensations +d'enflements desagreables, surtout dans la periode des regles. Souvent +la douleur s'etend aux flancs et au dos, surtout au flanc gauche, et il +se fait sentir un desir incessant d'uriner. A moins que cette affection +ne soit arretee promptement rien ne pourra sauver la malade d'une +operation. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, cependant, a gueri les +maladies d'ovaires de milliers de femmes et bien de femmes ont ete assez +heureuses, par consequent, pour echapper a un long traitement a +l'hopital ainsi qu'a une operation des plus serieuses. + +=La Sterilite= est tres souvent une consequence directe d'une inflammation +chronique de la matrice et d'une faiblesse extreme. L'emploi regulier de +Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound a souvent retabli les fonctions +normales de l'organe generateur, et a ainsi detruit cette idee fatale +que la sterilite etait incurable. + +=La Periode Climaterique ou Changement de Vie= est une periode tres +importante et assez dangereuse pour toute femme qui a passe l'age de 45 +ans. Pendant cette periode les femmes sont atteintes de toute espece de +maladies et de peines; l'emploi regulier de Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable +Compound cependant va leur garantir une immunite parfaite contre tout +accident dangereux qui pourrait leur survenir dans cette periode. + +=Les Maladies des Reins et de la Vessie=, chez les deux sexes, sont tres +frequentes et tres obstinees. Aussi peuvent-elles devenir tres +dangereuses et meme fatales, si l'on manque de s'en occuper des +l'apparence des premiers symptomes. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable +Compound, que nous conseillons d'employer le plus tot possible, est la +=medicine par excellence= qui dans tous les cas de maladies du foie et de +la vessie produira un resultat simplement merveilleux chez l'homme et +chez la femme, et qui ne manquera guere de sauver une vie trop souvent +menacee fatalement. + +=Le Mal de Dos=, quelque frequent qu'il soit, n'est guere une maladie +proprement dite, mais plutot un symptome de la plus haute importance, +comme il indique par le centre dorsal du grand nerf sympathique, qu'il y +a une affection des organes generateurs qu'on fera bien de ne point +negliger. Aussitot que ces affections ou uterines, ou ovariennes ou +renales sont gueries par l'emploi de Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, +ce mal de dos tourmentant va cesser tout seul. + +=Dyspepsie et Indigestion.=--Rien au monde n'egale la force guerissante de +notre remede pour toutes les maladies de l'estomac. + +=Grossesse.=--Une grande partie des douleurs et des souffrances qu'en +general les femmes doivent endurer en accouchant pourraient etre +evitees, si elles se preparaient convenablement en fortifiant leur +systeme par l'emploi de Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, a peu +pres deux mois avant l'accouchement. + + +MODE D'EMPLOI. + +Prenez une cuilleree de Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound toutes les +4 heures pendant la journee pour guerir chacune des maladies decrites +ci-dessus. + +Trempez le quart d'un paquet de Lydia E. Pinkham's Sanative Wash (Lotion +Sanitaire) dans assez d'eau pour obtenir une pinte apres la filtration; +la secretion etant tres forte on doit employer la moitie de cette +quantite a laquelle on ajoutera une pinte d'eau chaude. Employez la +lotion chaque jour en l'injectant dans le vagin. + +Pour guerir la constipation, la migraine, les attaques bilieuses, prenez +trois pilules la premiere nuit, deux la suivante et une la troisieme et +continuez jusqu'a ce que la boite soit vide, a moins qu'il n'y ait pas +une evacuation reguliere plus tot. + +Quand le sang est appauvri et que le malade est toujours fatigue, bien +amaigri et sans appetit, rien au monde ne lui fera autant de bien que le +remede purificateur Lydia E. Pinkham's Blood Purifier. Une cuilleree +trois fois par jour guerira les rhumatismes, la scrofule et toutes +sortes d'eruptions de la peau. + +Vendu chez tous les pharmaciens. + +Prepare par Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Company, + +Lynn, Mass., E. U. + + + + +Lydia E. Pinkham's Kraeutermittel, unter dem Namen "Vegetable Compound" +auf den Markt gebracht, ist ein absolut zuverlaessiges Heilmittel fuer +saemmtliche Frauenkrankheiten, einschliesslich Vorfall der Gebaermutter, +Leukorrhoe, unregelmaessige und schmerzhafte Menstruation, Entzuendung und +Geschwuerbildung in der Gebaermutter und den Eierstoecken, ferner fuer alle +sonstigen Schwaechezustaende in den weiblichen Geschlechtsorganen und fuer +Nierenkrankheiten bei beiden Geschlechtern. Das Mittel ist aus den +reinsten und erlesensten Wurzeln und Kraeutern, wie sie Mutter Natur zur +Heilung aller Frauenleiden selbst geschaffen hat, zusammengestellt. + +=Menstruation.= Eine uebermaessig fruehe Menstruation ist keineswegs +wuenschenswerth; obwohl die Monatsregel oder Menstruation im Allgemeinen +in der Zeit vom dreizehnten bis zum fuenfzehnten Jahre aufzutreten +pflegt, wobei jedoch viel von der Constitution des betreffenden Maedchens +abhaengt. Hat sie jedoch dieses Alter erreicht, und sollte sich die +Menstruation noch nicht eingestellt haben, so muss die Mutter sich um die +Sache bekuemmern. Wahrscheinlich ist das junge Maedchen mager und blass, +wobei der Teint ein besonders, gelbliches Aussehen hat, so dass es nur zu +leicht ein Opfer der Auszehrung und allgemeiner Nervenschwaeche wird. Fuer +solche Faelle ist Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound geradezu +unvergleichlich. Es traegt vor allem dazu bei, dass der Wechsel im +Maedchenleben, der um diese Zeit eintreten sollte, auch richtig +stattfindet, und es verhindert somit jahrelanges Leiden, das in der +Regel eine sichere Folge einer Vernachlaessigung in diesem Sinne bildet. +Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound sollte genau nach Vorschrift +eingenommen werden, bis die Regeln regelmaessig sich alle 28 Tage +einstellen. Zeigt sich Anlage zu Verstopfung, so muss man auch Lydia E. +Pinkham's Leberpillen brauchen, die speciell fuer den Gebrauch von Frauen +zusammengestellt worden sind und in jeder Beziehung harmonisch mit dem +"Compound" zusammenwirken. + +=Ausbleiben der Regeln.= Mit diesem Ausdruck bezeichnet man das +Nichterscheinen der Menstruation, nachdem dieselbe einmal zu erscheinen +angefangen hat. Ein derartiges Ausbleiben, sofern es nicht der +Schwangerschaft oder dem Stillen zuzuschreiben ist, ist eine ernsthafte +Angelegenheit, und Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound muss eingenommen +werden, bis die Menstruation wieder regelmaessig eintritt. Durch den +Gebrauch dieses Mittels kann man zuverlaessig alle Unregelmaessigkeiten +beseitigen. + +=Schmerzhafter Monatsfluss.= Bei vielen Frauen verursacht der Monatsfluss +ueberaus grosse Schmerzen, und alle, die daran leiden, sollten ja nicht +verfehlen, sich durch den Gebrauch von Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable +Compound von dieser wahrhaften Geissel zu retten. Dabei ist es +gleichgueltig, ob der Fall ein akuter ist oder ob er schon viele Monate +gedauert hat. Vorausgesetzt, dass das Vegetable Compound regelmaessig und +genau nach Vorschrift genommen wird, darf man zuverlaessig eine Heilung +erwarten. + +=Zu starker Monatsfluss.= Sowohl vollbluetige als auch besonders +bleichsuechtige und schwaechliche Personen leiden haeufig unter zu starker +Menstruation. Gerade mit Bezug auf derartige Zustaende vermag Lydia E. +Pinkham's Vegetable Compound ausserordentlich guenstige Resultate +aufzuweisen. Doch empfehlen wir bei zu reichlich auftretender Blutung +Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound in seiner trockenen Form, d. h. in +der Form von Pillen oder Pastillen einzunehmen. + +Beinahe alle Frauenkrankheiten haben ihren Ursprung in =Entzuendung und +Geschwuerbildung in der Gebaermutter=, und es ist daher nicht genug +hervorzuheben, dass Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound schon mehr als +eine Million Faelle von Gebaermutteraffektionen gluecklich geheilt hat. +Fast unglaublich klingen die Berichte vieler Frauen, die todtkrank +waren, und die dem Vegetable Compound ihre Rettung verdanken. Es ist +nicht schwer fuer eine Frau zu erkennen, ob sie an einer Affektion der +Gebaermutter leidet, da eine derartige Erkrankung fast stets von +ziehenden, aeusserst empfindlichen Schmerzen im Unterleib, +Rueckenschmerzen, Ohnmachtsanfaellen, Erstarrung "Einschlafen" der +Gliedmassen, sowie von einer Reihe anderer Schmerzen begleitet ist. Lydia +E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound ist ein unfehlbares Mittel gegen alle +derartigen Erkrankungen. + +=Die Leukorrhoe oder der weisse Fluss.= Eines der allerersten Symptome, die +eine Entzuendung der Gebaermutter anzeigen, ist die Leukorrhoe, oder wie +man sich gewoehnlich ausdrueckt: Der weisse Fluss. Derselbe zeigt sich als +eine weissliche Absonderung aus der Vagina oder Mutterscheide, die den +Koerper auffallend angreift und schwaecht und besonders die empfindliche +Schleimhaut des Scheidekanals irritiert. Aber selbst die hartnaeckigsten +Faelle von weissem Fluss lassen sich positiv kurieren durch den Gebrauch +von Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound in Verbindung mit Lydia E. +Pinkham's "Sanative Wash" oder "hygienischem Waschwasser." Das erstere +staerkt das System und das zweite heilt die lokalen Erscheinungen, da es +direct in die Scheide eingespritzt wird. Man huete sich ja, diese Art von +Krankheit zu vernachlaessigen, da sich sonst leicht Geschwuere und +uebermaessige Absonderung einstellen koennen, die oftmals den ersten Grund +zu der schrecklichsten aller Krankheiten -- dem Krebs legen. + +=Gebaermuttervorfall.