A practical treatise on the diseases peculiar to women : illustrated by cases, derived from hospital and private practice / By Samuel Ashwell.

  • Ashwell, Samuel, 1798-1857.
Date:
1843
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Credit: A practical treatise on the diseases peculiar to women : illustrated by cases, derived from hospital and private practice / By Samuel Ashwell. 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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    this increased energy of the constitution, the various functions of the system are better performed ; pu- berty is more fully developed ; and thus, with or without the assistance of emmenagogue medicines, the catamenial secretion is regularly and pretty abundantly established. A few months demonstrate, that the transition from disease to health is at length safely, though tardily and with difficulty completed. Of course, in some instances, the duration of these chlorotic and amenorrhceal complications will be painfully protracted, and there will be an aggravated severity of symptoms, productive of great alarm. In such circumstances, it will be necessary to re- double, not the activity of the treatment, but the care and watchfulness bestowed upon the patient, so that we may discern immediately any indications of further complication ; always remembering, how probable it is, in this climate at least, that phthisi- cal disease may occur. If the malady continues, although the treatment may have been ably and perseveringly pursued, pa- rental alarm and professional anxiety will soon be heightened. There are instances, however, where the critical point in the disease may have arrived, before any treatment has been employed. Such maladies are prevalent, and present nothing unusual; delicacy of constitution, and imperfect menstruation, are events of every day; and to the neglect and de- lay consequent on the commonness of the disease, many fatal results may be attributed. I have often, during the last few years, been requested to treat