There is a _home treatment_ for mild cases which I recommend to my patients, with satisfactory results. It consists principally of dissolving one teaspoonful of the Femina uterine lotion in a cupful of boiling hot water, after which this should be added to a gallon of warm water of a temperature of 105 degrees F.; these irrigations are to be taken every night, and if the water can be borne hotter the temperature may be gradually increased to 107 degrees F. A napkin should be worn and the bed warmed with a hot water bag before retiring. Ten to fifteen minutes later a Femina vaginal capsule is to be introduced high up into the vagina, by first quickly dipping the capsule into warm water. In obstinate cases I have used electricity with the greatest success. This is administered by means of a broad dispersing electrode applied on the abdomen, and another electrode, covered with a sponge, is carried up the vagina, to the womb. In this manner I employ an intensity of sixty to one hundred and fifty milliampères, for ten to fifteen minutes. This is repeated several times a week, and from three to six weeks, and with other hygienic treatment the patient recovers. When women are in moderate circumstances, and can spare neither time nor money to visit the office, for the length of time that is required for the electrical treatment, I follow the plan of the Berlin clinic, which originated in Vienna, with Prof. Carl Braun, and is strongly recommended and practiced by Dr. Martin, in Berlin. This consists in an _amputation of the cervix_, or, in other words, the abnormally elongated and enlarged uterus is trimmed down, and the diseased membrane is scraped out. While the cervix is recovering from the operation, there is also a diminution in the size of the body of the organ, and the chronic inflammation subsides with it. This operation is not dangerous to life, and in my experience I have as yet never had a bad symptom to interrupt the recovery. In obstinate cases, it is, perhaps, one of the most useful surgical measures that was ever devised, and we owe it to the genius of Professor Braun, that all obstinate cases of this nature are amenable to successful treatment. CHAPTER XVII. ENDOMETRITIS OR CATARRHAL INFLAMMATION OF THE WOMB. _Endo_ means within, and metritis signifies _womb_ and _inflammation_, and when all are combined, the compound term denotes inflammation of the lining membrane of the womb, which is the affection that I am now to consider. It would be impossible to find a single person of middle age who has not experienced sometime during life the discomforts of a catarrh or cold of some part of the respiratory passages, whether in the head or bronchial tubes. The mucous membranes are especially sensitive to noxious influences, and sound a timely note of warning by an _acute catarrh_, which, if heeded, will in many instances save the person from a dangerous, if not fatal sickness.