Disorders of menstruation / by Edward W. Jenks.

  • Jenks, Edward W. (Edward Watrous), 1833-1903.
Date:
1895
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Credit: Disorders of menstruation / by Edward W. Jenks. 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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    P? Caffein. citrat., gr. xxiv. Acidi hydrobrom. dil., \ Syr. limonis, >aa§j. Aquae, ) M. Sig.: One teaspoonful. To be repeated in three to six hours if required. The different forms of neuralgia are common with neurasthenic patients, and many women during the climacteric period are of this class. Those who have suffered from dysmenorrhcea, particularly the neuralgic form, earlier in life, are liable to have neu- ralgia in various parts of the body; and the general systemic and hygienic treatment given in connection with the subject of dysmenorrhcea with a neuralgic element is also applicable here. In the ill-nourished —and many neuralgic sufferers at the menopause come under this category—a systematic mode of feed- ing is requisite and of more value than drugs. To carry out this course, together with the hygienic treat- ment, successfully, it sometimes becomes necessary to remove patients from their own homes for a time to some well conducted sanitarium where such a course can be properly and systematically pursued. In con- nection with other treatment, galvanism may render great service, by causing better nutrition and improv- ing the condition of the nerves and nerve-centres. Among the many topical applications for the re- lief of neuralgic pain, the author has found the fol- lowing as generally serviceable as any: