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.

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    DISEASES OF THE GANGLIONIC NERVOUS SYSTEM. Table XXIY. Liability to Diseases of the Ganglionic Nervous System, in 500 Women at the Change of Life. Epigastric faintness and sinking, . . . Epigastric pain or anomalous sensations, Fainting or leipothymia, Fainting off, for the first time in life,. . Prolonged and intense debilit3r, . . . Monthly depression of strength, . . . Chlorosis, Palpitations, Aortic pulsation, Hysterical asthma, Monthly hysterical asthma, Thus 406 instances of ganglionic suffering were divided amongst the 500 women who suffered more or less from dis- eases of the ganglionic system ; many of them suffering in more ways than one. At the same time the liability to these affections decreases as women advance in age; epigastric pain is then seldom intense, but there frequently remains a liability to fainting, and to sinking sensations at the pit of the stomach. The volume of the brain, its complicated and regular struc- ture, show it to be contrived for important ends, and although the relation existing between the intellectual faculties and the structure of the brain cannot be comprehended, it must be admitted. It is far different with respect to the ganglionic