The ladies' physical directory, Or, a treatise of all the weaknesses, indispositions, and diseases peculiar to the female sex, from eleven years of age to fifty or upwards. By which women and maids of the meanest capacity may perfectly understand the symptoms, nature, and true cause of their own illnesses, and readily know how to manage themselves under all infirmities.

Date:
1736
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Credit: The ladies' physical directory, Or, a treatise of all the weaknesses, indispositions, and diseases peculiar to the female sex, from eleven years of age to fifty or upwards. By which women and maids of the meanest capacity may perfectly understand the symptoms, nature, and true cause of their own illnesses, and readily know how to manage themselves under all infirmities. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    an hour or two before fifing in the Morning, will caufe them to come down freely and in good Order, and to preferve them in Health and Strength. A little rnulFcf White-Wine, or even hot Ale, with a little Spice and Sugar in it, now and then on thefe Occafions, are alfo of good Service. And now having briefly made known all that is necefiary for the Cure of either the Deficiency, or the total Stoppage of the Termsj whether in Maids, Married Women or Widows, as alfo for Hyjieruk Affediions in Women, as well as for the Greenficknefs-like Diforder that Girls are fuhjedt to ; I fhall con¬ clude this Chapter with a Letter I received whilft I was writ¬ ing it, from a Gentleman in Hertford, whofe Daughter, a young Gentlewoman, about feventeen Years of Age, had ne¬ wer had the Benefit of Nature, but was alrnoft ruined by the <dreen-Sicknefs, being exceeding pale, fhort-breath’d, and hard¬ ly able to move about, without any Appetite to Food, but de- lirous of eating Chalk, 'Cinders, Wall, which fhe could Scarcely be kept from. Her affedtionate Parents had taken the Advice of feveral Phyficians, and the young Lady took a great many Medicines to no Purpofe, till fhe took my Purging Pills and Opening Powder before mentioned, which happily cured Ler : She chanced accidentally to take my Medicines thus: Her Father being in London about fix Weeks ago, was with three or four others. Men and their Wives, invited by a worthy Gentleman his Friend, to dine with him; I being al¬ fo defired, made one of the Company, and after Dinner, a- mong other Difcourfe, the Ladies happening to talk of the refpedtive Illnefles they had fuffered, and of the Indifpofitions feveral of their Friends laboured under, the Hertfordjhire Gen¬ tleman took that Opportunity, underftanding I was a Phyfi- cian, to acquaint me with his Daughter’s Illnefs: As foon as as he had done, I was lent for away, but heard afterwards, that the Company proceeding on that Topic, the Gentleman of the Houfe, and his Spoufe, were pleafed to fpeak much to my Advantage, in refpedt to the Succefs that attended my Pradtice. The Hertfordfbire Gentleman went into the Country the next Morning, and coming to his Houfe, found his Wife, who is about Thirty fix Years of Age, exceeding ill, with torment¬ ing Pains in her Back, and fometimes in her Head, attended with Flufhings in her Face, feverifh Heat, and univerfal Unea- iinefs, which were all occafioned by a <Supprejfion of the Gourfes> through a violen Cold fhe got, when they were juft ready ta flow: It being the firft time fhe had been afflicted in that manner, fhe was the more furprized at it, and as her Hufband came in, was