Esoteric anthropology (the mysteries of man) : a comprehensive and confidential treatise on the structure, functions, passional attractions, and perversions, true and false physical and social conditions, and the most intimate relations of men and women. Anatomical, physiological, pathological, therapeutical and obstetrical, hygienic and hydropathic / by T.L. Nichols.

  • Nichols, Thomas Low, 1815-1901.
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[1873]
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Credit: Esoteric anthropology (the mysteries of man) : a comprehensive and confidential treatise on the structure, functions, passional attractions, and perversions, true and false physical and social conditions, and the most intimate relations of men and women. Anatomical, physiological, pathological, therapeutical and obstetrical, hygienic and hydropathic / by T.L. Nichols. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    are expelled with pains and agonies, like those of ordi- nary childbirth. During the paroxysms, wehave two measures of relief. A long and very cold sitz-bath, or a hot one. With the hot one, the relief is more immediate, but the cold is best. When the first symptoms are relieved, the treat- ment should be commenced in earnest, to prevent their recurrence. Every possible cause must be abstained from. Every law of health must be observed. The local treatment of sitz-baths, or the rising douche, daily increasing in coldness, frictions around the pelvis, the wet bandage, and the vaginal injections must be per- severingly used. A free, careless, happy unexciting, and unexhausting life, will add much to the efficacy of all measures of relief. Daily wet-sheet packs, in any bad case, should never be neglected. Menorrhagia, or profuse menstruation, may be an excessive secretion of the menstrual fluid, or, more commonly, a real hemorrhage. In a perfectly healthy state, the secretion is light in colour, lasts not over two days, and does not exceed two ounces. All beyond this is hemorrhage. In irritated, debilitated, and con- gested conditions of the ovarian and uterine system, the proper menstrual discharge comes on at irregular intervals, lasts two or three days, and is followed by a week or two of hemorrhage. In some cases it comes on with perfect regularity, and then lasts, with profuse flooding, for ten days, and does this periodically. The causes of this disease, whatever they are, must be removed. Thousands of women are consigned to premature graves; some by the morbid excesses of their own passions, but far more by the sensual and selfish indulgences of those who claim the legal right to murder them in this manner, whom no law of homi- cide can reach, and upon whose victims no coroner holds an inquest. Hard and exhausting labour, care, irritation, and anxiety of mind ; neglect, jealousy; these