The Prognostics and Prorrhetics of Hippocrates; translated from the original Greek: with large annotations, critical and explanatory: to which is prefixed a short account of the life of Hippocrates / by John Moffat, M.D.

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M,DCC,LXXXVIII. [1788]
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    is faid, likewife, in the text to threaten con- 'uuljiom, &c. How thefe are ferviceable in fuch cafes Galen explains in his Commentary on Lib. I, Epid. &c. CXJX. In women afFeded with ftrangula- tion of the uterus without fever, convulfions are not violent, f .n the cafe of Dorcas, . What is rendered convuljiom are not violent, is- expreffed in ^the original by *' c-Traa-iAo] Ivxe-- the lafl: word certainly implies Jreefrom danger, and is fynonyrnous to aVv^uvov. Tiiis appellation is not improperly applied to con- vulfions that take place in hyfteric women, yrithout fever, as they generally arife from a stoppage of the menfes, and are removed by an efflux of the fame. Hence the 531 ft of the Coac. implies that there is a folution of the fpafm, when the menfes appear at the be- ginning,
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