The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-02-07
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
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 we'll as doctors, and often better,
what ails young. girl on the threshold
o. young or wo nasrfT at and what she
mothers have recommended to ailing
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 one
ical troubles and Affections which visit
Womankind at one time or another.
Prof. E. Ellingwood, M d., of Bennett
Medical College, says of Lady's Slipper
root: Slt 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, sit is valuable in all cases of
nervous excitability or irritability." Of
Golden Seal root, Edwin M. Hale, M. D.,
Professor of M0teriG Medical at Hahne-
mann Medical College, Chicago, says
there is no medicine in use about which
there is such general unanimity of opin-
ion. 1t is universally regarded as a
tonic useful in all debilitated states"
Prof. f. Ellingood, M. D., author of IA
Treatise on Materia Medica and Thera
a'e 5mportant remedy n, disorders Of the
40on1b." Of Black Cohosh root, Prof.
Jno. NJ. King, M. D., author of Women
and Her Diseases, says: "Upon the re-
productive organs it exerts a specific
influence, promoting regularity. In dys-
nas,ea bT n anb ar Perodf5 d it IS b
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 DIsPENsAToRY says: sIt 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 yigOr to
the reproductive organs, hence it is much
used in leucOrrh9a, amenorrhoea Sup
pressed periods), dysmenorrh9a painful
periOdS) ETC."
Dr. John Fyfe, Editor of the ECLECTIC
Medical Review" says of Unicorn root
CHelonias Dioica), one of the chief ingre-
dents of DR.. Pierce's Favorite Pre-
scription: @
A remedy which invariably acts as
uterine invigOratOr and always favors
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 qDitb aUhic7e / am
acquainted. Inthe 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)
through it's tonic and Alternative influ-
ence -acts equally well in amenorrhHa
Suppressed menstruation) and in menor-
rhagia Flooding or profuse menstruatioD.
1t is especially called for in cases of
amenorrhga 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 it's
tonic influence upon the sexual system