The Change of Life in Health and Disease: A Practical Treatise on the Nervous and Other Affections Incidental to Women at the Decline of Life |
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Page 183 - ... there have been no children. When positive insanity breaks out, it usually has the form of profound melancholia, with vague delusions of an extreme character, as that the world is in flames, that it is turned upside down, that everything is changed, or that some very dreadful but undefined calamity has happened or is about to happen.
Page 18 - The ovaries influence the various parts of the body through the medium of their nerves, for as they have both ganglionic and cerebro-spinal nerves, they can react on both the ganglionic nerves and their centers and on the cerebro-spinal nerves and their central organs.
Page 189 - ... to establish a defence on the grounds of insanity, it must be clearly proved that, at the time of the committing of the act, the party accused was labouring under such a defect of reason from disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing; or, if he did know it, that he did not know he was doing what was wrong.
Page 97 - ... has entered the circulation, there is an increased flow of slightly acid urine, which contains the whole of the potash and organic matter, and a relatively large proportion of sulphuric acid. In other words, an albuminous compound either in the blood itself or in the textures becomes oxidized ; its sulphur, under the form of sulphuric acid, unites with the potash, and possibly with the changed protein compound, and is eliminated by the kidneys. The amount of albumen or fibrin thus destroyed by...
Page 99 - Antimonials,' are those which gave us most satisfaction. The following is a summary of the author's opinions on these two last named subjects. Speaking of opium he remarks, " there exists a distrust both as to the frequency and extent of its use, not warranted by facts, and injurious in various ways to our success in the treatment of disease.
Page 29 - CEASES. the first question I can give only an imperfect, but perhaps, a sufficient answer : of eleven women, three of whom had a child each in her forty-ninth year, and the other eight had each a child above that age, I ascertained that the aggregate number of their children was 114, ie, ten and a fraction for each woman ; a fact indicating that they must have married rather early in life. Concerning the age of marriage in two out of the eleven, I possess some little information ; the one married...
Page 109 - Whenever sexual impulse is first felt at the change of life, some morbid ovario-uterine condition will be found to explain it. ... It, therefore, is most imprudent for women to marry at this epoch without having obtained the sanction of a medical man.
Page 100 - Here opium is the most powerful and certain of the aids we possess; and its use is not'to be measured timidly by tables of doses, but by fulfilment of the purpose for which it is given. A repetition of small doses will often fail, which if concentrated into a single dose, would safely effect all we require.