COSTIVENESS is another complaint to which pregnant women are liable. This is hurtful in its consequences, being not uncommonly the cause of fever, tenesmus, pain in the bowels, and abortion. Care must be taken to obviate costiveness by the use of such food as will have a laxative effect. The use of graham bread, oatmeal gruel, raisins, figs, grapes, roasted apples, baked pears, brown bread, cracked wheat, stewed prunes, and other varieties of farinaceous food and fruit, may obviate the necessity of taking opening medicines (F. 108, or milk of magnesia.) An enema is an excellent remedy, and every lady should have a good enema apparatus, by which she can administer an injection to herself, and if she suffer from constipation, she should take an enema twice or three times a week, and the early morning is the best time. The clyster may be warm water, or castile soap and water, of the temperature of new milk. It may be well to give occasionally an aperient to insure a thorough clearance of the whole bowels, and castor oil, salad oil, citrate of magnesia, seidlitz powder, stewed rhubarb, or an electuary of figs may be given. I sometimes direct that the woman should take every day a small dose of oil, in a cup of water gruel or oatmeal gruel. SEVERE PAIN in the bowels and rectum is sometimes caused by a column of hard and indurated feces, which remain for a number of days in the rectum and colon. Not only pain but inflammation, and other serious ills, may result if such a condition is neglected. If taking injections does not suffice to give relief, manual assistance is necessary. The nurse should learn the art of removing them if necessary; she should use a convenient instrument, carefully conducting it into the anus, or she may thrust her finger into the vagina to break the hard mass, and assist in its expulsion, then she should wash it out with repeated clysters. FOR ABDOMINAL PAINS that are caused by its distention, and by the weight of the enlarged uterus, the woman should wear a bandage, or an abdominal supporter, adjusted to fit the abdomen, and made with proper straps and buckles to accommodate the increasing size of the abdomen. To relieve the pain, the abdominal walls may be rubbed with equal parts of sweet oil and laudanum. Troublesome HEMORRHOIDS may be caused by constipation, and also by the congestion in the parts, and by the pressure made on the vessels of the part by the enlarged uterus. It is proper sometimes to use emollient fomentations and cataplasms. Relief may often be given by making firm and gentle pressure between the finger and thumb of each distinct tumor, till they are all compressed and returned within the anus.