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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    As to the Veffels of the Matrix, its Body or grofler Part is fupplied with Arteries, partly from the Spermaticks, and partly from the Hy- pogaftricks, which terminate in the Fundus Uteri; from whence the Men/es flow, when Women are not breeding. Les arteres honteu/es, or the inguinal Arteries, are diftributed in its Neck; by thefe Women with Child purge away the Superfluity of their Terms, when it happens that they have more Blood than is re- quired for the Nourifhment of the Fetus; which prudent Nature feems to have fo or- dered, that the Womb, during its Pregnan- cy, be not obliged to open itfelf to pafs away thofe Redundancies, which otherwife, might caufe Abortion. Therefore we need not think it ftrange, that fomé Women have their Courfes whilft with Child, and yet go their - full Time; becaufe the .Menfes then flow from the Veffels of the Neck, and not from the Fundus Uteri. The Blood of thefe Arte- ries, except what is evacuated in the Time of Plenitude by the Menfirwa, is re-conduted by the Vene pudendorum externa, Vene Uterine, &e, all which are very large in time of Preg- nancy; they are alfo varioufly complicated and have innumerable Anaflamo/fes, the Uti- lity. of which we fhall demonftrate here- after, | The Uterine Nerves come from the Extre- mities of the Intercoffales, viz. the Lumbares and Sacri; but chiefly from the greater Me- Senteric