Talks to my patients : hints on getting well and keeping well.

  • Gleason, Rachel B. (Rachel Brooks), 1820-1905.
Date:
1882
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Credit: Talks to my patients : hints on getting well and keeping well. 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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    sometimes because beauty is going, and no more babies are coming. PRECAUTION. As women approach the period for menstrual decline, they should take care to keep their general health up to the highest possible point; because, if once down, it is more difficult to rally than at any other age. If there is a con- stitutional tendency to morbid action, it is likely to take to the weakest organ. Hence, many die of disease of the lungs, liver, or some of the varied forms of scrofulous af- fections, between the fortieth and fiftieth years. There- fore women should be impressed with the truth that dan- gers await them, while at the same time they should com- prehend the fact that with proper care they can usually escape and pass through with comfortable health. Un- fortunately, it often happens that they give little or no intelligent attention to the subject, until serious disturbance has occurred, which it is hard to cure. When the critical period will begin it is impossible to say, as it varies from thirty-five to fifty-five, although the usual age is forty-five. Most women, as they approach their fortieth year, feel their natural force abating, a little more languid during and after menstruation, and, if overworked at the time, do not feel as well for a month after. These are admonitions to take life easier, to be especially careful about over-exertion during the monthly flow, for thereby it will be rendered too profuse or too prolonged. Sometimes we notice a peculiar sensitiveness of the nervous