Treatise on midwifery and the diseases of women and children with remedies / by A. I. Coffin.

  • Coffin, A. I., (Albert Isaiah), approximately 1790-1866.
Date:
1878
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Credit: Treatise on midwifery and the diseases of women and children with remedies / by A. I. Coffin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    IG siderably evolved until the rest of the body is nearly arrived at its full bulk. But as the vessels of every part, by their distention and growth, increase in density, and give thereby more resist- ance to their further growth, at the same time, by the same resistance, they determine the blood in greater quantity into the parts not yet equally evolved. By this means the whole of the system must be successively evolved, until every part is brought to that degree of distention which it is necessary to produce, viz., a balance in respect of density and resistance with one another. Upon these principles there will be a period in the growth of the body when the vessels of the womb will be distended until they are in equilibrium Avith the rest of the system, and their constitution may be such that the distention may proceed so far as to open their extremities terminating in the cavity of the womb, so as to pour out blood there ; or it may happen that a certain degree of disten- tion may be sufficient to irritate and increase the action of the vessels, and thereby to produce an effort to discharge, which may force the extremities of the vessels with the same effect of pouring out blood. In either Avay ho accounts for the first appearance of the flow of the menses, or the first discharge of blood from the womb in women. lu doing this he does not suppose any more of the general plethora in the system than what is con- stantly necessary to the successive evolution of the several parts of it; and he proceeds upon the supposition that the evolution of each particular part must especially depend upon the plethora, or