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Title: Treatise on the Diseases of Women

Author: Lydia E. Pinkham

Release Date: August 5, 2009 [EBook #29612]

Language: English

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This Treatise on the Diseases of Women
Is Dedicated to the Women of the World.

Yours for Health
Lydia E. Pinkham

This entire book copyrighted in 1901 and 1904 by the Lydia E. Pinkham
Medicine Co., of Lynn, Mass., U. S. A. All rights reserved and will be
protected by law.

List of Lydia E. Pinkham's Remedies.

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LYDIA E. PINKHAM'S VEGETABLE COMPOUND.
Put up in three forms: Liquid, Lozenge, and Pills Price, $1.00
LYDIA E. PINKHAM'S LIVER PILLS, per Box " .25
LYDIA E. PINKHAM'S BLOOD PURIFIER " 1.00
LYDIA E. PINKHAM'S SANATIVE WASH, per Packet " .25

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CHAPTER I.

A WOMAN BEST UNDERSTANDS A WOMAN.

=Experience a Perfect Teacher.=--Do you know what it is to suffer pain?
Have you had your body racked and torn with intense suffering? Have you
ever experienced that indescribable agony which comes from overworked
nerves?

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.

=Book-Learning Alone Not Sufficient.=--Suppose you had never experienced
pain, but had just read about it in a book, do you think you would have
any kind of an idea of what genuine suffering was? Most certainly not.

Book knowledge is valuable. It teaches the location of countries, the
use of figures, and the history of nations; but there are some things
books cannot do, and the greatest o