A treatise on the diseases of females : disorders of menstruation.
- John Charles Peters
- Date:
- 1854
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A treatise on the diseases of females : disorders of menstruation. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.
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![their cases in the commencement, and persist in their mas- terly inactivity until the disease becomes firmly established, and the general health of the patient is materially involved. Gentle treatment should be commenced with the first signs of declining health, and even before these appear, if the first advent of Menstruation be delayed beyond the 16th year. There are several varieties of Absent Menstruation, or amen- orrhcea. 1. When] there is a slow and partial development, or entire absence of puberty. It is said that retarded Menstruation from absence of pu- berty, defective organization of the ovaries, or want of matu- rity in ^them, may be at once recognized by the general appearance of the girl; she is but a child, and has the ap- pearance and manners of a child ; and it is decidedly wrong to force or irritate the frail system of an immature creature. General invigorating management, however, should be insti- tuted, the digestion improved, gymnastic exercises carefully followed up, fresh air, plain but generous diet, cheerful com- pany, and agreeable variety of occupation and pleasure, should be supplied. When there is a deficiency, or disorganization of the whole of both ovaries, the amenorrhcea will of course prove incura- ble; but as long as one, or even a portion of one ovary is sound, Menstruation may be performed more or less imper- fectly; while partial, or remedial disease of the whole of both ovaries should be detected and removed. Asiiwell says, that when puberty and Menstruation are delayed from delicacy of constitution, or from residence in impure air, combined with sedentary employment, or when the general debility is owing to rapid growth of the whole body, thus diverting the requi- site amount of nervous power and vascular activity from the ovaries and womb, that the majority of such cases will recover, under old school treatment, although months and years may elapse before the cure will be accomplished, during which time the confidence of the patient and of her friends, in med-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21008413_0101.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
