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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    _ * Half of 10 Ounces may be difcharged, in the “ fecond } or % 6, in the third 4 or 3% 5, and «that afterwards there i is a total Su ppreffion « then fubftracting % 214 out of 15/7, the re- * maining Quantity of Blood, which the Mos © «« ther.may beftow upon the ‘Nourithment of «her Offspring, will be Jb, 13 % 24, which ‘‘ will outweigh the new-born Fetus with all « its Integuments, if they fhould be put into «<q Ballance; and leave no Room to doubt, «© its being able to beftow very proper Nou- érifhment on-the Fywdbri0; for the mean «< Weight of a new-born Fetus is about 12 /. ‘«¢ Sometimes it is found greater, and very of- «« ten lefs, But if the Men/es thould be fup- & preffed i ina breeding Woman, the 15 //d, are ¢* fufficient for the N ourifhment of the Fetus ; « but thofe Women in whom the Flux ex- «© ceeds 20 Ounces, as it often happens, will sc eafily fupply the Petds with nine Months «© Nourifhment, altho’ it fhould be a Mons ‘ Pig “ ‘The Duration of ibe Menjfes next prefents ithe with Regard to which, we cannot make any certain or conftant Rule; for the Flux holds 2 fome Women for three, four, or five Days on- y, snay, but twenty-four Hours; yet in others the acuation continues for Leah or eight Days, The .moft-.ufual and natural Duration is betwixt three and five Days; and that mode- tately owing by Degrees without Intermiffion, and not all at once; for great and fudden Evae Cuations caule great Diffipations of Spirits. } C2 Another