Fainting

FAINTING.

Is it Only a Fashionable Feminine Accomplishment?

In the novels of a generation or so back, fainting seems to be generally regarded as an accomplishment of a fashionable woman. Whenever there was an awkward situation to be covered the woman discreetly and decorously fainted. It is also insinuated that place as well as time had to be considered in the fitting exercise of this accomplishment. There must be a convenient couch to lie on and still more there must be a pair of manly arms to support the limp burden as it swayed and slipped to the ground. Women did not as a rule exhibit this accomplishment for the benefit of their own sex, but only when some observant male was at hand to see and succor.

The heroines of the modern novelist are not given to fainting. The " accomplishment" seems to have gone out with the working of samplers. Weakness was once a woman's weapon. Now she despises weakness, and all its symptoms. It may be taken for granted therefore that now-a-days if a woman faints it is because of genuine weakness that she cannot conceal. Instead of wanting male observation she avoids it and despises herself for he own frailty.

WHY WOMEN FAINT.

In general women who faint are more liable to do so at some special periods than at others, and the liability to faint is generally increased with the recurrences of the periodic womanly function. From this fact alone it might be fairly argued that there is a close relation between local womanly weakness and the physical weakness which causes women to faint. Womanly ailments surely undermine the general health. Irregularity, suppression, profusion, unhealthy drains, inflammation, ulceration, and female weakness, are the diseases which drain the vitality and weaken the general health of women and render them liable among other things to "fainting spell." Cure the local womanly diseases and there is at once a gain in the general health.

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WEAK WOMEN MADE STRONG.

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"I suffered for twelve years with female trouble," writes Mrs. Milton Grimes, of Adair, Adair Co., Iowa, "which brought on other diseases--heart trouble, Bright's disease, nervousness, and at times would be nearly paralyzed. Had neuralgia of stomach. I can freely say your medicines (nine bottles in all, five of 'Favorite Prescription,' four of 'Golden Medical Discovery' and two vials of Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets), have cured me. I can work with comfort now, but before I would be tired all the time and have a dizzy headache, and my nerve would be all unstrung so I could not sleep. Now I can sleep and do a big day's work, something I had not done for over eleven years before.

"You have my consent to publish this testimonial, hoping it will be the means of helping some other invalid."

WOMEN ARE THE WITNESSES.

It is the women who have acclaimed Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription as the greatest and best medicine for the cure of womanly diseases. The witnesses to its power are the women it has cured. There are hundreds of thousands of healthy women to-day who have been restored by "Favorite Prescription" to a happy, useful life after years of suffering, and years of useless medical treatment. If you are suffering from any disease peculiar to women there is every motive for you to try Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription and every encouragement to expect a compete cure. No matter how severe the disease, the wonder will be not that "Favorite Prescription" cures you, but that it should fail to do so. Its cures are so uniform, so reliable, that if it did not cure, you would stand alone, a wonder and a marvel, a solitary exception among hundreds of thousands of weak women who have been made strong and sick women who have been made well by the use of this great remedy.

"Favorite Prescription" establishes regularity, dries weakening drains, heals inflammation and ulceration, and cures female weakness. As a tonic and nervine for weak, worn-out, run-down women, it is without an equal. It promotes the appetite, tranquilizes the nerves and induces refreshing sleep.

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A HELP FOR WOMEN.

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