should be taken in mo deration, extremes of heat and cold being care fully avoided.
The Breasts require some attention. Pain, swelling, and tenderness of the breasts are among the early signs of pregnancy, as we have seen, and require no special attention. But if the breasts are small and ill-developed, and the nipples pressed in, as they may be by the pressure of stays, trouble after delivery may be saved by drawing them out with the aid of a breast-pump, or the ordinary breast exhauster, or by manipulation with the fingers.
Should the nipples be tender, the best means of toughening them is by the use of the tannin and glycerine of the chemists. The use of alum and whisky is too apt to make them hard with a tendency to crack.
is a matter of the greatest moment, for the comfort of the patient, that daily movement of the bowels be obtained. This ought if possible to be secured by diet— the use of oatmeal, fruits like figs, prunes, stewed apples, &c. Sometimes medicine is needed, and many take a dose of castor-oil at regular intervals. It is comparatively safe,
though nauseous, but it often occasions "false pains" near the termination of the pregnancy. The writer is in the habit of recommending not castor-oil but Hunyadi Janos mineral water. If there is any doubt at all of obtain ing daily an easy and sufficient movement of the bowels, he advises the mineral water to be taken each morning before breakfast, in the quantity the patient finds suits her, and it ought to secure a gentle motion, without purg ing, after the lapse of an hour or two. The average quantity is a claret-glassful, but the patient should begin with a small wine-glassful and go up, if necessary, till the suitable quan tity is found. It should be then regularly taken. It is a simple remedy, practically in capable of doing harm, and its use he has found, over and over again, to conduce greatly to the health and comfort of the patient. No other medicine should be employed without proper advice.