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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    different individuals, and its approach is generally preceded by certain feelings of oppression or devia- tion from the ordinary state of health, which warn the individual of what is to happen. There is, in particular, a sensation of fulness about the lower part of the bell}/, and of relaxation about the ute- rine system, which can scarcely be overlooked by the most heedless. It must at the same time be admit- ted, that in some few constitutions those feelings are so inconsiderable as to be little attended to, so that the woman mixes in society as usual, without any apparent inconvenience. Women in the higher ranks of life, and those of a delicate nervous constitution, are subject to sick- ness, headache, and pains in the back and loins, du- ring the periodical evacuation. Those of the lower rank, inured to exercise and labour, and strangers to those refinements which debilitate the system, and interrupt the functions essential to the preservation of health, are seldom observed to suffer at these times, unless from general indisposition, or a dis- eased state of the womb. Towards the decline of life, considerable irregu- larities take place previous to the final cessation of the discharge, and many months commonly elapse before this important change be fully accomplished. With respect to the nature of the periodical eva- cuation, very little satisfactory can be said. It is not the discharge of a noxious matter generated in the system of women, as has been superstitiously 3
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