menorrhagia
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When about twenty years of age, perhaps a year or so older, she applied to me for advice in consequence of neuralgia, back-ache, menorrhagia, leucorrhœa, and general debility.
From Sex in Education or, A Fair Chance for Girls by Edward Hammond Clarke
Internally, used for.—Second stage of dysentery, diarrhea in an infusion of milk; in bleedings, sore mouth, leucorrhea, gleet, menorrhagia and excessive mucous discharges, nose-bleed, bleeding from extracted teeth, piles, bleeding after labor, sore throat.
From Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada by Thomas Jefferson Ritter
Sterility in women may occur from the above-named causes of impotence, together with absence of the uterus and ovaries, or from great debility, syphilis, constant amenorrhœa, dysmenorrhœa, or menorrhagia.
From Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology by W. G. Aitchison (William George Aitchison ) Robertson
The following case illustrates one of the ways in which our present school methods of teaching girls generate a menorrhagia and its consequent evils.
From Sex in Education or, A Fair Chance for Girls by Edward Hammond Clarke
Opposed to amenorrhoea is menorrhagia, or an excessive menstrual flow.
From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by Austin ?Malley
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