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cases, 1 tea-spoonful in cold, sweetened -water; repeat in 10 to 20 minutes, if 

 needed, and at longer intervals ss long as needed. For children, in stomach or 

 bowel difficulties, according to age and severity, from 10 drops to 3^ tea-spoon- 

 ful, as required to meet all cases. 



5. Painful Menstniation and Nervous Debility, Stim- 

 ulating Tonic for. — Quinine, 60 grs. ; morphine and arsenious acid, 

 each 1 gr. ; strychnine, 1 gr. ; alcoholic ex. of aconite (or if this is not on 

 hand, the same amount of the ex. of hyoscyamus may take its place), 3 grs. of 

 the one used. Mix very thoroughly, and make into 30 pills. Dose — Take 1 

 pill only, every 6 hours, until relieved. Women troubled with painful menstru- 

 ation, should keep them on hand for use, as soon as the least pain is manifested; 

 but do not take them any oftener than 1 once in 6 hours. 



Remarks. — This pill I obtained from an old physician, whom I have known 

 over 40 years, and I know him to be in every way reliable. Some will say: 

 "They contain poisonous articles." So they do, and so do very many of our 

 best medicines. It depends wholly upon the amount taken as to their injurious 

 effects; here we have 2 grs. of quinine, % gr. of the ex. of aconite, -i^^. of a gr. 

 of morphine and arsenious acid, and ^th. of a gr, of strychnine, only, in each 

 pill. If they are taken as directed, as to dose and time — 1 pill, 6 hours apart— 

 there is not the least danger in their use, as these articles are all sometimes, 

 eiven in doses twice as large as here given. It is indeed, a happy combination 

 of our most reliable remedies, for cases requiring the properties named — some 

 thing to allay pain and strengthen the system. After the 30 pills have been 

 taken, if not cured before, wait a week, at least, before having any more made. 

 By that time some of the chinoidine, or cinchonidla pills, found among the 

 Ague Remedies or the tonic pills for Debility following Leucorrhea, may be 

 taken, with good results. 



DISEASES OP THE WOMB, UTERUS— The organ in which 

 the embryo lives and grows until the time of birth. It is shaped some- 

 thing like a pear, with the broad end uppermost. Its broadest part is called 

 its fundus; it has also a body and a neck; its mouth opens into the vagina. In 

 the unimpregnated state, it would hardly contain a kidney -bean, but at the full 

 time, it expands sufficiently to contain one or more children, with their waters, 

 membranes, and after-births. At the upper part of the womb, two broad mem 

 branous expansions arise, and are the means of its attachment to the sides of 

 the pelvis; in the doublings of these expansions are situated the ovaria, the 

 receptacle of certain vesicles, which are afterwards animated; and also the 

 tubes, through which one or more vesicles pass down into the uterus, there 

 being an opening at each side of the fundus. Sometimes the embryo grows in 

 one of these tubes, instead of getting into the uterus. Such extra-uterine con- 

 ceptions are generally fatal to the mother and child. From the womb proceeds 

 the Monthly Discharge. 



The sympathies of the womb with the other parts are of the most general 

 and extensive kind. Not even the stomach itself has more influence on the rest 

 ct the system. When the state and contents of the womb are altered by preg- 



