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![very useful, both for strengthening the whole system, and for taking off the determination of the blood to the inter- nal parts. 983.] The remedies mentioned in these two last para- graphs, may be employed in all cases of menorrhagia, from whatever cause it may have proceeded, if the disease shall have already induced a considerable degree of debility in the body. CHAPTER VII. OF THE LEUCORRH&A, FLUOR ALBUS, OR WHITES. 984.] T? VERY serous or puriform discharge from the JLLi vagina, may be, and has been comprehended under one or other of the appellations I have prefixed to this chapter. Such discharges, however may be various ; and may proceed from various sources, not yet well ascer- tained ; but I confine myself here to treat of that discharge alone which may be presumed to proceed from the same vessels, which, in their natural state, pour out the menses. 985.] I conclude a discharge from the vagina to be of this kind ;* 1. From its happening to women who are sub- ject to an immoderate flow of the menses, and liable to this from causes weakening the vessels of the uterus. 2. From its appearing chiefly, and often only, a little before, as well as immediately after, the flow of the menses. 3. From the flow of the menses being diminished, in proportion as the leucorrhoea is increased. 4. From the leucorrhcea con- tinuing after the menses have entirely ceased, and with some appearance of its observing a periodical recurrence. 5. From the leucorrhosa being accompanied with the effects of the menorrhagia (971—972.) 6. From the discharge having been neither preceded by, nor accompanied with, symptoms of any topical affections of the uterus. 7. From the leucorrhcea not having appeared soon after communi- cation with a person who might be suspected of communi- Extract. Glychrrh. aa ^ss. Mucilag. gum. Arab. q. s. M. f. Elect. The dose is half a drachin or two scrupies twice a-day. *The young practitioner ought to pa) gr.;at attention to the diagnostics of the leucorrhcea de- livered in this article.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21112277_0014.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
