The change of life in health and disease : a practical treatise on the nervous and other affections incidental to women at the decline of life / by Edward John Tilt.

  • Tilt, Edward John, 1815-1893.
Date:
1871
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Credit: The change of life in health and disease : a practical treatise on the nervous and other affections incidental to women at the decline of life / by Edward John Tilt. 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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    after a brief period nothing will remain but the clear, calm, and grateful remembrance of past goodness, where it was once thought that impassioned love and ever-devoted tenderness must be eternal. Here again the best mode of affording relief, is to discover some kind of occupation capable of engrossing the sufferer's attention, such as music, gardening, the educa- tion of a relative or of an adopted child, or the management of a school, or some other charity. The continued friction of social duties will, in time, rub off the asperities of character, and restore peace and tranquillity to the troubled spirit. Every effort should be made, in such a case, to prevent brooding and self-absorption, for the mind may gaze so long upon itself and its inner workings that the moral vision may become affected with the same kind of disorder which befalls the bodily eye when fixed too long on one color; surrounding objects then lose their real appearance, to shine only with unnatural tints.