le system is in
intimate sympathy, render her doubly susceptible to injurious influences
and a resulting series of diseases, from which the other sex is entirely
exempt. By their sympathetic connections they wield a modifying
influence over all the other functions of the system. Physically and
mentally, woman is man modified, perfected,--the last and crowning
handiwork of God. When, therefore, this structure so wonderfully
endowed, so exquisitely wrought, and performing the most delicate and
sacred functions which God has ever entrusted to a created being, is
disturbed by disease, when the nicely-adjusted balance of her complex
nature deviates from its true and intended poise, the most efficient aid
should be extended, in order that the normal equilibrium may be
regained, her health restored, and her divine mission, on which human
welfare so largely depends, be fulfilled. Its importance should elicit
the best efforts of the highest type of mind, the ripe development of
genius, and the most scientific administration of the choicest, rarest,
and purest medicinal elements in the whole range of nature.

A VAST EXPERIENCE. As the remedial management of diseases of women has,
for many years, entered very largely into our practice at the Invalids'
Hotel and Surgical Institute, located at 663 Main Street, Buffalo, N.Y.,
comprising the treatment of many thousands of cases annually, we have
been afforded great experience in perfecting and adapting remedies for
their cure, enabling us to meet their requirements with increased
_certainty_ and _exactness_.

TREATING THE WRONG DISEASE. Our improved and perfected system of
diagnosing, or determining, the _exact_ nature and extent of chronic
affections, which, in most cases, we are able to do at a distance, and
without a personal examination of the patient, as will be more
particularly explained in the appendix, or latter part of this little
book, has enabled us to avoid the blunders so often committed by the
general practitioner, who not infrequently treats those afflicted with
chronic ailments peculiar to women, for long weeks, and perhaps months,
without ever discovering their real and true disease, or condition.
Thus, invalid women are often uselessly subjected to treatment for
dyspepsia, heart disease, liver or kidney affections, sick headaches,
and various aches and pains, as if they were _primary_ diseases, when in
reality, they are only so many local manifestations, or _sympto