Notes on diseases of women / by James Oliver.

  • Oliver, James
Date:
1888
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Notes on diseases of women / by James Oliver. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    II. Facts Relative to Menstruation. In every healthy human female as a rule, during the so-called child-bearing epoch, which extends on the average over a period of thirty- two years, the uterus becomes the seat of a periodically recurring functional disturbance evidenced by the emission of a more or less marked hemorrhagic discharge. As the initial establishment and each subsequent recurrence of this monthly phenomenon is frequently ac- companied by symptoms of a general as well as local character, we shall designate under the appellation menstruation, the whole essential train of events and not its mere outward mani- festation. Menstruation is a crisis of transition, and as such changes generally are full of pain, it is not at all astonishing that we should so frequently find this phenomenon in the human female associated with more or less disturbance of a
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