A treatise on all the diseases incident to women. Containing an account of their causes, differences, symptoms, diagnostics, prognostics, and cure / by John Astruc. Translated from a manuscript copy of the author's lectures read at Paris, 1740 [by J.R].

  • Astruc, Jean, 1684-1766.
Date:
1743
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Credit: A treatise on all the diseases incident to women. Containing an account of their causes, differences, symptoms, diagnostics, prognostics, and cure / by John Astruc. Translated from a manuscript copy of the author's lectures read at Paris, 1740 [by J.R]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    This will bring me to difcourfe of the Breaft- Milk, its Formation, and the feveral Altera- tions to which it is liable. | _ Befides the foregoing Diforders, reduced to the four already-mention’d Claffes, which make the chief Object of this Treatife, as being more peculiarly incident to Women; there . are alfo other 4/fections, which, tho’ obferv- . able in Men, yet, as they are feated in the Parts of Generation of Women, they juftly de- ferve a place among their Diforders. Of this Kind are the Furor Uterinus, Hyfterick Paf- fron, Chlorofis,theInflammation, Abjce/s,Schirrus, and Cancer of the Uferus, and its Dropfy in Confequence of the latter. ‘To which add the Schirrus of the Breafts, &c. Cuap. I. Of the Structure of the Uterus. IE Parts of Generation in Woman are feveral in Number, fome of them exter- nal, fome internal; and they are all fubordi- nate to one principal internal Part, called the U- terus, This isthat Vz/cus, which the Learned of all Ages have efteemed and confidered as a won- derful Miracle of Nature, not only becaufe of its fingular Subftance and Stru@ure, but alfo of its peculiar Qualities and Faculties. The various Lefions of the different Fun- Ctions of the Uterus being therefore the Subject. | of