Rapacious, insensitive people find the elderly, who are suffering from the degenerative diseases and who have a negative attitude to ageing, easy victims. Quacks and tricksters have battened on to the old, relieving them of their money, but not of their complaints, for centuries. They still do. Beware of them and their nostrums. There is [...]
The period of instability in middle age has been termed the male menopause. The term is based on the fact that women, between the ages of 45 and 55, reach the menopause – which means that their menstrual periods cease. But the menopause has come to describe far more than that. It is used to [...]
In most cases this treatment is curative, but since gonorrhoea may lurk in the body it is essential that you re-attend the doctor, or the hospital clinic, for follow-up. Seven days after receiving the penicillin you pass a specimen of urine, which is examined by the doctor, who also takes further smears from the urethra. [...]
Some therapists recommend that for the next twelve months the woman should use the squeeze technique every third time the couple have sexual intercourse; but at other times they have the freedom to experiment and adopt whichever sexual position most pleases them. A useful time for reinforcing the new sexual learning is during the time [...]
As pregnancy advances, with its attendant minor discomforts, many women are concerned that their increased fatness, lethargy, distended abdomen, and pendulous breasts may adversely affect their man’s love. The way a man can reassure his partner is to kiss and cuddle her and to be interested (as he should be) in the continuing pregnancy and [...]