= Es giebt eine Reihe von Faellen, wo die Gebaermutter +eine Veraenderung ihrer normalen Lage erleidet; von diesen ist der +wichtigste der sogenannte Gebaermuttervorfall. Derselbe kommt +hauptsaechlich von einer Erschlaffung der Baender her, die dieses Organ +stuetzen und in seiner richtigen Lage erhalten sollen. Lydia E. Pinkham's +Vegetable Compound staerkt diese Baender, vermindert die Entzuendung und +verleiht nach und nach den erkrankten Theilen ihren frueheren, normalen +Zustand wieder. + +Die =Entzuendung der Eierstoecke= ist eine aeusserst schwere Erkrankung, die +Frauen im Alter von 20 bis 40 Jahren befaellt. Sie ist stets von grosser +Empfindlichkeit und scharfen Schmerzen in der Gegend der Eierstoecke +begleitet, wozu sich ein Gefuehl der Voelle, besonders zur Zeit der +Menstruation, gesellt. Die Schmerzen erstrecken sich auch haeufig auf die +Seite und den Ruecken, mit Vorliebe aber auf die linke Seite, in +Verbindung mit fortwaehrendem Verlangen das Wasser abzuschlagen. Wird +nicht prompt gegen diese Erkrankung eingeschritten, so vermag nichts den +Kranken vom Messer des Chirurgen zu retten. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable +Compound hat aber tausende von Faellen von Eierstockerkrankungen geheilt +und hat viele Frauen der Nothwendigkeit enthoben, sich im Hospital einer +gefaehrlichen Operation auszusetzen. + +=Unfruchtbarkeit= ist oft weiter nichts als der Folgezustand ausnehmender +Schwaeche, sowie einer chronischen Entzuendung der Gebaermutter. + +Der regelmaessige Gebrauch von Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound hat +schon in vielen Faellen die weiblichen Zeugungsorgane wiederum ihrer +normalen Thaetigkeit zurueckgegeben und eine anscheinend gaenzliche +Unfruchtbarkeit gluecklich gehoben. + +Die sogenannten =Wechseljahre= oder die =Menopause= sind eine Zeit +wirklicher Gefahr fuer alle diejenigen Frauen, die das 45. Jahr +ueberschritten haben. Waehrend dieser Zeit sind die Frauen allen moeglichen +Beschwerden und Erkrankungen ausgesetzt, die sich aber alle vermeiden +lassen, ohne ernstliche Krankheit oder sogar den Tod fuerchten zu muessen, +wenn man waehrend dieser sehr wichtigen Periode des Frauenlebens +regelmaessig Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound einnimmt. + +=Nieren- und Blasenbeschwerden= sind haeufige und hartnaeckige Leiden beider +Geschlechter. Sie sind alle heilbar, vorausgesetzt, dass man sich bei +Zeiten um sie kuemmert; werden sie aber vernachlaessigt, so koennen sie +leicht verhaengnisvoll werden und sogar den Tod nach sich ziehen. Sicher +ist aber, dass Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound als ausgezeichnetes +Mittel zur Heilung aller Nieren- und Blasenkrankheiten von keinem +anderen bisher erfundenen Mittel uebertroffen wird. Maenner und Frauen +koennen volles Vertrauen in dasselbe setzen. + +=Rueckenschmerzen= sind nicht eine Krankheit, sondern sind vielmehr nur +ein, gewisse Krankheiten anzeigendes, Symptom. Bei Krankheiten der +Geschlechtsorgane wird der grosse sympathische Nerv, dessen Hauptcentrum +im unteren Theil des Rueckens liegt, in Mitleidenschaft gezogen und +verkuendet sozusagen das Vorhandensein einer derartigen Krankheit. +Dadurch, dass Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound alle Affektionen der +Gebaermutter, der Eierstoecke und der Nieren heilt, heilt es auch das so +sehr peinigende Rueckenweh. + +=Verdauungsbeschwerden.= Es giebt in der ganzen Welt kein besseres Mittel +gegen alle Stoerungen der Magenthaetigkeit als gerade Lydia E. Pinkham's +Vegetable Compound. + +=Schwangerschaft.= Oftmals ist die Geburt eines Kindes mit vielen +Schmerzen und Beschwerden fuer die Mutter verbunden, und doch koennten +alle diese zum grossen Theil vermieden werden, wollte nur die Mutter +ungefaehr zwei Monate vor der Entbindung anfangen, ihren Koerper durch den +regelmaessigen Gebrauch von Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound zu +kraeftigen. + + +Gebrauchsanweisung. + +Fuer saemmtliche oben erwaehnte Beschwerden nehme man alle vier Stunden +waehrend des Tages je einen Essloeffel voll von Lydia E. Pinkham's +Vegetable Compound ein. + + * * * * * + +Man weiche ein Viertel Packet von Lydia E. Pinkham's Sanative Wash in +genuegend Wasser, um nach dem Durchseihen ein Pint zu haben. Ist die +Absonderung sehr bedeutend, so brauche man die Haelfte der so erhaltenen +Fluessigkeit, fuege noch ein Pint warmen Wassers dazu und benuetze diese +Fluessigkeit, um taeglich Einspritzungen in die Scheide zu machen. + + * * * * * + +Gegen Verstopfung, Migraene, sowie Gallendrang nehme man drei von Lydia +E. Pinkham's Leberpillen die erste Nacht, zwei die zweite Nacht und eine +die dritte Nacht; tritt auch dann noch kein regelmaessiger Stuhlgang ein, +so nehme man eine Pille jede Nacht soweit der Vorrath reicht. + + * * * * * + +Befindet sich das Blut in schlechtem Zustande und ist der Patient immer +muede, abgemagert und angegriffen, und leidet er dazu noch an +Appetitmangel, so benuetze er Lydia E. Pinkham's Blood Purifier +(Blut-Reiniger), das beste Mittel auf der Welt fuer diesen Zweck. Dreimal +im Tage ein Essloeffel voll heilt zuverlaessig alle Faelle von Rheumatismus, +Skropheln, Hautausschlaege, &c. &c. + +In allen Apotheken zu haben. + + +Hergestellt von der + +LYDIA E. PINKHAM MEDICINE COMPANY, + +=Lynn, Mass., V. S. von A.= + + + + +Read the following + +TESTIMONIALS. + + +Dear Mrs. Pinkham: + +I wish all women suffering from female troubles might know what you have +done for me. A year ago last June I was very sick, and on examination my +physician said I had Polypus of the womb and that I would not stop +flowing until I had an operation. I always had a horror of operations +and could not bear the thoughts of having one, as I am a nervous person. +I wrote to you and followed all your directions faithfully, and all the +while I prayed that I might not have to have one. At that time I could +hardly walk across the floor and I was pale and thin. Now I weigh one +hundred and thirty-five pounds, do all my work, and my husband and +children say that I am growing young. I am still taking your medicine +and will do so until after the turn of life. + + MRS. NELSON BAVIER, + West Hartford, Conn. + + +Dear Mrs. Pinkham: + +I suffered for over three years with female weakness brought on by +falling on an icy pavement. I had frequent backache and fearful +headaches, blinding me with pain. I also had intense pains at the +menstrual period. My family physician prescribed several remedies, but +although he was considered an excellent physician, he was unable to +relieve me. A cousin who visited me had a bottle of Lydia E. Pinkham's +Vegetable Compound with her and spoke so highly of its efficacy that I +took a few doses of it. I was pleased and surprised to find that it +seemed to relieve my pains in twenty-four hours. I took it regularly, +and within twenty-four hours more I felt like a different woman, and two +weeks continued use of it restored me to health and strength such as I +had not known in years. I consider Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound +the only medicine on the market which is reliable for the ills of the +sex. + + MISS MAUD BELL, + 408 Lanwee West, Lansing, Mich. + + Grand Recorder, Daughters of + American Independence. + + +September 22, 1902. + +I would like to have your advice as I am a married woman and would be +pleased to have children. I cannot tell what is the trouble, but I lose +them and I am as careful as I can be. It happens just when I am on the +fourth month. I have just had my third miscarriage and been flowing over +two weeks and have much pain in back and womb. My menstruation is very +painful and some months I have it twice. My stomach bothers me. I suffer +with indigestion and dyspepsia. + + MRS. FRANK WILCOX. + + +August 25, 1903. + +I will let you know that I have a son, and if it had not been for Lydia +E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound I would not have my baby. Your medicine +kept me well until the last minute. I did not know what an ache was. I +used fourteen bottles of the Compound and three boxes of your Liver +Pills. I cannot thank your medicine too much as it has done me more good +than the doctors. + + MRS. FRANK WILCOX. + 43 Orange St., Bloomfield, N. J. + + +June 26, 1903. + +I have been a sufferer for seven years with womb trouble, ever since my +child was born. My doctor says my ovaries are affected also and will +have to be taken out. I suffer with pains in my back and left side and +at times cannot rest day or night. I have leucorrhoea and menstruation +is very irregular and very free with a good deal of pain. I was told to +write you for advice. + + MRS. J. D. CURTIS. + + +September 25, 1903. + +I am still taking Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and have +improved wonderfully, have gained ten pounds and feel like a new woman. +I will recommend your medicine to all women suffering from female +trouble for it has done me more good than the doctors have for three +years. You are perfectly welcome to use my name and statement for the +good of others for everyone ought to know of your wonderful medicine. + + MRS. J. D. CURTIS, + Box 262, Monaca, Pa. + + +January 15, 1901. + +I was reading to-day in a paper of the recovery of a lady after writing +to you and as her case seemed to be very much the same as mine, I was +impressed with the desire to write to you to see if I could not get +relief. I am the mother of two children and have never had any weakness +of any kind until the past year. I am pregnant at present, my back pains +me nearly all the time and left side of abdomen. My back pains so +sometimes I cannot stand on my feet or straighten up. My appetite is +poor and my friends tell me I look badly. I hope that you will be able +to give me some advice. + + MRS. D. D. EDDY. + + +June 27, 1903. + +About one year and a half ago, I wrote you in regard to my taking your +medicine. I was pregnant at the time and in perfect misery. I suffered +everything. You very kindly wrote to me advising your Lydia E. Pinkham's +Vegetable Compound which I began to take at once and when my baby was +born, I was sick only half an hour and the sixth day I was upon my feet +and felt as well and strong as I ever felt in my life. My baby is a +strong healthy boy. + +I wish to thank you from the bottom of my heart for your kind letter to +me. