The married woman's private medical companion.

  • Mauriceau, A.
Date:
1855 [c.1847]
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Credit: The married woman's private medical companion. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    The menses should be regular as to the quantity and quality; that this discharge should observe the monthly period, is essen- tial to health. When it is obstructed, nature makes her efforts to obtain for it some other outlet ; if these efforts of nature fail, the consequence may be, fever, pulmonic dis- eases, spasmodic affections, hysteria, epilepsy, mania, apoplexy, green sickness, according to the general habit and disposition of the patient. Any interruption occurring after the menses have once been established in their regular course, except when occasioned by conception, is always to be considered as a case of suppression. A constriction of the extreme vessels, arising from accidental events, such as cold, anxiety of mind, fear, inactivity of body, irregularities of diet, put- ting on damp clothes, the frequent use of acids and other sedatives, &c, is the cause which evidently produces a suppression of the menses. This shows the necessity for certain cautions and attentions during the discharge. In some few cases it appears as a symptom of other diseases, and particular- ly of general debility in the system, showing a want of due action of the vessels. When the menses have been suppressed for any considerable length of time, it not unfrequent- ly happens that the blood which should have passed off by the uterus, being determined more copiously and forcibly to other parts, gives rise to hemorrhages; hence it is fre-