y is in
position. To insert conveniently, the thumb and forefinger are placed on
opposite sides of rim, and the spring pressed into a long oval shape.]

5. _Antiseptic Douching._--If antiseptics of any kind are used, such as
lysol, they should always be used in _very very weak solutions_, and
should be varied from time to time. There is no necessity ordinarily to
use anything but plain warm water, with perhaps a little table-salt in it,
for internal cleansing, and soap and water for external cleansing; then
dry parts carefully. But some women prefer a weak antiseptic vaginal wash,
as they do a weak antiseptic mouth wash. If a woman is unfortunate enough
to be married to a man liable to infect her, then she should follow the
same practice as detailed here (every effort, of course, being made for
her husband to be cured as soon as possible), and she should use a
_special suppository_, as prescribed by her doctor or otherwise
authoritatively recommended, and should douche and urinate _immediately
after each sexual connection_. She should also, before douching with weak
disinfecting lotion, wash thoroughly--internally and externally--with
suitable soap and water. This will certainly help to prevent infection in
the vagina and elsewhere. The rubber pessary and the suppository will give
her a very real measure of protection against the worst of all forms of
infection, viz., uterine and ovarian. She can also protect herself against
infection in the female urethra--that is, the passage from the bladder--by
urinating _immediately after each connection_, as advised. A good deal of
nonsense is still talked by some medical practitioners about the alleged
harmfulness of douching. The same kind of distracting and misleading
statements were made a few years ago regarding antiseptic mouth-washes,
which were similarly condemned. Fortunately, we are passing out of these
dark ages! Soon it will be regarded as quite as natural and necessary and
desirable to cleanse the genital passages as to rinse out the mouth or
wipe the nostrils.

It is important to remember that the "_personal equation_" counts for
something in choosing a disinfectant, some substances suiting one person
and some suiting others. "One man's meat is another man's poison." It is
also very desirable to "_ring the changes_" by using, say, lysol one day,
something else the next, and so on. Using three or four simple
disinfectants alternately on different days of the week tend