This is much more employed in domestic than in regular medical practice. The extent to which it has been long used, and continues to be used in families, with a view to its effects upon the uterine function, especially among country people, proves, I think, that it is not without powers of this kind; and I have been assured, upon good medical authority, that it is not only an excellent emmenagogue, but possessed of considerable powers in promoting uterine contraction. The volatile oil has been frequently used with a view to produce abortion; and reference has already been made to three cases of death, caused by it in this country. (See vol. i. p. 311.) As an emmenagogue, it is best employed in the form of infusion (ibid), and should be exhibited most freely at the period when the menses ought to appear in their due course.