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is the grandest medicine in +the world for women. I shall recommend it as long as I live. + + MRS. D. D. EDDY, + 243 East Ave., Saratoga Springs, N.Y. + + +Dear Mrs. Pinkham: + +I am very grateful for the good Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound did +for me. I began using it when I thought there was no help for me and +that I would be an invalid for life. The doctor said that I would not +get well unless I underwent an operation for ovarian and female +difficulties. I was afraid that my health would not stand the strain and +so when a friend who was similarly afflicted told me of the good Lydia +Pinkham's Vegetable Compound did her, I immediately began to use it and +I am glad that I did so, for in less than four months I could report as +she did a perfect cure. Words fail to express my thankfulness. + + Very truly yours, + MARGRITE RYAN, + Hotel English, Indianapolis, Ind. + + Treasurer + St. Andrews Society. + + +Dear Mrs. Pinkham: + +Last Spring my health seemed gradually to decline, until I finally felt +so weak I thought I would have to give up entirely. I lost my appetite, +had headaches, and bearing down pains with cramps so that I was in +perfect misery. I became wakeful and extremely nervous. + +Reading of the value of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound in our +paper here, I decided to try it, and am pleased to state that I derived +immediate benefit, and soon enjoyed permanent relief. Within eight weeks +I was restored to normal health, and felt refreshed and strengthened as +though I had enjoyed a lengthy vacation. Since that time I have +recommended your Compound to a number of my lady friends suffering with +female irregularities, and those who have used it report great benefit +from its use. + + MRS. E. E. VAN DINTER, + 965 College Ave., Appleton, Wis. + + Vice-President + Social Economic Club. + + ++Lady on sofa with head obscured by pillows; child sitting on floor crying+ + +~Don't~ + + Don't wait until your suffering have driven you to despair, with + your nerves all shattered and your courage gone. + + +Help and happiness surely await you if you accept Mrs. Pinkham's advice. +Disease makes women nervous, irritable, and easily annoyed by children +and household duties; such women need the counsel and help of a woman +who understands the peculiar troubles of her sex; that woman is Mrs. +Pinkham, who with that famous medicine, =Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable +Compound=, has restored thousands upon thousands of sick and discouraged +women to health and happiness. Her address is Lynn, Mass., and her +advice is free. Write to-day, do not wait. + +=Will not the volumes of letters from women who have been made strong by +Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound convince others of the virtues of +this great medicine?= + +=When a medicine has been successful in more than a million cases, is it +justice to yourself to say, without trying it, "I do not believe it +would help me?"= + +=Surely you cannot wish to remain weak and sick and discouraged, +exhausted with each day's work. If you have some derangement of the +feminine organism try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. It will +surely help you.= + +I am firmly persuaded after eight years experience with Lydia E. +Pinkham's Vegetable Compound that it is the safest and best medicine for +any suffering woman to use. + +Immediately after my marriage I found that my health began to fail me. I +became weak and pale with severe bearing down pains, fearful headaches +and frequent dizzy spells. The doctors prescribed for me and yet I did +not improve. I would at times bloat after eating and have frequent +vomiting. I had acrid discharge and pains down through my limbs so I +could hardly walk. It was as bad a case of female trouble as I have ever +known. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound cured me within four months +and since that time I have had occasion to recommend it to a number of +patients suffering with all forms of female difficulties and I found +that while it is considered unprofessional to recommend patent +medicines, I could honestly recommend your Vegetable Compound for I have +found it cures where other medicines fail. My mother and two sisters +have used it also and their health has been restored and their strength +renewed. It is a grand medicine for sick women. + + MRS. MARTHA POHLMAN, + 55 Chester Ave., Newark, N. J. + +Graduate nurse from Blockley Training School at Philadelphia and for +6-1/2 years the chief clinic nurse at the Philadelphia Hospital. + + +March 31, 1902. + +Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has done me a great deal of good. +When I first had my monthly period I suffered very much. I would have +such headaches, also pain in abdomen and side. Was not able to go to +school. + +After taking several bottles of your medicine I was relieved of my +trouble and I am now well and enjoying good health. + + MISS MARY E. ROGERS, + Kipton, Ohio. + + +October 8, 1901. + +It gives me great pleasure to tell what your Vegetable Compound has done +for me for the benefit of other suffering women. I would have been a +total wreck and probably not living to-day had I not taken your +medicine. My legs were so stiff and my back so sore that I could not be +on my feet and at times I would have the sick headache so bad that I did +not know what I was doing. I also had leucorrhoea all the time which +caused me to feel very weak. I lost in flesh until I weighed only +ninety-eight pounds. + +I was unable to carry babe to maturity. My first child being born in +seven months. Since taking your medicine I have had two little girls +which are pictures of health and which I owe to Lydia E. Pinkham's +Vegetable Compound. I have taken twelve bottles of the Vegetable +Compound, used one box of Liver Pills which I found excellent to +regulate the bowels. I am now in good health and weigh one hundred and +twenty-five pounds. + +I cannot praise your medicine enough for the benefit I have derived from +its use. What a blessing it is that women can consult with a lady and if +every woman feels as I do, they would all consult you far and near. + + MRS. NELSON F. SPANGLER, + Center Oak, Pa. + + +April 18, 1901 + +I will now write you a letter of gratitude for what your medicine has +done for me. I suffered with very painful menstruation and could not +become pregnant which was my great desire. I began the use of your +medicine and after taking sixteen bottles I found myself pregnant. I +continued the use of your Vegetable Compound and felt well all the time. +Last October my baby was born, it was a girl and weighed eleven and +one-half pounds. It is my belief that I would never have had my baby if +I had not used your medicine. + +I recommend Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound to all, believing +there is no better medicine for women. + + MRS. CHAS. ROHDE, + 621 Vine Street, Peoria, Ill. + + +I have intended for some time to write to you and tell you what Lydia E. +Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has done for me. I had been feeling weak +and nervous, very easily tired and had much backache. + +I took two bottles of your Compound and felt so much better that I +enjoyed, instead of dreading my household duties. + +I can and do gladly recommend your medicines to anyone suffering from +female troubles. + + MRS. M. E. SHEPLER, + 17 Amesbury Place, Cleveland, Ohio. + + + +Household Cares + ++Top right: Lady sitting in chair with large broom in the backgroud; +Bottom left: Lady standing with forefinger on cheek+ + +A Sick Woman's Devotion to Duty is a Heroism which a Well Person Cannot +Understand. + +How distressing to see a woman struggling with her daily round of +household duties, when her back and head are aching, and every movement +brings out a new pain. + +One day the poor woman is wretched and utterly miserable; in a day or +two she is better, and laughs at her fears, thinking there is nothing +much the matter after all; but before night the deadly backache +reappears, the limbs tremble, the lips twitch--it seems as though all +the imps of Satan were clutching her vitals; she "goes to pieces" and is +flat on her back. + +No woman ought to arrive at this terrible state of misery, because these +symptoms are a sure forerunner of womb troubles. She must remember that +=Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound= is almost an infallible cure for +all female ills, such as irregularity of periods, which cause weak +stomach, sick headache, etc., displacements and inflammation of the +womb, or any of the multitude of illnesses which beset the female +organism. Read how Mrs. Frake wrote to Mrs. Pinkham when she was in +great trouble. Her letter tells the result, and how a cure was effected +by the use of + +Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. + + +_READ THESE LETTERS FROM MRS. FRAKE._ + +"DEAR MRS. PINKHAM:--I have read of your medicine making so many cures, +and have been advised to write to you, but I feel that it is of no use. +The doctor says that I have womb trouble, but he does not seem to help +me a great deal. I have such a weakness across me most of the time--have +backache, am very nervous, and am troubled with leucorrhoea. I am very +weak, cannot walk any distance or stand long unless I ache all over. I +would like to know it you think your medicine would do me any +good."