A treatise on the special diseases of women and their electropathic treatment / The Medical Battery Company Limited.

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[1891]
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Credit: A treatise on the special diseases of women and their electropathic treatment / The Medical Battery Company Limited. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    system, the lack of vitality of this system renders it incapable of fulfilling the purposes it is destined to perform. An extraordinary characteristic of the di¬ sease is the display of perverted and even depiaved tastes, the appetite particularly is demoralised, theie being a great craving for acids, such as pickles, lemons* &c., and highly-seasoned foods, while patients have been known to swallow with avidity and apparent relish such substances as chalk, clay, paper, coals, &c. PROLAPSUS UTERI (Falling of theWomb). This and other forms of uterine displacement, pro¬ ductive of great pain and weakness, are generally regarded as needing only local treatment, whereas they are more or less symptomatic of general derangement* and should be dealt with from a constitutional stand¬ point. When the natural supports of the womb have- become weakened and relaxed, permitting prolapse or lowering, the cause is invariably traceable to the existence of considerable general debility. Numerous, kinds of pessaries and other mechanical contrivances have been devised for artificially supporting the organ in position, but except as a temporary matter, their continuance should be avoided as calculated to further irritate, inflame, and weaken the sensitive tissues, and render the prolapsus infinitely worse than befoie the) were resorted to. The symptoms of any serious dis¬ placement are acute pains in the back and loins* sensations of weight in the vicinity of the uterus (“bearing-down” pains these are usually teimed)*
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