PHYSICAL AND LITERARY. 403 



Art. XXXL 



A Propofal of a new Method of curing . ob~ 

 jlruBed Menfes ; hy Dr. Archibald 

 Hamilton Phyfcian in Edinburgh *- 



IN a converfation I had fometime ago with 

 my friend Dr. Hunter, now Phyfician 

 in Beverley, concerning the cure of fome 

 particular difeafes, I remember he propofed 

 a method of removing obftrudions of the 

 menflrua by a mechanical compreffion of the 

 external iliacs. I thought, from the anato- 

 mical flrudure of the parts, the propofal 

 pretty reafonable in fome cafes j and refoU 

 ved to put it into practice, the firft favour- 

 able cafe that occurred to me. About fix 

 months ago, I was fent for to vifit a girl be- 

 twixt nineteen and twenty years of age, who 

 had been obftruded for near feven months, 

 occafioned by fuddenly expofing herfelf to 

 cold, during the time flie was menftruating. 

 From the firft appearance of her catameniay 

 to the time of their ftoppage, flie had enjoyed 



^ May I. 1755. 



