p's Milk of
Magnesia taken every night for some time just before retiring.

Heartburn is the result of eating improper food, or a failure to digest the
food taken. Starchy foods should be avoided. Meats and fats should be taken
sparingly. Avoid also the et ceteras of the table, as pickles, sauces,
relishes, gravies, mustard, vinegar, etc. Good results follow dry
meals,--meals taken without liquids of any kind. Live on a simple, easily
digested, properly cooked diet. Chew the food thoroughly, take plenty of
time and be cheerful.

CONSTIPATION DURING PREGNANCY.--Most women are as a rule more or less
constipated during pregnancy. It is caused by failure to take the proper
amount of outdoor exercise, to take enough water daily, to live on the
proper diet, to live hygienically, or because of wrong methods of dress. It
is most important that the bowels should move thoroughly every day.
Pregnancy no doubt aggravates constipation by diminishing intestinal
activity. Consequently there is a greater need for activity on the part of
the woman, and open air exercise is the best way to accomplish this. [85]
She should eat fruits, fresh vegetables, brown or Graham bread, or bran
muffins, figs, stewed prunes, and any article of diet which she knows from
experience works upon her bowel. She should drink water freely; a glass of
hot water sipped slowly on arising every morning or one-half hour before
meals, is good. Mineral waters, Pluto, Apenta, Hunyadi, or one teaspoonful
of sodium phosphate, or the same quantity of imported Carlsbad salts in a
glass of hot water one-half hour before breakfast, answers admirably. If
the salts cannot be taken a three- or five-grain, chocolate-coated, cascara
sagrada tablet, may be taken before retiring, but other cathartics should
not be taken unless the physician prescribes them. Rectal injections should
be avoided as a cure of constipation during pregnancy. They are very apt to
irritate the womb and if taken at a time when the child is active, they may
annoy it enough to cause violent movement on its part, and these movements
may cause a miscarriage. See article on "Constipation in Women."

VARICOSE VEINS, CRAMPS, AND NEURALGIA OF THE LIMBS.--When cramps or painful
neuralgia occur repeatedly in one or both legs, some remedial measures
should be tried. Inasmuch as the cause of this condition is a mechanical
one, it would suggest a mechanical remedy. The baby habitually seeks for
the most comfortable