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Materia Medica

Emmenagogues

restored the Uterine discharge, before or about the 12th day, and did
not lie heavy upon the stomach. I have employ’d it both in private
and Hospital Practice, and tho it sometimes failed yet upon the whole
I cannot hissitate to recommend it. I will here take the oportunity
of mentioning a circumstance worth your recollection, in the year 87,
I assisted Dr L_ of Rhode Island in discovering the connection between
the mother and foetus in Utero, we try'd whether madder would tinge the
bones of the foetus by giving it to pregnant rabits &c but we found it
always produced abortion and thus our experiments fail’d.* [footnote back 1 page]

Stimulating Emmenagogues.

Mercury. We have already observed that this article is a
stimulant of a verry powerfull kind, it is also classed among the
Emmenagogues Dr Cullen thinks it usefull in
obstruction, but not in retention of the menses, he did not carry it
so far as to excite salivation. I have employ’d it to advantage in
retention and have excited a salivation with good effects.

Rosemary. This is an article doubtless familiar to all of
you, it is given as an emmenagogue in the form of a decoction.** [footnote back 1 page]

Juniperus Sabina. This is well testafy’d as an
Emmenagogue, it has been used to expel the placenta in difficult cases, and