Commentaries : principally on those diseases of females which are constitutional / by Marshall Hall.

  • Hall, Marshall, 1790-1857.
Date:
[1830?]
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Credit: Commentaries : principally on those diseases of females which are constitutional / by Marshall Hall. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    morbid affections are not only painful and dis- tressing, but they are apt to be confounded with others of an inflammatory and organic nature; so that, in every point of view, an accurate knowledge of them is of the utmost importance to the physician. Another circumstance greatly influencing the state of the health and the character of the dis- orders of female youth, is the growth of the body. Nor is the growth less influenced, in its turn, by the condition of the general health. Too rapid growth is apt to induce those dis- orders which involve a state of debility; but more frequently, perhaps, debility of the constitution, or derangement of the general health, impedes the growth and the due developement of the form of the spine, and of some of the large cavities of the body, as of the thorax and perhaps of the pelvis, and leads to distortions of the person of a peculiar character. The change which is established in the uterine system, and in the whole habit of the body in female youth, is of too extraordinary and important a nature not to have great influence upon the general health; whilst it is no less certain that