Aids to rational therapeutics : specially designed for students preparing for examination / by J. Milner Fothergill.
- Fothergill, J. Milner (John Milner), 1841-1888.
- Date:
- 1881
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Aids to rational therapeutics : specially designed for students preparing for examination / by J. Milner Fothergill. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![usually learns so little at his hospital—and feels so awkward about in practice—that it will be treated somewhat more in detail than the preceding matters. This is the question of 'female troubles.' These ctm- not be entered into even with hospital patients, before a number of persons j they are strictly private matters. Yet it is most essential for the student to know how to inquire about them, as well as what to ask. Inquire quietly, without effort, seriously and gravely,-or you embarrass the woman. Let her see you know what you are talking about, else she will not give you her confidence. Women are peculiar in this. They resent that aimless questioning, called by the Scotch 1 speer- ing but they readily answer to questions put with knowledge. Never forget that! Having asked about the bowels, next comes the questions : 'Are you regu- larly unwell every month V ' How many days ]' ' Is the loss great or small V And then, ' Have you any discharge, or whites, betwixt the periods V You may add, ' Have you much pain at the periods V Eemem- ber, pain over the sacrum in women almost invariably means uterine or ovarian disorder. Before you can ap- preciate the importance of the answers given, you must think over the physiology of menstruation—a matter most inefficiently taught usually. In fact, examina- tions do not commonly run on these disorders of the reproductive organs, and the student really does not know how ignorant he is on this subject; yet these are a great part of general practice, leading to grate- ful patients who will bring other patients in their turn ; for the number of men who know fairly about ' female troubles ' are few and scattered. Little is said upon these matters betwixt doctors and patients here ; though this does not hold good of the United States, where the doctors, as a rule, are ' well posted' in female complaints. Yet women would only be too](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b20393131_0100.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
