An inaugural dissertation on the pathology of the human fluids / by Jacob Dyckman.
- Jacob Dyckman
- Date:
- 1814
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Credit: An inaugural dissertation on the pathology of the human fluids / by Jacob Dyckman. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![plethora and distention of the blood-vessels. Dr. Darwin remarks, that venesection will often instantaneously relieve those nervous pains which attend the cold periods of hysteric, asth- matic, or epileptic diseases; and that even when large doses of opium have been in vain exhibit- ed. In these cases, says he, the pulse becomes stronger after the bleeding, and the extremities regain their natural warmth; and opium then given acts with much more certain effects.* We are informed by Dr. Cullen, that hysteria more especially affects females of the most sanguine and plethoric habits, and frequently those, too, of the most robust and masculine con- stitutions/]- Females who menstruate too spar- ingly, or who labour under an entire suppres- sion of this evacuation, by which the vessels of the uterine system and other sensible parts of the body become over distended with blood, are not only affected with violent pains in the head, back, loins, and other parts of the body, but are * Darwi>, Zoonomia, vol. ii. p. 41. t Cullen, First Lines, 5^ 1517.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21223749_0234.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
