egular Menstruation--Changes in the Quantity
of the Flow--How the Womb is Held in Place--Symptoms of
Menstruation--Menstruation Should Not be Accompanied with
Pain--Don't Give Your Daughters Patent Medicines or "Female
Regulators"--Take Your Daughter to the Doctor--Leucorrhea in
Girls--Bathing when Menstruating--Constipation and Displaced
Wombs--Dress and Menstruation--Absence of Menstruation, or
Amenorrhea--Treatment of Amenorrhea--Painful Menstruation, or
Dysmenorrhea--Causes of Dysmenorrhea--Treatment of
Dysmenorrhea--Sterility in the Female--Conditions Which Affect
the Fertility of Women--Climate--Station in Life--Season of the
Year--Age--The Tendency to Miscarry--Causes of Sterility in the
Female--Displacement of Womb--Diseases of Womb, Ovaries, or
Tubes--Malformations--Lacerations--Tumors--Leucorrhea--Physical
Debility--Obesity--Special Poisons--"Knack of
Miscarrying"--Miscarriage--Cause of Miscarriage--The Course and
Symptoms of Miscarriage--What to do when a Miscarriage is
Threatened--Treatment of Threatened Miscarriage--Treatment of
Inevitable Miscarriage--After Treatment of Miscarriage--The
Tendency to Miscarriage.

MENSTRUATION

We have explained in the previous chapter what menstruation is, its
frequency, its significance and its origin. There are a number of its
common characteristics with which the mother and daughter should be
acquainted.

IRREGULAR MENSTRUATION.--Menstruation may occur once (the first time)
and fail to recur the following month or for a number of months. This
need cause no alarm as long as the general health remains good. It will
come again in its own time. Nervousness may cause a suspension of
menstruation. This is quite common in school girls who are driven too
hard at school, whose sleep is interfered with, whose appetite is poor
and who are allowed too many social indiscretions, as parties, dances,
etc., where late hours are observed, all of which should be put aside
until school life is over. Sometimes menstruation will temporarily stop
if the girl goes away from home on a visit.

Sometimes the quantity will be greater than at other times, and a very
scant flow, after it has been free and regular may cause apprehension.
Various causes may be responsible for a decrease, catching cold, sitting
on cold steps or cold ground, wearing damp clothes, nervousness, mental
worry, physical exh