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will also be advisable; and for the relief of pain the following 
remedies have been tried and found good. If the one does 
not relieve after a fair trial use the others :— 
We 
Extract of Belladonna ............ Half drachm. 
Powdered Camphor....... tit tense SC Mrachiis 
Bite WM MENE 45 sack tera sho alin Three drachms. 
WOME tt 4 tence chr te ae ee One ounce. 
Mix, and spread on a cloth, and lay over the seat of pain. 
2. 
The Magic Liniment...... son te tighy SaaS Ode 
3. 
The Soothing Liniment ........... ... Page 213. 
If these should fail it might be well to try a small fly blister, 
just sufficient to cover the painful spot. Warm sitz baths, 
sitting over the steam as in painful menstruation. If every- 
thing fails, and the pain is undermining the health of the 
patient, it will be well to seek advice as to the advisability of 
getting the operation for removal of the ovaries done. It is 
well not to let the system run down too far, for the operation 
requires a certain amount of strength in the patient to stand. 
it. We have seen the operation performed by some of the 
experts of New York. It may be interesting and instructive. 
to give an account of it, which will show what some of our 
citizens have had to pay £50 to £100 for to certain medical 
extortioners, who, like a class in Scripture, devour 
widows’ houses by enforcing their outrageous fees. The 
doctors, or some of them, want protection; but it is our 
opinion the public want protection against their extortion. 
OVARIOTOMY. 
The subject of the operation was a young woman about 24 
years of age. She had suffered a long time with an uncontrol- 
lable pain, She was put to sleep with ether, the greatest 
care being taken that everything likely to be required was 
at hand, and the skin sponged with an antiseptic solution— 
