The female's guide and confidential advisor / by a Lady Doctor.

Date:
[between 1880 and 1889?]
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The female's guide and confidential advisor / by a Lady Doctor. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    panied with proper and chaste instructions, they will in due time learn them from less proper sources, and in a far less chaste manner. Remem¬ ber ! the earliest impressions take the deepest hold. Let, then, those impressions be such as you would desire to last. The first point of importance with which a girl should be made acquainted is the approach of the Menstrual periods, and as the age at which these may be expected often varies from 14 years, and even sometimes earlier (rarely in this climate), to 15 or later, it would be’rash to withhold the warning, as should they suddenly appear the girl may be frightened, and sudden emotions are dangerous during the period of change from child¬ hood to puberty, and may retard the development of the important functions which are just budding into maturity. Every girl should, therefore, be early made acquainted with the necessity to her health of the regularity of these appearances, and be taught to connect with them those signs of health or derangement whieh I hope shortly to point out in a clear and easily comprehensible manner. In order to understand the symptoms of dis¬ order, the eanses and operation of healthy men¬ struation must he considered. The Ovaries are the essentially active organs in the female during the whole period of her fruitful life, their functions being to develop the ova or eggs, which, when fecundated, are to form the new being. At regular periods these organs are abundantly supplied with blood to further this progress of development. When the natural gress of fecundation or impregnation take place, this abundant supply of bloi 7r$