Volume 1

Medical instructions towards the prevention and cure of chronic diseases peculiar to women : in which, their nature is fully explained, and their treatment, clearly laid down ... : to which are added, prescriptions, or efficacious forms of medicine, in English, adapted to each disease / by John Leake.

Date:
1781
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Credit: Medical instructions towards the prevention and cure of chronic diseases peculiar to women : in which, their nature is fully explained, and their treatment, clearly laid down ... : to which are added, prescriptions, or efficacious forms of medicine, in English, adapted to each disease / by John Leake. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    SECTION III. Cejfatwn of ths Pmodkd Dtfcharge in the decline of Ufe, and the diforders arijing from that critical change-of conjiitution, AS long as the prime of life contiiiaes, with that extraordinary faculty of pre- paring redundant blood for the ferviee of the child, fb long its circulating force will be more than equal to the refinance of the uterine veflels, and the periodical difcharge will continue; but when they become more firm and flrong, from the efFe6t of age, it wHl then, totally ceafe. At this time, the female conftitution is in aftate, the very reverfe of what happened at maturity, when the difcharge firfl appeared. The circulating force of the blood and re- fifting power of its veflels, may be conlider- edr as an unequal balance to each other, at different \