A treatise on the special diseases of women and their electropathic treatment / The Medical Battery Company Limited.

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[1891]
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Credit: A treatise on the special diseases of women and their electropathic treatment / The Medical Battery Company Limited. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    feelings of fatigue upon ordinary exertion, Leucorrhcea, and irritability of the lower intestines and bladder, causing chronic disturbance and desire for frequent urination. Another circumstance which favours Pro¬ lapsus is the compression of the waist by tight lacing, which tends to force the intestinal organs situate immediately above, down the womb, subjecting it to constant pressure, which, sooner or later, must have prejudicial results. FEMALE WEAKNESS. Besides the distinctive types of disease before men¬ tioned as chiefly affecting the reproductive organs, it is a most common thing to find women suffering from a condition of ill health which may be correctly termed Internal Weakness. Though they are able to get -about there is a general aspect of lassitude and an indisposition for exertion, sinking feelings at the pit of the stomach, and distressing nervous sensations are experienced, the eye loses its lustre, and the complex¬ ion its healthful bloom, the respiration is weak, and the hands and feet cold, shewing deficiency in the circulation as well as in the vital properties of the blood, and although not absolutely an invalid, the patient is “very much below par,” and causes alarm to her friends by the fear that she is lapsing into Chronic Decline. Women in this state are often •erroneously treated by the family doctor for Dyspep¬ sia, Heart affections, Liver and Kidney troubles, &c., which, if existent, are not of primary origin but