Change Of Life, By FS Edsall, 1949, HB, DJ, FE

Description: Thank you for looking at our listing. A purchase is supporting Friends of Spanish Peaks Library District! These books are all donated from different sources. This book is in good condition, the dust jacket is a bit rough and the book is in excellent condition, see photos for details. If you find several items, message me and I’ll be happy to combine shipping. IT IS REMARKABLE HOW MANY WOMEN, INCLUDING A number who are intelligent and otherwise well informed, have wrong ideas as to the significance of the menopause. No phenomenon of the human body has been so shrouded in folklore and even superstition as that of menstruation, and the cessation of this function has been included in the prevailing fog of misconception. There are still women who believe that the change of life may at times cause insanity, or that it may incite the development of cancer, or that it may entail loss of physical attractiveness to their husbands. None of these assumptions is correct, any more than the belief that a woman may expect to become fat during this period. It is true that many women show a modest gain in weight and that a few gain many pounds, not infrequently in the form of a rather undesirable middle-age deposit on the abdomen. As a matter of fact, the thin angular type of woman may develop a few pleasing matronly curves which enhance her appearance and give her a sense of well-being-truly a sort of second flowering. The change of life is not a disease, but a normal and inevitable stage in the span of a woman's reproductive life. The vast majority of women undergoing this physiological transi. tion need no treatment; often a simple educational and reas suring talk is all that is required. The menopause is due to the fact that the hitherto active ovaries cease to function. For it is true that the ovaries of every woman have a sort of foreordained span of functional life of approximately thirty-two or thirty-three years. With cessation of ovarian activity there occurs a temporary upset of the endocrine system; and during this period there may be symptomatic repercussions which as a rule are mild and easily tolerable, but which in something like 10 per cent of all cases may call for the intermittent but never constant use of estrogenic gland preparation. The former plan of administering these by "shots" is no longer necessary and has been frowned upon by leading authorities, since oral preparations are just as effective. Mrs. Edsall has included in her book many subjects only indirectly related to the menopause, but which will probably interest the intelligent reader. For example, many are interested in the vaginal smear method of cancer detection; but they should know that while this is a very valuable screening method, it has no decisive diagnostic value and in itself can not be made the basis for treatment. After all, by far the most important measure which the woman can take to protect herself against cancer is to have a competent gynecological examination at intervals of about six months. in this lite volume the averax months, l find much information which will be useful to her and conceivably could at times be lifesaving.

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