ence, injuries occasioned by giving
birth to children, congestions, enlargements and displacements, may all
operate as causes.

TREATMENT. We cannot too strongly condemn the practice so popular at the
present time with physicians generally, of indiscriminately burning all
uterine ulcers with strong caustics, such as nitrate of silver, chromate
of potassium, and other similar escharotics, regardless of the condition
of the general system. Ulcers of the womb must be healed in the same
manner as those upon any other part of the body. It is an irrational
practice to repeatedly cauterize them, expecting thereby to promote
healing, while the system is vitiated and the vitality far below the
standard of health. Enrich the blood, tone up the system, keep the
ulcers cleansed by the frequent use of lotions, and they will generally
heal. Caustics often aggravate the irritability and interfere with the
healing processes of nature. Ladies should not unnecessarily submit to
the exposure of their persons. If they perseveringly employ the
treatment which we shall suggest, other local treatment will _very
rarely_ be found necessary. This modern warfare which physicians are
waging upon the unoffending womb is a most irrational practice. Our
grandmothers got along very well without exposing themselves to the
humiliation and tortures of this new-born empiricism. We do not wish to
be understood as undervaluing or denying the necessity, in rare cases,
of examinations of the uterus, or as being unappreciative of the aid
afforded in such investigations by the speculum, and the beneficial
effects of local applications made directly to the womb through that
instrument. What we affirm is, that such examinations and applications
are, in the practice of most modern physicians, made unnecessarily
frequent, resulting many times in lasting injury to the patient.

GENERAL MEANS. As has already been indicated, constitutional treatment
should be principally relied upon to cure ulceration of the neck of the
womb. Put the system in perfect order and the local ulceration cannot
fail to heal. If you have a sore or ulcer upon the leg you very
naturally reason that there is a fault in the system at large or in the
blood. You do not apply caustics to the sore, but you go to work to
restore the blood and system to a normal or healthy condition and as
soon as this is accomplished the open and rebellious sore, or ulcer,
heals of its own accord. All you have to do