Before we take up the treatment of constipation in women, it is necessary to explain more fully the type of constipation which we referred to as "incomplete" constipation. There is a condition of the bowel, in which we find its wall coated with hard fecal matter. The size of the bowel may be dilated as a consequence. This condition may occupy part, or most, of the entire length of the large intestine. In the middle of this hard mass there is a small channel through which semi-liquid matter passes. When the bowel moves, it is this semi-liquid matter that passes out, and this constitutes the daily movement. We have consequently a condition in which we have a daily movement but not a complete emptying of the bowel. The character of the stools from such a bowel must necessarily be more or less of a semi-liquid consistency, because the intestine, being coated with a hard dried out layer of old fecal substance, is prevented from absorbing the liquid part of the fresh fecal mass passing through it. This condition may exist for a considerable time, but it will slowly undermine the health and vitality of any person in whom it exists. The symptoms which a patient in this condition complains of are,--a feeling of being tired and languid, no energy or vim, headache, loss of appetite, loss of flesh, neuralgic pains, nausea, vertigo (dizziness), insomnia, frequent colds, cold hands and feet, biliousness, sallow skin and muddy complexion, liver spots, coated tongue and a "bad breath," nervousness, melancholia, various abnormal conditions and diseases of the skin, pimples, blackheads, eruptions, eczema, piles, appendicitis, diseases of the intestinal wall as a result of the constipation, Bright's disease of the kidney, and many other morbid conditions. Any physician could name many symptoms, which were never properly understood but which are now known to be caused by the absorption of poisons resulting from inactivity of the bowels. Patients may not necessarily have all of the above symptoms; they may have a number of them, or they may have all of them, and they may have others not mentioned at all. TREATMENT OF CONSTIPATION IN WOMEN.--To effect a movement of the bowels in a patient who is a victim of constipation is not a cure. We can indefinitely cause bowel action by drugs, etc., but the condition will remain the same or worse. When habitual constipation exists there is an underlying condition affecting the entire system which indicates that something is radically wrong. It may be necessary to change the whole routine of the patient's life. It will certainly be necessary at the very beginning to inquire into the daily diet, exercise, and surroundings.