CHAPTER XXI.. Diseases of Women.

DISEASES OF WOMEN.

Nine-tenths of American women have these maladies--Common-sense hints--Inflammation--Mental sufferings--A cause of insanity--Ulceration--Induration--Errors in dress and diet--Sitz-bath--Thermal bath--Injections--Valuable exercises--Caustic treatment--Acids and probes--Sufferings induced and prolonged--Physicians taking the back track--Reforms effected by the protest of the people--Leucorrhea--Displacements--Hysteria 263-275