| 2 | 5 | 8 | -- | -- | 6
General | 8 | 3 | 3 | 5 | -- | --
-------------------+------+---------+--------+-----+---------+--------
Total | 18 | 9 | 51 | 14 | -- | 26
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The following list of health topics was treated in the advertisements,
editorials, and articles of a popular monthly periodical devoted to
women:

=========================+=========+===========+===============
| ARTICLE | EDITORIAL | ADVERTISEMENT
-------------------------+---------+-----------+---------------
Babies | 1 | -- | 11
Soaps and powders | -- | -- | 5
Beauty | 3 | -- | 6
Quack cures | -- | 2 | --
Tooth powders | -- | -- | 4
Household | 1 | -- | 5
Food and cooking | 1 | -- | 14
Clothes | 13 | -- | 5
Teaching sex laws | 1 | 2 | --
Medicine | 4 | 1 | --
-------------------------+---------+-----------+---------------
Total | 24 | 5 | 50
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Besides the classic patent medicines, such as Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound, Castoria, Cod Liver Oil, etc., there are "Colds Cured in One
Day," "Appendixine," health foods, massage vibrators, violet rays,
Porosknit underwear, sanitary tooth washes, soaps, vitopathic,
naturopathic, and faith cures. New ones appear every day,--enough to
make a really sick person dizzy, let alone a person suffering from
imaginary ailments. All seem to outline my particular symptoms. After
they have flamed at me in red letters in the surface cars, pursued me
in the elevated and underground, accompanied me out into the country
and back again to the city, greeted me each morning in the daily paper
and in my daily mail, each week or each month in the periodical, the
coincidence of a familiar package on a drug-store counter seems to be
providential and therefore irresistible. I know that I ought to be
examined by a physician, but I am busy and not unwilling to gamble for
my health; it cannot kill me and there is a chance that it will cure
me. If there is noth