of the Human Uterus. 99 



causes distress, could, under the state alluded to, have 

 produced happiness. 



The body has been, for some time previous to concep- 

 tion, accustomed to have separated from its common cir- 

 culating mass a peculiar liquor to a given quantity. Upon 

 conception in the general, this particular excretion (the 

 menses) ceases to be thrown off; the body no longer, 

 from its altered condition, throws off this excrementi- 

 tious fluid, no longer can it need the same supply of ali- 

 ment ; and hence is the general inappetency of pregnant 

 women for food during the first two or three months, 

 until, by the bulk of the child, greater demands shall be 

 made on the general constitution, and, of course, on the 

 stomach. 



From this I wish it to be understood, that the sick- 

 ness and uneasiness of breeding, as it is usually phrased, 

 is a moral consequence, while the inappetency for food 

 is, from a law of the female habit, under the controul of 

 ovarial influence. Therefore, when we speak of the dis- 

 eases of pregnancy, I hope that it will be always con- 

 ceived, that we do not have allusion to this constitutional 

 association between parts, nor to the distress consequent 

 on this associated action, which, in itself, in a higher or 

 lower degree, howsoever opposed by human skill, is in- 

 separable from the present condition of humanity, and 

 forms one among the many irrefutable facts on which 

 rests the authenticity of the bible. 



Castellio's Vehsion. 



" Deinde ad mulierem : Ego te multis doloribus, inquit, damnis- 

 que afficium, tu natos cum dolore paries." Gen. cap. iii. v. 1 6. 



