Treatise on the Diseases of Women
Chapter 13
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.=
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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.
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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.=
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=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.
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=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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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LYDIA E. PINKHAM MEDICINE COMPANY,
=Lynn, Mass., V. S. von A.=
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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
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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.
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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) "ryggväkr" corrected to "ryggvärk" (page 38) missing "to" added (page 60)