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Keep the person quietly in bed, and have the foot of the bed raised as
suggested above. If the hemorrhage is at all severe, a physician should
be summoned in order that a careful examination may be made and the
cause of this unusual occurrence thoroughly understood. =If you do not
understand your ailments write to Mrs. Pinkham, Lynn, Mass. Her advice
is free and always helpful.= All such letters are strictly confidential;
only women assist her in answering them.

CHAPTER VIII.

DISEASES OF THE UTERUS AND OVARIES.

=Inflammation of the Uterus.=--Inflammation of the uterus may be either
acute or chronic. When acute, as following an abortion, taking cold
during menstruation, etc., there is considerable fever, pain in the
lower part of the bowels, nausea, and sometimes vomiting, tenderness on
pressure over the uterus, pain when passing the urine and general
discomfort.

=Treatment of the Acute Form.=--The treatment consists in having the
person remain quietly in bed, applying bottles of hot water to the feet,
if they are cold, and keeping cool cloths over the head if hot from the
fever. In this way the circulation may be better balanced, and the
tendency to congestion relieved.

Then take a flannel cloth about six inches square, dip it in hot water,
and wring as dry as possible with the hands; now sprinkle ordinary
spirits of turpentine freely over one side, and place this side directly
over the centre of the lower part of the bowels, that is, just over the
uterus. Cover this flannel with another warm, dry flannel, and allow it
to remain on until the smarting is quite pronounced, or the skin red.
Then remove this, and apply hot cloths wrung from hot water. Use the
turpentine cloth again in four or six hours, if the tenderness and pain
still persist.

=Only One Medicine Needed.=--Begin at once with Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound, in order that the attack may be cut short. This the
Compound will certainly do if taken faithfully according to directions.

After the acute attack is over, if there is any constipation, this
should be relieved by Lydia E. Pinkham's Liver Pills; and if there is
any discharge from the uterus, Lydia E. Pinkham's Sanative Wash should
be used once or twice each day, in order to hasten recovery all that is
possible.

=Chronic Inflammation.=--It is not exaggerating in the least to say that
probably 75 out of every 100 women in the world have more or less
chronic inflammation