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don flooding and pain, which continued at intervals for nearly 
two days before I was called. I found the haemorrhage very 
profuse, the pains regular, the os partially dilated. The testi¬ 
mony of the mother of the patient was, that of a certainty the 
foetus had passed, but doubting it I prescribed the viburnum 
every quarter of an hour. Two or three doses wrought material 
change, when the time was gradually lengthened to two hours. 
The next morning pain and discharge were both stopped, and in a 
few days she was about as usual. Continued to full time, and was 
delivered of a healthy child. 
“ A peculiarity of the case, however, was that twice between 
this threatened miscarriage and the delivery, she was attacked 
with violent haemorrhage without pain, giving rise to a fear of 
placenta praevia, but which was evidently caused by a partial de¬ 
tachment of the placenta. Cinnamon tincture cured both at¬ 
tacks. 
Mrs. N., mother of one child and subject of one miscarriage, 
after a very long walk, was attacked in the night with a free dis¬ 
charge (a gush), followed by pain at intervals and continued flow. 
Upon reaching the patient in the morning, I prescribed rest 
(which she did not take), and viburnum every half hour. Improve¬ 
ment began immediately, and continued without any return of 
the trouble. 
“ Mrs. M., mother of three children and subject of several mis¬ 
carriages, has mucous dystnenorrhoea, and quite frequent passages 
of moles at menstrual period. Was called last June and found the 
following symptoms: three months pregnant; chills slight; 
flashes of heat and oppressed breathing; headache; backache; 
nausea; vomiting; had great'gush of blood followed by pains. 
Viburnum gave immediate relief, and there has been no re¬ 
turn since. 
“ I have noticed that the cases which have responded the quick¬ 
est to the viburnum are those with the great flow or gush of 
blood at or near the beginning of the trouble.” 
Three Cases Illustrating the dse of Viburnum Prunifo- 
lium in Miscarriages. —(By M. V. B. Morse, M.D., Marblehead, 
Mass. Read before the Massachusetts Homoeopathic Medical So¬ 
ciety, Oct. 9th, 1878). 
