Diseases of females and children and their homoeopathic treatment : containing also a full description of the dose of each medicine / by Walter Williamson.

  • Walter Williamson
Date:
1854 [©1853]
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Credit: Diseases of females and children and their homoeopathic treatment : containing also a full description of the dose of each medicine / by Walter Williamson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TOO TARDY APPEARANCE OF THE MENSES. The absence of this discharge alone, so long as the i general health does not suffer, is not sufficient reason \ for the administration of medicine. It is some- : times delayed in our latitude until the eighteenth i year, without any evil consequences resulting. It ] generally, however, occurs at the age of fourteen | or fifteen years. Carefully avoid taking all nos- < trums, herb teas, essential oils, or other forcing ; medicines, for the purpose of bringing it on. But ; when all the visible signs of womanhood have ap- j peared, with the mental and moral changes that usually take place at the period of puberty, and \ the menses do not yet show themselves, especially i if periodical pains in the hips, loins and back oc- ; cur, attended with a sensation of weight and ful- j ness in the lower part of the abdomen, with bearing \ down, the aid of medicine may with propriety be ; called in to relieve the sufferer. A long catalogue ; of additional symptoms occasionally occurring at | this period might be enumerated as calling for i treatment: such as fulness about the head, giddi- ; ness, flushed face or sallowness, bleeding at the nose, buzzing in the ears, palpitation of the heart, constriction of the chest, shortness cf breath on going up stairs, hardness and soreness in the breasts drawing and numbness in the lower limbs,