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MEDICAL INTRO
BOOKS ON OLD MEDICAL TREATMENTS AND REMEDIES

THE PRACTICAL
HOME PHYSICIAN AND ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MEDICINE
The biggy of the late 1800's. Clearly shows the massive inroads in medical science and the treatment of disease.

ALCOHOL AND THE HUMAN BODY In fact alcohol was known to be a poison, and considered quite dangerous. Something modern medicine now agrees with. This was known circa 1907. A very impressive scientific book on the subject.

DISEASES OF THE SKIN is a massive book on skin diseases from 1914. Don't be feint hearted though, it's loaded with photos that I found disturbing.

Part of  SAVORY'S COMPENDIUM OF DOMESTIC MEDICINE:

 19th CENTURY HEALTH MEDICINES AND DRUGS

 

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The Relation Between Lactation and the Sexual Functions.

The Relation Between Lactation and the Sexual Functions: Since the nourishment of the child by the secretion of the breast is a part of the reproductive process - and one, too, which abundantly taxes the physical powers of the woman - we would expect to find what we know to be the case, namely, that the other reproductive organs, the womb and ovaries, usually remain in a quiescent state until lactation is completed; hence it is that conception rarely occurs until the child is weaned. But it should be remembered that this intimate sympathy between the breasts and the sexual organs is one which may react upon the former as well as upon the latter ; and that undue sexual excitement is apt to be followed by injurious influence upon the secretion of milk. For this, among other reasons, it is a matter of the utmost importance, that during the early period of lactation there may be a total abstinence from intercourse, which should be allowed not earlier than the third month after delivery.

Another most important reason for such abstinence is the fact that a failure to observe it often interferes seriously with the involution of the uterus, which is not always completed within two months after confinement. If the period of nursing be not unduly prolonged, if the child be weaned between the tenth and twelfth month, menstruation is usually deferred so long as lactation con­ tinues. Yet exceptions to this rule do occur; either because of undue* sexual excitement, or for some undetermined reason, menstruation occasionally begins five or six months after delivery. In such cases the woman is often urged to discontinue nursing for the sake of her child. In regard to this we would simply say that the appearance of the menstrual discharge does not necessarily demand the discontinuance of lactation; the decision must rest entirely upon the health of the child. If this be evidently impaired from the time when menstruation began, it is always advisable that the infant be weaned, otherwise not. It is observed that in the majority of cases, when menstruation begins so late as the fifth or sixth month, lactation may be prolonged without interference during the usual period.

Quite otherwise is it, however, if conception occur while the mother is still nursing. For in this case her energies, unequal to the increased demand made by the attempt to perform both functions, will be devoted to the child in the womb to such an extent as to interfere seriously with her nursing. This does not necessarily imply that the milk will be dried up, since the contrary is often observed, but the effect upon the child is always evident. The milk plainly suffers such a change in quality as to render it injurious to the infant, and in every case the child should be weaned just so soon as the fact of conception is apparent. In some cases, indeed, it has been observed that a previously healthy child, thriving upon the milk of a healthy mother, becomes suddenly and unaccountably ill. Obstinate derangements of digestion, resisting all remedies, either in the shape of drugs or in attention to the mother's diet, transform the previously rosy babe into a deathly caricature of its former self. The mystery has been only explained a few months later by the evident pregnancy of the mother.

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