Medical instructions towards the prevention, and cure of chronic or slow diseases peculiar to women [electronic resource] : especially, those proceeding from over-delicacy of habit called nervous or hysterical; from Female Obstructions, Weakness, and inward Decay; a diseased state of the Womb, or critical change of Constitution at particular Periods of Life; in which, their Nature is explained, and their Treatment, by Regimen, and simple Medicines, divested of the Terms of Art, is clearly laid down, for the use of those affected with such Diseases, as well as the Medical Reader. By John Leake, M. D. Member of the Royal College of Physicians, London; and Physician to the Westminster Lying-in Hospital.