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Vterinum will in a manner fall of courfe ; efpeciaily, if 
it be farther conlidered, that the ^/Wrufliing thro' the 
Capillary 5/oo^Veffels of the 'U^^r^/j-, cannot (as the Au- 
thor thinks,) beaffefted by any fuch Ferment, if there,- 
and if it fiiould tarry there long enough for this purpofe, 
(he fuppofes,)the confequence would be an Inflammation, 
or a fchirrous Tumour of the part, or a Chlorofis, As 
for thofe fymptomes, which, coming at the approach of 
the Menfes, leemto argue for a Ferment i he deduces 
them from the Impreffion made on the Nerves of the 
Uterus, and the Membranes appertaining to it; the 
Sympathy arifing in other parts of the Body , partly 
from the communication ot Nerves , partly from the 
continuation of Membranes. 
Having thus (as he thinks J refuted this opinion, in 
the next place he gives us his o^*^ s where explaining the 
Analogy between plants,andAnimals;the Earth, and the 
Mi^^r^.v (efpeciaily in Women,) he obferves that asheat^ 
fait, and moiflure make the Earth fruitfully lo like- 
wife in Women (he fays,) there h2iFervarVterinus, quo 
dum intumelcit Vterus^ omnia ejus Vcifa fanguifera^ port 
omnes^ omnefque Tubuli 'Memhranei laxantur, dijienduntur^ 
rejiituuntur s ut motu J{ejittutivo fe contrahentes exprimant 
qutcquidvel fanguinis, vel jerofte ac prav^e fucci alimenta» 
ris materice in ipfis eo tempore continetur. This Fervor^ 
hethinksj proceeds from an Acidity, which in the fpace 
of a month, is contraded in the Succus Nutr i tins {qizIqA. 
on that part; and the reafon why no Creatures, beMe 
Women and Apes, have this Evacuation, he luppofes, 
is from the Tubuli vterini ("the excretory Duds in this 
cafe,) peculiar to them. This being the fum of his Hypo- 
the/is, he endeavors to explain fome more remarkable 
fhenomena in a manner agreeable to it ; and then pafles 
from the ilrait to the crooked Line of Nature, the 
^^'K^HumatiJmus Vterinus where having confuted the o- 
-'^im^B, which many Phyficians have had of it, He gives 
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