A treatise on female, nervous, hysterical, hypochondriacal, bilious, convulsive diseases; apoplexy and palsy, with thoughts on madness, suicide, etc. in which the principal disorders are explained from anatomical facts, and the treatment formed on several new principles / [William Rowley].

  • William Rowley
Date:
1788
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Credit: A treatise on female, nervous, hysterical, hypochondriacal, bilious, convulsive diseases; apoplexy and palsy, with thoughts on madness, suicide, etc. in which the principal disorders are explained from anatomical facts, and the treatment formed on several new principles / [William Rowley]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    . i Cho) NETO PON YR s. Immoderate Flow of MENSES, 21. Caufes. Errors in diet,-exercifes, paflions of the mind, treated feparately —Coftivenefs—Inattive life—Deprayed blood—Rupture of uterine veffels, how accounted for— Various —As likewife modes of cure — Prefcriptions and times of applying medicines, &c.—Abjftinence from drinks. ‘The confequences. ——Cachexy, dropfy, heétic fever, or confumption, how prevented. Cure adapted to the florid or pallid—Danger = fudden ftop- page, as coughs, {pitting of blood, {cirrhus, and cancer of the womb—Large flow neceffary to fome, hurtful to other women — Diet neceffary, nutritious, but not heating or ftimulating — Prefcriptions for different ranks and cir- cumftances, 24—For the florid and pallid, &c. 25, 26—— Styptics. Anatomical examinations after death. The danger of caufing death by giving preparations of lead, as lately recommended, 27—Formulz of prefcriptions for the plethoric, pallid, nervous, and relaxed, 28, 29, 30. Single inflances of ¢/capes or cures no rules for general prac- tice—Opiates cautioufly to be given, 30—Regimen and foods—Tea and all hot liquors improper, 32, 33~-Reme- dies proper between the periods — Caution about cold ba- thing, 34. How treated when the juices of the body are greatly vitiated, 35+ + Practicat Apmonitions, &c, The quantity of liquid diet proper, how afcertained, 36 When naufea and vomiting accompany the evacuation, whether vomits are ufeful — Danger of fuch a prac- tice— What is ufeful in one country, or fafe, may be injurious in another, 37 Clyfters, vomits, and j ineuating purgatives, to be avoided, 74, Of
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