Searchlights on Health eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 507 pages of information about Searchlights on Health.

Searchlights on Health eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 507 pages of information about Searchlights on Health.

MENSTRUAL IRREGULARITIES:  Extracts of cramp bark, forty grains; blue cohosh, ten grains; Squaw wine, forty grains; pokeberry, twenty grains; strychnine, one grain.  Make forty pills.  Dose:  One pill four times a day until relieved.

MENSTRUATION, PROFUSE:  Extracts of white ash bark, two drams; black haw, two drams; cramp bark, two drams; unicorn root, one dram; Squaw wine, one dram; blue cohosh, one dram.  Steep 24 hours in one-half pint of water, add one-half pint of alcohol.  Dose:  Tablespoonful three times a day.

NEURALGIA OF WOMB:  Fl. ext. henbane, two drams; Fl. ext.  Indian hemp, one dram; Fl. ext. snake root, four drams; spirits of camphor, two drams; compound spirits of ether, three ounces.  Dose:  One teaspoonful in water three times a day.  Medicated hot sitz bath.

OVARIAN CONGESTION:  Black haw, sixty grains; Golden seal, sixty grains; Jamaica dogwood, thirty grains; syrup and water, four ounces.  Dose:  One teaspoonful three or four times a day.

OVARIAN SEDATIVE:  Lupulin, ten grains; ergotin, five grains; scutellarin, ten grains; zinc bromide, two grains.  Make twenty pills.  Dose:  One pill after meals.

VAGINISMUS:  Strontium bromide, two drams; potassium bromide, two drams; ammonium bromide, two drams; water to make ten ounces.  Dose:  Tablespoonful morning and night.  Make a suppository and insert night:  Cocaine hydrochlorate, two grains; ext.  Belladonna, one and one-half grains; Strontium bromide, four grains; Oil Theobromat, two drams.  Use every night one such suppository, placed high up in the vagina until all signs of the difficulty are gone.

VAGINITIS:  Resorcine, forty grains; Salicylic acid, eight grains; Betanaphtholis, one grain; add enough water to make it eight ounces.  Dose:  Add to this mixture one tablespoonful to a quart of warm water and douche vagina in above stated manner.  Use also suppository as in Vaginismus.

VULVA ITCHING:  Apply externally morning and night the following salve:  Boric acid, thirty grains; Oxide of zinc, sixty grains.  Powdered starch, sixty grains; Petrolatum, one ounce.  Apply on cotton and to affected parts.

ULCERATIONS OF VAGINA OR WOMB:  Insert a suppository each one made of Boric acid, five grains; Powdered alum, five grains.  Or the following composition; Black haw, two grains; golden seal, two grains; add enough cocoa butter to make one suppository.  Insert and keep in over night after a hot medicated vaginal douche is taken.

UTERINE ASTRINGENT:  Alum, three drams; zinc sulphate, two drams; morphine sulphate, one grain; tannic acid, two drams; Boric acid, six drams.  Mix and use of it one tablespoonful dissolved in pint of warm water.  Inject slowly into vagina in recumbent position, retain the douche fluid as long as possible.  Later on insert when retiring a vaginal suppository.

UTERINE HEMORRHAGES:  Take Stypticin tablets according to printed direction on the package.

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