220 CULPEPER’s ENGLISH PHYSICIAN, 
to an ulcer in the womb, it is beft known by the fharp and growing pains that it oc- 
cafions in the womb, from the very beginning of the difeafe ; ; whereas in the whites, 
though fometimes the humour be fo fharp as to caufe great pain, and even an ulcer, - 
yet this is not till after they have continued long enough on the patient to be 
diftinguifhed by their cther fymptoms. The matter that Hows from an ulcer j is alfo 
frequently bloody, which the whites never are. Maids of a weakly conttitution are 
often afficted with this diftemper, as well as matried women and widows 3 and in- 
deed there are few of the fair fex, efpecially fuch as are any way fickly, but who have 
known it more or lefs, it being often ccalioned_by other difeafes. For whatéver _ 
difeafe renders the blood poor, foul, or vifcous,. and reduces a woman to a languid 
condition, is commonly fucceeded by the whites, which, when they come in this - 
manner, continue to weaken the body more and more, and are in great danger, 
without fpeedy remedy, of wearing away the patient, and making her a miferable 
victim to death. Let no woman, therefore, negleét this diftemper, when fhe finds 
iton her, but endeavour to prevent its getting too much a-head. The diet, in the 
cure of this diftemper, ought to be nourifhing, and much the fame with that pre- 
{cribed in confumptions, confifting of broths, boiled with fhavings of hartfhorn, 
_tormentile-root, biftort, comfrey, conferve of red rofes, ifinglafs, red rofe flowers, 
gum-arabic, nutmegs, mace, cinnamon, and other ftrengthening and agelutinating 
ingredients. Sago and jellies are alfo ferviceable in this cafe, particularly that of 
harthhorn. Some drink every morning, with very good fuccefs, a quarter of an 
ounce of ifinglafs, diffolved in a pint of milk, and {weetened with fugar. Exer- 
cife fhould be moderate, and taken, as much as can be, in a warm and dry air; and 
the continuance of this for fome time, with-a milk diet, have been found prevalent, 
when other means, though the beft that could be made ufe of, have failed.” Bleed- 
ing ought here to be omitted, unlefs the perfon be plethoric, or her monthly courfes 
are ob{tructed : for it is not proper to weaken her who is already too weak. Pur- 
 Zatives, however, are held to be proper, but without calomel, efpecially when the 
difeate j is in its infancy, and appears but in {mall quantity. But, when it is of long 
-ftanding, and the matter which flows is thin, difcoloured, and of an ill fmell, if 
ulcers are apprehended in the w/erus; if any venereal infeétion has preceded, and 
‘part of th virulence is ftill fuppofed to remain, mercurials and other medicines 
fuited to virulent cafes are undeniably proper: and the cure here differs little from 
the cure of the v 1ereal diteafe itfelf, only the purges fhould not be too violent, nor 
the calomel siven in too large dofes. In fuch cafes, however, a perfeverance in the 
Solar and Lunar Tinétures alternately, as prefcribed in the Treatifes round each 
sea may be dep nd = on as the moft Salk fafe, ee, and Paes cure. 
