Special hygienic and medical information for parents . cessa-tion ; but oftentimes there is great irregularityboth in the time and the quantity of the hemorrhage sometimes occurs at thevery last menstrual effort. As a rule, there is agreater anxiety manifested by women at this so-called critical period than science and statisticswould warrant. Dewees says: The vulgarerror that women at this period of life arealways in danger is replete with mischief to thesuffering sex. If menstruation were a purifyingprocess, by which certain poisonous elementsare monthly eliminated from the bl
Special hygienic and medical information for parents . cessa-tion ; but oftentimes there is great irregularityboth in the time and the quantity of the hemorrhage sometimes occurs at thevery last menstrual effort. As a rule, there is agreater anxiety manifested by women at this so-called critical period than science and statisticswould warrant. Dewees says: The vulgarerror that women at this period of life arealways in danger is replete with mischief to thesuffering sex. If menstruation were a purifyingprocess, by which certain poisonous elementsare monthly eliminated from the blood, therewould be good grounds for apprehension on thepart of women, but such is not the case. The ovaries that have for thirty years beenconstantly forming and extruding ova have ful- 8o PHENOMENA OF HEALTH. filled their mission ; their term of office has ex-pired, and menstruation ceases, for the simplereason that the cause has been removed. Thediseases to which the critical period predisposeswe will consider when treating of disease CHAPTER VI. SIGNS OF PREGNANCY. SUPPRESSION OF THE MENSES isgenerally the first sign that causes a womanto think she is enciente, especially if she hasbeen regular up to that time. It is not always atrue monitor, but can generally be relied on. Exposure to damp and cold, depressing pas-sions, or any violent mental agitation, may bethe cause of the cessation. Bedford says : Itshould be recollected, too, that the menses willoccasionally become arrested soon after mar-riage, and continue so for one or more months,without the existence of gestation ; the arrest ofthe function in these cases being, most probably,due to the new relations of the individual. As the stoppage of the monthly flow does notinfallibly indicate pregnancy, so, likewise, the reg-ular appearance does not proclaim the ladies menstruate regularly all throughgestation, and Deventer gives a case where alady menstruated only during gestation, for foursucce
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