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my reach, I lost sight of her. Several times she had to use the 
medicine very freely. I think it was on the 6th of October an 
artillery and cavalry light took place near the house where she 
was boarding; her husband, wounded some time before this, was 
compelled to fly for safety ; charges were made through the yard; 
a number of soldiers were killed about the place; the house was 
ransacked, an old gentleman living with the family murdered, yet 
she passed safely through this time of excitement and trial. 
“ Case II.—In March, 1865, Mr.-consulted me in regard 
to his wife. She had never gone to full term, but had had several 
children at the eighth month, all of them dying one month after 
birth. Frequent pregnancies and hemorrhages had seriously impair¬ 
ed her health, for improving which I ordered suitable remedies. 
To prevent premature parturition, she being again pregnant, 1 
directed tincture viburnum. At the eighth month, as usual,labor 
commenced vigorously, with copious sanguineous discharge. Both 
were soon arrested by a free exhibition of viburnum. She went 
on till full term and gave birth to a healthy boy, who still sur¬ 
vives at a year old. 
“ Case III.—Mrs. M-, mother of several children, has for 
several years suffered much from dysmenorrhoea, hemorrhages 
and abortions, and is pale, feeble and despondent. I ordered iron 
by hydrogen to improve the blood and nervous system, Fowler’s 
arsenical solution to check leuccorrhoea and prevent hemorrhage, 
and tincture viburnum to allay uterine congestion, pain, irritation 
and to tone up the reproductive organs. Some months afterward 
(March 2, 1865,) I was summoned in haste to see her. She was 
much improved every way, and supposed two or three months 
pregnant. Two bodies of troops had been ordered to form a 
junction and prepare for battle instantly at a point a mile distant, 
but visible from the upper story of the dwelling. .Running hasti¬ 
ly up stairs to see the array she was hurt; pains commenced, and, 
almost immediately, pretty free hemorrhage, which alarmed her 
excessively. A viburnum tree growing within a few paces of the 
house, I ordered infusions of the bark, which soon put a stop to 
both hemorrhage and contractions. On the 16th of August fol¬ 
lowing, before day, she was' alarmed by the escape of liquor anmii, 
