On the diseases of females : a treatise illustrating their symptoms, causes, varieties, and treatment, including the diseases and management of pregnancy and lying-in. Designed as a companion to the author's "Modern domestic medicine." containing also an appendix on the proper principles of the treatment of epilepsy; an account of the symptoms and treatment of diseases of the heart; and a medical glossary / by Thomas J. Graham.
- Thomas John Graham
- Date:
- 1845
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Credit: On the diseases of females : a treatise illustrating their symptoms, causes, varieties, and treatment, including the diseases and management of pregnancy and lying-in. Designed as a companion to the author's "Modern domestic medicine." containing also an appendix on the proper principles of the treatment of epilepsy; an account of the symptoms and treatment of diseases of the heart; and a medical glossary / by Thomas J. Graham. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![reason, refer either to irritation or sanguineous congestion, the Proteus-like variety of functional derangements -which chlorotic patients so constantly present, such as fainting fits, convulsions, St. Vitus's dance, palpitations, &c? or, shall we not approach near the truth, in assigning these different diseased pheno- mena to the same cause which produces them in persons who are reduced to a state of ancemia, or bloodlessness, by the deprivation of food, light, or wholesome atmosphere? We may appeal to the test of experience for the further confirma- tion of this doctrine. Blood-letting employed in such cases, to combat an irritation which in reality does not exist, invaria- bly produces a marked aggravation of all the symptoms; on the contrary, it frequently happens, that by stimulating the nervous system of these chlorotic patients by the physical and moral emotions of matrimony, (and he might have added by steel and other tonics,) we produce a more natural complexion and colour of the whole cutaneous surface, thus indicating a corresponding improvement in the process of sanguification; and, in proportion as the ancemia or bloodlessness disappears, under the influence of this new modification of the nervous system, the whole train of diseased action, the difficult respira- tion, constant sensation of uneasiness and listlessness, impaired digestion, pain in the stomach, vomiting, and limpid urine, together with all the strange nervous symptoms, which seemed dependent on some organic alteration of the solids, gradually subside, and eventually vanish, as a fresh supply of blood is generated in the system. Treatment. There are four conditions of the female sys- tem, pretty clearly marked, in which the menses are tardy in their appearance, viz. 1. Where there is little or no development of the female organs ; 2. Where it is taking place very slowly ; 3. Where this development is interrupted by a chronic affec- tion of some other part ; 4. Where a perfect development has taken place, but they do not make their appearance. The management of these diffe- rent states is of course different, and we shall treat of them in order. ]. The first condition is easily detected, by the absence of all the signs in the system which should characterize puberty,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21022550_0074.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
