ffering about, and a return to right living will stop it.

Nine out of ten women are troubled more or less by weakness and diseases
peculiar to their sex. It is so because they do not take proper care of
themselves--because they neglect little ills and little precautions. A
woman in perfectly hearty health goes through her time of trial with
comparative ease. The thing to do then, is to make all pregnant women
healthy--to strengthen them generally and locally. The medicine and
tonic to do it with is Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription.

It is a powerful invigorant and nervine. It soothes and strengthens the
nerves and acts directly on the feminine organism in a way which fits it
for the proper and regular performance of all its functions at ill
times.

Taken during gestation it robs childbirth of its dangers to both mother
and child, by preparing the system for delivery, thereby shortening
labor, lessening pain and abbreviating the period of confinement. The
Favorite Prescription also promotes the secretion of an abundance of
nourishment for the child, if taken after confinement, besides building
up the mother's strength and making her recovery more perfect.

ABORTION. (MISCARRIAGE.)

The term _abortion_ is used to denote the premature expulsion of the
foetus. If the expulsion takes place within four months after
impregnation, it is termed _abortion_; if between the fourth and seventh
month, _miscarriage_; if after the seventh month, but before the
completion of the full period of gestation, _premature labor_.

Abortion may be due to those agents which act directly upon the uterus
and cause the expulsion of the foetus; to those which occasion the death
of the foetus, thereby effecting its ejection; and it may be _criminal_,
that is, produced intentionally by direct agencies intended for that
purpose.

SYMPTOMS. The premonitory symptoms are pain in the loins and lower part
of the back, a dull pain in the abdomen and thighs, nausea, chills, and
palpitation. The membranes and blood-vessels of the uterus become
lacerated, causing profuse hemorrhage. The discharge of blood from the
vagina is sometimes attended with excessive pain.

THE CAUSES which act directly upon the uterus to produce abortion may be
violent exercise, lifting, accidents, or injuries from blows or falls.
Nervous susceptibilities, a plethoric condition of the system, anaemia,
exhaustive discharges, use of improper food, uterine displacements,
co