188 BR. CEASE'S RECIPES. 



author's advice. But as many persons will still have them, I will give a recipe 

 for a suppository for intruducing into the rectum, which W. M. Bemus, of 

 Jamestown, N. Y., tells us through the Brief, in answer to an inquiry, he haa 

 for some time used with marked succes"^ and as it is also good for "enlarged 

 prostrate," will be found doublj- vahiable. It is as follows: 



8. Piles and Enlarged Prostate, Suppository for. — I. For 

 tJie nUs. — Iodoform, 30 grs. ; solid ext. of hyoscyamus, 18 grs. ; cocoa butter, 

 or spermaceti, sufficient to make into suppositories — 6 in number; and intro- 

 duce one into the rectum night and morning. 



II. For the Enlarged Prostate. — This suppository, with the addition of 

 solid ext. of belladonna, in the proportion of one-half gr. to each suppository, 

 is a very satisfactory mode of treatment for enlarged prostrate. 



Remarks. — Although the description is sufficient for physicians, for whom, 

 as before remarked, the Brief is published, to understand the treatment of 

 enlarged prostate, it is not so for the people for whom, especially, this work 

 is published; therefore, the author will explain, by saying, the "prostate" is a 

 gland In the male, lying immediately in front of and below the neck of the 

 bladder, across, as it were, and upon the ureter just at the entrance into the 

 bladder; hence its enlargement causes a pressure upon the urethra or water pas- 

 sage from the bladder, making it difficult to pass the urine, and sometimes pre- 

 venting it wholly, except by passing a catheter to evacuate the contents of the 

 bladder. Then, of course, it lies so near the rectum, into which the suppository 

 is to be introduced for enlarged prostrate, the same as it would be for piles; and 

 I have not a doubt that it will be found very satisfactory for this difficulty. 

 Knowing the importance of imderstanding, as perfectly as possible, anything I 

 desire to do myself, I try, at least, to make everything as plain as possible for 

 the people, for whom I have given a life time of service, and, I trust, have done and 

 may continue, through my books, to do a good many years after my tongue 

 and pen have ceased their labors. This, to me, is the grandest thought of my 

 life — I have done what I could — to benefit mankind. 



9. Piles, Common or Bleeding— Bleeding of the Nose, Womb, 

 Wounds, etc, Remedy for. — Samuel Wimpelberg, M. D., of Pough- 

 keepsie, N. Y., writing to the Medical Bulletin on the subject of piles (of course 

 called hemorrhoids by the doctors), says: " There are numerous remedies recom- 

 mended for the cure of hemorrhoids, and I have tried many; but I can safely 

 say that not one in the whole Pharmacopoeia (whole range of medical books) 

 has given me results half as favorable as the persulphate of iron, [Monsel's 

 salts is the common name, and I will use it in this connection.] 



"In cases known ordinarily as bleeding piles it acts promptly and posi- 

 tively, thus giving the best results. In such cases the dose should be Monsel's 

 salts, 114 grs., ter in die (3 times daily), internally, and the following ointment, 

 applied locally: Simple ointment, 1 oz. ; Monsel's salts, 12 grs. ; mix and apply 

 night and morning, I have known hemorrhoidal tumors, the result of preg- 

 nancy, to disappear entirely in less than a week on the application of the inter- 

 nal use of Monsel's salts, as directed above. 



" Piles, the result of violent efforts at stool (to force a passage), disappear 



