A short domestic treatise on the homoeopathic treatment of the diseases of females and children / by Walter Williamson.

  • Williamson, Walter, 1811-1870.
Date:
1848
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Credit: A short domestic treatise on the homoeopathic treatment of the diseases of females and children / by Walter Williamson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    period varies in different persons from two to seven days; the average is about five days. It usually returns with great regularity in a state of health, every twenty eight days; ex- cept in girls who menstruate precociously and again when approaching the period of its final cessation or the change of life as this stage is called. The above account may be considered a brief outline of healthy menstruation, and any considerable deviation there- from especially if it affect the general health should be cor- rected by appropriate medical treatment. Derangements of menstruation are generally referable to insufficient clothing, fault in regimen or improper action of the mind. TOO TARDY APPEARANCE OF THE MENSES. The absence of this discharge alone, so long as the general health does not suffer, is not sufficient reason for the admi- nistration of medicine. It is sometimes delayed in our latitude until the eighteenth year without any evil consequences re- sulting. It generally however occurs at the age of fourteen or fifteen years. Carefully avoid taking all nostrums, herb teas, essential oils or other forcing medicines for the purpose of bringing in on. But when all the visible signs of woman- hood have appeared, with the mental and moral changes that usually take place at the period of puberty, and the menses do not yet show themselves, especially if periodical pains in the hips, loins and back occur, attended with a sensation of weight and fulness in the lower part of the abdomen with bear- ing down, the aid of medicine may with propriety be called in to relieve the sufferer. A long catalogue of additional sym- ptoms occasionally occurring at this period might be enume- rated as calling for treatment. Such as fulness about the head, giddiness, flushed face or sallowness, bleeding at the nose, buzzing in the ears, palpitation of the heart, constriction of the chest, shortness of breath on going up stairs, hardness and soreness in the breasts, drawing and numbness in the