A Solemn Appeal - James White

his wife. Soon after, she called on the same errand;
both accusing each other of having given the
disease. He told both that their hymeneal excess
had inflamed and diseased both, and prescribed
moderation.
But, what stamps effectually the seal of nature's
reprobation on excessive matrimonial indulgence,
is its destruction of the health of woman. Is it not a
most prolific cause of those distressing female
complaints which bury half our married women
prematurely, and seriously impair most of the
balance? Testify, Drs. Sherwood, Banning,
Hollick, Benjamin, and others, in this line of
practice; are not these complaints alarmingly
prevalent, and occasioned mainly by excessive
indulgence? Do not thousand of our women die
annually in consequence? Speak out, ye weakly,
nervous wives, now dying by wretched inches of
these diseases, and say whether your sufferings
were not caused mainly, and have not been
aggravated to their present painfulness, by the
frequency, the fury, the almost goatishness, of your
husbands' demands? I say fury, because though
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