Half Moon

Emmenagogue, definition:

emmenagogues, prescribed or taken to increase the flow of menstrual blood

There is a powder of madder by Francis Home, professor of materia medica at Edinburgh University since 1768, a stron clyster with extract of savin by Hartmann, and two unattributed treatments: “The electrical shock applied to the Region of the Pubes” and “Pressure upon the external Iliac Artery, by means of a ligature around the thigh”

Renate Wilson, William Bartram and Eighteenth-Century Medicine: A Collection of Recipes from Post-Revolutionary Philadelphia

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