Notes on diseases of women / by James Oliver.

  • Oliver, James
Date:
1888
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Credit: Notes on diseases of women / by James Oliver. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    continue unimpaired, the nutrition must be maintained. The tpue nature of the catemenial discharge is still conjectural, yet its elimination from the body renders it highly probable that having already served some special end, its detention in the blood may exert some deleterious in- fluence on the animal economy. It is generally admitted that ovulation and menstruation are co-incident; that they may or may not be, I am not prepared to dispute, that however, they are invariably associated, there seems to me much reason for doubt. That the discharge of an ovum may and frequently does occur quite independently of menstruation, I have no misgivings. No one would entertain the idea of gauging the reproductive power of a female, either from the regularity or amount of the catamenial discharge. I have occasionally noted that women who menstruate with marked irregularity are prolific. It is alleged as an established theorem that from the period of puberty to the climacteric age, there is, besides a gradual death of the mucous membrane lining the whole uterine cavity, which must ever occur to be compatible with life, a more or less regularly recurring and complete death of this coat. In the whole
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