Letters to women on midwifery and the diseases of women : a descriptive and practical work ... illustrated with numerous cases of treatment / by Joel Shew.
- Joel Shew
- Date:
- 1887
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Letters to women on midwifery and the diseases of women : a descriptive and practical work ... illustrated with numerous cases of treatment / by Joel Shew. 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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![modes of medical treatment, with the dew of forcing nature into that sort of work which it is believed she ought to do, but will not. Now, the effect of such a course can be only harmful, as a general fact. To aid nature, it should be remembered that we must increase her powers, and not diminish them, as is almost necessarily the case if a course of drug-medication is practiced. Please notice, then, that I wish to persuade you that this plan of drugging the system for tardy menstruation is a most unwise and unnatural one. Attend well to na- ture, and nature will take care of herself. Let me give you a few words from an honest, good man, Dr. Dewees, who years ago went to his long home. He says: Our exertions in favor of such patients, should tend to the invigoration of the system in general, and the develop- ment of the uterine system in particular. The first should be attempted—First: By the establishment of a regular course of exercise; such as riding on horseback, when practicable; walking in proper weather; skipping the rope within doors, when the weather will not permit exercise abroad; dancing moderately, and with strict regard not to become overheated, and cooling too suddenly. Secondly: By proper attention to dress; wearing flannel next the skin in cold weather, and properly protecting the feet and legs against cold ; carefully avoiding damp and wet places, and partial streams of cold air, especially when warm. Thirdly : By a diet of easily-digested substances, both of the vegetable and animal kind; avoiding all stimulating drinks, such as wine, spirits, or beer, etc., under the spe- cious pretext of their being strengthening. I give you these words, not that I would altogether agree with every idea advanced, but because of the gene/a]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21004055_0062.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
