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Treatment.— The following simple measures of 

 treatment will be found valuable in this class of cases : 

 A sitz bath two or three times a week, at a temperature 

 of 92° to 95°. The sitz bath should be followed by a 

 cool wet-sheet rub and vigorous friction. A vaginal 

 douche daily on arising in the morning, and hot spong- 

 ing of the spine, followed by a general cold towel rub, 

 will be advantageous. The patient should wear, dur- 

 ing the night, a moist abdominal bandage, consisting 

 of a coarse towel wrung out of cold water, dry enough 

 so that it will not drip, and wound about the body, 

 covered with several thicknesses of dry flannel, suffi- 

 cient to keep it warm. In the morning the abdominal 

 bandage should be removed, fomentations should be 

 applied to the spine, followed by the cold towel rub. 

 A dry flannel bandage should be worn during the day. 

 Allien the breast is greatly swollen and tender, a fomen- 

 tation may be applied for ten or fifteen minutes once 

 a day, followed by a heating compress, and the breast 

 should be supported by a properly adjusted bandage. 



Painful Sitting. —The patient complains of pain 

 at the extreme lower end of the spine when sitting 

 down or when rising from a sitting posture. The affec- 

 tion is most frecjuently found in diseased conditions of 

 the ovaries, though it is sometimes the result of inju- 

 ries received in childhood, or a fall in which the force 

 of the blow was received upon the lower portion of 

 the spine. The affection is curable, though in some 

 cases a surgical operation is required. 



Treatment.— Fomentsitions, alternate applications, 

 using for the purpose sponges dipped alternately in 

 very hot and very cold water, and the local application 

 of faradic electricity, are of great value in the treat- 

 ment of these cases. An effective bath is the very hot 