--MRS. SAMUEL FRAKE, Prospect Plains, N.J. + +"DEAR MRS. PINKHAM:--I cannot thank you enough for what =Lydia E. +Pinkham's Vegetable Compound= has done for me. When I first wrote to you +I had suffered for years. The doctor said I had congestion of the womb, +was troubled with my kidneys and bladder, my back ached dreadfully all +the time, and I suffered with bearing-down feeling, could scarcely walk +about to do my own housework. I stopped doctoring with the physician and +took your medicine, and am now able to do my own work, have no more +backache or weakness across me, and can do all my own work. I cannot +praise your medicine enough, and would advise all suffering women to try +it."--MRS. SAMUEL FRAKE, Prospect Plains, N.J. + +The Medicine that has Restored a Million Women to Health is Lydia E. +Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. + + + +June 10, 1901. + +My daughter sixteen years old, has been in very poor health ever since +the change to womanhood a year ago. She had the best of doctors but they +did her little good. She complained of feeling tired all the time, did +not care for anything, pain in her back, very nervous, poor in flesh and +so pale. It made her tired to ride or walk any distance, could not go to +school. Some thought she could not live long. Through the use of Lydia +E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound she is now in the best of health. I feel +that your medicine saved her life. + + MRS. ANNA HUGHES, + Altmar, N. Y. + + +December 12, 1902. + +About a month ago I took a very bad cold and it was at time of +menstruation and it stopped my menses. I began to have pains in my +ovaries and at last I had inflammation of the ovaries and pain in my +kidneys and bladder. I got over that but did not flow hardly any. The +last time I came around I began to have that pain in my right ovary and +it lasted a week and I have been flowing for a week. I would like some +advice as I do not know what to think of my case. + + MISS RUBY MUSHRUSH. + + +July 22, 1903. + +About three months ago the doctor turned the X-ray on me to see what was +the matter and found that I had an abscess near my ovary and in a place +that if it had broken would have killed me right away. + +The doctor's medicine did me no good, so Mama went to the store and got +me a bottle of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. I am now so well +that I can work, thanks to your medicine. It has saved me from an +operation. + + MISS RUBY MUSHRUSH, + East Chicago, Ind. + + +February 10, 1902. + +As I have heard and read so much about your medicine, I have decided to +write you and tell you my trouble and ask your advice. I am completely +run down, am a widow, twenty-five years old, and have one boy five years +old. I have never been strong since the birth of my child. Menstruation +is irregular and scanty and am always in such distress, pain in lower +abdomen and limbs, pain and dizziness in head, cold hands and feet, poor +appetite, sick headache, nervous, have leucorrhoea badly, bearing down +pains in small of back, pain in both sides, also have catarrh of head +and throat. I have had different doctors but they do not help me and I +am discouraged. I will be glad to hear from you. Would like to feel well +once more. + + MRS. ANNIE M. WAHL. + + +June 1, 1902. + +I think it is my duty to let everyone know what Lydia E. Pinkham's +Vegetable Compound has done for me. It has made me well and happy. Five +months ago I could hardly walk across the room, I was so full of pain. I +could scarcely step. I now feel like a new woman. I sleep well and have +a good appetite. I used to get such awful sick headache spells, but now +I have them no more. Also would be troubled with awful bearing down pain +at time of menstruation but have also been relieved of this. I cannot +praise your medicine enough. I think it is the best thing made for +women. I advise, everyone who suffers with female trouble to try Lydia +E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. + + MRS. ANNIE M. WAHL, + Bellwood, Blair Co., Pa. + + +October 10, 1901. + +I think it is my duty to let you know the good that Lydia E. Pinkham's +Vegetable Compound has done for me. I think it is the best medicine in +the world. I was well until I weaned my baby and then I began to bloat +and had bearing down pains. I took to filling up with water in my +abdomen. I had the doctor and he said it was abdominal dropsy and that +not having menstruation was the cause of it. He said I would have to be +tapped. He tapped me once and took eleven quarts of water from me and in +a week I began to fill up again and he was waiting to tap me again. I +wrote to Mrs. Pinkham and began to take the Vegetable Compound and the +water began to leave me. When I had taken two bottles it had all left me +and menses appeared. I now feel as well as I ever did and am able to do +all my work. I feel very thankful to you. + + MRS. HATTIE RILEY, + Waterford, Ohio. + + +Backache + +~MISS PEARL ACKERS.~ + +The ordinary every-day life of most of our women is a ceaseless +treadmill of work. How much harder the daily tasks become when some +derangement of the female organs makes every movement painful and keeps +the nervous system all unstrung. One day she is wretched and utterly +miserable; in a day or two she is better and laughs at her fears, +thinking there is nothing much the matter after all; but before night +the deadly backache reappears, the limbs tremble, the lips twitch--it +seems as though all the imps of Satan were clutching her vitals, she +"goes to pieces" and is flat on her back. + +No woman ought to arrive at this terrible state of misery, because these +symptoms are a sure indication of womb diseases, and backache is merely +a symptom of more serious trouble. Women should remember that an almost +infallible cure for all female ills, such as irregularity of periods, +which cause weak stomach, sick headache, etc., displacements and +inflammation of the womb, or any of the multitudes of illnesses which +beset the female organism may be found in + +Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound + + +=When a medicine has been successful in more than a million cases, why +should you say, "I do not believe it will help me?" If you have some +derangement of the feminine organism try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable +Compound. It will surely help you. If there is anything in your case +about which you would like special advice, write freely to Mrs. Pinkham, +Lynn, Mass.; her advice is given free and will greatly help you.= + +"DEAR MRS. PINKHAM:--About two years ago I consulted a physician about +my health, which had become so wretched that I was no longer able to be +about. I had severe backache, bearing-down pains, pains across the +abdomen, was very nervous and irritable, and this trouble grew worse +each month. + +"The physician prescribed for me, but I soon discovered he was unable to +help me, and I then decided to try =Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable +Compound=, and soon found that it was doing me good. My appetite was +returning, the pains disappearing, and the general benefits were well +marked. + +"You cannot realize how pleased I was, and after taking the medicine for +only three months, I found I was completely cured of my trouble, and +have been well and hearty ever since and no more fear of the monthly +period, as it now passes without pain to me. Yours very truly, MISS +PEARL ACKERS, 327 North Summer St., Nashville, Tenn." + + +March 10, 1902. + +I now write to tell you what your medicine has done for me. After my +first child was born, my womb came down so far that the doctor had to +replace it and it was always weak and would never stay in place. + +A friend told me about Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. I got one +bottle of it without any faith at all for I was so bad, I did not think +it would do as much good as she said. Well, I took seven bottles and now +I am entirely well. + +I have used the Vegetable Compound right along when pregnant and found +it a great help, child-birth being almost painless. I have had four +children and have always been able to do my work even the washing until +the child was born. It certainly is a wonderful medicine for pregnant +women and I would not be without it at that time. + + MRS. GEORGE GOODCHILD, + Port Kennedy, Pa. + + +June 9, 1901. + +I had falling of the womb and such an aching across my pelvis bone could +hardly walk as the least jar hurt so. I was better before I had finished +the second bottle and after taking six bottles was entirely cured. + +I can recommend Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound to any one. + + MRS. ROSA G. BURTON, + 1006 Brandywine St., Phila., Pa. + + +August 19, 1902. + +I take great pleasure in writing to thank you for what Lydia E. +Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has done for me. + +I suffered for years with painful menstruation, pains in the back, +leucorrhoea, dizziness and nervous prostration. + +Since taking your medicine, I feel like a new woman. I never will be +without your Vegetable Compound and will recommend it as long as I live. + +Hoping my testimonial may be of benefit to others, I remain, Yours +truly, + + MRS. MARY BRADY, + 1929 Dumaine St., nr. Prieur, + New Orleans, La. + + +July 16, 1901 + +I have been taking Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for the past +eight months and it has done me a great deal of good. + +Before taking it, I suffered with my head and pains in my back and when +I had my changes I suffered agony, could hardly stand on my feet. I have +taken twelve bottles of the Compound and to-day I am a well woman. I +weighed one hundred and twenty pounds before taking it and now I weigh +one hundred and forty-five. I keep a laundry and recommend your medicine +to my customers. + + AUGUSTA BLISS, + 530 E. 84th St., New York, N. Y. + + +April 29, 1902. + +I write this letter so that all suffering women may know what your +wonderful medicine has done for me. + +Before I began taking your medicine I was very weak and not able