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 ting diet, a crudity of the humours, acids, and astringent medicines.

This disorder is to be cured in the same manner as the hysteric affection; but, if the remedies for that fail, the patient must take every morning five spoonfuls of an hysteric julep, with twelve drops of spirit of hartshorn; and every night a scruple of compound powder of myrrh made into a bolus, or pills with syrup of lemons. Allen recommends cantharides and camphor; the dose is from two grains to fix.

Hoffman directs chalybeates, or pills made of aloes, myrrh, saffron, amber, castor, and round birthwort, Pitcairn thinks mercury more efficacious than steel.

If the fluids are inclinable to stagnate, their fluidity may be preserved by fomentations and frictions of the feet; by opening a vein in the foot, and bleeding elsewhere; by giving uterine purges; by emmenagogue; by plasters, fgmentations, liniments, vapours and heat; by f{trength- ening the veffels debilitated with a plethora, by. chaly- bearesand altringents,

Uterine cathartics are aloes, myrrh, bryony, colocyn- thus, gum-ammoniac, bdellium, fagapenum, opopanax, afa-fetida, galbanom, and elixir proprietatis.

Emmenagopues, befides the former, are, ariltolochia, miugwort, motherwort, camomile, juniper, marjoram, marum, feverfew, pennyroyal, rue, favine, fage, elder, wild-thyme, tanfy, thyme. To which may be added

balm, ro‘emary, weU-flowers, faffron, bay and juniper.

berries, amber, rhubarb, and aromatics, As alfo borax, alkaline and volatile falts; warm, ftimulating, acrid, and aromatic oils; the barks of gnaiacum, faflafras, cinna- mon, and juniper; the rinds of oranges, citrons, and lemons. ay

Refolving platters are thofe of cummin, melilot, gal- banum,: bayberrics, labdanum, oxycroceum, which muit be applied to the foles of the feet, navel and groin. ‘The

. fomentations may be made of Venice foap, and fome of

the above mentioned herbs.

Of the Immoperate FPrux of the Munses, cr Uterine Hemorrhage.

Every large flux of blood from the uterus isnot to be efteemed noxious, but fuch only as is attended with lofs of {trength, which brings en other fymptoms, fuch as. want of appetite, crudities from incigeltion, a feufa- tion of weight near the regimen of the ftomach, an ill colour in the face, a languid pulfe. often with a gentle heat, an cedematous {welling of the feet, anda dilurbed

. fleep without refrefhment,.

Sometimes the menfes flow in too great plenty and with impetuofiry at the ufual period; fonetimes twice or oftenerin a month; fometimes again they continue feveral days longer than ordinary.

This flux fometimes confills of thin forid blood, which happens chiefly in abortions; and from a retenticn of pieces of the fecundiaes, which keep the mouths of the veflels open Sometimes there are coagulated and clut- ted mafles like fleth come away with theblood, of the fize of an egg, which is occafioned by a {toppage of the men- fes for two or three months,, At other times the blood is grumous, coagulated, aad black; generally on the firit

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days of child-bed, in flender and plethoric’ fubje&s. When the patient is cacheétic, and the flux continues long, itis thin, watery, and mucid. In the {corbutic, it is corrupt and fetid, with acrimony and pain. In the younger fort, before child-bearing, if the cvacuation be immoderate, it is commonly followed by a fluor~albus, or the dripping of a white, impure, mucid matter,

The caufe may be referred to a copious and impetuous- afflux of blood to the uterus,-and an unequal and impe- ded reflux by the veins ; which diftending and relaxing the: uterine veflels, make the orifices too wide, or rend and corrode them, by which the blood flows too freely, This may happen from a plethora, or when there has been along fupprefiion, or an abortion, or a difficult la» bour. It generally happens to women about the fiftieth year, when the menfes are going to leave them; and not’ always without danger. It fometimes happens to women’ upwards of fixty, which, if attended with a flow fever, haitens death.

The concomitant figns are generally thefe: A tenfion: and inflatton of the hypochondria, a heavy prefling pain abowt the loins, fometimes with a chilnefs ; a coldn fs of the extremities, a finking of the veffels, a palenefs of. the face, @ quick palfe, with an internal heat, a coltive- nefa, and littl urine; all which fhew there is not only a debility and laxity of the uterus, bat fpafmodic ftric-- tures of the vafculous and nervous parts, which force the: blood to the uterus.

If the body is cacochymic or fcorbutic, or fall of bad. humours, orafflidted with the venereal difeafe; when the’ vifcera are unfound, and the liver, {pleen, and meferaic veins, are {tuffed with thick blood, the cafe is dangerous and troublefome ; for the fault of the flaids and cachexy continually increafe: Befides, the more the ftrength is weakened, the more the ftomach and digeition are hurt; the blood is depraved, and ‘the excretions diftarbed and leffened. When this happens to women when the child is dead, their lives are in great danger, and nothing but {peedy affiitzoce froma man- midwife can fave them. The cafe is alfo dangerous when the fecundines are violently extracted, or parts of them are retained, and which fome- times degenerates into moles.

Immoderate evacuations are produced by a fedentary life, which gives room for abundance of thick chyle and milk. Ir is caufed likewife by too frequent ufe of fait, acrid, and feafoned meats; by fpiritous liquors, d&c. by violent agitations and paflions of the mind, from loffes, gaming, love, anger, &e. It may be obferved likewile, that viclent exercife does as much harm as the moderate is ferviceable, efpeciully if the patient is fubjec to this flux from other caufes; fuch as immoderate repetitions of the venereal act, efpecially in women of a delicate confti=- tation ; too frequent child: bearing.

The cure fhould refpect the reltraining a prefent flux; and the keeping within bounds a future one.

- Ie fhould be begun with reft, if convenient, in bed ; the patient lying on her back, and filent as much as pof- fible. Bleed in the arm, according as the conftitution and ftrength of ‘the patient, as well as the urgency of the fymptdms, will admitor require. Avoid ligatures of the limbs. Let the patient fare (cnderly on vealaad chicken-

. broths,