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ground or damp grass, or from a burn or wound. It is not uncommon for
women to labor in the heated wash-room, pounding, rubbing, and wringing
soiled linen, thereby overtaxing the delicate physical system. While
feeling tired and jaded, all reeking in perspiration, they rinse and
wring the clothes out of cold water and hang them upon the line with
arms bare, when the atmosphere is so freezing that the garments stiffen
before they finish this part of the task. Is it any wonder that acute
suppressions occur or that inflammations set in?

The symptoms which naturally follow are a quick pulse, hot skin, thirst,
fever, headache, and dizziness, and the inflammation may locate in the
ovaries, uterus, lungs, bowels, brain, or other parts. No matter what
organs are attacked the menses are suppressed. The suppression can
generally be attributed to an adequate cause, resulting in
constitutional disturbance. The severity and duration of the attack and
the power of the constitution to resist it, must determine the gravity
of the consequences.

TREATMENT. As acute suppression of the menses is due to derangement of
the circulation of the blood, caused by taking cold, by violent
excitement of the propensities or excessively strong emotional
experience, the prominent indication is to secure its speedy
equalization. Give a hot foot, a warm sitz, or the spirit vapor-bath and
administer full doses of Dr. Pierce's Compound Extract of Smart-weed, to
produce free perspiration. Dr. Eberle, a very celebrated medical author,
says that he used the Extract of Smart-weed in twenty cases of
amenorrhea, and affirms, "with no other remedy or mode of treatment have
I been so successful as with this." Our experience in the use of the
Extract has been equally satisfactory. Should this treatment not
establish the function, Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription should be
given three times a day until the system is invigorated, say for
twenty-eight days, when the above course may be repeated, and generally
with success. Should the case be complicated with inflammation of the
lungs, brain, or other vital organs, manifesting alarming symptoms, the
family physician should be called. The treatment should be active and
suited to the indications of each particular case. When the disease
becomes chronic, the active stage of symptoms having passed, and it
continues to linger without making the desired improvement, all the
means suggested for the treatment of suppr