conditions exist leads us to hope that the time is not far
distant when it will be compulsory for all participants in the marriage
ceremony to submit to a thorough physical examination. By this means,
and by this means only, will the innocent be protected. No one can
conceive, unless he has been identified, as a physician, with one of the
large metropolitan hospital clinics, of the extent of this class of
disease, and of the frightful suffering caused, and innocent lives
ruined, by infection conveyed in this way. It is a tragic corollary to
the marriage vow "for better or for worse."

If a woman is fortunate enough to fall into the hands of an honorable
physician, who will tactfully explain to her the serious significance of
her condition and obtain her consent to treat her until she is cured,
which in all probability will include a surgical operation, and will do
so with diligence, without regard to the size of the bill, she will
indeed be a lucky woman. It is from women who are suffering with such
diseases,--most of them without the slightest idea of what ails
them,--that the venders of advertised nostrums reap their fortunes, and
it is from the same victims that most of the advertised medical "quacks"
look for their blood-money. The great difficulty, however, lies in the
failure of the woman to appreciate the seriousness of her condition, and
as a consequence she fails to understands why it should take so long to
cure her. She loses confidence in her physician, she buys certain
"cures" recommended to her by Mrs. Busybody and later tries other
physicians and ends by losing faith in herself. Meantime she grows worse
and worse. There are thousands such. It may be here stated without fear
of contradiction that if the public in general would repose more
confidence in the medical profession, there would be much less
suffering, much less sorrow, fewer regrets, fewer irresponsible "isms,"
and cults, because there would be fewer disappointed individuals to
support them. If the medical profession would condescend to employ the
tactics and devices of those questionable, fashionable agencies that
claim the power to cure human suffering, it could quickly reap the
profit and the laudation that it now escapes because it keeps the faith.

The way to be cured of any disease, if it is curable, is to engage a
reputable physician and follow his instructions implicitly. Let him
understand you expect him to see you through your trouble a