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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    difcharge occafioned by the a£tion of the blood upon the fphin&ers of thofe du€fcss which are fuppofed by fome authors to be deftined to this evacuation. Still more im¬ probable that it fhould proceed from the rupture of the uterine arteries. Such fyftems are too remote from the fimple laws of na¬ ture, to produce the defired effe&s. Does not the univerfal fenfibility of the nerves offer to our ideas a more rational conjec¬ ture on the different fun£Hons of the human body ? To confider them in the aggregate, as animated by the fame vital principle in the origin, but to regard them when diftributed to their refpe6live organs, as pofTefling vari¬ ous degrees of that primitive fenfibility, di« re&ed by different appetites. The moil fcrupulous obfervation confirms, in fa£f, that every organ has its own life, its taftesf and affe&ions, and which feems proper to itfelf alone, independant of the univerfal confenfus by which the whole human ftru6ture is enchained and united together. Propria vivit