to do +anything. I had had a miscarriage and a bad flooding spell and my +husband had given up all hopes of my ever getting strong again. + +Some of my friends told me to try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. +I was in bed at the time. After taking a few doses I began to feel +better. I have taken now three bottles and am telling my friends what it +has done for me. + +My husband would not have me do without the medicine. + + MRS. GEORGE PERRY, + Box 52, Fort Gibson, Ind. Ter. + + +June 14, 1901. + +When I wrote to you for advice a year and a half ago, I was confined to +my bed and had just about given up hopes of ever being well again. I had +heard so much about Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound I told my +husband I would like to try it. He got me a bottle and after taking two +bottles I was able to get up and walk a little. + +My trouble was enlargement of the womb, also had ovarian trouble. I had +spells of flooding nearly losing my life at monthly periods. Altogether +I was sick and discouraged. The pains and aches I suffered I cannot +explain. I took seventeen bottles of your Vegetable Compound and was +cured. In due time I gave birth to a nice baby girl. My baby is now six +months old and so fat and healthy and I am so well, no more female +trouble or pain in back. + + MRS. MAY M. MORGAREIDGE, + Mayoworth, Wyo. + + + +Fibroid Tumors Cured. + +A distressing case of Fibroid Tumor, which baffled the skill of Boston +doctors. Mrs. Hayes, of Boston, Mass., in the following letter tells how +she was cured, after everything else failed, by =Lydia E. Pinkham's +Vegetable Compound=. + +=Mrs. Hayes' First Letter Appealing to Mrs. Pinkham for Help:= + + "DEAR MRS. PINKHAM--I have been under Boston doctors' treatment + for a long time without any relief. They tell me I have a fibroid + tumor. I cannot sit down without great pain, and the soreness + extends up my spine. I have bearing-down pains both back and front. + My abdomen is swollen, and I have had flowing spells for three + years. My appetite is not good. I cannot walk or be on my feet for + any length of time. + + "The symptoms of Fibroid Tumor given in your little book accurately + describe my case, so I write to you for advice."--(Signed) MRS. E. + F. HAYES, 22 Ruggles St., (Roxbury) Boston, Mass. + + +=Note the result of Mrs. Pinkham's advice--although she advised Mrs. +Hayes, of Boston, to take her medicine--which she knew would help +her--her letter contained a mass of additional instructions as to +treatment, all of which helped to bring about the happy result.= + + "DEAR MRS. PINKHAM--Sometime ago I wrote to you describing my + symptoms and asked your advice. You replied, and I followed all + your directions carefully, and to-day I am a well woman. + + "The use of =Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound= entirely expelled + the tumor and strengthened my whole system. I can walk miles now. + + "=Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound= is worth five dollars a + drop. I advise all women who are afflicted with tumors or female + trouble of any kind to give it a faithful trial."--(Signed) MRS. E. + F. HAYES, 99 Ziegler St., (Roxbury) Boston, Mass. + + +=Mountains of gold could not purchase such testimony--or take the place +of the health and happiness which Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound +brought to Mrs. Hayes.= + + +Woman's Kidney Troubles. + +Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is Especially Successful in Curing +this Fatal Woman's Disease. + +Of all the diseases known with which the female organism is afflicted, +kidney disease is the most fatal. In fact, unless early and correct +treatment is applied, the weary patient seldom survives. + +Being fully aware of this, Mrs. Pinkham, early in her career, gave +exhaustive study to the subject, and in producing her great remedy for +woman's ills--Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound--was careful to see +that it contained the correct combination of herbs which was sure to +control that fatal disease, woman's kidney troubles. The Vegetable +Compound acts in harmony with the laws that govern the entire female +system, and while there are many so-called remedies for kidney troubles, +Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is the only one especially +prepared for women. + +The following letters will show how marvellously successful it is. + + +Oct. 17, 1901. + +I have noticed your advertisement in the papers of your wonderful +medicine, and I wish to consult you in regard to my sickness. + +I have been a sufferer of female weakness for the past six months; have +doctored a great deal, but it has done me no good. I have _kidney_ and +_bladder_ trouble, backache, constipation, headache, terrible pains in +my left side, have leucorrhoea, painful menstruation, which compels me +to take my bed for two and three days; also have falling of the womb. +Blood is very thin. I hope to hear from you soon. + + MRS. W. N. MATTHEWS, + 548 W. Jefferson St., Springfield, Ill. + + +April 15, 1902. + +I am almost ashamed to acknowledge the receipt of your letter received +last Fall. After I had doctored for a year without receiving any relief, +I then wrote you for advice in regard to my sickness and began the use +of your medicine. + +I am happy to say that I never felt better in my life than I do now. I +can eat hearty, sleep well, and feel like a new woman. + +Many thanks for your kind and highly appreciated letter. I wish every +suffering woman would try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. + + MRS. W. N. MATTHEWS, + 548 W. Jefferson St., Springfield, Ill. + + +June 15, 1901. + +It affords me great pleasure to give you my testimony in regard to the +value of Lydia E. Pinkham's valuable remedies. I suffered for some time +with internal trouble, being at times unable to walk across the floor. I +had weakness of the bladder and was very nervous. + +After taking one bottle Vegetable Compound I felt better. I continued +its use, and after taking five bottles could walk two miles without +difficulty. My health is now good and I am sixty years old. + +I think your Vegetable Compound the best medicine I have ever taken. + + MRS. HENRY GITTELMAN, + 1004 N. 6th St., Reading, Pa. + + +June 26, 1901. + +I will write and let you know how much good Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable +Compound has done me. + +I cannot express the terrible suffering I have had to endure. I was +taken last May with nervous prostration; also had female trouble, liver, +stomach, _kidney_ and _bladder_ trouble. I was in a terrible condition. +The doctor attended me for a year, but I kept getting worse. I got so I +was not able to do any work. Was confined to my bed most of the time, +and thought I would never be able to do anything. People thought I would +not live. + +I decided to try your medicine. I have taken twelve bottles Vegetable +Compound and cannot praise it too highly, for I know it will do all and +even more than it is recommended to do. I tell every suffering woman +about your medicine and urge them to try it. + + MRS. EMMA SAWYER, + Conyers, Ga. + + + +~Change of Life~ + +A Danger Period Through Which Every Woman Must Pass. + +Owing to modern methods of living, not one woman in a thousand +approaches this perfectly natural change without experiencing a train of +very annoying and sometimes painful symptoms. At this period a woman +indicates a tendency towards obesity or tumorous growths. + +Those dreadful hot flashes, sending the blood surging to the heart until +it seems ready to burst, and the faint feeling that follows, sometimes +with chills, as if the heart were going to stop forever, are only a few +of the symptoms of a dangerous nervous trouble. The nerves are crying +out for assistance. The cry should be heeded in time. =Lydia E. Pinkham's +Vegetable Compound= was prepared to meet the needs of woman's system at +this trying period of her life, and all women who use it pass through +this trying period with comfort and safety. + + +August 6, 1902. + +My trouble was Change of Life and cramping. No human tongue can describe +what I suffered with the cramp. I dreaded from one time to another so +much that I almost wanted to die. + +Our family physician did everything he could for me, but I got no +relief. He said if I lived to get through with the other trouble it +would wear away after a time, but I had it six years, and could not walk +or exercise in any way without bringing on an attack of the cramp, and I +would suffer untold misery until I would be perfectly exhausted and +helpless. + +I read in one of your little books about Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable +Compound being good for female trouble and Change of Life, and thought +there was no harm in trying it. So I did, and it helped me, and I was +able to take walks and work some. + +I am very thankful for the relief your medicine has been to me. + + MRS. V. M. BLAKE, + Deep Water, W. Va. + + +Dear Mrs. Pinkham: + +I began to dread the approach of Change of Life some years ago, as so +many of my friends had been miserable for five or six years during that +period and as I was not very strong and being subject to headaches and +weakness, I felt that I did not have the strength to carry me through +this dangerous period and had it not been for Lydia E. Pinkham's +Vegetable Compound, I feel that I would not have been alive to-day. + +I began to take it about three years ago when I felt the change coming +on and continued taking it for three months, then I did not take any for +a couple of months, and began to feel so badly that I started to use it +again, and then continued to take it for about six months out of every +year for three years and am pleased to state that it has kept me free +from sickness. + + Very truly yours, + MRS. GEORGE SHEPHERD, + Berlin, Wis. + + Vice-President