A treatise on the diseases of females / By William P. Dewees.

  • Dewees, William P. (William Potts), 1768-1841.
Date:
1828
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Credit: A treatise on the diseases of females / By William P. Dewees. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    leur condition; car plus les sensations sont grandes, moms elles sont durable, parce que la mollesse et la flaccidite des solids leur faisant opposer moins de resistance, leur reaction est moins forte, et cesse bientot.” “ II n’en est pas de meme dans Phomme; la rigidite et la force de ses solides exigent plus d’energie et un plus grand degr6 d’entensite dans le cause qui agit sur lui; mais aussi PefFect est plus durable, par la grand resistance que sont en etat d’opposer ses organs, resistance qui le fait souvent succomber. Je com- parerois volentiers, dans ce cas, la femme a ce frele roseau, qui, incapable de resistance, flechit humblement la tete sous Peffort de la tempete, et la releve doucement quand le calme est re- venu; et Phomme a ce chene altier, qui se trouve abattu, parla seule raison quhl est fort et capable de resister.”* In the sanguiferous system, we may perhaps recognise the united peculiarities of the muscular and nervous systems; for in that system, we constantly find the circulation carried on with more rapidity, but with less force; the arteries are smaller, more irritable, and more easily urged into action, and more easily appeased, after having been inordinately excited. The veins offer less resistance to any given distending force; hence, they are more strongly marked upon the surface of the body; more decidedly full, or permanently distended; and more disposed to become varicose. The arteries have smaller calibers; are quicker in their action; and, but rarely ossify. The cellular system is more abundant; more flexible; and more easily distended. It is better supplied with moisture; and from the compressibility of its texture, permits the blood ves- sels to divaricate, and pass unrestrainedly in all directions through it From its abundance, and especially about the articulations of the great joints, and large foldings of the body, avoundness and beauty is given to parts, which in the male are angular, and per- haps even forbidding. The cutaneous system differs much from that of the male; for it of itself almost becomes an object of beauty. Its texture is infinitely finer, more highly polished, and more distinctly trans- Vo]. L p. 40, Maladies des Femmes.