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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopathy"Page 51 of 653young woman; her excited fancy should be controlled, and hernervous sensitiveness and excitable temperament which aito cause disease, should be quieted. For this reason a woman shoube treated with kindness and attention, especially during pregnanand the menstrual period. Every depressing emotion, chagrin,fright, anger, acts prejudicially upon persons in health, much moupon those who are diseased." We refer the reader to our chapteron hysteria and to our subsequent chapter on chlorosis, where weshall show that a premature development of the mental faculties,and more particularly of the fancy, exerts a pernicious influenceupon the constitution of the growing woman generally, and uponthe normal functions of the sexual system in particular."Woman's material mode of living deserves a closer attention.A wrong system has, in this respect, become a second nature toeuch an extent that a physician is expected to allow his patientsindulge in their accustomed violations of a proper diet, on whichaccount we invite him to pay particular attention to the followinpoints in the treatment of temale diseases.1) " Women who lead a sedentary life, should be induced to takemore exercise than usual, and to rouse themselves from their phlematic torpor. This is one of the first requisites of health: freqexercise in the open air, cleanliness, frequent bathing and washiand frequent changes of linen. During the menses, every heatingexercise and every exposure to a cold should be avoided ; likewisheavy farinaceous food, freshly-baked bread; violent emotions, seual intercourse, emetics, purgatives, baths. This caution need nobe carried so far as to compel healthy and robust women to lie dothe first two days and even to give up their accustomed walk. Evethe drinking of mineral water should be discontinued by patientswho are on a visit to springs for their health, unless the disconance of the water should entail greater damage than the use of itMenstrual Anomalies. 51might occasion by its interference with the menses, in which caseis pi*oper to put up with the lesser evil of the two.2) " The physician should see to it that his patient drinks moreliquid than heretofore. Many ladies drink nothing the whole day,except three cups of coffee at breakfast and dinner; if this quanis diminished, as it necessarily has to be under homceopathic trement, some other beverage will have to be substituted, such as cocoa, milk, unspiced chocolate, weak black tea, or roasted rye orbarley. We know, however, from experience that these warm beverages relax the stomach and bowels, hence the patient will haveto drink every day a few glasses of fresh water or very light beeAny other spirituous or spiced, heating beverages, such as wine,punch, and the various liquors, have to be strictly prohibited."We cannot forbear offering a few objections to Hartmann's viewsregarding the use of coffee. As generally prepared and drankby most women, coffee is undoubtedly hurtful ; but this does notapply to properly-prepared coffee that is not too weak and whosearoma is properly preserved. In this shape coffee is a beveragewhose partisans are so numerous because it is the best medicineagainst many of the morbid tendencies engendered by civilization,and which has a particularly beneficial influence on females. Onlhttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt