AND FAMILY DISPENSATORY. 219 
inteftines, When the green-ficknefs proves obttinate, it is proper to have recourfe 
to the cold-bath, and to the ufe of mineral waters : or, an infufion may be made in 
lime-water, with chips of guaiacum, faffafras, faunders, a little gentian and ange- 
lica-root, winter-bark, and Roman wormwood; to which add tinéture of ftee), a 
fufficient quantity in proportion to the other ingredients; or infufe filings of fteel 
with the woods and roots. This may be drunk inftead of the chalybeat-wagers, 
and will frequently anfwer the fame purpofe, Decoétions or other preparations of 
the Jefuits bark, with fteel wine, and tinétures of black hellebore and cinnamon, 
being continued a confidered time, are alfo very effectual in lax conftitutions, and 
where the juices are vifcid; but, whenthe green-ficknefs is attended with the whites, 
nothing is fo certain a cure as the Lunar Tincture. 
Or tHe FLUOR ALBUS, or WHITES. 
THIS difeafe may be caufed by falls, fprains,in the back, purging to excefs, ef 
pecially with mercurials, and when the body, is weak and lax; or it may be the 
effects of a venereal infection, which, though cured, leaves the glands and other 
~_-veffels in a relaxed {tate, which is very difficult to repair. The whites come away 
fometimes in a large and fometimes in a {mall quantity; and it is obfervable, that 
the running generally increafes after violent exercife, and that it is in greatelt plenty 
at about the middle of the time between the monthly periods: the matter often 
| proves variable, being fometimes white mixed with yellow, and at others of a thin 
waterith confiftence, greenifh, and. inclining to black ; thar , corrofive, of an ill 
fmell, occafioning heat of urine, and now and then ulcers. * It then caules great 
weaknefs, efpecially in the fmall of theback and the loins; a pale colaur in the face, 
faintnefs, loathing of food, indigeftion, fwelling of the legs, irregularity in the 
courfes. Sometimes it degenerates into a confumption, or droply, and bysiaremeae 
tal: at others, it caufes incurable barrennefs. The urine, vader, this diforder, is 
generally vifcid, thick, and flimy, and fometimes appears as if {mall threads were 
mixed with it: nor does it fettle fo freely as in other cafes. Tt has ufually been 
thought difficult to diftinguifh the whites from the venereal difeafe; and fome 
women, who have had bad hufbands, have laboured under the latter fora long time 
together, imagining it all the while to-be only the former: others have miftakena 
running, occafionéd by an ulcer in the womb, for that difeate. Show, a5 1 ieee. oe 
neceflary every woman fhould Jearn the fymptoms by which thele are kno it tas 
der, let it be obferved, that, whenever the courfes come down, the ee 
- ceafe, and.do not trouble the patient agaia till: the courles are a fe. 5 a hag 
nereal running remains confantly upon. the patient, @p ih seat fs 
during the monthly difcharges: it is allo much lefs in quantity than the N ae. ek 
