The sexual life of woman in its physiological, pathological and hygienic aspectsKisch, E. Heinrich (Enoch Heinrich)
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The sexual life of woman in its physiological, pathological and hygienic aspects
Kisch, E. Heinrich (Enoch Heinrich)
Gynecology; Menstruation; Women -- Diseases
Quite frequently, the first appearance of hemicrania in young girls
coincides with the menarche. According to _Warner_, hemicrania made its
first appearance:
In 1 girl of 3 to 4 years.
In 2 girls of 5 to 6 years.
In 1 girl of 6 to 7 years.
In 5 girls of 8 to 9 years.
In 5 girls of 9 to 10 years.
In 4 girls of 10 to 11 years.
In 2 girls of 11 to 12 years.
In 4 girls of 12 to 13 years.
In 15 girls of 13 to 15 years.
Toothache, according to _Holländer_, in the early days of puberty
sometimes exhibits the twenty-eight-day type of menstruation. The same
periodicity has been recorded in cases of vicarious bleeding from the
gums in girls suffering from disturbance of the menstrual function.
In the period of the menarche and before this period, chorea minor
occurs, as a functional disturbance of the motor region of the nervous
system, and especially in girls is it associated with the processes of
the period of physical development. The statistical data supplied by a
number of authors, _Hughes_, _Pye-Smith_, _Russ_, _Sée_, and _Steiner_,
show that the proportion of boys to girls affected with chorea minor is
1 to 2.8, and that of all ages 49 per cent. of the cases occurred at the
ages of 6 to 11 years, 29.8 per cent. at the ages of 11 to 13 years. In
several cases, in quite young girls suffering from chorea, pathological
changes were found in the genital organs. Thus, in 24 out of 27 girls
from the age of 9 to 15 years affected with chorea, _Marie_ found the
symptom-complex designated by _Charcot_ as _ovarie_. Ovarian tenderness
was manifested on palpation, and always on that side on which the chorea
had first manifested itself. _Leonard_ found in a girl aged eleven
suffering from chorea, adhesion of the præputium clitoridis; after the
separation of the prepuce, the chorea disappeared.
As in respect of various nervous affections, so also in respect of
various mental abnormalities, we witness at the time of the menarche
numerous manifestations confirming the statement that, “no spinal reflex
has such widely-opened and easily accessible paths of conduction toward
the organ of mind, as the sexual reflex.” “The menstrual process,”
continues _Friedmann_, “is the only bodily process in relation to which
the organ of mind somewhat readily loses the remarkable stability of its
equilibrium.”
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