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The Change of Life in Health and Disease. The Change of Life in Health and Disease.

TILT, Edward John. 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. 2nd edn. John Churchill. 1857
Half title, 32pp cata. Unopened in orig. purple cloth fading to brown, spine lettered in gilt; head & tail of spine chipped. With presentation inscription on half title, 'Erasmus Wilson Esq. With the author's kind regards'.

¶An early treatise on the menopause, with examination of both its physiological and psychological effects. Using a case study of 500 women, it has been described as 'the first epidemiological study ever performed on menopausal women'. (Current Management of the Menopause, London, 2005.) An expansion of an earlier work, Diseases of the Change of Life, 'long out of print', of which we can find no example.
Stock #78579
£85


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