PHYSICAL ann LITERARY, 426 
The womb, by being diftended, preffes 
on the iliac veins, and makes a difficulty to 
the blood returning from the lower extremi- 
ties, and even to the blood returning by the 
branches of the iliac, from the womb itfelf, 
long before the wzerus has rofe fo high as to 
prefs upon the fpermatic vein: is not then 
this difficulty of the blood’s returning by the 
iliacs, the caufe of the vaft diftenfion of the 
{permatic veins during gravidation, as well as 
it is often the caufe of the oedematous legs, 
and {welled Jabia pudendorum, at that time? 
Hhh ART. 
