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sg then, <a is the practice of giving steel, savine ‘ergot, and other foreing 
medicines, Be bo the jatenn is in this enfeebled state. Rather let 
_ us strengthen and prepare the functions of the body to do their own 
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IMMODERATE FLOW OF THE MENSES. 
7 menstrual discharge may be too great as well as too small. 
en this happens, the patient becomes weak, the color pale, the 
appetite and digestion are bad, to which swellings of the feet, drop- 
‘sies, and consumptions often ensue. It is also accompanied with 
laxity of the muscular fibre, lank hair, flabbiness of the flesh, faint- 
- “ing, &c. : - 
If after abortion, parturition, or if the patient is above forty-five 
years of age, it must be very profuse to prove dangerous. If the age 
is about thirty, and it is succeeded by a spontaneous and total sup- 
pression, it often proves fatal... If of long continuance, and always 
_immoderate at the periodical returns, and the patient under forty, it 
cannot be restrained too soon. 
Tue Cure.—As the cause is almost invariably weakness of the 
solids, deficiency of heat, and want of elasticity in the fibres of the 
mouths of the vessels which open into the womb, the practitioner, © 
when this is the case, cannot be at a loss for the remedies. The 
_ tone of the system must be restored, by tonics and astringents, and 
- such medicines and diet as brace the solids. Among these are, beth 
Foot, colombo root, orange peel, unicorn, elixir vitriol, and other 
- acids; astringent drinks, as of oak bark, sweet-bugle herb, gum kino, 
crane’s-bill, rose water, &c. Astringent injections must also be 
used if 8 case requires. A cloth dipped in vinegar may be laid 
ssthe loins. _ 
When the case is urgent, nearly all practitioners who have written 
this subject propose blood-letting by way of revulsion : such a 
practice cannot be too much execrated. A vomit is a more speedy, 
_. more effectual, and far safer remedy, as it tends to restore an equili- 
-brium in the circulation. wees 
The treatment of this disease must be varied according to the _ 
cause. When it is occasioned by any error in the patient's regimen, _ 
_ &M opposite course to that which induced the disorder must be pur- 
_ sued, and such medicines as have a tendency to restrain the flow, — 
and counteract the morbid affections of the system whence it pro- 
ceeds. If the humors are viscid, give such things as thin the blood, 
determine to the surface. 
Vhen a female experiences severe pains, as in, travail upon the 
. — of her periodical flux, the mother’s cordgal wi 
THE FLUOR ALBUS, OR W 
What is usually called the whites, is 2 yery common disease, and 
_ proves extremely hurtful to delicate women. ‘It is caused by a laxity 
of the fibres of the mucus glands~in the vagina ; suppression of the - 
menses, Sprains in the loins, hard labor, excessive purging, bleed-- 
ing, venery, blows, falls, weakness of the solids, éc. i 
