In this case it is well to correct it at once and to let the uterine treatment go on with the general treatment.

If there be bad lacerations of the womb or perineum, their surgical relief may await a change in the general status of health,--say at the fourth or fifth week.

If there be only congestive or other morbid states of the womb or ovaries, they are best left to be aided by the general gain in health; but in this as in every other stage of this treatment it is unwise, and undesirable therefore, to lay down too absolute laws.

Having satisfied ourselves as to these points, and that rest, etc., is needful, we begin treatment, if possible, at the close of a menstrual period, because usually the monthly flow is a time at which there is little or no gain, and by starting our treatment when it is just over we save a week of time in bed.
The next step is, usually, to get her by degrees on a milk diet, which has two advantages.

It enables us to know precisely the amount of food taken, and to regulate it easily; and it nearly always dismisses, as by magic, all the dyspeptic conditions.