Identifier: herselftalkswith00lowr (find matches)
Title: Herself; talks with women concerning themselves
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Lowry, E. B. (Edith Belle), 1878-1945
Subjects: Women -- Health and hygiene Sexual ethics
Publisher: Chicago : Forbes & company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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r and causing a frequent desire to urinate.More rarely it is tipped to one side. It thentends to pull on the ovaries and produce pain andvarious nervous symptoms. The womb may fall downward, pressing againstboth the bladder and rectum and dragging theovaries and tubes out of their natural positions.Sometimes it even protrudes from the vagina.Any falling or displacement of the womb pulls onthe tubes and ovaries, often producing an inflam-mation. This inflammation should not be al-lowed to continue, as it may become serious, evenextending to the peritoneum and producing peri-tonitis. The nerves of the uterus are very closelyconnected with the spinal nerves, therefore, anydisplacement reacts through them and may pro-duce headache and backache, which are the com-mon accompaniments of any uterine disorder. One of the most simple and yet efficacioustreatments to correct a displacement downwardand backward is to assume the knee-chest positionfor a few moments morning and evening after the 35
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36 DISEASES OF THE ORGANS clothing has been remo7cd. In the knee-chest po-sition, the patient kneels on the bed, then bendsforward until her chest touches the bed; the backslopes down and the thighs should be at rightangles with the bed. This position allows thevarious organs to fall forward and toward the up-ncr part of the body, the pressure on the uterus29 relieved and it assumes its natural position.This treatment, persisted in, will relieve nearlyevery case which has not some other disorder con-nected with it. If every woman would assumethis position for a few minutes once or twice aweek, just before retiring, she would be greatlybenefited; for the majority of women have aslight falling of the womb, which then presses onthe rectal and other nerves causing various nervoussymptoms. The womb and ovaries are surrounded by adense network of nerves and blood vessels, mak-ing them very liable to congestion. Tight cloth-ing or improperly fitted clothing causes pressureand interferes with

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