Wilbush J
Maturitas. 1980 Dec;2(4):259-67. doi: 10.1016/0378-5122(80)90027-4.
Tilt was the author of the only English book on the female climacteric published in the 19th century. This short historic sketch is primarily concerned with the evaluation of his work. It only hints at the differences between conditions on the opposite sides of the English Channel which encouraged the expression of climacteric disturbances to the south of it but not to the north. Though Tilt acted as an agent of diffusion for the medical concepts developed in France he had hardly any listeners. During the last quarter of the century, however, conditions changed greatly increasing stress among women. The work of Tilt then supplied a ready mould into which the many nebulous complaints presented by women could be fitted. Ménopause became anglicized to menopause: but though Tilt was "vindicated" he was also forgotten. His style was dated and his treatment out of date. His strong advocacy of sedation is still followed but his pioneering of statistical investigation of the climacteric is largely forgotten. Endocrinal research has made us neglect all that happened before it; examination of the past, its achievements and mistakes, may yet, however, teach us a great deal.
蒂尔特是19世纪出版的唯一一本关于女性更年期的英文书籍的作者。这段简短的历史概述主要关注对他作品的评价。它只是暗示了英吉利海峡两岸情况的差异，这种差异促使更年期紊乱症状在海峡以南出现，而在海峡以北却没有。尽管蒂尔特充当了法国所发展的医学概念的传播者，但他几乎没有听众。然而，在该世纪的最后二十五年里，情况发生了很大变化，女性压力不断增加。那时，蒂尔特的著作提供了一个现成的模式，女性提出的许多模糊不清的病症都可以归入其中。“更年期”（ménopause）一词被英语化为“menopause”：尽管蒂尔特被“证明是正确的”，但他也被遗忘了。他的风格过时了，他的治疗方法也过时了。他对镇静疗法的大力倡导仍被沿用，但他对更年期进行统计调查的开创性工作在很大程度上被遗忘了。内分泌研究使我们忽视了在此之前发生的一切；然而，审视过去、它的成就和错误，或许仍能让我们学到很多东西。
