866 BR CHASE'S RECIPES. 



& tendency to restrain the flow and counteract the morbid affections of the 

 (System from whence it proceeds. 



To restrain the flow, the patient should be kept quiet and easy both in body 

 and mind. If it be very violent, she ought to He in bed vdth her head low; to 

 jive upon a Cool and slender diet, as veal or chicken broths with bread ; and to 

 drink decoctions of nettle-roots, or the greater comfrey. If these be not suffi- 

 cient to stop the flow, stronger astringents may be used, as Japan earth, alum, 

 elixir of vitriol, the Peruvian bark, &c. 



Two drams of alum and 1 of Japan earth may be pounded together, and 

 divided into 8 or 9 doses, one of which may be taken 3 times a day. 



Persons whose stomachs cannot bear alum, may take 2 table-spoonfuls of 

 the tincture of roses 3 or 4 times a day, to each dose of which 10 drops of laud- 

 anum may be added. 



If these should fail, half a dram of the Peruvian bark, in powder, with 10 

 drops of the elixir of vitriol, may be taken in a glass of red wine, 4 times a 

 day. 



2. Oil of erigeron 1 to 5 drops every 3^ hour or hour, dissolved in a little 

 alcohol, arrests flooding, or hemon-hage of the womb, promptly. A very severe 

 case of "flooding to death " was saved by putting hot sand bags under the back 

 of the head and heart — hotter than the hand could bear, frequently renewed. 



LEUCORRHEA, FLUOR ALBUS, OR WHITES.— The uterine 

 flow may offend in quality as well as in quantity. What is usually called the 

 fluor alius, or " whites," is a very common disease, and proves extremely hurt- 

 ful to delicate women. This discharge, however, is not always white, but 

 pale, yellow, green, or of a blackish color; sometimes it is sharp and corrosive, 

 sometimes foul and fetid, &c. It is attended with a pale complexion, pain in 

 the back, loss of appetite, swelling of the feet, and other signs of debility. It 

 generally proceeds from a relaxed state of the body, arising from indolence, 

 the excessive use of tea, coffee, or other weak and watery diet. 



To remove this disease, the patient must take as much exercise as she can 

 bear, without fatigue. Her food should be solid and nourishing, but of easy 

 digestion; and her drink pretty generous, as red port or claret, mixed with 

 lime-water. Tea and coffee are to be avoided. I have often known strong 

 broths to have an exceeding good effect; and sometimes a milk diet alone will 

 perfonn a cure. The patient ought not to lie too long abed. When medicine 

 is necessary, we know none preferable to the Peruvian bark, which in this case 

 ought always to be taken in substance. In warm weather, the cold bath will 

 be of considerable service. 



1. Moisten a sponge with glycerine, roll it in fine powder of boracic 

 acid and push up in the mouth of womb daily — a tape or ribbon may be tied to 

 the sponge to remove it. 



2. Obstinate cases of "whites," or leucorrhea may be cured by insutfla- 

 tioTi of powdered vegetable charcoal. 



3. Pond's ex. of witch hazel, 1 table-spoonful in a tea-cupful of warm 

 ?vater, injected well up into the vagina, 3 times a day — cures the worst cases In 

 a vew weeks. 



