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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JANUARY 12, 1896. A SERIES OF ‘ TWELVE COMPLIMENTARY ALT TO MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS! WILL BE GIVEN AT LT'HE VIAVI FHAILT,, 2304 VAN NESS AVENUE, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOONS AT 2: BEGINNING JAWNTDARY 15. (4 [ o 0 0’Clock NO ADMISSION CHARGED. VIAVIIH! VIAVII! The want of the world is strong, healthy mothers. Give us these and we will answer for the race. Nine women in ten are lacking in health and strength, if not positively ill. The sickly men are those who never were strong—who were born weak. The sickly women GET sickly because something goes wrong. Compared with the large number of women who suffer there are but few who realize that suffering is not a necessary heritage of woman—that a woman can be well and healthy, strong and vigorous and carry on the responsibilities of life. There is no degree of beauty, intelligence or amiability which can compensate for a diseased body in a woman. Indeed, there is no beauty, intelligence or amiability which bad health will not undermine. Neither wealth, position nor opportunity can compensate for the absence of health. The conscientious woman has other reasons than selfish ones for feeling bad health to be the greatest of misiortunes. She knows she cannot be ill without casting a shadow over the home that she would, if she could, keep always bright. If she has children she will not only find herself unable to give them the mental and moral training they ne:d, but she may not be able to hold even their admiration and love, and the chances are ten to one that she has given them a heritage of disease. She may well be haunted by the fear that the day will come when they will think of her unkindly for bringing into this world children who cannot escape from a life of suffering because of her enfeebled constitution and their inheritance of her weakness. In short, a conscientious woman cannot help but feel that she, as an invalid, is daily damaging the lives of those she loves best, and that each day which prolongs her painful and wasted life is a misfortune rather than a blessing. Yet the time really never comes when a woman with anything to live for is ready to relinquish life, no mattes how acute her physical suiferings or how terrible her mental torment. Man is seldom called upon to endure anything so painful, so lingering and tenacious as those distressing diseases to which woman is peculiarly subject, and which are especially terrible for the reason that most of them affect the mind as well as the body. They produce irritability, destroy the ambition and injure the memory. Ninety-nine out of a hundred women are afflicted with some of these complaints in a greater or less degree, and so accustomed have they become to pain that they can hardly fancy mortal existence without it. Many of them are women of natural brilliancy, and their possibilities for usefulness would be great if they were not handicapped by these tormenting troubles. Women have a way of taking their own complaints too much as a matter of course, They say: ¢«Every woman has some trouble; I suppose I ought not to complain.”” Thus they permit a disease to continue until it absorbs the muscular strength, impoverishes the blood, destroys the beauty, sucks up the mental activity and leaves the victim an unhappy, disappointed woman, with a hold upon the pity of those about her, but none upon their admiration. The expense of calling for the treatment of a physician hinders many women from attending to themselves. They do not wish to be an expense to their husbands or fathers, and through a false modesty conceal their sufferings until they are almost beyond help. Our treatment obviates the expense and embarrassment of a physician’s treatment, and enables the patient to treat herself ; but she should lose no time in beginning it. Many have a foolish idea that they will get better after a little while. Thisis a mistake. The relaxed muscles, the diseased nervous system and the impoverished blood are not likely to get back to their normal condition without aid. Most women are familiar with the great good VIAVI has done in curing these diseases, but for the most part women have not, as a whole, realized the real work of VIAVIL. VIAVI ought not really to be called a remedy. It ought to be called a food. If we can realize that in using VIAVI we but strengthen these parts—that nature does the building—we will understand the workings of the remedy and appreciate why it cures. There are, too, thousands and thousands of women who ought to use this great uterine food merely to strengthen them, the same as they take other food into the system. They never feel when they are eating their daily meals that they are ‘doctoring,” and they ought not to feel so when they are using VIAVL. They should not wait until this part of the body is starved before they feed it. These organs are often severely overtaxed, and, being delicate, they are overlooked in the general distribution of the blood, to an extent which almost starves them. There is no question but that if these organs be given strength in the same proportion as the strongest muscles of the body we shall have very little uterine trouble. No disease can exist unless weakness precedes it—it is weakness first, then disease. The Creator had no doubt interided that the food taken into the stomach should be sufficient for the body, but we no longer present the perfect type of physical woman. Civilization, over-taxation and the many exactions of our present mode of living, acquired tastes, habits, etc., have measnrably changed the original woman. The soluticn seems to be that the Creator, in his all-wise way, has given us the intelligence and skill which enable man to reach in a different way these weaknesses, as an offset to the depletion that part of the system has undergone. Nature, in her greatness, is able to sustain many of the irregularities of life and survive and flourish, and if we can only extend her a helping hand when she is run down she will successfully perform the functions of life, even if they are in excess and in a different form from what the natural method of existence would have required. We believe the greatest argument that can be made in favor of VIAVI is, IT does not attempt to cure; it simply assists nature; SHE effects the cure. Everything that nature does is well and perfectly done—better than any human being. The nearer we come to nature’s laws the nearer we come to perfection. We have been immeasurably successful in securing results that were nature’s own, rather than the abstract effort of man. VIAVI is a known and positive remedy ; it does not fail or change; it is the same now and forever. Nature provides a way of righting every wrong, if we can but know it and apply it. There is no condition that cannot be cured if taken in reasonable time. Nature's way in these diseases is certainly VIAVLI. IT WILL AND DOES CURE, and the thousands upon thousands of people who have been cured prove it. Mr. Samuel Baker of 1751 Lawrence street, Denver, Colo., writes : ‘“T'o whom it may concern— ““This certifies that I personally know of over fifty cases of female diseases of all kinds cured by the use of VIAVI in this city: That my own wife has been saved from death or a worse fate by its use, and that I know of two others, whose cases were abandoned by phy- IDA L. DILDINE, herself a physician, says: ‘‘In sicians, that are now restored to health. E.D.L. DANA, also a physician, says: ‘I have pre- ““Tt is my candid conviction that VIAVI will restore in cases where competent physicians assert that nothing but the knife will relieve, for I have known of several such, and I heartily urge any sufferer not to yield to im- portunity of friends, advice of doctors or any other argu- ment looking backward to the use of the knife in any case, no matter how desperate, until a thorough trial has been made of VIAVL : “Sp confident do I feel of this that, as far as my time will permit, I will willingly write personal letters to all prepaying postage that write me, not in the spirit of ad- vertising, or for money-fakingtpurp{JFes, bust f;m;ftliclf pur- e of aidi i umanity. Very respectfully, pose of aiding suffering “SA}I’\IUEL At July, 1891, I first heard of VIAVI, and since then have been watching the results obtained from its use, and I can but say that every day convinces me more and more that you have a most powerful remedy to cope with disease. I find in many cases it works like magic. Iam only too glad to proclaim its merits to the women of the land, and if they but lay hold of this home treatment they will be relieved of much embarrassment and suffer- ing from needless operations. Sincerely yours, “IDA L. DILDINE, M. D.” scribed the use of VIAVI remedies for over two years, and after carefully watching its action through every part of the system I pronounce it the most wonderful and far- reaching remedy that was ever prepared from the Materia Medica for relieving all uterine troubles that afflict women. ‘I fully indorse its superiority over all others in per- manently curing some of the most obstinate cases on record. “E. D. I. DANA, M. D.”