Chronic diseases : especially the nervous diseases of women / by D. Rosch ; tr. from the German by Charles Dummig.
- Rosch, D., active 19th century.
- Date:
- 1850, ©1849
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Chronic diseases : especially the nervous diseases of women / by D. Rosch ; tr. from the German by Charles Dummig. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
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![they are still less frequent, and would entirely disap- pear then, were there not those who in advanced age continue the act of coition, without object or enjoy- ment, or did they not continue to suffer in conse- quence of former intemperance. The Allopath steps before the Homeopath with the assertion/ We remove the cause of the diseases. Lamentable mistake ! The cause of so many evils as we have enumerated, and many more which origi- nate from the same source—the true cause—they have NEITHER REMOVED NOR KNOWN. The HUSBAND is the real cause; against him you can do nothing with all your apothecaries. But equally mistaken is the Homeopath, if he takes into consideration the symptoms alone, and, for ex- ample in the treatment of hysteria, ransacks his lab- oratory for a medicine which makes a healthy woman hysterica], while medicine can be of no avail. It is necessary to know the cause, in order to remove it; and no apothecary will be able so to regulate her constitution that she may violate the laws of nature with impunity It Vv^ould be well for physicians to prevail upon married people who suffer from these diseases to occupy separate beds, or, if necessary, sleep in sepa- rate rooms, at least till their excited passions have become cooled, ana they have learned to govern themselves.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21075359_0059.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
