UTERINE DISEASES.
By E. H. Murrell, M. D., Lynchburg, Va.
It has been asserted that life is the most mysterious problem in nature, and that its duration is circumscribed by the laws of disease; consequently the incessant conflict which is waged between health and its insidious destroyer can never cease, but will ever continue to engage the attention of the chemist and pathologist in their profound researches of the best means of its preservation. Therefore, we need not be amazed or inquire why it is that the power of preserving life is held in such high estimation, or that the loss of it should be deemed a private misfortune or a public calamity.
Whatever may be the cause of constitutional debility and whenever prolonged, it must of necessity impair the healthy nutrition of the tissues, and lead to a low, inflammatory condition of the mucous membranes. The uterus and its appendages constitute no exception to the general rule, for whenever inflammation is lighted up in this organ, functional disturbance, accompanied by ulceration and hypertrophy follow as a natural consequence. On the other hand, it has been clearly demonstrated that constitutional debility of the gravest import and prolonged duration has its origin in those causes which induce sanguineous and muco-purulent discharges, continued pain, great despondency, and a general inability to partake of the accustomed food and exercise.
In the consideration of uterine diseases, including leucorrhœa, dysmenorrhœa, suppressed catamenia, menorrhagic and vaginal inflammation, it is proposed briefly to allude to the efficacy of the Bedford Alum and Iron Springs Mass as a curative agent, and to call attention to its tonic properties, which act most beneficially in their healthful restoration. By reference to the analysis of this Mass, it will be seen that it contains all the constituent properties most essential to the relief of morbid disease, namely by restraining the secretion while combining the tonic properties alike conducive to the improvement of the circulation and removing the causes which influence constitutional debility. For this reason, the water appears to exert a specific influence over the female organism, and often displays its wonderful power of relief after the unsuccessful employment of all other remedial agents.
A brief synopsis of the treatment of suppressed catamenia by the Bedford Alum and Iron Springs Mass which came under the immediate attention of the writer, will suffice to attest its virtues:
Miss. J. S., a resident of this city, aged 20 years, of delicate constitution; had for months suffered from suppression of the catamenia which resulted in anæmia and great emaciation, attended with extreme nervousness, loss of appetite, constant cough, pain in the chest, night sweats, closely bordering on phthisis pulmonalis. After the exhaustion of numerous emmagogue agents which had been employed for months unsuccessfully, medical counsel was sought, and apparently with little hope of recovery. She was at once placed upon the free use of the Bedford Alum and Iron Springs Mass, which was continued for the space of three months, at the expiration of which time all organic disturbance was removed, with a complete subsidence of the symptoms before detailed, and a perfect restoration of her health, which has continued unimpaired to the present date.
Other cases might be adduced in testimony of the great efficacy of the Bedford Alum and Iron Springs Mass in the treatment of uterine diseases generally; but enjoying as it does so largely the public confidence and endorsed by the well-tested experience of the medical profession, any additional evidence in support of its virtues and wide-spread reputation would only prove superfluous and uncalled-for by the most skeptical.