leucorrhoea
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Tea made from parched egg shells or green coffee is good for leucorrhoea.
From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 4 by Work Projects Administration
The diseases known as menorrhagia, dysmenorrhoea, leucorrhoea, amenorrhoea, abortions, prolapsus, chronic inflammations and ulcerations of the womb, with a yet greater variety of sympathetic nervous disorders, are some of the distressing forms of these derangements.
From Plain Facts for Old and Young by Kellogg, John Harvey
Although women suffer no seminal loss, they suffer the debilitating effects of leucorrhoea, which is in some degree injurious in the same manner as seminal losses in the male.
From Plain Facts for Old and Young by Kellogg, John Harvey
This, I think, promises to be the most efficient preparation, and will prove valuable as an injection in the treatment of leucorrhoea, hemorrhages, and similar disorders.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 415, December 15, 1883 by Various
I suffered for years with painful menstruation, pains in the back, leucorrhoea, dizziness and nervous prostration.
From Treatise on the Diseases of Women by Pinkham, Lydia Estes
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