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ANEMIA

Categories: Mother's Diagnosis

This disease is a diminution of the total quantity of the blood
of its red cells, or red corpuscles or of their Haemoglobin, the coloring

matter of the red corpuscles. Some difficulty of breathing. Palpitation

on least exertion, tendency to faint, headache, tired, irritable, poor or

changeable appetite, digestive disturbances, constipation, cold hands and

feet, difficult and painful menstruation (dysmenorrhea), irregular

menstruation, leucorrhea. And when the skin is pale, yellowish green

tinge, with perhaps flushed cheeks, it might properly be called chlorosis

or "green sickness."



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