This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1860. Excerpt: ... PAINFUL MENSTRUATION. Women are liable to this disease during every part of their life, between the commencement and the cessation of menstruation. Cold, and the improper treatment of other diseases, are the most prolifio sources of this derangement. The pain sometimes begins several hours or even days before the flow commences, at other times the evacuation comes on regularly and continues for a few hours, then diminishes, or ceases entirely, with a great deal of suffering. The pains may continne for a longer or shorter period; frequently under appropriate treatment the flow returns, and continues to the end of the period without interruption; sometimes the pains continue to the end of the period without shortening the time or lessening the quantity. At other times the pains continue until a membranous substance is expelled, and a healthy discharge continues, or the evacuation ceases with the expulsion of the membranous body. In some cases through sympathy, the breasts become sensitive, tumid, and occasionally extremely painful. The pains of difficult menstruation are of two kinds, viz.: the intermitting expulsive pains resembling those of labor, and the constant aching pains in the loins, hips and limbs, like those which often precede regular menstruation. The remedies are: Aconite, Belladonna, Calcarea, Chamomilla, Cocculus, Coffea, Nux vomica, Pulsatilla, and Veratrum. Aconite, if febrile symptoms are present, such as accelerated pulse; thirst; quick, hurried breathing; headache; restlessness; congestion to the head or chest; faintness and giddiness--worse on motion. e.--Dissolvo twelve pellets in six teaspoonsful of water, and take a teaspoonful every hour until the sufferings are relieved. Belladonna, if the pains precede the flow, with violent cong...