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5. If tlie regularity and quantity of the discharge is subject 

 to alteration, without any corresponding change in the rest of 

 the body, which is sometimes in a more fluid, at other times in 

 a more dry state, the uterus is not in fault, though it ought 

 to follow the habit of the rest of the body, and receive and 

 secrete in proportion. If the bedy is in a good state of 

 health, but undergoing a change, when this takes place, 

 and there is no need of medical treatment ; but if the secre 

 tion is too small from disease, and the secretion is taken 

 through some other source, the body suffers : and if the dis 

 charge is too great, from all the secretions of the body being 

 turned in one direction, this does not point to disease of the 

 uterus, but of the whole body. Whenever the catamenia 

 coincide with the general habit of the body, it is evident that 

 the fault does not lie with the uterus, which would perform 

 its functions properly if the general health were correct. 



6. Sometimes the uterus is weak, and sometimes strong ; 

 sometimes too fluid, and sometimes too dry; and the dis 

 charge coincides with the state of the body, it is abundant 

 when that is full, deficient when it is less full. If the body 

 is full of fluid, the discharge is watery ; if the body is dry, 

 it is more sanguineous ; it begins with being white, like milk, 

 and is without smell. Some are dark-coloured, and when 

 about to cease they become white, at the last secretion. The 

 white discharge has not the smell of putrid matter, but is 

 more harsh and disagreeable, nor has it the smell of pus ; and 

 when this is the condition of the symptoms, there is no wear 

 ing away, but the body becomes heated. In all that are in this 

 state, the uterus is in a healthy condition for child-bearing. 



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WE must, then, first of all inquire whether all these parti 

 culars are well ordered ; and, next, we must learn the posi 

 tion of the body of the uterus ; for it ought to be straight ; 

 and if it is not so, the seminal fluid can never reach it. And 

 it is evident that women project their semen forwards, from 

 what happens when they have lascivious ireams ; for this 

 part of them then requires attention, being moistened as 

 though they had sexual intercourse, for they also project into 

 the place where the semen of the male is emitted, and not into 

 the uterus ; and when projected to this place, the stnueu ii 



