Lydia Estes Pinkham

“ 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. ”

“ The Largest Experience in the World.—The one thing that qualifies a person to give advice on any subject is experience—experience creates knowledge. No person can speak from a greater experience with female ills nor a greater record of success than Mrs. Pinkham. Thousands of cases come each month, some personally, others by mail; and this has been going on thirty years, day after day, and day after day, thirty years of constant success—think of the knowledge thus gained. Surely women are wise in seeking advice from a woman with such an experience—especially when it is free. ”

“ They map out a course of their own, and pay no attention whatever to the laws of health. Just as if a dog barking at the moon would make it shine less brightly!
Now any one who has given any thought to the preservation of the health can readily understand how impossible it would be to cure an inflammation of the uterus or ovaries, or check an unnatural discharge from the vagina, by applying strong acids, nitrate of silver, pure carbolic acid, strong tincture of iodine, or other destroying, caustic, irritating, and dangerous drugs. ”

“ 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. ”

“ Men Never See Your Letters.—Do you want a strange man to hear all about your particular disease? Would you feel like sitting down by the side of a stranger and telling him all those sacred things which should be known only by women? ”

“ Important to the Nation.—It is impossible to fully comprehend how important to us as a nation is the health of the young women of to-day. We fail to realize that these women are to be the mothers of the next generation, and that in their hands will lie, in large measure, the power to form the characters and direct the destinies of the boys and girls of the future. ”

“ 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. ”

“ Personal Experience Necessary.—After you have once suffered, how ready you are to sympathize with those who are going through the same severe trials. If a member of your own home or a friend is passing through the trying ordeal of motherhood, and you have suffered the same, how you can advise, suggest, comfort, guide! If you have had a personal experience of intense agony once every month, do you not think you are in a far better position to talk with one who is suffering in the same way than you would be if you had never gone through all this? ”

“ 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 ”

“ Diet During Pregnancy.—The diet during the whole of pregnancy should be generous, yet easily digestible. A great many women do not change their diet at all, and if the person is in good health and does not suffer in any way, there is no reason whatever why the diet should be changed, unless the evening meal be made somewhat lighter.
Eat Sparingly of Meat.—It is always wise not to eat meat more than once a day. This is because a meat diet throws more work upon the kidneys, and any failure of the kidneys increases the probability of serious trouble at childbirth. ”

“ 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. ”

“ Have you ever felt the sharp, stinging pain, the dull, heavy pain, the throbbing, jumping pain, the cramping, tearing pain, the sickening, nauseating pain? Then you know all about them. Nobody can tell you anything more. Experience is a perfect teacher. ”

“ Nature Often Cures.—Nature often makes a prompt cure in these cases by causing a sharp attack of vomiting or diarrhœa. If a cure is not made in this way, then we can imitate nature by giving an emetic, or by taking a laxative, in order to rid the body of the indigestible material as soon as possible.
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. ”

“ This Makes Confirmed Invalids.—It is only necessary for a woman to complain of discomfort in the back, a bearing-down pain, or some unnatural discharge, when some physician says that local treatment, and local treatment only, must be taken.
Women so thoroughly understand what their physician is going to say that they do not consult him, but go on suffering more and more until they become almost confirmed invalids. Others, after they are told what must be done, return home and become gloomy and melancholy over the outlook. ”

“ Did a man ever have a backache like the dragging, pulling, tearing ache of a woman? No. It is impossible.
Even Medical Men Cannot Understand These Things.—To a man, all pain must be of his kind; it must be a man-pain, not a woman-pain. Take, for instance, the long list of diseases and discomforts which come directly from some derangement of the female generative organs; as, for instance, the bearing-down pains, excessive flowing, uterine cramps, and leucorrhœa. Do you think it possible for a man to understand these things? ”

“ 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. ”

“ 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. ”

“ 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, leucorrhœa, and all other affections which naturally come from an impoverished condition of the blood. ”

“ 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. ”

“ 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 ”

“ Backache
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. ”

“ Early Training Necessary.—When we come to study the theory of heredity, we see that it is impossible for any mother to completely change her course of life simply during pregnancy and have a corresponding effect upon her child. To produce the best results on the offspring it is necessary that the mother should have cultivated her own mind and body through many years of training. ”

“ It is certainly true that congestion of the uterus almost invariably produces neuralgia of different parts of the body; while nervous exhaustion, nervous prostration, neuralgia, and general nervousness often show themselves by this increased pain at the menstrual period.
Symptoms of Dysmenorrhœa.—Usually the most marked pain is before the flow is well established. The person has a heavy pain in the lower part of the bowels, with sharp, darting pains extending down the back of the limbs. Then the pain becomes more concentrated in the uterus itself, or sometimes in an ovary at the side. ”

“ 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. ”

“ Always Brings Good Cheer.—It has brought happiness to so many homes, has relieved so much suffering, and has cheered and comforted so many thousands of women, that I am sure you will be doing a great deed of charity if you will only aid in spreading this glad news.
Tumors of the Uterus.—The uterus is subject to tumors, or growths, the symptoms of which are much like those of chronic inflammation. As a rule, the person suffering from these tumors knows nothing whatever of their existence until some competent physician has told her such is the case. ”

“ 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. ”