268 DR. CEASE'S RECIPES, 



If the menses suddenly cease, in women of a full habit, they ought to 

 abate somewhat of their usual quantity of food, especially of the more nourishing 

 kind, as flesh, eggs, &c. They ought likewise to take sufficient exercise, and 

 to keep the bowels open. This may be done by taking, once or twice a week, 

 a little rhubarb, or an infusion of hiera picra in wiae or brandy, or purgatives 

 recommended elsewhere, and if complicated with other diseases, call a doctor. 



DEFICIENT AND PAHTPTTL MEWSTBUATION.-The amount 

 of suffering among women from this disease is alarming, and far greater than 

 in our "grandmothers' days." It seldom appears until they have menstruated 

 some time with considerable regularity, and little or no pain; afterward, they 

 begin to suffer more or less pain, which increases until it becomes grinding and 

 more severe than those of labor. 



It soon affects the general health, destroys the complexion, and ruins the 

 disposition. The pain generally begins in the back, extends to the loins and 

 hips, and is followed by pressing down pain, resembling in severity, those of 

 labor. At first a slight discharge takes place, but suddenly ceases, after some 

 time is renewed and becomes more plentiful, which, together with the pain 

 gradually ceases. The discharge differs from that of a healthy menstruation 

 in appearance, being mixed with lumps, and clots of flaky matter, having the 

 appearance of membrane or skin. The breasts frequently swell and become 

 painful. Women seldom have children who have this disease in a severe form. 



Strictly avoid the use of all spirituous liquors, and keep the bowels well 

 open a few days before the expected attack. The patient should be kept in bed, 

 drink freely of tea made either of pennyroyal, catmint, sage, or the leaves of 

 spruce pine, until the discharge be fully established; after which the pain seldom 

 returns for that period. Sometimes 1 or 2 grains of powdered ipecac, or 

 }4 tea-spoonful of the syrup taken every 2 hours, will bring on the flow 

 freely, when other means fail. Keep up the warm baths for some time. 



1. In painful menstruation, great benefit is received from the use of the 

 warm bath; and apply hot water in bottles to the whole surface of the abdomen, 

 with hot bricks to the feet; or apply a hot poultice or fomentation of hops, 

 tansy, or boneeet and take the following:— Pulverized camphor, 25 grs. ; ma- 

 crotin, .25 grs. ; ipecac, 25 grs. ; cayenne, 12 grs. ; opium, 12 grs. Mix, and 

 make into 24 pills, with ex. of hyoscyamus, and take 1 pill every 2, 3, or 4 

 hours, according to the urgency of the case. 



2. Take warm hip baths }4 hour at a time. Hot fomentation low down 

 9n the back will arrest o*erflot» of menses. 



3. Take }i gr. codeia night and morning. You wonl need anything else. 



4. Painful Menstruation and Othor Pains, Bemedy for.— 

 Dr. King, of Toledo, thinks very much of the following remedy, not only in 

 painful menstruation, but also for pain in the stomat^ or bowels, colic, cholera- 

 morbus, diarrhea, etc. The author has used it in the latter case« with so much 

 satisfaction that he has faith in its virtues in the first named: Oil of cloves, 

 OMinamon, anise and peppermint, each 40 drops {% dr«.); put these into 3 oz* 

 ©f aloohol, and add sulphuric other and laudanum, each 1 o«. Dose— In bad 



