skin should be kept active by frequent baths, and the patient, if
able, should walk or ride in the open air, and freely expose herself to
the sunshine. If the invalid be too weak to exercise much, she should go
out in warm weather and sit in the open air. Sunshine is no less
important in maintaining animal, than in supporting vegetable growth and
health. The human being, like the plant, sickens and grows pale, weak
and tender, if secluded from the sunlight. The apartments occupied
should be thoroughly ventilated. Many women are sickly and feeble
because they live in badly ventilated rooms.

We cannot too strongly urge in this, as in all other chronic diseases
peculiar to women, that the bowels be kept regular. Frequent, but small
doses of Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets will prove most beneficial. If
the vaginal passage is tender and irritable, an infusion, or tea of
slippery-elm bark is very soothing, and may be used freely with a
vaginal syringe. Whatever injection is employed, should be preceded by
the free use of Castile soap and warm water, to thoroughly cleanse the
parts. One part of glycerine to six parts of water is a soothing lotion
when there is much tenderness, heat, and pain in the vagina. If there be
no great tenderness in the vagina, or if the acute, inflammatory
symptoms have yielded to the lotions already suggested, then a tonic and
astringent injection should be employed.

For this purpose a wash made by dissolving one of DR. PIERCE'S PURIFYING
AND STRENGTHENING LOTION TABLETS, in one pint of hot water is a superior
application and will not fail to be of great benefit in controlling the
disagreeable drain. If your medicine dealer is not supplied with these,
mail 25 cents in one-cent stamps to us and we will forward a box of the
Lotion Tablets by return post.

These Lotion Tablets have for many years been used in the treatment of
obstinate cases of leucorrhea at the Invalids' Hotel and Surgical
Institute, and their efficiency has been alike gratifying to both
patient and physician.

If _pruritus_ or severe itching, be also a symptom, the itching will
readily yield if the parts be cleansed with Castile or other fine soap
and warm water, followed by the application of a compound composed of
two ounces of glycerine, one ounce of rose-water, and one drachm of
sulphite of soda; or, for the sulphite of soda, two drachms of borax may
be substituted. The following lotion is a good one to relieve pruritus:
sug