The Florida agriculturist., 1906-04-11
ALWAYS TAKE MOTHERS ADVICE.
Mothers Medicine Chest.

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
well and their effects. Experience after
all is the best teacher. Most mothers
know as we'll as doctors, and often better,
what ails young girl on the threshold
of young womanhOod and what she
needs. For nearly forty years many
mothers have recommended to ailing
girls q 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. f. 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 frrita bilty." OF
Golden Seal root, Edwin NJ. Hale, NJ; D.,
Professor of Mdterid Medicd at Hahne-
mann Medical College, Chicago, says:
rIn its general effects on the system
there is no medicine in use about which
there is such general unanimity OF opin-
ion. 1t is uniuersdlly regarded as
tonic useful in all debilitated states"
Prof. F. Ellingood, M. D., author of "a
Treatise on MdteriG Medtcd and Thera-
peutics," says of Golden Seal root: rIt is
an important remedy IN disorders Of the
eOonab." OF Black Cohosh root, Prof.
and Her Diseases" says: "Upon the re-
productive organs it exerts a specific
influence, promoting regularity, In dys-
menorrhoea (painful periodS), it is sur
greatest utility in irritative and conges-
tive conditions, for dragging pains re-
Sembling 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 it impartS tone and vigOr to
the reproductive organs, hence it is much
used in leucOrrhoea, amenOrrhRa Sup
pressed periOdS). dySmenOrrhea (palnful
periOdS), ETC."
DR.. John Fyfe, Editor of the Eclectic
Medical Review" says of Unicorn root
CHelOnias DiOica), one of the chief ingre-
dients OF DIR. Pierce's Favorite Pre-
IA remedy which invariably acts as
uterine lnvigOratOr and always favOrS
a condition which makes for normal
ACTIVITY OF Gno onUlro 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 1Ditb aUhich I 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: "HelOnias Unicorn root
ifc 49, a.,
ence-acts equally well in amenorrhea
Suppressed menStruation) and in menOr-
rhagia NoOding 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 it
increases the appetite and promotes di-
geStiOn and assimilation. When there
Is atony (weakness) of the generative
organs and tendency to miscarriage its
tonic influence upon the sexual system