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her back and os pubis, fhe was again put 

 into the femicuphm, and afterwards voided 

 a confiderable quantity of pale urine, which 

 at iirft feemed to contain fome rags, but foon 

 hung with a white cloud, and let fall a whit- 

 ifh powder. The pain going off next day, 

 the urine was more faturated, and as the 

 femicuphim foon made her faint and fick, it 

 wa« omitted. 



All this while the catamenia^ which had 

 firft appeared about two years before, were 

 entirely regular, and generally came on at 

 their ufual period about a week after each 

 fit. She now continued the ufe of the pills, 

 with German Spaw-water and the cold bath. 

 The feton was dried up about the end of 

 September, and fne had only a flight retura 

 of pain in November, which was carried off 

 by fomenting the abdomen. I recommended 

 lime-water with her pills j but fhe has con- 

 tinued perfectly well ever fince, without 

 taking any thing. 



I. Were not thefe a kind of periodical 

 nephritic convidjions ? I have known ne- 

 phritic fymptoms particularly troublefome 

 to other female patients about the time of 



menftruation ; 



