107  Fewos, 
venus, lascivious practices of a criminal and = - 
unnatural kind ; impetuous and unrestrained gusts — 
of rage, jealousy and revenge ;* reckless sur- 
render to immoderate eating and drinking. In 
short the whole morai system, in its unchastened 
aberrations, and licentious indulgences, is not 
unfrequently a cause of retentien and suppression 
of the catamenia, as well as productive often, of 
dysmenorrhea, and menorrhagia. When this mo- 
ral inordinancy is the morbid agent, in cases under 
our care, in vain will we seek material medica- 
ments to effect the cure, without at the same time, 
using the restraining influence of moral castiga- 
tion and reform, by our own advice or the influ- 
ence of friends. [ am aware that it is only the 
educated female whose mind is to be reached by 
these representations of the cause of her malady: 
but even the abandoned and profligate do some- 
times surrender their vices at the shrine ef health. 
It is our duty to aid such in their return to a less 
vicious life. 
From the preceding view of the causes of uterine 
derangement and the various means of palliation 
and cure, for palliation is not unfrequently all we 
can effect ; it is plain, that as I have advanced in 
the outset, they act by any thing but a specific 
force directed to the uterus, ani it is equally clear 
and conclusive, that there is no just or even rational 
foundation for the existence or retention of such a 
class asemmenagogues. Such at least is my view, 
and such my reasons for it. As it is my duty to 
teach what IL believe, I therefore instruct the 
student to dissociate from his mind in the study of 
medicaments, that unphilosophical and misleading 
class. He will find it thrown out of Murray’s 
* These also produce menorrhagia, 
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