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producing the Terra Paponica. I97
the dirty ames they use, there must be a considerable quantity of earlli in the Extract, besides What avarice may prompt them to put into it. This the learne 1 have proved Dom their laborious chemicat decompositions. The Extradi, thus Prepared, is bought Dom the manias adiurer sortwelve or fifteen stilliings the eighty potan is
meight. Ι could never learn that the Terra D- Ionica was produced from the Areca or Bellenui; nor is it indeed credibie that it should, not-withstanding that this is the generat and received opinion, for the Belle-nut is scarce ever so low in price as the Terra Dponica, and was it to be ex tracted frona theiace, the price Would be twentytimes dearer than the present sales. Where the
eca nut is in great plenty, they may perhapsjoin s me of the fruit in malaing the Extrast, toans wer a doubie purpose, for the most frequentiasse of both is in chewing them together, as Europeans do iobacco; to these two substances theyadd a litile siteli lime, and a leas called Pavis. Here I am obliged to have recoUrse to the natives, whom from experience I have found to bevery sallaciotis, theres ore I Will not answer sor
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The black physicians of this counim divide
the distases of manliind, as weli as their medicines, into hol and cold; to the cold disse asse theyoppose a hol medicine, and to the hol dissense a cooling medicine, among which last this Extractis supposed Very powerfui. When too profusely used it is sald to be a destroyer os vepereat plea
may be raised above ground, made of clay. This furnace is very valia able for iis simplicity, easyc'nstruction, and smali expence of suel. The Extract is a principat ingredient in oneos their oiniments of great repute, composed ofblue vitriol four dranas, Japan earth f Ur OUnces, alum nine di ams, white resin four ounces ; theseare reduced to a fine poWder, and mixed with theliand , adding olive oti tela OUnces, and water sufficient to bring the masse to the proper consist ence of an Oiniment. This Oiniment is used in every fore, from a frem Wound to a venereat ul
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in. Robert Hunter, Surgeon os the Patna Factory.
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Τo the Medicat Society in London.
THERE is a period in the lisse of Amales
to whicli, for the most pari, they aretaught to look with sonae degree of anxiety ; asa period on Whicli depends their ei oying a goodor bad state of health during the residue of their
The various and absurd opinions relative tothe ceasing of the menstruat discliarge, and iis consequences, propagated through successive ages, have tended to embliter the liours of many a sensibie woman. Nor have these mistaken notions been confined to them only; they have oc-
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eto et OV Me Manet ent proper at the
cupied the miniis of such Who ought to have been beller informed: some practitioners, in other res pedis able and judicio us, is they have
them, With the diligence and humani ty whicli ano edt like this reqUireS. The design of this es Cay is to contribute mymite towards so necessary a Purpose ; to assist in removing these groianillessi apprehensiolas, and tosubstitute a reas nable confidence, that, with very litile aid, Nature is sussicient to provide sortier own security on this occasion. You must forget sor a moment that I am submitting these remarks to the judgment of a So- Ciety, every member of Whicli, perhaps, is ascapable of this work, and some much better than myself. I am Writing to many sensibie youngmen in the prosectiora os physic, Who, thoughthey may have applied thenaseives to the generat study and practice of our profession with dilitagence and successi, may not yet, Perhaps, knowwhere to look for such information on this subiaject as may be sufficient to satisfy theniselves and their patienis, What management is proper whenthe Menses are ab ut to Ceasse. To proposse a regimen that stiali suit ali thedisserent cases that may Occur, Would require a volume. To give some generat direction is ali Iintend, without entering into a minute description of the commenCement, Progress, and termination of the Menses. I must supposse eve
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thing of this kind is at ready known, and that thesingle qtiestion is, What conducto. What mana C-ment is necessary to be observed when the Menses are abo ut to cease, by the patient Who Consulis her physician on the occasion ξ We arenow sensibie that the menstruat discliarge is not, what it Was too long an too generalty bellevedio be by many of the lex, an evacuation os peccant matter and morbid humour, somelimes acrimoniolis and malignant, Whose retention, frona iis noxiolas qualities never fatis to be extrem ely injuriotis, to the constitution. What opinion the ancients entertained concerning it, I need not re- Peat to you : That iis malignancy was sicli as toaffect even inanimate bodies. But these fabiesare wholly dis belleved, excepi by sonae of those
