ion.
STERILITY--Barrenness.
STIMULANT--A medicine calculated to excite an increased and healthy
action.
STYPTIC--A substance to stop bleeding.
SUDORIFIC--Inducing sweat.
TAMPAN--A plug to arrest hemorrhage.
TONIC--A medicine which increases the strength of the system.
TESTICLE--Gland that secretes the semen.
THERAPEUTIC--Treatment of disease.
TISSUE--The peculiar structure of a part.
TONSILS--Glands on each side of the throat.
TRACHEA--Windpipe. Triturate--To rub into a powder.
TUMOR--A morbid enlargement of a part.
ULCERATION--The forming of an ulcer.
UMBILICUS--The navel.
URETER--Duct leading from kidney to the bladder.
URETHRA--Duct leading from the bladder.
UTERUS--The womb.
VAGINA--The passage from the womb to the vulva.
VARICOSE VEINS--Veins dilated with accumulation of dark colored blood.
VASCULAR--Relating to the blood vessels.
VENA CAVA--The large vein communicating with the heart.
VENOUS--Pertaining to the veins.
VENTRICLE--One of the lower chambers of the heart.
VIABLE--Capable of life.
VULVA--Outer lips of the vagina.
WOMB--That organ of the woman which conceives and nourishes the
offspring.
ZYMOTIC--Caused by fermentation.

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Alphabetical Index.

A broken heart, Page. 159-161
Abortion, or miscarriage, 253, 254
Adaptation, conjugal, affection, etc, 181-185
Advantages of wedlock, 135-137
Advice to the married and unmarried, 181-188
Advice to the newly married couples, 201-205
A good name, 18-20
Amenorrhoea, 355
Animal magnetism, 470
A perfect human figure, how to determine, 99
A plea for the girls, 380-389
Apoplexy, how to cure, 365
Associates, influence of, 11

Bad company, result of, 11
Bad breath and quinsy, how to cure, 365
Babies, how to keep well, 330-331
Bathing, practical rules for, 370, 371
Baths, all the different kinds of, 372, 373
Beauty, a dangerous gift, 27
Beauty, 91-94
Beauty, sensible helps to, 95, 96
Beautiful children, how to have, 288-290
Beginning of life, 5
Beware of idleness, 436
Beware of advertising quacks, 457
Biliousness, 357
Blackheads and flesh worms, 112
Bleeding, to check, 356
Bleeding, from the nose, 364
Boils, 364
Boys, save them, 390-394
Bruises or cuts, 360
Bunions, 364
Burns and sores, 355

Care of the hair, 107-110
Care of the new born infants, 315