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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    eo OF -THE DPS RASES : _ tothe Addition, which being confined within the Circulation brings that Plethora on the Blood, This Redundancy is brought about, 1. Becaufe Women generate more Chyle and Blood, than is {pent upon the Solids, but is accumulated with- in the Veffels for want of being fufficiently ela- borated for Secretion. 2, Becaufe Per/piration (for by this Secretion the far greater Part of the Aliment is difiipated) zs /e/s in Women; the Truth of this Affertion will eafily appear from what has been delivered by Hippocrates, Galen, Sanéforius, Bellini, Sc, upon this Subject. The References and Quotations, you'll partly find in Dr. Friend's Arguments for eftablifhing the fame, in his Emmenologia, Chap. iii. wherein he exprefies himéelf thus, « The firft is, the Weaknefs of the Sex, as «¢ has been obferved. by the accurate Sanéfo- “ rius*; and this, indeed, Azppocrates > feems “very juftly to deduce from their more deli- © cate Texture ; for by how much more folid «the Parts are, fo much the more ftrongly is - * the Body compacted, But whatever may be «the Caufe of this Weaknefs, it is plain «that Women are weaker than Men; « which is alfo very manifeft even from the « Pulfe. For a Woman’s Pulfe is generally «¢ termed /enguid, if compared to a Man’s; ‘© which has alfo been remarked by Galen<; ‘« befides the moft certain Tokens of Strength « are to be taken from the Pulfe. For what sis Strength, but that Force which is derived - Med. Stat. § 1. §2. > De Gland, § 11. ¢ De Cauf, Puls. § 3. 2. | €¢ to .