Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-02-15

When we look back to childhood and
think of what mother advised, we feel
pretty certain that she advised what was
right from her own experience. She
inherited later in her instinct of mother
hood knowledge of childish ailments and
a certain class of remedies that she knew
we'll and their effects. Experience after
know as we'll as doctors, and often better,
what atls young girl on the threshold
OF young womanhood and what she
needs. For nearly forty years many
mothers have recommended to ailing
girls prescription made from we'll
known native, medicinal plants. Lady's
Slipper root, Golden Seal root. Black Co
hosh root, Unicorn root, Blue Cohosh root
and chemically pure .glycerine make one
of the best prescriptions for the period
ical troubles and Affections which visit
womankind at one time or another.
Prof. r. Ellingwood, M. 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 relieves
Jno. M. Scudder, M. d., says of the same
root, at is valuable in all cases Of
nervous excitability or irritability.n OF
Golden Seal root, Edwin M. Hale, M. D.,
Professor of Mdterid MeClicd at Hahne-
mann Medical College, Chicago, says {:
Vim its general effects on the system
there is no medicine in use about which
there Is such general unanimity OF opfn-
ion. 1t is universally regarded as a
tonic useful in all debilitated states. y
Prof. f. Ellingood, M. D., author Of IA
Treatise on Matertn Medica and Thera-
peutics," says of Golden Seal root: ut Is
an important remedy in disorders of the
eoon,b." OF Black Cohosh root Prof.
Jno. N. King, M. D., author of Women
and Her Diseases" says: "Upon the re-
influence, promoting regularity. In dys-
menorrhea painful periods, 1t is sur
passed by no other drug, being of the
greatest utility in Initiative and conges-
tive conditions, for dragging pains re-
sembling the pains of rheumatism and
for side ache" OF Unicorn root the
AMERICAN D1sPENsAToRY says: ut is
as uterine tonic, and gradually remov-
ing abnormal conditions, while at the
same time it imparts tone and vigor to
the reproductive organs, hence 1t is much
used in leucorrh@a, amenorrh9a Sup
pressed periods), dysmenorrhea painful
periods), etc"
(Helonias Dioical. one of the chief ingre-
dents .of DR.. Pierce's Favorite Pre-
scription:
"A remedy which invariably acts as
a uterine invigorator and always favors
q condition which makes for normal
activity of the entire reproductive sys-
tenn, 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 aOtth aDl.ich 1 am
acquainted. In the treatment of diseases
peculiar to women it is seldom that a
case is seen which does not present some
Indication for this remedial agent"
He continues: rHelonias Unicorn root
through Its tonic and Alternative intlu-
ence-acts equally we'll in amenorrhDa
Suppressed menstruation) and in menor-
rhagia flooding or profuse menstruation).
It Is especially called for in cases of
'amenorrhHa which are accompanied by
general debility and an atomic (weak)
condition Of the digestive organs, as it
increases the appetite and promotes di-
gestion and assimilation. When there
Is atony (weakness) of the generative
organs and a tendency to miscarriage Its
tonic influence upon the sexual system