An inaugural physiological dissertation on the catamenia : to which are subjoined, observations on amenorrhoea ; submitted to the examination of the Rev. John Ewing, S.T.P. provost, the trustees and medical professors of the University of Pennsylvania, for the degree of Doctor of Medicine / by James Westwood Wallace, of Virginia, member of the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh.

  • Wallace, James Westwood, 1768 or 1769-1838.
Date:
MDCCXCIII [1793]
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An inaugural physiological dissertation on the catamenia : to which are subjoined, observations on amenorrhoea ; submitted to the examination of the Rev. John Ewing, S.T.P. provost, the trustees and medical professors of the University of Pennsylvania, for the degree of Doctor of Medicine / by James Westwood Wallace, of Virginia, member of the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

    28/44
    ( 3° ) fophic view, we might be led to conclude that they are but imperfectly finifhed animals. In a fuperftitious light, we might fuppofe the difcharge meant as a curfe on the fex for the fall of man. XXX. We come now to a part of the fubjed which Phyficians have more generally agreed on—the nfes of menjlruation. XXXI. The menfes are defigned, principally, to preferve and keep up a ftate of tonic unifon between the uterus and ovaria, to give to the uterus that condition which capacitates it to retain the impregnated ovum ; to carry a fuf- ficient quantity of blood for the fupport and evolution of the foetus in utero ; and to fup- port the health and welfare of the female ceco- nomyr The difcharge may ferve other pur- pofes, but they are merely fecondary. XXXII. Conception never appears before the menfes, and never after they have ceafed— this