The lady's medical guide : being a popular treatise on the causes, prevention and mode of treatment of the diseases to which females are particularly subject / by the late Richard Reece.

  • Richard Reece
Date:
1832
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Credit: The lady's medical guide : being a popular treatise on the causes, prevention and mode of treatment of the diseases to which females are particularly subject / by the late Richard Reece. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Great attention should be paid to the system at this period; and all causes tending to pro- duce derangement of it, should be avoided. If the bowels have a tendency to constipation, it should be obviated by an opening medicine that will increase the circulation of blood in the bowels, as the watery extract of aloes, with a drop of the oil of pennyroyal, or the compound decoction of aloes. The saline purgatives, as Epsom salt, Glauber's salt, the Cheltenham salt, or Seidlitz powders, are very improper, in consequence of their effects in diminishing the circulation in the viscera of the abdomen, and thereby occasioning pre- ternatural afflux of blood to the head or the lungs. The appearance of the monthly dis- charge often throws light on the state of the general health, and even the nature of a dis- ease; hence, when it is thin and very pale, it is evident the blood is poor, i. e. it is over- loaded with serum, a strong indication of debility of the digestive organs, or of imperfect digestion; and, in cases of dropsy, it proves that the cause is debility, and not that variety of the disease arising from increased arterial action, in which loss of blood is necessary.