 | Wooster Beach - 1852 - 768 sivua
...This preparation will also promote the menstrual discharge. Smith asserts that there is no doubt that Indian women owe the facility of their parturition...the root for two or three weeks before their time. This view appears to be confirmed by Dr. Benedict, of the state of Kentucky, who declares that he has... | |
 | J. K. Crellin, Jane Philpott, A. L. Tommie Bass - 1990 - 568 sivua
...emmenagogue, that it developed a general reputation. Peter Smith, another influential source, asserted that Indian women owe the "facility of their parturition" to a constant use of the root for two or three weeks before their time.24 When British author Robert Bentley (1862) tried... | |
 | American Medical Association - 1852 - 962 sivua
...by the Indians and their imitators for rheumatism, dropsy, colic, hiccough, epilepsy, hysteria, &c. And Smith asserts that the Indian women owe the facility of their parturition to a constant use of the root for two or three weeks before their time." Raf. Med. Fl. I. c. Little, if at all, employed... | |
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It appears to be particularly suitable for female diseases, and Smith asserts that the Indian women owe the facility of their parturition, to a constant use of a tea of the root for two or three weeks before their time. As a powerful emmenagogue it promotes... 