Incubator Babies

INCUBATOR BABIES.

A Curiosity of Advanced Civilization.

Among barbarous peoples it is the common custom to destroy the weakling child. Even among some civilized people as in China and India the same practice obtains to a greater or less degree. In our own land science has bent its energies to the saving of the weakling baby, and to that end has devised the baby incubator, in which the temperature and every other condition which makes for the infant's growth can be perfectly controlled and regulated.

The baby incubator has directed serious attention to the fact that a great number of children are born too weak to make an effectual struggle for life, and that many mothers are unable to nourish the children born to them. Back of these facts there is the inevitable story of womanly weakness, the prenatal period spent in misery of mind and anguish of body; the period of waiting which should by all the laws of nature be one of hopeful, happy expectation, changed to a period of shrinking and dread. It is impossible that the mother can give her child what she herself does not possess. If she lacks health for one she cannot have it for two. If she is nervous, fearful, suffering, it is folly to expect that her child will be mirthful and hardy. As a rule weak and sick women will have weak and sickly children.

MATERNAL LOVE HELPLESS.

Maternal love is helpless in such circumstances. The woman who would drain her heart dry to give her child strength can only sit in impotent helplessness and watch the little flower fade.

But science does more than provide an incubator for the weakling baby. It finds the means to make weak women strong. It gives the mother strength to give her child, and makes the incubator unnecessary. It restores the natural balance of health so that the days of waiting become once more days of happy expectation, and maternity is approached with the supreme confidence which comes from the possession of perfect health. In this field of scientific help for women Dr. R. V. Pierce stands pre-eminent by his success. His great medicine for women, "Favorite Prescription," has been the means of health to thousands of mothers, giving them strength in the days of waiting, making the baby's advent practically painless and by increasing the flow of the nutritive secretions, enabling the mother to nurse her child.

"I will endeavor to tell you of the many benefits I have derived from taking Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription," writes Mrs. B. E. Robertson, of Medicine Lodge, Barber Co., Kans. "In the fall of 1899 I was expecting to become a mother and suffered terribly with pains in the back of head; in fact I ached all over. Suffered with awful bearing-down pains; I was threatened for weeks with mishap. A lady friend told me to use Dr. Pierce's medicines. She had taken them and felt like a new woman. I began using the 'Favorite Prescription' and took four bottles before my baby came and two afterwards. I suffered almost death with my other two children, but hardly realized that I was sick when this baby was born, and she weighed twelve and one-quarter pounds. She is now eleven months old and has never known an hour's sickness; at present she weighs thirty-seven pounds. I owe it all to Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription."

MOTHERS MARVEL

at the wonderful change which results from the use of Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. Mothers who have been days in the doctors' hands use "Favorite Prescription" and find the days reduced to hours. Mothers to whom the months of waiting had been months of weakness and weariness find them changed by the use of "Favorite Prescription" to months of happy usefulness and pleasant preparation for the baby's coming. Mothers whose children were heretofore always weak use "Favorite Prescription" and through its means receiving strength to give the child are made glad by strong, healthy children.

"I can cheerfully recommend Doctor Pierce's Favorite Prescription as one of the best medicines for women," writes Mrs. Mary Murdock, of 220 Taylor St., Topeka, Kans. "I consider it the best medicine made. I know it has no equal. I am the mother of ten children and only one living - the tenth one. She is one year old and is as well and hearty as can be. She is a beauty. Of my other babies, some were born at right time but dead, others were premature births; one lived to be one year old but she was always feeble. I tried different doctors but none of them could tell what my trouble was. They said I was well and strong. I was examined by surgeons but they found nothing wrong, and they were puzzled to know what my trouble was. I did not know what to do, so I thought this last time I would try Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. I took it the entire nine months and now have a fine baby girl, and I cannot praise your medicine enough for the good it did me."

"I am the mother of five children," writes Mrs. S. E. Rose, of Big Otter, Clay Co., West Va., "and have been as high as eight days in the doctor's hands, and never less than two days at any time until the last. Then I had used two bottles of Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription and was only two hours in the hands of the doctor."

Doctor Pierce's Favorite Prescription makes weak women strong and sick women well. It establishes regularity, dries weakening drains, heals inflammation and ulceration and cures female weakness. It is a splendid tonic for rundown, nervous women, restoring them to sound health.

Sick women, especially those suffering from diseases of long standing, are invited to consult Dr. Pierce, by letter, free. All correspondence is held as strictly private and sacredly confidential. Address Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y.

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