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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    of these causes may act so as to produce the result during the flow, when the menses are about to appear, or during the interval. If the menses are suddenly suppressed during the flow, or just as they are about to appear, especially if cold be the cause, the symptoms are apt to be much more violent, than as if the obstructing cause were applied in the interval. In the worst cases are seen frightful attacks of spasmodic pains in the stomach and bowels, often attended with retching to vomit, headache, flushed face, wild delirium, convulsions, hysteria, palpitation of the heart, difficulty of breathing, &c. This state of things is sometimes followed by fever and local inflammations. When suppression of the menses is the effect of causes operating in the interval, the evil consequences do not arise so suddenly nor are they so alarming; yet, after the lapse of two or three months the enfeebled state of health, evinces the no less certain result. The subject becomes pale, languid and debilitated; loses her appetite and ambition; looks sickly and dejected; is affected with swelling of the feet and ankles; nervous symptoms set in, palpitation of the heart, shortness of breath, flatulency, &c, and leucorrhcea winds up the unhappy train. In per- sons predisposed to consumption and some other serious diseases, suppression is particularly prejudicial and demands the earliest attention. The medicines generally required in the treatment of this affection are, Aeon., Bry., Puis., Sep. and Sulph. But Bell. Cham., Graph., Kali carb., Lycop., Plat, and Verat. are sometimes necessary. Aeon, if the suppression be the result of the direct appli- cation of cold, and be attended by congestion to the head, or chest; redness of the cheeks; sickness, faintness or giddi- ness on rising from a recumbent position; shooting and beat- ing pains in the head, with delirium or stupifaction; fulness of the pulse; impatience; worse from motion; cold gives relief, but heat aggravates the sufferings.