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blance, say that women are suffering from myle, if they 

 only see the abdomen elevated without dropsy, and a ces 

 sation of the catamenia, when the disease has lasted for 

 a long while. But this is not the case, for the myle is 

 a rare disease. Sometimes there will be collections of cold 

 and moist excrements and fluids, and sometimes of thick 

 ones in this part of the abdomen, if either the nature or the 

 habit is of this kind. For these things afford neither 

 pain nor heat, on account of their cold nature ; but if they 

 increase, more or less, they bring no other disease after 

 them, but remain quiet, like some maimed thing. 



5. The cessation of the catamenia takes place on account of 

 the excrementitious matter of the body being directed to this 

 point, as when women are nursing ; for they occur either not 

 at all, or only in small quantities. A collection of matter 

 from the flesh sometimes takes place between the uterus 

 and the stomach, which has the character of the myle, 

 but is not it. But it is not difficult to know the differ 

 ence, by touching the uterus ; for if it is correctly placed, 

 and not enlarged, it is evident that the disease is not there ; 

 but if it is the same as when with child, it will be warm, 

 and cold, and dry, because all the fluids are turned inwards ; 

 and the os uteri will be in the same condition as when they 

 are pregnant ; but if the enlargement is of any other kind, 

 it will be cold, and not dry when touched, and the os uteri 

 wiii always be the same. 



