ce, bathing, the daily use of such cathartics as Dr. Pierce's
Pleasant Pellets, and, finally, the use of some general uterine
stimulant, such as Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription, will generally
prove successful in cases of amenorrhea resulting from plethora.

RETENTION AND SUPPRESSION FROM ANAEMIA. To describe the condition of the
patient whose blood is low and deprived of the richness, warmth, and
bloom, it once possessed when it kindled admiration and enthusiasm in
others, is but to give a picture of a numerous class of female invalids.
It is sad to see beauty fading, vigor waning, and Bright's disease or
consumption slowly wasting the blood and consuming the vital cells,
until the spirit can no longer dwell in its earthly abode and death
claims the skeleton for dust.

CHRONIC DECLINE, with its attendant anaemia, may be induced by bad
habits, destitution, or constitutional depravity. Sickly forms, wrecks
of health, address our senses on every side. All these subjects
evidently once had a capital in life, sufficient, if properly and
carefully husbanded, to comfortably afford them vital stamina and length
of days. Alas! they have squandered their estate, perchance in idleness
and luxurious living, or have wasted it in vanities or misdirected
ambition. Having become bankrupts in health, there is necessarily a
failure of the menstrual function, and then follows a _panic_. All the
blame of the insolvency and general derangement, is unjustly attributed
to the non-performance of the duties of the uterus. Thus, this organ is
altogether _dependent_ Upon the general health for its functional
ability, yet frequently treatment is instituted to compel menstruation,
regardless of the condition of the system. Thus the enfeebled uterus is
wrongfully held responsible for general disorder, because it ceases to
act, when _by acting_ it would further deplete the blood and thus
materially contribute to the already existing chronic decline.

No matter what are the causes of this decline, whether they are the
follies of fashion, the effect of indolence, debility in consequence of
insufficient food, perversion of nutrition by irregular habits, lack of
exercise, or the taking of drastic medicines, the result is anaemia and
amenorrhea.

TREATMENT. We would suggest in such cases a nutritious diet, increased
exercise, cleanliness, regular habits, hard beds, and useful employment.
The diet may be improved by animal broths, roasted meats, fre