Electrisation as a remedy for the diseases of women : having special reference to menstrual irregularity and other disorders of the uterine system / by C.B. Harness.

  • Harness, C. B.
Date:
[1886?]
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Credit: Electrisation as a remedy for the diseases of women : having special reference to menstrual irregularity and other disorders of the uterine system / by C.B. Harness. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    rules of hygiene, the consequence being a condition of anaemic debility developing Amenorrhoea. All this is erronously at¬ tributed to the failure of the uterine functions, when such failure is merely symptomatic, healthy menstrural activity being necessarily impaired by constitutional enfeeblement. Treatment.—The treatment of all cases of Amenorrrhoea should be primarily directed to raising the constitutional tone and building up the general health, to enriching the blood, and equalizing its circulation, to improving the digestive and alimen¬ tary functions, in the accomplishment of which the tonic stimulative influences of Electricity are absolutely unrivalled. Many of my former patients, whose acute sufferings had re¬ sisted all kinds of emmenagogues or forcing medicines resorted to by the Faculty, have been at once relieved, and soon com¬ pletely cured, by the use of one of my medium-power Ele.ctro- pathic Belts, which convey the “continuous” current of electri¬ city in a mild form and an agreeable manner to the lumbar and suprapubic regions of the body. These Belts are manufactured in a variety of styles to suit every kind of physique, they are not heavy, bulky, or cumbersome, do not interfere with the figure or cut of the dress, and from external appearances it is not apparent that an appliance imparting a potent curative agency to the body is being used. When they have achieved'the remedial purpose for which they are worn, they may safely be dispensed with. In conjunction with this Electrical treatment, certain rules as to diet and regimen should be observed, but as these differ according to the plethoric or opposite habit of body of the sufferer, I shall be glad to communicate by letter with any lady who wishes for guidance on these points. DYSMENORRHCEA. This form of menstrual malady signifies a difficult and painful performance of the function when it recurs. The principal phases of it are the Neuralgic, the Congestive, and the Mem¬ braneous. If abnormal conditions are existent either in the structures from which the blood flows into the uterus, or any other of the adjacent parts, they become congested, menstruation becomes exceedingly difficult and painful, and is seriously in¬ jurious to health by the agonizing suffering it produces. In the Neuralgic form there is an extreme sensitiveness of the ovarian and uterine nerves, which is sympathetically referred to distant nerve centres, and, disordering the general nervous system, reflects upon the menstrual function, causing spasmodic paroxysms of pain, which are said to be more intensely distressing than those of labour experienced during parturition. In the Congestive form the continuance of the function is nterrupted after its commencement by a superabundant afflux