ch great promises of complete relief equal to
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.

=The Menopause, or "Change of Life."=--This is a cessation of
menstruation. It usually occurs between the ages of forty and fifty
years, although frequently before and even after this time.

=Symptoms.=--The person first notices that although menstruation had
previously been regular, yet now it has become irregular, not appearing
more frequently than once every six weeks or two months; or possibly
passing over a month, and then appearing regularly again for the
following two or three months; or the flow may be less and less month
after month, until gradually it disappears altogether; or, not
infrequently, menstruation ceases abruptly, without any warning
whatever.

=A Natural Condition.=--The change of life should be a perfectly natural
condition, not associated with any unpleasant symptom whatever. Yet this
is rarely the case, while often the suffering at this time is most
intense in every way.

=Affects Nervous System.=--The most severe effects are frequently produced
on the nervous system. These are known as "heat flashes." It is a marked
symptom with a great many women, and is described as a sensation of
waves of heat passing over the body. Sometimes these are very severe,
causing the face to become very red, producing dizziness and intense
headache.

Often there is melancholia, great depression, and not infrequently
complete prostration of the nervous system. The digestion may be
disturbed, producing constipation, diarrhoea, dyspepsia, loss of
appetite, offensive breath, biliousness, etc. Most marked changes are
certainly taking place in the whole system, and it is but natural that
every part of the body should be profoundly impressed.

=Not Expensive Treatment.=--I cannot urge too strongly upon my readers the
necessity of their taking Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound all
through these remarkable changes. It is not a great expense to take
this Vegetable Compound in moderate doses four times a day for weeks, or
even months, during these changes.

=A Critical Time.=--If this period of life be passed over in safety, then
there may be years and years of robust health remaining; while if it be
not attended to properly, the remainder of the life may be one prolonged
day of agony. Even when persons have suffered during all their menstrual
life, they can now have perhaps a score or more of years of complete
relief if they pr