The change of life in health and disease : a clinical treatise on the diseases of the ganglionic nervous system incidental to women at the decline of life / by Edward John Tilt.

  • Tilt, Edward John, 1815-1893.
Date:
1882
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Credit: The change of life in health and disease : a clinical treatise on the diseases of the ganglionic nervous system incidental to women at the decline of life / by Edward John Tilt. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    RT r CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION. The terms Climacteria in Latin, Climacteric disease, Change of life, Critical time/' Turn of life, in English, Temps critique/' Age de retour, Menopause/' in French, and Aufhoren der Weiblichen Heinigung, in German, are understood to mean a certain period of time, beginning with those irregularities which precede the last appearance of the menstrual flow, and ending with the re- settlement of health. Variable as is the duration of this time in different women, it receives a certain degree of precision from the date of the last menstrual flow, which divides the change of life into two periods. When in the course of this work I speak of cessation, I always mean the cessation of the menstrual flow. There is no medical term to designate the time included between the first indications of the failure of ovarian energy, and cessation, women call it the dodging time/' but in the course of this work, I shall often use the words the change to indicate the pre-cessation part of the change of life, in contradistinction to the post-cessation period, which begins at cessation, and concludes with the permanent restoration of health. Although the importance of this epoch has been denied by Tissot, Dewees, Meissner, Saucerotte, and Landouzy, their opinion is not held by the profession, as is evident from the writings of Fothergill, Sir C. M. Clarke, Dr. Meigs, and Dr. Gr. Bedford. The last author has truly stated, that in addition to structural and malignant disorders so frequent at B