Treatise on midwifery and the diseases of women and children with remedies / by A. I. Coffin.

  • Coffin, A. I., (Albert Isaiah), approximately 1790-1866.
Date:
1878
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Treatise on midwifery and the diseases of women and children with remedies / by A. I. Coffin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    placed upon this event by the doctors, and the great ease with which they can say to their patients, when they cannot cure them, Oh ! madam, I think it is the change of hfe with you, which, from the behef among old women that it is a period when sickness cannot be avoided, elicits praise for sagacity in discovering the cause, and obtains the willing fee for their ignorance. The North American Indian woman knows nothing about the turn of life, and she has nothing im- portant to reckon from that date. The truth is that many women about this time of life get worn out, either by bearing children, the cares of a family, or some other cause, and feel that some- thing is required to support and sustain them ; the fire of life is getting low, and all that is required is to assist nature by giving stimulants and tonics, and reoulatino- the general svstem. TTe have found the white poplar-bark, with composition and bitters, generally to answer all these pur- poses. FLUOR ALBUS, OR WHITES. This is a discharge of serous or mucous matter, of a whitish colour, from the vagina. Iks source is probably from the glands of the mouth of the womb, and along the passage ; it is of a debili- tating and disagreeable nature, but only requires proper treatmeut to be speedily removed. '\^ hilst