Chronic diseases : especially the nervous diseases of women / by D. Rosch ; tr. from the German by Charles Dummig.

  • Rosch, D., active 19th century.
Date:
1850, ©1849
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Credit: Chronic diseases : especially the nervous diseases of women / by D. Rosch ; tr. from the German by Charles Dummig. 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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    known remedies, I suggested that a second pregnancy would probably be the means of effecting a cure They took the hint; a second pregnancy followed, and with it the woman was restored to her former health. If, as our author further says, the woman is sick- ened by unimportant hurts, falls, etc., this is not the consequence of those falsely so-called revolutions ■—conception and birth—but the revolution is the enemy who has crept under the cover of the matri- monial bed, and there perpetrated his enormities. His supposition that there is a similarity between the constitution of the mother and child is quite nat- ural, for both suffer from the same cause. Why SHOULD she be born sickly to whom nature has given the germ of an eighty years' life, if it is undisturbed in its primary process? Second. The little energy evinced in the reac- tion of the female, explains why those diseases pro- duced by hurts are less violent—cases of dangerous sickness occurring less frequently than in the male sex. Women show often, in the most trying condi- tion, astonishing fortitude. They bear often what men consider insufferable, and are not so easily pros- trated as they are. Hear! hear ! The little energy in the reaction of women, explains why they often bear burden- some diseases more easily than men, and fall vie-