On Some of the Most Important Disorders of Women ...J. Churchill, 1844 - 119 pages |
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adopted air and exercise alimentary canal alluded animal and farinaceous appeared becomes blood body bowels brain cause chalybeates character chest chlorosis choly chyle chyme condition constant thirst constipated constitution copious costive defective delicate frames depraved deranged digestive functions digestive organs directed diseases of women duce dyspepsia effects emaciated emmenagogues endeavour evacuation excited exer exertion farinaceous food female diseases flatulence gradually habits head-aches human hysteria hysteric disease improved indigestion induced irregular irritability Lady lassitude and debility liver loins loss of appetite maladies melan Menorrhagia menstruation mild alterative mind mode of treatment months morbid myrrh nature nervous system nutritious diet observed obstructions occasioned occurred organs of digestion ovum patient pleura powers produce profuse hæmorrhages purgatives racter rectum regular remarks remedies removal rendered respiration salutary scanty scarcely sensation skin spasmodic stitution stomach struation suffering symp tight lacing tion tonics urine uterine functions uterus utmost attention various violent viscus vomitings yeasty
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Page 45 - Where be your gibes now ? your gambols ? your songs ? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table in a roar ? Not one now, to mock your own grinning?
Page 45 - Laughter,' says Professor Heufeland of Berlin, ' is one of the greatest helps to digestion with which I am acquainted; and the custom prevalent among our forefathers, of exciting it at table by jesters and buffoons, was founded on true medical principles. In a word, endeavour to have cheerful and merry companions at your meals : what nourishment one receives amidst mirth and jollity, will certainly produce good and light blood.
Page 76 - ... society, having food always at command, and finding gratification from its taste, and a temporary hilarity and energy result from the excitement of his stomach, which he can at pleasure produce, eats and drinks an enormous deal more than is necessary for his wants or welfare...
Page 56 - All the food consumed by an animal becomes in the stomach soluble, and capable of entering into the circulation. In the process by which this solution is effected, only one fluid, besides the oxygen of the air, takes a part ; it is that which is secreted by the lining membrane of the stomach. The most decisive experiments of physiologists have...
Page 6 - ... tis thou who enlargest the soul, — and openest all its powers to receive instruction and to relish virtue. — He that has thee, has little more to wish for ; — and he that is so wretched as to want thee, — wants everything with thee.
Page 78 - ... other varieties of dyspepsia accompanied by obstinate constipation. This is a remedy, the efficacy of which has been long known and admitted ; yet, strange to say, the generality of mankind choose to consult their taste rather than their reason : and, by officiously separating what nature has beneficially combined, entail upon themselves much discomfort and misery...
Page 11 - By far the greater portion of the young ladies (for they are no longer women) of the present day, are distinguished by a morbid listlessness of mind and body, except when under the influence of stimulus, a constant pining for excitement, and an eagerness to escape from every thing like practical and individual duty.
Page 42 - ... and it has been remarked, that the system of diet alters the character and dispositions of people, and even of nations. But no universal plan can be adopted; inhabitants of the northern regions requiring more food than those of the southern. The school of Pythagoras flourished in the mild climate of Greece, and the anchorets who, in the beginning of the Christian religion, peopled the solitudes of Thebais, could not have endured in a severer climate the system which they observed."* These morbid...
Page 64 - I do not know any woman who, by tight-lacing, (that is, by artificial means), has obtained ' a fine figure,' in whom I could not, by accurate examination, point out either a high shoulder, oblique compressed ribs, a lateral incurvation, of the spine in the form of an Italic S, or some other distortion. I have had opportunities of verifying this opinion among ladies of high condition, who, as models of fine form, were brought forward for the purpose of putting me to silence.
Page 24 - Exercise and labor cause a diminution in the quantity of the menstrual discharge ; and when it is suppressed in consequence of disease, the vegetative life is manifested in a morbid production of fat.