Lectures on the physiological laws of life, hygiene, and a general outline of diseases peculiar to females .. . Plate 1. (After Cunningham.) Retroflection of the womb, bent upon itself and pressing against the rec*turn, causing constipation and dysmenorrhea—painful, and frequently ascanty menstrual flow—also resulting in sterility. See lecture. sentations to the credulous, thereby causing the profes-sion to fall into disrepute, and all good physicians tobe classed, by the victims of these imposters, as quacks*As I have already mentioned, the treatment, to be 260 THE PHYSIOLOGICAL LAWS OF succe
Lectures on the physiological laws of life, hygiene, and a general outline of diseases peculiar to females .. . Plate 1. (After Cunningham.) Retroflection of the womb, bent upon itself and pressing against the rec*turn, causing constipation and dysmenorrhea—painful, and frequently ascanty menstrual flow—also resulting in sterility. See lecture. sentations to the credulous, thereby causing the profes-sion to fall into disrepute, and all good physicians tobe classed, by the victims of these imposters, as quacks*As I have already mentioned, the treatment, to be 260 THE PHYSIOLOGICAL LAWS OF successfully executed, must be governed by the condi-tions present or the cause producing the a palliative course, I would recommend the fol-lowing : When the time approaches for the menstrualflow, the patient should go to bed and apply warm. Plate 2. Anteflexion. (After Cunningham.) The womb bent upon itself and falling forward, frequently displacing thebladder, causing Cystocele (falling of the bladder), as seen in the symptoms are the same, save that it causes difficulty of passing waterwhilst the bowel is not disturbed. Sterility and dysmenorrhea are alsocommon to this displacement. bricks to the feet, the back and the abdomen;then take tincture of belladonna, twenty drops;tincture of opium, thirty drops; fluid extract of cyp-ripedhim pubescens—lady slipper—one teaspoonful; LIFE AND HYGIENE. 261 fluid extract of caulophylhim thalictroides—blue cohosh—one teaspoonful, put in half a teacupful of warm water;use by injection to the rectum and retain. This can berepeated every three or four hours, and it would be bene-ficial to make a tea of chamomile flowers or ginger anddrink freely of it; also take twenty drops of the fluidextract of blue cohosh every two or three hours; orput one tablespoonful in a
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