Advice to a wife on the management of her own health and on the treatment of some of the complaints incidental to pregnancy, labour, and suckling : with an introductory chapter especially addressed to a young wife / by Pye Henry Chavasse.
- Pye Henry Chavasse
- Date:
- 1866
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Advice to a wife on the management of her own health and on the treatment of some of the complaints incidental to pregnancy, labour, and suckling : with an introductory chapter especially addressed to a young wife / by Pye Henry Chavasse. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
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![very advanced age,—even so late as sixty.—They are frequently not regular oftener than three or four times a year. . 95. The menstrual fluid is not exactly blood, al- though it much resembles it both in appearance and in properties; yet it never clots in the healthy state, as blood clots.—It is a secretion from the womb, and, when healthy, ought to be of a bright-red colour, in appearance very much like blood from a recently cut finger.* 96. The menstrual fluid ought not, as before ob- served, to clot.—If it does, a lady, during menstrua- tion, suffers great pain.—Moreover, she seldom con- ceives until the clotting has ceased.—Therefore, in such a case, application must be made to a Medical man, who will soon relieve the above painful symp- toms ; and, by doing so, will, probably, pave the way to her becoming pregnant. 97. Menstruation entirely ceases in pregnancy: during suckling ; and usually in diseased and in dis- ordered states of the womb.—It also ceases in cases * The catamenial discharge, as it issues from the uterus [womb], appears to he nearly or quite identical with ordinary blood; but in its passage through the vagina, it becomes mixed with the acid mucus exuded from its walls, which usually de- prives it of the power of coagulating. If the discharge should be profuse, however, a portion of its fibrin remains unaffected* and clots arc formed.—Dr. Ccoy enter's Human. Physiology,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21046049_0060.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