who ought to be Undeceived in a matter that somuch concertas them. It is now well known, and the sex cannot
be too generalty appriZed of it, that the menstruat discliarge possesses no such injurious or malignant properties ; that it is solely a redundancyof that pure vital blood, whicli animates the wholes ranae of a healthy person; and that iis retentionis by no means attended, in generat, Willi essedis that are not as eastly removed as any disorder towhicli they are subject. That sonae acrimonious morbid humours maybe discliarged together With the Menses, whenany such exist, is not improbabie. So it happens likewise to men subject to the piles, or other
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prejudice, are naturalty alarmed at the conse quences they apprehend must ensue frona sicli achange in their constitution; and the more
strongly they are prepossessed mitti a belles, that by this channet has been regularly dis chargedwhatever had a tendency to produce diseases, the more they are terrified With apprehensions offome of the worst complaints : anil, indeed, it is not seldom that, by such anxiety, they bring ondisorders that are not easiily removed, attributingiliem to the cause we are speaking of whilst theyprincipalty originate from anxiety. For the most pari, the menstruat discliarge, as
has been mentioned, proceeds from a redundancy
formed for the most necessary purposses ; Continues whilst this necessity subsists ; and ceases When, according to the constitution of the seta male frame, it is no longer reqUired. The pomers communicated to the human system, generalty expressed by the term Nature,are sicli as spontaneo asy bring about this Cessation. The provision for the Menses Ceases, an
extra quantity of blood is not generaled, and the vesteis provided for iis regular disicharge by de-grees collapse; and in generat ali this proceeda without any the least interruption to the healthos the subject in whicli this alteration happens. Here it might not be improper to mention atwhat time this alteration first begitas, and thegenerat period of iis cestation. These circumstances
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amply trealed Of, as to render ii as utinecessaryas it is foret gn to my present design. There are great numbers of women in Whomilie menstruat dis charge ceases, without their
perceiving any alteration in their usual health. There are sonae who, frona be ing invali is during a part of the season Whicli is approprialedio menstria alion, find thenaselves by degrees re- covering health and vigour, to whicli they have been strangers during that period, when this dis charge leaves them enti rely. Very tender, de licate, relaxed habiis, subject to copiolis disse
charges, are osten much benefited by the cessation. All, however, are not so fortunate. Somealterations frequently supervene, that renderasti hance necessary. Amongst these alterations, the most frequentare such as arisse frona a redundancy of bloodand immoderate discliarges frona various caUses. About the time when this change is to happen, Or ΠOt long after, many persons find thedi sorders to whicli they have heretos ore beensu est, more frequent and more troubles me. Some are afflicted with the well-known symp- tonas of plethora, heat, fluctaings, restiessi nighis, troublesonae dreanas, and hi nequat spiriis ; othersare attacked with inflammations of the boweis,
or other internat paris, spasmodic affections os various paris, sti Tnessi in the limbs, swelled an-cles, With patia and inflami nation, the piles, and other effectos of plenitude. In these cases it
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seems as is the organs, which were instituted with a desigia os providing the natural sui plus, continued to produce this essedi, whilst the si1ge of the vescteis destinea to discliarge ii, was dimini ed, or they were collapsed entirely. This case is opposite to the former; in that
the organs of excretion ContinUed to executetheir functions, and actuaily dis charged a portion of blood from the common massi, whilstitiose organs whicli are formed to proVide a sur plus in enseebled habits, were only capable of maintaining the necesiary stocli. And on the dispari ty in the operations of these two different organs, in faet, depend most of the complainis incident to the sex at this particular period. In
me, the proVision ceases besore any change is produced in the excretory Vesseis. In others, the excretory Vesseis hecome Unfit' for their of fice, whilst the organs for accumulating blood continue to be efficacio is .
From this vlew of the subject, it will be les, dissiculi sor the praetitioner to forna a j Udgment
sinit great reli es by blee ling frequently in m
derate quantities, keeping the boweis lax, and moderating their diei. They are, sor the most pari, attacked about the time os menstruation