The ladies' physical directory, Or, a treatise of all the weaknesses, indispositions, and diseases peculiar to the female sex, from eleven years of age to fifty or upwards. By which women and maids of the meanest capacity may perfectly understand the symptoms, nature, and true cause of their own illnesses, and readily know how to manage themselves under all infirmities.

Date:
1736
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Credit: The ladies' physical directory, Or, a treatise of all the weaknesses, indispositions, and diseases peculiar to the female sex, from eleven years of age to fifty or upwards. By which women and maids of the meanest capacity may perfectly understand the symptoms, nature, and true cause of their own illnesses, and readily know how to manage themselves under all infirmities. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ *9 ] did in three, it being fo excellently powerful in reftoring Per-* fbns weakened by that Illnefs, & CHAP III. Of the great Pain and fevere Illnefs fome Women e?i~ dure, juft upon the coming down of their Courfes every 4Time they flow and of the bad Colour, and ill Smell of the Blood, that flows from fome Perfons \ as alfo of the Diforders Women in Tears are fuhjedl toy when their Courfes .begin to leave them. AMONG the Diforders of the Courfes, the Mifery that fome Women undergo, juft upon their coming down, every Time they flow, is none of the leaft; it being very grievous and dangerous. They are commonly affliCted with violent fhooting Pains in the Head, Pain in the Hips, Loins, Stomach and Bowels, the latter not much unlike the Cholick; Wearinels of the Limbs, with moft racking Mifery about the Region of the Womb, and great Heat in the neighbouring Parts; Lofs of Appetite, Faintnefs and Sicknefs at Stomach, and fometimes with Vapours, Palpitation of the Heart, and Con- vulfions; all which proceed from the Smailnefs of the Velfels of the Womb at their Terminations, or their convullive Contraction, or from their being full of Blood, and their O- penings obftruCted with a vifcous Matter, fo as not-freely to afford it Paftage fuitable to its encreafed Quantity and extraor¬ dinary Rarefaction, which plainly appears by this, that when the Courfes come down freely, the Symptoms prefently abate and go off. If this Indifpofition is not fpeedily remedied, there will in Time follow a total Suppreffm or Stoppage of the Ter ms y from whence may proceed continual Fevers, or other fatal acute Difeafes: To prevent which, and cure this Diforder, Carminative, Anodyne, Hyflerick, and Deobftruftive Medicines muft be prefcrib’d; fuch as will effectually expel Wind, al¬ lay Pain, correCt the Vifcofity of the Juices, and open all Qb- ltruCtions, fo as to give immediate Eafe to the Patient in the prefent Diforder, and entirely prevent the Return of *iat Indif- polition for the Future.1 Therefore afluredly to prevent what may enfue, and entirely to be freed from this Difficulty of the Courfes, or un~ C 2, eafy