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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    3. We are next to confider the Quantity of Blood evacuated at every Period of this Flux, The moft conitant I know, in healthy and a- dult Perfons, is rarely lefs than eight Ounces or morethan twelve; but this is as changeable as any of the precedent Cafes, according to the Variety of Conftitution, Age, Diet, Climate, Sea- fon, Exercife, or the like; for fome Women dif- charge but four or five Ounces of Blood, whilft others lofe twenty or thirty Ounces, as we fee in plethoricand high fed Perfons. If a Woman has few of them, as when grown-in Years, fhe be- comes barren, inafmuch as this Blood is re- quired to nourifh the Child in the Womb; and likewife, if fhe has too many, the thereby grows too weak, and the Womb. too cold. However, the Quantity evacuated in the Space of nine Months, feems to be fufficient to fu- ftain the Fatus. But whether it may fuffice or not, we may learn from the following Cal- culation. ‘¢ In healthy Women, the menftruous Blood «is difcharged to twenty Ounces, which agrees « with the Meafure affigned by Hippocrates *, «namely, two Hemina’s; therefore the Quan- “tity difcharged in nine Months, will be “re 7b. but becaufe it fometimes happens, © «¢ that the Men/es flow even in breeding Wo- «© men, at leaft, for the three former Months, << altho’ in a much lefs Quantity, we may fup- «¢ pofe the quantity of evacuated Blood todecreafe ¢¢ inthat Proportion, that, in the firft Month, an * Morb. Mul. lib. 1.§ 15. Half ce a