Tokology : a book for every woman / by Alice B. Stockham.

  • Alice Bunker Stockham
Date:
[1911]
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Credit: Tokology : a book for every woman / by Alice B. Stockham. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    physicians cause worse symptoms than the original trouble. Nature demands only rest. The relief obtained by drugs is at too great a sacrifice of vital force. Nearly all that take opiates attest that on the following day sufferings ensue from nausea, headache, loss of appetite, constipation, etc. In most cases hot applications will give sure relief. Why is it that simple measures are the last thought of ? Use the fomenter locally ; if that is not suffi- cient, give a full hot or thermal bath. (See Chap. VIII.) Human magnetism is superior to all other agents for neuraglia. Nearly every family has some member that possesses the gift of healing by the “ laying on of hands.” The spine and extremities should be manipulated, and then the affected part. The patient will fall into a restful sleep, awaken refreshed, if not cured, and have no poisonous drugs to be eliminated from the system. Some years ago I was called late at night to a lady who for days had suffered untold agony from facial neuralgia. Her face was greatly swollen and the pain was so intense that she had nearly lost her reason. An eminent physician, under the popular delusion that it was malaria, had prescribed quinine. As she had protested against its internal administra- tion, he ordered her to be bathed in an unction of quinine and cosmoline. Each day finding the patient worse, he increased the frequency of the quinine bath. Upon my entering the room, she seized my hand with a vice-like grip and cried : “ Doctor, give me something, or I must die of this agony ! ” I assured her that she should have help. Turning F
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