An inaugural dissertation on the function of menstruation : submitted to the examination of the Rev. John Ewing, S.T.P. provost, the trustees and medical professors of the University of Pennsylvania, on the 21st day of May, 1795, for the degree of Doctor of Medicine / by Charles Everett of Virginia ; member of the Philadelphia Medical Society.

  • Everett, Charles, of Virginia.
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[1795]
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Credit: An inaugural dissertation on the function of menstruation : submitted to the examination of the Rev. John Ewing, S.T.P. provost, the trustees and medical professors of the University of Pennsylvania, on the 21st day of May, 1795, for the degree of Doctor of Medicine / by Charles Everett of Virginia ; member of the Philadelphia Medical Society. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and demerits, of all the the theories that have been publilhed to the world, to account for this curious function of the human femaie— it will be fufficient barely to hint at fome of them, as we pafs over their enumeration. All the theories on this fubject may be re- duced to four or five, viz. The influence of the moon—an internal fermentation—plethora both partial and general—and the impieffive influence of venereal delires—The firit as being contradicted by the experience of every individual, and the fecond as being incompa- tible with the health or circulation of the fluids, have long fmce ceafed to be piauiible. I (hall chiefly attend to the doctrines of conformation and plethora ; though not with- out previoufly obferving, that whatever fhare the venereal orgafm (to ufe the language of fome medical writers) may have in the pro- duction of menitruation, fuch an orgafm or exertion does not appear to me adequate to explain the various phenomena of the func- tion now under confideration. Phyiiology teaches us, that the exility and fenfibility of the organs of the body are necefiary to the