The female's guide and confidential advisor / by a Lady Doctor.

Date:
[between 1880 and 1889?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The female's guide and confidential advisor / by a Lady Doctor. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    e -m-tr-T- -■ —- ■ -^g?1 ■■■ .■■ ■■■ ■■ females more so than married ones. Some of the symptoms are nervous depression, excita¬ bility of temper, restlessness, heart palpitation, indigestion, and fainting fits. Now let me revert to an unpleasant topic; but I have shown that the reader’s confidence is necessary, particularly, dear reader, it is in this case. Again would I summon up evidence from the very secret recesses of privacy. There is no more painful cause, no more constant cause of this dreadful disorder than the indulgence in those unnatural practices I have but vaguely alluded to before. Introduced as it often is to the virgin mind, almost before the age of puberty, before the budding of womanhood, few persons know how fearfully it saps the life and health of thousands of our otherwise pure - minded and chaste maidens. Uterine irregularities and their con¬ sequences are surely to follow in its train, and amongst them that disorder I have just been describing, Hysteria, often in its worst phases. Another consequence, not less import¬ ant, is that in many cases in married life, its oause of barrenness begets an unhappy home. I point to this painful cause of many of these more painful disorders for a very important reason, and that is, that it is, I grieve to say, too little recognised in its full importance in the medical world, and the natural delicacy of the subject interferes with the necessary questions which should be asked during a private interview. Now finally, dear reader, I would as I began, ask eonfidence—let me be to you as a bosom friend and adviser, and rest assured that whatever ^confidence you repose in me >frill never be violated, the seal of the confessional could not