Practical Electro-Therapeutics (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: ...ficient in cases where causation is well marked. But there are many others in which the most rigid examination fails to develop adequate origin, and we are forced to prescribe empirically. Just how few Women have a healthy set of generative organs is a problem of which medical men alone know the gravity, and it is probably safe to say that there are few females living of twenty-five years of age who have up to that time experienced no painful local disturbance before or during their menstrual periods. "Propter uteri, mulierum sunt," but why doctors should find the greater part of their work with women cut out by the uterus and ovaries is a question that admits of many answers. Doubtless our civilized customs of dress, our lack of systematic gymnastic culture for girls' and hot-house system of forcing have much to do with it, but not all, for I found when visiting some of the South Sea islands a few years since in a professional capacity, that their women, who cannot be accused of refinement of dress or lack of open-air exercise, were affected by derangements of the generative system by almost as large a majority as our own. Besides, if dress and fashionable dissipation were the main faults, medical men recognize with regret the utter futility of attempting reform. Try it with any lady with whom an intimate acquaintance is maintained, one's wife or daughter, fof example, and see if anything short of absolute force will induce her to abandon corsets. She doesn't wear them tight, oh no; but if a fiat hand can be introduced between stays and skin it will be a wonder. It is more than probable then that neuralgias of uterus and ovaries will continue to play an important part in gynecology, and it is fortunate that we have in galvanism an agent which is...