menorrhagia
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The most frequent effect is to inhibit it, but it may be anticipated or delayed, and where there is a tendency to too profuse a flow, it may produce menorrhagia.
From Psychotherapy by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
By menorrhagia we understand an immoderate flow of the menses.
From The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources by Anonymous
All physicians are aware of the frequent dependence of menorrhagia upon anemia, not only acquired, but congenital.
From The Education of American Girls by Anna C. (Anna Callender) Brackett
The menorrhagia ceased, but persistent dysmenorrhœa now indicates the neuralgic friction of an imperfectly developed reproductive apparatus.
From Sex in Education or, A Fair Chance for Girls by Edward Hammond Clarke
Therapeutically the drug has been used for palsy, "incompetency and tumultuous distressing cardiac action," mitral disease, chorea, epilepsy, retention of placenta, catarrhal deafness, menorrhagia, sciatica, rheumatism, periostitis, hydrothorax, and transient deafness.
From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Edward Pollock Anshutz
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