e practice from larger ones, and
through ignorance continue it often to maturity without knowing that it
is bringing upon them a physical and moral injury.

_If mothers instructed their daughters on this subject there would be
fewer broken lives._

SYMPTOMS.--The main symptoms are wakefulness, restless nights, headache,
indolence, melancholy, indisposition to study, forgetfulness,
despondency, weakness in the back and private organs, no confidence in
one's own abilities, a desire for seclusion from society; whites,
hysterics, and inability to look any one in the face. Sometimes the
muscles are relaxed, limbs tremble, the skin is sallow and dry, with
pain in the womb.

=REMARKS. Write to Mrs. Pinkham in perfect confidence, and she will tell
you exactly what to do. Delay is dangerous in this matter.=

CHAPTER XIII.

DYSPEPSIA, CONSTIPATION, GENERAL DEBILITY, SLEEPLESSNESS.

=Dyspepsia, Acute.=--Acute dyspepsia is usually caused by some improper
diet, as the eating of an unusual article of food or of a larger amount
than necessary. Such articles of diet as cucumbers, unripe or overripe
fruit, an excessive amount of sweets, rich salads, heavy puddings, etc.,
may so irritate the stomach that an acute attack of dyspepsia follows.

=Nature Often Cures.=--Nature often makes a prompt cure in these cases by
causing a sharp attack of vomiting or diarrhoea. If a cure is not made
in this way, then we can imitate nature by giving an emetic, or by
taking a laxative, in order to rid the body of the indigestible material
as soon as possible.

=Treatment.=--If there is much pain in the stomach, a mustard plaster
should be placed directly over the pit of the stomach, or cloths wrung
out in hot water. For the next day following the attack the diet should
be restricted to milk, or poached eggs on toast, or something of this
kind.

=Chronic Dyspepsia.=--It is chronic dyspepsia, however, which is so
annoying because of its persistence. It has been called "The American
Disease" because so many people are troubled with it.

=Symptoms.=--Persons suffering from chronic dyspepsia complain of a bad
taste in the mouth, dry throat, nausea, and a feeling of great weight in
the stomach for an hour or two after each meal.

Frequently there is no appetite whatever, or it may be even more
ravenous than natural because of the irritation and inflammation in the
stomach. When the latter is the case, food does not satisfy, and it
becomes