Excerpt from The Change of Life in Health and Disease: A Practical Treatise on the Nervous and Other Affections Incidental to Women at the Decline of Life Variable as the duration of this time is in difl'erent women, it receives a certain degree of precision from the date of the last menstrual flow, which divides the change of life into two periods. When in the course of this work I speak Of cessation, I always mean the cessation of the menstrual flow. There is no medical term to designate the time included between the first indications of the failure of ovarian energy, and cessation, but women call it the dodging time, and as it happily ex presses the uncertain and erratic appearance of the menstrual flow, I shall use the phrase to indicate the first part of the change of life in contradistinction to the last part, which begins at cessation, and concludes with the permanent restoration of health. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.