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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![order of distant organs, or acute irritation of any part of the body. Brierre de Boismont, in 190 cases of suppression, found it produced by Moral causes in . .92 instances. Physical ... 68 Unkown ... 30 u 190 Among the moral causes may be mentioned anger, disap- pointed love, jealousy, excessive joy, sudden reception of bad news, fright, extreme fear, or sudden disappointment. From the report of Baudelocque, we learn that 62 women were attacked with haemorrhage or suppressions on the occasion of the explosion of the powder magazine of Grenelle; Husson witnessed a case in which menstrual suppression had been caused at several different times by the mental shock, at hear- ing loud claps of thunder ; Colombat observed in July, 1830, that the report arising from the platoon-firing and cannon shot, produced the same effect on several women ; Rostan had a patient whose monthlies became suddenly suppress- ed on learning that a seton was to be applied to her chest; one of Colombat's relatives, whose Menstruation was ordina- rily very regular and abundant, was attacked with sudden suppression, in consequence of a frightful dream and kind of night-mare; Churchill says, that almost all the women who are sent up to the Richmond Penitentiary, labor under sup- pression of the menses, in consequence of the mental agitation and distress they have undergone; Gooch relates, that a ]3a- tient of his consulted him long after the entry of the Cossacks into Paris, for suppression, which was solely produced by the alarm she then suffered. The influence of the brain and ner- vous system in producing suppression, is perhaps more gene- rally acknowledged, and more adroitly treated by homoeopa- thic physicians than by any others ; they regard it as far more important to allay the derangement of the nervous system, and then to allow the blood and vital energies to be directed](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21008413_0123.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
