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num may be added. If thefe fhould fail, half a drachm of the Peruvian bark, ia 
powder, with ten drops of the elixir of vitriol, may be taken in a glafs of red wit 
four times a-day. ‘That period of life at which the menfes ceafe to flow is likewile 
very critical to the fex. The ftoppage of any cuftomary evacuation, however finall, 
is fufficient to diforder the whole frame, and often to deftroy life irfelf. Hence it 
comes to pafs, that fo many women either fall into chronic diforders, or die, gbour 
this time. Such of them, however, as will perfevere in taking the Lunar Tincture 
previous to the time their menfes leave them, will become more healthy and hardy 
than they were before, and enjoy ftrength and vigour to a very great age. 
Or tox GREEN-SICKNESS. 
THE green-ficknefs is an obftruction in the womb-veflels of young females, 
under or about the time of their courfes beginning to flow. It is attended with a 
vifcidity of all the juices, a fallow, pale, or greenifh, colour of the face, a difficulty 
of breathing, a ficknefs in the ftomach at the fight of proper food, and an unnatural 
defire of feeding on fuch things as are accounted hurtful, and unfit for nourifment. 
It is alfo called by phyficians the white fever, the love fever, the virgin’s difeafe, and 
the whitejaundice. It fometimes feems to proceed from an alteration of the fluids, 
about the time that the menfes firft begin to flow, or from the inaptitude of the vef- 
fels to perform thofe difcharges which nature then calls for. It may alfo proceed 
from an obftruétion in the bowels, or a fluggith languid motion of the blood, whe- 
ther natural, or acquired by eafe, indulgence, or want of exercife : and this latter, 
no doubt, is the cafe, when the diftemper happens to very young girls, who are not 
capable of fuffering an hyfteric diforder. Finally, it may proceed from a longing 
defire after the enjoyment of fome particular perfon; or, in general, from a violent 
inclination to exchange a fingle life for the ftate of matrimony ; and, when this is 
the cafe, there is an univerfal dulnefs and difinclination to exercifé, and the patient 
complains of a preffure or weight, chiefly about the reins and loins. Upon any 
brifk motion comes on a difficulty of breathing, and a tenfion and quick pulfation 
of the arteries in the temples, which feem to beat with great violence ; alfo a heavy a 
~ and frequently a lafting, pain of the head, and palpitation of the heart. The pulfe ae 
is quick and low, attended with a {mall feverithnefs, and a lofs of the natural appe- 
tite; but chalk, coals, ftonés, clay, tobacco-pipes, and other things of like unwhole-’ oe 
fome nature, ought to be kept as much as poffible out of the patient's way; for fhe . 
" generally has more inclination to thefe than to 4 proper diet, The green ae ; 
_ feldom dangerous, though it often proves of long continuance ; he satap cathe, 
lent, and too much neglected, proceeding from a fappreffion of = ; 
_. and attended with the whites, it may in time bring on weakne . Kid 
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