A practical treatise on the diseases peculiar to women : illustrated by cases, derived from hospital and private practice / By Samuel Ashwell.

  • Ashwell, Samuel, 1798-1857.
Date:
1843
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Credit: A practical treatise on the diseases peculiar to women : illustrated by cases, derived from hospital and private practice / By Samuel Ashwell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    duce a marked aggravation of all the symptoms ; on the contrary, it frequently happens that by stim- ulating the nervous system of these chlorotic pa- tients by the physical and moral emotions of matri- mony, we produce a more natural complexion and color of the whole cutaneous surface, thus indicat- ing a correspondent improvement in the process of sanguification; and in proportion as the anaemia dis- appears under the influence of this new modifica- tion of the nervous system, the whole train of dis- eased action, the difficult respiration, constant sen- sation of uneasiness and listlessness, impaired di- gestion, gastralagia, vomiting, tympanitis and limpid urine, together with all the strange nervous symp- toms, which seemed dependent on some organic alteration of the solids, gradually subside and event- ually vanish, as a fresh supply of blood is generated in the system. Diagnosis.—It will be allowed, after what has been advanced, that chlorosis is not an inflammatory disease. It is indeed most intimately connected with anaemia, and closely resembles (except in the pale greenness or dinginess of the skin,) that state of system which is the result of hemorrhage or any undue secretion. Those symptoms, therefore, such as severe headache, pain in the side affecting the breathing, distressing action of the heart, and sev- eral others, must not and cannot, where proper cau- tion is observed, be mistaken for and treated as acute inflammatory affections. From the want of this caution, I have witnessed the very injurious