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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopathy"Page 59 of 653of the countenance, a sickly appearance, back-ache. It is moreparticularly applicable to the menorrhagia of nursing women. PtaUna for a painful and too frequent return of the menses, a copiouand dark discharge with labor-like pains, more particularly in thcase of sanguine, lively individuals. Sepia has similar characteristic symptoms. Digitalis is indicated if the menorrhagia dependsupon a stasis of the blood caused by heart-disease, if the symptoof passive venous congestion prevail, the face is pale or livid,skin is cold.For further particulars we refer to the chapter on metrorrhagiawhere more medicines will be found mentioned.d. DysTnenorrhoea^ Scanty Menstruation,It is just as difficult to define what is understood by scanty, awe have found it difficult to define what is to be understood byprofuse menstruation. As a change in the mode of living may induce a suppression of the menses, so it may likewise, by exertingmodifying influence upon the internal development of the organismoccasion a diminished flow of the catamenia. This may occuramong women of a more advanced age as well as among youngerpersons, and it would be highly improper to disturb such a changeby medicinal interference.In by far the least frequent cases scanty menstruation is of itsea morbid symptom ; generally it is dependent upon some local aftetion, profuse leucorrhcea, chronic metritis, uterine displacementor it may be owing to constitutional disturbances such as chloroshydrtemia, marasmus, excessive formation of fat, tuberculosis, etThese diflTerent forms of scanty menstruation do not, in reality,require a separate treatment ; it is identical with the treatmentthe constitutional disorder, or else no treatment at all is requibecause the suppression of the menstrual flow may simply bear evidence to the fact that the organism has no blood to spare for suca function. For this reason we deem it unnecessary to indicateremedies for such a condition of things, and refer the reader tochapter on chlorosis and, for various particular points, to the nchapter on difficult menstruation.Menstrual Anomalies. 61e. Ailments accompanyivg the Menses^ Difficult Menstruation.Ailments of Various kinds, sometimes preceding and sometimesaccompanying the menses, are so common, especially among thehigher classes, that, unless they become too troublesome, they arnot complained of to a physician ; on the other hand, their diverfied forms may make them a source of great trouble, or they maycease for a short time in order to reappear with so much more obsnacy some time thereafter.These ailments may very naturally be classified in three categoriEither they arise from material changes in the sexual organs, a bin the uterus, retroversion, anteversion, chronic metritis, etc.,else they are occasioned by an excess of menstrual congestion, orfinall}'^ they may be of a purely nervous kind. Although the firshttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt