cipate in this duty have been for years preparing themselves for it.
Each month a train of congestive symptoms have taxed their working
strength; pregnancy is therefore a period of rest and recuperation,--a
physiological episode in the life history of these parts. If any ailment
arises during pregnancy it is a consequence of neglect, or injury, for
which the woman herself is responsible,--it is not a natural accompaniment
of, or a physiological sequence to pregnancy. Find out, therefore, wherein
you are at fault, rectify it, and it will promptly disappear.

MORNING NAUSEA OR SICKNESS.--So-called morning nausea or sickness is very
frequently an annoying symptom. It is present as a rule during the first
two or three months of pregnancy. How is it produced and how can it be
remedied?

It is produced most frequently by errors in diet. It may be caused by an
unnatural position of the womb or uterus, by nervousness, constipation, or
by too much exercise or too little exercise. The physician should be
consulted as soon as it is observed to be a regular occurrence. He will
eliminate by examination any anatomical condition which might cause it; or
will successfully correct any defect found. When the cause is defined his
instructions will help you to avoid any error of diet, constipation, or
exercise. Many cases will respond to a simple remedy,--a cup of coffee,
without milk, taken in bed as soon as awake will often cure the nausea. The
coffee must be taken while still lying down,--before you sit up in bed. If
coffee is not agreeable any hot liquid, tea, beef tea, clam bouillon, or
chicken broth, or hot water may answer the purpose, though black coffee,
made fresh, seems to be the most successful. Ten drops of adrenalin three
times daily is a very certain remedy in some cases, though this should be
taken with your physician's permission only. If the nausea occurs during
the day and is accompanied with a feeling of faintness, take twenty drops
of aromatic spirits of ammonia in a half glass of plain water or Vichy
water. Sometimes the nausea is caused by the gradual increase of the [81]
womb itself. This is not usually of a persistent character and disappears
as soon as the womb rises in the abdominal cavity at the end of the second
month.

Nausea frequently does not occur until toward the end of pregnancy. In
these cases the cause is quite different. Because of the size of the womb
at this time the element of compression become