A treatise on female diseases: in which are also comprehended those most incident to pregnant and child-bed women / [Henry Manning].

  • Manning, Henry.
Date:
1771
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Credit: A treatise on female diseases: in which are also comprehended those most incident to pregnant and child-bed women / [Henry Manning]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    wards the uterus, there to be evacuated, rather than by any other outlet. With refpeft to the firft, it is to be ob~ ferved that, from the firft moments of life to a certain age, the whole vafcular fyftem is continually diftended and enlarged in all its dimenfions, by the force of the heart, propelling the blood and humours along its feveral canals; and to this circumftance the body owes its augmentation and 1 growth. This increment, however, is not proportionally equal in equal given times. It is always moft remarkable in infancy; becaufe the adtion of the heart is then much greater in proportion to the refift- ance of the folids, which, on account of their great foftnefs and flexibility, eafily yield to the diftending force. But in procefs of time, as the fibres will be daily acquiring greater degrees of firmnefs and rigidity, the comparative force of the heart will alfo be diminiihing in the fame ratio, and
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