she has placed her body in a suitable posture—­say, lying on the back with knees drawn up, sitting on bidet, or standing with one foot on a chair, or whatever other position she finds suitable.  A doctor’s help is needed only when first selecting the right size of pessary.  The pessaries are made in ten different sizes, each size being numbered, and the right size can always be obtained on order.  No harm may come from wearing the pessary for a day or two, but it is highly desirable as a matter of cleanliness and otherwise to remove the pessary in the morning when performing the sexual toilet.  The pessary should, of course, never be worn during the menstrual period.  A good rubber pessary should last from three to four months, and it should be tested occasionally by filling it with water to see that there is no hole in it.  If it has been fitted shortly after a miscarriage or confinement, refitting is desirable at the end of a few months.  But in normal circumstances refitting is not necessary.

[Illustration:  DIAGRAM 5.—­Scale:  One-sixth actual size.]

[Illustration:  DIAGRAM 6.

Two FORMS OF SUPPOSITORIES.  ACTUAL SIZE.

These melt rapidly after introduction and provide a pool of antiseptic fluid around mouth of womb.]

[Illustration:  DIAGRAM 7.

COVERED SPIRAL SPRING RUBBER PESSARY.  SEEN IN PROFILE.

It is understood that this is circular.  The thickened rim retains this circular shape by means of enclosed spiral spring when the pessary 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