The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-04-23

When We look back to childhood and
think OF what mother advised, we feel
pretty certain that she advised wciat was
right from her own experience. She
Inherited later In her instinct Of mother
hood knowledge of childish ailments and
certain class OF remedies that sho knew
we'll and their effects. Experience after
all Is the best teacher. Most mothers
know as well as doctors, and often better,
what ails young girl on tho threshold
OF young, womanhood and what she
needs. For nearly forty years many
girls prescription made from we'll
known native, medicinal plants Lady's
Slipper root, Golden Seal root. Black Co
ho5h root, Unicorn root, Blue CohoSh root
and chemically pure glycerine make ono
OF the best prescriptions for the period
womankind at one time or another
Prof. L. Elingwood, NJ. D., OF Bennett
Medical College, says OF Lady's Slipper
root. at exercises special influence upon
nervous conditions, depending upon dis
orders OF the feminine organs - -rolieyes
pain, restlessness and nervousness" Prof,
Jno. NJ. Scudder, M, D., says Of tho same
root, at Is valuable In all cases Of
nervous excitability or irrItabiliy.o or
Golden Seal root, Edwin NJ. Hale, M. D.,
Professor Of Mdterta Medtcd at Hahne.
mann Medical College, Chicago, says !:
I'm its general effects on tho system
there is no medicine in use about which
ion. 1t Is 'tntueIsduu regarded as q
tonic useful in all debilitated states" "
Prof. r. Ellingood, M. D., author Of "a
Treatise on Materta Medtc0 and Thera-
peutics," says of Golden Seal root: ut Is
an importCnt remedy IN disorders Of the
Jno, M. King, NJ. D., author OF Women
and Her Diseases" says: upon the re-
productive organs 1t eXcrts a specific
influence, promoting regularity. In dys-
menorrhPa (painful perlods), 1t is sur
passed by no other drug, being OF the
greatest utility in irritativc and conges-
tive conditions, for dragging pains re-
scmbling the pains of rheumatism and
for side acho" or Unicorn root the
AMERICAN DIsPESsAToRY says; ut is
ono Of our most valuable agents, acting
as a uterine tonic, and gradually remov-
ing abnormal conditions, while at the
same time il imparts tone and vigor to
the reproductive organs, hence 1t Is much
used in leucorrhGa, amenorrhGa Sup
pressed periodS), dysmenorrhGa (painful
periods), etc
DR.. John Fyie, Editor of the Eclectic
Medical Review says Of Unicorn root
UIelonas Dioica). one Of the chief ingre
dicnts Of DR.. Pierce's Favorite Pre-
scription:
"A remedy which Invariably acts as
a uterine invlgorator and always iayors
condition which makes for normal
activity of the entire reproductive SyS-
ten. cannot fail TO be Of great useful
ness and OF the utmost importance to the
general practitioner OF medicine. In
HeloniaS We have medicament which
more fully answers the above purposes
than any other drug lOith luhich I am
acquainted. In the treatment OF diseases
peculiar to women 1t is seldom that a
case is seen which does not present some
Indication for this remedial agent
He continues; 'HeloniaS (Unlcorn root
through It's tonic and Alternative Infu-
ence = acts equally well In amenorrh9a
suppressed menstruation) and in mcnor-
rhagia flooding or profuse menstruation).
1t IS especially called for In cases OF
amenorrhpa which are accompanied by
general debility and an atomic (weak)
condition OF the digestive organs, as 1T
Increases the appetite and promotes d.
gestion and assimilation. When there
Is atony lweakness) OF the generative
organs and a tendency to miscarriage its
t5nic influence upon tho sexual system