Mothers' Club. + + +June 28, 1902. + +I thought I would write and state my condition to you and ask if you +think you can do me any good. I am fifty-five years old, never had any +children. I came here from Brooklyn for my husband's health, he having +consumption. I have always had good health, never any trouble with my +menses, always regular until two or three months before my husband died, +which was March 25, 1901. As soon as he died, I commenced and flowed +constantly ever since. I know it must be the Change of Life. I did not +worry about it for four or five months, then I had a doctor but he did +me no good. I had another with the same result. Last May I had to go to +New York and traveling I think was too much for me as I have been worse. +I saw a doctor there and he wanted me to go to the hospital and have my +womb curetted, but I did not feel like having that done. I never have +any pain only once in a while a little backache. Please let me know if +you think you can do me any good. + + MRS. J. J. REARDON. + + +January 18, 1903. + +I feel that I must write and thank you for the good you have done me. I +wrote to you my case last summer. I flowed constantly for sixteen months +so badly that I dared not go any where and the doctors all said an +operation. Nothing did me any good. As a last resort I appealed to you. +I had no faith in your medicine, but thought I would try it and if it +did me no good I would go to the hospital. I took two boxes of the Lydia +E. Pinkham's Compound Pills and started on the third and now I am all +right. I was run down, nervous, could not sleep, no appetite, but Lydia +E. Pinkham's Compound has cured me entirely. I am very grateful to you +and wish that everyone afflicted as I was would try it. + + MRS. J. J. REARDON, + Milford, Pa. + + +November 20, 1901. + +Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound did wonders for me during the +_Change of Life_. + +I was troubled with backache and headache, hot flashes and cold chills, +pains in my hips, and at times would have such pains under my shoulder +blades that I could hardly move for a while. I hope that other suffering +women will take your medicine. + +Many thanks for what you have done for me. + + MRS. SARAH DERFER, + Dundee, Ohio. + + + ++Ladies in Profile+ + +TIRED MOTHERS + +=A nervous, irritable mother, often on the verge of hysterics, is unfit +to care for children; it ruins a child's disposition and reacts upon +herself. The trouble between children and= their mothers too often is due +to the fact that the mother has some female weakness, and she is +entirely unfit to bear the strain upon her nerves that governing a child +involves; it is impossible for her to do anything calmly. She cannot +help it, as her condition is due to suffering and shattered nerves +caused by some derangement of the uterine system with backache, +headache, and all kinds of pain, and she is on the verge of nervous +prostration. When a mother finds that she cannot be calm and quiet with +her children, she may be sure that her condition needs attention, and +she cannot do better than to take + +Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound + +It builds up her system, strengthens her nerves, and enables her to +calmly handle a disobedient child without a scene. The children will +soon realize the difference, and seeing their mother quiet, will +themselves become quiet. + +_=Read what the Vice-Pres. of the Mothers' Club, at Hot Springs, Ark., +says:=_ + + "DEAR MRS. PINKHAM--=Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound= will + make every mother well, strong, healthy and happy. I dragged + through nine years of miserable existence, worn out with pain and + weariness. I then noticed a statement of a woman troubled as I was, + and the wonderful results she had obtained from your Compound, and + decided to try what it would do for me, and used it for three + months. At the end of that time I was a different woman, and the + neighbors remarked it, and my husband fell in love with me all over + again. It seemed like a new existence. I had been suffering with + inflammation and falling of the womb, but your medicine cured that, + and built up my entire system, till I was indeed like a new + woman."--Sincerely yours, MRS. CHAS. F. BROWN, Vice-Pres. Mothers' + Club, Hot Springs, Ark. + + +FREE MEDICAL ADVICE TO WOMEN. + +=From a vast experience in treating female ills, extending over 20 years, +Mrs. Pinkham has gained a knowledge which is of untold value.= + +=If there is anything in your case about which you would like special +advice, write freely to Mrs. Pinkham. Address is Lynn, Mass. Her advice +is free, always confidential and helpful.= + + +LYDIA E. PINKHAM'S VEGETABLE COMPOUND + + ++Lady Gazing Upwards+ + +=Has Cured More Women Than Any Other Medicine in the World.= + +Its annual sales are greater than those of any other medicine +exclusively for women. It holds the record for the greatest number of +actual cures of woman's ills. This fact is attested by hundreds of +thousands of letters from grateful women which are on file in the +Pinkham laboratory, and which are constantly being published. Merit +alone can produce such results. Good advertising serves to call +attention for a time, but merit alone can stand the test of time. + +The ablest specialists now agree that Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable +Compound is the most universally successful remedy for woman's ills +known to medicine. + +All sick women should note these facts, and placing all possible +prejudices aside, should realize the truthfulness of these statements, +and that a cure for their troubles actually exists. + +Wise is the woman who has faith in Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable +Compound, for health and happiness is sure to follow its use. + +=YOU CAN GET HELPFUL ADVICE FREE.--If there is anything about your +illness you do not understand, Mrs. Pinkham, at Lynn, Mass., will be +glad to receive a letter from you telling her all the details. She will +send you promptly a reply which may save you years of suffering and +pain. She has helped thousands of women. For all this she will not +charge you a cent; besides, she will keep your letter strictly +confidential. Write her to-day.= + + +October 14, 1902. + +I suffer something terrible with flooding every month and pass large +clots of blood. The pains are excruciating. I can hardly stand them. The +doctor says my ovaries are decayed and my womb needs to be scraped. I do +not wish to go under the operation if I can possibly avoid it. I hope +you can relieve me. + + MRS. MARY DIMMICK. + + +September 16, 1903. + +After giving Lydia E. Pinkham's wonderful remedies a thorough trial, I +am very anxious to send in my testimonial that others may learn of their +great value. I have been a great sufferer for the last eight years, the +trouble first originating from painful menstruation, and I also had +inflammation and ulceration of the womb. The doctor told me I must have +an operation or I could not live. I then wrote you telling all my +ailments. I followed your advice very carefully and am now entirely +well. I can walk miles without an ache or pain and can safely say I owe +my life and health to Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. I cannot +speak too highly of its merits. My friends all look at me in +astonishment, for my case was very serious and it seems almost a miracle +that I am cured. I wish suffering women could read this testimonial and +realize the value of your remedy. I shall take much pleasure in +recommending it to all. + + MRS. MARY DIMMICK, + 59th and E. Capitol St., Benning P. O., + Washington, D. C. + + +July 14, 1901. + +Words cannot express the gratitude I feel towards you for what Lydia E. +Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has done for me. + +My trouble was misplacement of the womb, also womb was lacerated, and +had inflammation of the ovaries. I went away for treatment to a +specialist on female diseases and passed through twelve operations. Was +gone from home eight weeks and gradually grew worse and returned home to +die, having given up all hope of ever getting well. My heart would stop +beating at times and I became very weak, could not sit up in bed. + +A friend of mine brought me a bottle of the Vegetable Compound and I +began its use and by the time I had taken half a bottle I could see that +I had improved. I used in all twelve bottles of the Compound and am now +able to do all my house work and enjoy better health than I have in six +years. I owe my life to you, for I believe I would have been in my grave +to-day had it not been for the Vegetable Compound. Your medicine is a +God-send to suffering women. + + MRS. J. A. JORDAN, + Canoe Station, Ga. + + +March 3, 1901. + +Dear Mrs. Pinkham: + +I would like some advice from you as I have such very bad pains in +ovaries, falling of the womb, and every time I have my monthlys I have +the cramps very bad, and seem to be getting worse. I always have it a +week and I am so very nervous. I don't want an operation. + +Every time I become pregnant I carry the child only seven months, and +then it is born and lives only a week or two. I have lost four children +this way and hope you will tell me what to take as I know you have +helped others. + + MRS. FRED SEYDEL. + + +August 26, 1902. + +Dear Mrs. Pinkham: + +Over a year ago I wrote you a letter asking for advice how to carry my +babes to full time as I had lost four children between five and seven +months. + +I took Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and did as you instructed +me, and now I have a beautiful baby girl about six months old and we are +both healthy. + +I advise all suffering women to call on you for help and I tell every +one of the good you have done me. + + MRS. FRED SEYDEL, + 412 N. 54th St., West Phila., Pa. + + +June 13, 1901. + +Last summer I had terrible pains in my back and head. I went to the +doctor and he told me I had a touch of Bright's disease and gave me some +medicine but it did me no good. My mother advised me to take some of +your medicine, and after taking eight bottles of Lydia E. Pinkham's +Vegetable Compound I can say that I am feeling well. + + MRS. ANNIE DAMBACK. + 263 Grand Street, Rahway, N. J. + + + ++Ladies with Children+ + +DYSPEPSIA OF WOMEN + +=Requires Treatment which acts in Harmony with the Female System.