The trouble used to come punctually vjirhm six
months of the b'rth 01 a child. The first ;:ma it r.7as
very serious; ireis \-.e~ cre-l s'vreiing after eating,
which ceased o^Iy afrer rhe for..:5 >7a3 vomited ; ir
the course of f: '.ov; ' vet-ales ihe £12:3 of "the Dfitienf:
becarre very se^c :.,5 ; rhoro- v:z3 a general swelling
all over en>d c-^c-fl^sness --vss apparent on the
slrJr:* «.V this .vises- l*re cisesse we? sjocressed by
ir z ,:*e cr ar ^'I'crsriaic rrii^r^e acnrctinijngf bismuth
scl'c^lare and other pcisons ^sedatives; It was
even anticipated that the disease would return, and
so c. copy of the prescription was obtained and
preserved. The patient lecovered for the time
being/ but her health was distinctly lowered and
she remained an invalid for long after. There was
no trouble after the birth of the second child, who
died within eight days. Thereafter the disease
appeared regularly after each confinement, until
the year 1913. On the earlier occasions the same
mixture was employed; later a patent medicine
known as Hewlett's mixture was used. Each time
the disease was more quickly suppressed/ with
a still further lowering of health, so that life became
a regular martyrdom. After the birth of the fifth
child, there were two spells of the disease; the first
of these came in 1912, and was suppressed as before.
At this sta^e, the patient began taking hip baths
regularly in the afternoons, but there was no change
in the diet. Probably as a result of this, the disease
which was not cured, but only suppressed, was
again brought out. The state of the patient, at this
stage, was very alarming; she became pale,, her
cheeks, belly, hands and feest became swollen v/ith
fluid. But it was resolved that she would be
radically cured this time by natural methods.
Steam-baths every alternate day, and hip baths
twice a day were given; the diet was cut down to