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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![an intermission of 4 or 6 hours, and again repeating them m the same way, may be used with great benefit, in connec- tion with the external application of Electricity. SECALE Acts specifically upon the nerves and muscles of the womb, almost in the same manner as Nux vomica and Electricity act upon the nerves and muscles in general. Although it is but rarely recommended in homoeopathic works, it ought to prove one of the very best homoeopathic remedies against painful, scanty, and suppressed Menstruation. It has been frequently used in the old school, notwithstanding its homoeo- pathicity; Churchill says: that Ergot of Rye will increase, if not originate, uterine contractions, is known to all, and also, that it will restrain inordinate discharges from the womb ; we should, however, scarcely expect it to be useful in exciting the menstrual secretion, and it is difficult [easy] to determine upon what principle it does so. As to the fact, we have the evidence of Dewees, who recommends its use; of Dr. Lo- cock, who has tried it with success ; and of Roche, Xauche, and Pauly. DOSC.—In scanty or suppressed Menstruation, Secale should he given in quite small, or homoeopathic doses; it often fails in the hands of old school physicians, because they administer it in 5 or 10 grain doses, several times a day. In profuse Menstruation, however, in which it is antipathic, it should be given in full doses. I have been to the habit of relying upon it, almost exclusively, in menorrhagia, and have rarely or never known it to fail. In suppressed or scanty Menstruation, the 1st, 2d, or 3d dilution may be given once or twice a day, during the interval, and every 4, 6, or 8 hours, during the menstrual period. Or, from 2 to 4 granules may be administered as often as above directed. BRYONIA Was used in 4 cases, although it has already been decided to be homoeopathic to profuse and frequent Menstruation. (See pages 28, 29, and 40.) It is probably homoeopathic to amenorrhoea, when the menses are delayed or suppressed by the counter-irritant action of rheumatism of the chest, joints,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21008413_0116.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
