"A female complaint has kept her indisposed for the past month."

It is an odd turnabout from the usual female complaint: "All my captain wants to do is get me into the sack."

She added a female complaint as a further excuse for her withdrawal before the consecration.

He wondered, though, why she had gone to a Chinese apothecary; some female complaint, perhaps?

Women take it to start their menstrual periods and to treat other "female complaints."

People take alpine lady's mantle for fluid retention, spasms, heart conditions, and various "female complaints."

Her remedy for "female complaints" became very popular among her neighbours to whom she gave it away.

Lydia sometimes accepted payment for her popular remedy for female complaints.

Historic cookbooks are frequently full of remedies for dyspepsia, fevers, and female complaints.

See the next page to take a look at common female complaints and solutions.