The system of the womb, with a particular account of the menses, independent of a plethora: to which are subjoin'd, a few observations relating to cold, and its effects upon the body / [Thomas Simson].

Thomas Simson

Date:: 1729

Credit: The system of the womb, with a particular account of the menses, independent of a plethora: to which are subjoin'd, a few observations relating to cold, and its effects upon the body / [Thomas Simson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$modus fit deVito major aut minor, turn ingefta non refpondent egeftis , five enim plus, five minus come- dimus, cert am fibi nor mam in evacuationibus fer~ vat natura; tho’ ’tis true, thefe Rules are very different, as to different Secretions: For as there are Secretions, like that of the Menfes, which the Changes of the Mafs alter but lit¬ tle, fuch as the infenfible Perforation, (which* according to Mr. Keil, ?s neither alter’d by the Quantity of Drink we take, nor by Purgatives) lo there are others that generally alter in Pro¬ portion to our Drink, as the Urine, of which Difference, no better Account, in my Opinion, can be given, than that the Secretory Duffs in the one Cafe are more hnmediately join’d to the large Veffels that diftribute the Mafs, than in the other, which RuyfcFs Injections induce us to believe; With thefe he eafily penetrates into the Cavity of the Kidneys, \Thef III. 3 9.] but not to any of the different Pores of the Skin, [ffhef X. 4. and tfhef. 1 19, 20.] there¬ fore the Accefs to the Pores of the Skin muft be very different from that to the Pelvis of the Kidneys \ By which Example we learn, how in different Parts of the Body the .(mailer VeP E 2 fels$