For Chronic Female Complaints. — White vitriol and sugar of lead, each 1-8 ounce; common salt, pulverized alum, and loaf sugar, of each, 1-2 drachm; soft water, i pint. Inject as above. For Prolapsus Uteri, or Falling of the Womb. — Not only the cheapest but the best support will be found to be a piece of firm sponge, cut to a proper size to admit, when damp, of being pressed up the vagina to hold the womb in its place. The sponge should have a stout piece of small cord sewed two or three times through its centre up and down, and left suffic- iently long to allow its being taken hold of to remove the sponge once a day, or every other day at the farthest, for the purpose of washing, cleaning, and using the necessary injec- tions; and this must be done while the patient is lying down, to prevent the womb from again falling or prolapsing. After having injected some of the above tea, wet the sponge in the same, and introduce it sufficiently high to hold the womb in its place. If pain is felt about the head, back, or loins, for a few days before the menses appear, prepare and use the fol- lowing: Uterine Haemorrhages. — Unfailing cure. Sugar of lead, 10 grains; ergot, 10 grains; opium, 3 grains; epicac, i grain; All pulverized and well mixed. Dose, 10 to 12 grains, given in a little honey or syrup. In very bad cases after childbirth, it might be repeated in thirty minutes, or the dose increased to 15 or 18 grains; but in cases of rather profuse masting, repeat it once at the end of three hours, or as the urgency of the jase may require. In every case of female debility make a liberal use of iron, as the want of iron in the system is often the cause of the trouble. Mix fine iron filings with as much ground ginger. MEDICINAL. ^9i Bpse, half of a teaspoonf ul three times daily in a little honey or i|)!pl^sses; increase or lessen the dose to produce a blackness of t|^€ stools. Continue this course until well. Nerve and Bone Liniment. — Beef's gall, i quart; alcohol, i pint; volatile liniment, i pound; spirits of turpentine, i pound; oil origanum, 4 ounces; aqua ammonia, 4 ounces; tincture of cayenne, 1-2 pint; oil of amber, 3 ounces; tincture of Spanish Ujes, 6 ounces. Mix well. Positive Cure for Ague Without Quinine. — Peruvian bark, 2 ounces; wild cherry tree bark, i ounce; cinnamon, i drachm; capsicum, i teaspoonf ul; sulphur, i ounce; port wine, 2 quarts. Let it stand two days. Buy your Peruvian bark and pulverize it yourself, as it is often adulterated otherwise. Dose, a wine- glass full every two or three hours after fever is off, then two or three per day till all is used. A certain cure. Before taking the above, cleanse the bowels with a dose of epsom salts, or other purgative. Green Mountain Salve. — For rheumatism, burns, pains in the back or side, &c. Take 2 pounds of rosin; burgundy pitch, 1-4 pound; beeswax, 1-4 pound; mutton tallow, 1-4 pound. Melt slowly. When not too warm, add oil hemlock, I ounce; balsam fir, i ounce; oil of origanum, i ounce; oil of red cedar, i ounce; Venice turpentine, i ounce; oil of worm- wood, I ounce; verdigris, 1-2 ounce. The verdigris must be finely pulverized and mixed with the oils; then add as above, and work in cold water like wax till cold enough to roll; rolls five inches long, one inch in diameter, sell for 25 cents.

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For Chronic Female Complaints. — White vitriol and sugar of lead, each 1-8 ounce; common salt, pulverized alum, and loaf sugar, of each, 1-2 drachm; soft water, i pint. Inject as above. For Prolapsus Uteri, or Falling of the Womb. — Not only the cheapest but the best support will be found to be a piece of firm sponge, cut to a proper size to admit, when damp, of being pressed up the vagina to hold the womb in its place. The sponge should have a stout piece of small cord sewed two or three times through its centre up and down, and left sufficiently long to allow its being taken hold of to remove the sponge once a day, or every other day at the farthest, for the purpose of washing, cleaning, and using the necessary injections; and this must be done while the patient is lying down, to prevent the womb from again falling or prolapsing. After having injected some of the above tea, wet the sponge in the same, and introduce it sufficiently high to hold the womb in its place. If pain is felt about the head, back, or loins, for a few days before the menses appear, prepare and use the following: Uterine Haemorrhages. — Unfailing cure. Sugar of lead, 10 grains; ergot, 10 grains; opium, 3 grains; epicac, i grain; All pulverized and well mixed. Dose, 10 to 12 grains, given in a little honey or syrup. In very bad cases after childbirth, it might be repeated in thirty minutes, or the dose increased to 15 or 18 grains; but in cases of rather profuse masting, repeat it once at the end of three hours, or as the urgency of the case may require. In every case of female debility make a liberal use of iron, as the want of iron in the system is often the cause of the trouble. Mix fine iron filings with as much ground ginger. MEDICINAL. Dose, half of a teaspoonful three times daily in a little honey or molasses; increase or lessen the dose to produce a blackness of the stools. Continue this course until well. Nerve and Bone Liniment. — Beef's gall, i quart; alcohol, i pint; volatile liniment, i pound; spirits of turpentine, i pound; oil origanum, 4 ounces; aqua ammonia, 4 ounces; tincture of cayenne, 1-2 pint; oil of amber, 3 ounces; tincture of Spanish Flies, 6 ounces. Mix well. Positive Cure for Ague Without Quinine. — Peruvian bark, 2 ounces; wild cherry tree bark, i ounce; cinnamon, i drachm; capsicum, i teaspoonf ul; sulphur, i ounce; port wine, 2 quarts. Let it stand two days. Buy your Peruvian bark and pulverize it yourself, as it is often adulterated otherwise. Dose, a wineglass full every two or three hours after fever is off, then two or three per day till all is used. A certain cure. Before taking the above, cleanse the bowels with a dose of epsom salts, or other purgative. Green Mountain Salve. — For rheumatism, burns, pains in the back or side, &c. Take 2 pounds of rosin; burgundy pitch, 1-4 pound; beeswax, 1-4 pound; mutton tallow, 1-4 pound. Melt slowly. When not too warm, add oil hemlock, I ounce; balsam fir, i ounce; oil of origanum, i ounce; oil of red cedar, i ounce; Venice turpentine, i ounce; oil of wormwood, I ounce; verdigris, 1-2 ounce. The verdigris must be finely pulverized and mixed with the oils; then add as above, and work in cold water like wax till cold enough to roll; rolls five inches long, one inch in diameter, sell for 25 cents.

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