So, too, in regard to the various diseases accompanying and belonging to pregnancy, every woman should know how to prevent the one and ameliorate the other.
And finally, the subject of unfruitfulness, sterility, or barrenness, is here presented in a manner, which, to some extent, demonstrates that in most cases it can be cured, yet how many are pining in childless loneliness, in utter despair of cure.
Such are some of the important topics treated of in these pages, so intimately connected with every woman’s peace and happiness, with which every woman should be conversant, and yet how little informed are most females with what concerns themselves, their children, and their husbands so much.
MANAGEMENT
OF
FEMALE COMPLAINTS.
MENSTRUATION.
One of the principal constitutional characteristics of the female, is menstruation, or the monthly evacuations peculiar to the sex.
This important operation generally takes place about the age of twelve or thirteen; but varies through the world, either in degree or frequency, both from constitution and climate.
Women in the higher ranks of life, and those of a delicate, nervous constitution, are subject to sickness, headache, and pains in the back and loins, during periodical evacuation. Those of the lower rank, inured to exercise and labor, and strangers to those refinements which debilitate the system, and interrupt the functions essential to the preservation of health, are seldom observed to suffer at these times, unless from general indisposition, or a diseased state of the womb.