Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-04-16
ALWAYS TAKE MOTHERS ADVICE.
Mothers Medicine Chest

When we look back 10 childhood and
think Of what mother advised. We feel
pretty certain that she advised what was
right froT her own experience. She
Inherited later in her instinct OF mother
hood knowledge Of childish ailments and
certain class Of remedies that she knew
we'll and their effects. Experience after
all Is the best teacher. Most mothers
know as well as doctors, and often better,
what ais young girl on the threshold
OF young wOmanhood and what she
needs. For nearly forty years many
mothers have recommended 10 ailiDg
girls a 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 ono
Of the best prescriptions for the period
lcal troubles and attlictions which visit
womankind at one time or another.
Prof. f. Ellingwood, NJ. d.. Of Bennett
Medical College. says of Lady's Slipper
root: vt exercises special influence upon
nervous conditions. depending upon dis
orders of the feminine organs relieves
pain, reStlessnesS and nervousness" Prof.
Jno. NJ, Scudder NJ. d., says of the same
root, ut is valuable in all cases Of
nervous excitability or irritability.r or
Golden Seal root, Edwin NJ. Hale NJ. d..
Professor OF Muteriu Mcdicd at Hahne-
mann Medical College, Chicago, saws
I'm its general effects on the system
there Is no medicine in use about which
there is such general unsnimity of opin-
ion. 1t Is universally regarded as a
tonic useful in all debilitated states. -
Prof. f. Ellingood, M. D., author of "a
Treatise on Mdtertd Medtcd and Thera-
peutics," says Of Golden Seal root: 1T Is
an important remedy In disorders Of the
,Domb.H OF Black Cohosh root, Prof.
Jno. NJ. King, NJ. d., author OF Women
and Her Diseases, says: "Upon the re-
productive organs IL exertS a specific
influence, promoting regularity. In Ays-
menorrhea painful periods), IL is sur
passed by no other drug, being of the
greatest utility in Initiative and conges-
tive. conditions, for dragging pains re-
sembllng the pains of rheumatism and
for side ache" OF Unicorn root the
AMERICAN DIsPENsAToRY says: at is
one OF our most valuable agents, acting
as uterine tonic, and gradually remov-
ing abnormal conditions, while at the
same time 1t imparts tone and vigor to
the reproductive organs, hence II Is much
used in leucoTrhRa, amenorrhPa (sup-
pressed periods, dysmenorrh9a painful
periods) etc.p
DR.. John Fyfe, Editor of the Eclectic
Medical Review" says Of Unicorn root
lHelonias Dloical, one of the chief ingre-
r'ents Of DIR. Pierce's Favorite Pre-
scription:
"A remedy which Invariably acts as
uterine lnVlgorator and always favors
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 a medicament which
more fully answers the above purposes
than any other drug lOith lChtch I am
acquainted. In the treatment of diseases
peculiar to women IL Is seldom that a
case is seen which does not present some
indication for this remedial aRent.n
He continues: UHelonias Unicorn root)
through its tonic and Alternative infu.
ence - acts equally well in amenorrhGa
suppressed menstruation) and in menor-
rhagia flooding or profuse menstruation)
1t Is especially called for in cases OF
amenorrhBa which are accompanied by
ge' raj debility and an atomic (weaN
condition OF the digestive organs, as 1t
Increases the appetite. and promotes d.
gestion and assimilation. When there
Is atony (weakness) Of the generative
organs and tendency 70 miscarriage its
tonic influence upon the sexual system