Essay on the pudendagra / [Marmaduke Berdoe].

  • Marmaduke Berdoe
Date:
1771
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Credit: Essay on the pudendagra / [Marmaduke Berdoe]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    others which may contribute to its progrefs. % An immoderate flux of the catamenia, or the fluor-albus, evidently promote the period of this diforder. Such affediions of the uterus, tho' evidently different from what the Latins call'd the pudendagra, as fome authors have pretended, are yet very fimilar as to their effedts.—Or rather, this diforder was thought to be a more confirm’d and in¬ veterate ftate of the uterus, when attack'd by thofe inconveniencies which we now call fluor-albus. Dolaeus, fpeaking of the figns^of the fluor- albus, fays, “ That in the Galenic fchools, “ the debility of the uterus, (uteri intem- <c periem, et debilitatem) was reckon'd “ among the caufes of this diforder. * i Sylvius derives the origin of the fluor- albus from “ Quidem fanguinis culpa, quoities li is tenuior vel acrior exijlit.” (Here we fee the chvmift). And he fays farther, “ Oui “ fanguis O
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