LIFE

or the climacteric or menopause, is the name of the time of life at which menstruation normally ceases. The symptoms most often met with at the olimacteric are at the outset irregularities in menstruation, a sane of weight, which is gencrally a gain but may bo a marked lo ; troublesome flushings often followed by sweating; emotional disturbance pa ing into insanity in certain cases. The age is usually forty-five to fifty, and the duration of the change of life often extends to two years. The only treatment required is to avoid i as much as po ible and to live # quiet, healthy life. The symptoms described, having not been experienced before, often give rise to the belief that they indicate some grave disease, which is best combated by impre ing on the mind that these symptoms are normal and will pa away in time. [s. 342]