Nostrums and quackery : articles on the nostrum evil and quackery reprinted from the Journal of the American Medical Association.

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[1911]
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    THE MAERIAGE RELATION There is a long chapter on ‘‘Conjugal Kelations,” which is certainly sufficiently explicit for the average girl whose father is warned against the evil, nay, terrible, results which are entailed by calling in a physician when she is ill. Much might be. quoted, but one fragment will suffice: “The evil effects of unsoundness of the sexual nature are so various and far reaching that even Viavi advocates ^c]to have made so close a study of them, doubtless fall far short of estimating them at their full value and to their whole extent. Thus, we may find conjugal infelicity between two persons seemingly perfectly healthy, the vmman particularly being apparently perfectly sound in her sex- ual nature, [sic.] Yet she very likely inherited from her mother, through the latter's efforts to avoid maternity, a dislike for children 'and a refusal to bear them, thus incurring her husband's ill feeling; or she may have inherited a dislike for her husband's attentions.” [This is most respectfully referred to Havelock Ellis, and doubt- less it will be found very edifying by him.] “A wife may have so strong an affection for her husband that, even though she is lacking in desire, she takes a certain pleasure in giving him pleasure ; but it is clear that this is a different thing from sexual pleasure, and that unless a woman enjoys this sort of pleasure she is not only losing what Nature intended she should have, but is violating a natural law of her being, and must suffer the penalty in one way or another.” Of course, we find, later on in the same paragraph, that “the elTect of the Viavi system of treatment in such cases is remarkable in every way . . . rejuvenates the wliolo nature ■ [sic] of a woman—makes her perfect in all the attributes of idfcliood.” “Everything connected with it (Viavi) tends to bring women into a closer relationship with Nature and Nature’s God.'’ “Curetting, the ordinarily prescribed treatment for flooding (metrorrhagia), has been rendered obsolete by the Viavi system of treatment.” “If the disease is in the form of tumors or polypi in the womb, she will be advised, sooner or later, unless she adopts the Viavi sys- tem of treatment, to submit to an operation in which her abdomen will be cut open on the median line, and the symmetry of her fly me destroyed; perhaps she will be advised to submit to the removal of the womb. The Viavi system of treatment renders all these meas- ures wholly unnecessary.” “A woman afflicted with any form of iniinful menstruation is in positive and imminent danger of a surgical operation, whether minor or capita], unless she adopts the Viavi system of treatment.” “Curetting is resorted to because those who employ it have no better means of treating the conditions that they wish to overcome. The Viavi system of treatment has rendered curetting unnecessary wherever employed.” “Leucorrhea in time entirely destroys the chief function of the vagina. Its walls become loose and flabby. Thus sexual commerce becomes unsatisfactory and incomplete.” “ , . . the remarkable effectiveness of the Viavi system of treatment . . . places it in the power of healthy wives to LIMIT THE NUMBER of their Offspring for proper reasons, and women who arc not lit for maternity to avoid it by natural means.” What was it we asked about Viavi being recommended for tlie prevention of conception?