of blood to flow to those organs, thus depriving other parts of the
body of its nourishment, the weakest part first showing the effect of
want of sustenance
‘AS IN THE BOY, SO IN THE GIRL, self-abuse causes an undue amount
of blood to flow to those organs, thus depriving other parts of the
body of its nourishment, the weakest part first showing the effect of
want of sustenance. All that has been said upon this loathsome subject
in the preceding chapter for boys might well be repeated here, but
space forbids. Read that chapter again, and know that the same signs
that betray the boy will make known the girl addicted to the vice.
The bloodless lips, the dull, heavy eye surrounded with dark rings,
the nerveless hand, the blanched cheek, the short breath, the old,
faded look, the weakened memory and silly irritability tell the story
all too plainly. The same evil result follows, ending perhaps in
death, or worse, in insanity. Aside from the injury the girl does
herself by yielding to this habit, there is one other reason which
appeals to the conscience, and that is, self-abuse is an offence
against moral law it is putting to a vile, selfish use the organs
which were given for a high, sacred purpose.

_Symptoms._–Inhalation of the _pure_ gas causes spasm of the glottis,
insensibility, and death from asphyxia, at once; _diluted_, causes sense
of weight in forehead and back of head, giddiness, vomiting, somnolence,
loss of muscular power. Insensibility, stertorous breathing, lividity of
face and body, and death from asphyxia. Convulsions occasionally.

to take your treatment for that disease, I send you this certificate,
containing a synopsis of my case and cure of the same
_Gentlemen_–In the hope that some sufferer from hernia may be induced
to take your treatment for that disease, I send you this certificate,
containing a synopsis of my case and cure of the same. My life was a
living death for years. I had almost lost all hope of ever being cured,
and was plunged in despair, as I had tried so many trusses, appliances
and remedies, each one in successive repetition, a failure. In January
and February of the year “89, I entered your Institution for treatment,
my malady being an inguinal hernia on the right side, of twenty years”
standing–from childhood. I was then impressed with the feeling that it
was my last chance, and that it would be my last effort, and to be
candid I had very little hope that a cure would be effected. To me my
condition seemed appalling, as I dare not eat, drink, laugh, exercise or
perform any of the functions of life without having to reduce my
rupture, frequently as often as forty or fifty times _per diem_, while
on occasions the reduction would occupy hours of untold agony. No truss
or appliance that I could get would retain the rupture, and I had tried
all sorts as fast as they came to my knowledge. Marvelous as it may
appear to all sufferers from this distressing affliction, I was
discharged from your Institute in thirty days, a well and sound man, and
only from memory and the record do I know that I was ever ruptured. I
have at times since performed some of the hardest kinds of work for long
periods, but no sign of weakness has ever appeared. I do not consider
the necessary operation performed as attended with any danger; it is no
comparison to the chances a person takes who in the daily walks of life
is tortured with a rupture.

frequently, than you use the words foot, yard, quart, gallon, and so
forth, as measures of length and of liquids
You should know and also use the word calorie as frequently, or more
frequently, than you use the words foot, yard, quart, gallon, and so
forth, as measures of length and of liquids. Hereafter you are going to
eat calories of food. Instead of saying one slice of bread, or a piece
of pie, you will say 100 Calories of bread, 350 Calories of pie.

the necessity for greater physical culture
The increased mental and moral cultivation of mankind imposes upon them
the necessity for greater physical culture. ‘Wiser and weaker,’ is a
trite saying, and means that the exercise of the higher nature discloses
the equivalent necessity of culturing the body, in order to support the
increasing expenditures of the former. Mental and moral discipline are
essential for a proper understanding how to provide for the body, for
physical training increases the capacity of the individual for
self-preservation. Constant vigilance is the price of health as well as
of liberty.

THE TEETH.–The teeth should receive the utmost attention. Many
a young man has been disgusted with a lady by seeing her unclean and
discolored teeth. It takes but a few moments, and if necessary secure
some simple tooth powder or rub the teeth thoroughly every day with a
linen handkerchief, and it will give the teeth and mouth a beautiful
and clean appearance.

1. He may be called to give _ordinary evidence_ as a _common witness_.
Thus he may be asked to detail the facts of an accident which he has
observed, and of the inferences he has deduced. This evidence is what
any lay observer might be asked.

Laval, in Maine, France, about 1510
Ambroise Pare was born in the village of Bourg-Hersent, near
Laval, in Maine, France, about 1510. He was trained as a barber-
surgeon at a time when a barber-surgeon was inferior to a surgeon
and the professions of surgeon and physician were kept apart by
the law of the Church that forbade a physician to shed blood.
Under whom he served his apprenticeship is unknown, but by 1533
he was in Paris, where he received an appointment as house
surgeon at the Hotel Dieu. After three or four years of valuable
experience in this hospital, he set up in private practise in
Paris, but for the next thirty years he was there only in the
intervals of peace; the rest of the time he followed the army. He
became a master barber-surgeon in 1541.

_Gentlemen_–I cannot tell you how I have improved since I have used Dr.
R.V. Pierce”s Favorite Prescription and his ‘Golden Medical Discovery.’
I had been suffering for four years and I began to get worse and worse
until I commenced using these medicines, and then I began to get better,
and now I feel like a new woman.

with scrofula
It is estimated that about one fifth of the human family are afflicted
with scrofula. A disease so prevalent and so destructive to life, should
enlist universal attention and the best efforts of medical men in
devising the most successful treatment for its cure. It varies in the
intensity of its manifestation, from the slightest eruption upon the
skin (scrofulous eczema), to that most fatal of maladies, pulmonary
consumption.