A Practical Manual of Gynaecology (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888 Excerpt: ...sore and painful, the veins distended, and the flow profuse. Pulsatilla is an excellent remedy for dysmenorrhcea, given between the periods, rather than at the time of pain, when some other medicine is often more applicable. It is particularly useful for suppression of the menses from wetting the feet, and is always to be remembered with aconite in congestive dysmenorrhcea from this cause; also for delayed, scanty, and painful menstruation. The pain is constrictive, labor-like, more often in the left side of the uterus, and obliges the patient to bend double. In aconite, the discharge is bright red, and the patient inclined to plethora. In Pulsatilla, the discharge is dark and clotted, and the patient of a lymphatic temperament. 1 He recommends gels., cauloph., xanthox., cimicif., cocc., cupr., and ignatia, in his lecture on the Diseases of Women, at the London School of Ilomeopathy.--Monthly Hom. Review, p. 464, Aug. i, 1881. Senecia.1 Painful menstruation, with scanty flow (Cactus, conium, graph., puis., sepia), and urging to urinate, worse at night; menses irregular. Dr. J. Moore 2 emphasizes this remedy in his list of remedies for dysmenorrhea. Sepia is chiefly useful as a remedy between the periods where there is passive congestion of the pelvic organs (also sabina); severe bearing-down in the latter, and yellow or milky excoriating leucorrhea worse before the menses. Veratrum vir.3 Dysmenorrhea; menses preceded by intense cerebral congestion in plethoric women. It has been recommended for spasmodic dysmenorrhea at or near the climacteric, six drops of the first decimal in half a cup full of hot water, a teaspoonful every fifteen minutes till the patient is relieved. Viburnum op. "f- is best given in hot water, at intervals of ten or fifteen ...