I soon discovered that the catarrhal inflammations got worse, in proportion to the trouble and pains I took to treat them locally, so that I became ashamed of my ill success and abandoned the local treatment entirely, and this I shortly discovered was the means of curing them. Instead, I simply directed patients to rinse themselves with quite warm salt water, that is, a tablespoonful of ordinary cooking salt dissolved in a gallon of water. Now I prefer Femina antiseptic lotion to the same quantity of water, which has greater healing properties than either pulverized borax or common salt. I particularly advised them to keep their feet and lower extremities warm, regulating their diet and keeping their bowels open. I noticed that the patients began to improve, and that the improvement continued until they were fully restored to health and vigor. This method of treatment would not keep an office overcrowded with deluded patients, but it proved far more satisfactory to all concerned than meddlesome measures, and illustrated one of the most common abuses to which suffering women are liable. In taking a _laxative_ patients must feel their way as to the proper dose to take in their own individual case; constitutions differ very much in this respect, so that it is impossible to lay down one and the same rule for different persons. It is not good practice to give medicines three or four times a day in cases of habitual constipation, for it is liable to derange the digestion and interfere with the appetite. The proper method is one dose at bedtime and this should be increased or diminished until the suitable dose of the remedy has been ascertained; when this is accomplished, the dose of the remedy should be gradually lessened, a few drops every day, till it can be entirely dispensed with. If the ordinary dose fails to relieve the bowels, an additional treatment of glycerine enema at or about the time that the stool is to take place is to be employed. One or two teaspoonfuls of glycerine should be diluted with an equal quantity of water, and by means of a hard rubber piston syringe thrown into the rectum. The stimulating effect of glycerine on the nerves and mucous membrane, materially assists in relieving the torpor of the rectum, which has become insensitive to the irritation of its natural contents. Patients who are costive must get into regular habits of relieving themselves, that is, have a regular hour every day when to go to stool, then the medicine will in time cure the most obstinate cases of constipation, otherwise it is impossible to cure it. It takes a constant amount of _effort to get well_, so that those who are too indolent or think it too troublesome to exert themselves, cannot hope to recover.