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316 ESOTERIC ANTHROPOLOGY.
cure every weakness and disease of the female sexual
organs.
There are a few practical observations, which may
best find a place here, and which the reader may do
well to attend to.
Be bold, but not too bold. The heroic treatment is
very good, for those who have but little need of it, and
m acute diseases. Old persons, delicate women, and
feeble children must be treated with care, and it is best
to be safe—to make the water a few degrees warmer
—than to do mischief.
There is danger in certain persons of producing con
gestion of the lungs, by giving
baths. Feel your way.
too cold sitz or other
It is not necessary to suspend treatment during men
struation. Time is needlessly lost, and it is at this
time that women most need treatment. Wear the
bandage, take sitz-baths, and use the vagina syringe the
same as ever. This may seem strange, but it is the
result of experience
in hundreds of cases. This is
especially the case, where a course of treatment has
been already commenced.
All sheets, bandages, compresses, etc., used in
water-cure must be washed every day, and often
boiled, or they are made very filthy by the impurities
which come from the skin. If the same cloths are
used without washing, these matters are reabsorbed.
Every mother should have a small syringe, holding
two or three ounces, to give injections to her infants.
Some children have torpid bowels until they are three
' months old. Much medicine and misery may be saved
by the use of injections.