The Eugenic Marriage, Volume 3 (of 4): A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better BabiesHague, W. Grant (William Grant)
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The Eugenic Marriage, Volume 3 (of 4): A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies
Hague, W. Grant (William Grant)
Eugenics; Hygiene; Marriage
M. himself is not a physician and is in no way qualified to give advice
to these women who write in response to the advertisements detailing
their symptoms and telling of their troubles. Investigation showed that
the medicine was compounded by the clerks and stenographers in the
employ of the company, and that all communications were answered by form
letters. It did not matter what ailed the patient, the treatment was the
same.
The claims made by this concern for their remedy, and they had only one,
were along the usual line--everything they could think about which has a
remote connection with the specialty in which they were
interested--leucorrhea, ulceration, displacement or falling of the womb,
profuse, scanty or painful periods, uterine or ovarian tumors or
growths, and piles from any cause, no matter of how long standing; also
pains in the back head and bowels, bearing down feelings, nervousness,
creeping feeling up the spine, melancholy, desire to cry, hot flushes,
weariness, uterine cancers in their earlier stages.
Analysis of the remedy showed it to be a combination of two weak,
commonly used drugs, one a very mild antiseptic and the other a mild
astringent. These were held together with cocoa butter into which a drop
of carbolic acid may have been put. There is nothing unusual in the
combination, nor has it any wonderful qualities which would justify the
claims made in behalf of it. The remedy contains nothing which could
under any circumstances effect the removal of cancers, fibroid growths,
or polypi, or which is capable of radically relieving laceration of the
womb due to child-birth.
The following is one of the specious appeals which this meretricious
concern sent to the ailing women of America:
Mrs. M. receives more mail than any other woman in the state.
How would you like to receive so much mail that it would be
necessary to use a grindstone in order to open the letters as
fast as they come in. This is the way Mrs. C. B. M. opens her
mail. She gets tons of mail, and to save time has the letters
opened by a large grindstone, which occupies a conspicuous
place in her office. No other person in Indiana receives so
much mail as she.
Mrs. M.'s aid and advice is as free to you as God's sunshine or
the air you breathe. She is always glad to lend her assistance
to every suffering woman, and she is a generous, good woman,
who has suffered herself as you suffer, and she wants to prove
to you that her common sense home treatment will cure you just
as surely as it cured her years ago in her humble cottage
before riches and fame came to her.
If you are a sufferer from any female trouble, no matter what
it is, send the coupon below to Mrs. C. B. M. at once.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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