ABORTIONING CATTLE. 
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“ Viburnum Prunifolium in Threatened Abortion and in 
Menorrhagia.—I send you a report of two eases in which tinc¬ 
ture viburnum was used with success. 
“ Case I.—On September 23d, 1878,1 was summoned in haste 
to see Morilla, a colored woman, about thirty-two years old, who 
had received a wound from a fall. On reaching; her home I 
learned that patient, while attempting to replace a rope in a well- 
whirl, had fallen from the well upon the sharp, ragged edge of 
a rail which was driven in the ground near by, with one end pro¬ 
truding, making a wound about five inches long, just above 
pubes, penetrating as far as the muscles of the abdomen. The 
won\an being somewhat advanced in pregnancy, the shock brought 
on strong labor pains. After dressing the wound with ligature 
and adhesive strips, I made examination per vaginum, found the 
os considerably dilated, pains continuing regularly. I gave her 
tincture viburnum with directions to take the same quantity if 
the pains did not cease in one hour. Calling two or three hours 
after, I found the patient resting very quietly, with pains relieved. 
Woman recovered and will soon be confined. 
“Case II.—The next case was a case of menorrhagia (excessive 
menstruation), in which the various preparations of iron, ergot, 
etc., were used without relief. I finally put patient on a tea¬ 
spoonful tincture viburnum, beginning with the medicine two 
days before her period. Flow was considerably diminished. Or¬ 
dered her to repeat same at her next period, which she did with 
marked relief. Patient was a married woman, had been married 
two years, no children. After taking the viburnum a second 
time she became pregnant, and will soon have reached full term. 
“The medicine acts, no doubt, as a uterine sedative, but I can¬ 
not explain the action. I would be very glad if I could see some 
thing in reference to it in your valuable journal.”—(D. B. Nisbet, 
M.D., of Georgia, in Southern Medical Record .) 
The following is from an article read before the Homoeopa¬ 
thic Medical Society of the State of Pennsylvania, by John E. 
James, M.D., Philadelphia: 
“ Mrs. R., mother of one child and the subject of a previous 
miscarriage, was pregnant about three months when, after jump¬ 
ing from an unusually high car-step, she was attacked with sud- 
