Practical observations on the more important derangements of the female system : their consequences and treatment / by Charles Waller.

  • Waller, Charles.
Date:
1841
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Credit: Practical observations on the more important derangements of the female system : their consequences and treatment / by Charles Waller. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A PRACTICAL TREATISE, INTRODUCTORY REMARKS. It may with great truth be asserted that, of all the derangements of function to which the female system is exposed, there are none more common, or which excite more uneasiness in the mind of the patient, than the irregular performance of the uterine at its monthly periods. Nor is this without reason ; for although in many instances, perhaps in most, the disturbance of the catamenia is the effect and not the cause, yet the disorders which produce this effect are often of a serious character, proving, if not pro- perly attended to and relieved, not only highly de- trimental, hut actually destructive to life itself. Hence the necessity of careful investigation respect-