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162 bath upon retiring, to arrest night sweats, or sponging with hot water. He adds:—


 * —These conditions are not among those for which alcoholic liquors are likely to be advised by a physician, but women frequently resort to Lydia Pinkham's Compound and other alcoholic preparations in the vain hope of finding the relief so positively promised in the nostrum