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Show Book I. Part IV. Book-lit; iv 0f t/Je Fluor Albtas. Afpt'r'ir.c~, nsbeinqrhe 'l‘ernzinarions of the Dufls, conveying various Ex~ C H A P. XIX. cremeurv: of the Purple Liquor (commonly called the Film Albrw) into the hollownrls of the \Vomb. And no 0ftlae Fluor Albus, or Wlaiter. l liippofc it may feem pertinent to difeourfe the manner how T he manner iwi 1‘ "I the Floor film: i'; produced in the \Vomb, which I conceive, may be ac complilhtd after this 1115111103", The Blood is Conlederatcd with grols " Cliylc not well Prepared by laudable Ferments of Serous and Nervous Lia The Firm AP 5w. He Menltruous Purgation is that of the purple Liquor, and other Humors with it evacuated, called by the Latins Fluor Alba, and in our Tongue the Whites, by reafon Scrous and Pituitous Recremcnrs are difcharged by the Vefl'els of the womb, which is fomctimes abufed, and made as it Were the Sink of the Body, whereby not only white, but alfo fomctimes yellow and green, and other times a kind of Purulent and Sanious Matter, is excerned, and not at fet times and Periods, but irregularly,fometimes daily, and other times at a greater dil'tance, now and then anticipating, and other times following the Men/Er,and when they are fupprelfed too. This Difcafe rarely aflliéterh Maids, but molt commonly Women, and fometimes thofe that are with Child. The m" A, The Fluor All)»: difl'ereth from the difcoloured Menflrua, in reference thefe airmen have a plain mixture of red infiead of Purple Liquor, always aflociated with Muflm. "came," the Mmfir, by reafon other Recrements have no lhew of Blood, as being tous, and ulllt‘l‘ times with Bilrous and herons Recrements, (not fevered from the Blood in the Renlelnnds) is tranhnirted by the Preparing and Hypogalhick Arteries inro the Suhftance of the Glands (belonging to the "'me )‘ wherein the Blood bring acted with Heterogeneous Particles of different ill Humours, caufeth a great Fermentation, which is highly promorcd by the Nervous Liquor ( deltilliug out the Terminations of the Par Vagum and Vertebral Nerves derived from the OISJCY'HM) opening the Compagc of the Blood, allifted by the ferments of the Womb, whereby its impure parts, the Pituitous, Serous and Bilious Recrements are fed white, yellow, or green, and do not obferve a regular Monthly Evacuatron. vercd from the Purple Liquor, in the Uterine Glands (as its Colaro- Purulent matter is difcriminated from the Fluor Albm, becaufe it is greater \Vomb. The Menflrna being allociated with various ill Recrements, when they are liipprt-lled in unhealthy Bodies ( clogged with a fowl trials of Blood ) 322;",3'; in confil'tence, and more white, and lefs in quantity; and Sanious Mattetis iii: Fluor 41- different from the Whites, by reafon it is more grofs, and blended with car' rupt Blood. The Fluor Albur may be diftinguilhed froma Gonorrhea, the excretion of a Liquor fomewhar refembling Semen, which is more white and thick, and evacuated in leffer quantity than the other. ' the cm of quor in the Stomach, and aftei‘WArd is not well Attenuated by ill Pancreatitle and Bilious thremenrs in the Guts; whereupon the Blood groweth grills and pituitous, and loinctimes is alfo vit‘ated with Bilious Excrements, coriveyed into it by the roots of the Cava, when the Duam Clooledrrélm i; Oblltrufrr'd; fo that the Pnrplel iquor being tainted fometimes with pitui- The next caufe of the Fluor Allmr is an Excrementitious Humour of diffe- 3:," "WA" rent kinds, and very much dillinél from pure Blood, fometimes W hire and pituitous, being of Chymous matter, not aflimilated into Blood, and other times of a, more thin Serous Liquor, made of acide and faline Particles, fretting the inward Coat of the Vagina uteri; this Excrementitious Liquor is alfo Bilious, known by its yellow and green hue, and is blackil'h too, from its melancholy Nature, and fometimes feemeth to be Sanious, as mingled With fome Particles of Purple Liquor. The FlnorAI- l 80 that the Fluor Albm is compounded of various kinds of Recrements (miXf;3",f§‘n‘§§f,l} ed with the Blood) which are impelled with it down the defcendent Trunk Rtmm‘ms- of the Aorta, and fo through the Preparing and Hypogafh'ick Arteries ries ) and thence rrsrnliuitted by the Excretory Dué‘ts into the Cavity of the do produce a Plzror A/lzm, wherein the Vifcera tainted with the fitter of The Fhm A1514: proceedeth from an ill mark of Llovd. the Blood (not depurared in the Uterine Glands) do endeavour to free themfclves from their troublefome Maladies by fending down Pituitous, Bilious and Serena Recrements through the defcendent Trunck of the Aorta, and the Fperumtick and fiypogallrick Arteries into the fubftance of the Womb, wherein the Blood being not Well Secerned from its ill Alfociates (its not fome Excremcnts) doth return by the Uterine Veins to the (412m, and thence [O the Chambers of the Heart, where fornctimes it being Pituitous ingenders a 'Polypm, derived from Concreted Chyme; other times it paf- ling through the lungs, maketh a difficulty of breathing, and afterward when it is impelled through the defceudent Trunck of the Aorta and Cash- tick, and Mefenrrick Arteries into the Ftomach, Pancreas,and Guts, it fpoileth the ferments of the Ventricle and Inteftines, and .pervt‘rteth their Cmfir; this impure Bilious Blood is carried out of the tainted adjacent parts by various branches of the 'Porrrz into the Glands of the Liver, wherein the Blood, being: not well ft'parated from its Bilions Frcculencies, doth vitiare into the fubltauce of the Glands (belonging to the 721m") wherein. thefe Excrementitious humours are fecerned from the Blood , and tranf- mitted through the Excretory Duels into the Bofom of the menu, and thence conveyed through the Vagino out of the Body. 32:61:51;4: (Plafch is of an opinion that the Floor All)»: is conveyed only into the the Tone ofithe Liver and difcoloureth it; and the Glands of the whole Body are often infcc'ted with this ill mifs of Blood, as not being difcharged by the Uterus in a clue Mcullruous Flux, whence often arifeth a‘Fluor A![)m', Corroding and Ulcerating the womb and its Vagina, which lometimes cdinto Ca~ Neck and Vagina mm, which have fecretory Glands, percolating the Blood, cutlerh in a Caron-n. iiilmii iii," 33:" and f0 hath the body of the 'Uterm, as it confilteth of many Glands as {'0 many Colatoties of the Blood as well as the Neck of the Vagino, which are endued with many holes as Excretory Ducts, with which the inward Coat of the uterus is perforated too, and chiefly in _ its bottom, befet with A many Pc' To confirm this Hypothclizr, I will give you the trouble of a long and admirable cafe of .1 Sick Perfon (labouring long with, and at lafl: dying, of a Flunr Albm) written in a LEW-2'1" by Learned i'lrlirmnto to Renowned ‘1 tier. [bullet/11' Ans/.0 qrrirzq:r.tsrfirmrr/z jam agenli man}: aan, Men/hm: ofz‘tmn'o Llllll l An irflance of a l'crl'on dying of a Hunt Aibas, |