Womanhood : causes of its premature decline, respectfully illustrated : being a review of the changes and derangements of the female constitution : a safe and faithful guide to mothers during gestation, before and after confinement : with medical advice of the most salutary and important nature to all females : also, sixty vegetable and domestic recipes with directions : in three parts / by A.G. Hall.

  • Hall, A. G.
Date:
1845, ©1843
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Credit: Womanhood : causes of its premature decline, respectfully illustrated : being a review of the changes and derangements of the female constitution : a safe and faithful guide to mothers during gestation, before and after confinement : with medical advice of the most salutary and important nature to all females : also, sixty vegetable and domestic recipes with directions : in three parts / by A.G. Hall. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    matter on its inner surface,) is destitute, in a great measure, of acute sensitive feeling, and therefore inflammation or soreness is not perceived so readily in its first stages, as if it were in the breast or in some other organ; especially where the female has been drugged with sweet spirit of nitre, do- vers powders, opium, morphine, quinine and other deadening and destructive medicines, for years, in protracted weakness, (fee, &c. Under such circumstances inflammation fre- quently commences, continues and termi- nates in mortification, and death ensues, without any apparent time for the attending physician to prevent such a result. This organ is more disposed to inflammatory ac- tion immediately after confinement than at any other period. But there is an inflam- mation of this organ which not unfrequently terminates seriously, just before, during the period, or immediately after Menstruation. Young females, after taking cold during the first months of their Menstruation, are apt to be feverish at such times, and show a good deal of nervous excitement and par- tial dehrium; and their utter carelessness at such times is not uncommon, and the source of great suffering and frequently death.— The womb becomes swollen and sore. The broad and round ligaments partake of the inflammatory action, and the back and sides become sore, the abdomen and the inside of