The Question of rest for women during menstruationG.P. Putnamʾs Sons, 1877 - 232 páginas |
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afflux amenorrhea anemia animals artery average blood corpuscles blood vessels BROWN-SEQUARD cause cells cent cessation childhood circulation condition congestion curve day after menses days before menses days before menstruation December 22 degree dehiscence dicrotism diminished diminution dysmenorrhea elasticity elevations endometrium epithelium excess exercise exist female function Graafian follicle Graafian vesicles Grms habit hyperæmia increased individual nutrition Interm intermenstrual period irritation January January 11 line of ascent menstrual flow menstrual hemorrhage menstrual pain menstrual period menstruation mental miles mucous membrane muscles muscular fibre nerve centres nervous normal nutrition organs ovarian ovarian plexus ovary ovulation ovum parenchyma pathological pelvic persons phenomena physiological pregnancy premenstrual pressure primary pulse wave proportion puberty regard reproductive resistance rest rhythmic rupture sexual sphygmographic strual struation summit supplemental wave Temperature tion tissues trace urea uterine disease uterus vascular tension wave of nutrition woman women
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Página 197 - There is nothing in the nature of menstruation to imply the necessity or even the desirability of rest for women whose nutrition is really normal. The habit of periodical rest in them might easily become injurious. Many cases of pelvic congestion developed in healthy, but indolent and luxurious, women are often due to no other cause.
Página 1 - Jacobi that won the distinguished Boylston Prize from Harvard University in 1876 on the question, "Do women require mental and bodily rest during menstruation, and to what extent?" Dr. Jacobi began her dissertation with the following caution: "An inquiry into the limits of activity and attainments that may be imposed by sex is very frequently carried on in the same spirit as that which hastens to ascribe to permanent differences in race all the peculiarities of a class, and this because the sex that...
Página 201 - In adolescence and during the first years that the reproductive wave of nutrition is being formed mental work exacted in excess of the capacity of the individual may seriously derange the nutrition...
Página 204 - DEMONSTRATIONS IN ANATOMY. Being a Guide to the Knowledge of the Human Body by Dissection.
Página 202 - It remains true, however, that in our existing social conditions, 46 per cent. of women suffer more or less at menstruation, and for a large number of these when engaged in industrial pursuits or others, under the command of an employer, humanity dictates that rest from work during the period of pain be afforded whenever practicable.
Página 204 - SANITARY ARRANGEMENTS for DWELLINGS, intended for the Use of Officers of Health, Architects, Builders, and Householders. With 116 Illustrations. By WILLIAM EASSIE, CE, FLS, FGS, &c., Author of 'Healthy Houses.
Página 150 - ... research program is devoted to showing that the menstrual cycle may be read as the ebb and flow of female nutritive rather than sexual activity, that its metabolic contours are precisely analogous to those of nutrition and growth. And this brings one back to the metaphor of the ovary as fruit blossom. The woman buds as surely and as incessantly as the "plant, continually generating not only the reproductive cell, but the nutritive material without which this would be useless.
Página 201 - In these cases rest is desirable during whatever period of the month the nervous excitement may be experienced, but this will be more frequently through the two or three days preceding the hemorrhage, than at the time of the flow. In slighter cases rest is unnecessary ; in those more severe it is in itself useless, ie other measures must be taken in order to cure the disease. In those cases of congenital hysteria where a cure can not be effected, it is evident that the women are permanently unfit...
Página 150 - We find that in the majority of cases, the excretion of urea i« increased during the few days preceding menstruation, over that of the intermenstrual period ; that it decreases during the menstrual flow, and is at its minimum just afterward; that the pulse shows no uniform rate of variation, but that the temperature rises just before menstruation, to fall during the flow, but at this time rarely reaching the point of the intermenstrual period. Finally, that the sphygmographic trace shows a constantly...
Página 115 - ... we should expect to find a rhythmic wave of nutrition gradually rising from a minimum point just after menstruation to a maximum just before the next flow.