- 1. Douche with warm water or weak antiseptic lotion (warm).
- 2. Insert suitable suppository.
- 3. Place rubber pessary in position
After Connection.
- 4. Douche.
- 5. Remove rubber pessary. (Urinate to facilitate ejection of surplus fat.)
- 6. Douche and dry parts.
The use of rubber pessary does not do away with desirability of douching, but it does enable the woman to douche at her own convenience with safety.
ANTISEPTIC LOTIONS.
Dr. K.R.D. Shaw, of 144, Harley Street, London, W.1, who has had a very wide experience of "prevention" in different parts of the world during the last twenty-five years, has named the following as suitable disinfecting lotions:—
Half a teaspoonful of Lysol in 5 pints of warm water;
or One teaspoonful of Sanitas in 5 pints of warm water;
or One quarter teaspoonful of Bacterol in 5 pints of warm water;
or 2 grains of Sulphate of Copper in 5 pints of warm water.
N.B.—Where there is grave danger of venereal infection, it is an excellent additional precaution to douche first with soap and water, and douche again with antiseptic lotion. The sooner this is done the better.
If all or most of these hygienic measures are widely made known to women, it can rightly be claimed that women have been released from the twin terrors of unwanted pregnancy and venereal infection, which are at the present time ruining their marital health and happiness in so many cases. Even if some only of these measures are adopted, the nation as a whole cannot fail to benefit mentally, morally and physically. The success of the measures, of course, depends to some extent on their being taken in time, but in this, as in many other directions, the old proverb holds good: Better late than never.