A treatise on the management of female complaints / [Alexander Hamilton].

  • Alexander Hamilton
Date:
1824
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Credit: A treatise on the management of female complaints / [Alexander Hamilton]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    virgins, it must also arise from chronic weakness, and perhaps from violent exertions during the men- strual periods. The cure depends on the protruded part being replaced, and the weakened state of the vagina re- medied. These purposes may be accomplished by the means recommended in cases of descent of the womb. When the disease is the consequence of general weakness of the habit, the Peruvian bark, and mineral waters, with steel, should be taken in- ternally, and a suitable plan of diet and exercise ought to be followed. SECTION III. Diseases of the Urinary Organs. Violent fixed pain in the region of the loins, towards either side of the back-bone, accompanied with sickness or vomiting, is well known to indi- cate an affection of the kidney. This may consist either of inflammation of its substance, or irritation produced by the presence of a calculus within its cavity; and it requires, in many cases, much prac- tical discernment to distinguish those two different affections. The treatment must be varied according to the nature of the complaint. Bloodletting, where there are feverish symptoms, should invariably be
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