= + +A great many women suffer with a form of indigestion or dyspepsia which +does not seem to yield to ordinary medical treatment. While the symptoms +seem to be similar to those of ordinary indigestion, yet the medicines +universally prescribed do not seem to restore the patient's normal +condition. =Mrs. Pinkham= claims that there is a kind of dyspepsia that is +caused by derangement of the female organism, and which while it causes +disturbance similar to ordinary indigestion cannot be relieved without a +medicine which not only acts as a stomach tonic, but has peculiar +utero-tonic effects as well; in other words, a derangement of the female +organs may have such a disturbing effect upon a woman's whole system as +to cause serious indigestion and dyspepsia, and it cannot be relieved +without curing the original cause of the trouble, which seems to find +its source in the pelvic organs. As proof of this theory, we call +attention to the letter from Mrs. Maggie Wright, who was completely +cured by the use of + +Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. + +"MY DEAR MRS. PINKHAM--For two years I suffered more or less with +dyspepsia, which so degenerated my entire system that I was unfit to +properly attend to my daily duties. I felt weak and nervous, and nothing +I ate tasted good or felt comfortable in my stomach. I tried several +dyspeptic cures, but nothing seemed to help me permanently. I decided to +give =Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound= a trial, and was happily +surprised to find that it acted like a fine tonic, and in a few days I +began to enjoy and properly digest my food. My recovery was rapid, and +in five weeks I was a different woman. Seven bottles completely cured +me, and a dozen or more of my friends have used it since."--MRS. MAGGIE +WRIGHT, 12 Van Voorhis St., Brooklyn, New York. + +=Many women were utterly discouraged, and life lacked all joy to them +when they wrote Mrs. Pinkham, Lynn, Mass. They received advice which +made them strong women again.= + + ++Lady sitting in chair with elbow on table and hand propped on chin+ + +THE BLUES + +=Don't Wait Until Your Sufferings Have Driven You To Despair, With Your +Nerves All Shattered and Your Courage Gone.= + +When a cheerful, brave, light-hearted woman is suddenly plunged into +that perfection of misery, the BLUES, it is a sad picture. It is usually +this way: + +She has been feeling "out of sorts" for some time; head has ached, and +back also; has slept poorly, been quite nervous, and nearly fainted once +or twice; head dizzy, and heart beats very fast; then that bearing-down +feeling. Her doctor says: "Cheer up; you have dyspepsia; you will be all +right soon." But she does not get "all right." She grows worse day by +day, till all at once she realizes that a distressing female complaint +is established. Her doctor has made a mistake. She has lost faith in +him; hope vanishes; then comes the brooding, morbid, melancholy, +everlasting BLUES. =Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound= instantly +asserts its curative powers in all those peculiar ailments of women, and +the story recited above is the true experience of hundreds of American +women, whose letters of gratitude we constantly publish. + +=Surely you cannot wish to remain weak, and sick and discouraged, +exhausted with each day's work. If you have some derangement of the +female organism try the remedy that has restored a million women to +health=, + +Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. + +"DEAR MRS. PINKHAM--I cheerfully recommended =Lydia E. Pinkham's +Vegetable Compound= to my suffering sisters as a perfect medicine for +all female derangements. I was troubled with displacement of the womb +and other female weakness. Had headache, backache, and such bearing-down +pains I could hardly walk across the floor, and was very nervous. A +friend advised me to try your medicine, which I did, and after using the +first bottle I began to improve. I took in all twelve bottles of +Vegetable Compound, one box of Liver Pills, also used the Sanative Wash +and was cured, and have no return of my troubles. I am as well now as I +ever was. I am more thankful every day for my cure. I know that your +medicine will do everything that it is recommended to do for suffering +women."--MRS. DORA ANDERSON, North Muskegon, Mich. + +"DEAR MRS. PINKHAM--I want to tell you what your remedies have done for +me. Before taking them I used to have a continuous headache, would be +very dizzy, would have spells when everything seemed strange, and I +would not know where I was. I went to our local doctor. He gave me some +medicine, but it did not seem to do me any good, but after taking =Lydia +E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound=, I began to improve at once. I can +honestly recommend your remedies to all suffering women and advise all +to give it a trial."--MRS. HENRY SELL, Van Wyck, Wash. + + +FREE MEDICAL ADVICE TO WOMEN. + +=If there is anything in your case about which you would like special +advice, write freely to Mrs Pinkham. She will hold your letter in strict +confidence.= + +IN THE TREATMENT OF + +FEMALE TROUBLES + +Such as Leucorrhoea, and all Inflammation of the Vaginal Passage by +local application, experience has proven that nothing excels + +LYDIA E. PINKHAM'S + +SANATIVE WASH + +FOR VAGINAL INJECTIONS. + +Every woman will find this a most valuable assistant whenever a =Vaginal +Injection= is desirable. It is soothing, cleansing and healing. In +connection with the VEGETABLE COMPOUND it hastens the cure. + +We are permitted to publish on this page several testimonials which +demonstrate the virtue of the SANATIVE WASH, and should convince every +woman that she should place complete reliance on any statement made by +Mrs. Pinkham in regard to the virtue and reliability of any of these +medicines. + +DIRECTIONS FOR USING THE SANATIVE WASH. + +Steep one-fourth of the package in sufficent water to make one pint +after it is strained. When the discharge is very profuse, use one-half +of this, adding to it one pint of warm water, daily, as a VAGINAL +INJECTION. + +=25 Cents per Package. Sold by Druggists Everywhere.= + + +Sanative Wash. + +I feel that I neglect a duty in not writing you that others may know +what your Vegetable Compound has done for me. + +Before taking it I was almost an invalid, could not walk any distance +and suffered pain all the time. After taking nine bottles I was very +much better, and can now do my house work and ride a wheel. It would +take too much space to tell you all of its merits but I must not forget +to speak of the Sanative Wash for it simply acts like magic. + +Trusting that this may help some other sufferer, I remain. + + Yours truly, + MRS. A. C. SAXTON, + Port Jefferson, N. Y. + + +Sanative Wash. + +It affords me great pleasure to tell you of the benefit I have derived +from taking your Vegetable Compound and Sanative Wash. I can hardly find +words to express my gratitude to you for the boon which you have offered +suffering women in your excellent remedies. Before taking your Compound +I was thin, sallow and nervous. I was troubled with leucorrhoea, and +my menstrual periods were very irregular. I tried three physicians and +gradually grew worse. About a year ago I was advised by a friend to try +your Sanative Wash and Vegetable Compound, which I did. After using your +Vegetable Compound and Sanative Wash I am now enjoying better health +than I ever did, and attribute the same to your wonderful remedies. I +cannot find words to express What a godsend your remedies have been to +me. Whenever I begin to feel nervous and ill, I know I have a never +failing physician at hand. It would afford me pleasure to know that my +words have directed my suffering sisters to the road to health and +strength through your most excellent remedies. I thank you again for +what your remedies have done for me. + + MISS MARY SACHNER, + 205 E. Town St., Columbus, Ohio. + + +Sanative Wash. + +I am glad to state that through the use of your Vegetable Compound and +Sanative Wash, etc., I am cured from the worst form of female weakness. +I was troubled very much with leucorrhoea, bearingdown pains and +backache. It seemed that I had no strength at all. I was in pain all +over. I began to feel better after taking the first dose of Vegetable +Compound, and am now like a new woman. I know if other suffering women +would only try it, it would help them. + + MRS. GEORGE. W. SHEPARD, + Box 127, Boonville, N. Y. + + +LYDIA E. PINKHAM'S + +BLOOD PURIFIER + +Is far superior to any other known Remedy for the Cure of all Diseases +arising from Impurities of the Blood, such as + +Scrofula, Cancerous Humor, Erysipelas, Rheumatism, Canker, Salt Rheum +and Skin Diseases. + + +IMPURE BLOOD CAN BE MADE RICH AND PURE. + +There is no condition of the human system so uncertain or so deceptive +as the condition of the blood. Other disease makes itself known by aches +or appearance, but the blood courses on with no sign of vitiation, +carrying its poison to every nerve and fibre of the body. Suddenly comes +the awakening; pains that were never thought of before, ulcers or +eruptions where never a pimple existed, make you ask in wonder, if not +in agony, the cause. This effect may come in various ways, but the cause +is always impure blood. This impurity or blood poisoning produces +_Rheumatism_, _Debility_, _Neuralgia_, _Scrofula_, _Mercurial or +Syphilitic Ulcers_, _Fistula_, _Eruptions_, _Consumption_, _Scurvy_, +_&c._ + + +INDIGESTION AND BILIOUSNESS. + +These two complaints are closely akin and generally exist together. +_Dyspepsia, or Chronic Indigestion_, is more prevalent in this country +than anywhere else on the face of the earth, the chief reason being that +we eat with intemperate haste, and consequently do not, as a rule, +properly masticate our food. The work that should be done by the dental +mill we remit to the stomach; and, as it cannot accomplish the task, the +_food-grist_ is not properly ground up and applied, and the whole +body--aye, every fibre and tissue of it--suffers. We need not here +describe the pains and penalties of _Dyspepsia_. They are within the +personal experience of two-thirds of the adult population of the United +States. _Biliousness_ is a somewhat indefinite term, but it means, in +its common acceptation, an _unnatural determination of bile to the +channels of circulation_. The yellow tinge of the skin and of the white +of the eyes in bilious cases is caused by the undue presence of bile in +the superficial blood-vessels. + +A proper course of Lydia E. Pinkham's Blood Purifier, together with her +celebrated Liver Pills, will purify the blood and drive off the bile, +making you happy and pleasant, instead of grouty and disagreeable. + + +LYDIA E. PINKHAM'S BLOOD PURIFIER + +Is as great a success as her celebrated Vegetable Compound, and may be +used with great benefit in all diseases caused by impurities of the +blood. Do not class it with bitters of any kind. It is not a drink or an +appetizer, but a _strictly medicinal preparation_. It is a powerful +alterative, but a purely vegetable preparation, and may be taken without +fear by any invalid. The dose is small and with good nutritious diet of +any kind, avoiding highly seasoned or greasy food, you will be free from +the tortures of rheumatism, clear of scrofulous sores or ulcers, and +eradicate every taint, whether inherited or contracted. You will have a +beautiful complexion and a soft, smooth skin, and rejoice in a healthy +body and pure blood. + + +=For Sale by your Druggist, $1.00 per bottle.= + + +Sept. 15, 1902. + +I feel it my duty to send you a testimonial and tell you how much good +Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Blood Purifier has done my +daughter. She feels like a different person. Her menstruation was +irregular; did not come around for two months. She took some medicine +from the doctor which did not help her, and he thought she would have to +take treatments. She took some of your Vegetable Compound and now her +menses are regular again and she rests well nights, which she had not +been able to do for about a year. Her friends all wonder at her improved +looks as well as health. + +I never fail to recommend your medicine when I know of any woman who has +female troubles. + + MRS. MAGDALENA SCHICK, + Washington, Ill. + + +Jan. 21, 1902. + +I will tell you what your remedy has done for me. I was in a very bad +condition with scrofula swellings around my neck. It started with a +bunch on the side of my neck, and it kept growing until the whole side +of my face was swollen. + +I had tried everything in the shape of patent medicines for five years. +I had gone under an operation in one of the hospitals in Boston and had +them cut out. I had thirty little tubular glands taken from back of my +ear down my shoulder. They looked like a bunch of grapes, and about the +same size. After the cuts healed over they started to come again worse +than before. + +After suffering so much I thought I would try Lydia E. Pinkham's Blood +Purifier, and before I had taken two bottles there was a great change in +the swellings. I continued its use and to-day I am a well woman. Every +word of this is true. + +I cannot speak too highly in praise of your Blood Purifier. + + MRS. W. H. HAYNES, + 38 Adams Ave., Everett, Mass. + + +Lydia E. Pinkham's Liver Pills + +Are especially adapted to the needs of the stomach and liver, the +derangement of which they prevent and cure. They are purely vegetable +and perfectly harmless. They do not purge, gripe or weaken, but are a +gentle effective laxative which stimulates the natural action of the +bowels. They are excellent in conjunction with the Vegetable Compound; +especially in those cases when the complaints that are peculiar to women +are attended with constipation and sluggishness of the liver. In such +cases these Pills enable the Vegetable Compound to do its work more +speedily and effectively. The enormous sale of Lydia E. Pinkham's Liver +Pills has been attained purely on their merit. During the last 25 years, +we have found nothing to excel them. One box contains more than three +times the number of pills ordinarily sold for 25 cents and we therefor +justly claim superiority both in quantity and quality. + + +January 12, 1901. + +I write you these few lines to see if you can suggest some means to cure +me. A little more than a year ago, I was sick with menstruation for the +first time and since then I am sick all the time in some way or other. I +have painful and irregular menstruation. I went to summer resorts for my +health and was doctored all summer, but to no effect. I have not flowed +for two months and thought I would see if you could do me any good. + + MARION BARBER. + + +May 25, 1903. + +About two years ago I wrote to you for advice, being troubled with +irregular menstruation and womb disease. I began taking Lydia E. +Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Liver Pills and using the Sanative Wash +and I am glad to say I am completely cured and have not had any sickness +since. + +I wish to thank you for your kind advice and shall recommend your +medicine to my lady friends. + + MARION BARBER, + 101 Bracewell Ave., North Adams, Mass. + + +I am passing through the Change of Life, am suffering from extreme +nervousness and depression of spirits, am very constipated and blood +impoverished. I have heard so much about Lydia E. Pinkham's Medicine I +wish to give it a trial. Please advise me. + + MRS. ALICE PICKERING, + 14 George Street, Providence, R. I. + + +June 29, 1900. + +Six months ago I wrote to you stating my case. You advised me to take +Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, Blood Purifier and Liver Pills. I +followed your instructions. + +I never used anything in my life that benefited me so much. They are +wonderful medicines. I cannot say enough in their praise. I know I +should have been insane if I had not taken them. + + MRS. ALICE PICKERING, + 14 George Street, Providence, R. I. + + +IMPORTANT + +When writing to Mrs. Pinkham for advice and counsel, it is highly +important that you should answer the following questions: + +=Is your menstruation regular?= + +=Is your menstruation profuse?= + +=Is your menstruation scanty?= + +=Is your menstruation painful?= + +=Are you married or single?= + +=If married, have you borne children?= + +=Have you any discharge from the vagina other than the courses?= + +=Have you a free movement of the bowels daily?= + +=Are you constipated?= + +=Is your blood in good condition?= + +Write out plainly all symptoms you do not understand. + +Be sure of the strictest confidence. Mrs. Pinkham never betrays a trust. +You can rely on her help implicitly. Address your letters to "Mrs. +Pinkham, Lynn, Mass." + + +A Word of Warning. + +No other medicine in the world has received such widespread and +unqualified endorsement as has Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. + +No other medicine has such a record of cures of female troubles or such +hosts of grateful friends. + +Do not be persuaded that any other medicine is just as good. Any dealer +who asks you to buy something else when you go into his store purposely +to buy Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, has no interest in your +case. He is merely trying to sell you something on which he can make a +larger profit. He does not care whether you get well or not, so long as +he can make a little more money out of your sickness. If he wished you +well he would, without hesitation, hand you the medicine you ask for, +and which he knows is the best woman's medicine in the world. + +Follow the record of this medicine, and remember that these thousands of +cures of women whose letters are constantly printed in this paper were +not brought about by "something else," but by + +=Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, The Great Woman's Remedy for +Woman's Ills=. + +Those women who refuse to accept anything else are rewarded a hundred +thousand times, for they get what they want--a cure. Moral--Stick to the +medicine that you =know= is Best. + +=When a medicine has been successful in restoring to health more than a +million women, you cannot well say without trying it, "I do not believe +it will help me." If you are ill, do not hesitate to get a bottle of +Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound at once, and write Mrs. Pinkham, +Lynn, Mass, U. S. A., for special advice. It is free and helpful, and +will cost you nothing.= + + +This entire book copyrighted in 1901 and 1904 by the Lydia E. Pinkham +Medicine Co., of Lynn, Mass., U. S. A. All rights reserved and will be +protected by law. + + + ~THE HOME OF LYDIA E. PINKHAM'S REMEDIES + LYNN, MASS., U. S. A.~ + + + + +Transcriber's Notes: + Passages in italics are indicated by _underscore_. + + Passages in bold are indicated by =bold=. + + Illustration captions are indicated by ~caption~. + + Illustration descriptions added by the transcriber are indicated by + +description+. + + The obstetrical table on page 26 was split in half for this text file. + + Misprints corrected: + "grea" corrected to "great" (page 16) + "ryggvaekr" corrected to "ryggvaerk" (page 38) + missing "to" added (page 60) + + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Treatise on the Diseases of Women, by +Lydia E. 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