AMULET

Amulet: an object invested with power that will protect the owner from bad luck, illness, and death.

The menopause: a physical process that every woman passes through, unless she has died before commencement. Historical medical writings on this subject reveal that treatment has often been based on male expectations of female behaviour, and a deep sense that, as James Compton Burnett writes in  The Change of Life in Women‘ (1898), ‘ Most women are not quite normal’.