i6o DISEASES Class II. i. i. 13. 



■women to occafion convulfions, from the violence of the pain 

 without inflammation. See Clafs IV. 2. 2. 2. and 3. 



M. M. Fomentation clylter with oil and laudanum, pufh the 

 ftone back with a bougie j if from cantharides, give half a pint 

 of warm water every ten minutes. Mucilage of gum arabic and 

 tragacanth. 



he natural evacuation of the urine is a procefs fimilar to this, 

 except that the mufcular fibres of the bladder, and the mufcles 

 of the abdomen, which act in concert with them bv the combi- 

 lied powers of fenfation and of ailbciation, are, in the former 

 cafe of ftrangury, excited into action by painful fenfation ; and 

 in the latter by a fenfation, which may aimoft be termed pleafur- 

 able, as it relieves us from a previous uneafy one. 



The ejectio feminis is another procefs in fome refpects fimilar 

 to ftrangury, as belonging to the fame fenfible canal of the ure- 

 thra, and by exciting into action the acceleratory mufcles ; but 

 in the Itranrurv thefe mufcles are excited into action bv painful 

 fenfation, and in the ejection of the femen by pleafurable fenfa- 

 tion. 



iq. Parturhio. Parturition is not a difeafe, it is a natural pro- 

 cefs, but is more frequently unfortunate in high life than amongit 

 the middle clafs of females ; wdiich may be owing partly to 

 fear, with which the priefts of Lucina are liable to inipire the 

 ladies of fafhion to induce them to lie-in in town ; and partly 

 to the bad air of London, to which they purpofely refort. 



There are however other caufes, which render parturition 

 more dangerous to the ladies of high life \ fuch as their greater 

 general debility from neglect of energetic exercife, their inexpe- 

 rience of the variations of cold and heat, and their leclufion 

 from frefn air. To which mult be added, that great fource of 

 the destruction of female grace and beauty, as well as of female 

 health, the tight ftays and other bandages, with which they are 

 generally tortured in their early' years by the active folly of their 

 friends, which by difplacing many of the vifcera impedes their 

 actions, and by comprelling them together produces adnefions of 

 one part to another, and affects even the form and aperture of 

 the bones of the pelvis, through which the nafcent child mult 

 be protruded. 



As parturition is a natural, not a morbid procefs, no medicine 

 fhould be given, where there is no appearance of difeafe. The 

 abfurb cuftom of giving a powerful opiate without indication to 

 all women, as foon as they are delivered, is, I make no doubt, 

 frequently attended with injurious, and iometimes with fatal 

 fconfequences. See Clafs 11. 1. 2. 16. 



Another thine very injurious to the child, is the tving and 



cutting 



