e flat water, and it is
desirable to drink as much water as possible in hot weather. By mineral
water I mean carbonated bottled waters intended for table use. Care
should be taken that the water is only lightly impregnated with salt.

It is much safer to drink a well-known water. The water may not be
bottled at the spring or it may be bottled under unsanitary conditions.
In many cases mineral water is not all that it should be in cleanliness.
Unless one is sure of the purity of a bottled water good hydrant water
supplied through the city pipes is safer.

In traveling, however, and at summer resorts it would be well to drink
nothing but mineral water of a well-known brand. Only by doing this and
by being certain that the bottle has not been refilled can one be safe.
The supplied on trains and in resorts frequently is not as pure as that
supplied in large cities.

On the whole, however, mineral water has no particular advantage over
ordinary water except that the well-known brands are sure to be pure,
and the carbonization makes it more tasty and so increases the amount
consumed. It is much safer and more healthful to drink a well-known
mineral water than the so-called soft drinks, many of which are unclean
and harmful.

DISEASES OF WOMEN

CHAPTER XXIX

DISEASES OF WOMEN

Importance of Diseases of Women--The Beginning of Female
Disease--Ailing Women Are Inefficient--As Home-makers, as Wife,
as Mother--Few Ailing Women Become Pregnant--The Chief Cause of
Female Disease--The Existence of the Average Mother--Female
Diseases Are Avoidable--The Story of the Wife--Women Who Don't
Want Children--Abuse of the Procreative Function--What the
Woman with Female Disease Should Do--Cancer in Women--Cancer of
the Breast--Cancer of the Womb--What Every Woman Should Know
About Cancer--Change of Life--The Menopause--The
Climacteric--The Average Age at Which the Change of Life
Occurs--Symptoms of the Change of Life--Importance of a Correct
Diagnosis--Danger Signals of the Change of Life--Conduct During
the Change of Life.

No conscientious physician can give thought to this subject without
being profoundly stirred. It may justly be said that all types of
disease affecting the general health, the happiness, and the efficiency
of the people are equally important, and should elicit the same degree
and quality of kindly consideration. For many reasons this