Dissertatio medica inauguralis, de lactis secretione in puerperis ... / eruditorum examini submittit Joannes Aikin.

  • Aikin, John, 1747-1822.
Date:
1784
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Credit: Dissertatio medica inauguralis, de lactis secretione in puerperis ... / eruditorum examini submittit Joannes Aikin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    INAUGURALIS. ; quo incipit haec fecretio, prius contemplari; fed neque perfede hoc fieri potefl, nifi refpiciamus ad prima gravi- ditatis tempora, cum fa&um eft initium fingularum muta- tionum poftea contingentium. Inter prima conceptus figna menfium efle fuppreffio- nem, nemo ignorat. Fluxus hicce periodicus, five a plethora locali, five ab univerfali, ortum ducit, certb, cum jam corpus foemininum ei aflfuefcat, id a redundantia fanguinis liberat. Ejus fuppreflio, igitur, in corpore cae- terum fano, variis plethorici flatus indiciis fignificatur. In fcemina prsegnante, tamen, haec fymptomata levantur, cibi inappetentia, laefaque concodlione, quae primos gra- viditatis menfes praecipue infeflant. Mox, vero, caufa plethorae ipfa praeciditur , tanta fanguinis copia in foetu nutriendo confumpta, quanta folitis menflruarum viis foras expulla fuiflet. • Procedente graviditate, fanguinis confumptio augetur, donec tandem haud parum excedit abundantiam illam, quam, alio tempore, fluxus menfcruus aufert. Nunc, igitur, in alteram partem conflitutionis libramen vergit; locoque s; • As fympto-