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430 ESOTERIC ANTHROPOLOGY.
Ulcerations of the neck of the womb, produced by
corroding discharges, and the irritation of continual sex
ual intercourse, are readily cured by abstinence, general
treatment, and vaginal injections of cold water. Cancer
of the womb is a determination of cancerous virus, by
the same causes. See my remarks on cancer.
Lzucorrhoza is the name given to all light-colored
discharges from the vagina, womb, etc., from the sim
ple increase of its mucous secretion, to the most puru
lent, acrid, and offensive matters. The same general
and local treatment as for prolapsus, which it generally
accompanies.
Hysteria, or Hysterics, is a nervous disease, made up
of dyspepsia, uterine, or more properly ovarian disease,
and general irritability, consequent upon general ex
haustion. Its name signifies a uterine affection, but
some men are as hysterical as a woman. Hysterical
women suffer cruelly from the idea that when they
have hysterics "
nothing particular ails them." Poor
women! every thing ails them. No disease can be
more real than this. I copy a description of it from
the first medical book I can lay my hands on : "The
disorder is generally preceded in its attacks by dejec
tion of spirits, sudden bursts of tears, anxiety of mind,
sickness at the stomach, palpitation of the heart, diffi
culty of breathing, etc. Sometimes there is a shivering
over the whole body ; a pain is felt in the left side,
with a distention advancing upward, till it gets to the
stomach, and removing thence into the throat, it causes
a sensation as if a ball were lodged there. The disease
having now arrived at its height, the patient appears
threatened with suffocation, becomes faint, and ia