fect quiet, however, is the most
essential thing for the patient. She should lie on her back and take
internally a teaspoonful of paregoric every two hours; drink freely of
lemonade or other cooling drinks, and for nourishment subsist chiefly on
chicken broth, toast, water gruel, fresh fruits, etc. The principal
homeopathic remedies for this disease are ergot and cimicifuga, given in
drop-doses of the tinctures.

5. INJURIOUS EFFECTS.--Miscarriage is a very serious difficulty, and the
health and the constitution may be permanently impaired. Any one prone to
miscarriage should adopt every measure possible to strengthen and build up
the system; avoid going up stairs or doing much heavy lifting or hard work.

6. PREVENTION.--Practice the laws of sexual abstinence, take frequent
sitz-baths, live on oatmeal, graham bread, and other nourishing diet. Avoid
highly seasoned food, rich gravies, late suppers and the like.

[Illustration]

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The Murder of the Innocents.

[Illustration: AN INDIAN FAMILY. The Savage Indian Teaches Us Lessons of
Civilization.]

1. MANY CAUSES.--Many causes have operated to produce a corruption of the
public morals so deplorable; prominent among which may be mentioned the
facility with which divorces may be obtained in some of the States, the
constant promulgation of false ideas of marriage and its duties by means of
books, lectures, etc., and the distribution through the mails of impure
publications. But an influence not less powerful than any of these is the
growing devotion of fashion and luxury of this age, and the idea which
practically obtains to so great an extent that pleasure, instead of the
health or morals, is the great object of life.

2. A MONSTROUS CRIME.--The abiding interest we feel in the preservation of
the morals of our country, constrains us to raise our voice against the
daily increasing practice of {256} infanticide, especially before birth.
The notoriety this monstrous crime has obtained of late, and the hecatombs
of infants that are annually sacrificed to Moloch, to gratify an unlawful
passion, are a sufficient justification for our alluding to a painful and
delicate subject, which should "not even be named," only to correct and
admonish the wrong-doers.

3. LOCALITIES IN WHICH IT IS MOST PREVALENT.--We may observe that the
crying sin of infanticide is most prevalent in those localities where the
system of moral education has been longest neglected. This inhuman c