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copulating season annually returns, do they — or most of 

 them — feel a relapse of the venereal oestrum, and during its 

 continuance experience a sort of seminal emission, which is 

 evidence to us that the female is in a condition to take the 

 male. From causes which are not always evident, it would 

 appear that this natural discharge occasionally continues 

 much beyond its ordinary duration, assumes other than its 

 natural characters, or comes on, contrary to habit, at the 

 cold or winter season of the year, when its presence cannot 

 be regarded as owing to normal causes, or as manifesting 

 the usual indications. T have known several instances of 

 derangement of this kind. In some, the discharge has 

 appeared white like whey ; in others it has assumed a yellow 

 and even purulent character ; very often the flux, though at 

 first white or yellow, turns to a thin colourless emission, in 

 appearance like water. The discharge collects within the 

 fossa navicularis, and comes away every time the lips of the 

 vulva are opened, in a sort of gush. In general, there is not 

 much concomitant reddening of the inside of the vagina ; in 

 some cases only a faint blush, or there may be none whatever. 

 In these cases, I have found serviceable such medicines as 

 are known to allay the irritability of mucous membranes 

 and restrain their discharges : I have given, once or twice 

 a day, a ball according to one of the subjoined formulae. 



R Plumbi Acetat., 5j ; 



Opii, 9j ; 



Farinae, Jss; 

 Tereb. com. q. s. ut fiat bol. 



R Cantharidiim, gr. v; 



Farina3, 5J ; 

 Balsam. Copaibae q. s. ut fiat bol. 



At the same time the practitioner should use — unless 

 existing inflammation forbid it — an astringent injection four 

 or five or six times a day. And, in addition, he will find 

 useful cold aftusion, or, where it can be had, cold bathing. 



R Cupri Sulpliat., 5J — 5iij ; 



Aqua) Distillat., Oj. 

 M. pro injectione. 



R Decoction. Cinchona), 5J 

 (double strength) ; 

 Acid. Sulphuric, 5j. 

 M. pro injcctiwie. 



It is advisable to sprinkle common flour over the external 



