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Guaheri Charltoni Inquifitio Phyfica de Caufis Ca- 
tanieniorum, 'is^ Vten Rheumatifmo. Lond. 
1685, 8^ 
THE Learned Author, defigning to treat of the 
Fltior albws which he terms l^eumatifmus Uteris 
nm, gives the Anatomy of the Womb, (in a proper fenfej 
dcfcribing the Magnitude, Subftance, and Veffels of 
that parts particularly, the Tw^z^/^' peculiar to it, and 
opening into the Cavity of the Womb ^ with orifices ea- 
fily difcernable in Women far gone with Child j as the 
Author himfelf has obfervd : having laid this foundation 
in Anatomy, he inquires into the nature of the M^/^/V/ i 
the defignof which, bethinks, is (already well ftated by 
another hand J for the carrying off the vitiated ferous 
matter of the Sulcus nutritius : as to the Efficient caufe 
of this Evacuation, rejedting the opinion of Arifiotle, and 
the jEgyptians^ (who infifted on the Influence of the 
Moon J he examines the mo&Qtn Hypothejis of ^ Ferment 
lodgd in the Womb^ & raifing the Blood, in a months time 
to fuch a pitch, as to caufe the ufual Flux ; againft 
which he endeavors to prove That the Blood never 
Ferments in a living Animal, &c. Becaufe of all Humors 
in the Animal Body, it is (as the Author fays,) left apt to 
Ferment. 2ly Becaufe there is no Fermentation fas the 
Author again affirms,) where there is not an Acid, fome 
way, orother concernd. sly Becaufe the Circular mo- 
tion of the Blood, and Chyle in it, is fo very rapid, as 
not to afford time and leafure, requifite to Fermentati- 
on. 4ly Nor is the^e room or fpace in the Heart or 
Blood Veffels, for the carrying on this work. ^-ly I^e 
thinks it repugnant to the Prudence of Nature, to cad- 
ftitute a twofold motion, (that of the circulation, and 
that of the (fuppofd , ) Fermentation, in the Blood, where 
one of them (the former, ) is fufficient. All which being 
taken for true j he thinks the notion of the Fermentum 
Uterinum 
