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CATAMENIA:
TO WHICH ARE SUBJOINED,
Obfervations on Amenorrhoea.
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To BENJAMIN RUSH, M. D.
This Diflertation,
Is gratefully infcribed,
By his Friend,
THE AUTHOR.
GUSTAVUS RICHARD BROWN, M. D.
Sir,
to
dcfignate efteem and
friendihip, permit me
to infcribe the following Differtation to you ;
aufpices, r
Your Friend,
THE AUTHOR.
To JOHN THOMSON MASON.
S I R,
Your Friend,
THE AUTHOR.
INAUGURAL DISSERTATION.
I.
II.
pregnated ovum.
III.
The menfes is a
difcharge of pure arterial
blood from the uterine arteries. They appear
at puberty, and return at periods, and
ftated
ceafe in advanced life. Though the various
morbid affedions to which the fex is liable, in
IV.
by the cold of a
northerly climate. The
menfes appear later in thofe of a rigid fibre, are
more painful and tedious, than in others of a
V.
VL As
( 4 )
VI.
males are
marriageable. This is much influ
enced by climate, &c. In Perfia, India, and
other countries contiguous to the torrid zone,
VII.
tion :
Contrary circumftances produce contra
ry effeds.
VIII.
men
generally ceafe to breed.
IX. The
IX.
X.
. 4 ly,
( * )
with fome alleviation in
ly, though generally
proportion as the ferum becomes more tinged
with blood. difcharge becomes, at length,
The
XL
*
til pure ferum is again evacuated. This fe
rous
difcharge, diminifhes gradually, until a
final ftop is put to the evacuation. The fyf
tem, at thistime, often becomes affeded with
various diforders, as vertigo, difpepfia, apo
XII. The
*
This is not the cafe with all wor/.en —
fome evacuate
XII.
XIII.
quantity.
XIV.
XV.
The
( I*
j
XVI.
XVII.
inveftiga-
( ,»3 )
inveftigations afford
nothing fatisfa&ory on
xyiu.
of the month ?
nearly on the fame day
XIX.
XX.
XXL
norrhagia.
XXII.
XXJII. Another
( I a )
XXIII.
forward.
XXIV.
XXV.
XXVI.
How can
any glandular fundion be per
formed only at ftated times, while the ftruc-
ture of the gland remains entire, and the fup-
XXVII.
XXVIII.
t
XXIX.
fophic
*
7T,- Fyfe's private Dcinonftratie-ns on
Auitomy, Edin-
U:roh.
conclude that
fophic view, we might be led to
animals.
they are but imperfedly finifhed
In a fuperftitious light, we might fuppofe the
meant as a curfe on the fex for the
difcharge
tali of man.
XXX.
We come now to a
part of the fubjed
which Phyficians have more generally agreed
on —
ufes of menjlruation.
the
XXXI.
XXXII.
Conception never
appears before the
menfes, and never after they have ceafed —
this
( 21
)
this a
ftrong mark of the wifdom in all natu
XXXIII.
XXXIV.
the uterus —
XXXV.
XXXVI.
vefTels,
*
Dr
Gregory's Lectures on the Pra&ice of Medicine,
Edinburgh.
( 23 )
vefTels, they lofe their adivity and tone.
XXXVII.
XXXVIII.
XXXIX.
XL.
XL1.
E
Pregnane^
( 26 )
Pregnancy and ladation are fundions entire
ly oppofite. A nurfe, defirous to become
XLIf.
XLI1I.
XLIV.
adivity abovementioned.
XLV.
XLVI.
XLVII.
XLVIII. As
( *9 )
XL VIII.
XLIX.
conftrida,
( 3° )
conftrida, the pulfe becomes much accelerat
ed upon hidden emotion, to which the fex are
L.
LI.
LI!.
nagogue.
LIU. The
( 3* )
LIII.
fible —
Cantharides feem alfo to ad on this vif-
cus
by confent ; alfo aloes, warm fomentati
ons applied to the hypogaftric region, though
tricity.
LIV.
4 times
() 33
times a-day, efpecially when the above
and
tonics are employed, I have feen it produce
the moft defirable effeds.
LV.
LVI.
*
Vide IJOwTh.uvc —
Van Swicten's Comtuentarits*
( 34 )
with view to open the arteries obftruded by
a
an
impermeable matter, Lentor; that the ufe of
mercury is always unfafe or inefficacious in this
difeafe I will not affert ; but, that the indifcri-
minate ufe, for a
length of time, is pradice
a
LVII.
more
generally attended with fuccefs.
THE EN D.