AND FAMILY DISPENSATORY, 215 
DISEASES of WOMEN®* 
: “IN all civilized nations, women have the management of domeltic affairs; and it 
is very proper they fhould, as nature has made them lefs fit for the more active and 
laborious employments. This indulgence, however, is often carried too far; and 
females, inftead of being benefited by it, are greatly injured, from the want of exer. 
cife and freenir, To be fatished of this, one need only compare the frefhand ruddy 
Jooks of a milk-maid with the pale complexion of thofe females whofe whole time 
is {pent within doors.. Though nature has made an evident diltingtion between the 
male and female with’regard to bodily ftrength and vigour, yet fhe certainly never 
meant, either that the one fhould be always without, or the other always within, 
doors. The confinement of females, befides hurting their figure and complexion, 
relaxes their folids, weakens their minds, and diforders all the funGtions of the 
body. Hence proceed obftructions, indigeftion, flatulence, abortions, and the whole 
‘train of nervous diforders. Thefe not only unfit women for being mothers and 
nurfes, but often render them whimfical and ridiculous. A found mind depends fe 
much upon a healthy body, that, where the Jatter is wanting, the former is rarely to 
be found, Women who are chiefly employed without doors, in the. different 
branches of hufbandry, gardening, and the like, are almoft as hardy-as their hut- 
bands, and ‘their children are likewife ftrong and healthy. But,-as the bad effects of 
Confinement and inactivity upon both fexes have been already thewn, we fhall pro- 
ceed to point out thofe circum ftances in the fteuctare and defign of females, which 
fubject then to sigs difeafes; the chief of which are, their samira evacua- 
ae ay se nie Icy pee bene. Bcc. 
oF THE MENSTRUAL ‘DISCHARGE, 
= FEMALES generally begin to menftruate about the age of fifteen, and leave it 
off about fifty, which renders thefe two periods the molt critical of their lives. 
“About the firft appearance of this difcharge, ¢ the conititution vadergoes a “8 con- 
fiderable change, generally indeed for the beter, though fometimes for.the er € 
The greateft care is therefore neceffary, as the furure health a and ieee “a 
" female depends, in a great meafure, upon her conduct at this per mS ay 
__ of mothers, and thofe who are intratted with the education | of gicls, to inftruc ie 
= early i in the conduct and ‘management of 
ee lives. Falfe modelty, inattention, and 
» + For allt difeafes and infirmities p aliar 1 ‘ 
= at awh ee Author begs leave to recom m nét d his. LUNAR TINCTURE, te 
le and is the very Sf 
_ all the virtues of the vegetable world, ; adapted to Fe mbt of the fex. & aie Ss any 
“ments hitherto difcovered for preferving bed bealth, Spirits, am " Se 
hops that deal in patent medicines. >this 
Ives ac this critical period of their. se Ere 
