Volume 2

The system of the womb: with a particular account of the menses / [Thomas Simson].

  • Simson, Thomas, 1696-1764
Date:
1730
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Credit: The system of the womb: with a particular account of the menses / [Thomas Simson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    one or two Pouunds gradually accumulated, fince the taking that from the Mafs no-way affe&s the Period: I Shall not pretend to trace all the Refuges that may be taken to evite the Force of my Arguments, but only recommend my theory of that Phenomenon to be read with¬ out Prejudice, and to compare the current theory and it together. As to thatPofitionof thePletborifts, thatWomen have come to the cckjaw or Pitch of their Growth, before the Phcenomenon takes Place, I have been at Pains to enquire into this, and find the Faft every where contradifted, the Growth never being more remarkable than after this Time, at which the Body becomes every Way more healthful; while before the commencing of this Difcharge all the Aftions of the Body languished; the Caule of which we Shall explain afterwards. And thus I have ventured, in every other Article upon this Head, to diflcnt from the Multitude, not having yet learned, that He- refy7 or the dilfenting from the current Opini¬ ons of the generality, is accounted a Crime a- mong Phyficians. Our Glory, if I miftake it not>