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Murray & Nickell
Cotton Root Bark
Small boxes of old American patent medicine
for women's diseases,
headache, stomach illness, menstruation, and
birth control
SarahAnne
Hazlewood generously donated the
medicine to this museum, part of her
huge gift of medical instruments,
books and advertising material about
women's health.
Harry Finley
created the images.
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Just as with the
cotton root bark, the box measures
2 1/8" x 2 1/8" x 1" (5.4 x 5.4 x
2.54 cm).
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Emmenogogue
means promoting the menstrual
flow. Making the uterus contract
more would theoretically shorten
the menstrual period. It might
also promote abortion. Menstrual
extraction works from the
other end with similar results. Ergot is
a fungus that attacks grain crops
(and humans); one form causes
contractions of the uterus.
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