Dr. E. McDougal's new views on the special treatment of diseases of women.

  • McDougal, Ezra, 1840-
Date:
1878
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Credit: Dr. E. McDougal's new views on the special treatment of diseases of women. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    bewildered by the constant excitement of fashionable life—a devotee to pleasure, she is heedless of the first manifestation of disease; but the disease, like the silent night, progresses—it brings with it physical infirmity and moral anguish—her strength is declining—her mind weakened, and, compelled by absolute suffering to withdraw from society, she finally invokes the aid of a physician. He investigates, with great eare, her case, and finds that her disease is without remedy. She may, peradven- ture, be laboring under some organic affection of the uterus, which, if seen to in time, would have been perfectly managable. Her days are numbered—and, instead of being the attraction and idol of the gay crowd, she now becomes the victim of the most distressing bodily suffering—suffering so agonizing that she is impatient to die—and, when her last hour has come, she breathes a prayer of thankfulness to Heaven that her agony is at an end! Let them but take a brief retrospect of what has befallen their own immediate friends. Where is the lady who has not been called to mourn the premature death of some fond and devoted sister—of some gay and cherished companion ? In the death of that sister, she may, pei'haps, have learned the importance of attending to the early developments of disease, and appreciated the cruel wrong of allowing them to pass unnoticed and un¬ checked. Yet with these admonitions fresh in the memory of almost every female in the land—with the daily and lamentable experience before her of the consequences resulting from indif¬ ference to the first indications of deranged health, we see her— wayward and thoughtless as she is—passing to her own destruc¬ tion !
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