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