^ 8 6 Miftellanea Curiofa. 



anfwering to the times of the Moon in Males al- 

 io. For as a greater quantity of Blood in pro- 

 portion to the bulk in one Sex, is the reafon of its 

 difcharging it (elf thro' proper Du£b, at certain 

 Intervals, when the preffure of the external Air 

 being diminifli'd, the internal Aura can exert its 

 Elafticity; Co in the other* if at any time there 

 happens to be a Superabundancy of the fame Fluid, 

 together with a weak Tone of the Fibres ; it is 

 plain that the Veffels will be moft eafily burft, 

 when the Refinance of the Atmofphere is leaft. 

 And this more efpecially, if any accidental hurt, 

 or rarefying Force has firft given occafion to the 

 other Caufes to take effecl:. 



I know a Gentleman of a tender frame of Body, 

 who having once, by over reaching, drained the 

 parts about the Breaft ; fell thereupon into a 

 fpitting of Blood, which for a Year and half 

 conftantly return'd every New Moon, and de- 

 creafing gradually, continued always 4 or y days. 

 The Fits being more or lefs considerable, accord- 

 ing as his management about that time, contri- 

 buted to a greater or lefler fullnefs of the Vefc 

 fels. 



We have two notable Inftances of the like 

 nature in our Philofophical Tranfa£Uons ; the 

 one (a) of a Perfon, who from his Infancy to 

 the 24th Year of his Age, had every full Moon 

 an Eruption of Blood on the right fide of the Nail 

 of his left Thumb, at firfl to 3 or 4 Ounces, 

 and after his fixteenth Year, to half a Pound 

 each time \ which when by fearing the part with 

 a hot Iron, heftoppM, he fell into a Sputum San- 

 guinis, and by frequent Bleeding, 6c. was very 

 6 difficultly 



(a) N° 27a- 



