ctly
understood that we will not under any circumstances prescribe medicines
or perform any operation to relieve women of pregnancy.

Mechanical means are resorted to by abortionists, and many women produce
abortion upon themselves. It always terminates in lasting injury and
sometimes in speedy death. Certain medicines will sometimes produce
abortion but they are very unsafe. An opinion is very prevalent that if
abortion be produced before the movements of the foetus are felt, there
is no crime committed. It should be remembered that _life begins with
conception_, and, at whatever period of pregnancy abortion is committed,
_life is destroyed_. Whoever disobeys the Divine injunction cannot
escape his own consciousness of the deed, and the anguish and bitter
remorse which ever after disturb the soul.

TREATMENT. In threatened abortion, there is pain in the back or lower
part of the abdomen, and later some flow of blood. The first object is
to obtain perfect rest and quiet, and assume the recumbent position. By
lying down, the blood will be more easily diverted to the surface of the
body. Gallic acid, in doses of five grains every two or three hours, is
often a valuable agent to arrest the hemorrhage, but opium in some form
should be relied upon principally. A Dover's powder, ten grains, may be
administered, to assist in determining the blood to the surface and
extremities of the body and to allay irritation. The room should be
cool, the patient should lie on a hard bed, and all company should be
avoided, for excitement favors abortion. If the flow of blood equals a
gill in amount, there is little hope of preventing abortion, and the
treatment of the case should be entrusted to the family physician.

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WOMAN AND HER DISEASES.

An imaginative poet avers that woman is the link connecting Heaven and
earth. True it is, we see in her the embodiment of purity and heavenly
graces, the most perfect combination of modesty, devotion, patience,
affection, gratitude and loveliness, and the perfection of physical
beauty. We watch with deep interest the steady and gradual development
from girlhood to womanhood, when the whole person improves in grace and
elegance, the voice becomes more sonorous and melodious, and the angles
and curvatures of her contour become more rounded and amplified,
preparatory for her high and holy mission.

The uterus, or womb, and ovaries, with which her who